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THE FIRST MEETING OF 2026. AS I HOPE FOR SUCCESS FOR THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE AND FOR THIS COUNCIL, I ALSO HOPE THAT YOU, AT HOME AND IN THE AUDIENCE ALSO HAVE THE SAME SUCCESS. AND NO MATTER WHAT YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS ARE THIS YEAR. SO IN STAYING SAYING THAT WE'RE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND THE INVOCATION. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 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. I THINK I'M JUST. ROLL CALL. ZACH FORTNER HERE, STEPHEN WOLF HERE, KELSEY HERE, DONALD BERGER HERE, SCOTT HUNTER HERE, MARK REAMS AND CATHY YOUNG HERE. FIRST
[REORGANIZATION]
ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS TO ELECT A PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL. IS THERE ANY NOMINATIONS I NOMINATE MARK BRINGS. OH HOLD ON, MIC ON I NOMINATE MARK REAMS. OKAY. ANYBODY ELSE? MR. PRESIDENT I'LL NOMINATE COUNCIL MEMBER HUNTER OKAY. ANYBODY ELSE? MOTION TO CLOSE THE NOMINATIONS. IF THERE'S NOBODY ELSE THAT'S GOING TO CLOSE. NOMINATIONS OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR? TO CLOSE. OH I'M SORRY OKAY FOR THAT OKAY. SORRY. SO OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR. AYE OKAY OKAY. SO.LET'S GO DOWN THE ROAD. WE'LL START WITH COUNCILMAN REAMS. SO I GUESS, DO YOU WANT ME TO DO.
YEAH. YEAH. YOU DO. YEAH. MR. WOLF, COUNCIL MEMBER HUNTER. MRS. TAKACH. OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER HUNTER. MR. BURGER, COUNCIL MEMBER. HUNTER. MR. HUNTER. COUNCILMAN. HUNTER. MR. REAMS. REAMS. MRS. YOUNG, COUNCIL MEMBER. REAMS. MR. BORDNER. COUNCIL MEMBER. HUNTER.
MR. COUNCILMAN HUNTER WAS ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL. OKAY. THANK YOU.
CONGRATULATIONS. ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL NOMINATIONS. MR. PRESIDENT. YES I WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE ZACH WARNER. OKAY. ANYBODY ELSE? MR. PRESIDENT, NOMINATE COUNCILMEMBER BURGER. THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE? OKAY. HEARING NONE. IS THERE A MOTION TO CLOSE NOMINATIONS I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE NOMINATIONS OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR. AYE. OKAY, OKAY. WE'RE GO AHEAD WHENEVER YOU'RE READY, MRS. TACTIC. COUNCIL MEMBER BURGER. MR. BURGER, COUNCIL MEMBER BURGER. MR. HUNTER, COUNCIL MEMBER BURGER. MR. REIMS, ZACH WARNER, MRS. YOUNG, ZACH. WARNER, MR. BORDNER, ZACH. BORDNER. MR. WOLF, COUNCIL MEMBER. BURGER.
COUNCIL MEMBER. BURGER IS SELECTED AS VICE PRESIDENT. A APPROVAL OF THE DECEMBER 15TH,
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
2025 CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. IS THERE ANY CORRECTIONS OR ADDITIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE TO THOSE DECEMBER 15TH COUNT CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES HEARING NONE. I MOVE TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED. THANK YOU. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. THERE ARE[APPOINTMENTS]
TWO. THERE IS TWO APPOINTMENTS. FIRST ONE IS THE APPOINTMENT. IF YOU WANT TO STAND, YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO JEFF GARBER. HE WILL BE APPOINTED TO THE ZONING, THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS THROUGH 1231 28. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY THIS EVENING? NOPE. I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU CAN[00:05:02]
SIT DOWN. THE NEXT APPOINTMENT IS VICTOR. VICTOR ARE MUTUALLY MCCURRY. I APOLOGIZE. HE WILL BE APPOINTED TO PLANNING COMMISSION THROUGH 1231 28. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING TONIGHT? OKAY. LIKE ALWAYS. WE'RE ALWAYS THANKFUL FOR RESIDENTS LIKE YOU WHO WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN IN OUR CITY BUSINESS IS BECAUSE OF RESIDENTS LIKE YOU WHO ARE ENGAGED, WHO ARE ABLE TO MAKE GOOD CHOICES ON THE BEHALF OF THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE AND MAKE OUR LIVES A LITTLE BIT EASIER UP HERE. SO THANK YOU. AND AMERICA'S DEMOCRACY ALSO THANKS YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. YES. I MOVE TO CONFIRM THE APPOINTMENT OF JEFF GARBER. ALL IN FAVOR? MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVE TO CONFIRM THE APPOINTMENT OF VICTOR MATURE. ALL IN FAVOR? CONGRATULATIONS, YOU GUYS. YOU CAN STAY FOR THE MEETING, OR YOU CAN LEAVE NOW IF YOU WANT[ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT]
TO. ADMINISTRATION REPORT. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. FIRST, I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE. COUNCILMAN HUNTER ON BECOMING PRESIDENT AND COUNCILMAN BERGER ON VICE CHAIR. CONGRATULATE BOTH OF YOU. I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR NEW COUNCILMAN, COUNCILWOMAN KELSEY TAKACS AND COUNCILWOMAN KATHY YOUNG. WELCOME. AND I THINK YOU'LL BE GREAT ADDITIONS TO CITY COUNCIL AS AS WE MOVE FORWARD REAL QUICK ON MY PORTION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT, I WANT TO JUST NOTIFY EVERYBODY THAT A WEEK FROM TODAY IS MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY. SO CITY OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH AND OBSERVANCE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY. AND AND WITH THAT, I'LL SHIFT DOWN TO JEREMY FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS. YEAH. THANKS, TERRY. CITY STREET CREWS CONTINUE TO ADDRESS POTHOLES ON 33 AND THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF TOWN. THERE ARE ALSO CONDUCTING SOME PREP WORK FOR THE UPCOMING OFFICE DEMO AT THE FORMER MARYSVILLE STEEL PROPERTY AS WELL. THEY'RE PERFORMING CITYWIDE STREET SWEEPING AND PLOW MAINTENANCE. ON THE PARK SIDE. STAFF'S WORKING ON THE ANNUAL REPORT, PREPPING AND ATTENDING AN AMERICA 250 MEETING. THE CREWS ARE REMOVING HOLIDAY DECORATIONS AND PERFORMING LEAF REMOVAL AS BEST THEY CAN AROUND THE PARKS. ON THE WATER SIDE, I'M SURE I SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD, BUT THE AVERAGE WATER PRODUCTION AT THE TREATMENT PLANT THIS PAST WEEK WAS 3 MILLION GALLONS A DAY. SO AGAIN, MUCH MORE NORMALIZED THAN WHAT WE SEE IN THE SUMMER. AND THEN FINALLY WASTEWATER. OUR OUR STAFF'S BEEN BUSY. YOU WILL SEE THE RESULTS OF SOME OF THAT TONIGHT DURING ONE OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCES. AND AS WELL THEY'RE SCHEDULING DEI INSPECTIONS ON OUR SYSTEM. SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO KYLE FOR SOME CONSTRUCTION UPDATES. THANKS, JEREMY. JUST ONE CONSTRUCTION UPDATE TONIGHT AND THAT IS FOR THE CHERRY STREET SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT. SO THE LAST PHASE OF THAT PROJECT HAS STARTED TODAY. AND DURING THIS PHASE, CHERRY STREET WILL BE CLOSED FOR THROUGH TRAFFIC BETWEEN LAKEVIEW DRIVE AND CERNEY LANE. SO RESIDENTS THAT LIVE ON CITY LANE AND WAGONWHEEL LANE. UNFORTUNATELY, THEY WILL HAVE TO TRAVEL NORTH ON WALDO WALDO ROAD TO COUNTY HOME ROAD TO GET OUT OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. RESIDENTS THAT LIVE WITHIN THE WORK ZONE. I THINK ON LANTERN, THEY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THEIR DRIVEWAYS THROUGHOUT CONSTRUCTION OF THIS PHASE. AND AS FAR AS THE TIMELINE GOES, WE ANTICIPATE THIS PHASE OF CONSTRUCTION TAKING ANYWHERE BETWEEN 6 TO 8 WEEKS TO CONSTRUCT. THOSE ARE ALL OF MY UPDATES. I THINK I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO JEREMY FOR AN UPDATE ON THE NEW FINGER HOUSE. YEAH, THANKS. TALKING WITH TERRY AND TERRY MENTIONED IF YOU WALKED IN AND YOU CAN SEE THERE'S WORK GOING ON IN THE BACKYARD OF THE FORMER LAW OFFICE. SO I WANTED TO AT LEAST I SNIPPED A COUPLE OF GRAPHICS FROM THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD SUBMITTAL THAT WENT THROUGH A MONTH OR TWO AGO. SO ONCE THAT GETS POSTED ON THE SCREEN, I CAN SHOW YOU THAT, SORRY, TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES HERE. I DON'T KNOW WHY IT'S NOT TURNING ON. THERE IT IS. AND. I PROMISE YOU, YOU CAN READ THE TEXT IF YOU ARE ON MY COMPUTER. THERE'S A LOT OF TEXT. SO WE'RE GOING TO GO. LET'S SEE. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS IS A GATHERING SPACE SITE PLAN. THIS IS A COVERED PAVILION WHICH YOU'VE SEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION HERE. TO GET YOUR POINT OF AREA. THANK YOU[00:10:03]
MACKENZIE, THE ALLEY IS RIGHT HERE. WE ARE JUST OFF THE SCREEN, PROBABLY JUST BELOW THE LOGO. THAT IS WHERE WE'RE CURRENTLY AT. AND THEN THE CITY HALL PARKING LOT IS IN THIS AREA. SO AGAIN, WE'VE GOT A COVERED PAVILION BEING PLANNED HERE FOR FOR MEETINGS. THERE'S A RENDERING LATER. WE'VE GOT SOME HARDSCAPE THAT'S BEING PLANNED HERE. AND BASED ON ALL THE DIFFERENT COLORS THAT WE HAVE SURROUNDING THIS WORK, THAT IS NOT THAT IS LANDSCAPING IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE BEING PLANNED FOR THAT AREA AS WELL. THERE IS A. I'M NOT AN ARCHITECT, BUT THIS IS A TRELLIS OF SORTS THAT I HAVE A RENDERING ON LATER. SO BIG PICTURE. THIS IS WHAT THE COVERED, AT LEAST BASED ON THE KIT THAT THE CITY PURCHASED IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. SO THEY'VE GOT OBVIOUSLY NOT A POOL. THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE SEEING COMING OUT OF THE GROUND RIGHT NOW. IT HAPPENED OBVIOUSLY VERY MUCH MORE QUICKLY. IT SEEMED LIKE THEY WERE ABLE TO ASSEMBLE MOST OF WHAT YOU SEE TODAY IN A DAY. SO WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, SOME SOME HARDSCAPE UNDERNEATH AND SOME PATIO FURNITURE, LIGHTING, FIREPLACE. SO THAT'S WHAT IT'S GOING TO GO INTO THE PAVILION. SOME WORK WORK THROUGHOUT THE PATIO AREA. AND THEN THIS IS THE AFOREMENTIONED TRELLIS. BUT YOU KNOW, HERE IN COUNCIL'S DIRECTION AND EVEN WITH THE HELP OF THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD LANDSCAPE OF MAKING THIS LOOK TOP NOTCH, WAS WAS THE KEY. SO OUR CONTRACTOR IS ACTUALLY A MEMBER OF ACCUSED HIMSELF, SCOTT ROSS, WHO'S A LOCAL CONTRACTOR WITH UNION FREE OUTDOOR LIVING THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO CONTRACT WITH TO ASSEMBLE AND MAKE SURE THAT THE PROJECT THAT WE ENVISIONED ACTUALLY COMES TO FRUITION. SO BIG PICTURE. THOSE WERE THE THOSE WERE THE BIG THINGS, AT LEAST ON THE OUTSIDE. ON THE INSIDE FACILITIES IS SOMEWHAT RUNNING THAT, BUT THEY CONTINUE TO LOOK AT ALL THE DIFFERENT MECHANICALS, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING TO SEE WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IMPROVEMENTS, IF ANY, ARE GOING TO BE NEEDED ON ON COMPONENTS OF THAT. OBVIOUSLY IT'S A VERY OLD BUILDING. SO BRINGING IT UP TO CURRENT STANDARDS AS IT RELATES TO CURRENT CODES AND BEING ABLE TO HOUSE CITY STAFF AND THE PUBLIC IS A A LEVEL ABOVE WHAT IT WOULD BE IF YOU WERE JUST MOVING INTO SOME BIG PICTURE. THAT'S THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT. BUT WE JUST GAVE AN UPDATE, I BELIEVE, WE BELIEVE THE CONTRACTORS GOT A DECENT, DECENTLY AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULE.NEED TO CONFIRM THIS, BUT NOT WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO. WE SHOULD START SEEING SOME OF THE BRICKWORK AND THINGS LIKE THAT. THE WHOLE IDEA, OBVIOUSLY, AS WE BEGIN TO TRANSITION AND UTILIZE THE HOUSE FOR A COUPLE OF OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS, IS TO HAVE THE TRANSITION BETWEEN THE HOME AND CITY HALL TO BE AN AREA THAT WE CAN CONDUCT DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AND DIFFERENT MEETINGS. I'LL I'LL GIVE A GOOD EXAMPLE. IT'LL BE A GREAT PLACE TO DURING GOOD WEATHER MONTHS. YOU COULD EVEN HAVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS OUT THERE IF YOU'D LIKE. BUT WHEN WE HAVE MEETINGS, JAPANESE CONTINGENT FROM YURI THAT COMES IN, WE CAN HAVE A NICE LOCATION TO HAVE AN EVENT. IT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK CAN BE UTILIZED IN A A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS, AND WE WANT A FREE FLOW OF FROM, FROM WHAT ULTIMATELY ENDS UP GOING INTO THE HOME TO CITY HALL, BACK AND FORTH. WE WANT THE INTEREST OF OF OUR CITY STAFF TO MAYBE EVEN UTILIZE IT, YOU KNOW, DURING A LUNCHTIME IF THEY WANT TO GO OUTSIDE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA. THE HOUSE STILL NEEDS A LOT OF WORK, SO WE'LL TRY TO KEEP YOU UPDATED AS WE GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, FEEL FREE. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE HOUSE? I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. I JUST SOME COMMENTS. SO WE TALKED ABOUT THIS PURCHASE A YEAR AGO OR SO. IF I'M A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC AND YOU'RE JUST SEEING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU MAY KIND OF QUESTION, YOU KNOW, WHY ARE WHY ARE WE INVESTING INTO THIS HISTORIC HOME IN THE UPTOWN? BUT AS COUNCILMAN REAMES TALKED ABOUT, I KNOW THERE'S A WORK SESSION A YEAR AGO OR SO. THERE'S BEEN A LONGER TERM STRATEGY TO ACQUIRE CERTAIN, YOU KNOW, SURROUNDING PROPERTIES TO CITY HALL IN AN EFFORT TO MITIGATE HAVING TO CONSTRUCT A BRAND NEW BUILDING AT A MUCH HIGHER COST. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS, ALTHOUGH WE'RE LOOKING AT A PROJECT EXPENSE HERE, IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, IT'S AN ENDEAVOR TO BE STRATEGIC AND SPEND WISELY. YEAH, THAT'S THAT'S JUST WANT TO SAY THAT POINT. YES. THAT'S
