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          MARYSVILLE CITY COUNCIL MEETING. IT IS NOVEMBER 9TH, 2026. THE TIME IS 7 P.M. AND WE'RE GOING TO CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER. WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN THIS EVENING BY STANDING SAYING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. AND THEN I WOULD ASK THAT YOU PLEASE REMAIN STANDING FOR 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. ROLL CALL. ZACH FORTNER HERE. STEVEN WOLF HERE. DONALD BURGER. SCOTT HUNTER HERE. KELSEY TACKETT 
          [APPROVAL OF MINUTES: October 19, 2026 Special City Council Meeting Minutes   October 26, 2026 Special City Council Meeting Minutes   October 26, 2026 City Council Meeting Minutes ]
HERE. MARK REAMS AND CATHY YOUNG. APPROVAL OF MINUTES. FIRST, WE HAVE THE OCTOBER 19TH, 2026 SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. AT THIS TIME, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE MINUTES. MR. PRESIDENT, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE OCTOBER 19TH, 2026 SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN BURGER. WE HAVE A MOTION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? OKAY. THE OCTOBER 19TH MEETING MEETING MINUTES ARE APPROVED FOR THE SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE MEETING OF THAT DAY. OCTOBER 2020. OCTOBER 26TH, 2026 SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE MINUTES AT THIS TIME. SO MOVED. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN BORDNER. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. ALL OPPOSED? OCTOBER 26TH, 2026. CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. 
          DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE MINUTES? SO MOVED. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN WOLFF. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? MEETING MINUTES ARE APPROVED. THANK YOU. NEXT 
          [APPOINTMENTS]
ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA ARE APPOINTMENTS. SO THE FOLLOWING PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS WILL BE WITH THE APPROVAL OF COUNCIL TO PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION FOR TERMS OF DECEMBER 1ST, 2026 THROUGH NOVEMBER 30TH, 2029. AND FIRST THIS EVENING IS MICHAEL GEORGE. I'M JUST LOOKING OUT IN THE AUDIENCE HERE TO SEE IF MEMBERS ARE HERE. 
          AND IF YOU ARE, RAISE YOUR HAND IN CASE I DON'T SEE YOU. BUT MICHAEL GEORGE, AND I DON'T BELIEVE I SEE HIM HERE TONIGHT. BUT ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPOINTING MICHAEL GEORGE TO THAT TERM SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE, AYE. ALL OPPOSED? CONGRATULATIONS, MR. GEORGE, IF YOU'RE WATCHING. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION. NEXT IS DOUG BREAK. IS DOUG BREAK HERE AT ALL THIS EVENING? OKAY. NO, WE'RE GOING TO ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED. WELL CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE TWO MEMBERS. AND WE APPRECIATE THEIR SERVICE TO THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION. AND THEN NEXT IS THE CITY MANAGER APPOINTMENT WITH APPROVAL FROM CITY COUNCIL. DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT, MISS SHARP? AND IF YOU WANT ME TO READ IT, I CAN. MICHAEL MORGAN TO THE UNION COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH FOR A TERM THROUGH FEBRUARY 28TH OF 30. THANK YOU. IS THAT INDIVIDUAL HERE THIS EVENING? IF SO, I JUST WANT TO GIVE A MOMENT OF RECOGNITION. OKAY. NOT SEEING. SO WE WILL DO ROLL CALL OR SORRY VOICE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? THANK YOU. NEXT ITEM 
          [ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT]
ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MISS SHARP. 
          THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. A COUPLE OF NOTES WHEN THE CITY OFFICES ARE CLOSED. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, IN OBSERVANCE OF VETERANS DAY, I WILL BE VISITING MY FATHER WHO IS A VETERAN. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH AND FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH IN OBSERVANCE OF THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY. SPEAKING OF THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, THE 16TH ANNUAL HONDA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION PUMPKIN DASH FIVE K TAKES PLACE ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH AT 9 A.M. THIS FIVE K RUN WALK IS OPEN TO ALL RUNNERS AND WALKERS OF ALL LEVELS. THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 20TH. BE THERE OR BE A PUMPKIN THE FOLLOWING WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS. WALK AND TREE LIGHTING WILL BE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST FROM 4 TO 8 P.M. AT THE MEMORIAL PAVILION. LAST WEEK, THE MARYSVILLE FIRE DIVISION RAISED $1,748 FOR BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK DURING THIS YEAR'S PUMPKIN DROP. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS. I'VE BEEN TOLD IT'S VERY DRAMATIC AND THE STUDENTS LIKE IT. THE EVENT COLLECTED MORE THAN 12 BOXES OF NONPERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS TO SUPPORT THE MARYSVILLE FOOD PANTRY, THE FOURTH ANNUAL CRAFTED AND UNION COUNTY EVENT, HOSTED BY THE UNION COUNTY COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION, THE CIC AT MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ON OCTOBER 16TH WELCOMED MORE THAN 
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775 PARTICIPATING STUDENTS. THIS YEAR'S EVENT FEATURED LOCAL COMPANIES AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS INCLUDING HONDA, ADECCO, SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO COMPANY, EAS LOGISTICS, MIDWEST EXPRESS, PARKER FRANKS, WOOD PRODUCTS, SUPERIOR PLASTIC, NESTLÉ AND PLOT WORKS USA. THE EVENT PROVIDED THESE COMPANIES AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOWCASE CAREERS AVAILABLE IN TODAY'S MANUFACTURING, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, AND THE MANY OPPORTUNITIES STUDENTS CAN PURSUE RIGHT HERE IN UNION COUNTY. WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE UPTOWN 250 MURAL AND SAW IT ON THE CORNER OVER THERE, AND I THINK IT LOOKS GREAT. EXECUTED BY ARTIST JENNA GREENWALD, A FORGED IN GREEN, THIS INITIATIVE WAS FUNDED IN PART BY AN AMERICA 250 GRANT THROUGH UNION COUNTY TOURISM, WITH ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM COMMUNITY PARTNERS WHOSE ONGOING SUPPORT MADE THIS INSTALLATION POSSIBLE. 
          AND LAST BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST, TODAY WAS A BIG DAY IN JOB GROWTH FOR UNION COUNTY. IN MARYSVILLE, HONDA ANNOUNCED A $3 BILLION INVESTMENT TO BUILD A NEW VEHICLE ASSEMBLY AND HYBRID PRODUCTION PLANT IN UNION COUNTY, WHICH WILL BRING AN ADDITIONAL 2000 PLUS WELL-PAYING MANUFACTURING, ENGINEERING AND ADMINISTRATIVE JOBS. THIS WILL. THIS WILL CREATE A MULTIPLIER EFFECT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES, SUPPLY CHAIN AND AUXILIARY INDUSTRIAL GROWTH, AND EVEN BETTER REASON TO ENSURE OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS ANTICIPATING AND PLANNING FOR THOUGHTFUL GROWTH. WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO TURN IT OVER TO JAMIE FINK, OUR CITY ENGINEER. THANK YOU. ALTA FIBER CONTINUES IN ADENA POINT. THE LINKS IN GREENWOOD COLONY. THE 2026 PAVING PROGRAM IS ALMOST COMPLETE. THEY FINISHED STRIPING AND NOW THEY'RE JUST COMPLETING PUNCH LIST WORK. AND THEN EAST FIFTH STREET IMPROVEMENTS. THEY ARE COMPLETING REMOVALS ON THE NORTH SIDE. THE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR CONTINUES INSTALLING CONDUIT FOR LIGHT POLES AND PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS. DRIVE APPROACHES WILL BE REMOVED AND REINSTALLED AS WORK PROGRESSES. SO WE'RE WE'RE STILL TRUCKING THROUGH HOPEFULLY WEATHER, YOU KNOW, CONTINUES AND IS ON OUR SIDE WITH THE IDEA OF PAVING HOPEFULLY RIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING. AND YEAH, AND FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE, SOME MORE PICTURES FROM WORK THIS WEEK OR LAST WEEK AND TODAY. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. NOW I'D LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO OUR PUBLIC SERVICE DIRECTOR, CORBIN BONSALL. HI. YEAH, JUST SOME UPDATES FOR THIS WEEK. THE STREETS DEPARTMENT CONTINUED TO HELP THE SANITATION DEPARTMENT WITH LEAF PICKUP. THERE WAS AN EVENT HELD ON SUNDAY FOR THE VETERANS DAY CEREMONY. THE STREET DEPARTMENT HELPED SET UP FOR THAT AND MAKE SURE THE AREA WAS CLEANED. WE ALSO HAD A BLOWOUT ON THE FREEWAY WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF PD. WE GOT THAT TAKEN CARE OF AND GOT THE ROAD OPENED BACK UP AND WE ARE PREPPING TRUCKS FOR HOPEFULLY NOT BAD WEATHER LATER THIS WEEK. IN PARKS, WE CONTINUE TREE PLANTINGS OUT AT SCOTT FAMILY PARK. WE'RE CONTINUING OUR WORK WINTERIZING THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM AND THE PARK RESTROOMS. WE ARE WORKING ON PREPARATION FOR THE WILDFLOWER FIELD THERE AT SCOTT PARK. SNOWFLAKE INSTALLATION WILL TAKE PLACE LATER THIS WEEK AND WE ARE PREPPING FOR THAT CHRISTMAS TREE DELIVERY AND INSTALLATION NEXT WEEK. AS FAR AS EVENTS AND REC GO, WE JUST HAVE A COUPLE MEETINGS IN REGARDS TO EVENTS COMING UP NEXT YEAR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, THE SUMMER MOVIE SERIES AND THE SUMMER SKILLS SERIES. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE. 
          THANK YOU. AND ON HIS LIST AS WELL. I WANT TO NOTE THERE IS A MAIN STREET MARYSVILLE BOARD MEETING TOMORROW MORNING AT 8 A.M. AT THE CHAMBER. WITH THAT, I HAVE ASKED OUR IT DIRECTOR, TREVOR, TO INVITE ALTA FIBER TO COME GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE WORK COMPLETED THIS YEAR FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND WHAT WE'RE ANTICIPATING NEXT YEAR. TREVOR. THANK YOU. KIM. SO THIS EVENING, CITY COUNCIL, WE HAVE JOSH MOSSER FROM ALTA FIBER. HE'S GOING TO GO OVER THE UPDATES AND FUTURE DEPLOYMENT OF FIBER IN THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. EXCUSE ME. GOOD EVENING PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. CITY MANAGER SHARP AND TREVOR AND CORBIN, THE PARTNERSHIP THAT ALTA FIBER BRINGS TO THE CITY IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH A PARTNER. AND THE CITY HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB OF BRINGING RESOURCES TO THE TABLE. THANK YOU FOR THE INVITE. MY NAME IS JOSH MOSER. I'M THE DIRECTOR OF MARKET DEVELOPMENT HERE IN THE CENTRAL OHIO MARKET. PREVIOUSLY IN JULY, YOU HEARD FROM DAVE CRAMER ON DAVE'S TEAM AND HAPPY TO BE HERE TO PRESENT AND PROVIDE AN UPDATE FROM THAT JULY REPORT. THE WAY THAT I BUILT THIS PRESENTATION, MY INTENT WAS TO SHOW YOU WHERE WE WERE IN JULY, BUT THEN ALSO WHERE WE ARE AS OF TODAY. SO YOU CAN SEE ON THE MAP, THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS THE ONE THAT DAVE PRESENTED LAST LAST TIME HE WAS HERE, WHICH WAS JULY. YOU CAN SEE WHERE OUR PLANS WERE IN THE PURPLE. THOSE WERE THINGS THAT WERE BEING WORKED ON. AND I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT AS WE LOOK AT THE NOVEMBER UPDATE, YOU CAN SEE HOW SOME OF THAT PURPLE HAS TURNED BLUE. BLUE BEING FIELD COMPLETE. THAT 
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DOESN'T MEAN THAT SERVICES TURNED UP. THAT MEANS THAT THE CONSTRUCTION IN THAT PARTICULAR FIBER SERVING AREA OR FSA HAS BEEN COMPLETED. AND THEN YOU CAN SEE WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO IN THE PURPLE. AND THEN WE STILL HAVE EVEN MORE WORK TO DO, OBVIOUSLY, IN THE GREEN, IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, IT'LL ACTUALLY GIVE YOU NUMBERS. THANK YOU. IT'LL GIVE YOU NUMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT PROGRESS. AS A REMINDER. ALSO, WE BEGAN OUR FIBER EXPANSION EARLIER THIS YEAR. IN THE SPRING. IT'S THERE WAS THERE'S RAIN THIS SUMMER, IF YOU ALL REMEMBER, RIGHT, IT WASN'T THE DRIEST OF SUMMERS. AND SO THE PROGRESS IS STILL POSITIVE MOVING FORWARD. AND OBVIOUSLY WE'RE STILL DOING CONSTRUCTION AS WE SPEAK, CONSIDERING IT'S 60 DEGREES TODAY, WHICH WAS A WONDERFUL DAY TO DO CONSTRUCTION AND DRY. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE OOPS, I'M SORRY. IT'S OKAY. THANK YOU. THE CONTINUED PROGRESS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CONSTRUCTION. SO THE FIELD COMPLETE, THOSE THAT MOVE INTO BLUE, IT'S ABOUT 1500 LOCATIONS. AGAIN NOTING THE BLUE ON THIS MAP. AND OF THE 17, THERE'S ADDITIONAL 1700 LOCATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN RELEASED TO CONSTRUCTION, WHICH WOULD BE PURPLE. SO THOSE ARE THE PLACES THAT HAVE STRATEGICALLY BUILT BASED OFF OF LOCATION, WHERE WE ULTIMATELY WILL FEED FROM OUR CENTRAL OFFICE. IN ADDITION, THE PERMITTING PARTNERSHIP, TREVOR CORBIN AND OTHERS, THIS HAS WORKED REALLY WELL. WE HAVE 18 FIBER SERVING AREAS. I SAY FSAS THAT HAVE HAD PERMITS APPROVED. THAT'S PHENOMENAL. THAT ALLOWS US THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY DO THE FIELD COMPLETE WORK. BUT THERE'S ALSO 25 FSAS THAT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE CITY. THAT'S THAT'S A NORMAL PROCESS. THE WORK'S DONE ON OUR SIDE THROUGH OUR ENGINEERING PARTNER. IT GETS RELEASED TO THE CITY, AND THEN WE CONTINUE ON OUR NEXT ONES AND WE RELEASE MORE TO THE CITY. SO THIS IS A REALLY GOOD PATH AND CYCLE THAT WE'RE ON. 
          SO I THANK THE CITY AND EVERYONE FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP. ON BEHALF OF OBVIOUSLY, FIBER. 
          WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WHEN WE COULD ACTUALLY TURN SERVICE UP LIVE, TYPICALLY WE, WE'RE GOING TO WAIT TILL ABOUT 2000 LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED. THAT MIGHT HAPPEN HERE IN LATE FOURTH QUARTER. BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT'S THE HOLIDAYS. WHAT'S THE CYCLE LOOK LIKE? SO WE PUT IN FOURTH QUARTER, BUT THEN ALSO EARLY EARLY 2027 IS CERTAINLY DOABLE AS WELL. AND AGAIN, YOU WANT TO THINK OF IT FROM MARKETING DOOR TO DOOR SALES. THERE'S A LOT OF COMPONENTS. AND SO AGAIN OVERALL THIS SLIDE JUST CONFIDENT THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THIS IS A COPY. I'M SORRY. PICTURES OF OUR CENTRAL OFFICE. 
          I TOOK THE ONE ON THE RIGHT YESTERDAY. AND THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS WHAT DAVE PRESENTED BACK IN JULY. YOU'LL NOTICE AGAIN IT'S STILL NOVEMBER. SO THE LANDSCAPING IS OBVIOUSLY NOT THE LITTLE TREE. LOOKS LIKE A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS TREE ON THE LEFT, BUT IT WILL FILL OUT, I PROMISE. AND YOU CAN SEE THE ONE THING I WANT TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO. ON THE RIGHT, YOU SEE THE BLACK FENCING AROUND. THAT'S NOT THE CHAIN LINK FENCING, THAT BLACK FENCING AROUND THE GENERATOR. IT LOOKS REALLY NICE IF YOU GET A CHANCE TO DRIVE PAST IT AGAIN. 
          YES, YOU SEE THE GREEN ON THE TOP, BUT IT FITS VERY ESTHETICALLY WITH THAT AREA. 
          WE'RE VERY PLEASED WITH HOW THIS HAS TURNED OUT. I GOT TO SEE INSIDE THE BUILDING THEY WERE DOING FINAL INSPECTIONS EARLIER THIS WEEK WHEN I WAS UP HERE. SO AGAIN, PLEASED WITH THE PROGRESS THAT'S BEEN MADE. NEXT SLIDE. THE NEXT TWO SLIDES I WANTED TO GIVE YOU JUST QUICK UPDATES AND THEN CERTAINLY OPEN TO QUESTIONS. THIS FORM IS AVAILABLE WHICH WE CALL OUR CUSTOMER INTEREST FORM. THIS IS WHERE SOMEONE CAN MARK THEIR ADDRESS, THEIR NAME, THEIR PHONE NUMBER. BUT THEN ALSO DO THEY HAVE SPRINKLERS, INVISIBLE DOG FENCE, WHAT OTHER SERVICES ARE THEY INTERESTED IN? AND THEN ULTIMATELY WE PROVIDE SOME MARKETING MATERIAL ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. SO THIS FORM IS LIVE. IT'S A STANDARD FORM THAT WE USE ON OUR WEBSITE. THE NEXT SLIDE GIVES YOU THE ACTUAL FORM THAT WE MENTIONED. THIS IS AN UPDATED PICTURE OF WHAT'S ON OUR WEBSITE. DAVE MENTIONED THAT THERE WAS A FORM AND A PHONE NUMBER ASSOCIATED WITH ANY CUSTOMER INQUIRIES. THESE ARE CONSTRUCTION ISSUES OR JUST QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. THE PHONE NUMBER IS STILL ON THE WEBSITE OR IT'S AVAILABLE. WE WANT THE RESIDENTS TO HAVE IT STILL OPTION ONE. AND THEN THIS FORM HERE, THEY CAN FILL OUT AND YOU CAN NOTICE THERE'S COMMENTS, THEY CAN PUT THEIR ADDRESS AND THEN IT'LL NOTE IN THERE THAT IT ACTUALLY GETS A TICKET CREATED AND CONSTRUCTION REQUESTS. AND WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF THIS WHERE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE SOMEONE SAYS, WELL, MY GRASS DIDN'T GROW BACK OR THERE WAS A HOLE THAT DIDN'T GET FILLED IN. THIS FORM GETS FILLED OUT AND THERE'S PROMPT RESPONSE WITHIN 48 HOURS. I'VE EVEN SEEN IT DONE SAME DAY. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THEY WORK WITH THE CONSUMER. HAVING BEEN IN THE BUSINESS NOW A COUPLE OF DECADES, WHICH I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S GONE SO FAST. THIS FORM AND THIS RESPONSE FIXES PROBLEMS. WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE THIS TYPE OF ACCESS FOR THE RESIDENTS, THINGS GET INTO A TAILSPIN. THEY TRY TO FIND SOMEBODY. THEY CONTACT YOU. THIS FORM, IT WORKS. WE'VE SEEN IT IN ALL OF THE MARKETS THAT WE'VE BUILT IN, AND I'M VERY PROUD THAT THE COMPANY PROVIDES SOMETHING LIKE THIS. I BELIEVE THAT'S THE LAST SLIDE. SO IN SUMMARY, OPEN TO QUESTIONS. BUT WE'RE VERY PLEASED WITH HOW THIS PARTNERSHIP IS GOING AND EXCITED TO CONTINUE TO BUILD THROUGH THE REST OF THIS YEAR AND INTO THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. SO, MR. PRESIDENT, HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. MEMBERS OF COUNCIL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FOR THE ALT FIVE FOR GUEST HERE. 
          I'M LOOKING DOWN AT THE WHAT WORD IS YOURS AGAIN? WORD 2 OR 2 I THINK HAS SOME ACTIVE ALT FIBER IN THERE. SO I WAS LOOKING TO YOU FOR QUESTIONS. SURE. NO, I, I WON'T SAY A QUESTION. I'LL JUST MAKE A COMMENT. IT'S BEEN VERY HELPFUL TO HAVE THE THE FORMS AND THE NUMBERS. I HAD A COUPLE NEIGHBORS HAD AN ISSUE MYSELF, VERY PROMPT RESPONSE. SO THAT'S THE BEST EXAMPLE I CAN HAVE IS SOMEONE WHO'S USED IT AND, AND HAS MET THE RESPONSE. AND AS I'VE POINTED OUT, I'VE, I'VE WORKED ELSEWHERE AND IN THE INDUSTRY. AND WHEN THAT FORM 
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DOESN'T EXIST, IT GOES INTO A BLACK HOLE. AND THEN YOU HOPE SOMEONE CALLS YOU BACK. AND THIS IS THE WAY TO DO IT WHEN YOU CAN HAVE ACCESS. AND WE WANT PEOPLE TO CALL BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO SAY, THANK YOU. FOR THAT EXAMPLE, I'LL JUST SPEAK TO SOME ITEMS THAT HAD COME UP IN JUNE, BECAUSE THAT WAS WHEN THEY HAD COME THROUGH MY NEIGHBORHOOD. I LIVE OVER IN THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN. IT'S ONE OF THE AREAS IN BLUE, ACTUALLY. MAYBE MY FIRST QUESTION IS WHAT DOES FIELD COMPLETE MEAN? THAT'S THE BLUE DESIGNATION ON YOUR MAP. YEAH. 
          WHAT DOES THAT MEAN AND WHAT DOES NOT THAT WHAT DOES THAT NOT MEAN? NO. THAT'S A IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. I STARE AT THOSE MAPS EVERY DAY. SO I APPRECIATE YOUR YOUR QUESTION BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT SELF-EXPLANATORY. WE BUILD EVERYTHING. WE PERMIT EVERYTHING BASED OFF OF FIBER SERVING AREAS. FSAS ARE ROUGHLY ABOUT 250 ISH RESIDENTIAL HOMES WITHIN EACH ONE OF THOSE FOOTPRINTS. WHEN WE CALL SOMETHING FIELD COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION OF FIBER. NOT TO EVERY HOME, BUT WE PASS ALL OF THE HOMES WITHIN THAT THAT FIBER SERVING AREA BY FIELD COMPLETE. SO YOUR MAJOR CONSTRUCTION SO YOUR RIGHT OF WAY CONSTRUCTIONS, MAYBE BACKLOT EASEMENT CONSTRUCTION THAT'S DONE AT FIELD COMPLETE. 
          WHAT'S NOT DONE AT FIELD COMPLETE IS THE FINAL DROP FIBER DROP THAT GOES FROM THE SERVING UNIT INTO THE HOME. SO THE SERVING UNITS ARE THE FLAT BOXES THAT YOU SEE ABOUT EVERY OTHER HOUSE. THEY'RE FLUSH MOUNTED. YOU CAN'T. ONCE YOU ONCE THE GRASS GROWS, YOU REALLY WON'T EVEN PAY ATTENTION TO THEM. THAT DROP IS ON DEMAND. SO WHEN SOMEONE ORDERS SERVICE FROM US, WE THEN COME IN AND IT'S CALLED VIBRATORY PLOW. IT'S YOU CAN BARELY EVEN SEE IT KIND OF CUTS RIGHT THROUGH THE YARD. VERY LITTLE DISRUPTION. IT'S NOT EVEN REALLY CONSIDERED CONSTRUCTION. THAT'S WHY WE LOOK AT IT AS FIELD COMPLETE WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION IS DONE. 
          SO JUST TO ADD TO THAT QUESTION. SO WHEN THE FORMER YOU GUYS DID A PRESENTATION IN JULY, YOU TALKED ABOUT IT. YEAH. AND THEN AND IN THAT UPDATE, THERE WAS A PICTURE I RECALL WHERE THERE WAS SOME STRAW SHOWN OR LAID DOWN ON TOP OF SOME DISRUPTED GROUND. ABSOLUTELY. ONE OF THE BOXES AND THE INDIVIDUAL WHO SPOKE ABOUT IT SAID, A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE THINK THAT WE'VE LAID DOWN STRAW AND WE'RE DONE. BUT HE SAID, ACTUALLY, THE REALITY IS WE COME BACK AND WE EVENTUALLY GRADE IT OR WE PLANT SOME MORE PERMANENT, YOU KNOW, GRASS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          WHERE DOES THAT FALL BETWEEN FIELD COMPLETE AND TODAY? YEAH. IDEAL SITUATION IF YOU HAVE GREAT CONDITIONS, ESPECIALLY FROM A WEATHER WHEN A FIELD COMPLETE IS THEY'VE PUT STRAW SEED DOWN. THE HOPE IS THAT IT ALL TAKES THE GRASS IS BEAUTIFUL AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO COME BACK. IT'S UNLIKELY THAT YOU CAN DO IT PERFECTLY. I WISH WE COULD, BUT IT'S LIKELY THAT MAYBE GRASS DOESN'T TAKE BECAUSE IT'S LATE IN THE SEASON. SO IF WE TRY TO PLANT GRASS NOW WITHIN THE NEXT 30 DAYS, WE'RE PROBABLY COMING BACK IN SPRING FIELD COMPLETE. DOESN'T MEAN YOU NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING EVER AGAIN. IT'S MORE OF OF COMPLETE AND CONSTRUCTION. THAT TEAM HAS MOVED ON MAYBE TO ANOTHER FSA, BUT ARE DEALING WITH THINGS ON A REACTIVE BASIS. SO IF GRASS DOESN'T GROW, THEY'RE GOING TO SPOT CHECK, AND THEN THE NEXT SEASON WHEN THEY'RE BACK THERE, YOU'RE ALSO GOING TO TAKE ANY COMPLAINTS THAT MIGHT COME FROM RESIDENTS AND SAY THE GRASS DIDN'T TAKE OR I SAW I HAVE A DEAD SPOT IN MY YARD. NOW, ANY OF THOSE CAN BE DONE ON A REACTIVE BASIS. I WOULD JUST SAY, IN MY EXPERIENCE, HAVING, I THINK ONE OF THE FIRST NEIGHBORHOODS TO HAD YOU GUYS HAD GONE THROUGH, IS THAT A LOT OF MY NEIGHBORS, INCLUDING MYSELF, HAD SOME DISRUPTION TO OUR YARDS. I HAD SOME RUTS IN MY YARD, BUT I HAD CALLED THE NUMBER, LEFT A MESSAGE, AND THEN KIND OF, WELL, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? YOU KNOW, YOU'D SAID ON THE FORM THERE'S A TICKET THAT SHOWS UP ON THE ON THE CALL. I EVENTUALLY TALKED TO ANOTHER MEMBER WITH YOUR COMPANY AND HE SAID, YEAH, THERE'S A LOG AND YOU JUST SPOKE TO IT AGAIN, THERE'S A TICKET CREATED. YEAH, BUT I DON'T SEE THE LIST. YOU GUYS HAVE THE, THE LIST OF ALL OF THE WE CALL THE PUNCH LIST. I DON'T SEE THAT PUNCH LIST. BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS MYSELF. WE WAIT AND WE LIKE, WHEN IS THIS GOING TO, YOU KNOW, BE ADJUSTED? WHEN'S THE GRASS GOING TO BE TAKEN CARE OF? AND IN WHATEVER WAYS YOU CAN GIVE ASSURANCE TO US THAT THAT'S STILL ON YOUR RADAR. THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, BENEFICIAL TO MY SITUATION, MY NEIGHBORHOOD SITUATION. SO YOU PROVIDED SOME READOUTS THROUGH TREVOR. I THINK EARLY ON, WE WERE WE LOOKED AT IT AND SAID, WELL, HOW MANY ARE WE FOR THIS PARTICULAR FSA? HOW MANY COMPLAINTS HAVE WE HAD? WHAT IS THE OPEN RATE? WHAT'S THE CLOSE RATE? SO THERE ARE THINGS I THINK WE CAN CAN DEFINITELY COMMUNICATE AS WE GO. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ANYTHING FORMAL. IT CAN JUST BE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A COUPLE STILL LEFT IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA OR THAT PARTICULAR AREA. I THINK THAT'D BE A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS. I KNOW WE HAVE A LONG MEETING TONIGHT. I'LL TRY AND HURRY IT UP. I APPRECIATE GOING FIRST. YEAH. SO THE SO AT THE IN THE SUMMER I RECALL THERE WERE SOME, SOME SORT OF LIKE A SCHEDULING WHERE YOU WERE IN TO DO YOUR WORK. YOU HAD CALLED WELL AHEAD OF TIME TO GET THE LINES MARKED FOR THE EXISTING UTILITIES, THE OOPS CALL. BUT AT TIMES THE CREWS DOING THE MARKING WERE NOT PROMPT. THEY WERE SOMETIMES A WEEK BEHIND THE WORK THAT YOU WERE DOING. SO YOU'RE DIGGING, THINKING, HEY, THERE'S NO MARKINGS DOWN. I CAN BORE HERE. 
          YOU WOULD HIT SOMETHING AND THEN A WEEK AFTER YOU'RE OUT OF THERE, SURE ENOUGH, THERE ARE LITTLE FLAGS MARKING WHERE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BOARD, RIGHT? SO HAS HAVE YOU HAD ANY PROGRESS ON TRYING TO ENSURE THAT THE SCHEDULES WERE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE MARKING, AS WELL AS 
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THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING? YEAH. ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION. SO THANK YOU. PRESIDENT. ONE THING I WANT TO CLARIFY IS, IS THAT ALTA FIBER GIVES THE DIRECTION TO THEIR CONTRACTORS THAT EVEN IF THE TIME FRAME, WHICH IS TWO DAYS AND NOT INCLUDING THE DAY OF THE TICK IS 48 HOURS, NOT INCLUDING THE DAY OF TICKET, WE GIVE THEM INSTRUCTION TO NOT EXCAVATE IF FACILITIES APPEAR TO BE THERE. SO IF YOU SEE THE YELLOW MARKINGS ABOVE GROUND AND YOU SEE NO YELLOW PAINT, YOU SHOULDN'T BE EXCAVATING IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA. YOU SHOULD BE. 
