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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -242- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen and we’re in for a real treat tonight. I’m very excited about the Resolution we’re going to give this evening. Welcome, thank you for attending Canton City Council. We have a packed house and we have a number of speakers signed up. For those of you who have not spoken to City Council, I just would like to remind you since we have so many speakers signed up this evening, that Council will allow you three minutes to make your presentation and I will be somewhat tough about that tonight. I just want you to understand, it’s not for the purposes of cutting you off and not hearing you, all of us will be present after the meeting, the Mayor, the Safety Director, the Service Director, our Law Director, Council Members. If you want to address any subjects, anything that’s bothering you, please don’t hesitate to stay for the meeting, come up and we’ll be happy to discuss it with you. With that said, and with a quorum being present, the Chair calls this meeting of Canton City Council to order. Roll call vote please Madame Clerk. ROLL CALL TAKEN BY CLERK TIMBERLAKE: 12 COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: (DAVID DOUGHERTY, TERRY PRATER, MARY CIRELLI, JOE COLE, BILL SMUCKLER, GREG HAWK, THOMAS WEST, JAMES GRIFFIN, CHRIS SMITH, PATRICK BARTON, MARK BUTTERWORTH & BRIAN HORNER) TWELVE COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: All present, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Tonight’s invocation will be given by Council Member at Large, Joe Cole. Will all of you please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. The regular meeting of Canton City Council was held on Monday, April 12, 2010 at 7:30 P.M. in the Canton City Council Chamber. The roll call was taken (see above) by Clerk of Council Cynthia Timberlake. The invocation was given by Council at Large Member, Joe Cole. The Pledge of Allegiance led by President Schulman. AGENDA CORRECTIONS & CHANGES PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Agenda corrections and changes. Members of Council you’re going to be asked to suspend Rule 22A to add the 2nd Readings of Ordinances 5 through 8. Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President I move we suspend Rule 22A to add 2nd Readings of Ordinances 5 through 8 please. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend Rule 22A to add the 2nd Reading Ordinances 5 through 8 to this evening’s Agenda. Are there any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -243- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Motion carries. Rule 22 is suspended and the Ordinances are a legal part of your Agenda this evening. PUBLIC HEARINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Public Hearings. We have no Public Hearing this evening. INFORMAL RESOLUTIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I’m going to skip over Public Speaks cause I’d like to go right to the Resolutions and then we’ll come back to the speakers. Our first Resolution is Informal Resolution 27. Madame Clerk would you please read that Resolution. #27. COUNCIL AS A WHOLE: RECOMMENDING THAT LOCAL VENDORS & CONTRACTORS ARE DULY CONSIDERED FOR ALL CITY CONTRACTS. - ADOPTED PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Resolution 27. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adopt Resolution 27. Any remarks? Hearing none, by voice vote, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS RESOLUTION #27 PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Motion carries, rule or Resolution 27 is adopted. We’re now under Resolution 28. Would you please that Madame Clerk by title. #28. COUNCIL AS A WHOLE: CONGRATULATING MCKINLEY GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM FOR WINNING 2010 DIVISION I STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE. - ADOPTED PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Resolution 28. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adopt Resolution 28. Are there any remarks? MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Could I have that read please? CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Whereas: On Saturday March 20, 2010 at the Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio the Canton McKinley Girls Basketball Team captured the Division I State Basketball Championship Title. The Lady Pups coached by Head Coach Pam Davis defeated Toledo Waite 49-47; and Whereas: It was a hard fought battle all the way until the end of the game. The No. 9 McKinley Bulldogs held off a second half rally COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -244- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 by the Indians and preserved to win the Championship Title; and Whereas: Finishing with a 25-3 season, the players have continued to demonstrate what team work is all about. The Lady Pups were focused on achieving their dream of being the first McKinley Girls Basketball team to bring home the Division I State Championship Title; and Whereas: We