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PERFECT. AND YES, WE WANT THE PROPERTIES THAT WE OBTAIN NOT ONLY TO BE UTILIZED IN A PRODUCTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY, BUT ALSO LOOK, HAVE HAVE A POSITIVE APPEARANCE. YOU KNOW, WE ALSO HAVE THE LEIBOLD, THE OLD LEIBOLD OFFICE HERE THAT WE CALL THE WHITE HOUSE, THAT OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS HAS BEEN USED AS A PART OF OUR VISIONING PLANNING PROCESS THAT ULTIMATELY, AGAIN, WILL BE ANOTHER LOCATION THAT AT SOME POINT IN TIME WE MAY NEED TO LOOK AT MAKING SOME IMPROVEMENTS TO IT. BUT YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT. THE WHOLE IDEA IS, IS TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCTIVELY USE THESE SITES WITHOUT THE NEED OF HAVING TO ADD OR EXPAND THIS PARTICULAR BUILDING IN THE SHORT TERM. SO THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION THAT I WILL, FIRST OF ALL, THE STATEMENT AND THEN SECOND OF ALL QUESTION. BUT FIRST OF ALL, JUST TO PIGGYBACK ON WHAT EVERYONE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY IS IT SAVING ON COST, BUT IT'S ALSO PROTECTING THE ORIGINAL GRID OF MARYSVILLE AND THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURES OF MARYSVILLE, YOU KNOW, SO THAT'S THAT'S ALSO HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO COUNCILS BECAUSE THIS IS THE OLDEST PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. AND PRESERVING THAT NATURAL WALKING ENVIRONMENT SHOULD BE AT OUR TOP MOST PRIORITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN OUR HISTORICAL DISTRICT OUTLYING AND ALL OF OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLANS AND FROM WHAT THE RESIDENTS SURVEY SAY, THEY WANT MORE PRESERVATION WITHIN THE CITY. SO KUDOS TO PROTECTING THAT MOVING FORWARD, THOUGH, AS WE DO, THE DEDICATION OF THE HOME. AND AND WHEN THAT TIME COMES AND EVEN THE LIABLE HOME, I THINK IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO RENAME THE RENAME THE STRUCTURES OFF OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WAS THE ORIGINAL FAMILIES OF THESE PROPERTIES AND GIVE THEM, YOU KNOW, RECOGNIZE THEM AS THE ONES WHO ACTUALLY BUILT THE PROPERTIES. AND BECAUSE THERE'S PROBABLY A LOT ABOUT THEM AS FOUNDING MARYSVILLE'S RESIDENTS THAT WE PROBABLY DON'T KNOW, AND EVERY GENERATION ALL LIKE I'M SURE THERE'S RESIDENTS OUT THERE, EVERY GENERATION REMEMBERS SOMEBODY DIFFERENT WHO LIVED, WHO LIVED IN THAT HOME. AS WE ALL HAVE GOTTEN OLDER AND WE WATCH PEOPLE MOVE. BUT IT'S SO IMPORTANT IN IN HISTORY TO GIVE COMMUNITY PRIDE AND, AND AND CONNECTION TO THE PAST AND THE PRESENT BY REPRESENTING THOSE FOUNDING FAMILIES. SO THAT'S ALL I HAD TO SAY. PERFECT. AND IT WOULD BE CONVENIENT TO HAVE SET NAMES ANYWAY, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING MEETINGS IN THESE LOCATIONS MOVING FORWARD TO SO TO HAVE A NAME. SO ON YOUR SCHEDULE, IF THAT NAME WITH THE MEETING ROOM IS THERE, IT'LL BE EASY TO SAY, OKAY, I KNOW WHERE THAT'S AT. IT'S, YOU KNOW, ACROSS IN THE WHAT WE CALL CURRENTLY THE FINGER HOUSE. SO THANK YOU. ONE LAST THING. AND I'M NOT SAYING ANYTHING THAT'S GOING TO SHOCK COUNCIL HERE TONIGHT. BUT YOU KNOW I'VE I'VE RECENTLY MADE THE DECISION TO BEGIN THE TRANSITION INTO ENDING MY TENURE AS CITY MANAGER FOR MARYSVILLE. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, I, AS WELL AS THE CITY ADMINISTRATION, WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH CITY COUNCIL TO SECURE THE BEST CANDIDATE TO FILL THIS CHIEF EXECUTIVE ROLE. I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO SERVE THIS WONDERFUL COMMUNITY FOR 15 YEARS, AND THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER IN MY PROFESSIONAL CAREER. THERE WILL BE MORE TO COME ON THE PROCESS, WHICH WILL BEGIN IN THE COMING WEEKS AND MONTHS. I'M EXCITED ABOUT BEING A PART OF THAT AS WELL, BUT OUR MAIN FOCUS WILL BE TO MAKE THIS CITY THE BEST IT CAN POSSIBLY BE. AND AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT TRANSITION FOR OUR COMMUNITY. OTHER THAN THAT, THIS CONCLUDES OUR ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. UNLESS THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION? MR. PRESIDENT, I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION. JUST COMMENT. MR. EMERY, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR YOUR SERVICE AND YOUR DEDICATION TO THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. YOU'LL BE YOU'LL BE MISSED. BUT I DO WISH YOU NOTHING BUT PROSPERITY IN YOUR FUTURE. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IT'S YOU GUYS. IT'S TRULY BEEN AWESOME, YOU KNOW, AND AND THIS COMMUNITY SINCE 2011. SO IT'S BEEN JUST AN AWESOME EXPERIENCE. AND I'VE REALLY APPRECIATED THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE. I JUST THINK IT'S IT MIGHT BE THE RIGHT TIME. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SERVICE IS REALLY AN HONOR. AND, YOU KNOW, IT REPRESENTS WHAT I BELIEVE IN A LOT OF WAYS, STILL THE BEST OF OUR SOCIETY. BUT IN[00:20:06]
SAYING THAT 2026 IS ALL ABOUT CHANGE, AND MARYSVILLE, AS YOU JUST HEARD, IS NO DIFFERENT IN THAT CHANGE. TERRY HAS GUIDED OUR FUTURE FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS. HIS PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE AND STEADY HAND. AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, WE AS COUNCIL, ON THE BEHALF OF OUR RESIDENTS AND STAFF, WILL FIND SOMEONE WHO WHO EMBODIES MARYSVILLE'S VALUES IN BOLD SPIRIT. WE WILL RECOGNIZE TERRY'S LEADERSHIP AND SUCCESS OF OUR CITY IN THE LAST 15 YEARS IN THE NEAR FUTURE. SO I KNOW I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AS SOMEBODY WHO MET YOU YEARS AGO, YEARS AGO, WHEN JOHN WENT WITH JOHN CUNNINGHAM AND I MEAN JOHN GORE.AND YOU ALWAYS GAVE ME GRACE AND TIME, AND I APPRECIATE THAT. I KNOW I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND ALL OF US. WE'RE GRATEFUL. AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. REPORT OF
[REPORT OF CLERK OF COUNCIL]
CLERK OF COUNCIL, I BELIEVE, IS NEXT. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE TWO UPDATES. THE FIRST IS YOU MAY NOTICE THAT WE HAVE A NEW NUMBERING SYSTEM FOR ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS AS THEY APPEAR ON THE AGENDA. PREVIOUSLY WE HAD A THEY WERE LETTERED AND THAT LETTER COULD CHANGE AFTER EVERY COUNCIL MEETING. WHEREAS NOW ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS WILL BE GIVEN A NUMBER WHEN THEY FIRST APPEAR ON COUNCIL'S AGENDA. SO THIS WAS A RECOMMENDED AMENDMENT BROUGHT FORWARD BY COUNCILMAN WOLF DURING THE REVIEW OF THE RULES OF COUNCIL AT THE LAST WORK SESSION. SO I THINK THIS WILL BE A GREAT UPDATE TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR FOLKS TO BE ABLE TO FIND ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS NOT ONLY AFTER THE FACT, BUT AS THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS. SO ONCE IT'S ASSIGNED THAT NUMBER, IT WILL NOT CHANGE. AND THEN WITH THAT, THERE IS ALSO I ADDED A FOLDER ON THE WEBSITE UNDER ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS THAT IS LABELED ACTIVE LEGISLATION. AND THAT IS FOR ANYTHING THAT APPEARS ON COUNCIL'S AGENDA. SO I'LL UPDATE THAT FOLDER FOLLOWING EVERY COUNCIL MEETING AS WELL. JUST ANOTHER WAY FOR YOU TO ACCESS INFORMATION WITHOUT HAVING TO GO INTO THE MEETING PACKET OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.SO THAT'S ALL I HAD. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK.
[REPORT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT]
AND THANK YOU TO COUNCILMAN WOLF AS WELL, REPORT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, MR. PHILLIPS. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. COUNCIL MEMBERS, JUST ONE ITEM. AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE CONDUCTING THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. WE PARTICIPATED IN A WORK SESSION LAST WEEK. THERE IS A RESIDENT SURVEY. THERE'S TWO DAYS LEFT. GOOD NEWS IS WE'VE ACTUALLY OVER ACTUALLY GONE ABOVE OUR GOAL. SO WE'RE AT 1574 IN NUMBER OF SURVEY RESPONSES. I GUESS OUR GOAL NOW HAS TO BE 2000. BUT IN TWO DAYS I GUESS I DON'T KNOW. BUT WE HAVE A GOOD SUCCESS IN GETTING THAT OUT AND GETTING A LOT OF PEOPLE TO MAKE COMMENTS WE HAVE. I HAVE NO IDEA ON THE DATA WHAT IT MEANS, WHAT IT SAYS, BUT WE WILL HAVE THAT IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS.WE'RE NOW REACHING OUR MIDPOINT IN THE STRATEGY, SO WE HAVE A FEW MORE MONTHS LEFT, MAYBE 2 TO 3 MONTHS LEFT TO GET IT ALL FINALIZED AND BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL. SO THAT'S KIND OF AN UPDATE UNLESS YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT OR ANYTHING ELSE THIS EVENING.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. PHILLIPS? MR. PRESIDENT, IF I MAY, JUST BEING PART OF THE ACTIVITY LAST WEEK, WILL THERE BE LIKE A AN UPDATE ON KIND OF THE FEEDBACK TO THE KIND OF THE WORK GROUP OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S JUST GOING TO COME STRAIGHT TO THIS, THIS COUNCIL IN THE FUTURE, OR HAS THAT BEEN DECIDED YET? YEAH, THAT HASN'T BEEN DECIDED YET. I KNOW THERE'S A DRAFT REPORT THAT WILL BE MADE BY THE CONSULTANT AND A DRAFT REPORT, AND THEN WE'LL GET FEEDBACK AND THEN IT'LL BE FINALIZED AS A GAME PLAN. SO WE'LL MAKE CERTAIN COUNCIL GETS THE DRAFT OR THE NOTES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT BEFORE WE MAKE IT FINAL AND BRING IT BACK TO YOU TO GET MORE INPUT. SO WE DEFINITELY BRING SOMETHING BACK TO COUNCIL.
DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. PHILLIPS HEARING NONE. THANK YOU. THANK
[PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION REPORT]
YOU VERY MUCH. PARKS AND RECREATION REPORT. MR. SO AT OUR LAST MEETING, WE APPROVED THE NOVEMBER 18TH MINUTES AND THEN RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING UPDATES. WE SHOULD KNOW BY FEBRUARY IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL IN SECURING A GRANT FROM GOOGLE AT SCOTT FAMILY PARK. WE HAD PURCHASED THE PRODUCTS FOR THE ALDERSGATE RESTROOM AND THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF CONTROL. SO WE'LL NEED A CONTRACTOR TO HIRE TO BUILD THIS, AND THEN WE'LL RUN WATER AND SEWER TO IT. WE PURCHASED PURCHASED MERIDIAN GATES TO USE FOR PROTECTION OF BLOCKED OFF ROADWAYS AT CITY EVENTS. SO WE WON'T HAVE TO USE VEHICLES, FILL CONTAINERS WITH WATER.WE'LL LOOK BETTER, MORE ESTHETIC. WE SHOULD BE ABLE AND WE'RE KIND OF IN THAT PROCESS OF INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES AND SHOULD BE ABLE TO OFFER SOON. A CANDIDATE FOR THE PARKS AND RECREATION SUPERINTENDENT. WE SHOULD HAVE A REVISED CONCEPT FOR THE SCOTT FAMILY PARK, BASED ON FEEDBACK FROM A CONSULTANT WITHIN THIS FIRST QUARTER HERE OF 2026. AND THEN THERE WAS A NEW SECTION ADDED TO THE DOG PARK FOR INACTIVE DOGS. PREVIOUSLY, THERE WAS AN
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ACTIVE DOGS, INACTIVE DOGS, AND THERE WERE RESIDENTS THAT WERE UPSET WHEN A LARGER INACTIVE DOG WAS IN THAT SECTION AND THERE WERE SMALLER DOGS AROUND. SO NOW THEY'LL BE SECTIONS ONE FOR BIG DOGS, ONE FOR LITTLE DOGS, AND THEN AN ACTIVE DOG SECTION. THE CURRENT SHELTER AT SCHWARZKOPF'S PARK SHOULD BE DEMOLISHED SOON AND PERMITS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR A NEW ONE.AND THEN REGARDING THE CHRISTMAS WALK, THERE WERE 6125 ATTENDEES THIS PAST YEAR. IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR THERE WERE 5200, SO ALMOST A THOUSAND MORE PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO ATTEND. AND I CAN SAY FROM BEING THERE, IT WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED AND THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAD A GOOD TIME. AS FOR OUR AGENDA, WE HAD A DISCUSSION ON THE E-BIKE AND SCOOTER POLICY WITHIN THE TOWN AND OUR PARKS. SO THAT'S AN ONGOING CONVERSATION AND SHOULD HAVE SOME MORE CONVERSATIONS ON THAT IN OUR NEXT MEETING. THE COMMISSION APPROVED THE POLICY FOR NAMING PUBLIC PROPERTIES 7 TO 0, AND THEN OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE TUESDAY, JANUARY 20TH AT 6 P.M. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? MR. THE ONLY QUESTION THAT I HAVE, MAYBE IF YOU KNOW, YOU CAN ANSWER IT OR ADMINISTRATION IS AND I'LL JUST KIND OF LOOK BOTH WAYS IS DO YOU KNOW IF THE WHAT WE'RE BUILDING WILL GO THROUGH DESIGN REVIEW BOARD. DO YOU KNOW IF WE'RE OUR FOR THE RESTROOM. YEAH. I DO NOT BELIEVE IT'S VISIBLE FROM THE RIGHT OF WAY.
SO I DON'T BELIEVE SO. BUT IT WOULD BE A RESTROOM, THAT'S ALL. BRICK. SO I DON'T SEE ANY ISSUES. IT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD TAKE THROUGH JUST TO GET THEIR BLESSING, BUT IT IS LOCATED TUCKED AWAY BEHIND SOME TREES NEAR THE GAS TO BE ON THE SOUTH WEST SIDE OF THE PICKLEBALL COURTS AT ALDERSGATE. SO IT MIGHT IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO BRING IT THROUGH JUST FOR, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AS WE WE'VE HAD WE'VE HAD ASHLEY LOOK AT IT ADMINISTRATIVELY, BUT WE CAN WE CAN GO AHEAD AND BRING IT THROUGH DESIGN REVIEW BOARD IF NECESSARY. OKAY. ANYBODY ELSE? I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS WALK AND THAT I HOPE THAT IN THE FUTURE WE CONTINUE TO HOST THAT ON SATURDAYS. I GOT A LOT OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK FROM PEOPLE HAPPY THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO ATTEND, BECAUSE IN YEARS PAST, BEING ON A MONDAY, NOT BEING ABLE TO GET BACK FROM WORK IN TIME. SO IT WAS A GOOD COMMUNITY EVENT. THANK YOU.
ANYBODY ELSE HEARING? NONE. HEARING OF CITIZENS. THIS IS THE PART OF THE MEETING, PART OF THE AGENDA, WHERE CITIZENS HAVE UP TO FIVE MINUTES TO SPEAK. HEARING NONE.