          YOUR FIRST CALL SHOULD BE TO IN THIS AREA COLUMBIA GAS AND SAY THERE'S FACILITIES HERE, RIGHT? WE NEED TO COORDINATE WITH THAT. SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE WE'RE NOT GOING AHEAD AND EXCAVATING IN THOSE SITUATIONS. AS FOR THE PROGRESS, YES. SO PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE. 
          AND AGAIN, WE'LL SITE TO COLUMBIA GAS. THEY'VE WE'VE BEEN IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATION WITH THEM. WE MEET WITH THEM WEEKLY, SHOW THEM OUR PRIORITY LISTS, AND THEY'VE COME A LONG WAY FROM THE VENDOR CHANGES THAT THEY WERE MAKING THROUGHOUT THIS YEAR. AND SO WE'VE SEEN PROGRESS. I THINK THAT WILL JUST CONTINUE. THERE'S A LOW POINT IN THE WINTER SEASON THAT ALLOWS YOU TO GET CAUGHT UP AS WELL. AND SO I THINK THAT ANOTHER SEASON OF LOWER VOLUME FOR THEM AND ANYONE ELSE THAT'S DOING LOCATES THAT MIGHT BE BEHIND. 
          YEAH, WE'VE SEEN PROGRESS FOR SURE BECAUSE OF THE MEETINGS THAT WE'VE HAD WITH THEM. AND THEN JUST ONE LAST COMMENT. SO A MEMBER, I THINK IS A PROJECT MANAGER. MR. ANDY ASHCROFT, FOR YOUR COMPANY, OR I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S CONTRACTED BY YOUR COMPANY. YEAH. SO A RESIDENT, I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF IT WAS IN MY WARD, BUT A RESIDENT HAD CONTACTED ME BECAUSE HIS SIDEWALK WAS CRACKED, AND HE HAD THOUGHT THAT WAS DUE TO THE BORING EQUIPMENT DRIVING OVER THAT. AND IT TURNS OUT THAT HE HAD SOMEWHAT RECENTLY PURCHASED THE HOME. NOT NOTICED THAT CRACK PRIOR TO ANY OF YOUR WORK GOING ON, AND THEN CONTACTED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THINKING THE EQUIPMENT HAD CAUSED THAT. AND THE INDIVIDUAL WITH YOUR COMPANY DID POINT OUT, DID DO YOU GUYS DO PRE WORK PHOTOS AS WELL AS IMAGES AND WHATNOT TO JUST SHOW THAT, HEY, THIS WAS THE CONDITION PRIOR TO US STARTING, BUT DIDN'T PUT THAT BACK IN THE FACE OF THE RESIDENT. HE, I THINK HE WAS VERY KIND IN HIS EXPLANATION AND THE RESIDENT WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THAT. SO APPRECIATE JUST YOUR PATIENCE WITH RESIDENTS. WE LIVE IN OUR HOME EVERY DAY. WE LOOK AT OUR SIDEWALKS. WE DON'T ALWAYS NOTICE EVERY CRACK. AND THEN WE SEE BIG EQUIPMENT AND THEN WE WE SEE A CRACK. AND OBVIOUSLY WE CONNECT THINGS AND WE THINK CERTAIN SEQUENCES HAPPEN, BUT APPRECIATE THE PATIENCE THAT WAS EXERCISED IN THAT. VERY MUCH SO. AND I'LL MAKE SURE THAT THE THOSE COMMENTS ARE TAKEN BACK TO THE CONTRACTORS AS WELL, BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S, IT'S IMPORTANT WHEN WE SELECT THOSE CONTRACTORS, IT'S CONTRACTORS THAT HAVE DONE WORK FOR US FOR YEARS, AND WE'RE PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THEY DO. 
          AND AGAIN, THEY TAKE EVERY SITUATION ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS. YEAH. GO AHEAD. I'M IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WAS JUST DONE LIKE A WEEK OR TWO AGO. OKAY. DOWN THE STREET FROM ZACH. 
          BUT SO MY YARD IS, YOU KNOW, BORDERLINE. WILL THE GRASS GROW BACK? IS THERE A CERTAIN TIME FRAME THAT WE CAN TELL OUR NEIGHBORS? LIKE YOU HAVE TO NOTIFY THEM WITHIN SIX MONTHS OR LIKE YOU SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT COME BACK IN THE SPRING. WHEN SHOULD PEOPLE KNOW TO CALL? YOU KNOW, WHAT'S KIND OF THE YEAH, THIS PROJECT'S A MULTI YEAR PROJECT. SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE TOTAL PREMISES, WE'RE GOING TO BE BUILDING, YOU KNOW, SHY OF 10,000. WE'RE GOING TO BE HERE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. IF THAT RESIDENT. I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE A DEFINITIVE. 
          IF YOU DON'T CALL. WE DON'T HAVE SOME DISCLAIMER THAT SAYS IF YOU DON'T CALL IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS, YOUR SWEEPSTAKES RUNS OUT. YEAH. IF THEY GET INTO THE SPRING, YOU GET INTO THAT GROWING SEASON AND THEY CAN TELL THAT THE GRASS IS THEY SHOULD CALL, THEY SHOULD FILL OUT THE FORM SO YOU CAN REASSURE THEM THAT WE'VE GOT CREWS IN. NOW, IF WE'RE TALKING SEVEN YEARS FROM NOW AND SOMEBODY'S LIKE, WELL, MY GRASS NEVER GREW BACK, WE'LL PROBABLY TAKE THE CALL, BUT WE MAY HAVE TO ADDRESS THAT. BUT NO, JUST A NORMAL TIME FRAME. I'M CONFIDENT THAT THE COMPANY WILL MANAGE IT. YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT TOO. YEAH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. WE THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          AND THAT CONCLUDES THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. COUNCIL PRESIDENT HUNTER. OKAY. THANK 
          [REPORT OF CLERK OF COUNCIL]
YOU. NEXT IS THE REPORT OF CLERK OF COUNCIL. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE ONE ITEM FOR TONIGHT. 
          JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE THAT WE DO HAVE SOME OPENINGS ON BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. THIS HAS BEEN POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ON OUR WEBSITE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSTED. BUT THERE WILL BE AN OPENING STARTING IN 2027 FOR THE CEMETERY ADVISORY BOARD, AS WELL AS THE BOARD OF ZONING AND APPEALS AND PLANNING COMMISSION OPENING. AND THEN THERE IS CURRENTLY AN OPEN SPOT ON THE BOARD OF ZONING AND APPEALS AS WELL. SO IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED, PLEASE REFER THEM TO THE CITY'S WEBSITE OR MYSELF. AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET THOSE FILLED SOON. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU, MISS PROUDFOOT. GO AHEAD, MR. BERGER. YOUR MIC. JUST FOR PEOPLE LISTENING, CAN YOU TELL US HOW MANY SEATS ARE OPEN ON EACH ONE OF THOSE BOARDS? DO YOU HAVE THAT INFORMATION? YES. SO IT'S ONE SEAT ON THE CEMETERY ADVISORY BOARD, TWO ON THE BOARDING OF ZONING AND BOARD OF ZONING AND APPEALS, 
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AND ONE ON PLANNING COMMISSION. THANK YOU. YEP. AND THAT CONCLUDES YOUR REPORT. CORRECT. 
          [REPORT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT]
OKAY. THANK YOU. NEXT IS THE REPORT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. MR. PHILLIPS, I BELIEVE WE HAVE A PRESENTATION THIS EVENING. YES. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. COUNCIL MEMBERS THREE PRESENTATIONS THIS EVENING. I'M GOING TO COVER THE FIRST AND I'LL PROVIDE CONTEXT TO TWO OTHER SPEAKERS. I'LL COME UP THIS EVENING AS WELL. FIRST IS CITY MANAGER SHARPE HAD POINTED OUT, TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY FOR OUR COMMUNITY WITH A BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS I THINK YOU'RE ALL PRETTY FAMILIAR WITH AND IT'S BEEN COVERED IN THE NEWS AS WELL. BUT I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU SOME STATS TO THINK ABOUT AND SOME HISTORY AND HOW WE GOT HERE 47 YEARS AGO. I THINK NOVEMBER 1ST WAS WHEN THE FIRST MOTORCYCLE CAME OFF THE MAYOR'S PLAN. SO IT'S 47 YEARS AGO. THIS YEAR, THREE YEARS WILL BE 50 YEARS AS WELL. A QUICK STORY ABOUT THAT. WHEN THEY LEFT MOTORCYCLE PLANT, THEY WENT BACK TO THE FARM. THEY HAD A HOUSE OVER HERE IN MARYSVILLE. I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THAT WAS. IT'S WHERE THE OFFICE WAS. THEY WENT BACK TO THE FAX MACHINE. YES. WE HAD FAX MACHINES BACK AT THE TIME, AND THERE WAS A FAX, AND THE FAX MACHINE SAID, PROCEED WITH AUTO PLANT. SO BACK IN 1979, THEY STARTED WORK RIGHT AWAY ON THE MAYOR'S AUTO PLANT. OPENED IN 1982. THAT WAS IN 1985, R&D IN 1988, WHICH IS HERE FOR THESE DOTS REPRESENT US AND WHICH IS EVEN COOLER. WHEN YOU SEE SEVEN DOTS, WE GET FOUR OF THEM. EAST LIBERTY IN JUST RIGHT ACROSS THE LINE IN LOGAN COUNTY, RUSSELLS POINT, YOU KNOW, TRANSMISSION PLANT. AND THEN TODAY, THE $3 BILLION PLANT THEY ANNOUNCED TODAY. SO REALLY GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY. BUT IT GIVES YOU KIND OF THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT ABOUT ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY, ABOUT SOME OF THE TOPICS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT. THIS GIVES YOU KIND OF AN OVERVIEW. THIS IS THE MAP. THIS IS US 33. OF COURSE, THIS IS TRC, THAT'S MATH. AND THERE'S A LOT OF PLANT. THAT'S THE DEVELOPMENT CENTER AS WELL. 
          EAST LIBERTY, THE NEW PLANT WOULD BE OFF JOHNSON ROAD, WHICH IS COUNTY ROAD 179, WHICH YOU CAN SEE UP THERE. THAT'S THE LOCATION OF THE MAP OVER TO THE RIGHT. IT SHOWS YOU KIND OF THE BREAKDOWN. 2040 JOBS WOULD BE IN UNION COUNTY, APPROXIMATELY 4,000,000FT■!S IN SIZE CAPACITY, ABOUT 240,000 VEHICLES PER YEAR WOULD DO ICE VEHICLES, COMBUSTIBLE ENGINE, HYBRID AS WELL AS ELECTRIC VEHICLES. VERY EXCITING INVESTMENTS. ABOUT $400 MILLION WILL BE DONE IN LOGAN COUNTY. ON TOP OF THAT, TO UPDATE THE RUSSELLS POINT TO TO THE HYBRID SYSTEMS AND THEN ENGINES. AND I GUESS THE ATKINSON CYCLE ENGINE IS WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT. THE FOUR CYCLE ENGINE WOULD ACTUALLY BE IN SHELBY COUNTY, WHICH IS WHERE THE ENGINE PLANT IS LOCATED. BUT AGAIN, ALL TOLD, I THINK IT'S WELL OVER ABOUT $3.4 BILLION WILL BE INVESTED IN OHIO IN TOTAL. MOST OF THAT, OF COURSE, IN UNION COUNTY. SO VERY EXCITED, EXCITED TO SEE THAT SOME OF THE NEXT STEPS AND AND THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AS WE AS WE LOOK, WE HAVE TO FINALIZE THE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS FOR THE FACILITY. A LOT OF INFRASTRUCTURE HAS TO BE PUT IN. 
          WE'RE NEGOTIATING INCENTIVES. THAT'S STILL IN NEGOTIATIONS, SECURE STATE AND LOCAL PERMITS WHERE THERE ARE NUMEROUS TYPES OF PERMITS. WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN NEXT YEAR. GOAL WAS TO GET EVERYTHING UP AND OPERATIONAL. 20 2950 YEAR CELEBRATION, ANOTHER PRODUCTION PLANT IN OUR COMMUNITY TO THE RIGHT. I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT ALL OF OUR PARTNERS. THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WORKING ON THIS ON OUR BEHALF TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. 
          GOVERNOR DEWINE SPOKE TODAY. GREAT JOB. HIS OFFICE HAS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE. JOBS. OHIO ONE COLUMBUS ODOT, OUR LOCAL PARTNERS CANNOT SAY ENOUGH ABOUT HOW THEY'VE BEEN MEETING WITH US ON A REGULAR BASIS TO TALK ABOUT THIS PROJECT, THEIR IMPACTS, WHAT IT MEANS TO THEM IN THEIR FUTURE, MORE TO COME ON THAT. AND OF COURSE, OUR UTILITY PARTNERS WHO HAVE BEEN AT THE TABLE ALONG THE WAY, WHETHER IT'S GAS, ELECTRIC ROADS, INFRASTRUCTURE THAT HAS TO BE CONSTRUCTED. WE'RE HAVING NUMEROUS MEETINGS WITH ODOT, OHIO EPA TO MAKE THIS PROJECT A REALITY. SO A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT HAS BEEN PUT IN THIS. WE THANK CITY COUNCIL FOR THEIR SUPPORT. CITY MANAGER SHARP AND STAFF HAVE BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE IN MAKING THIS HAPPEN. SO IT'S REALLY A PARTNERSHIP TO BRING THIS ALL TOGETHER. SO KIND OF AN OVERVIEW. DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT, BUT EXCITING DAY IN UNION COUNTY AND MARYSVILLE. ANY QUESTIONS FROM MR. PHILLIPS? TURNING THE MEDIA. IT IS VERY EXCITING. I THIS IS YOU KNOW, FOR MYSELF AND ANOTHER COUNCIL MEMBER, WE'VE HAD TO EXCLUDE OURSELVES, RECUSE OURSELVES FROM THESE MEETINGS, ANY ANY SORT OF DISCUSSION ON THIS TOPIC, BUT I LEARNED ABOUT IT AT WORK TODAY AND, AND VERY EXCITING NEWS TO TO SEE THIS. UNFORTUNATELY, IT MIGHT IMPACT MY DRIVE TO WORK IN THE COMING YEARS, BUT I THINK THAT'S THE LEAST OF MANY PEOPLE'S WORRIES AT THIS TIME. SO IT IS VERY EXCITING. AND I WAS ASKED A QUESTION YEARS AGO GOING DOOR TO DOOR LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU FEEL ABOUT HONDA COMING TO THIS COMMUNITY? I WAS A LITTLE  BACK. I DON'T I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BECAUSE IT HAD COME HERE DECADES AGO. AND THEY JUST SAID, YEAH, WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU THINK, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS YOUR 
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OPINION ON THAT? YOU KNOW, AND I, YOU KNOW, I JUST WAS ABLE IN THAT MOMENT, REFLECT ON REALLY THE IMPACT TO MY PERSONAL LIFE AND OPPORTUNITIES. SO VERY EXCITED FOR THE FUTURE, VERY EXCITED FOR JUST THE NEXT GENERATION OF WORKERS REALLY. AND I JUST SEE CONTINUED OPPORTUNITY. GREAT, GREAT THINGS TO SAY. SO YEAH, THANK YOU, ERIC, AND FOR GOING THROUGH THIS. APPRECIATE IT. WELL THANK YOU. OVER 200 PEOPLE WERE THERE TODAY. SO THAT'S WHAT WAS REALLY COOL TO SEE THAT MANY PEOPLE THERE TO SUPPORT THIS. NEXT, WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE YOU A COUPLE OVERVIEWS ON SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING TIED TO, YOU KNOW, THIS HONDA ANNOUNCEMENT, THE WORK WE'VE DONE. FIRST, WE HAVE THE BETA DISTRICT PRESENTATION BY DOUG MCCALL. JUST PROVIDE YOU. WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS TO CITY COUNCIL, PROVIDED YOU A KIND OF AN UPDATE WHERE BETA DISTRICT IS. IT'S A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN UNION COUNTY, MARYSVILLE, DUBLIN, AND WE MEET ON A MONTHLY BASIS. WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE WORK AND COLLABORATE TOGETHER ON FIBER, ON SMART MOBILITY, FOR EXAMPLE. AND THEN AFTER THAT, WE'LL PROVIDE A PRESENTATION FROM CHRIS ROCKWELL FROM LEXUS. HE'S WITH LEXINGTON, WHO OVERSEES THE AUTOMOTIVE AND MOBILITY INNOVATION CENTER, PROVIDES YOU AN UPDATE WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT. SO A COUPLE PRESENTATIONS REALLY KIND OF TIED TO THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR, SO YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON THERE. SO FIRST WE HAVE DOUG. 
          GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. I HAD TO MOVE A CAR TODAY AND THE PLAN HAD TIME IN THERE FOR ME TO CHANGE. SO MY APOLOGIES FOR HOW I'VE SHOWN UP THIS EVENING. BUT IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. I DON'T KNOW EVERYONE BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO MAY BE NEW HERE, SO FORGIVE ME AS ALWAYS, IF I SAY SOME THINGS THAT YOU HAVE HEARD FOR TWO YEARS NOW AND OTHERS IT MAY BE THE FIRST TIME. SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DESCRIBE THE BETA DISTRICT IN A WAY THAT EVERYONE CAN CATCH UP ON, PARTICULARLY NOW BECAUSE IT IS BUDGET SEASON. THE BETA DISTRICT IS A LIVING LAB. IT IS A PREMIER SMART MOBILITY LIVING LAB IN OUR REGION. CENTRAL OHIO'S COLLABORATIVE TESTING PLAYGROUND CENTERED AROUND THE 35 MILE STRETCH OF US 33 CORRIDOR. IT'S. IT'S DESIGNED TO TEST AND VALIDATE AND DEPLOY ADVANCED MOBILITY IN AND CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES IN REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS. ENVIRONMENTS. IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE BASIS OF OPPORTUNITY WAY BACK IN 2016, AROUND THE GRANT APPLICATION THAT WE DID AT THAT TIME. AND ONE, THE GOAL WAS NEVER JUST INFRASTRUCTURE. IT WAS CREATING OPPORTUNITY, BUT IT MANIFESTS AS INFRASTRUCTURE. THE CONNECTED AND CONNECTED VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT WAS CREATED OUT OF THAT TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND THAT CONSTRUCTION, WHICH ALLOWED FOR THE BETA DISTRICT TO BE CREATED AND BECOME OPERATIONAL. OVER THE YEARS, THERE HAS BECOME A UNIFIED COG COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS GOVERNANCE. AND SO THE BETA DISTRICT IS BRANDED NAME OF THE NORTHWEST 33 INNOVATION CORRIDOR COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS. SO THAT NAME IS NOT THAT FLOWING FROM THE TONGUE. SO IT HAS BEEN REBRANDED AS THE BETA DISTRICT, OF COURSE, MADE UP OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN, THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE AND UNION COUNTY. IT HAS THAT WORLD CLASS DIGITAL BACKGROUND, 35 MILE STRETCH OF FIBER GOING ALL THE WAY FROM THE DUBLIN FIBER OPTIC NETWORK UP TO EAST LIBERTY, WHERE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER IS, AND COMING BACK DOWN TO 35 MILE STRETCH LOOSELY ALONG INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY, FORMING A 70 MILE REDUNDANT FIBER NETWORK. THAT TECHNOLOGY ENABLES A SMART MOBILITY TECHNOLOGY CALLED V2X OR C, V2X CONNECTED VEHICLE TO EVERYTHING. IT'S A WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY THAT IS EMERGING, AND THE BETA DISTRICT IS WORKING VERY HARD AT BEING A LEADER. THE LEADER, A THOUGHT LEADER ON THIS NATIONALLY. SO FROM CONCEPT TO CONNECTED, SOME KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT WE'VE HAD OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. THE CORRIDOR IS OPERATIONAL. SO THE FIBER IS FUNCTIONAL. IT IS EMITTING SIGNAL. THE WIRELESS DEVICES ARE FUNCTIONAL. THERE ARE CONNECTED INTERSECTIONS, SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS, AND ALL OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE FUNCTIONAL. THEY ARE OBSERVING CARS AND VEHICLES. OVER 56,000 DAILY VEHICLE INTERACTIONS PER DAY HAPPENING IN THE CORRIDOR. WE HAVE BENEFITED FROM REAL WORLD HIGH IMPACT PARTNER DEPLOYMENTS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS, INCLUDING. OUR PREMIER EVENT IS OHIO'S FUTURE OF MOBILITY CONFERENCE, AND AT THAT CONFERENCE, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ENJOY A NUMBER OF INNOVATIVE DEMONSTRATIONS, INCLUDING IN RIDE. THIS IS SPELLED EINR I'D E, BUT IT IS PRONOUNCED I UNDERSTAND IN RIDE AND THEIR WORK WITH EASE LOGISTICS. AND IT'S A LEVEL FOUR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE THAT IS DRIVING AROUND PROBABLY RIGHT NOW IN THE PARKING LOT. DAYTON PHOTONICS DOES OPEN AIR LASER BROADBAND. A COMPANY CALLED DEXA HAS FAA CERTIFIED DELIVERY 
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DRONES. AND WE'VE DEMONSTRATED ODOT'S ROBOTIC BRIDGE INSTRUCTION INSPECTION AS WELL. 
          WE ARE WORKING ALL THE TIME ON COMPETITIVE FEDERAL GRANT OPPORTUNITIES, AND MUCH OF OUR WORK TAKES PLACE DEALING WITH THAT. THE AMIC AUTOMOTIVE MOBILITY AND INNOVATION CENTER HAS BEEN ACTIVATED WITH SOME PROGRAMING THAT'S THERE THAT I WON'T GET IN FRONT OF BECAUSE CHRIS IS HERE AND HE'S GOING TO SPEAK ON THAT TOPIC, BUT ALSO THE ECOSYSTEM AND BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT. WE HAVE A BUSINESS ADVISORY GROUP WHICH ADVISES US ON THE DIFFERENT PROJECTS WE WANT TO WORK ON, AND WE ARE ENGAGING WITH MANY OF THOSE COMPANIES ALONG INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY. AND FINALLY WORKING VERY MUCH ON NATIONAL AND GLOBAL REACH. WE REPRESENT THIS REGION, THE THREE COMMUNITIES, THE BETA DISTRICT AT NATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONFERENCES AND GATHERINGS SUCH AS TS AMERICA, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN DETROIT THIS YEAR. THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY FORUM TOP SEVEN EVENT IN THE NETHERLANDS. I ATTENDED AND SPOKE AT AND HAVE DONE WORK TO CONNECT OUR INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM WITH THE ECOSYSTEMS IN EUROPE AND THE NETHERLANDS SPECIFICALLY, AND THE INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OUT OF TAIWAN VISITED HERE DURING OUR RECENT CONFERENCE AND IS WORKING TO BRING MANY OF OUR COMPANIES TO TAIWAN, WHERE THEY CAN OPEN UP INTERNATIONAL MARKETS. WE HAVE STATEWIDE ALIGNMENT. MUCH OF OUR WORK, ALL OF OUR WORK IS DONE THROUGH EXTRAORDINARY PARTNERSHIPS, INCLUDING THE BETA DISTRICT DRIVE, OHIO TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER, OR TRC, THE AMEC AND HONDA'S LIVING LAB COUNCIL, WHICH WE WORK WITH. WE HAVE RECENTLY DONE SOME THINGS TO MATURE OUR STRATEGY SO THAT IT INCLUDES OUR PARTNERS WITH TRC, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, OTHER ENTITIES, AS OPPOSED TO US JUST SORT OF STANDING ALONE IN A. MUCH WORK HAS BEEN DONE THERE WHERE THAT'S CONCERNED. I'M GOING TO SKIP OVER SOME OF THAT BECAUSE IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, WE HAVE A PROBLEM FIRST CONCEPT OF GOVERNANCE IN THAT OUR PARTNERS IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND AT TRC AND DIFFERENT PLACES, ESPECIALLY HONDA, WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE COMMUNITY'S PROBLEMS ARE. FIRST, THEY DON'T WANT TO COME IN AND SAY, WE HAVE A TECHNICAL SOLUTION THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN DEMONSTRATING FOR YOU. THEY REALLY WANT THE COMMUNITIES TO LEAD OFF WITH, WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED IN THIS COMMUNITY? SOME OF THEM ARE QUITE COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT, AND THEY LOVE THAT. THAT'S THOSE KINDS OF THINGS THAT THEY WANT TO WORK ON. WE ARE DOCUMENTING THOSE THINGS AND HAVE INTEGRATED THAT INTO OUR STRATEGY SO THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH SOME OF THESE PARTNERS WHEREVER THEY MAY BE. AND THAT'S WORKING. PICTURE ON THE RIGHT SLIDE. IN OUR FUTURE, WE ARE FOCUSED ON INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION. 
          THIS INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES QUITE QUICKLY. THE FIBER OPTIC NETWORK IS NOT FUTURE PROOF, BUT IT'S IT'S PRETTY ROCK SOLID. FIBER IS GOING TO BE THE TECHNOLOGY OF CHOICE FOR SOME TIME. BUT SOME OF THE WIRELESS DEVICES AND THE SOFTWARE AND THE DATA AND THE CYBERSECURITY, THESE THINGS CONTINUE MOVING. AND WE HAVE TO STAY UP ON ALL OF THOSE. WE'RE CONTEMPLATING EDGE COMPUTE AS ONE OF THE TECHNOLOGIES WE'D LIKE TO SEE HERE. WE'RE CONTEMPLATING FIBER EXTENSIONS, EXTENDING OUR NETWORK FURTHER NORTH AND OTHER STATEWIDE REGIONAL NETWORKS. 
          AND WE'RE ALSO VERY MUCH CONNECTED IN THE ADVANCED AIR MOBILITY SPACE. I WANT TO MAKE MENTION FOR A COUPLE OF HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BUDGET OF THE BETA DISTRICT STARTS WITH THE $600,000, WHICH WE SEEK FROM THE INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITIES. THAT'S BROKEN UP AMONG THE THREE SEPARATE COMMUNITIES. SO THAT IS $200,000 EACH. SO IF YOU SEE SOMETHING ON YOUR BUDGET, IT SHOULD SAY $200,000. AND YOU MAY WONDER WHAT THAT CONTRIBUTES TO. AND I WANT TO MAKE NOTE OF, WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN WORKING TO LEASE OR GENERATE REVENUE FROM THE FIBER THAT WE OVERBUILT INTO THE SYSTEM, AND THAT REVENUE IS BEGINNING TO COME IN. SO YOU'LL SEE IN OUR BUDGET, $124,000 OF FIBER REVENUE, WHICH SITS ON TOP OF THAT $600. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A FUND BALANCE THAT WE HAVE IN THE PAST BEEN ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT HAS BEEN CARRYING OVER YEAR OVER YEAR. AND WE'VE ALSO HAD THE FEDERAL GRANTS THAT WE'VE HAD. THAT FUND BALANCE GOES UP AND GOES DOWN FROM TIME TO TIME. OUR ULTIMATE BUDGET IS $1,006,300, 
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OF WHICH WE ARE SEEKING. YOUR CONTRIBUTION ONCE AGAIN AS LAST YEAR OF $200,000. SO YOUR $200,000 IS A PART OF A LARGER $1 MILLION BUDGET, BUT IT IS NOT THE TOTAL WHERE THAT'S CONCERNED. I'VE STOOD BEFORE YOU BEFORE, AND I WANT TO REMIND YOU AND ASSURE YOU THAT A FOCUS ON GENERATING REVENUE FROM THE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE, A FOCUS ON FEDERAL GRANTS AND A FOCUS ON OUR FUND BALANCES WHERE WE ARE. AND IT IS WORKING. WE ARE TWO YEARS INTO MY EXECUTIVE DIRECTORSHIP, AND I'M HOPING THAT AS WE MOVE INTO THE THIRD YEAR, WE WILL MAKE FURTHER ADVANCES ON FEDERAL GRANTS, ON LEASING OUR FIBER, ON THE INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION CONNECTIVITY THAT WE'RE DOING WITH ECOSYSTEMS AROUND THE WORLD SO THAT OUR REGION IS ABLE TO BE THE LEADER IN THE STATE AND PERHAPS IN THE COUNTRY. THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WAS MADE TODAY ONLY FEEDS INTO THAT. SO I WILL STOP THERE AND SEE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS. MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS. ANYTHING? NO. I'M ALWAYS AVAILABLE IN THE FUTURE FOR MORE DETAILED QUESTIONS, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. AND I'M GOING TO HAND OFF TO CHRIS, WHO'S GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE AMEC. AND WE ALL WORK TOGETHER. CHRIS. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU, MISTER PRESIDENT. COUNCIL MEMBERS APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE SOME MORE ON WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE AUTOMOTIVE AND MOBILITY INNOVATION CENTER. MY NAME IS CHRIS ROCKWELL. I'M PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF LEXTON. WE'RE A MOBILITY INNOVATION CONSULTANCY THAT WORKS WITH WITH OEMS AND TIER ONE SUPPLIERS ON NEXT GENERATION SMART, AUTONOMOUS AND CONNECTED INNOVATIONS. MY COMPANY AND I WERE RETAINED BY THE PORT AUTHORITY LAST YEAR TO OVERSEE MANAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE AMIC, AND THE AMIC IS REALLY THE NERVE CENTER OF THE BETA DISTRICT. IT'S A PLACE THAT ALLOWS GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS, ENTREPRENEURS, BUSINESSES TO CONVENE AND SOLVE MOBILITY CHALLENGES. AND TO THAT END, WE HAVE SPACE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND HOSTING OF NEW BUSINESSES. WE CAN RENT SPACE TO BUSINESSES THAT WANT TO SET UP SHOP IN THE AREA. WE CAN PROMOTE AND HOST EVENTS THERE, LIKE TRAINING AND THE LIKE. AND I'LL SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT. BUT LET ME START WITH AND FOLLOW UP ON DOUG'S COMMENTS THAT THIS IS A IS ONE OF A SELECT HANDFUL OF REGIONS THAT ARE REALLY INVESTING IN LEADING IN THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY. AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THE INVESTMENTS THAT ARE MADE HERE, THE COMMITMENT TO DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF SMART, CITY, SMART, CONNECTED, FULLY AUTONOMOUS, YOU KNOW, MOBILITY SYSTEMS, THAT INCLUDES AIR MOBILITY, PASSENGER MOBILITY, AUTONOMOUS LOGISTICS. IT'S ALL HAPPENING RIGHT HERE. AND THIS AREA IS LEADING THE GOAL REALLY WITH DYNAMIC IS TO TEST, DEVELOP AND COMMERCIALIZE NEW TECHNOLOGY. AS CITY MANAGER SHARP MENTIONED, AS WE GROW AND WE BRING MORE INVESTMENT INTO THE AREA, OTHER COMPANIES WANT TO FLOW IN, AND IT CREATES A WHOLE ECONOMIC ECOSYSTEM. WELL, THOSE BUSINESSES NEED A PLACE TO INNOVATE. THEY NEED A PLACE TO SET UP SHOP. THESE ENTREPRENEURS NEED A PLACE TO START. AND THE EMIC PROVIDES THAT. SO WE PROVIDE OFFICE LAB TESTING AND MEETING SPACE RIGHT ALONGSIDE THE 33 SMART CORRIDOR AND THE BETA DISTRICT. OUR GOAL IS TO ATTRACT AND INVEST NEW BUSINESSES TO THE AREA, TO BE THE PLACE THEY COME TO SOLVE MOBILITY CHALLENGES. AND OUR GOAL IS TO ESTABLISH, HIRE AND GROW. SO BRING STARTUPS, BRING IN NEW TECHNOLOGY SO WE CAN SCALE, BRING IN SUPPLY CHAIN EXPERTISE, BRING GOOD JOBS TO THE AREA IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH OF FUTURE MOBILITY. SO HERE THE 33 CORRIDOR, THE SMART MOBILITY CORRIDOR SITS RIGHT AT THE CENTER OF THAT. THE THE BETA DISTRICT REALLY IS ANCHORED BY THE OHIO STATE CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH ON ONE SIDE AND THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER ON THE OTHER. AND OF COURSE, WE HAVE HONDA, WHO'S A HUGE AND IMPORTANT PARTNER. DOUG'S ACTIVITY WITH THE BETA DISTRICT DRIVE, OHIO, WHICH IS THE INNOVATION ARM FOR THE DOT, IS VERY ACTIVE IN THE. USING THE 33 CORRIDOR AND THE SMART AND CONNECTED CAPABILITY IN ORDER TO TEST AND DEPLOY NEW MOBILITY SOLUTIONS IN OHIO. JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY. THIS WAS 
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THE BRAINCHILD OF SOME FOLKS HERE WHO HAD A VISION FOR MOBILITY. THAT WAS BACK IN 2018. 