congratulate team members Aaliyah Dotson, Tiara Smothers, Ameryst Alston, Sydnee Penn, Jasmine Neal, Laneisha Lennon, Regina Ross, Gabby Kendall, Surya Gaffney, AnnaStacia Burnett, Shakera Peterson, Ashlee Woods, Hope Tuel, Tamera Wallace, Laurel Berry and Head Coach Pam Davis, Assistant Coaches Willie Davis, Sylvester Frazier, Keisha Peterson, Alexis Berry, Managers Megan Whited, Fay Dieringer. Now Therefore Be It Resolved: that we, the Members of Canton City Council do hereby go on public record to recognize and congratulate The 2010 Canton McKinley Girls Basketball Team for winning the 2010 Division I State Basketball Championship Title. Congratulations. (STANDING OVATION) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other remarks? Other than what a great job and congratulations again. You’ll take that with you for the rest of your lives. I know that. Any other remarks? All those in favor... MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes, Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: I’ll hold my votes, my remarks until after we make the vote, thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay, very good. All those in favor of the Resolution signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS RESOLUTION #27 PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The ayes have it. The motion carries. Leader Dougherty. Coach if you would come up with the team members and we’ll present you with this award. (APPLAUSE) MEMBER DOUGHERTY: It gives me a great pleasure to be able to present this award tonight. I know you had one goal at the beginning of the season and that was to get down there and win the State Title. You put a lot of pressure on yourselves, and you persevered. You’ve got to be very proud of yourselves and Canton’s proud of you. Very proud of you. Do we have some parents here? Could we see you? Stand up let’s go. (APPLAUSE) Again on behalf of Canton City Council, we’d like to present you with this Resolution and congratulations and I want to see you back here again next year. (LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE) Say a few words. HEAD COACH PAM DAVIS: Just a few moments of everyone’s time, I know that there are a lot of speakers here this evening, but on behalf of the McKinley Girls Basketball Team, we would like to thank you for this honor. We hope that we brought a lot of pride to the City of Canton. I know it’s a sports town and the guys have done magnificate, magnificent things here but these ladies have made history with Canton McKinley, our first title. (APPLAUSE) We started a year ago last June, with a summer goal of being the best that we COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -245- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 possibly can and these girls have put in six, seven days a week, two to three hours a day along with all the other studies that they have to do and they are just a prime example of what student athletes are all about. I am certainly very proud to be their coach. I am definitely proud of their performance and also of the wonderful character that they display every single day. So again on behalf of the girls team, I’d like to thank you for this honor and thanks for sharing in our success. Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Do you have any comments? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you. Ladies you have made my month. I am a McKinley graduate. I was down there many times and saw the gentlemen win the State Champs but the ladies have finally arrived. I read all about your biographies and what have you. I’ve got all the newspapers here. I read online about everyone of you and I’m so proud of you all. I have a few things that I want to say here. The effort of every girl gave as she played in the game was outstanding. This was total team effort. The way the coach ma’am, Pam, I’m so proud of ya, handled the pressure, it was truly that of a very strong woman. I really admire you. You took these girls and you brought it on home. They were all excellent. You knew how to bring the best of Canton McKinley to Columbus and with the ladies showed why their winning is a true echo of our moral essence almost as close as our alma mater where “champions are made and success is a tradition”, and you’ve carried that on. And we’re proud to stand here and we’ve honored you as McKinley’s first ever Division I Girls State Championship, so I must say congratulations and we are so proud of everyone of you and you all have wonderful futures because I watched what all you were going to do and what, who inspired you and what have you and Coach Davis, whenever you said your grandfather told you to be fair, firm and consistent as a coach. He was a man that knew exactly whom he was talking to. So God bless all of you and you have made a first in this community and I’m sure the first, you’ve set an example so that other young ladies are going to follow suit and you’re going to help them. Thank you so much. (APPLAUSE) MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Are there any other remarks? MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Smith. MEMBER