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RESOLUTIONS. RESOLUTION OH 126 ONE. READING ONLY. TO AUTHORIZE THE DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS PERSONAL PROPERTY BY INTERNET AUCTION FOR 2026. ADMINISTRATION. YES. FOR OUR NEWER MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE BRING THROUGH EACH YEAR. THIS ALLOWS US TO UTILIZE A COMPANY GOV DEALS TO ASSIST IN OUR PROCESS. TO IMPLEMENT AN INTERNET AUCTION. WE WILL NOT HAVE THESE ITEMS YET READY UNTIL A LITTLE BIT LATER THIS YEAR. USUALLY AROUND EARLY FALL TIME FRAMES WHEN WE START DISCUSSING THE VARIOUS ITEMS THAT WILL FALL INTO THE CATEGORY THAT WILL GO INTO AN INTERNET AUCTION. SO TONIGHT IS BASICALLY JUST AUTHORIZING US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE DISPOSAL OF THESE ITEMS THROUGH GOV DEALS. AND THEN WE'LL BE BACK TO TELL YOU WHAT THOSE ITEMS ARE LATER IN THE YEAR. CITIZENS COUNCIL.OKAY. THIS IS ALSO EVERY YEAR YOU'RE GETTING AN INVITE CALENDAR TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR LETTING YOU KNOW. SO YOU YOU ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THE EQUIPMENT. YEAH, I DO HAVE A COMMENT, JUST FOR CLARITY AND FOR THE NEWER MEMBERS. THE NICE THING ABOUT THIS IS THE THE REVENUES THAT ARE OBTAINED FROM THE AUCTION ACTUALLY ARE DEFERRED. THEN BACK TO THE ORIGINAL INQUIRER OR ACQUIRER. SORRY, THE FUNDING SOURCE THAT FUNDING SERVED THAT SO KIND OF SUBSIDIZES ANY FUTURE INVESTMENTS. SO IT'S AN OVERALL GOOD THING. SO THANK YOU. MR. PRESIDENT. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO PASS THE LEGISLATION. ROLL CALL MR. BURGER. YES. MR. HUNTER YES. MR. REAMES YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLFF YES. MRS. YES. SEVEN.
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YES. RESOLUTION PASSES. OKAY. ONE READING ONLY TO AMEND THE RULES OF COUNCIL ADMINISTRATION.[00:30:02]
CITIZENS COUNCIL. MR. PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, I DO HAVE AN AMENDMENT THAT I REQUESTED A POST OR WORKING SESSION LAST WEEK THAT HADN'T HAD A HAD BEEN REVIEWED WITH THE MEMBERS. SO I WANTED TO THANK YOU TO MACKENZIE FOR HELPING ME OUT GETTING THIS AMENDMENT DRAFTED. BUT RULE NUMBER 2.2, AS IT RELATES TO THE APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT, YOU KNOW, HISTORICALLY OR TRADITIONALLY, WE HAVE MADE THOSE APPOINTMENTS DURING THE FIRST REGULAR COUNCIL SESSION SESSION. MY GENERAL VIEWPOINT IS, YOU KNOW, WE BASICALLY LOSE A MONTH WORTH OF OF LEADERSHIP GIVEN OUR CURRENT TIME FRAME. SO WE'VE APPOINTED PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT THIS EVENING. CONGRATULATIONS. MR. MR. HUNTER AND MR. BERGER ON YOUR RESPECTIVE APPOINTMENTS. HOWEVER THE THE THE NOMINATIONS DON'T GO INTO EFFECT UNTIL AFTER THIS MEETING. SO IN THEORY OR IN ESSENCE, THE THEY DON'T START UNTIL ESSENTIALLY THE END OF THE MONTH. SO YOU'RE LOSING A MONTH OF OF OF OF LEADERSHIP OR KIND OF, I DON'T WANT TO SAY WAFFLING BUT JUST LIMBO LEADERSHIP. SO MY, MY PROPOSAL IS TO LEVERAGE OR UTILIZE THE WORKING SESSION IN THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH. SO LIKE LAST WEEK, WE WOULD HAVE APPOINTED THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT DURING THAT WEEK, AND THEN THOSE APPOINTMENTS WOULD BE EFFECT AT THE FIRST REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING. SO THEN YOU'RE REALLY YOU'RE NOT LOSING THAT ESSENTIALLY ENTIRE, YOU KNOW, MONTH OF, OF OF LEADERSHIP. SO RULE 2.2, I JUST I REQUESTED TO AMEND THE TEXT THAT YOU GUYS SHOULD ALL HAVE IN FRONT. AND I DON'T KNOW, MACKENZIE, IF YOU WANT TO PULL IT UP ON THE, ON THE, ON THE BIG BOARD. BUT BASICALLY JUST SAYING THAT THE OFFICERS OF COUNCIL SHALL BE THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT, WHO SHALL BE ELECTED BY A MAJORITY OF COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT, WHICH SHALL TAKE PLACE AT THE FIRST REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING IN JANUARY. AND THEN THE AMENDED TEXT IS IN READ, I BELIEVE. YEP, IN READ, WHICH COULD BE A WORK SESSION OR CITY OR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MEETING, WHICHEVER HAPPENS FIRST, EXCLUDING AND WE I'VE SCRATCHED OUT WORK SESSIONS BUT AND JUST KEPT MAINTAINED THE SPECIAL AND OR EMERGENCY MEETINGS AND BEGIN ACTING IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF THE MEETING. SO AND THEN EVERYTHING ELSE REMAINS THE SAME. SO DOES THE AMENDMENT. I'M OPEN FOR FEEDBACK OR QUESTIONS. MR. PRESIDENT, I THINK ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF A CHANGE LIKE THIS WOULD BE IT WOULD ALLOW THE COMMITTEES TO BE ASSIGNED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK WE HAD A COMMITTEE MEETING TONIGHT, BUT WE DON'T ACTUALLY TECHNICALLY HAVE NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS APPOINTED. SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF AN ISSUE THERE THAT WE RUN INTO. IT WAS NEVER AN ISSUE BEFORE WE HAD WORK SESSIONS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE JUST DID IT AT THE FIRST MEETING. THEN WE ADDED THE WORK SESSION. THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY NOW FOR US TO KIND OF GET A HEAD START ON THE YEAR AND GET OUR APPOINTMENTS OR COMMITTEES ASSIGNED IN, IN TIME TO HAVE OUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS. AND YEAH, I'LL SHARE MY THOUGHTS. SO, SO ONE KIND OF THOUGHT THAT GOES THROUGH MY MIND IS THAT IN THE WORK SESSION, THE, THE TYPICALLY THERE'S NOT A PUBLIC PRESENCE THAT'S STRONG, I GUESS YOU WOULD SAY. SO THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING, AND YOU WOULD HAVE NEW OFFICERS THAT THE PUBLIC WOULD SEE RUNNING THE MEETINGS. IT MAY BE CONFUSING UNLESS THERE WAS LIKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, A COMMUNICATION THAT ACCOMPANIED IT. IT MAY BE A LITTLE BIT LIKE KIND OF LIKE RESIDENTS MIGHT BE KIND OF CAUGHT OFF GUARD OF LIKE WHO IS RUNNING THE MEETING AND WHY, IF THEY HAD MISSED THE APPOINTMENTS. I MEAN, I'M IN THE WEEDS, I PAY ATTENTION, YOU KNOW, I'M PART OF COUNCIL, I SEE IT, BUT MAYBE MAYBE OTHER RESIDENTS, YOU KNOW, DON'T PAY THAT CLOSE OF ATTENTION. BUT TO ME, THAT MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT OF A POINT TO THINK ABOUT. ONE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS ABOUT THE WORD COULD. SO SO WHEN YOU USE THE WORD COULD BE A WORK SESSION OR A CITY COUNCIL MEETING, WHICHEVER HAPPENS FIRST. IS THERE EVER INSTANCE WHERE THE I GUESS WE DON'T DO WE WOULD CANCEL THE WORK SESSION. IS THAT WHAT THAT'S THE WORD COULD IS THERE FOR. YEAH I MEAN I DIDN'T DRAFT IT BUT YEAH I MEAN I THINK IT'S FINE BECAUSE THERE MIGHT NOT BE A WORK SESSION AT THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY IF YOU USE THE WORD COULD. I'M JUST CONCERNED IT'S A LITTLE BIT AMBIGUOUS BECAUSE IT THEN IT DOESN'T SAY ACTUALLY[00:35:01]
WHICH ONE IT SHOULD BE. IT SAYS WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST, WHICHEVER OCCURS. YOU COULD HAVE A REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING ON JANUARY 8TH MAYBE LIKE WHAT'S THE INTENT THOUGH WOULD BE THE LINE BEFORE THAT SAYS FIRST MEETING TAKE PLACE AT THE FIRST REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING, WHICHEVER HAPPENS FIRST. YEAH, WHICHEVER ONE'S FIRST. AND I MEAN, IT COULD BE A WORK SESSION. IT COULD BE A COUNCIL MEETING. IT'S JUST IT SHALL TAKE PLACE AT THE FIRST MEETING IN JANUARY, WHICHEVER ONE IT COULD BE. AND I WILL AGREE WITH YOUR POINT ABOUT THE COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS, BECAUSE EVERY TWO YEARS, ESSENTIALLY THAT HAPPENS WHEN, WELL, IF THERE'S NEW MEMBERS ELECTED, THAT WILL HAPPEN. BUT LIKE TONIGHT WE HAD TWO MEMBERS.SO THAT THAT POINT OF IT MAKES SENSE. I WOULDN'T GO SO FAR AS TO SAY THAT THERE'S NO LEADERSHIP THAT DOESN'T OCCUR BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE PEOPLE RUNNING THE MEETING, BUT CERTAINLY FOR THE COMMITTEE SIDE OF IT, WHEN YOU HAVE NEW MEMBERS ELECTED, IT DOES CREATE A VOID IN COMMITTEES. THE, THE, THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD TO IS THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR ME AND I'LL SPEAK FOR MY, FOR MYSELF. IT'S SUCH A PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE AND TO SERVE AND TO BE A PART OF A COMMUNITY. THAT AND LISTENING TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND HAVING IDEAS AND HAVING RESIDENTS WHO WANT TO BE INVOLVED. AND IF, IF, IF, IF IT HAPPENS TO A WORK SESSION, THEN I THINK THAT THAT WORK SESSION SHOULD BE IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS WHERE IT'S VIEWED THEN BY THE PUBLIC, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WORK SESSIONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COUNCIL TO DISCUSS ITEMS THAT'S NOT YET ON THE AGENDA. YEARS AGO, THERE WAS NO SUCH OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE OF SUNSHINE LAWS AND TRACY RICHARDSON, WHEN SHE WAS A COUNCILWOMAN, THEN CHANGED AND SAID, WE NEED TO CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY INSTEAD OF COUNCIL MEMBERS GOING TO COMMITTEES TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS GOING ON. SO TO HELP STREAM, HELP, HELP THE PROCESS, TO MAKE IT MORE CLEAR, WORK SESSIONS BECAME A PART OF CITY BUSINESS, AND WHAT THAT DID WAS ALLOWED STAFF OR COUNCIL MEMBERS IF THEY HAD A PRESENTATION OR, YOU KNOW, OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO COME IN FRONT OF COUNCIL AND THEY COULD DEBATE ON ISSUES BEFORE IT BECAME PIECES OF LEGISLATION THAT THEN RESIDENTS COULD VOTE ON. SO IN SAYING ALL OF THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IF WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY WHERE RESIDENTS ARE BEING APPOINTED AND PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT ARE BEING APPOINTED, THEN I THINK THAT MEETING SHOULD BE HELD. IF NOT ALL WORK SESSIONS HELD AT CITY HALL, THEN THEN THOSE MEETINGS DEFINITELY SHOULD BE HELD AT CITY HALL, THEN MOVING FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE BEING RECOGNIZED. SO WHAT I HEAR, MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT I HEAR THE MEMBERS SAYING IS, IS YEAH, WE AGREE, BUT WE WANT IT TO BE MORE PUBLIC. SO IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US JUST TO SAY THE FIRST WORK SESSION OF THE NEW YEAR WILL BE LOCATED AT 209 SOUTH MAIN STREET, WHEN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR ANNUAL SCHEDULE THAT MCKINSEY SENDS OUT THE AND WE WE SET THE SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT YEAR. WE CAN DO IT RIGHT THERE. YEAH. OKAY. SO SO THAT NEXT YEAR. YEAH. AND IF THERE'S AN ISSUE WHERE ONE FACILITY IS NOT GOING TO BE AVAILABLE FOR WHATEVER REASON, WE CAN FOR ANY OF THE MEETINGS, WE CAN ADDRESS IT THEN, LIKE IF WE KNEW WE WERE GOING TO DO CONSTRUCTION FOR THREE MONTHS HERE, WE COULD SAY ALL OUR MEETINGS ARE GOING TO BE AT THE OTHER LOCATION DURING THAT TIME. SO I THINK THAT'S WE HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. ONE COMMENT ABOUT THAT. SO WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH A SERVICES COMPANY WHO DOES LIVE STREAMING, AND WE HAVE SO MANY INSTANCES OF LIVE STREAMING THAT WE CAN DO. IS YOUR INTENT OR YOUR THINKING THAT THAT WOULD ALSO BE A LIVE STREAMED WORK SESSION MEETING THE FIRST OF THE YEAR, AND IF SO, DOES THAT DOES THAT FIT INTO OUR AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE? YES, WE HAVE EXTRA MEETINGS TO WORK WITH IF WE NEED TO, OR AN ALTERNATIVE WOULD JUST BE TO MAKE THE FIRST MONDAY A CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND THE SECOND WORK SESSION. YEAH, YOU DO IT IN DECEMBER. YEAH, I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT TOO.
TRADITIONALLY IT'S JUST BEEN SECOND AND FOURTH, SO I DON'T REALLY HAVE A STRONG PREFERENCE EITHER WAY. I JUST I REALLY THOUGHT THAT WE SHOULD DO OUR APPOINTMENTS RIGHT AWAY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. SO. REGARDLESS, WE CAN HASHTAG THE I MEAN, WE CAN WORK OUT THOSE DETAILS, YOUR DETAILS THEN, BUT AND MISS YOUNG'S DETAILS. SO DID YOU MAKE THE MOTION TO MAKE THIS AMENDMENT? I DON'T WELL, ACTUALLY WE WOULD NEED A MOTION FOR ALL THE AMENDMENTS, WOULDN'T WE. WHAT ARE ALL THE AMENDMENTS? WE HAVE THREE. THEY WERE ALL INCLUDED IN THE IN THE
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RESOLUTION. THAT'S THE THAT'S THE THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. SO THIS IS A MOTION TO AMEND AMEND AMENDMENT TO THE RULES OF COUNCIL. THAT'S RIGHT. OKAY. SO, MR. PRESIDENT, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE AMENDED OR JUST THE LEGISLATION. THE LEGISLATION. YEAH. AS STATED.2.2 OKAY. ROLL CALL, MR. HUNTER. YES. MR. REAMS. YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLFF YES. MRS. TAKACS YES. MR. BERGER YES. SEVEN. YES. AMENDMENT PASSES. OKAY. MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVE TO PASS THE RESOLUTION. ROLL CALL. MR. REAMES. YES. MRS. YOUNG YES.
MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLFF YES. MRS. TAKACS YES. MR. BORDNER I'M SORRY, MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER YES. SEVEN. YES. LEGISLATION PASSES FIRST READING. INTRODUCTION. TO
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ACCEPT THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE FOP. OLC COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT FROM JANUARY 1ST, 2026 THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST, 2028, AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THIS IS A VERY POSITIVE PIECE OF LEGISLATION. OBVIOUSLY, OUR OUR CONTRACT WENT THROUGH THE END OF 2025. SO WHAT'S BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS THE NEXT FOP CONTRACT FOR THE FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS. WE'RE ASKING THIS EVENING FOR EXPEDITED LEGISLATION SO WE CAN INITIATE THIS AS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I WANTED TO STATE TONIGHT THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK. OUR POLICE CHIEF, TONY BROOKS, AND OUR HR DIRECTOR, TARA MAIN, WHO DID A FANTASTIC JOB OF GETTING OUR THIS AGREEMENT TO THE POINT WHERE WE HAVE IT TONIGHT. WE HAVE RECEIVED THE TENTATIVE AGREEMENT FROM THE FOP. SO IT'S ALL SET IN PLACE FOR TONIGHT FOR YOU TO MOVE IT FORWARD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCIL. MR. PRESIDENT, I JUST WANT TO ECHO MR. EMERY, APPRECIATE CHIEF BROOKS AND MISS MAIN FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THROUGH THE LABOR NEGOTIATIONS. I THINK IT WAS A POSITIVE OUTCOME OVERALL. SO THANKS AGAIN. THANK YOU.ANYBODY ELSE? MR. PRESIDENT, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO PASS LEGISLATION OR I'M SORRY TO ADD THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE. MY MISTAKE. ROLL CALL, MRS. YOUNG. YES. MR. BORDNER YES, MR. WOLF.