          THERE WAS A STATE CAPITAL APPROPRIATION. COVID 19 SORT OF STALLED THE PROJECT A LITTLE BIT. IN OCTOBER, THERE WAS A JOINT VENTURE SIGNED BETWEEN THE CITY, THE COUNTY AND THE PORT AUTHORITY, A JOINT AGREEMENT, 20 YEAR LEASE, 18,000FT■!S AT 1100 INNOVATION WAY. THAT'S THE INNOVATION PARK ON, LOCATED DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO THE 33 CORRIDOR. BUILD OUT BEGAN IN 2022, WAS, YOU KNOW, SOME MATERIAL SHORTAGES AND SHUTDOWNS MADE THAT PROCESS A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT. THERE WAS AN ADDITIONAL FUNDING REQUEST TO COVER THAT. BUT FINALLY, THE AMIC WAS OPENED WITH THE RIBBON CUTTING IN JUNE OF 2024. AND MY COMPANY WAS BROUGHT ON TO WORK ALONGSIDE ERIC PHILLIPS AND TEAM WITH THE PORT AUTHORITY AND THE CITY AND THE COUNTY IN ORDER TO PROMOTE AND MANAGE THE AMIC. OUR GOAL AT THE END OF THE DAY IS FOR US TO BE TO STAND ON OUR OWN TWO FEET, RIGHT? SO BUT THE CITY AND COUNTY AND THE PORT AUTHORITY DEVELOPED A SORT OF JOINT PLAN TO FUND THE AMIC THROUGH 2031. AND THAT'S OUR GOAL IS TO BECOME FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT BY 2031. I DID MENTION A FEW OF THE CHALLENGES. YOU KNOW, THE 2021 PLAN REALLY RELIES ON OFFICE SPACE AND SPACE RENTAL. AND I THINK OUR ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED MORE SOURCES OF REVENUE. SO WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS THAT, AND I'M GOING TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT. RENTAL AGREEMENTS HAVE CONTINUED TO GROW, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT WHILE WE'VE HAD AN INFLUX OF SOME RENTERS, WE'VE ALSO THOSE RENTERS HAVE LEFT AND STARTED THEIR OWN BUSINESSES IN THE AREA AND GROWN. SO IT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE WERE HOPING TO HAVE HAPPEN. BUT IT DOES AFFECT, OF COURSE, OUR RENT ROLL. AMIC IS ADDING A NETWORK MEMBERSHIPS. I THINK AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF WHAT THE AMIC IS DOING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DRIVE OHIO AND THE BETA DISTRICT IS TO PROVIDE THE INNOVATION NETWORK WHERE COMPANIES WILL SIGN ON, JOIN. THEY WILL COME TO THE AMIC TO INNOVATE TO SOLVE THOSE MOBILITY CHALLENGES, AND THEY NEED A SPACE TO CONVENE AND DO THAT. AND SO AMIC IS GOING TO BECOME THE SPACE WHERE THAT IT IS HAPPENING TODAY, BUT IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AT SCALE. SO WE REALLY SEE THIS AS THE MOBILITY FRONT DOOR OR, YOU KNOW, THE REGION'S FRONT DOOR FOR MOBILITY INNOVATION. OUR GOAL IS TO LAND NEW COMPANIES, PROVIDE TURNKEY SPACE, HELP SUPPLIERS RETOOL. SO TIER ONE AND TIER TWO SUPPLIERS CAN TEST AND ROLL OUT. AND AS DOUG MENTIONED, THIS IS A LIVING LAB, A TESTING ECOSYSTEM THAT IS RARE AND AVAILABLE HERE. SO COMPANIES WILL COME HERE TO DEVELOP NEXT GENERATION CAPABILITIES FOR MOBILITY. THAT INCLUDES ADVANCED AIR LOGISTICS AND PASSENGER MOBILITY. YOU KNOW, PART OF THAT WILL BE TO GROW HIGH WAGE ROLLS AND KEEP THEM HERE, BECAUSE THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE THIS INNOVATION HAPPENS. AND YOU CAN SEE JUST SOME OF THE COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS, GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE PART OF OUR ECOSYSTEM TODAY, INCLUDING HONDA, WHICH IS ONE OF OUR ANCHOR COLLABORATORS FOR THE MOBILITY INNOVATORS NETWORK. I DO WANT TO TALK JUST A BIT ABOUT THAT. SO DOUG MENTIONED THE BETA DISTRICTS BOARD OF ADVISORS, WHICH IS A HANDFUL OF COMPANIES THAT ARE VERY INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY AND ARE ADVISING THE BETA DISTRICT ON WHAT CHALLENGES NEED TO BE SOLVED AND WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE. 
          BUT THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHER COMPANIES THAT WANT TO PARTICIPATE AND WANT TO BE INVOLVED. SO THIS YEAR, I GATHERED WITH MR. MCCULLOUGH AND THE DRIVER, OHIO FOLKS, HONDA AND THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER TO LAUNCH THE MOBILITY INNOVATORS NETWORK. SO THIS WILL BE ESSENTIALLY IT'LL BE A CONSORTIUM WHERE BUSINESSES WILL COME. AND FOR MEMBERSHIP FEE, THEY WILL BEGIN TO BE PART OF THE PROCESS OF SOLVING THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY RELATED PROBLEMS. AND I THINK THIS IS REALLY A KEY OPPORTUNITY FOR AMIC TO NOT ONLY TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN INNOVATORS IN THE AREA, BUT ALSO TO OFFSET OUR COST OF OPERATION AND BECOME FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT. SO AMIC IS ALREADY DELIVERING. 
          WE'VE HOSTED OVER 66 EVENTS THIS YEAR. SO THESE ARE SMALL AND LARGE EVENTS ALIKE, BUT IT'S GOOD PEOPLE ARE COMING HERE AND BEGINNING TO USE THE FACILITY. OUR RENT ROLL HAS INCREASED, YOU KNOW, 41%. IT'S YOU KNOW, IT'S GROWING. IT'S NOT WHERE I WANT IT YET, BUT IT IS GROWING. WE'VE OFFERED SORT OF 33,000 OF IN-KIND SPACE USAGE FOR GOVERNMENT 
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ORGANIZATIONS, FOLKS WHO WANT TO COME IN AND USE THE FACILITY. AND WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, 12 MEMBERS AND TENANTS THAT ARE GROWING. WE HOSTED DOUG MENTIONED THE OHIO SMART MOBILITY CONFERENCE. THAT WAS THE SECOND ANNUAL. WE HOSTED THAT AGAIN THIS YEAR AND BROUGHT IN THOSE DEMOS FOR LOGISTICS. WE BROUGHT IN ADVANCED ROBOTICS, ADVANCED AIR MOBILITY TYPES OF DEMOS. WE'RE HOSTING INTERNATIONAL EVENTS. WE'VE HOSTED THE JAPANESE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF OHIO. THEY'RE NETWORKING ACTIVITY, AND THEN ALSO TAIWAN'S I ITRI, WHICH IS THEIR RESEARCH INNOVATION. THEY HAD THEIR GLOBAL SUMMIT HERE IN AND WE HOSTED THEM AT THE AMIC AS WELL. GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, VOINOVICH SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP CAME THROUGH AND WE HOSTED THEM, AS WELL AS CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN HAD HIS RECENT VISIT AND OF COURSE, LOTS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER TRAINING AND THE LIKE. DOUG MENTIONED THE DEMONSTRATIONS, TENANT GROWTH. I THINK I'M EXCITED THAT NEATON CAME IN AND TOOK ABOUT ALMOST 20% OF THE SPACE WITH THEIR RECENT OFFICE BUILD OUT AND THEN PLOT WORK, WHO MR. SHARP MENTIONED THEY ACTUALLY LEFT THE MIC BUT SET UP SHOP NEXT DOOR. AND SO THIS IS A PICTURE OF THEIR, YOU KNOW, THEIR RIBBON CUTTING. AND YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, PLOT WORK HAD ONE OFFICE IN OUR FACILITY AND THEN MOVED OUT AND WAS ABLE TO REALLY SIGNIFICANTLY GROW THEIR BUSINESS ACROSS THE STREET. SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT. WE CALL THEM GRADUATES. THEY'RE ALUMNI OF THE AND THEN OF COURSE, GOVERNMENT AND PARTNER SAVINGS THROUGH ACCESS TO GOOD CAPABILITIES FOR MEETING SPACE, TRAINING SPACE AND THE LIKE. OKAY, I WENT THE WRONG WAY. SO THIS IS REALLY A SHARED INVESTMENT IN, IN THE REGIONS, YOU KNOW, FUTURE OF INNOVATION. 
          IT'S A, A JOINT INVESTMENT BETWEEN THE PORT AUTHORITY, UNION COUNTY, AND THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. WE'RE THANKFUL TO HAVE SUCH STRONG PARTNERSHIP. THESE PUBLIC PARTNERS FUND ABOUT 71% OF OUR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, WHICH IS 467,000, AND OUR OWN, YOU KNOW, RENT ROLL SPACE USAGE AND NEW REVENUE UNDER DEVELOPMENT WITH THE MOBILITY INNOVATORS NETWORK. 
          WE'RE GOING AFTER GRANT FUNDING WITH THE BETA DISTRICT, AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES WHERE LEAD MOBILITY INNOVATOR NETWORK MEMBERS CAN BEGIN TO BRAND CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE SPACE, AND WE CAN GENERATE ADDITIONAL REVENUE. SO WE BELIEVE WITH THAT COMBINATION OF FACILITY USAGE AND RENTAL AND THESE ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF REVENUE THAT WE'RE ON, YOU KNOW, TRACK TO GET OURSELVES FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT, THE CLOCK IS THE IS THE QUESTION THERE. AND SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO REPORT. WE'VE BUILT OUR FACILITY TRACKER, WHICH ALLOWS US TO TRACK, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC UTILIZATION AND FIND PATTERNS WITHIN OUR UTILIZATION. WE HAVE SEVERAL MARKETING EFFORTS TO PROMOTE SUPER REGIONALLY USAGE OF THE SPACE FOR EVENTS AND THE LIKE, AS WELL AS SORT OF STATEWIDE AND NATIONALLY. THE ATTRACTION FOR THE MOBILITY INNOVATORS NETWORK. SO I'LL STOP THERE. ANY QUESTIONS THAT I CAN ANSWER FOR THE COUNCIL TODAY? COUNCIL MEMBERS, ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, MR. PRESIDENT? GO AHEAD. MR. I DO HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS, AND IT MIGHT IT MIGHT PERTAIN TO ALL THREE. SO SURE. MR. MCCULLOUGH AND MR. PHILLIPS, IF YOU NEED TO SUPPORT CHRIS, PLEASE DO SO. MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE PURPOSE OF THE OR THE INTENT OF THE AMOC IS TO REALLY BE THAT INCUBATOR FOR STARTUPS AND, YOU KNOW, WITH THE WITH THE HOPE THAT THOSE STARTUPS EVOLVE OR EXPAND INTO THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE, RIGHT. AND CREATE JOBS AND ECONOMY FOR, FOR THE, FOR THE AREA. SO I GUESS I'VE GOT A LIST OF QUESTIONS THAT AS YOU WERE SPEAKING, I WROTE DOWN. SO I'M GOING TO JUST ASK THEM IN ORDER TO BE HONEST. SO ONE CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE TARGETED BUSINESSES FOR THE AMOC? SURE. SO I WOULD SAY THAT THE THE TARGET BUSINESS IS A LITTLE WIDER THAN JUST THE ENTREPRENEUR. YOU KNOW, IN FACT, HONDA IS IN THERE USING THE SPACE. THEY ARE DEMOING THEIR NEW INNOVATIONS. WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THEM ON THEIR INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM THAT THEY'VE FOCUSED AND THEY'RE INVESTING IN AS WELL. SO IT'S REALLY BUSINESSES, SMALL AND LARGE GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS, ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS. SO WE'RE REALLY WANT TO THROW THE APERTURE A LITTLE BIT WIDER TO GET MORE THROUGHPUT, MORE UTILIZATION OF THE FACILITY. NOW, SOME OF THOSE ENTREPRENEURS MIGHT NEED A PLACE TO HANG A SHINGLE, AND THEY MIGHT NEED SOME DESK SPACE, AND WE CAN PROVIDE THAT FOR THEM. YOU KNOW, OTHERS MIGHT WANT TO COME IN AND USE THE TRAINING CENTER OR HOST A 
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CONFERENCE LIKE MR. MCCULLOUGH DID. SO IT CAN BE FLEXIBLY USED, BUT NOT JUST TARGETED AT ENTREPRENEURS. SO, SO REALLY THE SO HOPEFULLY THAT HELPS UNDERSTAND THE KIND OF FOLKS THAT WE'RE TARGETING AUTOMOTIVE MOBILITY INNOVATION CENTER. SO I UNDERSTAND KIND OF THE TARGET MARKET. AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION. YEAH. IS THAT FAIR TO SAY? THAT IS FAIR TO SAY. I'D ALSO LIKE TO ADD THAT COMPANIES THAT MIGHT ENTER INTO A PARTNERSHIP WITH SOMEONE WHO'S NOT HERE. 
          WE'D LOVE TO ATTRACT EVERYBODY TO COME HERE AND SET UP SHOP. BUT AN EXISTING COMPANY THAT'S ON INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY, A TIER TWO SUPPLIER THAT ENTERS INTO A RELATIONSHIP WITH MAYBE A FOREIGN PARTNER THAT ALLOWS THEM TO HIRE ANOTHER 30 PEOPLE, IS ALSO A TARGET. OKAY. AND THEN I GUESS AS WE'RE ON THE KIND OF THE TARGET BUSINESS OR BUSINESSES, CAN YOU DESCRIBE MAYBE THE CURRENT BUSINESS FOOTPRINT THAT'S I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH WHO IS OR WHAT IS IN MAYBE THE LANDSCAPE. AND SO, MR. WARDNER, IF I COULD, IF I COULD ADD, WE'RE NOT LIMITING USAGE OF THE SPACE TO AUTOMOTIVE AND INNOVATION COMPANIES. OKAY. SO WE'VE HAD THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM COME IN AND HOST AN EVENT, RIGHT? OR DO THEIR ANNUAL, YOU KNOW, ANNUAL DINNER EVENT OR WHATEVER. SO WE WANT FOLKS TO COME IN AND USE THE SPACE. WE HAVE A LAWYER, WE HAVE LAWYERS WHO ARE IN THERE NOW. PERIOWAVE IS AN ADVANCED AIR MOBILITY INNOVATOR. THEY'RE GROWING. AND EVENTUALLY THEY'RE GOING TO KIND OF HAVE TO DECIDE IF WE HAVE THE SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE THEM, OR ARE THEY GOING TO MOVE OUT NEXT DOOR? I THINK THEY'LL STAY REGIONALLY. 
          BUT AGAIN, I, I, I TAKE THAT AS A WIN, EVEN THOUGH WE LOSE THE RENT SHORT TERM, YOU KNOW, BUT WE GET TO KEEP THEM HERE AND THEY GROW. WE ALSO HAVE NEATON, WHICH IS A PROVIDES, YOU KNOW, MATERIALS FOR AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING. WE HAVE THOSE. SO ANYWAY, IT'S A IT'S A MIX OF FOLKS WHO ARE IN THERE NOW. OKAY. APPRECIATE IT AND KIND OF KEEP GOING. CAN YOU JUST DESCRIBE BECAUSE AGAIN, PUBLIC PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY SEE, HEY THERE, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC DOLLARS ARE HELPING TO SUPPORT THIS, THIS PARTICULAR. OPERATION. CAN YOU LIKE JUST DESCRIBE HOW MUCH INVESTMENT HAS BEEN GENERATED AS A RESULT OF ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF REVENUE GENERATED TO DATE? YEAH. BALLPARK. LIKE HOW MUCH INVESTMENT HAS BEEN MADE IN THE, IN THE, IN THE LOCAL. I HAVE TO GET BACK WITH YOU ON THAT. OKAY. 
          MAYBE IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. IF WE COULD GET THAT TO MCKENZIE, I'D BE INTERESTED IN JUST UNDERSTANDING KIND OF THAT ROI. RIGHT. AND I GUESS THE OTHER THE OTHER QUESTION, HOW MANY COMPANIES HAVE ACTUALLY STARTED AT THE AMEC ROUGHLY AND THEN ACTUALLY HAVE EXPANDED OR SCALED INTO INTO THE INTO THE COMMUNITY? WE'VE ONLY BEEN IN OPERATION A LITTLE OVER TWO, TWO AND A HALF YEARS, I GUESS ALMOST. YEAH. SO IN THAT TIME, I'LL HAVE TO GO BACK AND GET YOU THE EXACT NUMBER. PLOT WORK WAS THE MOST RECENT GRADUATE, SO FOR SURE ONE THIS YEAR. OKAY. 
          YEAH. PLEASE. YEAH. IN RIDE EXISTED AS A COMPANY DRIVE OHIO EXISTED AS A COMPANY, BUT THEIR PROJECT DID NOT EXIST. SO IN A SITUATION LIKE THAT, IF WE CAN BRING IN INNOVATOR A, INNOVATOR B, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, C, AND THEY COME UP WITH A PROJECT THAT THEN SCALES. IT MAY NOT BE A NEW COMPANY JUST YET. I THINK THAT OUR FUTURE WILL BE THOSE KINDS OF SPECIFICS, BUT I DON'T WANT TO LOSE SIGHT OF THOSE KINDS OF TRIPLE HELIX. PARTNERSHIPS ARE AN EVENT THAT WE'D WANT TO CAPTURE. YEAH, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO CAPTURE THAT THOUGH, BECAUSE IT'S INVESTMENT, IT'S JOB CREATION. IT'S IT'S INNOVATION. PART OF WHAT THE INTENT, THE TRUE INTENT OF THAT FACILITY IS, RIGHT? AND AGAIN, I ASK THESE QUESTIONS JUST BECAUSE I WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE GETTING A GOOD RETURN ON, ON THE INVESTMENT AND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SEE IT. RIGHT. AND I THINK THAT MAYBE WE'VE AND MAYBE IT'S MAYBE IT'S JUST ME, BUT MAYBE HAVING MORE OF THESE READOUTS WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR MYSELF AND OTHER MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. 
          JUST TO KIND OF TRACKING HOW, HOW WE'RE PROGRESSING IN THAT SPACE. RIGHT. AND THAT'LL LEAD ME TO MY LAST QUESTION, I PROMISE YOU. AND THEN I'LL GET OFF MY SOAPBOX. ARE THERE ANY SORT OF LIKE METRICS THAT YOU'RE TRACKING IN TERMS OF PERFORMANCE PLAN VERSUS ACTUAL? I SAW A SLIDE UP THERE. YOU, YOU HAD LIKE NEW COMPANIES RETOOLING, YOU KNOW, HIGHER WAGES. AND I, I WROTE DOWN JOB GROWTH, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THAT FOURTH BOX WAS. BUT ARE THOSE KIND OF KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS THAT ARE BEING TRACKED. AND DO YOU HAVE PLAN VERSUS ACTUAL DO YOU ARE YOU TRACKING THOSE METRICS TO SEE HOW WE'RE PERFORMING IN? WE DON'T HAVE A PLAN VERSUS ACTUAL ON ON AMEC. THERE IS SOME MODELING THAT MY TEAM IS 
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DOING NOW TO SORT OF SAY, OKAY, WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL CAPACITY GIVEN THIS AMOUNT OF UTILIZATION, THIS AMOUNT OF LIKE THE MOBILITY INNOVATORS NETWORK COULD SCALE RAPIDLY, RIGHT? I MEAN, THERE'S 100 COMPANIES THAT COULD BE THERE TODAY AND CAN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE OUR ABILITY TO PERFORM OR GRANT, RIGHT? FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE CAN PARTICIPATE IN GRANTS WITH THE BETA DISTRICT OR WITH TRC, THAT COULD BRING A BIG CHUNK OF, OF FUNDS IN. SO THERE'S A COMBINATION OF METRICS AND WE'RE TRACKING ALL THAT NOW WITH OUR INNOVATION TRACKER, OUR, OUR FACILITY TRACKER. IT'S A GOOD POINT TO TRY TO BENCHMARK SOME STATISTICS. I THINK THOSE ARE STILL COMING TOGETHER. YEAH. AND I AND I'M ONLY 19% RIGHT. 
          BUT I JUST THINK THAT AS AN, I GUESS, INVEST MAKING AN INVESTMENT IN HERE, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTEMPLATE HOW WE HOW, HOW, HOW WE'RE TRACKING OUR PERFORMANCE AND, AND, YOU KNOW, GENERATING THAT, THAT VALUE FOR MONEY, IF YOU COULD THINK ABOUT THAT AND THEN WE CAN DISCUSS LATER, THAT'D BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MR. PRESIDENT. ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF COUNCIL WISHING TO MAKE ASK QUESTIONS OR MAKE COMMENTS? I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION. I HAVE STAYED CONNECTED TO AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY OVER THE LAST DECADES, AND IT WAS INTERESTING TO SEE THE TIMELINE BECAUSE BEING PART OF THAT INDUSTRY, I KNOW THAT IN THE 20 TEENS, A BIG FOCUS WAS ON SAFETY AND A BIG FOCUS WAS ON INNOVATION IN TERMS OF THIS AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY. A LOT OF THE V2X, THE, THE, THE CAR, TALKING TO OTHER CARS, OTHER PIECES OF INFRASTRUCTURE ON THE ROAD IN AN EFFORT TO ENSURE THAT NO FAMILY SOMEDAY HAS TO EVER ENDURE A TRAGEDY AND OF A LOSS OF LIFE OR INJURY DUE TO AUTOMOTIVE ACCIDENTS OR OTHER THINGS. AND I KNOW THAT THE BUSINESS IS MUCH BROADER THAN THAT. BUT THAT'S WHAT REALLY CONNECTS TO ME. WHAT REALLY I SAW AS A GREAT THING, AND I UNDERSTAND WHY THE COUNCIL SEVERAL YEARS AGO HAD COMMITTED TO SUPPORT THE LAUNCH OF THIS, AND IT HAS BEEN INTERESTING TO SEE THE INDUSTRY OVER TIME. THE FOCUS HAS HAD TO BE DIVERTED. I THINK THERE'S A BIG PUSH. ONCE WE HAD A NEW ADMINISTRATION AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL TO MOVE AWAY, MAYBE FOCUS A LITTLE BIT LESS ON THE ON THE AUTONOMOUS PIECE, MORE SO ON THE ELECTRIFICATION OF IT. BUT I, YOU KNOW, I SENSE THAT IT DIDN'T GO AWAY FOREVER. 
          IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT HAD TO BE MAYBE REPRIORITIZED VERY GLAD THAT WE ARE A CITY THAT IS NEAR TO VERY INNOVATIVE GROUP OF BUSINESSES OR SOMETHING THAT THAT REALLY BRINGS INNOVATION. 
          AND I HOPE I MAY HAVE BEEN REPEATING THIS FROM SOME OF THE LAST TIME I'VE HEARD YOU SPEAK ABOUT THIS OR OTHER MEMBERS SPEAK ABOUT JUST THE MIC, BUT I HOPE THAT WE ARE SOMEDAY A COMMUNITY WHO LEADS IN TERMS OF LOSS OF LIFE AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN TERMS OF MOBILITY, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THESE TECHNOLOGIES HAVE PROMISE. I'VE SEEN THEM AT WORK, I'VE GONE DOOR TO DOOR. I'VE ALSO TALKED TO PEOPLE WHO SAID, YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO TAKE ME OUT OF MY 1985, YOU KNOW, CHRYSLER OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE. AND I, YOU KNOW, I COMPLETELY APPRECIATE THAT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I LOOK AT SOCIETY AS A WHOLE AND I LOOK AT THE ADVANCES OF WHAT THIS TECHNOLOGY CAN DO. AND IT IS AMAZING BECAUSE I'VE SEEN IT FIRSTHAND. AND IT IS IT IS AMAZING. AND IT WILL TOUCH PEOPLE'S LIVES AS TIME GOES ON. THE MORE IT BECOMES MATURE, THE MORE THAT, YOU KNOW, LIVES ARE SAVED. AND I'M JUST SO GLAD THAT WE'RE PART OF IT. SO VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE INFORMATION TONIGHT. AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. YEAH. THANK YOU. COUNSEL. MR. PHILLIPS, IS THAT THE CONCLUSION WE HAVE THREE, OR WAS THERE ONE MORE? I CAN'T RECALL WHERE WE'RE AT, BUT WE THANK YOU FOR FOR THE LENGTHY PRESENTATION. SORRY. 
          YEAH. UNLESS YOU HAD ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. NO, I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS? WE'RE VERY GOOD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. OKAY. 
          [PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION REPORT]
MOVING NEXT ON. NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA HERE IS PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION REPORT. 
          COUNCILMAN WOLFF. YES, THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. SO WE MET ON OCTOBER 20TH AND APPROVED OUR AUGUST 18TH MINUTES AND THEN WELCOMED CORBIN BUNZL TO HIS FIRST MEETING. SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH HIM ON PARKS AND REC. WE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING UPDATES. SO THE RESTROOM AT ALDERSGATE PARK IS MOVING ALONG AND HOPEFULLY SHOULD BE DONE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THE TRAIL ALSO OVER THERE FROM THE BOY SCOUT POND OVER TO THE VISION DEVELOPMENTS. 
          ABOUT 90% DONE. THEY'RE JUST KIND OF CHECKING FOR GAS AND ELECTRIC LINES IN THAT LAST 10% PORTION OF IT. THE SHELTER HOUSE AT GREENWOOD PARK SHOULD BE GOING IN IN EARLY 2027, EITHER JANUARY OR FEBRUARY. THE FIRST AND THIRD STREETS OVER AT THE BMX TRACK ARE BEING REDESIGNED AND REBUILT. THE DESIGNER OF THAT IS BACK AND ABLE TO HELP OUT WITH THAT PROJECT. AND THEN THERE HAVE BEEN THREE MEMORIAL BENCHES INSTALLED THROUGHOUT THE PARK SYSTEM. WE DID NOT HAVE ANY AGENDA ITEMS FOR THIS LAST MEETING, AND THEN OUR NEXT 
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MEETING WILL BE ON NOVEMBER 17TH. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN WOLFF. ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS FROM MR. WOLFF? I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO. WALK DOWN THE NEW TRAIL AT ALDERSGATE THAT CONNECTED IT TO FIFTH. AND I WAS VERY SURPRISED BECAUSE I HADN'T REALLY WALKED BACK THERE. 