SMITH: I to Mary, am a Bulldog, OK, and I am exceptionally proud because there is a few of the young ladies that play on the team, that I watched grow up. In fact Ameryst used to come to the beauty salon with a basketball and I already knew she was going to be a star from day one. And you know, the young lady in the white here, I can’t think of her name but she comes to the shop, Jameta does her hair. She made a statement the other day, and I said, she was in the salon and she wanted some Girl Scout cookies, I said “You can have ‘em.” She said she wanted something to drink. I said, “Let me get you a pop.” She said she wanted something to eat, I said, she said “Chris”, I said “Girl, you a star.” She said, “I’m not a star, I’m just a young lady that played a game of basketball”, and I thought that, that was so exceptional and so humbling of her but COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -246- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 we are exceptionally proud of you all and just like Dave Dougherty said, we want to see ya all back next year with the same type of enthusiasm and winning. Congratulations and God bless you. (APPLAUSE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Coach as you can tell, no pressure. (LAUGHTER) See you do it and they want you to do it again. Great job. Any other remarks? Thank you very much, tremendous job. We, you truly did make Canton proud and we just congratulate you again. HEAD COACH PAM DAVIS: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) PUBLIC SPEAKS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: In every dark cloud, there’s a big silver lining. We sure appreciated that. Let’s go back now to Public Speaks. And we have as I said, a number of speakers. I going to try to do this by order of subject matter. Our first speaker is Charles Gibbs. Mr. Gibbs could you step forward and give us your name and residential address. Is Mr. Gibbs here? Charles Gibbs. There you go sir. If you could come forward and give us your name and your residential address and good evening. Good evening Mr. Gibbs. Give us your name sir and your residential address please. CHARLES GIBBS: My name is Charles Gibbs and I live at 1222 Plain Ave. I’ve lived there for several years and I’m here to try to get some issues resolved with the gangs in the neighborhood. The neighborhood was when we moved in there, my wife and I, a very middle class, affluent middle class neighborhood and it seems in the last couple years that there are things going on that cannot be tolerated anymore. I am a disabled American veteran and I don’t think that I should have to be, I will not be, homebound because of thugs on the street. There are so many things. There are shootings. Last week I was sitting on my front porch in broad daylight right after school let out and there was a group of five or six and one of the five pulled out a gun right in front of me and fired three shots and I said “I saw your face. I know who you are.” And he said, “Little old man, the next time it will probably be you.” Now that is a direct threat. That scares me and I don’t want to have to move out of the neighborhood and I don’t want to have to be intimidated to stay inside my house with the doors locked and closed. My 12 year old grandson lives with me and I cannot even send him up behind the house where I can’t see him without him being harassed. One time last year he got a new bicycle and he rode it up 12th, Plain Ave or 13th Street toward Gibbs because there’s a hill and he come down. Two girls knocked him off the bicycle and took the bicycle and we never saw it again. I called and made a report to the police and they said there’s not much we can do, and I knew where the girls lived and it’s getting to be a bad situation, there’s gun shots all time of the day or night and I’m sure that many of the neighbors, I’m here tonight. There are many good neighbors in my neighborhood. It’s, I’m not saying there it’s all bad but, a few can make life miserable for everybody else. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Mr. Gibbs we appreciate it. I’ve given you a little more time but, if you can stick around and you want to discuss it with Member of Council, Mayor Healy, his administration, we’ll be here for you. Alright? CHARLES GIBBS: Alright. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much sir. (APPLAUSE) Our next speaker again on the same topic of gang activity and crime is Christine Peterson. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -247- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 CHARLES GIBBS: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you sir. CHARLES GIBBS: And I wanted to make a special thank you to Councilman West. He is helping me get a grant to fix up my home and it’s already in process. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you and Mr. Gibbs thank you for your service. We appreciate it, thank you. CHARLES GIBBS: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Our next speaker is Christine Peterson. Miss Peterson, you’ve been here before. If you could step forward and give us your name and your residential address and good evening. CHRISTINE PETERSON: Good evening. Christine Peterson. 