YES. MRS. TAKACS YES. MR. BERGER. YES. MR. HUNTER YES. MR. REAMES. YES. MOTION PASSES.
MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVE TO WAIVE THE SECOND READING ROLL CALL. MR. BORDNER. YES. MR. WOLF. YES.
MRS. YES. MR. BERGER YES. MR. HUNTER YES. MR. REAMES YES. MRS. YOUNG. YES. MOTION PASSES.
CITIZENS. CITIZENS. COMMENTS. MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVE TO WAIVE THIRD READING. ROLL CALL, MR. WOLF. YES. MRS. YES. MR. BERGER YES. MR. HUNTER YES. MR. REAMES YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER. YES. SEVEN. YES. MOTION PASSES, MR. PRESIDENT, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO PASS THE LEGISLATION. ROLL CALL. MRS. PACKAGE. YES. MR. BERGER. YES. MR. HUNTER YES. MR. REAMES YES.
MRS. YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLF. YES. SEVEN YES. LEGISLATION PASSES. THANK YOU
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VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. SECOND READING TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF NOTES IN THE AMOUNT OF NOT TO EXCEED 1,335,000, IN ANTICIPATION OF THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ONE ACQUIRING, DESIGNING, IMPROVING AND CONSTRUCTING VARIOUS VARIOUS PUBLIC SERVICE RELATED PROJECTS, TO CONSTRUCTING AND INSTALLING ROAD AND TRAFFIC SIGNALIZATION IMPROVEMENTS WITH RELATED SITE IMPROVEMENTS AND APPRENTICES THERETO. THREE CONSTRUCTING, RECONSTRUCTING, WIDENING, OPENING, IMPROVING, RESURFACING AND PAVING VARIOUS STREETS, ROADS, CURBS AND SIDEWALKS WITH RELATED SITE IMPROVEMENTS AND APPRENTICES THERETO, AND FOR CONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING VARIOUS CAPITAL PROJECTS AND INNOVATION PARK, INCLUDING ELECTRICAL, LANDSCAPING AND STREETSCAPING IMPROVEMENTS WITH RELATED SITE IMPROVEMENTS AND APPURTENANCES[00:45:02]
THERETO, AND RETIRING NOTES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND AUTHORIZING AND APPROVING RELATED MATTERS. ADMINISTRATION. NOTHING. FURTHER. CITIZENS COUNCIL, MISS, I JUST WANT TO, AS A REMINDER, AND MR. LUTZ, IF I MISSPEAK, LET ME KNOW AND NOT TO CALL YOU OUT REAL QUICK. BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY THE REISSUANCE OF BONDS OR BONDS THAT WE ACTUALLY PAID DOWN SOME DEBT WITH AS A RESULT OF SOME LAND SALES OVER, OVER INNOVATION PARK. SO WE DID PAY DOWN SOME, SOME, SOME DEBT SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINES OF $2 MILLION. SO NOW WE'RE REISSUING THOSE BONDS AT THE 1.3 MILLION. SO THAT'S THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. JUST TO REFRESH EVERYBODY'S MEMORY, IT'S BEEN QUITE SOME TIME SINCE WE SINCE WE'VE SEEN THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION. SO THAT'S ALL I HAD. THANK YOU TO TO PIGGYBACK WHAT HE SAID IS THIS TO PAY DOWN THE DEBT ON INNOVATION PARKWAY OR JUST IN GENERAL. AS THE EXCUSE ME, AS THE LEGISLATION READS, THIS WAS FOR A NUMBER OF SERVICES. OBVIOUSLY, I WASN'T HERE WHEN IT WAS INITIALLY DONE, BUT AS I READ HERE, OBVIOUSLY PART OF IT WAS, YOU KNOW, YOU TAKING THE MONEY THAT WE WOULD HAVE NORMALLY SPENT ON CAPITAL PROJECTS AND USING THAT TO PURCHASE INNOVATION PARK. SO IT REALLY WAS, YOU KNOW, THE PRODUCT, I THINK OF IT MORE AS THIS WAS TO DEBT FOR THE PROJECTS THAT WERE DONE. I ALSO KNOW IN SOME OF IT WAS RELATED TO THESE BUILDINGS AS WELL. I THERE WAS A SEPARATE DEBT FOR THAT, BUT I THINK THERE WERE MAYBE SOME ADD ONS AND SO FORTH. BUT MAINLY THESE WERE JUST IN GENERAL THE CAPITAL PROJECTS WE NORMALLY WOULD HAVE DONE. SO INSTEAD OF US GOING AND GETTING AN INDIVIDUAL LOAN FOR EVERY ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS. OBVIOUSLY WHAT HAPPENED HERE IS IT WAS A BOND WHERE THEY YOU REQUESTED A CERTAIN AMOUNT, WE GOT THE CASH AND WE USED THAT THEN TO PURCHASE THOSE LARGER ITEMS OR DO PAVING AND SO FORTH. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. IF I CAN JUST ADD TO SORRY, I'M GOING TO TALK. SO WE ALSO PUT A COUPLE MILLION IN THE CAPITAL RESERVE FUND. AND THEN WE ALLOCATED IT WAS ROUGHLY A MILLION. CALL IT TO FUTURE UPTOWN OR FUTURE REVITALIZATION PROJECTS AS WELL AS OVERALL A WIN WITH THE LANDSCAPE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE? COUNCIL HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS? OKAY. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR THIRD READING AND VOTE ON JANUARY 26TH, 2026.[02-26]
ORDINANCE TWO FIRST READING INTRODUCTION TO AMEND CHAPTER 941 CEMETERY. SPECIFICALLY SECTION 941 .04 CEMETERY RATES OF THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE CODIFIED ORDINANCES REGARDING COLUMBARIUM RATES AND HAVE A PRESENTATION TO PULL UP. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. WHILE MACKENZIE'S PULLING THIS UP, THAT WAS A VERY EFFICIENT AND A LITTLE QUICKER THAN WHAT I WAS EXPECTING, BUT THIS WAS AN ITEM AS IT RELATES TO COLUMBARIUM NUMBER TWO THAT WAS DISCUSSED.THE FINANCE COMMITTEE IN DECEMBER, BUT AS WELL AT THE LAST CEMETERY ADVISORY BOARD.
SO JUST A LITTLE, I GUESS, EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT IN 2000, I BELIEVE 19, WE INSTALLED COLUMBARIUM ONE. ITS SUCCESS SO FAR, WE'RE ABLE TO SELL 8 TO 10 URNS OR NICHES OR NICHES. I THINK I STRUGGLED WITH THAT THE LAST TIME PER YEAR. THE BENEFITS OF A COLUMBARIUM, WHICH YOU CAN SEE IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT. IT WAS A LOT SNOWIER WHEN I TOOK THE PICTURE, BUT IT ALLOWS US TO PROVIDE SPACES FOR FOLKS THAT WANT TO BE MEMORIALIZED IN THIS AREA WITHOUT TAKING UP A LOT OF SPACE. SO RIGHT NOW, EACH COLUMBARIUM HOLDS 60 LOCATIONS FOR PEOPLE TO PLACE THEIR LOVED ONES, AND EACH NICHE ALSO CAN HOLD UP TO THREE URNS. SO NOT TO SAY THAT IT'LL THEY'LL EVER BE FULLY MAXIMIZED, BUT YOU CAN'T GET UP TO 180 FOLKS IN ONE OF THESE. SO BASED ON ITS SUCCESS, WE WERE ABLE TO PURCHASE A NEW COLUMBARIUM THAT YOU CAN SEE IN THE BACK THERE. AND AS A RESULT, YOU KNOW, JUST THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS BETWEEN 2019 AND 2025 NECESSITATED THE PROPOSED THE PROPOSED RATE INCREASE THAT WE WE HAVE IN THIS AREA. SO, ODDLY ENOUGH, ON GIS, I DIDN'T REALIZE WE WERE THIS SOPHISTICATED, BUT YOU COULD GET ON THERE AND SEE EXACTLY WHO OWNS AND WHO OWNS EACH NICHE. AND THEN THE GREEN
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REPRESENT AREAS THAT WE HAVE NOT SOLD YET. SO ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS IN, IN, DURING FINANCE COMMITTEE WAS IF COLUMBARIUM TWO IS THE SAME PRICE AS ONE BASED ON AGAIN, LIMITED EXPERIENCE, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE FOR SOME REASON NOBODY LIKED THE LOWER ONE. SO IF WE OFFER THEM AT THE SAME PRICE, EVERYBODY'S GOING TO BE THE BUY THE HIGHER ONES HERE AND WE'RE GOING TO BE STOCKS. NOT THE RIGHT WORD. BUT YOU KNOW, THOSE MAY NEVER SELL, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE ABLE TO PLAN IN ADVANCE LIKE WE WERE WITH COLUMBARIUM TO BUILD ANOTHER ONE. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE BOTTOM ROWS ARE GOING TO BE UNOCCUPIED IN MOST CASES. SO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING HERE. SO THIS IS IN THE CODE THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU.COLUMBARIUM ONE. THE CURRENT RATE IS 1000 FOR RESIDENTS AND 1500 FOR NON RESIDENTS. WHERE IF YOU DIVIDE THAT BY THREE, YOU KNOW, $333 PER LOCATION FOR RESIDENTS AND 500 FOR NON, WE'RE LOOKING TO INCREASE THAT BY $500 A PIECE FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE. THE ASTERISK WHICH IS IN THE CODE. THIS DOES INCLUDE AN INITIAL OPENING AND CLOSING FEE. IF I WERE TO PASS AWAY FIRST AND I'M IN THERE, I'M COVERED FOR THAT 1500. IF MY WIFE WANTS TO JOIN ME, THEN IT'S QUITE A PROCESS AND WE HAVE A FEE SET UP FOR THAT. SO WE WERE ABLE TO LOOK AT SIMILAR AREAS IN OUR PRICES, FIT RIGHT IN WITH THE COMPARABLE COMMUNITIES THAT WE HAVE. IT ALL DEPENDS. THERE'S A LOT OF VARIABLES, SOME SOME OTHER COMMUNITIES THERE. NICHES ONLY COVER TWO PEOPLE OR THEY'RE ONLY BIG ENOUGH FOR THOSE. SO WE FELT VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THIS PRICE THAT IT WOULD COVER ALL THE COSTS THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE INVESTED IN IT. AND IT DOES PROVIDE A GREAT OR AT LEAST AN ALTERNATIVE OPPORTUNITY FOR FOLKS THAT THAT WANT TO BE CREMATED. SO I BELIEVE I'VE HIT ON IT ALL. COUNCILMEMBER, AM I MISSING ANYTHING? I THINK WE WE TALKED ABOUT THE COLUMBARIUM ONES. IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE MAINTAINING THE COST FOR THE FOR THE FIRST COLUMBARIUM. IS THAT WHAT I SEE FROM. YEAH. SO AT LEAST. YEAH. IF YOU IF FOLKS WANT TO GET INTO THE LOWER LEVELS OF COLUMBARIUM ONE THEN THEY'RE WHAT, LIKE 3 OR 610 LEFT. OKAY. BUT THAT WAS AS OF DECEMBER. I DID NOT GET UPDATED NUMBERS, BUT SEEMS LIKE AGAIN, IF WE'RE DOING 8 TO 10 A YEAR, WE'LL SAY ONE A MONTH ROUGHLY IS WHAT WE'RE SEEING THE DEMAND FOR, FOR FOR THIS OPTION TO BE. AND REALLY WE DISCUSSED COUNCIL MEMBERS LIKE THIS. THIS COST IS REALLY JUST COVERING THE COST TO STAND UP THE NEW AND THEN SOME ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES THAT ARE, THAT ARE REQUIRED. SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE NOT PROFITING. OBVIOUSLY. WE'RE JUST TRYING TO COVER THE COST OF THE OF THE I'LL CALL IT THE INFRASTRUCTURE. SO YEAH, OUR COST WAS 76,000 FOR THE NEW ONE WHERE IF YOU DIVIDE THAT OUT, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE EXACT COST OF WHAT WHAT WHAT WE'RE, WE'RE PASSING ON TO THE RESIDENTS. SO IT'S GOOD WHEN WE ARE ABLE TO PASS ON A COST PRETTY MUCH AT THE COST. WE'RE GETTING IT. SO IT SEEMS TO BE A, A GOOD A GOOD SERVICE THAT WE PROVIDE THAT THAT APPARENTLY IS WELL RECEIVED. OBVIOUSLY, I'VE HAD TO EDUCATE MYSELF QUITE A BIT ON COLUMBARIUMS. IT'S SOMEWHAT OF A NEW THING, BUT IT DEFINITELY SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'D WANT IN THE TOOLBOX TO OFFER OFFER OUR RESIDENTS AND APPARENTLY NONRESIDENTS TO ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THE ONLY THE ONLY STATEMENT THAT I'LL MAKE ABOUT THIS IS THAT I STILL HAVE CONCERNS WITH THE LONG TERM VISION OF THE CEMETERY AND THE ESTHETICS OF THE CEMETERY. YOU KNOW, I FORGET THE GENTLEMAN'S NAME WHO BUILT THE CEMETERY, BUT HE ALSO CREATED OHIO STATE CAMPUS. AND DOWN AT OSU, WHERE THE MENTAL INSTITUTION WAS, YOU KNOW, CEMETERIES WERE BEAUTIFUL PLACES BECAUSE CITIES WERE SO DIRTY AND SO CEMETERIES WERE NOT JUST BURIAL GROUNDS, BUT THEY WERE SPIRITUAL PLACES WHERE PEOPLE CREATED PICNICS, PARADES, EVENTS, AND AND DURING THE VICTORIAN AGE AND DURING THE VICTORIAN AGE ALSO. THAT'S WHEN YOU SEE YOUR MOST ELABORATE TOMBSTONES, BECAUSE THEY WERE PIECES OF ART, BECAUSE WHEN YOU WERE THERE, YOU WERE NOT ONLY CONNECTING WITH EACH OTHER, BUT YOU WERE CONNECTING WITH THE SPIRITS THAT WERE GONE BEFORE YOU.