          SO IT WAS GOOD TO SEE THAT COMING ALONG. AND YOU HAD SAID SOMETHING ELSE THAT CAUGHT MY EAR, BUT I CAN'T IT'S IT'S I LOST THE THOUGHT. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE UPDATE. WE 
          [HEARING OF CITIZENS]
APPRECIATE IT. NEXT ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS HEARING OF CITIZENS. EACH CITIZEN WISHING TO SPEAK MAY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO FOR UP TO FIVE MINUTES, AND THAT IS FOR ITEMS NOT RELATED TO PENDING LEGISLATION. AND IF YOU ARE HERE AND YOU WISH TO SPEAK TONIGHT, KEEP IN MIND IT'S NOT DESIGNED TO BE A BACK AND FORTH Q&A. IT IS FOR YOU TO ADDRESS COUNCIL, SO YOU HAVE UP TO FIVE MINUTES TO SPEAK. WE WILL HEAR. WE MAY BE TAKING NOTES IF WE DO LOOK DOWN. MY APOLOGIES. IT'S IF I DO THAT OR OTHERS. BUT IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION. IT'S THAT WE MAY BE TAKING NOTES AND ALSO TRYING TO KEEP TRACK OF THAT TIME. WE TRY AND WE WILL TRY OUR BEST TO BE FAIR AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT FIVE MINUTES IS ADHERED TO SO THAT YOUR FIVE MINUTES IS NO MORE OR LESS THAN ANOTHER PERSON'S FIVE MINUTES THAT WE WE GRANT HERE. AND IF YOU DO WISH TO SPEAK, PLEASE APPROACH THE PODIUM AND THEN STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. BRIAN CUNNINGHAM 460. SCOTT FARMS I JUST WANT TO CONTINUE ON FROM THE LAST BOARD MEETING, COUNCIL MEETING ABOUT THE WASTED MONEY ON FOURTH. AGAIN, THE WASTED MONEY ON MAIN STREET, THE INCONSISTENCY ON FIFTH. YOU KNOW, I GOT BUILT LIKE THIS, THE BACK AND FORTH AT EVERY OTHER MEETING BECAUSE WE CAN'T DO Q AND A, AND I KNOW, LIKE YOU SAY, THE EMAIL, I'VE TRIED THAT FOR 5 OR 6 YEARS. IT GETS YOU NOWHERE IN THIS TOWN. IT JUST GETS YOU PASSED AROUND. NOBODY ANSWERS PHONES VERY RARELY ANSWER EMAILS. SO THAT'S NOT REALLY AN OPTION. SO LIKE DONALD, YOU SAID YOUR SALES APPROACH TO THE FIFTH IS THE GATEWAY TO THE CITY FOR THE PORTION THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW. WHAT'S NOT THE GATEWAY TO THE CITY? YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAMN CITY BY THE TIME YOU GET THERE. GATEWAY TO THE CITY IS BACK WHEN YOU'RE COMING INTO THE CITY, THE GATEWAY TO THE CITY, FOR INSTANCE, ON ROUTE FOUR, HAVE ANYBODY DROVE? THAT IS A GROWN UP MESS. HELL, THERE'S A SIX FOOT SPOOL THAT'S BEEN SITTING IN THE DITCH LINE THERE FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS. YOU CAN'T TELL ME NOBODY FROM THIS CITY HAS DRIVEN BY THERE. YOU KNOW, WITH ALL THAT GAS LINE WORK, ALL THAT'S GROWED UP AIN'T BEEN MOWED. THAT'S THE GATEWAY TO THE CITY. THIS IS JUST BECAUSE IT'S IN FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE. YOU KNOW, IF THAT'S THE GATEWAY TO THE CITY, WHY ON THE OTHER SIDE, YOU KNOW, COMING FROM LIKE DONATOS IN THAT WAY, THAT SHOULD BE JUST AS IMPORTANT. 
          THAT'S A GATEWAY, RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AND THEN THE WHOLE THING WITH THE SCOTT FARM, WITH THE PARKING IN THAT, YOU KNOW, I WAS SERIOUS. WHY ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO MOVE THE MAILBOXES TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD NOW? BECAUSE THE WAY THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS BUILT, YOU GUYS CHANGED IT. YOU DIDN'T CHANGE EVERYTHING. YOU KNOW, YOU GOTTA HAVE THE THE TRASH CANS. YOU GOTTA BE THREE FOOT APART. YOU GOTTA HAVE MAILBOX. YOU GOTTA HAVE ROOM FOR THE MAILMAN. WELL, YOU'VE JUST ELIMINATED 75% OF THE PARKING, RIGHT? I MEAN, THE THIS WHOLE HONDA STUFF MIGHT BE GOOD, WHATEVER, BUT ALL THIS LITTLE STUFF, MAN. I MEAN, YOU GUYS MAKE STUFF LOOK LIKE IDIOTS AROUND HERE. THE WAY YOU GUYS WASTE MONEY. I MEAN, I CAN REMEMBER A YEAR AGO, IN THE SAME ROOM, YOU GUYS WAS ARGUING ABOUT $100,000 FOR AN EXTRA PAY DAY. HELL, YOU WASTED THAT ON MAIN STREET, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, YOU GUYS GOTTA. I MEAN, YOU GOTTA THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING. ANY OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO ADDRESS COUNCIL THIS EVENING? GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JONATHAN GUMEL AND COUNCILMAN WARNER'S DISTRICT. I BROUGHT MY NOTES ON A PAPER AIRPLANE. NOT BY INTENTION, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE YOUNG KIDS, THIS IS WHAT TENDS TO HAPPEN WITH YOUR NOTES YOU LEAVE AROUND THE HOUSE. SO COMING TO SPEAK TO YOU IN SUPPORT OF THE YMCA THAT YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING ABOUT WITH THE CURRENT BUDGET WITH, I INTRODUCE MYSELF TO YOU. FIRST OFF, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ROOM. WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS GIVING UP YOUR TIME. I'M A YOUNG OR I'M A DAD OF YOUNG KIDS, SO I'M GIVING UP PUTTING KIDS TO BED RIGHT NOW. SO I WANT TO MAKE MY TIME QUICK AND OBVIOUSLY IN RESPECT FOR YOURS. SO A COUPLE WAYS JUST TO INTRODUCE MYSELF AS I WORK IN A FINANCE ROLE HERE IN THE COMMUNITY IN BANKING, I'VE WORKED INTIMATELY WITH THE CITY'S FINANCES AND APPROVING ON THE PRIVATE SIDE PROJECTS, AND PARTICULARLY 
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RELATED TO BOND FUNDING. I SERVE IN THE UNION COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND A FEW BOARD ROLES. I WORK IN THE YMCA BOTH, AS I SAY, SERVE IN THE YMCA IN A VOLUNTEER CAPACITY AS BOTH A BASKETBALL COACH AND THIS UPCOMING SEASON, I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT, AS WELL AS THE VICE PRESIDENT ON THE BOARD. AND THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR YOU GUYS, I'VE BEEN APPOINTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO SERVE IN THE COMMUNITY AUTHORITY POSITION, ALL OF WHICH ARE VOLUNTEER CAPACITY, AND I ENJOY DOING VERY MUCH OF WHICH. HOWEVER, MY MOST IMPORTANT JOB IS AS A DAD AND HUSBAND. AND LIKE I SAID, I'M TAKING AWAY FROM THAT RIGHT NOW, SO I'LL BE QUICK. THREE THINGS I WANT TO HIT WITH YOU GUYS ABOUT WHY IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE CITY COUNCIL SUPPORT PARTNERING. AND I DID SAY PARTNERING WITH THE YMCA, NOT A BUYOUT OR A BAILOUT, IS WHAT'S BEEN MENTIONED IN PLACES IN MEDIA, BUT A TRUE PARTNERSHIP WHERE THE CITY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY. AND CERTAINLY DISCUSSION IS STILL ONGOING ABOUT HOW TO CORRECTLY PURCHASE THAT FACILITY. THREE THINGS I WANT TO HIT, AND I KNOW THERE'S LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE ROOM, SO I THINK THEY'LL APPRECIATE THIS MOTIVE, MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY. FIRST MOTIVE RESPONDENTS OVERWHELMINGLY IN SURVEYS SAY THEY WANT BETTER AND MORE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES. 
          OVERWHELMINGLY, THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST COMMON THINGS THAT UNITES. EVERY MARYSVILLE FAMILY, IS WANTING A GREAT PLACE TO RAISE KIDS AND HAVE RECREATION. UNFORTUNATELY, GOD PUTS US IN A POSITION DURING THE WINTER THAT IS NOT A POSSIBILITY TO USE OUR GREAT PARKS IN THE WINTER. 
          HOWEVER, THE YMCA AFFORDS US THAT OPPORTUNITY IS ONE OF THE RARE FACILITIES THAT GIVES US THAT IN THE WINTER. AGAIN, OVERWHELMINGLY RESPONDENTS SAY THEY WANT SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 
          SECOND MEANS, ALONG WITH THIS STRONG CONSERVATIVE FISCAL BUDGET, THAT EVERYBODY HERE WANTS AND APPRECIATES, THE BUDGET HAS SPACE FOR IT. I KNOW THAT, AS I MENTIONED, IN MY PRIVATE CAPACITY, I HAVE UNDERWRITTEN THE CITY'S FINANCIALS MANY TIMES, IN ADDITION TO THE VERY STRONG BOND RATING THAT OUR CITY HAS. THAT'S TO YOUR CREDIT, AS WELL AS TO EVERYBODY ELSE IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR MAKING THIS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE. THERE IS SPACE IN THE BUDGET FOR THIS NEXT THING I WANT TO HIT OPPORTUNITY. IT'S A VERY, VERY SMALL ITEM RELATIVE TO THE ACTUAL COST OF BUILDING A FACILITY FROM SCRATCH. AS YOU GUYS LIKELY KNOW FROM THE TALKING POINTS THAT HAVE BEEN CIRCULATED, THIS IS ONLY ABOUT A $5 MILLION ASK. AND THIS IS NOT AN ASK FOR IMMEDIATE SPEND GOING INTO A SHOVEL IN THE GROUND. RIGHT NOW. THIS IS JUST A PLACEHOLDER IN THE BUDGET, RELATIVELY SPEAKING, $5 MILLION AS COMPARED TO WHAT THE YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO IS CURRENTLY BUDGETING AT A COLUMBUS STATE FACILITY, IS 50 MILLION OTHER PARTNER COMMUNITY OR OTHER COMMUNITIES NEARBY HAVE SPENT CLOSER TO 80. THAT WOULD BE. OR UPPER ARLINGTON AND HILLIARD OR $100 MILLION, WHICH IS GROVE CITY. WE'RE SAYING FOR FIVE. RELATIVELY SPEAKING, THE OPPOSITE WOULD BE BUILDING FROM SCRATCH AT $50 MILLION. I SAID, I'M A NUMBERS GUY. 5 TO $50 MILLION IS 90% OFF. 90% OFF. I SAID, I'M A YOUNG DAD. I'LL GIVE YOU A QUICK STORY TO ANALOGIZE THAT AND THEN I'LL GIVE IT MY TIME. SO MY WIFE AND I HAD BABY NUMBER THREE SEVEN WEEKS AGO. AGAIN, WHY AM I HERE? BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT IT. THAT'S WHY I'M NOT PUTTING KIDS TO BED RIGHT NOW. 90% OFF. I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY FOR 90% OFF PURCHASE. MY WIFE NEEDED A STROLLER. SURE, BABE, GO GET A STROLLER. WHATEVER YOU NEED, SHE SAID. IT'S GOING TO COST 800 BUCKS. I SAID, LET'S THINK ABOUT THAT. $800 STROLLER IS NOT HAPPENING IN OUR BUDGET. WELL, SHE FINDS ONE. SHE'S A GREAT WIFE. SHE FINDS ONE ON FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE, GOES TO THE HOUSE, BUYS IT. YOU KNOW, IT COST $80. IT'S 90% OFF. WHEN SHE CALLED ME AND SAID, HEY, ARE YOU OKAY BUYING THIS? DO YOU THINK I SAID, LET'S WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR? DO YOU THINK I SAID, WE'LL FIND A BETTER TIME? DO YOU THINK? I SAID, I DON'T THINK WE REALLY NEED THE OLD ONE THAT'S BEEN THROUGH TWO KIDS HAS ACTUALLY WORKED. NO, WE SPENT $80 AND I WAS VERY, VERY HAPPY TO DO THAT. AND YES, OUR SEVEN WEEK OLD SON LOVES THAT STROLLER VERY MUCH. COUNCIL, I'M ASKING YOU FOR 90% OFF. NOT ME. ALSO OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE IN SUPPORT HERE FROM THE YMCA. AND WE'VE BEEN MEETING PRIVATELY WITH YOU TO NOT TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY, IS GIVING UP A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY. YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO FOLKS IN YOUR OWN WARDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS AND SAY, WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR OUR GROWTH IN A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WAY. I'M A VERY CONSERVATIVE PERSON FISCALLY MYSELF. I WOULD NOT BE HERE IF IT WAS A $50 MILLION SPEND. I CAN PROMISE YOU THAT FOR 90% OFF. I THINK THERE'S A REASON TO SAY THIS AGAIN. I HEAR THE ALARM, WHICH MEANS I FAILED MY OWN GOAL FOR NOT TAKING UP MORE OF MY TIME. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR US. THANK YOU SIR. ANY OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO ADDRESS COUNCIL THIS EVENING? HI, I'M MARY ANN HAYNES FROM JOLLY ROAD, MARYSVILLE. MY QUESTION. I JUST HAVE A QUESTION FROM FROM MY HUSBAND. HE COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE HE'S A BAD BACK. AND BUT HE'S CONCERNED WITH THE MARYSVILLE EAST CONSTRUCTION 
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THAT IT WILL. UPSET THE AQUIFERS. AND HE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO BE DONE PRIOR PRIOR TO THAT, IF THERE'S GOING TO BE ANY TESTING OF THE WATER TO ESTABLISH THE. ARSENIC LEVELS, MAINLY. SO THAT'S HIS MAIN QUESTION. HE WANTS TO BE ASSURED THAT SOMETHING PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE. AND THEN SO THAT CAN BE NOTED THAT WE'RE OKAY. AND THEN IF THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENS DURING THAT CONSTRUCTION TIME, YOU KNOW THAT THE LEVELS GO UP, THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE NOTED AS WELL AND SOMETHING BE DONE ABOUT IT. OKAY. THAT'S ALL. 
          THANK YOU MA'AM, JUST SORRY YOU HAD BROUGHT FORTH A VERY SPECIFIC QUESTION, AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU COULD PROVIDE. MY CARD IS ACTUALLY ON THAT RIGHT THERE. SO IF YOU CAN REACH OUT, YEAH, PLEASE REACH OUT AND WE WILL MAKE IT A POINT TO DO WHAT WE CAN DO TO, TO LOOK INTO THAT MATTER AND THAT QUESTION VERY SPECIFICALLY. SO THANK YOU. AND ALSO IT'LL GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO THERE'S, THERE'S VARIOUS CONSTRUCTION GOING ON IN THE EAST SIDE OF MARYSVILLE, AND WE'RE ALL ON WELLS OUT THERE. SO WE'RE REALLY KIND OF A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, THAT AT SOME POINT, WE GIVE YOU AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE FOR YOUR SPECIFIC QUESTION AND NOT ANSWER SOMETHING ELSE THAT YOU AREN'T ASKING. SO YEAH, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ANY OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO ADDRESS COUNCIL THIS EVENING? OKAY. SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE ON TO RESOLUTION. GO AHEAD SIR. YEAH. I DON'T REALLY HAVE. SO ALEX AND I'M FROM MILL PARK DRIVE. I LIVED HERE FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS. SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR WHAT YOU DO. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. AND I GUESS I JUST CAME TO WITNESS THE CIVIC PROCESS. I WORK AT HONDA, SO THE BIG NEWS AND WHATNOT WANT TO SEE WHAT EVERYBODY WAS THINKING. BUT ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO, I GUESS, PUT OUT THERE OVER THE 15 YEARS I'VE SEEN MARYSVILLE CHANGE AND EVERYBODY IS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF SPOKE TO THAT A LITTLE BIT HERE. I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU GUYS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TO KIND OF TRY TO HOLD BACK THE TIDE. I SUPPOSE IT IS MUCH BETTER TO BE HERE THAN IN LIMA OR FOSTORIA OR WHATEVER. I MOVED HERE FROM TOLEDO. THAT'S WHERE I WENT TO UNIVERSITY. SO I, I SUPPORT THE GROWTH THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH, AND CERTAINLY IT'S BETTER TO HAVE JOBS AND HAVE OPTIONS RATHER THAN TO LIVE IN A CITY THAT'S DYING AND DECLINING. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE GROWTH HAS TO BE MANAGED AND THE TRAFFIC ISSUES THAT WERE BROUGHT UP, AND CERTAINLY THE NEW CONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW TRAFFIC THAT WILL COME WITH THAT WILL BE A BIG ISSUE MAYBE, OR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE, YOU KNOW, OPEN LAND THAT'S GOING TO TAKE PLACE WITH THE NEW DEVELOPMENT AND HOW TO PRESERVE THAT. I KNOW IT'S A BIG CHALLENGE, AND I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU GUYS ARE TRYING TO DO AND JUST KIND OF KEEP THAT MORE IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS NECESSARY GROWTH, I SUPPOSE, AND THAT YOU CAN'T REALLY STOP. SO IT'S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. SO THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK THIS EVENING OR TO ADDRESS COUNCIL? OKAY. SEEING 
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NONE, WE WILL MOVE ON TO RESOLUTIONS. WE WILL START WITH 15-261 READING ONLY TO PROVIDE FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO RESOLUTION NUMBER 17-19 TO EXPAND THE MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA DESIGNATED THEREIN AND KNOWN AS THE INNOVATION DISTRICT, CRA AND I HAVE A PRESENTATION TO PULL UP. MR. PRESIDENT, COUNCIL MEMBERS, I'LL GO AHEAD AND GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION, BUT WE DO HAVE A PROPOSAL HERE TO EXPAND THE INNOVATION DISTRICT CRA THAT WAS CREATED IN 2019. JUST PROVIDE YOU SOME OVERVIEW, A BRIEF PRESENTATION HERE TO PROVIDE YOU CONTEXT ON WHAT THIS ACTUALLY IS. FIRST, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE OVERVIEW. AGAIN, I'M GOING TO PRESENT TO YOU TONIGHT THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE INNOVATION DISTRICT, WHERE NUMBERS ARE CURRENTLY, WHAT THE EXPANSION MEANS, PROVIDING INFORMATION ON THE COMBINED AREA, THEN PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE FUTURE CRA AGREEMENTS AND THEN DISCUSS TIMELINE. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT TONIGHT YOU'RE NOT APPROVING ANY TAX ABATEMENT. THIS IS JUST CREATING A ZONE IN WHICH TAX ABATEMENTS CAN OCCUR IN THE FUTURE. ANY AGREEMENT THAT WOULD COME FORWARD WOULD ACTUALLY COME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. IT WOULD BE BASED ON THE MERITS OF THAT PROJECT THAT WOULD BE BROUGHT FORWARD. IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE LOOK AT THIS. WHAT IS THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA? IT IS A DEVELOPMENT TOOL INCENTIVE TOOL THAT'S DEVELOPED BY THE STATE OF OHIO. YOU HAVE 1 OR 2 OPTIONS FOR TAX ABATEMENTS IN THE STATE OF OHIO. ONE IS AN ENTERPRISE ZONE AND ONE IS A CRA. THE CRA IS MUCH MORE FLEXIBLE TOOL THAT CAN BE UTILIZED. AND IT'S A IT'S A DESIRED PATH FOR COMPANIES 
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LOOKING TO EXPAND IN YOUR RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES. IT PROVIDES, AGAIN, A PROPERTY OWNER OR DEVELOPER OR A COMPANY TO COME IN AND REQUEST AN EXEMPTION ON FUTURE TAXES BASED UPON JOBS, PAYROLL AND INVESTMENT TYPICALLY ARE THE THREE FACTORS THAT WE LOOK AT. 
          THAT'S TYPICALLY OVER A THREE YEAR PERIOD. CRA IS DEFINED AN AREA WHERE PROPERTY OWNERS CAN RECEIVE THE INCENTIVES ON REAL PROPERTY IMPROVEMENTS. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE YOU DO NOT ABATE LAND INCREMENT. SO WHEN YOU PUT BRICKS AND MORTAR ON LAND, THE VALUE OF THAT LAND GOES UP. THOSE TAXES ARE COLLECTED 100%. THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD BE ABATED ARE THE ACTUAL BRICKS AND MORTAR THAT ACTUALLY GO ON TOP OF THE LAND. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN CRA, YOU CAN PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL AND OR INDUSTRIAL IN THE CITY. WE HAVE CURRENTLY THREE ACTIVE TAX ABATEMENT AREAS. YOU HAVE ONE IN UPTOWN WHICH INCLUDES RESIDENTIAL COMPONENT. AND YOU ALSO HAVE ONE IN NORTH MAIN, WHICH INCLUDES A RESIDENTIAL COMPONENT. I'LL SHOW HERE IN A SECOND. AND THEN YOU HAVE COMMERCIAL. INDUSTRIAL CAN BE IN ANY OF THOSE ZONES AS WELL. THERE'S ALSO TWO CATEGORIES. THERE'S WHAT YOU CALL A PRE 1994 AND A POST 94 CRA. THE PRE 94 ONLY REQUIRES CITY MANAGER APPROVAL, WHICH IS CONSIDERED THE HOUSING OFFICER AND THE RESPECTIVE CITY OR MUNICIPALITY. AND THEN ANYTHING POST 94 REQUIRES CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL. WHAT WE'RE ASKING TONIGHT IS A POST 94 CONSIDERATION. WHEN WE LOOK AT CRAS, THE NEXT PROVIDES YOU A LITTLE BIT OF OUR HISTORY OF OF CRA CREATION. THE FIRST ONE WAS CREATED IN 1984 KNOWN AS CRA NUMBER ONE. THAT IS IN THE UPTOWN AREA. IT WAS EXPANDED BACK IN THE EARLY 2000. MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBER REAMS WAS ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN THAT EXPANSION. SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THAT. ACTUALLY, WE THINK WE DID, DRIVING TOGETHER JUST TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE WERE GOING TO MAKE THAT CHANGE HAPPEN. IN 2019, WE ADDED THE INNOVATION DISTRICT, WHICH WE'RE ASKING FOR AMENDMENT TO THAT TO THIS EVENING IN 2024. THE NORTH MAIN, WHICH INCLUDES THE SILOS AT WATER AND LIGHT DEVELOPMENT. AND THEN TODAY, A POTENTIAL EXPANSION, IF YOU GIVE YOUR BLESSING TODAY, WOULD BE WHAT WE WOULD DO AND EXPAND THIS INNOVATION DISTRICT. YOU KNOW WHY I'M IN NOW. IT WOULD, YOU KNOW, EXPAND IT WOULD ACTUALLY ALLOW US TO DO ECONOMIC GROWTH IN MAYORS, THE MAYORS OF EAST AREA. I HAVE A MAP I'LL SHOW HERE SHORTLY. YOU KNOW, FOCUS ON COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT IN THIS AREA. IT IS ALSO BEING DEVELOPED BY MAYORS LAND COMPANY AS A PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT. THERE IS AN NCAA THAT COVERS ROAD IMPROVEMENTS. SO THERE'S A LOT OF PLANNING THAT'S BEEN GOING ON IN THIS AREA. THIS IS THE AREA, THE ORIGINAL BOUNDARIES OF THE INNOVATION DISTRICT THAT WAS CREATED. THE KEY POINT, THE PURPLE, YOU CAN SEE IT'S OUTLINED IN BLACK. ACTUALLY THE PURPLE AREA ARE ACTUALLY VACANT PARCELS AT THIS TIME. AND THIS IS AS OF WHEN IT WAS APPROVED. 
          THIS JUST GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF THE AREA. THE ZONING WAS VARIOUS ZONING DISTRICTS, A LOT OF INDUSTRIAL. OF COURSE THE MAJOR INDUSTRIES, SCOTS. OF COURSE, THE SCHOOLS ARE ENTIRELY IN THE MARYSVILLE EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT HI-POINT CAREER CENTER. 
          IT ALSO. A MAJOR SECTION OF THIS AREA IS IN OUR ONLY OPPORTUNITY ZONE IN THE ENTIRE COUNTY. IT'S REALLY THE MARYSVILLE SOUTH AREA, THAT PURPLE AREA TO THE LEFT. BUT THIS KIND OF GIVES YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE IN 2019 WHEN CITY COUNCIL APPROVED IT. THE ORIGINAL DISTRICT, THIS IS KIND OF GIVES YOU A BREAKDOWN IS 3000 ACRES, 23% OF THE ENTIRE CITY LAND AREA AT THAT TIME, 104 PARCELS. YOU CAN SEE HOW THEY'RE BROKEN DOWN. WE'RE REQUIRED WITH EVERY CRA EXPANSION OR CREATION. WE HAVE TO DO A HOUSING SURVEY, WHICH REQUIRES US TO GO OUT AND COUNT THE PARCELS, DO A TOUR OF ALL THE PARCELS, UNDERSTAND THE USES, UNDERSTAND WHAT HOW THEY LOOK, WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IN THOSE PARCELS TO IMPROVE THOSE PROPERTIES. WE DO AN DETAILED STUDY ON ALL THOSE PROPERTIES, THE ABATEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED IN THE INNOVATION DISTRICT SINCE IT'S CREATED. YOU HAVE SOUTH GATE IN 2020. 
          YOU CAN SEE SCOTTS AND HARDY WORLD IN 2223. MARYSVILLE FLEX AND EASE LOGISTICS 24, OPUS 25, AMAZON AND ANODONTA ARE ARE THE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED. THE EIGHT PROJECTS THAT HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN APPROVED IN THIS AREA GOING FORWARD? THIS IS THE EXISTING DISTRICT IS ACTUALLY IN YELLOW THAT YOU SAW EARLIER. THE PROPOSED EXPANSION IS BASICALLY THE AREA THAT MAYORS LAND IS ANNEXED TO THE CITY SO FAR. LIKELY IF THE ANNEX MORE, THERE'S A CHANCE WE WOULD COME BACK AND ASK YOU FOR POTENTIAL AMENDMENT AT THOSE TIMES, THOSE TIMES AS WELL. IT'S OUTLINED IN IN ORANGE ON THE MAP AS WELL. SO MAYORS EAST A GLANCE, IT'S AROUND 876 ACRES OF LAND. THERE ARE 25 PARCELS. YOU CAN SEE THE BREAKDOWN ALL OWNED BY MARYSVILLE LAND. THE GOAL IS TO DEMOLISH AND INVEST INTO A BUSINESS PARK, AS YOU KNOW, IS PREDOMINANTLY AGRICULTURAL. THERE. THERE ARE SOME SOME NEW INVESTMENT THAT'S NEEDED AS PART OF THIS BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN THE BROADER PLAN. AND THE GOAL WAS TO TO BROADEN THE TAX BASE IN THIS AREA. HOW WILL IT DEVELOP? I THINK WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THIS. OF COURSE, IT 
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IS A BUSINESS PARK THAT MAYORS LAND IS FOCUSED ON. THE THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL BE REPAID OR INVESTED USING THE NCAA THAT THAT CITY COUNCIL HAS BLESSED IN THE PAST. AND THEN ALSO THE GOAL IS MORE INNOVATIVE COMPANIES TO DIVERSIFY OUR ECONOMY IN MARYSVILLE. AND THAT'S BEEN THE GOAL SINCE NUMBER ONE. AND WITH THE MLC AND THEIR INVESTMENT IN MARYSVILLE. SO IF YOU PUT THE TWO TOGETHER, THIS KIND OF GIVES YOU A BREAKDOWN OF THE AREA, THE 3000 ACRES, YOU'RE NOW GOING TO BE ABOUT 3900 ACRES IN TOTAL. YOU CAN SEE THAT YOU HAD 24 ON THE. YOU GET 130 PARCELS. YOU CAN SEE THE BREAKDOWN, THE MAIN USES ORIGINALLY, AND THEN 19. YOU CAN SEE WHAT. THE USES ARE MOSTLY FARMLAND AND SINGLE FAMILY. YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT PROPERTIES WERE ANALYZED UNDER HOMES REVIEWED KEY CONDITIONS AS WELL. A LOT OF VACANT LOTS AS WELL. AND THEN ALSO BOTH MEET THE CRITERIA FOR THE CREATION OF A CRA. AND AGAIN, IT CREATES A CRA AREA OF ABOUT 3900 ACRES IF APPROVED. SO WHAT THIS RESOLUTION WOULD DO, IT EXPANDS THE BOUNDARY. IT KEEPS ALL ASPECTS OF THE 1719 RESOLUTION THAT YOU APPROVED IN 2019. WE DO HAVE TO PUBLISH IT IN THE MARYSVILLE JOURNAL TRIBUNE, TWICE IN THE NEWSPAPER, TWICE AFTER WE WOULD DO THIS, AND THEN WE SEND THE PAPERWORK FOR TO THE STATE FOR CERTIFICATION. AND AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THE KIND OF THE TIMELINE OF PATH TO ADOPTION. WE DEVELOPED THE THE SURVEY BACK IN OCTOBER. FIRST READING IS TONIGHT, FIRST READING ONLY. AND THEN ALSO WE WOULD PUBLISH GOING FORWARD. 