1319 14th St NE 44, Canton, 44705. Mayor, administration, Mr. President, Council. Tonight I want to bring attention to this July 10, 2005, Repository article and picture of the neighborhood march that took place in May 2005 around the Gibbs Avenue and 14th Street NE area. This march was initiated by Sandy Dyer due to the drug trafficking, fights and gun shots in the area. This picture shows names of a particular family who was identified as having a family member heavily involved in these criminal activities. At the time, he was 23 years old. This family has moved to four different residence in the same neighborhood in the past five years. I recall in front of their house on Rowland Ave NE between 14th and 15th, a continuous flow of traffic stopping in the middle of the street at all times of the day during a 24 hour period, initiating drug sales and deals. There are also numerous instances of gun shots. All or most of these reported to the CCPD department. Five years ago, we were proactive in asking the city of Canton and our law enforcement to recognize our crime problems and to ensure safety for our residents. The family member responsible for this activity was arrested but soon released do to plea bargaining of information he had that the authorities used. Our judicial system failed us. It failed us because five years later, this same individual at age 28 was involved in the shooting of an innocent child on the southwest side of the city in a gang related crime. Since then he has fled the area and as of my last knowledge is still at large. My point is this, will the judicial system again fail us by bargaining with him and his attorney in negatively affecting the safety of our city and neighborhood. How will the judicial system handle it this time once he is arrested along with others? Will they plea bargain again or will they hold this individual accountable to the crime committed? I have reserved trust in the court system who allowed a well known gang member and drug dealer to be put back out on the streets of Canton to again five years later commit a crime that could cost the life of a young child and who still has complications. All of this for what? I again emphasize the important of the Mayor, administration, Council and our law enforcement and now the judicial system to carefully consider how they will enforce the law on these repeat offenders to ensure safety for our neighborhoods, schools, businesses, families and the city of Canton. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) Thank you Miss Peterson as always. Our next speaker in the same subject matter is Kathryn Ramsey. Miss Ramsey, good evening. Kathryn Ramsey, oh, good evening. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address please. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -248- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 KATHRYN RAMSEY: My name is Kathryn Ramsey and I live at 2322 16th St NE in Canton. And I, let me assure you that I have no aspirations to the office of City Council. It’s all I can do to keep an eye on the six vacant houses on my block that are being broken into constantly. I have repeated called my Councilman, the Mayor’s office, Safety and Service Director’s offices and the Police and after much frustration two weeks ago we managed to catch one man breaking into one of the houses again. They’re still being broken into and I was assured by Mr. Dougherty that these houses were secured. They are not and they were not when he told me that they were. They are not secured now. The doors are down, they’re in the back yards. People are going in. People are sleeping in these houses all night. They’re throwing the pillows out. The pillows are still laying out in the yard. My problem is there’s only a few neighbors that are trying to keep the area clean. We need help. I’m 73 years old and Rex my other neighbor is 73. We both mow vacant lawns and cut trash. I cut trash all day Saturday and all morning this morning on abandon, vacant lots. Rex uses his own money and his own gas. We need three houses in the 2300 block of 16th St NE torn down. Vacant houses breed crime. We also need more police to be visible in the area. The last shooting on 18th and Superior is just a couple streets over. Before the shooting and even now, you can see gangs of young men standing on the street corners. There’s pit bulls, gangs and drugs prevalent. It is not safe to walk on the sidewalks because the pit bulls are chained so close that they can reach you on the sidewalk. Do these dogs, are they insured and do they have license, I don’t think so. There’s pit bulls all over and if anybody wants addresses, we can give them to you. We walked, we, Rex picked up two bags of 40 ounce beer bottles that they’re throwing in the streets. I pick up beer bottles. Like, if anybody thinks I drink because I don’t. My trash can has got beer, 40 ounce that I pick up out of the street and the yards and we need help. I need the branches picked up that I cut down. We just need some help in the area of 16th and Superior and Edwards. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great, thank you very much Miss Ramsey. Appreciate it. (APPLAUSE) I’m going to turn now to Linda Campbell. Miss Campbell if you’d step forward and give us your name. Good evening, and your residential address please. LINDA CAMPBELL: Good evening. My name is Linda Campbell. I live at 1016 Struble Ave NE, Canton, Ohio and I’m a part, I’m a member of the Open Neighborhood Association. And just like the lady that just spoke, those of some of the concerns that we speak about at our meetings because there’s abandon homes in the neighborhood that I stay in. People go in and they strip these homes, take the tubs out and we don’t want that same thing that happened up in Cleveland to happen in our neighborhoods and stuff. Some of our concerns that we talk about at our meeting, ok, is like, need to improve parks in the inner city. Okay, that was one of the things. Recreation for inner city children such as Cook Park, Jackson and Nimisilla. We don’t have swimming pool, we don’t have anything for our kids to go to once they’re out of school, you know. We want to see some of these things come about you know. The skating rinks and swimming pools and just summer recreations for the kids. Clean up of the, there’s a playing area that I hear about that’s over off of 14th Street. I’ve been hearing that it has asbestos and all this stuff. I don’t know if it was cleaned up two years ago. My daughter, she stayed over in that neighborhood, and it, this plant must have caught a fire or something another. It did look like a war zone. I don’t know if anything has been done about that, you know, because if it’s asbestos, then that’s airborne. That’s health hazardous to everybody you know. I, we also, well I had basically said we need to bring in amusement, an amusement park back to the Canton area that would bring money to the Hall of Fame city and create for our youths, during the summer, you know jobs in the summer. And since the city is hurting for money, can we seek government funding, okay, to help restore the city. The poor areas and you know it just, our place just looks trash. We want it, our, the inner city to look like North Canton, Hills and Dales, all the surrounding areas, we want to see it here in the inner city also. So these are all some of the concerns, okay. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -249- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) Our next speaker, I hope will shed some light on what we’ve heard. Pastor Walter Moss. Pastor, good evening. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address please. PASTOR WALTER MOSS: Alright. Pastor Walt Moss. 1601 Harvard Ave NW. I’m kinda sharing a couple different things. I am also in the Neighborhood Leadership Training class at this time because I love my city. I wanted to present and to let everyone know and I was appreciative of our invocation tonight that we are having a National Day of Prayer and we will start Sunday, May the 2nd at 4:00 P.M. all the way through Thursday May the 6th at 12:00 noon in the Central Plaza area. The other thing that I really wanted to share about was, I been on a committee here in the city with the Community Initiative to Reduce Gun Violence and last week we had a rehearsal call in and on the 23rd of April we are having our formal call in. There was a editorial in the paper today. Someone spoke about the gangs and said there’s nothing that’s going, you know there’s nothing that we can do, but I believe that this call in is an opportunity. When we bring the gang members in to Common Pleas Court and begin to talk to them and the reason that I’m on the committee because I want to make sure that the Community Coalition, I’m sorry that the CIRV project is not police heavy and that there are community individuals such as myself, Pastor Max Milliter and others who will before and after the session, two hour session that we have with these young men and women, that they will know that the community, that we care about them and that we’re going to give them an opportunity to come out of the gangs. I will be the lead off speaker. I have five minutes to do the introduction section, portion. Last week in our rehearsal we had the Major from Cincinnati police come. We had a professor from University of Cincinnati and we had four other individuals from the Ohio Criminology Department and I’ll tell you, I was, I was so blessed that they came because it tells me that there’s people who care about people. During the session the Major from Cincinnati, we were talking afterwards and one of the things that he said that really hit me. He said “Well last month in March, in Cincinnati, we had 12 homicides.” How many homicides have we had in Canton? We haven’t had any. I believe it’s because, number one, we have people who are praying. You all may not know this but there are people that are going into the communities who are praying and I want to tell the citizens, you don’t have to fear the gangs. You don’t have to fear them. And I believe that as of April 23rd