DURING THE VICTORIAN AGE, MORE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WERE SPIRITUAL THAN RELIGIOUS. AND SO IN SAYING ALL OF THAT, CEMETERIES WERE WERE VERY GORGEOUS. AND MARYSVILLE CEMETERY AT ONE TIME IT STATED, HAD FOUNTAINS AND HAD WATERFALLS AND HAD A WROUGHT IRON FENCE AROUND IT AND SO MUCH MORE. AS WE THINK ABOUT THE CEMETERY NOW, NOW THAT NOW IT'S ON THE NATIONAL REGISTRY AND IT WILL BE ADDED AS AN ARBORETUM, WE MUST THINK ABOUT THE ESTHETICS. AND AS WE CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT CREMATIONS, HOW WILL THESE CREMATIONS BLEND INTO THE ENVIRONMENT? AND I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. SOME CEMETERIES DO
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STONE WALLS WHERE IT'S KIND OF LIKE A SNAKE OF STONE WALLS. YOU'RE PUT IN THE STONE WALL.THE STONE WALL IS ABOUT FOUR FEET TALL, GIVES RESIDENTS THE ABILITY TO SIT ON THE WALL SO YOU'RE NOT ADDING BENCHES OR MORE HARDSCAPE OR CONCRETE TO THE GROUNDS OF A CEMETERY. SO THOSE ARE JUST THOSE ARE JUST THINGS THAT I WANT TO PAY CAUTIOUS TO. WHEN YOU HAVE 1 OR 2 OF THESE TYPES OF, YOU KNOW, THESE TYPES OF STRUCTURES. BUT WHAT ABOUT IF YOU GET FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, TEN AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE IN THE CEMETERY? HOW HOW HOW DOES THAT COMPLIMENT THE AREA? BECAUSE THESE ARE GOING TO BE FOREVER. PLACES AND MAUSOLEUMS AT ONE TIME WERE BUILT WITHIN THE WALLS AND WERE BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT AWARE TO ALL OF US, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BE MORE DETAILED IN THE WAY WE CREATE INITIATIVES IN OUR PUBLIC SPACES, BECAUSE THESE ARE LEGACY IMPROVEMENTS, LONG LASTING IMPROVEMENTS. SO THANK YOU. DEFINITELY APPRECIATE YOUR SENTIMENT. AND AND AGAIN, I'M MY GUESS IS AS GOOD AS ANYBODY'S. BUT I WOULD HAVE A FEELING THE MOST COLUMBARIUMS THAT WE COULD FIT IN THIS PARTICULAR SPACE WOULD BE FOUR. AND BY THAT TIME, WE'RE PROBABLY LOOKING AT A CEMETERY EXPANSION BASED ON THE CURRENT THE CURRENT PLOT RATES AND THE REMAINING LAND THAT WE'VE GOT. SO THAT'LL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL IN THE NEXT 5 TO 10 YEARS, I WOULD THINK WOULD COME BEFORE COUNCIL'S PLATE AT THAT POINT IS WHERE WHERE DO WE PUT THE NEXT CEMETERY? DOES IT MAKE SENSE? YOU KNOW, NEIGHBORING THIS AREA DOES A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LOCATION. MAKES SENSE. SO THAT'LL BE SOMETHING. AND THEN DONALD, IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO STILL BE ON COUNCIL, YOU'LL GET TO DESIGN YOUR OWN CEMETERY AT THAT POINT. SO THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING ON JANUARY 26TH, 2026. THANK YOU, MR. WAYNE. AM I MISSING SOMETHING? NO, I GOT ANOTHER ONE. OH, I'M SO SORRY.
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ORDINANCE THREE FIRST READING INTRODUCTION TO AMEND CHAPTER 921 WASTEWATER SYSTEM RULES AND REGULATIONS. AND I HAVE ANOTHER PRESENTATION TO PULL UP. ADMINISTRATION. AND WHEN I SAY I HAVE ANOTHER ONE, I'M GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO COREY SMITH, OUR WASTEWATER SUPERINTENDENT. SO REALLY JUST BIG PICTURE. THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WE JUST PRESENTED AT PUBLIC SAFETY PUBLIC SERVICE COMMITTEE AT 6:00. YOU KNOW, COREY DURING THAT WAS ABLE TO GET INTO ALL OF THE DETAILS THAT THAT CITY COUNCIL CURRENTLY SEES WITHIN THEIR PACKET FOR THE PURPOSES, PURPOSES OF THIS PRESENTATION, IT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE MORE CONDENSED. SO THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS, OBVIOUSLY FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO COREY OR MYSELF. BUT GETTING INTO THE NITTY GRITTY DETAILS, THIS PRESENTATION SET UP TO GIVE MORE OF AN OVERVIEW. OKAY. YEP. OKAY. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. THANKS, JEREMY. SO BRIEF BRIEF PRESENTATION FOR YOU THIS EVENING. THIS THIS ORDINANCE UPDATES IS DRIVEN BY THE OHIO EPA. SO A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY FOR YOU. EPA COMPLETED AN AUDIT AT AND PROVIDED A LEGAL REVIEW OF OUR PRETREATMENT PROGRAM. THE CITY HAD RESPONDED TO THE EPA REVIEW AND UPDATES TO THE SANITARY SEWER ORDINANCE. EPA GRANTED CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OF THOSE UPDATES PER COUNCIL APPROVAL. WE NEEDED TO HAVE THAT APPROVED BY THE EPA BEFORE IT GOES TO COUNCIL. SO ONCE COUNCIL APPROVES, THE EPA WILL PROVIDE A LETTER OF APPROVAL FOR THESE UPDATES. SO WHY NOW? SO LIKE I SAID, EPA, THEY THEY CAME TO WRAF AND THEY COMPLETED THEIR AUDIT IN SEPTEMBER OF 2023. I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT THE LAST ORDINANCE UPDATE FOR WASTEWATER DIVISION WAS 2013, 2014. SO THAT'S OVER TEN YEARS AGO. SO WE HAVE WE NEEDED TO SIT DOWN AND REVIEW THE THE LANGUAGE, SOME OF THE THE REVISIONS THAT CAME BACK FROM THE EPA WERE EITHER RECOMMENDED OR THEY WERE REQUIRED. PER THE FEDERAL CODE 40 CFR 403. THAT FEDERAL CODE IS OUR GENERAL PRETREATMENT REGULATIONS, DOES HAVE A PRETREATMENT PROGRAM BECAUSE WE HAVE INDUSTRIES WITHIN MARYSVILLE. SO THEREFORE WE HAVE AN APPROVED PRETREATMENT PROGRAM. ALL RIGHT. SO SO DURING THE PRESENTATION I HAVE THESE ORDINANCE UPDATES ORGANIZED FOR YOU BY GENERAL LANGUAGE UPDATES, EPA REQUIRED CHANGES, EPA RECOMMENDED[01:00:05]
CHANGES. AND THEN I DO HAVE SOME LANGUAGE UPDATES FOR OUR FOG PROGRAM OUR FATS, OILS AND GREASE PROGRAM, AND A REVIEW OF THE UPDATED ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE GUIDE, WHICH I HAVE A SLIDE FOR THAT AS WELL. OKAY, SO THE THE THE FIRST FEW CHANGES HERE ARE JUST MINOR LANGUAGE UPDATES AND MORE OF DEFINITIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE CURRENT VERSION OF THE ORDINANCE HAS POT. WHEN I LOOK AT THAT, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT A POT IS. OKAY, SO THAT'S THE PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS SYSTEM IS A PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS. SO WE WANTED TO DEFINE THIS IS MORE OF DEFINITIONS FOR FOR THE ORDINANCE. THE NEXT ARE THESE THREE CHAPTERS. HERE SECTIONS WERE REQUIRED CHANGES FROM THE EPA. AND AGAIN THIS ALIGNS THE CITY WITH THE FEDERAL 40 CFR 403 921.13. WE ARE INCLUDING A STATEMENT THAT THE WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT FOR THE INDUSTRIAL USER IS NOT TRANSFERABLE WITHOUT CITY NOTIFICATION OR APPROVAL. 921.19 ACCORDING PURSUANT TO 40 CFR 403.8, WE NEED TO INCLUDE INJUNCTIVE RELIEF LANGUAGE 921.26. WE'RE INCLUDING A LANGUAGE JUST REFERENCING THE 40 CFR ABOUT A COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS THAT WILL BE ON THE INDUSTRIAL USER. THE NEXT FEW SLIDES ARE RECOMMENDED.RECOMMENDED CHANGES. AGAIN, WE ARE ALIGNING WITH 40 CFR 403, WHICH IS THE FEDERAL CODE, AS WELL AS THE OHIO ADMINISTRATIVE CODE 3745. THESE INCLUDE INDUSTRIAL USER TO RETAIN RECORDS FOR A MINIMUM OF THREE YEARS ON THEIR MONITORING DATA OF THEIR SEWER DISCHARGE OF WHAT IS DISCHARGED TO THE SANITARY SEWER. THE RECORDS SHALL BE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AND COPYING BY CITY STAFF. WE'RE ALSO INCLUDING ALIGNMENT WITH THE FEDERAL CODE ADDRESSING ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGES AND OR BYPASSES TO THE SANITARY SYSTEM, FROM THE INDUSTRIAL USER TO. WE'RE ALSO GOING TO INCLUDE CERTIFICATION LANGUAGE, WHERE EACH OF THESE INDUSTRIAL USERS, WHEN THEY SUBMIT REPORTS AND SAMPLING ANALYSIS, THEY HAVE TO CERTIFY THOSE. AND THEN WE'RE INCLUDING LANGUAGE THAT ALLOWS THE CITY TO FOLLOW AN ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE GUIDE AND ALLOWS ISSUANCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS. SO THE ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE GUIDE, OBVIOUSLY, THE GENERAL PRETREATMENT REGULATIONS WERE PUT INTO EFFECT THROUGH THE CLEAN WATER ACT IN 1972. WE WRAF IS A POT IN. IN 1990, THE US EPA AMENDED THE 40 CFR, REQUIRING POT THAT HAVE AN APPROVED PRETREATMENT PROGRAM TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT AN ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE GUIDE. SO WE HAVE THAT RESPONSE GUIDE. WE'RE JUST MAKING SOME LANGUAGE UPDATES TO THOSE. AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, 921.14 IS OUR FATS, OILS AND GREASE PROGRAM, WHICH THE CITY HAS STARTED BACK IN 2025. THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS AND COMMERCIAL USERS THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF DISCHARGING GREASE INTO THE CITY'S SANITARY SYSTEM. WE'VE MADE A FEW UPDATES TO THIS SECTION THAT REQUIRES FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS AND COMMERCIAL USERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE CLEANING THEIR GREASE TRAPS OR GREASE INTERCEPTORS AT LEAST ANNUALLY. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME THAT WE HAVE APPROACHED OVER THE LAST YEAR THAT THEY HAVEN'T CLEANED THEM AT ALL. SO WE'RE WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM TO, TO MAINTAIN THEIR, THEIR, THEIR GREASE DISCHARGE. WE ALSO HAVE A PROGRAM FOR THEM TO UPLOAD THIS INFORMATION ELECTRONICALLY. SO THAT'S ALSO INCLUDED IN IN THE ORDINANCE. SO AGAIN WE MET THIS THIS EVENING WITH PUBLIC SERVICE. PUBLIC SAFETY HAD A GOOD DISCUSSION. THESE ORDINANCE UPDATES ARE CONTINUED OHIO EPA COMPLIANCE WHICH WE ARE IN GOOD STANDING WITH THE EPA. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY PROTECTION OF OUR SANITARY SYSTEM. AND AND WITH THAT, THAT IS ALL THAT I HAVE.
SO. I GUESS, DO YOU DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY? YEAH, SURE. I'LL MAKE A COUPLE COMMENTS. YEAH. WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE YOUR PRESENTATION, BUT WE ACTUALLY SAW SOME MORE DETAILED TEXTS OF THE UPDATES. SO I WAS JUST APPRECIATIVE OF THAT. THERE'S THERE'S MORE TO IT THAN THE BULLET POINTS, BUT I THINK YOU DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF JUST SUMMARIZING THE TAKEAWAYS AND APPRECIATE YOUR WORK THERE, AND ALWAYS GLAD TO BE PART OF A COMMUNITY THAT HAS THE, YOU KNOW, THE BEST REQUIREMENTS IN PLACE THAT MAKE THIS PLACE A A
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SAFE AREA TO LIVE. AND, AND THAT OUR, OUR, OUR WASTEWATER IS, IS TAKEN CARE OF THE RIGHT WAY, ESPECIALLY BY BUSINESSES THAT WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO IT. AND IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICE MEETING, I TALKED ABOUT JUST WHERE I'M FROM. THERE'S A SNACK FOOD STORE AND OR MANUFACTURER, SORRY. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS SOME DECISIONS AND CONTEMPLATIONS MAYBE 20, 30 YEARS AGO. AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WANTED TO PUT MORE UNTREATED WASTE INTO THE, THE, THE, THE VILLAGES WASTEWATER SYSTEM. AND IT WAS YOU KNOW, THERE'S RISKS WITH THAT. SO JUST I'M GLAD TO SEE THE UPDATES THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING AND CONTINUING TO MAKE SURE OUR OPERATIONS ARE TOP NOTCH. SO THANK YOU. YEP. YEAH. MR. PRESIDENT I APPRECIATE THE FLOOR. I JUST I JUST HAD TWO QUESTIONS BECAUSE I HAVE VERY MINIMAL EXPOSURE TO WASTEWATER. SO I'LL GO TO THE EXPERT. SO FIRST WAS WE HAD THE REQUIRED CHANGES THAT YOU WERE LISTED. THE BULLETS. YEAH. ARE THESE CHANGES JUST CURRENTLY NOT CONTEMPLATED WITHIN OUR RULES OR WITHIN THE. YEAH WITHIN THE RULES. THAT'S CORRECT. SO SO FOR EXAMPLE THE FIRST ONE HERE 921132. THE WAY IT READS RIGHT NOW AN INDUSTRY IF IT CHANGES HANDS THAT DISCHARGE PERMIT WILL AUTOMATICALLY JUST TRANSFER WITHOUT ANY NOTIFICATION TO THE CITY. SO THEN WE ARE NOT ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE INDUSTRY, REVIEW THEIR DISCHARGE PERMIT INTO THE SANITARY. SO SO WHEN THE EPA COMES BACK AND THEY'RE LIKE YEAH THAT IS THAT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN. THE THE CITY SHOULD KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITHIN THEIR SYSTEM. SO YEP. OKAY. AND THEN THE, THE OTHER KIND OF MIND BOGGLING. BUT THE LAST REVISION WAS ABOUT 13 YEARS, 12 YEARS AGO. YEAH. DO WE KNOW OR IS THERE A TYPICAL REVIEW CADENCE OF RULES THAT YOU SEE, YOU KNOW, CITY OVER CITY THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD CONTEMPLATE? YEAH, I THINK WE SHOULD. I THINK WE SHOULD FOLLOW THE EPA FOLLOWS THEY THEY REVIEW THEIR RULES EVERY FIVE YEARS. AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD ALSO IMPLEMENT. AND THEN WE WOULDN'T BE BEHIND IN THIS SITUATION. RIGHT. AS THEY UP THEIR THEY THEIR RULES I'M NOTIFIED BY THAT. SO IF I NOTICE ANYTHING THAT'S BEEN UPDATED THEN WE'LL REVIEW IT AS A CITY AND THEN COME TO YOU FOR APPROVAL IF IT CHANGES ANY ANYTHING WITH OUR ORDINANCE. SO MAKES TOTAL SENSE. YEAH, YEAH.THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE ANY OTHER COMMENTS OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU TO THE BOTH OF YOU. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR THIS WILL BE BACK FOR SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING
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ON JANUARY 26TH. ORDINANCE FOR FIRST READING. INTRODUCTION TO CONSENT TO AND APPROVE THE EXECUTION OF AN ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE, MARYSVILLE FLEX, LLC, AND MARYSVILLE, LLC IN CONNECTION WITH A COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA AGREEMENT APPROVED FOR THE BENEFIT OF A DEVELOPMENT LOCATED AT 14711 INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY. AND I HAVE A PRESENTATION TO PULL UP AS WELL. THANK YOU MACKENZIE. THANK YOU.PRESIDENT. COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE HAVE A PROPOSED ASSIGNMENT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. BASICALLY, WHEN YOU HAVE A TAX ABATEMENT AND YOU HAVE A NEW OWNER BEING PROPOSED FOR A BUILDING THAT'S REQUIRED, THAT YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH AN ASSIGNMENT PROCESS FOR APPROVAL THROUGH CITY COUNCIL. SO WE'VE DONE THESE IN THE PAST. SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT, GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT ABOUT THE PROJECT, AND THEN TALK ABOUT WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED. AND THEN TURN OVER TO PHIL AND MARV LARGER, WHO IS ACTUALLY THE NEW OWNER. THEY'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOU THIS EVENING AS WELL. FIRST AND FOREMOST, THIS IS AN EXCITING EVENING BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF SUCCESS HERE AT THIS BUILDING. AND SO THEY'VE DONE THE THE CURRENT OWNER, WHICH IS PIONEER FLEX, HAS DONE A GREAT JOB. AND AS FAR AS SELLING THE SELLING, IT'S COMPLETELY 100% FULL. I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THAT AS WELL. BUT IT'S A GREAT SUCCESS STORY TO SEE WHAT'S IN THIS BUILDING CURRENTLY AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION. THIS IS ACTUALLY A PICTURE OF THE BUILDING, OF COURSE, IN THE BACKDROP. I THINK YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH IT. IT'S ON INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY. THIS IS BASICALLY THE SITE, OF COURSE, THE THE BUILDING HERE IS SUMITOMO. THIS IS MORE THIS IS THE PROPOSED SITE WHERE IT'S LOCATED. AND OF COURSE THE AMAZON SITE SITE THERE TOWARDS 33. IT WAS ORIGINALLY OR ACTUALLY A 55,000 SQUARE FOOT FACILITY, 5000 INCREMENT SPACES, IF YOU RECALL, AND IT'S ON A SIX ACRE PARCEL. SO HERE ARE THE TENANTS. THIS IS THE GOOD NEWS. SO IT'S 100% OCCUPIED. THERE'S NUMEROUS DIFFERENT BUSINESSES IN THERE. SEQUENCE ENGINEERING ADAPT HEALTH, PLOT WORK USA STERILE WASTE SOLUTIONS, MOTION INDUSTRIES COMPRESSED IF I CAN GET THAT CORRECTLY A NOTICE AS WELL.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. WE'VE ACTUALLY WORKED WITH PLOT WORK. WE'VE WORKED WITH MOTION AND
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WE'VE WORKED WITH NOTICE AND FINDING LOCATIONS IN MARYSVILLE. SO WE'VE KIND OF TOUCHED A NUMBER OF THESE BUSINESSES. BUT THIS SPACE HAS BEEN CRITICAL FOR ALL THESE BUSINESSES.ACTUALLY FIND A HOME HERE IN MARYSVILLE. SO EXCITING TO SEE THAT. SO THE PROPOSAL ACTUALLY IS TO CONVERT OR ACTUALLY CLOSE ON THE PROPERTY TO SELL IT FOR MARYSVILLE FLEX AND TO MARYSVILLE LLC AS THE NEW OWNER. EVERYTHING IN THE CURRENT AGREEMENT, THE CRA AGREEMENT, THE 55 JOBS REQUIRED, THE 2.75 MILLION JOBS ARE PAYROLL REQUIRED AND THE 7.5 MILLION INVESTMENT ARE ALL PART ARE INCLUDED IN THIS, SO IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE PREVIOUS AGREEMENT IN THE IN THE ASSIGNMENT. SO THE TIMELINE IS FIRST READING TONIGHT. SECOND READING WOULD BE ON JANUARY 26TH. AND THEN HOPEFULLY CONSIDERATION APPROVAL ON AT YOUR FEBRUARY 9TH MEETING. SO SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS AS PART OF THE CRA COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA, THE NEW OWNER WILL BE REQUIRED TO MEET THE TARGETS. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, AS ORIGINALLY APPROVED, THEY'RE CURRENTLY IN THEIR CONSTRUCTION OR BUILD UP. THERE'S A THREE YEAR BUILD UP FOR YOU TO MEET, SO THEY'RE STILL WITHIN IT THROUGH THIS YEAR BECAUSE IT'S A FAIRLY NEW BUILDING. AS YOU'RE FULLY AWARE, THERE IS A PILOT. PILOT STANDS FOR PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES, AND IT'S $85,000 TO MARYSVILLE SCHOOLS AND $15,000 TO OHIO HIGH POINT. OVER THAT TERM OF THE ABATEMENT, THEY ALSO WILL INVEST ANNUALLY $3,000 IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. AND AGAIN, IT'S 100% OCCUPIED WITH THAT. I WOULD LIKE TO MAYBE BRING UP PHIL AND MARV TO KIND OF SPEAK ON BEHALF. OKAY. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE PROJECT.