          THAT'S THE TIMELINE GOING FORWARD. SO FUTURES HERE, AS I SAID EARLIER, THIS IS JUST THE CREATION ZONE. YOU'RE NOT APPROVING A TAX ABATEMENT. SO THIS IS JUST A DESIGNATION. YOU CAN SEE THE ELIGIBLE USES AND THE ORIGINAL. KEEP IN MIND THE ORIGINAL WAS A MIXED USE. SO THEREFORE WE HAD RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL. HOWEVER THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THIS MAYOR'S OFFICE IS GOING TO BE 100% INDUSTRIAL OR SOME TYPE OF COMMERCIAL. THAT'S THE GAME PLAN OF MLC. THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE RESIDENTIAL, SO THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AS WELL. EACH OF THESE WILL BE REVIEWED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS. AN APPLICATION WOULD BE FILED. WE WOULD SET UP A NEGOTIATING TEAM WITH CITY REPRESENTATION. WE INCLUDE. I THINK MR. BORDNER SERVED ON THAT IN THE PAST ON THAT ON THAT NEGOTIATING TEAM WOULD HAVE A SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE. WE HAVE A COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE, THOSE ENTITIES THAT ARE IMPACTED BY THE TAX ABATEMENT. WE WOULD SIT DOWN AND DISCUSS THE INCENTIVE POLICY THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE AND THE PROPOSED INCENTIVE POLICY, HOW THAT COMPARES TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE ELIGIBLE FOR. FOR ABATEMENT, THERE'D BE A RECOMMENDATION FROM THAT NEGOTIATING TEAM, WOULD COME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. SCHOOLS WOULD HAVE APPROVAL. ANYTHING OVER 15, 15 YEARS OR 75%. THAT'S TYPICALLY THE THE TWO YOU'D HAVE TO LOOK AT, BUT THEY WOULD HAVE APPROVAL IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. AND I THINK THAT'S IT. THAT'S MY LAST SLIDE. 
          THAT KIND OF GIVES YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT'S BEING REQUESTED TONIGHT. BUT SOME DETAILED INFORMATION THERE FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION THIS EVENING. I DON'T KNOW IF MISS SHARP WOULD LIKE TO ADD ANYTHING TO THE PRESENTATION. NOTHING ADDITIONAL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ERIC. GIVEN THAT THIS IS A ONE READING ONLY, THIS THIS EVENING WOULD BE CITIZEN TIME TO COMMENT ON. AND THEN IT GOES TO COUNCIL FOR QUESTIONS. SO I WOULD. MR. PHILLIPS, IF YOU WANT TO. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO SIT DOWN OR JUST EVEN STAY SEATED IN THE EVENT THAT CITIZENS MAY HAVE COMMENTS AND YOU'D LIKE TO ADDRESS THOSE, YOU CAN COME BACK UP DURING COUNCIL DISCUSSION. ARE THERE ANY CITIZENS THIS EVENING WISHING TO COMMENT ON THIS RESOLUTION? AND IF SO, PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE PODIUM. I ASK A QUESTION. SURE. SO EVENTUALLY THE PLAN IS THAT THIS WILL CREATE A DISTRICT THAT MAY INVOLVE TAX ABATEMENT FOR A COMPANY THAT WOULD COME IN, IS THAT WE'LL NOTE THAT QUESTION. AND THEN IF THERE ARE OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO ASK QUESTIONS. THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. APPRECIATE IT. ANY OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO EITHER POSE, QUESTION OR MAKE A STATEMENT ON THIS ITEM? AMBER JOLLY ROAD, MARYSVILLE, OHIO. MY QUESTION IS ACTUALLY JUST. MR. PHILLIPS SHOWED A SLIDE. 
          THE FIRST SLIDE HE SHOWED WITH THE CURRENT CRA WAS HE HAD A PERCENTAGE OF. MARYSVILLE. WHAT. 
          WHAT PERCENTAGE OF MARYSVILLE WILL THIS NOW ENCOMPASS WITH THE. WITH THE ADDITIONAL 876 ACRES. THAT WAS A. ANY OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK POSED QUESTION ON THIS ITEM, AND IF SO, PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM. OKAY. SEEING NONE, WE'LL MOVE ON TO COUNSEL MR. PHILLIPS. IF YOU WANT TO FIRST ADDRESS THOSE TWO QUESTIONS, THAT WOULD BE THE TIME. YES. FIRST WOULD QUESTION, I BELIEVE, WAS THIS IS NOT APPROVING ABATEMENT. THIS WOULD BE FOR ONLY FUTURE REQUEST. AND THAT IS, I THINK IS MORE SO. IS IT OUTLINING A DISTRICT THAT WHERE ABATEMENTS COULD EVENTUALLY THINK THE ANSWER TO THAT IS YES. YES. AND IT DOESN'T MEAN 
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THERE'S A DESIGNATION. SOME MAY NOT EVEN REQUEST ABATEMENT. YOU MAY NOT WANT TO APPROVE AN ABATEMENT. SO SOME MIGHT COME WITHOUT A TAX ABATEMENT. THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THAT EVERY PROPERTY WILL BE ABATED. BUT THERE IS A LIKELY REQUEST COMING FORWARD. YES. AND THEN THE SECOND QUESTION WAS THERE WAS A MAP. AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NEED TO PUT THE PRESENTATION BACK UP. I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS ANSWERED BY THAT MAP OR NOT, BUT REST OF THE LAND AREA THAT WAS SUBJECT TO THE CRA IN 2019, 2018, 2019 VERSUS WHAT IS THERE TODAY. I DON'T KNOW IF YOUR MAP SHOWED THAT OR NOT. IT NO, IT DOES NOT SHOW TODAY UNLESS OUR CITY ENGINEER HAS DONE THE MATH ALREADY OR SOMEONE. I'M NOT TO TURN IT BACK OVER TO JAMIE. 
          I'LL HAVE TO DO IS I'LL GET THE ANSWER BACK TO YOU. I DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER. I HAVE TO DO SOME QUICK MATH ON THE TOTAL ACREAGE BECAUSE WE'VE ANNEXED SOME LAND. SO THE ACREAGE HAS CHANGED. I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE ACREAGE AND COME UP WITH THAT TOTAL ACREAGE VERSUS 3900. 
          SO WE CAN DO THAT QUICK MATH AND GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT. OKAY. AND IT WON'T BE JUST A YEAH, LIKE I'M GOING TO REPEAT A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT YOU SAID IS YOU TAKE THE LAND MASS IN 2019 DIVIDED BY THE MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY IN 2019. IT ISN'T GOING TO BE JUST AS SIMPLE AS THEN. NOW TAKING THE THE ADDITIONAL LAND MASS THAT WOULD BE ENCOMPASSED BY THE CRA AND DIVIDE IT BY THAT SAME OVERALL LAND MASS OF THE MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY IN 2019, BECAUSE THAT MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY IN 2019 HAS SINCE BEEN UPDATED. SO IT'S IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE MATH, BUT NO, APPRECIATE THE QUESTION. AND WE'LL LOOK INTO THAT. YEAH. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBERS OF COUNCIL HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, MR. BORDNER NO, MR. PHILLIPS, I APPRECIATE THE THE CONTEXT TONIGHT. CONTENT CONTEXT. YOU KNOW, ANYBODY WHO'S HEARD ME. ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IS A HUGE PRIORITY OF MINE SPECIFICALLY AND ABATEMENTS. I KNOW PEOPLE OFTEN GET CONCERNED WITH ABATEMENTS. THERE'S NEGOTIATING TASK TEAMS THAT NEGOTIATE THOSE ENTERPRISE ARRANGEMENTS RELATIVE TO THE ECONOMIC VALUE THAT THAT THEY'LL BRING. SO OBVIOUSLY THAT'S THAT'S TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION BEFORE, YOU KNOW, ANY SORT OF AGREEMENT IS, IS IS MADE. RIGHT. I DO, HOWEVER, HAVE ONE QUESTION SPECIFIC TO KIND OF THE APPROACH. I KNOW THAT AT ONE POINT WE WERE OR THE ED TEAM WAS WORKING ON THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE PACKAGE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE E DIP. I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT HAS EVER BECOME A FORMALIZED DOCUMENT, WHICH ACTUALLY WOULD HELP IN THE ABATEMENT EVALUATION, BECAUSE IT DOES HAVE CERTAIN CRITERIA THAT WERE MEASURED AGAINST. RIGHT. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THAT PROPOSAL, THE PROPOSED ABATEMENT BASED OFF OF THE ECONOMIC VALUE THAT IT WAS BRINGING TO THE COMMUNITY, WOULD WOULD BE DERIVED, OR DO WE HAVE ANY UPDATE ON THAT, OR IS THAT GOING TO BE PART OF THE THE, THE, THE CRA APPROACH AS IT RELATES TO FUTURE ABATEMENTS? I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY WE NEED THEM OR IT'S IT'S A IT'S A NECESSITY. WE'VE GOT TO BE COMPETITIVE TO, TO MARKET. EVERYONE AROUND IS OFFERING DIFFERENT INCENTIVE PACKAGES. WE CAN'T JUST SAY NO, WE WANT TO GROW. WE WANT TO OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WHO WE SERVE. MAKE SURE MARYSVILLE IS, YOU KNOW, HAS A RESILIENT FUTURE. SO AND PART OF THAT RESILIENCY COMES IN THE FORM OF ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. YEAH. SO THE GREAT QUESTION. SO OUR GAME, WE STEP BACK FROM THE INCENTIVE POLICY TO HAVE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER THE EDITORS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, WHICH I THINK WE'RE GOING TO OUR FOCUS IS FIRST PART OF NEXT YEAR TO BRING IT BACK TO YOU. WE HAVE THE CONSULTANT WORKING ON GETTING INFORMATION TOGETHER TO BRING BACK YOU AFTER THE FIRST YEAR AND HOPEFULLY GET THE EDITORS, AND THEN WE WOULD BRING THE INCENTIVE POLICY. A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INCENTIVE POLICY MAKING CHANGES, AND WE'VE MADE A TON OF CHANGES, SO WE'D LIKE TO BRING IT BACK FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. RIGHT NOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT A PROJECT, WE LOOK AT THE EXISTING. BASICALLY, IT'S BASED ON JOBS, PAYROLL, INVESTMENT. WE ALSO TAKE THE NEW PROPOSED. AND WE GIVE TWO LINES. WHAT. WHAT WOULD THEY WHAT WOULD CURRENT ONE RECOMMEND FROM AN INCENTIVE PERCENTAGE IN TERM. AND THEN WHAT WOULD THE NEW ONE LOOK AT? SO WE LOOK AT BOTH AND WE JUDGE PROJECTS. NOW THE NEW ONE MUCH MORE COMPLICATED, MUCH MORE DETAILED. BUT IT ACTUALLY HAS MORE OF OUR COMMUNITY VALUES IN IT ABOUT WHAT WE WHAT WE WE WANT ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT. WE WANT DIFFERENT THINGS. WE WANT TO BE WITHIN A MILE OF WATER AND SEWER LINES IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE. THERE'S A TON OF DIFFERENT CRITERIA THAT WE PUT IN THERE TO MAKE IT, I GUESS, MORE ROBUST AND MORE, AND MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING THE RIGHT USES THAT WE WANT, BUT WE TEST BOTH. SO WE LOOK AT THE MORE DETAILED AND WE IT'S NOT ALTHOUGH IT'S NOT BEEN APPROVED, WE STILL LOOK AT THAT RIGHT NOW. BUT WE DO PLAN TO COME BACK IN 27 TO COME BACK TO YOU, TO ASK 
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YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION TO ADOPT THAT. SO THE, THE, THE APPROACH WOULD BE LEVERAGE THE EVS THROUGH THE EDICT TO, YES, INFORM THE. INCENTIVE PACKAGES. YES. THE EDITORS WOULD FOCUS MORE ON USE TRACTION. WHAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE IN THE COMMUNITY, OF COURSE, MAYORS HAS DONE A GREAT JOB TALKING ABOUT THE COMPANIES THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO TARGET AND THE EDITORS HAS FOLLOWS UP WITH THAT PROVIDES, PROVIDES OTHER USES AND WHAT WE WANT TO ATTRACT. AND THE INCENTIVE POLICY WOULD BE THAT DOCUMENT THAT GUIDES US, WHAT TYPES OF INCENTIVES WE WANT TO MAKE HAPPEN. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM MEMBERS OF COUNCIL? MR. REAMS, I WOULD JUST SAY I APPRECIATED I APPRECIATED YOU CLARIFYING THE POINT THAT THE CRA DOES NOT CREATE AN ABATEMENT OF THOSE 875 ACRES, BECAUSE I, I SAW SOME PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, SPREADING THAT INFORMATION, WHICH WAS NOT TRUE, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S GOOD THAT YOU CLARIFIED THIS. SO THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN BURGER. YEAH, MICHAEL, I ALSO WANTED TO EDUCATE EVERYBODY FOR JUST A SECOND BECAUSE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, IT'S VERY EASY TO CRITICIZE BECAUSE PEOPLE GET TO SEE LIKE THE IMPACTS OF THE DECISIONS THAT ARE MADE TO AFFECT OUR LIVES EVERY SINGLE DAY. IT'S VERY HARD TO CRITICIZE AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL, BECAUSE PEOPLE ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW THE REPRESENTATION, AND THEN THEY DON'T REALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND HOW GOVERNMENT TRULY WORKS AT THAT LEVEL. SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY, SO AS MARYSVILLE GROWS AND EVERY COMMUNITY ALL OVER THIS UNITED STATES HAS BEEN GIVING OUT TAX ABATEMENTS FOR THE DAWNING OF TIME. THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS NOT BANKRUPT BECAUSE THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS BANKRUPT BECAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS CLOSED THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE STATE HAS CUT FUNDING OFF TO THE TO TO THE TO THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY. SO LET ME JUST GIVE YOU, IN THE 1950S, THE FEDERAL TAX RATE FOR INCOMES OVER $400,000 WAS 91%. THAT WAS A TOTAL TODAY OF OVER $5 MILLION. TODAY, THAT SAME INCOME, OVER $5 MILLION IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY, IS THAT AN AMAZING TAX RATE OF 37%. SO WHEN PEOPLE SAY WHY LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE, THAT'S WHY. THE OTHER THING IS IN 2025, FROM THE TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY, ANYBODY CAN RESEARCH IT THEMSELVES. 114 PROFITABLE U.S. CORPORATIONS PAID ZERO IN FEDERAL TAXES. IT'S VERY EASY TO CRITICIZE THE LOCAL LEVEL BECAUSE PEOPLE SEE AND IT'S ALSO DISCUSSED WHETHER IT'S TRUE OR NOT. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE STATE AND THE FEDERAL LEVEL, WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CUTTING RED TAPE, THEY LOVE TO HEAR IT, BUT THEY DON'T ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND THAT. THE REASON WHY WE HAVE TO DO THE THINGS WE DO AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IS BECAUSE THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL IS NOT ALWAYS BEING OUR BEST FRIENDS. SO THOSE ARE JUST THOSE ARE JUST MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I'LL JUST STATE, MR. BORDEN, I APPRECIATE YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE USAGE OF WHICH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE POLICY WE WOULD BE CONSIDERING, LIKE C OR SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING TO ADOPT IN THE FUTURE. VERY SIMILAR QUESTION HAD COME TO MY MIND. SO THANK YOU FOR ADDRESSING THAT. AND JUST LIKE MR. REAMES HAD SAID, I THINK YOU SAID IT 3 OR 4 TIMES IN YOUR PRESENTATION. THIS IS NOT A TAX ABATEMENT FOR A PARTICULAR COMPANY. WHEN I LOOKED AT MY NEWS FEED, SOCIAL MEDIA FEED, WHATEVER IT MAY HAVE BEEN YESTERDAY OR TODAY, I QUESTIONED WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WAS ON OUR AGENDA THAT I DIDN'T READ. SO BECAUSE IT DID, IT DID INDICATE THAT THERE WAS A SPECIFIC APPLICANT AND WE WERE CONSIDERING THAT. BUT I APPRECIATE THE CLARIFICATION AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEFORE US THIS EVENING AND APPRECIATE YOUR ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS. AND THANK YOU, CITIZENS. AND I KNOW WE HAD A CITIZEN MENTIONED HE WAS HERE TO OBSERVE THE CIVIC PROCESS. APPRECIATE THAT. AND QUESTION WE HAD GOT AS WELL. 
          IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION FROM MEMBERS OF COUNCIL THIS EVENING? AND IF. NO, I WILL NOW ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO PASS THE LEGISLATION. SO MOVED SIMULTANEOUS, WE WILL NEED TO PICK A WINNER HERE. GIVE IT TO SOMEBODY. ALL RIGHT. MR. REAMES MADE THE MOTION. OKAY. ROLL CALL, MR. REAMES. YES. MRS. YOUNG. YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLF. NO. MR. BURGER YES. 
          MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TACKETT YES. SIX. YES. MOTION LEGISLATION PASSES. RIGHT. 
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THANK YOU. MOVING ON TO ORDINANCES 38-26. THIRD READING VOTE TO APPROVE PLANNING COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE A ZONING CODE. AMENDMENT TO REVISE THE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT FOR THE MARYSVILLE EAST PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION. 
          ADMINISTRATION HAS NO FURTHER COMMENTS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO THE MARYSVILLE 
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LAND COMPANY AS THE DEVELOPER FOR A COUPLE OF COMMENTS TO CLARIFY CONCERNS FROM CITIZENS. 
          OKAY. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, ERIN UNDERHILL. I'M AN ATTORNEY WITH UNDERHILL AND HODGE IN NEW ALBANY AND REPRESENT THE MARYSVILLE LAND COMPANY. YOU KNOW, JUST TO REITERATE HERE, THIS PROPERTY, THE MARYSVILLE EAST PUD, HAS BEEN ZONED FOR SOME TIME OVER THE COURSE OF 2026. WE HAVE SORT OF BEEN WORKING TO CONSOLIDATE WHAT WAS KIND OF A NETWORK OF DIFFERENT ZONING TEXTS INTO ONE THAT WOULD BE EASIER FOR THE CITY TO ADMINISTER AND, FRANKLY, EASIER FOR END USERS TO UNDERSTAND. I THINK THE BIG PROBABLY UPSIDE FOR THIS, AS WE HAVE ALSO AGREED TO MAKE DATA CENTERS CONDITIONAL RATHER THAN JUST PERMITTED USES UNDER THIS ZONING. SO SHOULD THAT USE COME TO TO BE A POSSIBILITY ON THIS SITE, THEN THERE WOULD BE A PUBLIC HEARING THAT WOULD BE HELD AT YOUR PLANNING COMMISSION. AND IT WOULD IT WOULD BE REVIEWED PUBLICLY. SO THAT'S THAT'S PROBABLY A POSITIVE FOR EVERYONE, GIVEN THE STATE OF EVERYBODY'S VIEWS ON DATA CENTERS THESE DAYS. WE DID GET SOME RESIDENT IN BUXTON. MEADOWS HAS RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT A PROVISION THAT IS THAT IS IN. IS IT BEEN IN THE ZONING TEXT FROM THE BEGINNING. THE APPROVED TEXT IS HERE, AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE ELIMINATION OF SETBACKS FROM PERIMETER BOUNDARIES. I WANT TO REITERATE THAT THE INTENT WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS PUD, AND I'VE DONE THIS IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, BUT SHOULD THERE EVER BE AN ADDITION TO THE PUD IN THE FUTURE? WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO AVOID IS A SITUATION WHERE WE HAVE TO COME BACK IN AND ASK FOR VARIANCES OR REZONE THIS PROPERTY AGAIN, BECAUSE WE'RE ADDING ALONG A PERIMETER. WE WANT A MECHANISM FOR IF THIS BECOMES IF THAT NEW PROPERTY WOULD BECOME INTEGRATED INTO THIS PUD, THAT THE PERIMETER SETBACK WOULD BECOME AN INTERIOR SETBACK ESSENTIALLY, AND WOULD GO AWAY. NO ONE WOULD BE HARMED IN THAT EVENT BECAUSE WE'D HAVE BUSINESSES WITHIN THE BUSINESS PARK AND UNDER THE CONTROL LAND OR THE CONTROL OF THE MARYSVILLE LAND COMPANY, YOU KNOW, AT AT ISSUE. BUT WE ARE WILLING TO MAKE A COMMITMENT TONIGHT. AND THIS IS IN SECTION FOUR B THREE. I, I KNOW YOU'RE ALL NOT GOING TO TO FOLLOW THAT NECESSARILY, BUT IT'LL BE IN THE RECORD AND WE'LL WORK WITH TIM AND KIM AND THEIR TEAMS TO MAKE SURE THIS GETS PLACED IN THE FINAL TEXT. 
          BUT WE WANT TO SAY IN THAT SUBSECTION THAT THE ELIMINATION OF SETBACKS WILL NOT APPLY TO BUXTON MEADOWS OR JOLLY ROAD RESIDENTS UNLESS A RESIDENT CHOOSES TO SELL THEIR PARCEL TO AN ADJACENT OWNER WITHIN THE PUD. SO THE QUESTION WAS RAISED IS THERE A SITUATION WHERE LET'S TAKE BUXTON MEADOWS, FOR INSTANCE, WHERE WE'VE MADE SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT SETBACK AND LANDSCAPING COMMITMENTS, WHETHER THERE'S ANY ABILITY FOR US TO SOMEHOW USE THIS TO ELIMINATE THOSE COMMITMENTS. AND THE ANSWER IS NO, WHAT WOULD BE REQUIRED WOULD BE A RESIDENT, OR RESIDENTS IN BUXTON MEADOWS WOULD HAVE TO SELL TO SOMEBODY WHO ALREADY OWNS LAND IN THE BUSINESS PARK, AND WE WOULD HAVE TO ZONE THAT LAND INTO A DESIGNATION IN THIS PUD IN ORDER FOR THOSE SETBACKS TO GO AWAY. SO WE ALREADY THINK IT'S SELF-EXECUTING THAT THAT THESE SETBACKS WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BE ELIMINATED WITHOUT SOME FURTHER COUNCIL ACTION FOR THOSE BUXTON MEADOWS RESIDENTS. BUT WE WANTED TO PLACE INTO THE RECORD THAT STATEMENT THAT TO TO TO ASSURE EVERYBODY THAT EVERYONE IN BUXTON MEADOWS IS PROTECTED BY THESE COMMITMENTS. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAD. AND I KNOW, JUST AS A POINT OF ORDER, I DON'T THINK THIS IS A SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE OR AMENDMENT. SO JUST CLARIFIES WHAT'S ALREADY IN THE PUD TEXT. OKAY. 
          THEREFORE, COUNCIL ACTION IS NOT NECESSARY. OKAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO WE HAD HEARD FROM ADMINISTRATION. NEXT IS COUNCIL. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS COMMENTS FROM MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. MR. WARNER, I JUST I JUST WANT TO YET AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE PARTNERSHIP. AND, YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN AND AND HOPEFULLY I'M THANKING YOU ON BEHALF OF THE BUXTON MEADOWS RESIDENTS, AS ARE NEIGHBORS, RESIDENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS WELL. THIS THIS ZONING HAS BEEN. 
          A VERY MUCH A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT. IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING AND I. I GENUINELY APPRECIATE THE, THE WILLINGNESS TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE AMENDMENTS OR ADJUSTMENTS TO, TO HELP SUPPORT AND PROVIDE THAT ASSURANCE TO, TO, TO OUR NEIGHBORS. THEY MIGHT NOT VOTE FOR US, BUT WE STILL CARE. RIGHT? SO IT'S A TRUE PARTNERSHIP. AND I, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMITMENT. 
          THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM MEMBERS OF COUNCIL? OKAY. AT THIS TIME, I 
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WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO PASS THE ORDINANCE 38-26 LEGISLATION, AS AMENDED FROM OUR LAST MEETING. SO WE HAVE A MOVE. IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCILMAN YOUNG. I HEARD THAT CORRECTLY. 
          ROLL CALL, MRS. YOUNG. YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLF YES. MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER. YES. 
          MRS. TAKACS YES. MR. REAMS YES. SEVEN. YES. LEGISLATION PASSES. THANK YOU. 47-26 THIRD READING 
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VOTE TO APPROVE THE 10TH AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT OF THE MARYSVILLE JEROME TOWNSHIP JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AUTHORIZING THE INCLUSION OF CERTAIN ADDITIONAL PROPERTY WITHIN SAID DISTRICT KNOWN AS THE HUNTINGTON BANK JEROME VILLAGE AMENDMENT ADMINISTRATION. NOTHING FURTHER. OKAY. COUNCIL. AT THIS TIME, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO PASS THE LEGISLATION. SO MOVED. THANK YOU, MR. WARNER. ROLL CALL, MR. BORDNER. YES. MR. WOLF. YES. MR. BURGER. YES. MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TAKACS. YES. MR. REAMS YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. 
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SEVEN. YES. LEGISLATION PASSES 48-26 THIRD READING VOTE TO AMEND THE CODE OF ORDINANCES. 
          CITY OF MARYSVILLE, OHIO TO PROVIDE AMENDMENTS TO TRAFFIC. MARYSVILLE CODE, SECTIONS 301.02 THROUGH 371.12 TO PROVIDE FOR PENALTIES. TO PROVIDE FOR CODIFICATION. TO PROVIDE FOR SEVERABILITY. TO REPEAL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES. TO APPROVE. TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. ADMINISTRATION. NOTHING FURTHER. OKAY. COUNCIL. 
          I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO PASS THE LEGISLATION. SO MOVED. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN WOLFF. 
          ROLL CALL, MR. WOLFF. YES, MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TYPEKIT. YES. MR. REAMS YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER YES. SEVEN. YES. LEGISLATION PASSES 49-26 THIRD 
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READING VOTE TO AMEND THE CODE OF ORDINANCES. CITY OF MARYSVILLE, OHIO TO PROVIDE AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL OFFENSES. MARYSVILLE CITY CODE, SECTIONS 513.01 THROUGH 545.18 TO PROVIDE FOR PENALTIES. TO PROVIDE FOR CODIFICATION. TO PROVIDE FOR SEVERABILITY. TO REPEAL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES. TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 
          ADMINISTRATION. THERE'S NOTHING FURTHER. COUNCIL. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO PASS THE LEGISLATION. THANK YOU. COUNCILWOMAN YOUNG ROLL CALL, MR. BURGER. YES. MR. HUNTER. 
          YES. MRS. TACTIC. YES. MR. REAMS. YES. MRS. YOUNG. YES. MR. BORDNER. YES. MR. WOLF. YES. 
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SEVEN. YES. LEGISLATION PASSES. MOVING ON. THE 50-26 SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT A CAPITAL BUDGET FOR 2027 ADMINISTRATION. SO EACH OF YOU SHOULD HAVE A COUPLE SHEETS IN FRONT OF YOU. THIS IS YOUR MAP ON HOW TO MOVE FORWARD. SHOULD COUNCIL AGREE ON THESE ITEMS? JUST TO BE CLEAR, THESE WERE ITEMS THAT WERE BROUGHT TO ADMINISTRATION'S ATTENTION OVER THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS, IN PARTICULAR AT THE WORK SESSION LAST WEEK. SO THESE ARE NOT NECESSARILY CHANGES THAT WE'RE EXPECTING YOU TO MAKE. WE'RE SAYING THAT IF THESE ARE THE CHANGES, YOU SHOULD DECIDE TO MOVE FORWARD. THIS IS HOW TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THEM. 