PERFECT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCIL. MY NAME IS PHIL LARGER AND WE'RE THE PROPOSED NEW OWNERSHIP OF PIONEER 55. WE'RE UNDER CONTRACT TO PURCHASE IT FROM PIONEER DEVELOPMENT. DAVE SELLS AND TEAM DEVELOPED IT. MY DAD AND I WILL BE THE, YOU KNOW, ACQUIRING ENTITY FOR OUR LARGER FAMILY HOLDINGS, WHICH IS THE LF AND MARYSVILLE. WE'RE BOTH REALLY STEEPED IN KIND OF THE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, REAL ESTATE SPACE. WE'VE BOTH KIND OF DONE WORK IN, YOU KNOW, THE US AND INTERNATIONAL, BUT WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO NOW BRING, YOU KNOW, OUR PORTFOLIO BACK TO OHIO AND REINVEST. WE WERE REALLY ATTRACTED BY THIS OPPORTUNITY BASED ON THE SEVEN COMPANIES THAT MARYSVILLE BROUGHT TO A MIXTURE OF, YOU KNOW, MOTION INDUSTRIES, WHICH IS ALREADY IN THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE, AND THEN NOTICE AND PLOT WORK, WHICH ACTUALLY DID A NATIONAL SEARCH AND SELECTED MARYSVILLE FOR THEIR NEW HOME, WHICH IS REALLY COOL. AND, YOU KNOW, VERY KUDOS TO, YOU KNOW, THE CITY ON PUTTING IN THE CRA AND REALLY MAKING THIS DEVELOPMENT OCCUR. AND, YOU KNOW, THIS ASSIGNMENT ASSUMPTION REALLY KIND OF KEEPS IN PLACE THOSE TAX ABATEMENTS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, REALLY WE'RE A LONG TERM OWNERSHIP GROUP.
WE'RE LOOKING TO INVEST HERE FOR A LONG TERM. AND THIS IS ONE WHERE WE'LL BE HANDS ON PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT. WE LIVE LESS THAN 30 MINUTES AWAY. BOTH WENT TO IOWA STATE. AND YOU KNOW OUR YOU KNOW I ACTUALLY JUST MOVED BACK FROM DENVER ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO TO RAISE MY FAMILY HERE IN THE CITY. AND, YOU KNOW, SO EXCITED ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY AND APPRECIATE YOUR GUYS TIME HERE TONIGHT AND THIS EVENING. WITH THAT I'LL OPEN IT UP TO QUESTIONS. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. MAYBE JUST A CLARIFICATION QUESTION FOR MR. PHILLIPS. MR. PRESIDENT. SO WE CURRENTLY HAVE TAX INCENTIVES INCLUDED IN THE PIONEER FLEX BUILDING. THEY'RE BEING ACQUIRED BY LAFARGE. AND YOU'RE ASKING TO. CARRY OVER THE INCENTIVES. ARE YOU ASKING TO EXTEND THEM BEYOND WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY SET UP WITHIN THE INCENTIVE AGREEMENT, OR IS THIS JUST A CONTINUATION OF IT'S IT'S IT'S A IT'S A TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP AND IT'S BASICALLY JUST CARRYING ON THE INCENTIVE. YEAH. THERE'S NO EXTENSION OF THE INCENTIVE. IT'LL GO THROUGH ITS NORMAL TERM, WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY APPROVED. SO THEY DO NOT GET A RESET TO START NEW. SO THAT WAS THE WORD THAT WAS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD. AND I COULDN'T I COULDN'T FIND IT. SO WHEN YOU HAVE AN ASSIGNMENT, IT'S VERY A PROTECTIVE REQUIREMENT THAT THE STATE OF OHIO ACTUALLY REQUIRES MUNICIPALITIES TO HAVE THAT SAYS ANYTIME AN OWNER WHO HAS IS RECEIVING INCENTIVES, THEY HAVE TO GET AN ASSIGNMENT SO THE CITY FEELS COMFORTABLE IN WHO IS THERE, WHO'S PURCHASING THEIR PROPERTY. SO THAT IS A PROTECTIVE CLAUSE WE HAVE IN EVERY AGREEMENT. SO WE HAVE AN INCENTIVE ON THIS PARTICULAR
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LOCATION. IF YOU MOVE FORWARD A SLIDE, I THINK, OR MAYBE BACKWARDS A SLIDE. ONE MORE.YEAH. RIGHT HERE IT'S ALREADY OCCUPIED AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. YES. SO.
FOR THOSE WATCHING OR IN THE AUDIENCE, THIS IS AN INCENTIVE PACKAGE. IT'S ALREADY BEEN CONTEMPLATED EXECUTED. IT'S TRANSFERRING OWNERSHIP. IT'S A IT'S A SITE THAT'S FILLED 100%.
IT'S GENERATING REVENUE AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE CITY AND PROVIDING JOBS TO THE ONES THAT WE SERVE. SO MAKES SOMEWHAT SENSE TO ME. SO THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING MY QUESTIONS.
ANYBODY ELSE JUST WANT TO APPRECIATE THE THE POSITIVE POINTS ABOUT OHIO AND YOU KNOW MOVING BACK HERE. SO YEAH GLAD THAT YOU'RE INVESTING HERE IN MARYSVILLE. HE'S HE STOLE MY THUNDER I WAS GOING TO SAY IT WAS IT WAS STATED PUBLICLY THAT, YOU KNOW, OHIO'S BETTER THAN COLORADO, RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU. SO HEARING NO OTHER COMMENTS, THIS WILL BE BACK FOR SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING ON JANUARY 26TH. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. RECENTLY, JUDGE PERRY MADE THE DECISION TO PAY THE CITY COURT EMPLOYEES WITHOUT ANY REDUCTION FOR THE 27TH PAY PERIOD. SORRY. AND YOU KNOW, WE TALKED AT OUR LAST MEETING. THE POLICE AND FIRE CHIEFS MENTIONED THE ISSUES THAT OUR PREVIOUS AMENDMENT CREATED WITH SALARY COMPRESSION.
AND TONIGHT WE JUST PASSED THE NEW CONTRACT, WHICH REALLY KIND OF SOLIDIFIED THAT PROBLEM. YOU KNOW, WITH THAT SALARY COMPRESSION. IN LIGHT OF ALL THIS, I THINK IT'D BE BEST THAT WE TREAT ALL OF OUR CITY SALARIED EMPLOYEES SIMILARLY. YOU KNOW, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE 27TH PAY ISSUE. I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE US RECONSIDER THAT. THERE'S REALLY TWO OPTIONS. WE COULD EITHER DO A RECONSIDERATION OR WE COULD HAVE ALL NEW LEGISLATION. ONE IS THE EASY WAY, AND THAT'S THE RECONSIDERATION. IT'S ALSO THE WAY THAT ADDRESSES THE ISSUE THE FASTEST. I HAVE A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE, WHICH I HAD REVIEWED BY HR, FINANCE AND OUR LAW DIRECTOR, TO ENSURE IT WAS WORKABLE. THIS HAS NO OTHER IMPACT TO OUR BUDGET BECAUSE WE ALREADY APPROPRIATED THE FUNDS TO COVER THIS. SO I SENT EVERYBODY AND YOU'VE ALL GOT A COPY OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT IN FRONT OF YOU. AND SO I'M I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER ORDINANCE 59 2025, THE ANNUAL COMPENSATION ORDINANCE FOR ALL CITY EMPLOYEES. I SECOND THAT IF YOU NEED A SECOND. ROLL CALL, MR. BURGER. OKAY. HOLD ON. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO JUST SAY? IF THERE'S DISCUSSION, THAT WOULD BE THE TIME. IF IS THERE ANY IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? I DIDN'T WANT TO BELABOR THE ISSUES, BUT IF THERE WAS ANYBODY THAT WOULD LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD. MARK. SO I AGREE WITH MARK THAT WE SERIOUSLY NEED TO RECONSIDER THE EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION. THE CITY ROUTINELY INVEST IN ASSETS LIKE BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, EQUIPMENT. HOWEVER, THESE ASSETS HAVE LITTLE VALUE IF WE DO NOT HAVE QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THEM. THE 27TH PAY COMPENSATION FOR ONE ADDITIONAL DAY PER YEAR, OR TWO ON A LEAP YEAR, WOULD COST THE CITY APPROXIMATELY $20,000 ANNUALLY. NOW, CONSIDER THAT COUNCIL VOTED DOWN THE 27TH PAY PERIOD IN THE MANNER IN WHICH THE EMPLOYEES WERE ADDRESSED BY PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL. IF I WERE AN EMPLOYEE, THAT, COMBINED WITH HOW THE THE STRONG INCENTIVE TO UPDATE THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD BE A STRONG INCENTIVE TO UPDATE MY RESUME. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT SOME EMPLOYEES HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT BEFORE I BEGIN MY TERM ON COUNCIL. I MET WITH CHIEF BROOKS, WHO INFORMED ME THAT WE ALREADY ARE LOSING EMPLOYEES TO NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES THAT OFFER BETTER PAY, AND I AM CONFIDENT THAT OTHERS ARE CONSIDERING THE SAME MOVE. THIS RAISES SEVERAL IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. WHAT WILL IT COST TO RECRUIT AND TRAIN REPLACEMENTS? HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE NEW EMPLOYEES TO COME TO BECOME PROFICIENT IN THE ROLES, AND HOW MUCH MORE WILL WE ULTIMATELY HAVE TO PAY TO ATTRACT QUALIFIED CANDIDATES? I RECENTLY SAW A POSTING FOR THE CITY OF HILLIARD LARGER THAN MARYSVILLE, OF COURSE, ADVERTISING FOR THEIR CITY MANAGER AND A RANGE OF 200 TO 212. AFTER REVIEWING OUR BUDGET, WHICH WE HAVE RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF US 160,000, OUR CITY MANAGER'S COMPENSATION NOWHERE
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NEAR CLOSE TO THIS LEVEL, SINCE OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GOING TO BE FORCED TO FIND A NEW CITY MANAGER. THE INCREASE FOR THE CITY MANAGER JOB BY ITSELF, OBVIOUSLY WOULD PAY THAT $20,000. THIS LEADS ME TO ASK, DID COUNCIL FULLY CONSIDER THE LONG TERM IMPLICATIONS BEFORE VOTING OR VOTING FOR THE 27TH PAY PERIOD LAST MONTH? IN MY VIEW, WE ARE RISKING FAR GREATER COSTS BY FOCUSING SHORT TERM SAVINGS. WE ARE QUITE SIMPLY TRIPPING OVER A DOLLAR TO PICK UP A DIME. I WOULD ALSO STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT WE CODIFY WHETHER THROUGH ORDINANCE, POLICY, OR WHATEVER MEANS WE HAVE TO, TO CREATE THIS IN LEGISLATION THAT IN 10 OR 11 YEARS, WE'RE NOT SITTING HERE WATCHING BRAD'S PRESENTATION AGAIN. SORRY, BRAD.AND REVISITING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. MR. PRESIDENT, IF I IF I MAY, I'M JUST GOING TO ADD MY CLARIFICATION POINTS BECAUSE I AGREE WITH MR. REAMS AND COUNCILWOMAN YOUNG. I THINK I WAS PART OF THE THE. ON THE I WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF, OF THE VOTE BECAUSE I, I SEE THE THE VALUE IN PEOPLE AND I'VE MANAGED PEOPLE, I'VE MANAGED BUSINESS AND I RECOGNIZE THE COST TO RETRAIN AND AND ACQUIRE NEW ASSOCIATES IN THE EVENT OF ATTRITION. OFTENTIMES COST ORGANIZATIONS MORE THAN WHAT, WHAT YOU KNOW, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORTH FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM. PEOPLE ARE NUMBER ONE ASSET, AND WE NEED TO SHOW THEM THROUGH NOT NOT ONLY COMPENSATION BUT OTHER OTHER MEANS TO APPRECIATION AND JUST A POSITIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT WHICH THIS THIS ADMINISTRATION CERTAINLY SEEMS TO TO TO DO BASED ON FEEDBACK AND JUST THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT I'VE OBSERVED. SO YEAH, I DEFINITELY THINK THAT IT'S WARRANTED TO TO RECONSIDER. BUT BUT I ALSO WANT TO CAVEAT MY POSITION WITH THE FACT TO, YOU KNOW, MISS YOUNG ALLUDED TO WE NEED TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE MOVING FORWARD. WE CAN'T CONTINUE JUST TO PUT BAND-AIDS ON THE WOUNDS AND EXPECT THEM TO HEAL. WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, DIVE IN, IDENTIFY ROOT CAUSE AND DO THE SURGERY IF NEEDED. AND I KNOW THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED OR I MADE THE THE REQUEST TO TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO EVALUATE OUR OUR PAY PRACTICES MOVING FORWARD AND MAKING MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO THIS TO THIS BODY. AND I FULLY EXPECT THAT TO TO TO BE EXECUTED THIS THIS FISCAL YEAR. SO WE HAVE A FIRM PATH FORWARD AS WE MOVE FORWARD AS A COUNCIL AND AS A COMMUNITY AND AS A, AS A, AS AN ADMINISTRATION AND AS A COMMUNITY. SO THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE? MR. I'LL MAKE SOME COMMENTS. SO WHEN FORMER COUNCILMAN HENK BERBEE HAD BROUGHT FORWARD THE THIS 27TH PAY PERIOD CONUNDRUM, WE TALKED ABOUT IT IN JUNE OF 2025. IT WAS NEWS TO ME THAT SUCH A PROBLEM EXISTED. AND IT'S COMMON WHEN I HAD FIRST. AND I'M GOING TO BE REPEAT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I SAID IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS. BUT AT FIRST, WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT FROM A VIEWPOINT OF WHAT ACTUALLY WHAT NUMBER ENDS UP ON A PERSON'S W-2, IT'S DIFFERENT THAN THE NUMBER THAT'S ON THIS PAGE. BUT THEN YOU THINK ABOUT A COST OF LIVING EXPENSE. AND HOW DOES A PERSON ADJUST FOR COST OF LIVING? THEY SEE IT ON THEIR WEEKLY OR BI WEEKLY GROCERY BILL AND, YOU KNOW, A COST OF LIVING EXPENSE IS GOING TO BE IT'S GOING TO SHOW UP WHEN YOU GO TO BUY YOUR GROCERIES. IT'S NOT IN THE WAY IN WHICH IT WAS AMENDED. IT DOESN'T SHOW UP IN THE TERMS OF HOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THOSE GROCERIES. IT'LL SHOW UP AT THE END OF THE YEAR IN THE W-2, BUT MOST PEOPLE DON'T LIVE THAT WAY. YOU KNOW, I HAD ASSESSED LIKE WHAT OTHERS HAD, WHAT OUR MUNICIPAL NORMS. THAT WAS MY RATIONALE FOR. AND SO SO THOSE TWO POINTS ARE MY RATIONALE FOR WHY I HAD OPPOSED THE AMENDMENT. FINALLY, I APPRECIATED THE INSIGHT AND JUST THE VIEWPOINTS THAT OTHERS SHARED THAT WERE, YOU KNOW, IN OPPOSITION TO THE VIEWPOINTS THAT I FINALLY LANDED ON WHEN IT CAME TO PUTTING TO VOTING THIS TO TO APPROVE IT. ACTUALLY, AT THE IN DECEMBER MEETING, I SAW THERE TO BE A PROBLEM IF WE DIDN'T GET IT ON THE BOOKS IN THAT YEAR, BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO MOVE INTO THE NEXT YEAR, HAD
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TO PROBABLY HAVE. MAYBE THE STATE IS AT THE STATE AUDITOR, DECIDE FOR STATE AUDITOR, SECRETARY OF STATE, SOMEONE DECIDE THAT THIS FOR US, I THINK, IS WHAT YOU HAD EXPLAINED TO US. TIM. I'M LOOKING AT YOU, TIM, BUT FROM THE FROM 2000, THE PREVIOUS COMPETITION WAS WOULD HAVE JUST CARRIED FORWARD AND WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN, IN WHAT BASICALLY NO CHANGE WHATSOEVER. RIGHT, RIGHT. NO COST OF LIVING. YEAH. AND I SAW THAT AS DECREASE.YEAH. AND I SAW THAT AS DETRIMENTAL. SO I THOUGHT IT WAS THE CORRECT THING TO DO TO VOTE YES. ON PASSING THAT AT THE END OF THE YEAR, I WAS TRYING TO TALK ABOUT DESCRIBE A SCENARIO WHERE WE HAD HAVE INTERVENTION FROM SOMEONE, A GOVERNMENT HIGHER THAN US TO, TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO BECAUSE WE COULDN'T DECIDE WHAT TO DO. AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS ONE OF THE SCENARIOS THAT WE HAD MAPPED OUT. MAYBE IT WAS, MAYBE IT WASN'T, BUT NONETHELESS I SAW IT AS DETRIMENTAL. AND WE I PROCEEDED FORWARD WITH A YES VOTE. BUT AGAIN, I HAD OPPOSED THE AMENDMENT. SO THAT'S WHERE I STOOD. AND IF THERE'S A BETTER WAY TO DO THIS ALL, BY ALL MEANS, LET'S DO THAT. I JUST I SAW THIS AS I DO. I DO THINK THAT PEOPLE REALIZE COST OF LIVING IN A IN THE GROCERY BILL, AND THAT'S IN EVERY TWO WEEK THING OR EVERY WEEK THING FOR MY FAMILY. SO THAT'S REALLY WHERE I STAND. SO MR. MR. PRESIDENT, I JUST WANT TO SUGGEST THAT I MEAN, WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT THE MOTION RIGHT NOW TO RECONSIDER. AND I THINK A LOT OF THE POINTS THAT WE'RE TALKING THAT I'M HEARING HAVE TO DO WITH THE MERIT OF THE BILL OR THE AMENDMENT ITSELF. SO MAYBE WE SHOULD GO AHEAD AND VOTE ON THE RECONSIDERATION.
AND THEN WE GET INTO THAT DISCUSSION. OKAY. I'M SORRY I JUMPED THE GUN. THAT'S OKAY.
YOUR NAME? GET THAT NEW GUY CARD. I'LL TAKE IT TONIGHT. SO ROLL CALL MR. BURGER. YES, MR. HUNTER? YES. MR. REAMES. YES. MRS. YOUNG. YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLFF. NO. MRS. YES.
SIX. YES. MOTION CARRIES. AND THEN I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE AMENDMENT, IF THAT'S OKAY. OKAY.
OKAY. SO THE AMENDMENT IS LISTED HERE IN THE TEXT, ANNUAL SALARIES ESTABLISHED IN THIS ORDINANCE ARE BASED ON A STANDARD WORK YEAR FOR PAYROLL PURPOSES. THE ANNUAL SALARY SHALL BE DIVIDED BY 52 TO ESTABLISH A FIXED WEEKLY RATE. EMPLOYEES SHALL BE COMPENSATED BY WEEKLY WITH EACH STANDARD DISBURSEMENT REPRESENTING TWO WEEKLY RATES. THIS ORDINANCE IS EFFECTIVE FOR THE ENTIRE 2026 PAYROLL CALENDAR YEAR, SO I. I WORKED AND MASSAGE THIS AMENDMENT. LIKE I SAID, WITH HR, WITH TIM, WITH FINANCE, JUST TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS WORKABLE. AND, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS THE THE FINAL RESULT. SO IF I CAN I'D LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION TO MAKE THIS AMENDMENT. AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT THAT. SO I MOVE TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE AS DESCRIBED. ROLL CALL. MR. HUNTER. YES. MR. REAMES. YES. THIS IS YOUNG. YES. MR. BORDNER.
YES. MR. WOLFF. NO. MRS. TAKACS YES. MR. BURGER YES. SIX. YES. MOTION CARRIES. NOW, IS THERE ANYBODY THAT WOULD LIKE TO I THE ONLY THE ONLY THING I JUST WANT TO SAY IS TWO POINTS. ONE POINT COUNCIL'S ALWAYS BEEN SUPPORT OF RAISING WAGES FOR CITY STAFF. THERE WAS A 4% INCREASE IN WAGES. NEXT WE GIVE OUT WHAT IS IT 13 PAID HOLIDAYS WHEN MOST COMMUNITIES ONLY GIVE OUT 12? WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN IN SUPPORT OF OF CITY STAFF. OKAY. THE NEXT WE HAVE 12, 12, 12 HOLIDAYS WHEN ONE FROM 11 IT WENT FROM 11 TO 12. THE OTHER THING IS WE HAVE TO REMEMBER BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS COUNCILS, IN MY OPINION, IN OUR COMMUNITIES, LACK OF VISION, WE BUILD HOMES, TONS AND TONS OF HOMES WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THE DEMOGRAPHICS, THE ECONOMICS AND THE EDUCATION LEVEL OF THOSE HOMES. WE'RE AT A 1.5 INCOME TAX. THAT'S ALL WE'RE AT.
WE'VE BEEN CHASING DOLLAR BILLS FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS WITHOUT A TAX INCREASE, WHEN MOST COMMUNITIES HAVE HIGHER THAN A 1.5, THEY HAVE A POLICE AND FIRE LEVY, THEY HAVE A ROAD LEVY, A PARK LEVY AND ALL KINDS OF LEVIES. WE STILL DO IT UNDER OUR GENERAL FUND. WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO IT FOREVER. SO THAT'S JUST A REMINDER FOR PEOPLE WATCHING AND FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND FOR THE PAPER FOR 1.5 INCOMETHAT'S E ARE PAID LESS HERE THAN IN
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OTHER COMMUNITIES. SO UNTIL THERE'S A VISION TO EITHER RAISE THE INCOME TAX, POLICE AND FIRE MAKES A LEVY OR OTHER TYPES OF FORMS, THAT'S THE WAY IT'S GOING TO STAY. NOW, WHAT COUNCIL HAS DONE, EVEN THOUGH WE GET CRITICIZED FOR IT, IS WE PARTNERED WITH MAYOR'S LAND COMPANY BECAUSE WE DESPERATELY NEED JOBS THAT HAVE HIGHER PAYING SALARIES THAN WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE BECAUSE I'M SORRY, BUT IN ALL OF GARDEN AND MCDONALD'S ISN'T GOING TO DO IT.AND FOR 15 YEARS WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT IF YOU INVEST IN THIS HOUSING, YOU'RE GOING TO GET ALL THE JOBS. WELL, THE JOBS NEVER CAME, BUT THE HOUSING DID. THAT'S NOT ME BEING CRITICAL.
THAT'S ME JUST STATING THE FACTS. SO I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT THIS COUNCIL'S ALWAYS RESPECTED OUR STAFF TO THE POINT WHERE STAFF HAS LEFT THIS COMMUNITY AND COME BACK TO IT. SO THAT'S ALL. THAT'S ALL I HAVE, HAVE, HAVE TO SAY TONIGHT. MR. MR. BERGER, JUST JUST TO MAKE SURE COUNCIL UNDERSTANDS THIS IS IT'S NOW IT'S SECOND READING. WELL PUBLIC HEARING THE AMENDMENT PASSED SECOND READING. YES. WE HAVEN'T VOTED ON THE AMENDMENT. YES. YES I THOUGHT WE DID VOTE. YEAH. YEAH. WE VOTED ON THE RECONSIDERATION. THEN WE VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT.
I MADE THE AMENDMENT. I DON'T THINK WE VOTED. YEAH OKAY. SO IT'S IT'S IT'S THAT. SO IT'S AT SECOND READING NOW PUBLIC HEARING. SO IS THERE ANY CITIZENS THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS TOPIC THIS EVENING. I WOULD UNDERSTAND YOUR SILENCE, MR. PRESIDENT.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO PASS THE. WE HAVE TO WAIT. THIRD READING OR IT GETS CONTINUE TO THE NEXT MEETING. ASK A QUESTION. YEAH. DO YOU WANT TO CAN YOU ONE MORE TIME JUST FOR THE PUBLIC BRAD SHARE THE TOTAL NUMBER THAT IT WOULD BE HAD WE IF WE PAY A 27TH PAY PERIOD, WHAT IS IT COSTING US AFTER REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS, THE CHARGEBACKS. THANK YOU. AFTER REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS AND CHARGEBACKS, IT'S ABOUT $150,000, 160 SOMEWHERE IN THERE, I WANT TO SAY 157, BUT I WOULDN'T BET ON THAT BECAUSE IT ONLY A PECK AND ONLY IMPACT SALARY BASED EMPLOYEES. YEP. MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVE TO WAIVE THIRD READING. ROLL CALL. MR. REAMES YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLFF YES.
MRS. TACTIC YES. MR. BERGER YES. MR. HUNTER YES. SEVEN YES. MOTION CARRIES. MR. PRESIDENT, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO PASS THE LEGISLATION. ROLL CALL PLEASE. MRS. YOUNG. YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLFF NO. MRS. TACTIC YES. MR. BERGER YES. MR. HUNTER YES. MR. REAMES YES. SIX. YES.
LEGISLATION PASSES AS AMENDED. COMMENTS OF CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. YOU KNOW,
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ON ON BEHALF OF OUR CITY EMPLOYEES, I WANT I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE ACTION YOU JUST TOOK. IT'S BEEN IT HASN'T BEEN AN EASY. HOUSE TO MANAGE A LITTLE BIT AS, AS WE'VE GONE INTO THIS AND, AND THERE'S A GREAT DEAL OF APPRECIATION FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION OR RECONSIDERATION OF THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION. IF YOU KEEP IN MIND, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, IF YOU CAN FIND ANOTHER CITY WHOSE EMPLOYEES HAVE HAD 0% INCREASE IN HEALTH INSURANCE FOR A TWO YEAR PERIOD, THAT SHOWS THE COMMITMENT THAT THESE EMPLOYEES HAVE TOWARD TRYING TO ATTEMPTING TO KEEP OUR COSTS DOWN ON HEALTH INSURANCE. THAT'S UNHEARD OF TODAY, ABSOLUTELY UNHEARD OF. AND SO I JUST, I, I KNOW HOW MUCH OUR EMPLOYEES WILL APPRECIATE THIS. AND AND AGAIN, I, I KNOW IT'S NOT EASY SOMETIMES NAVIGATING THROUGH LEGISLATION SUCH AS THIS, BUT THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH FOR THE RECONSIDERATION. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE WILL START WITH LADIES FIRST. MISS YOUNG, I HAVE NOTHING OKAY. SURPRISINGLY RIGHT. NO, IT'S ALL RIGHT, MR. REAMS. YOU KNOW, TERRY ANNOUNCED HIS UPCOMING RETIREMENT, AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU, TERRY. YOU KNOW,[01:35:03]
BEFORE TERRY, WE HAD A SITUATION WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A NEW MANAGER EVERY FEW YEARS. AND, YOU KNOW, HAVING ANY SORT OF LONG TERM PLANNING WENT OUT THE WINDOW BECAUSE YOU WERE ONLY SERVING, YOU KNOW, FOR A FEW YEARS. AND THEN WHEN THE NEW MAYOR CAME ON, THERE WAS A HUGE TRANSITION. IT WAS NOT A GOOD WAY FOR MANAGING A CITY. AND I THINK YOU REALLY BROUGHT US FORWARD. AND, YOU KNOW, THAT LONG TERM VISION AND, YOU KNOW, SOME BETTER PLANNING AND REALLY KIND OF SETTING THE STANDARD THAT MARYSVILLE WAS GOING TO BE, WHICH IS A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK. SO I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE. I WANT TO ALSO ADD, YOU KNOW, THIS IS OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR, AND WE'VE GOT TWO NEW MEMBERS UP HERE, WHICH FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, WE'VE GOT A BUNCH OF NEW MEMBERS UP HERE, YOU KNOW, AND YOU KNOW, I JUST YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALL BEEN ENTRUSTED BY THE PUBLIC TO TAKE THE TIME TO SPEND, YOU KNOW, HOURS LOOKING AT THESE ISSUES BECAUSE, I MEAN, LET'S FACE IT, THE PUBLIC IS NOT GOING TO SPEND HOURS LOOKING INTO EVERY ISSUE. THAT'S WHY THEY SELECTED US. THEY TRUSTED YOU AND ME TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS. AFTER SPENDING THE TIME TO, YOU KNOW, TO SEE WHAT THE RIGHT ANSWER WAS. SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH EVERYONE AGAIN FOR THIS TERM AND TO THE NEW TO NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. I HAVE A FEW THINGS TO COVER, SO I WANT TO FIRST START OFF BY WELCOMING THE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS I HAD, WHETHER I HAD SPOKEN TO YOU OR LEFT YOU A VOICEMAIL, GAVE YOU A CONGRATULATIONS, AND JUST GLAD TO HAVE YOU UP HERE TODAY. LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU HERE AND IN THE FUTURE. IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, THE THE FIRST MEETING THAT I HAD SHOWED UP TO ON MY MY FIRST TERM OR MY TERM ON COUNCIL, I THINK IT WAS ALSO COUNCILMAN BORDNER, COUNCILMAN WOLFF, MYSELF, A LITTLE BIT PERPLEXED HERE ABOUT WHO ELSE WAS ON COUNCIL AT THAT TIME. BUT OUR FIRST MEETING WE VOTED ON TWO SMALL LITTLE THINGS CALLED MARYSVILLE EAST AND THE WATER AND LIGHT DISTRICT. I'M JUST BEING A LITTLE SARCASTIC THERE. SO WE WERE TOLD, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DRINKING FROM THE FIRE HOSE MEETING ONE, AND IT REQUIRED A LOT OF PREPARATION, BUT. MAYBE TONIGHT'S NOT SO MUCH A NIGHT LIKE THAT. BUT I THINK THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITIES. THERE'LL BE NIGHTS CERTAINLY LIKE THAT. JUST WITH THE WAY MARYSVILLE, THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE AHEAD OF US. I'M I'M CERTAIN THAT IMPORTANT THINGS ARE GOING TO COME BEFORE US SOON AND WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE IMPORTANT DECISIONS THAT HAVE LONG LASTING IMPACTS. I WANT TO JUST CONGRATULATE AND SHOW APPRECIATION TO JEFF GARBER FOR YOUR YOUR WILLINGNESS TO SERVE ON THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS AND TO VICTOR AND YOUR WILLINGNESS TO SERVE ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION. I KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOT DOING IT FOR THE PAY. AND I JUST, YOU KNOW, WE HAD INTERVIEWED VARIOUS CANDIDATES, AND THERE'S A LOT OF HIGH QUALITY, YOU KNOW, CANDIDATES. THERE'S PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SERVE IN THIS COMMUNITY.BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HAD YOU KNOW, YOU'RE HERE NOW TONIGHT. SO JUST GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE.