          UNFORTUNATELY, GIVEN, YOU KNOW, TIM IS SUCH A STRICT GUY AND DOESN'T LET YOU DO AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, YOU HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, CONSIDER THE PIECE OF LEGISLATION IN FRONT OF YOU. SO RIGHT NOW, WHAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU IS THE CAPITAL BUDGET OF THE ITEMS THAT WERE BROUGHT TO ADMINISTRATION'S ATTENTION. THE ONLY ITEM IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET WAS THE YMCA ALLOCATION. SO I'M GOING TO PAUSE HERE TO SAY, SHOULD COUNCIL WANT TO CONSIDER ANY CHANGES TO THAT PARTICULAR ITEM AND ITS ALLOCATION, ALL YOU WOULD APPROVE RIGHT NOW PRIOR TO MOVING ON THIS, ON TO THIRD READING, WOULD BE TO AMEND IT, AMEND THE CAPITAL ITEM RELATED TO THE Y. OTHER ITEMS WILL COME LATER AND WE'LL HAVE MORE CONVERSATION ABOUT THOSE. NOW, OF COURSE, IF YOU HAVE OTHER CAPITAL RELATED ITEMS, THIS WOULD BE THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT THOSE AS WELL. OKAY. BRAD, I. MR. LUTZ, I APPRECIATE THE EXPLANATION AND I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT WENT INTO JUST HELPING PREPARE SO THAT WE COULD WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, 
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THE BUDGET. NOW, HOW MANY MEETINGS IN A ROW? I MEAN, IT'S PROBABLY 6 OR 7. I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE UP TO EIGHT, BUT IT'S BEEN A LOT AND MANY HOURS PUT INTO THIS. SO APPRECIATE YOU ORGANIZING THE INFORMATION AND REALLY POST OUR MEETINGS. I KNOW THAT THERE'S EFFORT TO REALLY COMPILE WHAT IT IS WAS DISCUSSED AND HELP GUIDE US THROUGH THIS PROCESS. AT THIS TIME, I THINK IF THE GUIDANCE WAS NOT CLEAR, YOU MAY ASK QUESTIONS. IF IF NO QUESTIONS, I WOULD JUST ASK FOR ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO THAT ARE CONSIDERING ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE BUDGET TO PROCEED. AND A REMINDER, WE ARE ON ORDINANCE SORRY, ORDINANCE 50-26, AND THAT IS TO ADOPT A CAPITAL BUDGET FOR 2026. WE'RE ON THE CAPITAL BUDGET ORDINANCE. ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS WISHING TO SPEAK TO ANY OF THESE ITEMS OR ANY ITEM IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET? MR. BORDNER MR. PRESIDENT, I DO WANT TO HAVE JUST A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE THE LAND ACQUISITION ON THE $5 MILLION. AND, YOU KNOW, WE WE DID HEAR FROM A RESIDENT THIS EVENING IN FAVOR OF THE PURCHASE OF THAT SAID ACQUISITION. YOU KNOW, I JUST I HAVE SOME HESITANCY ON, YOU KNOW, HAVING THAT MONEY ALLOCATED IN THE CURRENT BUDGET, GIVEN THE FACT THAT THERE HASN'T BEEN AN AGREEMENT FORMALIZED BETWEEN ANY OF THE PARTIES THAT THAT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED, YOU KNOW, AND, AND I, I'VE, I'VE TALKED TO A LOT OF RESIDENTS, SOME ARE IN FAVOR, SOME ARE, YOU KNOW, UNFAVORABLE. IT'S PROBABLY IN THE 50, 50, 60, 40%. HOWEVER, FOR ME, I, I REFLECT ON JUST THE LAST FEW WEEKS, I THINK EVERYBODY RECALLS THE, THE COMMUTER TAX ANALYSIS THAT WAS DONE AND THE, IN THE LAST PUBLIC MEETING. AND, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THEY FEEL THE, THE, THE STRAIN OF RISING COSTS. RIGHT. AND THEY'RE LOOKING FOR RELIEF. AND I, I JUST, I, I SEE VALUE, BUT I ALSO HEAR THE, THE, THE OUTCRY FOR HELP. AND I DON'T KNOW THAT RIGHT NOW ALLOCATING $5 MILLION IN OUR BUDGET WOULD ALLOW US IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM TO HELP. YOU KNOW, I THINK ONE NUMBER THAT WAS PUT PUT OUT THERE A WHILE BACK, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS, THIS BOND WOULD COVER SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINES OF 40 OR BE EQUIVALENT TO SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINES OF 40% OF OUR, OF OUR EXISTING PAVING BUDGET, WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO. YOU KNOW, WE, WE REALLY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY ALLOCATED FOR PAVING. AND EVERYBODY UP HERE HEARS RESIDENTS CONCERNS ABOUT PAVING AND HOW, YOU KNOW, THE ROADS AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE HAS BEEN MAINTAINED. AND WHERE I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO, YOU KNOW, FROM A FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE MINDSET, RIGHT? LOOKING AT OPTION A IS A 50 OR $100 MILLION NEW FACILITY, OR OPTION B IS A $5 MILLION, 90%. RATE TO HAVE SOME, SOME SENSE OF SOME OR SOME SORT OF COMMUNITY CENTER. I JUST, I, I'M, I'M NOT THERE YET BECAUSE AN AGREEMENT HAS NOT BEEN MADE. AND I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD KEEP IT IN A BUDGET WITH OUT ANY SORT OF SENSE OF, OF, OF COMMITMENT FROM ANY OF THE PARTIES INVOLVED. SO I THINK THAT THERE'S OPPORTUNITY LATER TO REAPPROPRIATE IF WE NEED TO. I JUST THINK JUST FOR THE SAKE OF, OF, OF TRANSPARENCY AND MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE CONTROLLING THE CHECKBOOK, THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT WE CAN CONTROL. I THINK THAT WE, WE SHOULD CONSIDER REMOVING THAT FOR THE TIME BEING. OKAY. THANK YOU, MR. PORTER, FOR YOUR THOUGHTS. AND ON THIS ITEM. ANY FURTHER COMMENTS BY MEMBERS OF COUNCIL? AND THEN IF IF THAT IS THE DIRECTION THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO POSE TO THIS COUNCIL, THAT THAT WOULD REQUIRE A MOTION. SO, SO I THINK THAT THERE'S A FEW OF THEM, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, BUT FOR THE CAPITAL BUDGET. OKAY. SO FOR THE CAPITAL, THE ONE THAT ALIGNS WITH THIS PARTICULAR ORDINANCE. YES. OKAY. SO FOR 
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THE CAPITAL BUDGET, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE LAND ACQUISITION FROM $5 MILLION TO ZERO. OKAY. AND THEN JUST FOR YOUR AWARENESS, I'M GOING TO READ HERE JUST WHAT THE NOTES HAD COMPILED TO DECREASE LINE ITEM 439400-557005. LAND ACQUISITION FROM $5 MILLION TO ZERO. AND DOES THAT ENCOMPASS YOUR MOTION? OKAY. YES. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? OKAY. SO WE HAVE A MOTION FOR AN AMENDMENT. AND THEN NOW WE WILL DO ROLL CALL. 
          MR. HUNTER. SIR, SORRY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M DOING THIS PROCEDURALLY CORRECT. DID WE ASK FOR CITIZEN COMMENTS? I FORGOT THAT PART. SO DO WE HAVE ANY CITIZENS WISHING TO COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? AND MY APOLOGIES FOR MOVING DIRECTLY TO COUNCIL, BUT ARE THERE CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM? OKAY, HEARING NONE. MOVING TO COUNCIL, WE HAD SOME DIALOG. 
          NOW WE HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN TO AMEND THE LEGISLATION. ROLL CALL PLEASE. MR. HUNTER. YES. 
          MRS. PACKAGE. YES. MR. REAMS. YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER. YES. MR. WOLF. YES. 
          MR. BURGER YES. MOTION PASSES. OKAY. THE LEGISLATION IS AGAIN AT SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING. ARE THERE ANY CITIZEN COMMENTS WISHING TO SPEAK ON THE LEGISLATION AS AMENDED? OKAY. HEARING NONE. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR THIRD READING VOTE ON NOVEMBER 23RD, 2026. 51-26. 
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SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT AN ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET FOR 2027 ADMINISTRATION. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE COLOR CODED MAP THAT APRIL PUT TOGETHER, SHE IS MUCH BETTER AT THIS GRAPHICALLY THAN I AM. THE WHAT I'LL CALL RED OR SALMON COLOR BECAUSE YOU APPROVED THE CAPITAL BUDGET AMENDMENT, YOU WILL NOW NEED TO MAKE A MOTION TO MAKE THAT CHANGE THE SALMON COLOR UNDER THE OPERATING BUDGET. AND I WOULD ASK THAT YOU DO THAT SEPARATELY BECAUSE YOU APPROVED THE ONE IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET. SO IT ONLY STANDS TO REASON THAT YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO MAKE THE CHANGE IN THE NEXT TWO. SO I WILL PAUSE HERE. THANK YOU FOR THE EXPLANATION. AND I BELIEVE ALSO WE HAVE THERE ARE OTHER ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED IN OUR WORK SESSION. SO WE WOULD MOVE TO CITIZEN COMMENTS. I THINK GIVEN YOUR EXPLANATION. VERY HELPFUL. I APPRECIATE THAT. BUT CITIZEN COMMENTS. AND THEN WE COULD ALSO EVALUATE THE OTHER PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. IF THERE IS IF COUNCIL WISHES TO TAKE THAT ACTION IN THE FORM OF MOTION. BUT FIRST WE WOULD HEAR, BUT THEN WE WOULD DO THOSE INDIVIDUALLY. BUT FIRST WE WOULD HEAR FROM CITIZENS. ARE ANY CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK ON ORDINANCE 51-26? AND IF SO, NOW IS THE TIME TO APPROACH THE PODIUM AND DO SO. OKAY. SEEING NONE NOW, WE WILL MOVE TO COUNCIL DISCUSSION AND IF YOU SEE, WE HAD. THERE ARE VARIOUS ITEMS LISTED ON THE COLOR CODED SHEET UNDER THE OPERATING BUDGET ORDINANCE. AND AS BRAD MENTIONED, ONE OF THOSE RELATES TO A $5 MILLION NET CHANGE, WHICH WOULD NEED TO HAVE A SEPARATE NEW MOTION AS PART OF THIS ORDINANCE. AND THEN SIMILARLY IN THE NEXT ORDINANCE AS WELL. BUT THERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL ITEMS. AND FOR THOSE ADDITIONAL ITEMS TO BE CONSIDERED. COUNCIL MEMBER, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS, IF THAT IS AN ITEM YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEEK AN AMENDMENT TO, TO MAKE A MOTION TO DO SO, MR. PRESIDENT, I WANT TO DECREASE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT FUND FOR FOR 39 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BY 5 MILLION FROM 14,000,421 266 TO 9 MILLION 421 TO 66. SO I UNDERSTAND YOU MADE THAT MOTION. I THINK THAT WE SHOULD DISCUSS THESE DIFFERENT ITEMS, AND THEN WE WOULD MAKE MOTIONS. WE WOULD CONSIDER THESE MOTIONS ALL IN UNIQUELY. SO THEN WHEN IT GOES BACK TO SECOND READING, THEY WOULD ALL BE A PART OF THE AMENDED LEGISLATION, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. SO I UNDERSTAND WE HAVE A MOTION, BUT WE CAN. MR. MR. LUTZ, GO AHEAD. WE DO, WE DO. IT'S JUST I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS THEM ALL. WHATEVER MOTIONS THAT WERE ARE GOING TO BE MADE THAT THAT THAT'S FINE. 
          YEAH, YEAH. I WOULD ONLY ASK THOUGH THAT EACH, EACH COLOR GET ITS OWN VOTE, GET ITS OWN. 
          YES, ITS OWN VOTE. SO, SO WE HAVE A MOTION FOR AN AMENDMENT. WE'LL, WE'LL KEEP THIS IN MIND. 
          SO WE HAVE A MOTION ALREADY FOR AN AMENDMENT ON THAT ITEM. THANK YOU COUNCILMAN BURGER. 
          ARE THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS ANY OTHER AMENDMENTS COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE WISHING TO MAKE? AND IF SO NOW, PLEASE DO SO. PLEASE SPEAK TO THAT ITEM, MR. PRESIDENT. YES, SIR. WE HAD A 
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GREAT PRESENTATION TONIGHT ON THE AMEC. THERE'S DISCUSSION ON THE INVESTMENT MADE BY BOTH THE COUNTY AND THE CITY IN IN CREATING THAT AND THE SCHEDULE AS FAR AS THE SUPPORT WE'RE PROVIDING OVER TEN YEARS, I. I WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE THAT WE MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT. AS DISCUSSED ON THE SHEET, WHICH PUTS US BACK IN LINE WITH OUR COMMITMENT THAT WAS MADE FOR THAT TEN YEAR PLAN. BASICALLY, THAT'S A AN ADJUSTMENT OF ABOUT $12,000 SPLIT UP BETWEEN THESE THREE FUNDS. OKAY. AND JUST FOR REFERENCE, MR. REAMES, WE'RE SPEAKING IN TERMS OF THE COLOR CODING ON THIS SHEET HERE. YES. SO THAT WOULD BE CORRECT. YES. YEAH. I MEAN, I AM COLORBLIND, BUT I, I DO SEE THE SHADE OF GRAY ALL LOOKS THE SAME. I WOULD APPRECIATE EVERYONE MAKING A GUESS OF WHAT COLOR IT IS. AND THEN WE MAKE NOTE. I THINK IT'S GOLD. SEE, I'M GOING WITH GOLD. ALL RIGHT. YOU'RE YOU'RE THE WINNER. YOU SHADING. AND WE'LL USE DIFFERENT TEXTURES TO DO THE SHADING. THAT'S RIGHT. EVEN A LITTLE BIT. 30% GRAY, A LITTLE BIT TOO BORING THEN. RIGHT. OKAY. NOW APPRECIATE THE WORK. SORRY. SORRY, MARK, THAT WE'RE HAVING TO ENDURE THAT. BUT THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION. SO JUST TO REITERATE WHAT MR. REAMES HAD STATED, THIS WOULD BE A DECREASE IN THE ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET FOR GENERAL FUND 100 AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT BY $7,012, FROM 2,000,752 252 TO 2,707,745 240 AND DECREASE ENTERPRISE FUNDS 535. SEWER OPERATING FUND BY 1900 FROM 29,888,201 TO 29,886,301 AND DECREASE ENTERPRISE FUNDS 5550 WATER REVENUE BY $3,087, FROM 22,000,733 733,181 TO $22,730,094. SO THAT IS WHAT WAS 555550. SORRY, FIVE 550. OKAY. DID I SAY THAT? OKAY. 555 50 INSTEAD OF 5535 I DID. YEAH. THE ONE SHEET HAS IT WRITTEN ONE WAY. BRAD ONE LITTLE ERROR ON ALL OF THIS TYPING, BUT I APPRECIATE THE WORK TO PUT THIS TOGETHER. SO WE HAD HEARD MR. REAMS AND I THINK MR. REAMS, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE THE COMMITMENTS TO TO FUND THIS OVER TIME AND THE CHANGES IN THAT FUNDING OVER TIME. AND WE WE DID. I THINK I SPOKE TO YOU ABOUT THAT AND, MR. PRESIDENT. YES, SIR. SO IF WE'RE DONE OFF THAT SUBJECT, SORRY. MR. REAMS, WAS THAT A MOTION TO. ALSO, DID YOU MAKE A MOTION WHEN YOU. YEAH, YEAH. I CAN'T MAKE ANOTHER MOTION RIGHT NOW. WE'RE JUST DISCUSSING DISCUSSING AMENDMENTS. SO WE HAVE THIS IS PART OF THAT AMENDMENT. THAT WOULD BE THAT WOULD BE A IT'LL BE VOTED ON AMENDMENT. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU, MR. BURGER. I DON'T WANT TO INTERRUPT. MR. BORDNER. I GUESS JUST ONE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION, BECAUSE THERE WAS A PRESENTATION THAT WE DISCUSSED. I HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS TODAY. 
          RIGHT. AND I RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS AN AGREEMENT. IT WAS IT WAS STATED ON THE SLIDE, PROBABLY THE FOURTH OR FIFTH SLIDE THAT I BELIEVE CHRIS WAS, WAS, WAS GOING THROUGH. AND IT SHOWED KIND OF THE TIERED FUNDING MECHANISM ACROSS THE THREE, THE, THE PORT AUTHORITY, THE COUNTY, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. AND I THINK THAT GIVEN THE FACT THAT THERE HASN'T BEEN. AND I KNOW THAT THERE WAS A COMMENT ON THAT SLIDE THAT SUGGESTED THERE MAY NEED TO BE FUTURE NEGOTIATIONS RELATIVE TO MAYBE THE FUNDING OUTLAY, THOSE THOSE CONVERSATIONS HADN'T STARTED. SO I SEE THAT IT IS PROBABLY FIT OR IT SEEMS FIT, THAT WE CONTINUE WITH THE WITH THE FUNDING RELATIVE TO THE EXISTING AGREEMENT UNTIL A NEW AGREEMENT IS IS IN ORDER. SO, MR. REAMS, THANK YOU FOR THE FOR THE MOTION. OKAY. COMMENTS. 
          YEAH, IT'S 9:00. I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO BE DONE BY NOW. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY FURTHER COMMENTS FOR THESE ITEMS? WE'VE WE'VE DISCUSSED THE SALMON COLORED ROSE AS WELL AS THE GOLD COLORED ROSE. MR. BERGER MR. PRESIDENT, FOR THE AD 140,000 FOR THE 250 STREET TREES FOR THE URBAN FORESTRY. THE INCREASE. ANNUAL OPERATION BUDGET ORDINANCE 5126 AN 
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INCREASED SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS. 220 FOR STREET TREE BY 140,000 FROM 539,073 TO 679,073 AND INCREASE IN GENERAL FUND 100 INTERIOR FUND TRANSFERS BY 140,000 FROM 26,000,056. I'M TRYING TO DO MY ONES TENS, HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS, YOU KNOW, AND THEN AND THEN RAISE IT TO 26,196,000. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN BERGER. SO THESE ITEMS THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING TO, FOR THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO INTERPRET THE COLOR SHEET, IT WOULD BE THE GREEN ROSE UNDER THE OPERATING BUDGET. IT WOULD BE ROW TWO AND THREE FROM THE TOP ROW OF DATA. AND THANK YOU FOR OUTLINING THAT INFORMATION. ANY FURTHER COMMENTS YOU WANT TO MAKE ON THIS ITEM? IF I CAN JUST MAKE ANOTHER COMMENT, THIS IS MOSTLY JUST FOR BOOKKEEPING FOR MYSELF. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE FACADE IMPROVEMENT GRANT, THE COUNTY PATTERSON GRANT, THOSE GRANTS THAT COMES OUT OF THE OPERATION BUDGET, IS THAT AM I WRONG ON THAT? THOSE ARE FUNDED FROM TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL FUND. OKAY. SO I KNOW THAT THAT'S NOT ITEMS ON ON TONIGHT'S LIST, BUT JUST THE, YOU KNOW, THE STATEMENT IS JUST FOR WE ALL KNOW THAT THOSE MONIES ARE GOING TO BE HELD BACK UNTIL THERE'S FURTHER DISCUSSION ON HOW THAT MONEY IS ALLOCATED IN THE FUTURE, AM I CORRECT? COUNCIL MEMBER BURGER YES, THAT THAT THE THE BUDGET LINE ITEM REMAINS IN THE BUDGET, BUT IT WILL NOT THEY WILL NOT BE AWARDED UNTIL THE RULES AND REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY COUNCIL AT THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMITTEE. THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS KNOW THAT IF YOU DON'T SEE SOMETHING ON ON THE SCHEDULE, SOME OF THESE ITEMS, I'M SORRY IF YOU DON'T SEE SOME OF THESE ITEMS WRITTEN DOWN. THERE HAS BEEN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HOW IS COUNCIL GOING TO ACT UPON THESE QUESTIONS, AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO BUDGET THESE, OR PUT STIPULATIONS ON SOMETHING THAT MIGHT NOT BE WRITTEN DOWN FOR THE FUTURE? SO THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO ADD A LITTLE ADDITIONAL CLARIFICATION. SO THE ITEM THAT YOU HAD INTRODUCED SPEAKING TO WAS THE ADJUSTMENT IN STREET TREES. AND THIS WAS RELATED TO THE URBAN FORESTRY STRATEGIC PLAN. WE DISCUSSED THIS AT THE WORK SESSION A WEEK AGO. AND THEN THE SO THAT IS WHAT COUNCILMAN BURGER HAD READ THROUGH. SO THE PROPOSED CHANGES WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR THE BUDGET WOULD BE WHAT HE READ. AND WE HAD DISCUSSED THAT TO SOME EXTENT AT OUR WORK SESSION. FOLLOWING THAT, YOU HAD MOVED ON TO A SECOND ITEM, WHICH WAS THE THE HOME IMPROVEMENT GRANT AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE HASN'T BEEN A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE AMOUNT ALLOCATED IN THE BUDGET. HOWEVER, FURTHER CONSIDERATION IS BEING REQUESTED TO JUST TO ADJUST, PERHAPS PARAMETERS SURROUNDING THAT GRANT PROGRAM AND HOW FUNDS COULD BE DISTRIBUTED. SO IT DOES NOT RELATE TO THE ACTUAL BUDGET IT RELATES TO MORE. SO I GUESS THE POLICY OR THE GRANT PARAMETERS ITSELF. 
          OKAY. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? YEAH. GO AHEAD. COUNCIL. I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THIS LAST DISCUSSION POINT ON THE STREET TREES. I MEAN, IT'S A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE. 
          AND I'M CURIOUS IF YOU'RE MAKING A CORRESPONDING ADJUSTMENT TO OUR REVENUE TO RAISE AND OFFSET THAT COST INCREASE. IS THERE A PROPOSAL THAT YOU'RE BRINGING FORWARD TO HELP OFFSET THIS? I THINK SO, MR. REAMS, YOU'RE POSING THE QUESTION TO COUNCILMAN BURGER. 
          IS THAT CORRECT, OR JUST YOUR OPPOSING COUNSEL? IF COUNCILMAN BURGER, IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? WELL, THE ONLY COMMENT I'LL MAKE IS WHEN MR. EVANS CAME UP AND SAID THAT UNDER THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, THE BUDGET WAS CUT WITHOUT COUNCIL UNDER KNOWING THE BUDGET WAS CUT. SO BY THAT, SO SO BY THAT CASE ALONE, WE'RE ACTUALLY UNDERFUNDING THE STREET TREE FUND. AND CURRENTLY THERE'S ENOUGH MONEY IN THE BUDGET THAT TO PAY FOR THIS WITHOUT SPENDING, WITHOUT TAKING, WITHOUT TAKING MONEY FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE. SO IN MY OPINION, I GUESS I DON'T REALLY KNOW. I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND THE YOUR COMMENT BECAUSE YOU WERE IN THE WORK SESSION AS WELL, WHERE THIS INFORMATION WAS TOLD TO ALL OF US ON COUNCIL. SO THAT'S THE THAT'S THE ONLY REASON WHY I BRING IT UP BECAUSE WE'RE ALL. WE MADE A COMMITMENT. WE SPENT MONEY TO SAY THAT. HOW ARE WE GOING TO PROTECT OPEN SPACE AND THE CANOPY OF OUR COMMUNITY? WE VOTED ON THAT COMMITMENT. WE 
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PUT IT IN LEGISLATION BASED ON THAT COMMITMENT. WE TOLD OUR RESIDENTS WHAT OUR COMMITMENT WAS GOING TO BE, AND THEN IT WAS UNDERFUNDED THE FIRST YEAR THAT IT WAS PUT INTO PLACE WITHOUT COUNCIL UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS PUT IN FUNDED. I'M NOT BLAMING ANYBODY FOR IT. I'M JUST SAYING THAT IT WAS UNDERFUNDED. SO THE REASON WHY WE HAVE TO DO THIS IS BECAUSE TO KEEP UP WITH THE WITH WHAT OUR COMMITMENT WAS AND WHAT I BELIEVE THE MAJORITY OF OUR RESIDENTS WOULD WANT TO SEE DONE IS WE HAVE TO FUND THIS FOR X AMOUNT OF YEARS TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE MAINTAINING THE STANDARD OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE. AND SO AND NOT ONLY ON TOP OF THAT, BUT THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WHY, WHEN THE STREET TREE PRESERVATION ORDINANCE COMES THROUGH, IT'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW WHY WE NEED TO BE DOING MORE TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PRESERVE THE CANOPY IN OUR COMMUNITY BEFORE DEVELOPMENT LEVELS AT ALL. SO THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. GO AHEAD. MR. SO THAT DOESN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION. I MEAN, THIS PROGRAM IS CURRENTLY FUNDED BY FEES FROM NEW DEVELOPMENT AS NEW STREETS ARE PUT IN WITH A FEE PER LINEAR FOOT. AND SO MY QUESTION IS, IF WE'RE INCREASING OUR COSTS, ARE YOU ALSO PROPOSING ANYTHING TO OFFSET THAT INCREASE? I'LL LET ADMINISTRATION ANSWER THE QUESTION. ARE THERE ANY REMARKS FROM. MR. I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR MARK'S POINT, NO, THERE IS NO CORRESPONDING INCREASE IN REVENUE. THIS IS A CORRESPONDING INCREASE IN A FUND THAT IS NOT RECEIVING SUFFICIENT REVENUE TO PAY FOR THE TOTALITY OF THE EXPENSES APPROPRIATED. THEREFORE, ANY INCREASE IN THIS FUND REQUIRES AN INCREASE ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT WAS INITIALLY PUT IN THE BUDGET FOR THE TRANSFER FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE 224 FUND, WHICH MEANS THAT THIS REDUCES THE CARRYOVER BALANCE IN THE GENERAL FUND BY 140,000 IS NOT BEING OFFSET IN ANY WAY BY NEW REVENUE. AND THEN. YEAH, THANK YOU, MR. LUTZ. I JUST WANT TO REITERATE JUST ONE POINT. SO I THINK IN THE DISCUSSION WE HAD IN OUR WORK SESSION, IT WASN'T THAT MR. EVANS, OUR URBAN FORESTRY MEMBER ON STAFF, HAD JUST HE DID NOT, IN THE MEETING, DID NOT DISCUSS THE THAT FUNDING BEING CUT FOR ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS TO HEAR. BUT IT WAS I HAD ASKED THE QUESTION, YOU KNOW, WE HAD AGREED WHEN WE HAD ADOPTED THE URBAN FORESTRY STRATEGIC PLAN. YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT A LIKE A LOW BUDGET PLAN, A MEDIUM BUDGET PLAN AND A HIGH BUDGET PLAN. 
          AND HAD I HAD ASKED THE QUESTION IN 2026 OR I SHOULD REALLY I ASKED THE QUESTION ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR AMENDMENT. DOES THIS PUT US IN LINE WITH WHAT WE HAD AGREED TO WHEN WE HAD ADOPTED THAT URBAN FORESTRY STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH WAS THE MEDIUM BUDGET PLAN? AND HE HAD MADE JUST THE COMMENT THAT, YES, IT WOULD PUT US IN LINE. AND THEN I HAD ASKED, WHAT WAS THAT IN 2026 BUDGET? AND HE HAD MENTIONED THAT IT HAD BEEN UNDER OF WHAT WE HAD ADOPTED IN THAT WHEN WE HAD ADOPTED THE STRATEGIC PLAN. THAT'S MY RECORD OF HOW HE HAD STATED IT. 
          SO, YEAH, I AND I LOOKED AT THIS LIKE A TRUE UP ALMOST. YEAH. I OR A CORRECTION FOR, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, I, I DON'T KNOW THAT RELITIGATING THE 2026 BUDGET AT THIS TIME MAKES A LOT OF SENSE. OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, WE'RE DISCUSSING THE 2027 BUDGET MOVING FORWARD. WHAT I WILL JUST SAY IS ONE SIMPLE POINT, WHICH IS WHEN WE DID THE BUDGET LAST YEAR, WE BUDGETED TO $7 MILLION. THAT WAS THE MINIMUM CARRYOVER THAT WE COULD DO IN THE GENERAL FUND. THAT MEANT THAT EITHER IF WE WANTED TO INCREASE, LIKE WE'RE DISCUSSING TODAY, AN INCREASE TO THE STREET TREE FUND IN THE 2026 BUDGET WHEN BEING DISCUSSED IN 2025, THAT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED A CORRESPONDING DECREASE IN ANOTHER EXPENSE. THE ONE THING I WILL SAY IS I DISAGREE WITH COUNCILMAN BERGER. THIS WAS DISCUSSED AS PART OF THE BUDGET PRESENTATION BECAUSE WE MADE IT CLEAR IN ORDER TO BALANCE THE BUDGET, WE HAD TO MAKE SOME TOUGH CHOICES ABOUT AREAS TO FUND. AND ONE OF THOSE AREAS THAT WAS REDUCED WAS THE STREET TREE FUND THAT WAS EXPRESSED DURING THE PROCESS. SO I'M SORRY, DONALD, I HAVE TO DISAGREE WITH YOU ON THAT. IT'S OKAY. SO BUT IN THE END, WHAT WE BUDGETED THIS YEAR, WE HAVE BUDGETED CARRYOVER BALANCE HIGHER THAN 7 MILLION. SO I'M NOT GOING TO I CANNOT IN GOOD CONSCIENCE TELL YOU AS THE FINANCE DIRECTOR, THAT YOU CAN'T ALLOCATE ANOTHER 140,000 FROM THAT CARRYOVER TO A NEW EXPENDITURE 2025 DISCUSSIONS IN 2026 BUDGET. I WOULD HAVE SAID 
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THAT TO YOU. TO BE CLEAR ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BUDGET YEARS. SO I'VE ALWAYS HEARD THAT COUNCILWOMAN. YOUNG QUESTION THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO, AND I'VE ASKED QUESTIONS AND I DON'T GET AN ANSWER. I WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH IT'S COSTING FOR THE TREES ON EAST FIFTH STREET. HOW MUCH IS IT COSTING TO TRANSPLANT THOSE TREES? IS IT COSTING MORE THAN TO REPLACE THEM? AND IF IT IS, WHY ARE WE ADDING MONEY TO THE STREET TREES? I DO WANT TO ASK A QUESTION IN REGARDS TO THAT, THAT PARTICULAR QUESTION, DOES THAT RELATE TO THE CAPITAL BUDGET OR IS THIS AN OPERATING BUDGET ITEM, OR IS IT KIND OF COVERING BOTH? YEAH, THERE IS A LINE ITEM IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET FOR EAST FIFTH STREET LANDSCAPING, AND THAT DOES INCLUDE STREET TREES. THE REASON YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN THAT INFORMATION, COUNCILWOMAN YOUNG, IS BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T DETERMINED A FINAL DESIGN YET. SO WE CAN'T WE DON'T HAVE THOSE NUMBERS YET. WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TREES ARE GOING TO BE PLANTED OR RELOCATED, ADOPTED. 
          YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW ANY OF THAT RIGHT NOW. BUT DOES IT COST MORE TO TRANSPLANT A TREE AND HOPE THAT IT LIVES? OR JUST TO DESTROY THE TREE AND START BRAND NEW? THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR IT IS CHEAPER TO PLANT A NEW TREE. THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. OKAY. OKAY. WE HAVE DISCUSSED THREE DIFFERENT TOPICS SO FAR. WE HAVE DISCUSSED A $5 MILLION LAND PURCHASE, AND THEN THERE ARE VARIOUS ITEMS THAT ABOUT SUM TO A TOTAL OF 12,000 THAT RELATE TO PORT AUTHORITY FUNDING. AND THEN THERE WAS THE ITEM TO TALK ABOUT THE URBAN FORESTRY AND ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR STREET TREE PLANTING. ARE THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ITEMS MEMBERS OF COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE FOR THE OPERATING BUDGET? YEAH. MR. PRESIDENT, WE SPOKE BRIEFLY AT OUR WORK SESSION REGARDING FIREWORKS AND THE CITY'S INVOLVEMENT WITH THAT, AND WE HAD A CONVERSATION OF INCREASING WHAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY ALLOCATED IN THE BUDGET BY ABOUT $5,000 TO MAKE IT ROUGHLY 15,000 FOR THIS. SO THE WHEN THE WHEN THE TIME WOULD COME, THE ITEM I WOULD BRING UP IS INCREASING GENERAL FUND 100 COUNCIL BY 5000 FROM 277,980 TO 282,980. AND THAT WOULD BE IN REGARDS TO OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS. OKAY. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THAT ITEM? THAT'S DISCUSSION WAS. YES. SORRY. 
          THAT DISCUSSION WAS BROUGHT UP BECAUSE DONALD THOUGHT WE NEEDED THE SAME AMOUNT AS FOR THE YEAR 250. WELL, NEXT YEAR IS NOT GOING TO BE 250 THE YEAR AFTER. THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE THE 250. I DON'T SEE WHY WE HAVE TO INCREASE IT $5,000. AND WHEN I SPOKE TO HIM EARLIER TODAY, HE SAID HE DIDN'T CARE. MISS YOUNG. IT WASN'T BROUGHT UP BECAUSE OF ME. IT WAS BROUGHT UP BECAUSE THE. THE AMERICAN. YEAH, THE AMERICAN LEGION. WE REQUESTED IT IN WRITING. AND JUST LIKE TO YOUR POINT, IF YOU ARE TRYING TO MAKE A POINT THAT STREET TREES ARE BEING MOVED BECAUSE OF ME, THAT IS ALSO INCORRECT AS WELL. COUNCILMAN WOLFF, YOU HAD A COMMENT I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY IN REGARDS TO THE FIREWORKS DISPLAY AND OUR YOU KNOW, WHAT WE ALLOCATE TOWARDS THAT. I KNOW I HAD HEARD FROM A NUMBER OF RESIDENTS TWO YEARS PRIOR, OBVIOUSLY, WE HAD A SPECIAL PRESENTATION LAST YEAR FOR THE 250TH BIRTHDAY, BUT LEADING UP TO THAT, THE FIREWORKS SHOWS BEFORE THAT HAD BEEN A LITTLE LACKLUSTER IN THEIR IN THEIR MIND AND WHAT HAD HAPPENED. SO I THINK MOVING FORWARD, OBVIOUSLY NEXT YEAR IS NOT THE AMERICAS 250TH BIRTHDAY, BUT I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY REASON FOR US TO, YOU KNOW, SCALE BACK WHAT WE DO AND CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD. AND, YOU KNOW, OVER THE NEXT 250 YEARS, OBVIOUSLY, FIREWORKS AND WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT WILL CHANGE QUITE A BIT. BUT I DON'T THINK IT MAKES SENSE TO JUST START SCALING BACK BECAUSE IT'S IT'S A DIFFERENT YEAR. OKAY. THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN WOLFF. COUNCILWOMAN YOUNG, DID YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS IN REGARD TO YOUR. 
          WOULD JUST BLOW IT UP AND SMOKE. OKAY. UNDERSTAND ANY FURTHER COMMENTS BY MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. 
          SO WE'VE DISCUSSED A TOTAL OF SEVEN LINE ITEMS. REALLY. THERE'S FOUR SUBJECT MATTERS THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED. AND NOW THE NEXT STEP WOULD BE TO MAKE A SORRY. SO WE HAD A MOTION AND WE'RE DISCUSSING AMENDMENTS AS PART OF THAT OVERALL MOTION. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M FOLLOWING THE PROCEDURE CORRECTLY TO PROCEED IN AMENDING THIS. NOW, WE WOULD 
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TAKE ROLL CALL AN INDIVIDUAL AMENDMENTS. THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. SO YOU'VE ALREADY ASKED FOR CITIZEN COMMENTS. YEAH. AND THERE'S A MOTION ON THE TABLE THAT MR. BURGER MADE. IN WHICH CASE, IF WE WERE TO AMEND THIS, IT WOULD GO BACK TO SECOND READING, AT WHICH POINT WE WOULD HAVE CITIZEN'S COMMENTS. AGAIN. YES, BUT I WOULD, I WOULD I WOULD HANDLE ALL OF THE MOTIONS TO AMEND. BEFORE YOU GO BACK TO SECOND. YEAH. OKAY. SO FIRST WE WILL DO A ROLL CALL FOR DECREASING THE CAPITAL FUND FOR 39 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS BY THE NET CHANGE OF $5 MILLION. 
          SO WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. YES. MR. REAMS YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLF. YES. 
          MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER YES. SEVEN YES. AMENDMENT PASSES. OKAY. NEXT IS THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND. 224 STREET TREES. THIS IS A $140,000 ADJUSTMENT INCREASE, BUT IT IN PARALLEL ALSO GENERAL FUND 100 INTERFUND TRANSFERS WOULD NEED TO BE INCREASED BY $140,000. IT'S NOT A TOTAL OF THE SUM OF THOSE TWO. IT'S JUST ONE VALUE. BUT BOTH THOSE WOULD NEED TO BE ADJUSTED AS PART OF THAT. SO ROLL CALL. I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOTION FIRST. OKAY. A MOTION TO MAKE THAT AMENDMENT. SORRY. COUNCILMAN BURGER, DID YOU WANT TO MAKE A YES. I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO ADD 140,000 FOR THE 250 STREET TREES TO THE URBAN FORESTRY. IS THAT OKAY? WELL, YEAH, $140,000 ADDITION TO THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND. 224 STREET TREE AND THEN THE GENERAL FUND 100 INTERFUND TRANSFERS. OKAY. SO YEAH, BOTH BOTH IN THE SAME MOTION. YEAH. 
          OKAY. OKAY. ROLL CALL. MR. REAMS. YEAH. MRS. YOUNG NO. MR. BORDNER NO. MR. WOLF. YES. MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER YES. MRS. TAKACS YES OR YES? MOTION PASSES. NEXT IS THE GENERAL FUND 100 COUNCIL. SO THIS WOULD BE $5,000. I WILL MAKE THE MOTION TO INCREASE GENERAL FUND 100 COUNCIL BY 5000. OKAY. ROLL CALL, MRS. YOUNG. NO. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLF. YES. MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER. NO. MRS. TAKACS YES. MR. REAMS YES. FIVE. YES. MOTION PASSES. OKAY. 
          NEXT IS THE GENERAL FUND 100 FINANCE DEPARTMENT. THIS IS SEVEN, A DECREASE OF $7,012. 
          THE ENTERPRISE FUND 535 SEWER OPERATING FUND. THIS IS A DECREASE OF $1,900. AND THEN THE ENTERPRISE FUND 550 WATER FUND, A DECREASE OF $3,087. MR. REAMS, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE THAT MOTION? SO MOVED. OKAY. ROLL CALL, MR. BORDNER. YES. MR. WOLF. YES. MR. BURGER. YES. 
          MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TAKACS. YES. MR. REAMS. YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. SEVEN. YES. MOTION PASSES. 
          OKAY. THE LEGISLATION IS AGAIN AT SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING. ARE THERE ANY CITIZEN COMMENTS? RYAN CUNNINGHAM 460. SCOTT FARMS MINES IN RELATION TO THE TREES. SO YOU GUYS ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE CANOPY AND ALL THAT? I GET IT, YOU KNOW. BUT MEANWHILE AT SCOTT, FOR INSTANCE, THE SCOTT FAMILY PARK, YOU GUYS JUST CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES. YOU RAN ALL THE RACCOONS AND EVERYTHING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I GOTTA PUT RAT POISON OUT AT NIGHT, KEEP ME OUT OF MY STUFF. BUT WHAT? SO WE'RE GOING TO DESTROY ACRES AND ACRES OF TREES NOW YOU WANT TO PLANT SOME MORE? LIKE, AGAIN, WASTE OF MONEY IF YOU WANT. IF YOU WANT TREES TO STOP CUTTING THEM DOWN. THANK YOU, MR. CUNNINGHAM. OKAY. ANY OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK ON THE AMENDMENTS THIS EVENING ON THE LEGISLATION, AS AMENDED? ALL RIGHT. ALEX BURDICK FROM MILL PARK DRIVE. IT'S NICE TO KEEP MARYSVILLE KIND OF HOW IT IS. SO IF WE HAVE TO SPEND A LITTLE MONEY ON SOME TREES, I THINK THAT'S THAT'S A GOOD THING AND PROGRESS AND WHATNOT. 
          SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO CUT THEM DOWN. SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT TO PLANT NEW ONES. BUT IT'S NICE TO BE DIFFERENT FROM COLUMBUS OR GROVE CITY OR WHATEVER. SO I LIVE HERE BECAUSE IT'S GREENER. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK ON THE LEGISLATION, AS AMENDED? OKAY. HEARING NONE. WE DON'T HAVE ANOTHER COUNCIL COMMENT AT THIS TIME, DO WE? SO THIS WILL BE BACK FOR THIRD READING VOTE ON NOVEMBER 23RD, 2026. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND 
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WORKING THROUGH THAT. NEXT IS THE OR SORRY, I'LL READ THIS. 52-26 SECOND READING PUBLIC 
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HEARING TO ADOPT ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2027 ADMINISTRATION. MR. LUTZ SO. AT THIS POINT, I WOULD STRONGLY CAUTION YOU AGAINST MAKING ANY MORE CHANGES TO THE BUDGET, BECAUSE YOU WOULD HAVE WANTED TO HAVE MADE THOSE CHANGES IN THE PREVIOUS ORDINANCE, UNLESS YOU WANT TO REOPEN THAT ONE. I WOULD SUGGEST DOING THAT IN THE NEXT MEETING WHEN I'M NOT HERE. 
          SO WHAT I WILL ASK IS THAT MAYBE JUST GO AHEAD AND GET THOSE MOTIONS OUT OF THE WAY FOR THE COLORS, AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK TO THE GRADE ONE AT THE END. SO WE JUST GET ALL THE NUTS AND BOLTS DONE UP FRONT. SO JUST TO REITERATE, I WOULD WE'LL GO IN THE SAME ORDER, BUT I GO AHEAD. MR. REAMS YES, SINCE WE'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED THESE AND WE'VE ALREADY CHANGED THE OPERATING BUDGET, CAN WE GO DIRECTLY TO THE AMENDMENTS? YEAH, I THINK THAT'S RIGHT. 
          MAYBE SOME COMMENTS. FIRST CITIZEN COMMENTS, FIRST ON ON THE LEGISLATION AS PRESENTED. 
          YES. AND MY APOLOGIES IF I SKIPPED OVER THAT. AGAIN. SORRY. THIS IS ONE OF THE MORE COMPLICATED MEETINGS TO RUN WITH ALL THESE AMENDMENTS. ARE THERE ANY CITIZEN COMMENTS WISH TO SPEAK ON THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE? OKAY. HEARING NONE. NEXT IS COUNCIL. 
          AND THEN THIS IS WHERE WE WOULD GO TO THE AMENDMENTS. MR. REAMS, THAT YOUR SUGGESTION. SO WE WOULD STILL NEED A MOTION THEN TO DECREASE THE CAPITAL PROJECTS, FUNDS, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FOR 39 AND 55, AND THAT WOULD BE A NET CHANGE OF -$5 MILLION AND BACK UP A SECOND. YES. SO THIS LAST ONE, THE GRAY ONE IS GRAY. IT REALLY IS GRAY. THANK YOU. I THINK WE HAD $40,000 FOR THAT ONE AND OTHER. ORGANIZATIONS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THIS. MAIN STREET, MARYSVILLE. CAN WE SEE WHAT WE'RE PAYING FOR BEFORE WE AGREE TO SPEND $40,000? I MEAN, FROM WHAT I REMEMBER AND I COULD BE WRONG, IT WAS $95,000 TO HIRE SOMEBODY FOR MAIN STREET, MARYSVILLE. YEAH. ADMINISTRATION, IF YOU'D LIKE TO COMMENT, I'M HAPPY TO COMMENT ON THAT. COUNCIL MEMBER YOUNG. WE DID SUBMIT THE MAIN STREET MARYSVILLE HAD A BUSINESS PLAN THAT WAS SUBMITTED WITH THE REQUEST. AND THEN AT THE WORK SESSION, WE ALSO REVIEWED A REVIEW OF THAT BUSINESS PLAN BY COUNCIL MEMBER TACKETT. SHE WAS ABLE TO SAY, IF WE'RE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS, THERE ARE CERTAIN PARAMETERS AND PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. COUNCIL MEMBER, CERTAIN PARAMETERS WE WOULD EXPECT AS WELL AS THE PARTNERSHIP AS EXPRESSED AND DESIRED IN THE BUSINESS PLAN, AND THAT PARTNERSHIP WOULD BE WITH THE COMMISSION, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. SO WHAT THIS IS, IS A LINE ITEM IN THE BUDGET THAT WILL STILL TAKE WORK BEYOND. IT'LL TAKE WORK WITH THE PARTNERSHIP. IT'LL TAKE WORK WITH THE JOB DESCRIPTION. IT'LL TAKE WORK OF THOSE PARAMETERS. IF COUNCIL AGREES TO THE PARAMETERS SET OUT BY COUNCIL MEMBER. TACKETT. SO THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A PLACEHOLDER, Y'ALL. THOSE THINGS ARE BEING WORKED ON, AND IT WOULD NOT BE UTILIZED UNTIL COUNCIL APPROVES OF THAT TYPE OF AGREEMENT IN THE FUTURE. 
          HEARING ALL THAT, MR. PRESIDENT, GO AHEAD. COUNCILMAN BURKE, I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO MOVE THROUGH THE AMENDMENTS FIRST, AND THEN WE WERE GOING TO GET TO THE GRAY ITEM. THAT WAS WHAT YOU HAD PROPOSED, MR. LUTZ. CORRECT? THAT'S RIGHT. SO IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE GRAY ITEM, PERHAPS WE COULD MOVE TO MR. BORDNER. DO YOU HAVE. OKAY. THE FIRST ITEM IS A DECREASE FOR THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUNDS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FOR 3955. AND THAT'S A DECREASE OF $5 MILLION. NET CHANGE OF -$5 MILLION. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO MAKE THAT AMENDMENT? OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION ROLL CALL, PLEASE, MR. WOLFF. YES. MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TACKETT YES. MR. REAMS YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER. YES. SEVEN YES. AMENDMENT PASSES AND ON THIS NEXT ITEM IS AN INCREASE FOR SPECIAL REVENUE FUND, STREET TREE TWO, 24 AND 54 AND THEN AN INCREASED GENERAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES. OTHER FINANCING USES 156. THAT IS AN INCREASE OF $140,000. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO AMEND THE BUDGET? SO MOVED OUT. CAN WE HAVE A MOTION ROLL CALL, PLEASE, MR. BURGER? YES. MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TACTIC. YES. MR. REAMS. NO. 
          MRS. YOUNG NO. MR. BORDNER NO. MR. WOLFE. YES. FOUR. YES. LEGISLATION. MOTION PASSES. 
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OKAY. NEXT IS AN GENERAL GOVERNMENT. GOV SERVICES CITY COUNCIL 157 AND THEN COMMA 57. AND THIS IS FOR AN INCREASE OF $5,000. SO MOVED. OH I'M SORRY. I'M JUST. OKAY. 
          ROLL CALL PLEASE. MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TACTIC. YES. MR. REAMS. YES. MRS. YOUNG NO. MR. BORDNER. YES. MR. WOLF. YES. MR. BURGER YES. SIX. YES. MOTION PASSES. OKAY. NEXT IS THERE ARE THREE LINE ITEMS DECREASE GEN GOV SERVICES FINANCE 100 AND THEN 54. IT'S A DECREASE OF $7,012 AND THEN A DECREASE ENTERPRISE FUNDS SEWER FUND 53554 DECREASE OF $1,900. 
          NEXT DECREASE ENTERPRISE FUNDS WATER FUND FIVE 5054 A DECREASE OF $3,087. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO MAKE THAT AMENDMENT. SO WE HAVE A MOTION ROLL CALL. MRS. TACTIC. YES. MR. REEVES YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLF. YES. MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER YES. 
          SEVEN YES. AMENDMENT PASSES AND THEN NOW WE ARE MOVED TO THE BOTTOM LINE ITEM, THE GRAY ITEM. 
          AND THIS IS A NAME CHANGE. SO THE LINE ITEM 100144-546008-MNST. THIS NAME CHANGES FROM MAIN STREET, MARYSVILLE TO UPTOWN SUPPORT AND IT'S A CHANGE OF $0. THIS IS JUST A NAME CHANGE. I FORGOT THE NAME, MR. SHARP. THANK YOU. IT WAS REQUESTED THAT WE LEAVE IT OPEN FOR. HOWEVER, THIS EVOLVES IN THE NEAR FUTURE. REGARDING WHAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT, THE MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT AND WHAT THAT SHOULD LOOK LIKE, IT ALLOWS TIME TO INVESTIGATE IT AND JUST LEAVE IT OPEN FOR WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE. AND IF I COULD JUST JUMP IN QUICKLY. 
          OBVIOUSLY, MAIN STREET MARYSVILLE DOES REFER TO A VERY SPECIFIC ORGANIZATION. IT HELPS US FROM AN ACCOUNTING STANDPOINT TO BE MORE GENERAL. SO SHOULD THIS STRUCTURE CHANGE IN THE FUTURE, THE NAME CHANGE IN THE FUTURE? UPTOWN SUPPORT OBVIOUSLY COVERS THAT VERSUS SOMETHING SAYING MAIN STREET, MARYSVILLE. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO CHANGE THE NAME? SO MOVED. OKAY. ROLL CALL, MR. REAMS. YES. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER YES. 
          MR. WOLF. YES. MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TACTIC. YES. SEVEN. YES. AMENDMENT PASSES. OKAY. THIS LEGISLATION IS AGAIN AT SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING NOW, AS AMENDED. 
          ARE THERE ANY CITIZEN COMMENTS FOR THE LEGISLATION AS AMENDED? OKAY. SEEING NONE. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR THIRD READING VOTE ON NOVEMBER 23RD, 2026. 53-26 SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING 
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TO SET THE ANNUAL COMPENSATION FOR ALL CITY EMPLOYEES AND 2027 ADMINISTRATION. IN THE WORDS OF YOUR FAVORITE BLACKJACK DEALER, I'M OUT. NOTHING FURTHER. WE APPRECIATE YOU, MR. LUTZ. 
          CITIZENS, ANY CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ORDINANCE? IF. NOW, PLEASE APPROACH THE PODIUM AND MAKE YOUR COMMENTS OKAY. SEEING NONE. COUNCIL. ANY MEMBERS OF COUNCIL HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS ITEM OR AMENDMENTS? THIS WILL BE BACK FOR THIRD READING 
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VOTE ON NOVEMBER 23RD, 2026. 54-26 SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING TO APPROVE PLANNING COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE ZONING CODE. AMENDMENTS TO PART 11 ZONING CODE. 
          APPENDIX. GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND TO SECTION 11. 21.13 MANUFACTURING AND INNOVATION DISTRICT. AND I HAVE A PRESENTATION TO PULL UP. MR. ANDREWS. GOOD EVENING. I'LL TRY TO GET THROUGH THIS QUICKLY. I'VE BEEN HERE A WHILE, SO. ALL RIGHT. THIS IS JUST KIND OF A REHASH OF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO. TOOK SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE WERE PROVIDED FROM COUNCIL AND MADE A COUPLE ADJUSTMENTS. SO SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT OR SOME OF THE TAKEAWAYS WE HAD WERE SOME CONCERNS WITH PROXIMITY OF BATCH PLANTS TO PUBLIC ROADWAYS, CONCERNS RELATED TO RESTORATION OF LAND ONCE PLANTS DECOMMISSIONED, AND SOME DESIGN ELEMENTS SPECIFICALLY WITH BUILDING MOUNTED SPOTLIGHTS, I THINK IS WHAT WAS BROUGHT UP. 
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SO WE KIND OF EVALUATED THOSE, LOOKED AT SOME OTHER COMMUNITIES WITH WHAT SOME OF THE PARAMETERS THEY HAVE FOR SETBACK REQUIREMENTS FOR BATCH PLANTS, AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THESE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES. SO THIS WOULD BE TWO SEPARATE AMENDMENTS TO THE DEFINITIONS. THESE ESTABLISH MINIMUM SETBACKS FOR BOTH TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT BATCH PLANTS. THE TEMPORARY WOULD BE A MINIMUM SETBACK OF 300FT FROM ANY RESIDENTIAL USE PROPERTY OR DWELLING, AND THEN 100FT FROM THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY OR PUBLIC STREET RIGHT OF WAY. AND THE REASON FOR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO DISTANCES IS IF IT'S A TEMPORARY BATCH PLANT, THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT ON THAT SITE. SO IF YOU LIMIT THEM TO BEING 300FT FROM THE PUBLIC ROADWAY ROADWAY, YOU'RE GOING TO IMPACT WHERE THEY CAN ACTUALLY CONSTRUCT THEIR, YOU KNOW, THAT SPECIFIC USE THE BATCH PLANT IS DESIGNED FOR, FOR PERMANENT PLANT. THAT'S GOING TO BE THE ONLY USE ON THAT PARCEL. IT'S A 300 FOOT, 300 FOOT SETBACK FROM RESIDENTIAL USES AS WELL AS PUBLIC STREET RIGHT OF WAY. IF THERE'S ANY QUESTION ON THOSE TWO PROPOSED AMENDMENTS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM. MR. BURGER, I WAS MY I THINK IF IT'S LATE, AND IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, I THINK MY. THERE WOULD BE AMENDMENT TO HOLD REMOVE PERMANENT BATCH PLANT UNTIL. FURTHER DISCUSSION ON. I'LL ADDRESS THAT. SO SO WHAT? MR. ANDREWS IS REVIEWING OUR PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE DEFINITION. SO WE HAVE A. THINK ABOUT THIS AS WE GOT THE DEFINITIONS TO PUT THERE TO REALLY EXPLAIN WHAT THESE THINGS ARE. AND THEN WE HAVE HOW THESE THINGS THAT WE'RE ADDING TO DEFINITIONS ARE TO BE CONSIDERED IN TERMS OF USES. RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST REVIEWING PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE DEFINITION. SO WE WOULD NEED TO MAKE AMENDMENTS TO THE LEGISLATION RELATING TO THE DEFINITIONS LATER IN. NEXT, WE WILL DISCUSS THE USE THE PERMITTED CONDITION OR NOT EITHER OF THOSE TWO, IN WHICH CASE THEY'RE PROHIBITED TOPIC. THAT'S CORRECT. AND THE REASON WE WANTED TO LEAVE BOTH OF THEM IN IS YOU CAN'T REALLY HAVE JUST A TEMPORARY BATCH PLANT LIKE YOU CAN IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE IF YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THEM AS TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT, YOU KIND OF HAVE TO HAVE BOTH AS OPPOSED TO JUST BATCH PLANT. WHEN YOU. MR. PRESIDENT, GO AHEAD, MR. BERGER. WHEN YOU WHEN YOU LOOKED AT OTHER COMMUNITIES TO IDENTIFY FOR US TO HAVE LEGISLATION BASED ON THIS TOPIC, WHAT WHAT WERE THE THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT YOU WERE LOOKING AT? I, I KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD THAT NEW ALBANY HAS HAS A PROVISION FOR THAT, AND I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE WORKSHEET THAT JEFF BEARD PREPARED, THAT HE LOOKED AT SOME OTHER COMMUNITIES, BUT THERE ARE SEVERAL IN CENTRAL OHIO. OKAY. ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE QUESTIONS REGARDING THESE DEFINITION AMENDMENT PROPOSALS? MR. REAMS, I APPRECIATE THIS. I THINK IT'S A GOOD PROPOSAL AND A GOOD IMPROVEMENT. I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND IT AS PRESENTED HERE. OKAY. I KNOW THE TWO SEPARATE AMENDMENTS SINCE IT'S TWO. YEAH. I THINK YOU WANT TO TAKE THIS. AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE. I FAILED TO TO FOLLOW THE, THE MY TEACHERS NOTES HERE. THANK YOU, MR. HASLEMERE. APPRECIATE THAT WE COULD DO THAT. WE COULD DO THAT. AFTER THE ADDITIONAL EXPLANATION, PERHAPS OF THE THE OTHER PORTION OF THIS. SO MAYBE JUST FOR COUNCIL AND MYSELF TO PERHAPS HOLD SOME OF YOUR DISCUSSION SO THAT WE CAN LET MR. ANDREWS PROCEED THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. WE'LL ALLOW CITIZEN COMMENTS, AND THEN WE'LL ENGAGE IN THE ADDITIONAL COUNCIL DISCUSSION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR. MR. ANDREWS, YOU CAN PROCEED. ONE OF THE OTHER CONCERNS WERE WAS RELATED TO RESTORATION OF LAND. AGAIN, WITH THE APPLICATION FOR A BATCH PLANT. THERE'S A DEVELOPER'S AGREEMENT THAT'S GOING TO BE REQUIRED. AND WITHIN THAT AGREEMENT, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION HOW THAT LAND WILL BE RESTORED ONCE THE PLANT IS DECOMMISSIONED. I THINK THE DEFINITIONS AS THEY I THINK THE ORIGINAL DEFINITIONS AND WITH THE AMENDMENTS WILL ALLEVIATE THOSE CONCERNS. AND THEN THE SAME THING WITH DESIGN STANDARDS. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN WORK THROUGH. WE CAN TALK ABOUT IN THE NEXT SLIDE AS WELL. BUT ANY, ANY COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO GO THROUGH THE BOTH THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE DESIGN REVIEW PROCESS, WHERE THOSE BOARDS WILL LOOK AT THE SPECIFIC DESIGN ELEMENTS FOR THOSE DEVELOPMENTS AND BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT WERE BROUGHT UP ABOUT SPECIFIC ILLUMINATION. THE THIRD AMENDMENT WOULD BE TO JUST REMOVE PERMANENT BATCH PLANT AS A CONDITIONAL USE FROM THE MI DISTRICT, AND ONLY AT THIS TIME ALLOW INCLUDE THE 
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TEMPORARY BATCH PLANT. AND THIS WILL GIVE US TIME TO EVALUATE, YOU KNOW, FURTHER SAFEGUARDS AND STANDARDS THAT WILL BE REQUIRED FOR A PERMANENT BATCH PLANT THAT WE WOULD PUT INTO PROBABLY CHAPTER 1123, THE GENERALLY APPLICABLE STANDARDS. AND THERE WOULD BE A SPECIFIC SECTION FOR PERMANENT BATCH PLANTS AND WHAT THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS WOULD BE FOR THOSE. 
          AND THAT WOULD HAVE TO GO TO PLANNING COMMISSION AND THEN COME BACK TO COUNCIL. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. I THINK THAT SUMS UP A LOT OF WHAT WE DISCUSSED AND SOME IDEAS OF HOW TO PROCEED. 
          APPRECIATE THE INFORMATION. WE WILL MOVE TO. CITIZEN COMMENTS. ARE THERE ANY CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK IN REGARD TO THIS LEGISLATION? IT'S NOW AT SECOND HEARING, UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE AMENDMENTS HAVE NOT YET CHANGED. SO THE LEGISLATION BEFORE US IS CURRENTLY ON AMENDED LEGISLATION. YEAH. BRIAN CUNNINGHAM SO THESE ARE LIKE MY BREAD AND BUTTER, SO I KNOW ALL ABOUT THEM. I DON'T THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA, NO MATTER WHICH WAY YOU LOOK AT IT, BECAUSE FIRST OFF, ASPHALT PLANTS, THEY'RE GOING TO STINK THIS TOWN UP WHEN THEY'RE RUNNING ASPHALT, IT'S GOING TO STINK. TEMPORARY BATCH PLANTS. I CAN TAKE YOU TO TEN OF THEM AROUND COLUMBUS THAT ARE TEMPORARY, THAT HAVE BEEN THERE 25 YEARS. THEY JUST KEEP SAYING THEY'RE TEMPORARY. THEY'LL CHANGE OWNERS. WE'VE BEEN BUILDING THIS TOWN AND EVERY AREA AROUND HERE JUST FINE. THERE'S PLENTY OF CONCRETE PLANTS AROUND HERE. THERE'S PLENTY ASPHALT PLANTS AROUND HERE JUST RIGHT UP THE ROAD. SOME OF THEM ARE WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS. AS FAR AS CONCRETE GOES. IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE THIS IS BEING PRESENTED TO SAVE THE DEVELOPER MONEY. THAT MONEY IS NOT THAT MONEY. SAVINGS IS NOT GOING TO GET PASSED ON TO ANYBODY. THAT'S JUST PROFIT IN THEIR POCKET. AND THESE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE CERTIFIED PLANTS, AND THEY'RE NOT GOING TO JUST RUN FOR, SAY, MARYSVILLE LAND, RIGHT? FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENT. THEY GOTTA MAKE MONEY. SO THEY'RE GOING TO BE BASHING FOR ODOT. THEY'RE GOING TO BE BASHING FOR THE COUNTY FOR EVERYBODY, RIGHT? THEY DON'T DO IT 9 TO 5. THEY DO IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. THEY DO IT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY, ALL SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. 
          I JUST THINK YOU GUYS NEED TO REALLY THINK ABOUT THIS ONE, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE BAD. THERE'S JUST AND THERE'S NO NEED FOR IT. I MEAN, LOOK UP ASPHALT PLANTS AND CONCRETE PLANTS AROUND HERE. THERE'S PLENTY. I MEAN, WE'VE BEEN LOOK, WE JUST DID PAVE 33 FROM DUBLIN TO MARYSVILLE. WE DIDN'T NEED AN ASPHALT PLANT HERE. THERE'S PLENTY. THANK YOU. 