AND WE'LL SEE YOUR FACES IN THE FUTURE. AND ALWAYS SAY HI TO ME IF I DON'T DO IT FIRST. SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE TONIGHT. I, I WANTED TO I KNOW, TERRY, YOU TOLD US NOT TO BUTTER YOU UP TOO MUCH, BUT I DID WANT TO EXTEND MY APPRECIATION TO JUST, YOU KNOW, THE SUCCESS YOU'VE HAD IN MANAGING THIS CITY FOR THE TIME THAT YOU HAVE. WELL, BEFORE THE TIME I BECAME INVOLVED HERE. AND, YOU KNOW, IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT IN 2024, WE HAD A SATURDAY, MAYBE 1 OR 2 SATURDAY MEETINGS, MAYBE IT WAS CALLED A RETREAT. BUT WE WERE WORKING THROUGH THE STRATEGIC PLAN REVISION, AND ONE OF THE COMMENTS MADE AND I MIGHT HAVE BEEN OUR LAW DIRECTOR, BUT IT WAS, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE WERE AT. WE WERE THE QUESTION WAS POSED, WHAT ABOUT MARYSVILLE HAS BEEN GOOD. AND VARIOUS POINTS WERE BROUGHT UP. THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE ACROSS 33 WAS, I THINK, ONE, I HAD MENTIONED JUST THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO OVER THE YEARS, MANY DIFFERENT THINGS. BUT BUT YOUR NAME WAS BROUGHT UP AS ONE GREAT THING ABOUT MARYSVILLE.
SO THAT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE APPRECIATED AND YOU'RE YOU HAVE RAPPORT AND
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PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER MEMBERS HERE ON THE STAFF. SO I KNOW LIFE IS SHORT. SO JUST, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL VERY SHORTLY MAYBE YOU'LL BE ENJOYING RETIREMENT AND I HOPE THE BEST FOR ALL OF THAT. AND THEN JUST I WANT TO I'M KIND OF SHIFTING GEARS NOW TOWARDS JUST 2026. WE'RE NOW APPROACHING MID JANUARY. AND THAT'S THE POINT IN TIME WHERE YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS START TO JUST FADE OFF. AND IF THAT'S YOU, DON'T BE ASHAMED YOU TRIED. BUT HEALTH IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT THING. THERE ARE PEOPLE UP HERE WHO MAY FACE HEALTH ISSUES.THERE'S PEOPLE UP HERE I KNOW THAT HAVE FAMILY WITH HEALTH ISSUES, AND WE SHOULD NEVER TAKE HEALTH FOR GRANTED. AND JUST YOUR WILLINGNESS TO TRY AND AND START THE NEW YEAR WITH A RESOLUTION THAT'S FOCUSED ON YOUR HEALTH. KEEP THAT GOING. AND YOU KNOW, I ABOUT A YEAR AGO STARTED GOING TO A FITNESS GROUP, AND WE TALKED THE OTHER DAY ABOUT JUST, YOU KNOW, WHAT MOTIVATES YOU TO GET OUT HERE. AND FOR SOME, SOME INDIVIDUALS, AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE DOING IT NOT JUST FOR THEMSELVES, BUT THEY'RE DOING IT FOR OTHERS TOO. THEY'RE DOING IT TO BE A, YOU KNOW, HAVE LONGEVITY IN THEIR FAMILY LIVES. AND THEY'RE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE, YOU KNOW, INVESTING IN THEIR HEALTH. SOME PEOPLE ARE FACING STRUGGLES. SO JUST BLESSED WITH GOOD HEALTH. IF THAT'S YOU, THAT'S GREAT. BUT NEVER TAKE THAT FOR GRANTED. BUT I'M HOPING 2026 CAN BE A YEAR WHERE OUR CITY, OUR COUNTRY, WE CAN BE JUST A HEALTHIER COUNTRY.
AND THEN JUST LASTLY, I APPRECIATE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO SERVING AS THE PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL. I APPRECIATE I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT AS A JUST AN OPPORTUNITY TO, YOU KNOW, HELP LEAD MEETINGS. AND I, YOU KNOW, IN THE FIRST COUPLE YEARS OF OF OUR COUNCIL MEETINGS, THERE WAS TENSE THERE WERE TENSE MOMENTS WITH RESIDENTS ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES.
AND IT DOES TAKE A LOT TO SIT UP HERE AND KIND OF DEAL WITH THOSE, THOSE TENSE MOMENTS IN A WAY IN WHICH YOU CAN ALWAYS DEMONSTRATE RESPECT. IT'S NOT EASY SOMETIMES WHEN YOU KNOW CERTAIN LANGUAGE IS MAYBE THROWN AT YOU PERSONALLY, YOU HAVE TO NAVIGATE THROUGH YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS ARE EXPERIENCING LOCAL ISSUES, REALLY HIT HOME WITH ALL OF US AND YOU KNOW IT. YOU KNOW IT CAN BUILD UP AND JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. BUT I ALSO JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN BURGER, FOR, YOU KNOW, YOUR WILLINGNESS TO LEAD FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU. I'LL SKIP DOWN TO MR. I'LL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE BRIEF, BECAUSE I THINK I'VE SPOKEN QUITE A BIT TONIGHT, BUT I DO WANT TO FIRST CONGRATULATE MR. AND MISS YOUNG FOR THEIR APPOINTMENTS AND WELCOME YOU TO THE TEAM. PARDON. ELECTED. SORRY. ELECTED. ANY. ANYWAY SO SORRY. SEMANTICS. AND I WANT TO CONGRATULATE MR. HUNTER ON YOUR APPOINTMENT TO COUNCIL. PRESIDENT'S WELL-DESERVED. YOU PUT A LOT OF YOUR HEART AND SOUL INTO THE COMMUNITY AND INTO YOUR WORK. IT'S NOTICED BY MORE THAN JUST ME. SO I THINK WE'RE IN GOOD HANDS AS A COUNCIL UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP.
AND. AND, MR. BURGER, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR APPOINTMENT TO VICE PRESIDENT.
AND AGAIN, IT DOES TAKE A LOT TO TO LEAD. AND YOU'VE DONE IT WITH GRACE. I DO WANT TO ALSO RECOGNIZE OR THANK MR. GARBER AND MR. MCCARY ON ON THEIR APPOINTMENTS TO THEIR RESPECTIVE BOARDS. APPRECIATE YOUR WILLINGNESS TO TO SERVE. AND THEN AGAIN, I'LL JUST CIRCLE BACK TO TERRY. I APPRECIATE YOUR 15 YEARS OF SERVICE AND YOUR DEDICATION TO TO TO THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. AND, AND, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS DOING WHAT IS BEST FOR THE BROADER COMMUNITY AND THE DECISIONS AND THE ACTIONS THAT THAT ARE TAKEN BY THIS ADMINISTRATION. ADMINISTRATION. AND I WANT TO WISH YOU LUCK IN YOUR IN YOUR FUTURE. HOPEFULLY YOU CAN REST, MAYBE, AND ENJOY SOME FAMILY TIME. AND I ALSO WANT TO WISH ALL THE CONSTITUENTS AND RESIDENTS OF MARYSVILLE. HAPPY NEW YEAR. WE HAVEN'T GOT THE CHANCE TO DO THAT. SO 2026, NEW YEAR, NEW ME. I GOT TO GET SOME OF THE HOLIDAY WEIGHT OFF. I WAS IN THE GYM THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING BEFORE THE MEETING, SO HOPEFULLY I CAN STICK TO MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU. YEAH, I JUST WANT TO WELCOME AND CONGRATULATE OUR NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU AND TERRY.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK YOU'VE DONE FOR THE CITY AND THE DEDICATION THAT YOU'VE PUT IN. I KNOW IT DOESN'T ALWAYS GET NOTICED, BUT YOU'VE DONE A LOT, SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU AND ALSO CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. I KNOW YOU WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE THE CITY IN A RESPECTFUL MANNER, AND YOU'LL GUIDE US IN A GOOD WAY. I JUST WANT TO START BY THANKING COUNCILMAN BURGER FOR HIS TIME AS PRESIDENT. I KNOW A LOT OF
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IF YOU PAY ATTENTION IN THE COMMUNITY, YOU'LL SEE MR. BURGER AT A LOT OF COMMUNITY EVENTS. AND HE DOES HAVE A REALLY BIG HEART FOR OUR CITY. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AS PRESIDENT. AND I WANT TO CONGRATULATE MR. HUNTER AS OUR NEW PRESIDENT. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO A GOOD 2026. AND, TERRY, I'LL SAVE MY NICE WORDS FOR YOU FOR YOUR LAST MEETING.SO BUT I DO. AS WE WRAP UP MY FIRST MEETING, I DO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO SAY THANK YOU.
I WROTE A COUPLE WORDS BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW HOW LONG THIS WOULD GO AND IF MY BRAIN WOULD REMEMBER THEM. SO THANK YOU TO THE RESIDENTS OF MARYSVILLE FOR TRUSTING ME AND GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE AS YOUR COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE. I DON'T TAKE THIS RESPONSIBILITY LIGHTLY. MARYSVILLE HAS A VIBRANT COMMUNITY AND A STRONG FOUNDATION, BUILT BY GENERATIONS OF LONGTIME RESIDENTS WHO CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THE CITY. I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT HISTORY AND THE PRIDE SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE POURED INTO MARYSVILLE OVER THE YEARS. I'M DIVING IN IMMEDIATELY, STARTING WITH REVITALIZING OUR UPTOWN. OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, I PLAN TO MEET WITH BUSINESS OWNERS AND BUILDING OWNERS TO LISTEN, LEARN, AND BRING A CLEAR REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL IN THE CITY ON WHAT WE CAN DO BETTER AND WHERE WE CAN GROW.
MARYSVILLE IS AT A PIVOTAL POINT. WE'RE GROWING QUICKLY, AND THE DECISIONS WE MAKE RIGHT NOW WILL SHAPE THE CITY FOR DECADES. I'M A PARENT OF YOUNG KIDS AND LIKE MANY FAMILIES WHO HAVE MOVED HERE, I CHOSE MARYSVILLE BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN ITS FUTURE. BUT BELIEF ALONE ISN'T ENOUGH TO THE YOUNG FAMILIES, NEW RESIDENTS AND PARENTS RAISING KIDS HERE. I NEED YOU TO STEP UP AND SPEAK OUT. NOW IS THE TIME MARYSVILLE'S FUTURE AND OUR KIDS FUTURE DEPENDS ON YOU MAKING YOUR VOICE HEARD. SO PLEASE GET INVOLVED. ATTEND THESE MEETINGS, ATTEND OTHER COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND SHARE YOUR IDEAS. LET'S WORK TOGETHER LONG TIME RESIDENTS AND NEW FAMILIES ALIKE TO MAKE MARYSVILLE THE BEST IT CAN BE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. THANK YOU. YOU KNOW, I'LL MY MY WORDS FOR TONIGHT IS THAT NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS DID I EVER DREAMED THAT I WOULD BE SITTING WHERE I AM TODAY. YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS A PAPER BOY DELIVERING THE JOURNAL TRIBUNE YEARS AGO IN GREEN PASTURES, I WOULD ALWAYS TALK TO RESIDENTS ABOUT COMMUNITY, IDENTITY AND HISTORY. AND THEN I WENT TO OSU.
AND IF YOU WOULD HAVE ASKED MY GRADE SCHOOL FRIENDS AT SAINT JOHN'S, IF EVEN TO THIS DAY YOU'D ASK THEM WHAT YOU KNOW, WHAT DID DONALD WANT TO BE WHEN HE GROWS UP? THEY WOULD HAVE ALL, SAID THE MAYOR OF MARYSVILLE. YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY, AND I LOVE THIS COMMUNITY. AND ANYBODY WHO KNOWS ME KNOWS THAT IT'S ALL I TALK ABOUT. AND, AND AND THE DIRECTION WE NEED TO GO. YOU KNOW, LIFE IS ALWAYS ABOUT CHANGE AND SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, AS YOU EVERY OPPORTUNITY IS ABOUT CHANGE IN 2026 IS ABOUT CHANGE. AND IT'S OUR CITY IS CHANGING AND AND WE WILL CHANGE AS A COUNCIL. AND WE HAVE NEW MEMBERS NOW, WHICH IS ANOTHER PART OF THE CHANGE. AND MY ROLE HAS CHANGED. AND MR. HUNTER'S ROLE HAS CHANGED. AND EVERY OPPORTUNITY IS ABOUT CHANGE. CHANGE RIGHT NOW TO WHAT KELSEY WAS JUST STATING. MAYORS WAS IN A PIVOTAL TIME. OUR COUNTRY IS IN A PIVOTAL TIME, BUT IT'S CHANGE. CHANGE IS ALWAYS THERE TO SPARK DISCUSSION. BUT AS LONG AS IT'S DONE THOUGHTFULLY, IT SHOULDN'T HURT ANYONE'S FEELINGS. DURING MY TIME IN OFFICE, AS AS AS YOUR COUNCIL COUNCIL PRESIDENT, I'VE ALWAYS TRIED TO BE THOUGHTFUL, LISTENING, ENGAGING, AND TRYING TO DO MY BEST TO ENSURE THAT AS A GROUP, AS A CITY, WE PUT OUR BEST FOOT FORWARD TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT ON THE BEHALF OF MARYSVILLE. SO IN SAYING ALL OF THAT, I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS QUOTE A SOCIETY GROWS GREAT WHEN OLD MEN PLANT TREES IN WHOSE SHADE THEY KNOW THEY SHALL NEVER SEE. THANK YOU. IS THERE A MR. PRESIDENT? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING. OKAY. ALL IN
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.