          ANY OTHER CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS LEGISLATION? ALL RIGHT, MR. ANDREWS, IF YOU WANT TO COME BACK UP TO THE PODIUM. AND SO WE HAD HEARD SOME COMMENTS JUST IN REGARD TO KIND OF THE THE SMELL, THE OPERATION TIME. I HAD A QUESTION NOW THAT WE'RE AT COUNCIL COMMENTS, BUT I HAD A QUESTION. WILL THE OPERATION IN TERMS OF THE NOISE LEVELS BE A REQUIREMENT FOR THEM? SO THE CONDITIONAL USE PROCESS, THERE'S A LINE ITEM, AND ONE OF THE STANDARDS IS DOES THE USE CREATE A NUISANCE THAT'S DISCERNIBLE BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF THE PROPERTY. SO THEY'D HAVE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. IF IT'S AN ASPHALT PLANT THAT CAUSES A NUISANCE TO ADJACENT PROPERTIES AND IT WOULDN'T, THAT SPECIFIC USE COULDN'T GO THERE REGARDING NOISE LEVELS. THEY WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW THE PROVISIONS IN OUR CODE THAT OUTLINE MINIMUM DECIBEL LEVELS, MINIMUM DECIBEL LEVELS FOR AT THE PROPERTY LINE OR WHEREVER IT'S MEASURED. AN EXAMPLE CITED WAS 25 YEARS IN THE DEFINITION. DO WE DEFINE THE TIME FRAME? THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE A TIMELINE IN THE DEVELOPER'S AGREEMENT. SO IT'S WHATEVER THE CITY AGREES TO IN THAT DEVELOPER'S AGREEMENT. AND I HAD ASKED A SIMILAR QUESTION, PERHAPS LIKE AROUND THIS TOPIC IN THE FIRST READING, WHICH WAS WHAT ABILITY DO WE HAVE FOR THEM TO, YOU KNOW, ENSURE THAT THEY'RE PAYING FOR THE REMOVAL SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH A PERMANENT CONSTRUCTION AND THEN A REMOVAL AT OUR COST, A PERFORMANCE BOND OR A DECOMMISSIONING BOND. AND WE DISCUSSED THAT THAT COULD BE WORKED OUT WITH THE DEVELOPER'S AGREEMENT. AFTER DISCUSSING THAT WITH TIM. OKAY. IF I MAY, ONE MORE THING. WE ARE AT THE CLOSE OF YEAH, OF CITIZEN COMMENTS AT THIS TIME. WE WILL AMEND SORRY, WE'RE CONSIDERING THIS AMENDMENT. SO WE'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO DISCUSS AFTER AMENDMENTS, ASSUMING THERE ARE SOME. MR. BORDNER, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT? YOU ACTUALLY ASKED MY QUESTION ABOUT DILAPIDATION COSTS. OKAY. 
          ONE OTHER QUESTION ABOUT THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. I DO APPRECIATE THE THE FOLLOW UP ON THIS. ARE THERE OTHER DEFINITIONS WHICH DEFINE SETBACKS HERE? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 300FT. BUT LIKE I LOOK AT THAT AS KIND OF A SETBACK, MAYBE NOT A DEFINITION, NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. AND WE WE COULD HAVE PUT THIS INTO ANOTHER 
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SECTION, WHICH WOULD HAVE HAD BEGUN TO PLANNING COMMISSION AND THEN COME BACK THROUGH. I THINK FROM OUR END, THIS IS THE CLEANEST WAY TO DO IT, BECAUSE IF YOU'RE A DEVELOPER AND YOU'RE LOOKING UP, YOU KNOW, DOES THE CITY HAVE A DEFINITION FOR A BATCH PLANT? YOU HAVE ALL THAT INFORMATION RIGHT THERE. YEAH. WHAT THE SETBACKS ARE GOING TO BE IF THIS WERE TO GET AMENDED AND I'M ASSUMING BROUGHT BACK REGARDING THE PERMANENT, IF THERE'S A CLEANER WAY TO DO IT AFTER THE FACT, IF YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, LIKE I WOULD SAY, WE COULD PROBABLY DUPLICATE IT AND HAVE IT IN THE DEFINITION AND IN A USE. 231123 SECTION FOR THE GENERAL GENERALLY APPLICABLE STANDARDS. THIS WORKS FOR NOW. 
          I SEE IT SEEMS TO BE FUNCTIONAL. SORRY, MY QUESTION WAS MORE SO THERE'S A DEFINITION. AND THEN THERE'S ALSO GUIDELINES IN TERMS OF SETBACKS AND WHATNOT. AND HERE IT'S INCORPORATED INTO. 
          SO I WAS JUST WASN'T USED TO SEEING IT THAT WAY. BUT I UNDERSTAND WE CAN USE IT. SO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS COMMENTS BY MEMBERS OF COUNCIL KIND OF LIKE IT IN THE DEFINITION HERE. IF IT WAS JUST A STANDARD, A STANDARD REQUIREMENT, YOU KNOW, WE SEE SITUATIONS WHERE AN APPLICANT MIGHT ASK FOR A VARIANCE, BUT IT'S PRETTY CLEAR HERE. IN NO CASE SHALL IT BE LESS. SO I THINK THIS HELPS PROTECT US. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS COMMENTS. SO AT THIS TIME THANK YOU, MR. ANDREWS. YOU'VE PRESENTED A TOTAL OF THREE DIFFERENT AMENDMENT PROPOSALS. THE FIRST, WE CAN HANDLE THIS ONE BY ONE. SO THE FIRST WOULD NEED TO BE A MOTION TO AMEND THE LEGISLATION TO TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF TEMPORARY BATCH PLANT TO THAT SHOWN ON THE SCREEN AND PRESENTED TONIGHT. IS THERE A COUNCIL MEMBER WISHING TO MAKE THAT MOTION? AND WE'RE WE'RE OKAY WITH 300FT. I KNOW I'M COMING AT THE LAST QUARTER, BUT 300FT IT'S NOT. IT'S CURRENTLY AN ITEM THAT'S CONSIDERED AS AN AMENDMENT. SO, MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVE TO AMEND THE LEGISLATION AS PRESENTED. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I MEAN, IF ANYBODY IF ANYBODY THINKS IT SHOULD BE LIKE 500FT AWAY FROM A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, THEN, YOU KNOW, I WOULD, I, I, OKAY, I WOULD MAKE THE MOTION TO CHANGE THE MOTION ON THE TABLE, A MOTION ON THE TABLE. SO ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION REGARDING THAT MOTION THAT'S ALREADY BEEN MADE. OKAY, SO ROLL CALL. MRS. YOUNG YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLF YES. MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TAKACS YES. MR. REAMS YES. SEVEN. YES. MOTION PASSES. 
          OKAY. NEXT WOULD BE THE DISCUSSION FOR AN AMENDMENT TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF PERMANENT BATCH PLAN AS PRESENTED. ARE WE DOING DISCUSSION OR A MOTION? I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR ANYONE WISHING TO MAKE THAT AMENDMENT. WE CAN DO DISCUSSION MOTION AS IT APPEARS ON THE SCREEN. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ROLL CALL, MR. BORDNER. YES. MR. WOLF. YES. MR. BURGER YES. MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TAKACS YES. MR. REAMS YES. 
          MRS. YOUNG YES. SEVEN. YES. MOTION PASSES. OKAY. LAST WOULD BE A MOTION TO TO AMEND THE LEGISLATION TO REMOVE PERMANENT BATCH PLANT FROM CONDITIONAL USE. AS A CONDITIONAL USE FROM THE ZONING DISTRICT. IS IT SORRY, I IS THERE ANOTHER DISTRICT WHERE IT'S THIS IS THE ONLY DISTRICT THAT WE'RE PROPOSING I SEE. OKAY. SO AS STATED BY MR. ANDERS. SO REMOVE IT AS A CONDITIONAL USE FROM THIS DISTRICT. MANUFACTURING AND INNOVATION DISTRICT. MR. BURGER, WERE YOU ABOUT TO MAKE A MOTION? YEAH, I'M I'M. I'LL MAKE THE MOTION. OKAY. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? JUST TO CLARIFY, THIS IS IS THIS NEW IN THE AM I I REMIND ME WHAT THIS THIS EXISTS IN THE AM I WE'RE REMOVING IT. THE INITIAL AMENDMENT AMENDMENT WAS TO INCLUDE BOTH TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT INTO THE MI DISTRICT. OKAY. THIS AMENDMENT TO PLANNING COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO REMOVE THE PERMANENT BATCH PLAN. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR LATE. OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION ROLL CALL, PLEASE, MR. WOLF. YES. MR. BURGER. YES. 
          MR. HUNTER. YES. MRS. TAKACS. YES. MR. REAMS. YES. MRS. YOUNG. YES. MR. BORDER YES. SEVEN. YES. 
          MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU. OKAY. THE LEGISLATION IS AGAIN AT SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING. 
          ARE THERE ANY CITIZEN COMMENTS REGARDING THE LEGISLATION AS AMENDED? AND IF NOT, IF SO, NOW 
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WOULD BE THE TIME TO APPROACH THE PODIUM. TALKING ABOUT THAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT HERE. YES. 
          LEGISLATION AS AMENDED. YES. I JUST WANTED TO BRING UP THAT EVERY ROAD IN THE AREA THERE IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PAVING THE HIGHWAY, PULLING OUT OF THAT PLANT. YOU'RE TALKING 70, 80 TRUCKS CYCLING FIVE AND SIX TIMES PER SHIFT, LOADED 80,000 POUNDS. I MEAN, IT'S GOING TO DESTROY THE ROADS. LIKE I SAID, IT'S GOING TO STINK, YOU KNOW. 
          AND WHAT ARE YOU ARE THEY GOING TO WHERE ARE THE MOST OF THE TIME YOU GO BY THESE PLANTS WHEN WE'RE GETTING READY TO DO A PULL OR A PAVE, YOU GOT 70, 80 TRUCKS. THEY GOT PARKED SOMEWHERE TO GET READY TO GET LOADED. THEY'RE GOING TO BE ALL OUT ON THE ROAD. IT'S JUST I THINK IT'S A BAD IDEA. I'M TRYING TO REITERATE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SIR. OKAY. SEEING NO FURTHER CITIZEN COMMENTS, THIS WILL BE BACK FOR THIRD READING VOTE ON NOVEMBER 23RD, 2020 
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655-26 TO APPROVE PLANNING COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE ZONING CODE AMENDMENTS TO PART 11 ZONING CODE TO SECTION 1107 DESIGN STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION. NO NEW INFORMATION. CITIZENS. COUNCIL. OKAY, SO BE BACK FOR THIRD READING VOTE. NOVEMBER 23RD, 
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202656-26 FIRST READING INTRODUCTION TO AUTHORIZE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS FROM THE POLICE AND FIRE PENSION FUNDS ADMINISTRATION. I THOUGHT IT WAS OUT, BUT YOU PULLED ME BACK IN. SO THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, GOOD NEWS, I GUESS, IN A WAY, UNLESS YOU PAY PROPERTY TAXES. BUT ANYWAY, SO OUR PROPERTY TAXES OBVIOUSLY CAME IN HIGHER THAN WE INITIALLY BUDGETED. THAT WAS EXPECTED BECAUSE OF THE REAPPRAISAL. WE WERE UNSURE OF WHERE PROPERTY TAXES WOULD COME IN. WE DO HAVE TWO SMALL, VERY SMALL, RELATIVELY SPEAKING PORTIONS OF OUR PROPERTY TAX THAT GO INTO THE INTO OUR WHAT WE CALL OUR POLICE PENSION AND POLICE, FIRE FUNDS, POLICE, PENSION, POLICE, POLICE, PENSION, FIRE, PENSION FUNDS. SORRY DOWN THERE. I JUST IGNORED FIRE ALTOGETHER. AND WHAT WE DO IS TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR, WE TRANSFER PENSION EXPENSES TO THESE FUNDS TO SPEND THEM DOWN. BUT WE CAN ONLY SPEND DOWN WHAT WE APPROPRIATED. AND I COULD ONLY APPROPRIATE WHAT I PUT IN AS THE EXPECTED REVENUE. SO IN SHORT, WHAT YOU'RE DOING HERE IS YOU'RE INCREASING THE ESTIMATED RECEIPTS TO WHAT WE ACTUALLY RECEIVED, INCREASING THE APPROPRIATIONS TO WHAT MATCH WHAT WE ACTUALLY RECEIVED. AND THEN THEREFORE, ONCE THIS HAS GONE THROUGH THE APPROVAL PROCESS, WE CAN THEN TRANSFER THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF EXPENDITURES AND BRING THAT FUND DOWN TO ZERO AT YEAR END, WHICH IS HOW THE FUND IS DESIGNED. OKAY. THANK YOU, MR. LUTZ. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM MEMBERS OF COUNCIL? OKAY. 
          SEEING NONE. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING ON NOVEMBER 23RD, 2026. 
          [COMMENTS OF THE CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL PERSONS AND GENERAL DISCUSSION]
COMMENTS OF THE CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL PERSONS AND GENERAL DISCUSSION. THANK YOU. I HAVE TWO BRIEF COMMENTS. NUMBER ONE, JUST A REMINDER THAT ALL COUNCIL MEETINGS ARE PUBLIC MEETINGS, AND WE EXPECT APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL DECORUM FROM STAFF, COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC. COMMENT NUMBER TWO TONIGHT I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE BRAD LUTZ AS HE PREPARES FOR HIS NEXT CHAPTER. WHILE TRANSITIONS ARE NORMAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE, REPLACING SOMEONE WITH BRAD'S CALIBER AND EXPERIENCE IS NO SMALL TASK. MAKES ME REALLY APPRECIATE APRIL BEING HERE. THERE'S STILL A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE CAPTURE. 
          THROUGHOUT HIS MANY YEARS WITH MARYSVILLE, BRAD HAS BEEN THE BEDROCK OF OUR FISCAL HEALTH. I STOLE THAT LITTLE STATEMENT, BUT THE NEXT ONE IS ALL MINE. FROM A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE, HAVING A PARTNER WHO JUST STATES THE FACTS HAS VERY CALM COUNSEL, LACED WITH VERY DRY HUMOR. IT'S MADE MY TRANSITION HERE MUCH EASIER. BRAD, YOU HAVE BEEN A BEDROCK OF MAKING SURE OUR PUBLIC STEWARDSHIP OF OUR FISCAL HEALTH HELPS GUIDE US FOR THE FUTURE IN THE LONG TERM. YOU'VE TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT THE BUDGET THAT'S BEFORE US, A LOT OF DECISIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE PAST, AND I APPRECIATE THAT GREATLY. SO ON BEHALF OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND CITY STAFF, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION THESE VERY LATE NIGHTS AND YOUR SERVICE TO 
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THIS COUNCIL. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COUNCILMAN YOUNG, I JUST NEED SOME ANSWERS ON THE ENCLAVE. I KNOW I'VE SENT MULTIPLE EMAILS AND I HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANYTHING BACK. SO IF WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE ENCLAVE AND IF THEY CAN GET THEIR WATER METERS AND SEWER SEPARATELY, TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. SO AND THEN I JUST WANT TO THANK BRAD. I KNOW A COUPLE YEARS AGO, I WOULDN'T HAVE APPRECIATED HIM AS MUCH AS I DO NOW, BUT I LEARNED TO LIKE HIM AFTER A WHILE. ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL COUNCILMAN REAMS, YOU KNOW, I MADE SOME NOTES HERE. I WANTED TO THANK BRAD. I THINK HE HE BRINGS THAT TECHNICAL EXPERTISE THAT YOU WANT IN A FINANCE DIRECTOR. HE ADDS TO THAT HIS PROFESSIONAL OPINION, WHICH I GREATLY, GREATLY APPRECIATE GETTING AN OPINION IN ADDITION TO THE FACTS. AND EVERY NOW AND THEN HE THROWS IN A LITTLE BIT OF HUMOR, YOU KNOW? YEAH. SOMETIMES IT'S DRY. YEAH. 
          NOT ALWAYS. BUT, YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE THAT, YOU KNOW. YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB FOR US. 
          I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE. I'M GOING TO MISS HAVING YOU HERE AND WORKING WITH YOU. 
          AND MOST OF ALL, I WANT TO WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR NEW ROLE. I DID ALSO WANT TO BRING UP A QUESTION THAT CAME UP WHEN TWO DIFFERENT UPDATES WERE MADE, AND I KIND OF PUT A QUESTION TOGETHER. WE TALKED ABOUT THE PUMPKIN DASH THAT'S COMING UP. WE TALKED ABOUT EAST FIFTH STREET, WHICH SHOULD BE DONE BY THANKSGIVING. THE PUMPKIN DASH RUNS ON EAST FIFTH STREET FOR A PART OF THE ROUTE. SO MY QUESTION IS, HAVE WE TALKED WITH THE RACE DIRECTOR ABOUT ANY POTENTIAL ADJUSTMENTS JUST IN CASE WE WE HAVE ADJUSTED THE ROUTE FOR THIS YEAR JUST IN CASE. SO STILL FIVE K, BUT SOME SOME SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS. SO WE'RE ON WE'RE ON TOP OF IT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU COUNCILMAN. YES. I WANT TO START BY THANKING ALL OF OUR VETERANS IN THE CITY WHO HAVE SERVED. WEDNESDAY IS VETERANS DAY. SO PLEASE SAY THANK YOU TO YOUR NEIGHBORS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE GIVEN UP SOME OF THEIR LIFE TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY THE GREAT PLACE THAT IT IS. ALSO WANT TO JUST REITERATE WHAT CITY MANAGER SHARP BROUGHT UP EARLIER THAT THE CHRISTMAS WALK PUT TOGETHER BY MAIN STREET IN THE CITY IS NOVEMBER 21ST. THAT'S A SATURDAY. IT'S FROM 4 TO 8. THERE WILL BE A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON UPTOWN. 
          OUR SHOPS WILL BE OPEN LATE, SO USE IT AS A TIME TO, YOU KNOW, START YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING HERE LOCALLY. AND WE WILL LIGHT OUR CHRISTMAS TREE AT 6 P.M. SO THAT'LL BE A LOT OF FUN. AND I'LL WRAP UP BY SAYING THANK YOU, BRAD. BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS. COUNCILMAN BORDNER. COUNCILWOMAN, THANK YOU FOR THE VETERANS DAY SENTIMENT. I ON MY NUMBER ONE TO DO LIST THIS EVENING IS TO THANK THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVE OUR COUNTRY AND AND KEEP US SAFE EVERY DAY. SO IF YOU KNOW A VETERAN, THANK A VETERAN, FIND A VETERAN, THANK A VETERAN. THEY'RE SPECIAL PEOPLE INSIDE AND OUT. SO THANK YOU, MR. HUNTER. ONE OF MY CLOSEST VETERANS. AND THEN BRAD, WE HAD A PRETTY GOOD CONVERSATION EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. BUT PUBLICLY, I'M GOING TO SAY IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE. REGARDLESS OF WHAT IS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. WE'VE WE'VE SHARED SOME OF THE FUNNY POSTS RELATIVE TO TO LAST YEAR'S SITUATION. BUT WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE. YOU'VE BEEN A GENUINE BLESSING TO THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. YOU. I'VE HAD. AND IT'S BEEN AN HONOR TO TO WORK WITH YOU ON IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS ON THE ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. SO I WISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WELL AND, AND NOTHING BUT FUTURE SUCCESS. SO THANKS. WELL, I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU, BRAD, FOR ALL THE WORK YOU'VE DONE. I APPRECIATE OUR TIME TOGETHER. AND, YOU KNOW, COME IT COMES TO MIND. 
          BUT WORKING WITH THE TOWNSHIP ON FUNDING FOR PARKS AND FINDING A GOOD USE OF THAT MONEY THAT RESIDENTS OF THE CITY ARE PAYING. SO I APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK YOU'VE DONE AND ALL THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE. APRIL, WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU, BUT I WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK, BRAD, AS YOU MOVE FORWARD. YOU'VE BEEN A VERY BIG ASSET TO THE CITY, AND I TOO WOULD LIKE TO WISH A HAPPY VETERANS DAY TO ALL OUR VETERANS HERE IN THE CITY WATCHING AND THAT WORK FOR US HERE AT THE CITY AND YOU AS WELL, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN BERGER. I JUST HAVE A COUPLE COUPLE ITEMS. FIRST, FIRST FIRST ITEMS IS, IS THE 
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FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, TO ALL THE VETERANS OUT THERE WHO HAVE DEDICATED THEIR LIVES FOR ME TO BE WHERE I AM, PUBLIC SERVICE IS NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, DYING FOR YOUR COUNTRY, BUT PUBLIC SERVICE CAN COME IN ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF PUBLIC ACTS. I BELIEVE PUBLIC SERVICES ALSO OPENING THE DOOR FOR SOMEBODY WHO, WHO NEEDS A HAND OR SERVING IN IN THIS ROLE. BUT THE ONLY REASON WHY WE ARE ABLE TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR SOMEBODY AND SERVE IN THIS ROLE IS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU. AND WE APPRECIATE PEOPLE LIKE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO. THE THE OTHER COMMENT I'D MAKE IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT MAKES BRAD UNIQUE COMPARED TO MOST FINANCE DIRECTORS IS YOU DO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR AND YOU AREN'T AFRAID TO SPEAK UP. MOST FINANCE DIRECTORS WILL NEVER GIVE YOU THEIR OPINION. THEY'RE JUST TELL YOU, YEP, THE MONEY'S THERE OR NOPE, IT'S NOT THERE. BUT BRAD ALWAYS GAVE, YOU KNOW, HIS REASONING. AND I APPRECIATE BRAD WHEN IT COMES TO THE SNOWFLAKES OF LAST YEAR. BRAD WAS ALWAYS ENGAGED IN THE MEETINGS. SO NOT ONLY WAS HE A FINANCE DIRECTOR, BUT HE TOOK THE TIME TO MEET WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS OR SERVE ON COMMITTEES WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS. AND I'M CLEANING MYSELF TO UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR WHY MONEY SHOULD BE SPENT IN DIFFERENT PLACES. AND THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES NOT ONLY AS A FINANCE DIRECTOR, BUT ALSO TO HIS CHARACTER AND WHO HE IS. SO I ALWAYS WILL APPRECIATE YOU FOR THAT. AND I KNOW THAT WE ALL WILL MISS YOU. THE LAST COMMENT I'LL MAKE IS IN 1888, MARYSVILLE WAS LABELED AS THE SHADED CITY, THE DUTCH ELM DISEASE. AGE OF OUR TREES DURATIO, THE ASH BORER AND THE LACK OF FUNDING FOR DECADES MADE OUR STREET LAWNS BARREN, HOT AND UNPLEASANT TO WALK THROUGH. THE URBAN FORESTRY PROGRAM WAS CREATED IN 2018. IT WAS CREATED IN 2018 BECAUSE THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE DECIDED THEN THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING MORE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT AND ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF ITS COMMUNITY, TO BRING BACK THE SMALL TOWN FEEL AND TO SUPPORT THE CANOPY OF OUR COMMUNITY. THE SUPPORTING THE CANOPY OF OUR COMMUNITY IS NOT ONLY PLANTING TREES, NOT JUST STREET TREES, PLANTING TREES IN OUR PARKS, PLANTING TREES IN NEIGHBORHOODS AS OUR TREES AGE. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT'S TO GIVE THIS COMMUNITY ITS VOICE BACK BY RELIVING THE HISTORY OF WHAT WHY PEOPLE MOVED TO MARYSVILLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. 
          WHEN THE TREE PRESERVATION ORDINANCE COMES THROUGH, I HOPE THAT ALL OF US WOULD DO OUR BEST TO UNDERSTAND THE NEED AND SUPPORT WHY TREE PRESERVATION IS SO IMPORTANT TO THIS COMMUNITY. BEFORE DEVELOPMENT HAS CUT THEM ALL DOWN TO THE CONCERNED MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE, THE TREE PRESERVATION WOULD ENHANCE THE PROTECTION OF TREES EVEN ON CITY CONTROLLED GROUND. I HAVE FOR AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN HERE, PEOPLE MIGHT NOT ALWAYS AGREE WITH THE STATEMENTS THAT I MAKE OR THE DECISIONS THAT ARE MADE, BUT IF I SEE A PROBLEM, I WANT TO FIND A WAY TO FIND A SOLUTION. SO I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU GUYS FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO. AND EVEN THOUGH SOMETIMES WE MAY NOT ALWAYS AGREE OR VOTE THE SAME WAY, I APPRECIATE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU AND THE PASSION YOU HAVE FOR THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN BURGER, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL THE VETERANS, MY PAST GRANDPA, ARTHUR GROFF, MY PAST FATHER, EDWARD HUNTER, UNCLE JAMES, JAMES BURFORD, MY COUSIN AMANDA, MY COUSIN PHILIP, AND MY COUSIN CURTIS. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO. AND YOU'RE MY HEROES. I TRULY MEAN THAT. THE PAST WEEK, I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE CITY OF GAHANNA. THERE WAS A MEETING MYSELF AND MISS SHARP WENT TO. WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THEIR CITY HALL BUILDING AND IT WAS AN ACQUIRED OFFICE BUILDING THAT WAS REMODELED TO BECOME THEIR CITY HALL AND THEIR COMBINED POLICE STATION AND COURT. THEY DO SOME COURT IN THE VERY LARGE STRUCTURE COMPARED TO OURS. WHAT REALLY? STAYED WITH ME WAS THE THE EXPLANATION OF THE ARCHITECTURE ON THAT BUILDING. THEY HAD WENT FROM A BRICK FACADE, AND THEY BUILT OUT FROM THAT FRONT TO PUT AN ACTUAL, LIKE, FUNCTIONAL FACADE AS IT WAS A CITY HALL, AND IT'S MADE OF GLASS. AND THAT GLASS IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENSURING TRANSPARENCY. IT. THAT STUCK 
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WITH ME. I WAS IMPRESSED. AND THANK YOU FOR CITY OF GAHANNA FOR GIVING US A TOUR OF THAT BUILDING. WE ALSO HAD WE HAD A MEMBER ON CITY COUNCIL WHO'S NOW OVER THE HILL. SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. MR. CONGRATULATIONS, MR. BORDNER, ON BECOMING OVER THE HILL. 
          YOU'RE YOU'RE NOW PAST THAT POINT AND WELCOME TO THE CLUB. JUST JOKING ON THAT ONE. THAT MEANS YOU'RE OVER 40 NOW. OKAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. APPRECIATE IT. YOU LOOK GREAT. NOT APPRECIATED. 
          BUT YEAH. CONGRATULATIONS. THAT'S IN IN. JUST JOKING WITH YOU. BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR. 
          CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT. AND SO WE HAD A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC PARTICIPATE TODAY JUST ENGAGING IN THE CIVIC PROCESS. I ALWAYS ENJOY THAT. AND WE TALKED ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE AND WE'RE DEALING WITH A LOT OF INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES RIGHT NOW. I KNOW IT, WE FEEL IT. WE FEEL IT ON OUR COMMUTE. WE FEEL IT WHEN TRAFFIC IS BACKED UP. I REMODELED A HOME IN 2008 THROUGH ABOUT 2015, AND DURING THAT TIME, THAT HOME WAS DIFFICULT TO LIVE IN. IT'S HARD TO WORK ON A HOME AND LIVE ON IT, REMODEL A HOME AND LIVE ON IT. INCONVENIENT. IT CAUSED ME HEADACHE AT VARIOUS MOMENTS OF THE WEEKENDS, NIGHTS, YOU NAME IT. WHEN IT WAS DONE, I SOLD THAT HOME TO A NEW HOMEOWNER AND I GOT A MESSAGE ABOUT A YEAR AFTERWARDS JUST TELLING ME THAT THAT MY CREATION WAS THAT OF BEAUTY AND, YOU KNOW, INGENUITY, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THESE COMPLIMENTS THAT I HAD RECEIVED ON THAT HOME. SO I WOULD JUST SAY THAT WE'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK GOING ON IN MARYSVILLE. IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, OUT IN THE OPEN FOR EVERYONE TO SEE. WE ARE THANKFUL FOR THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO BE PATIENT. WE KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL AT SOME POINT. AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BEAUTIFUL CITY AS A RESULT. I WANT TO SAY, MR. LUTZ, THANK YOU FOR THIS EVENING. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR PREPARATION THAT WENT INTO THIS EVENING. I'M NOT GOING TO REPEAT COMMENTS OTHERS HAVE SAID, BUT YES, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BIG ADJUSTMENT WITH YOUR DEPARTURE. 
          I'M HOPEFUL THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF YOU. JUST ALL THE BEST TRULY MEAN THAT. ALL THE BEST. AND THIS WAS A COMPLICATED SET OF AMENDMENTS, AND I LIKE TO JUST THANK STAFF. I KNOW THERE WAS MULTIPLE PEOPLE ASIDE FROM YOURSELF THAT WORKED TO JUST HELP THIS NIGHT GO AS SMOOTHLY AS IT COULD. VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THAT. AND THEN ALSO LASTLY, JUST A VERY OPTIMISTIC SEEING JUST DEVELOPMENTS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED AND THAT ARE IN THE NEWS NOW. GREAT NEWS TO HEAR AND JUST IT'S ALL AROUND REALLY CENTRAL OHIO, BUT WE HAD A BIG ONE HERE IN UNION COUNTY. SO GREAT TO HEAR. WITH THAT, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN TONIGHT'S MEETING. SO MOVED. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. 
          MEETING'S ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.