when we kick off our first formal CIRV meeting, statistics has shown in every city, Cincinnati, Dayton, I went to Dayton to visit one of their call in and in every city crime drops 30%. And in Cincinnati they had 17 call in and what they shared with us, every time they do a call in, at least for a month, month and a half, the crime drops. So what I’m saying is I want our citizens to know, you know, the police are doing what they can, but we as citizens, we have to do our part. And I’m not a fearful, I’m also a Chaplain at Stark County Jail. I’m not fearful of gang bangers and so don’t be afraid. And so again, I want to tell all of you, but as of April 23rd we’re putting the gang bangers on notice that if a gun is used, we’re not just going, they’re not just going after the shooter but they’re going after the whole gang. Thank you. (APPLAUSE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great, thank you. PASTOR WALTER MOSS: We’ve got to get jobs. We’ve got to get jobs for our young people. Please we got to get jobs for our young people. (APPLAUSE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well like I said Pastor, I knew you’d shed some light on this. Thank you very much. We have two N.A.V.E. speakers tonight. Our first is Audra Turpin. Miss Turpin good evening. How are you? If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -250- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 AUDRA TURPIN: Good evening. My name is Audra Turpin. I live at 2713 Wood Owl St NE. The first thing I’d like to say is thank you for adding Dollar General to the 4th Ward. That’s a great addition. A great business to our area. I would like to know is there any other businesses added in the works. We need some more businesses. Dollar General is a start but we do need some more. The second thing I’d like to say is I would like to get a good nights rest at night. It’s really hard with the Republic Steel, LTV Steel formerly known as Republic Steel. Every time you turn around there’s a loud boom in the middle of the night. If it’s not Republic Steel with the loud booms from the steel or whatever they’re doing over there, I’m sure they’re not following some rule to have those loud bangs in the middle of the night that shakes your house in fact it knocked my cabinets off the wall, it’s that bad. On top of that, if it’s not Republic Steel then it’s, well I don’t want to say the name of the actual business around there but I’m sure you know it’s a bar. And that bar every weekend there’s a lot of gun shots and I do have children and there’s also other children in the area so if one of those guns happen to be pointed the wrong way, it could easily come into my home. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: You can actually say the name of the bar, if you like. AUDRA TURPIN: Well there’s a couple over there so. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay. AUDRA TURPIN: It’s Brick City. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Alright. AUDRA TURPIN: Brick City. So please, if you can do something about that to help us. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great, thank you so much. (APPLAUSE) Our next speaker is Veronica Callahan. Veronica good evening and if you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address and I know you’ve spoken many times. Good to have you. VERONICA CALLAHAN: Good evening. My name is Veronica Callahan. I reside at 3406 34th St NE in the city of Canton and don’t count this Councilman, President Schulman but can all the members of N.A.V.E. and if you were invited by N.A.V.E. please stand so we can be recognized. (APPLAUSE) President Schulman, Mayor Healy and all of our city officials and all of our Council people, we would like to thank you. Number one for being a partner with the Neighborhood Leadership Grant Program. We did just receive our allocations for this year so we do appreciate you. We invite you to come over to the grants dinner on the 23rd of April, 7th, that’s why I looked at the boss, the 27th of April. We do appreciate the cities financial input into our program as well as any of your individual input into our Neighborhood Association. But as you know, we don’t come to Council to talk about all the good stuff. Is there progress, yes. But there simply isn’t enough. I don’t have to repeat the words that you heard tonight. I kinda like this going last thing because guess what, you guys have already heard it but I’m just going to help try to attempt to put the icing on the cake a little bit. All the things that you heard here tonight, of all of them, there’s one thing that’s going to plague the adults and the youth in this city and that is jobs. If we do not employ the youth and the adults in this city, if we don’t come up with a commoncy, we can plant flowers, we can put camera up and try to get pictures, and I’m not making little of those things cause they help, but if people are not employed, people aren’t just robbing because they’re in a gang. I watch people rob cause their kids are hungry. I watch people rob because they cannot afford to take care of themselves and I’m kinda passionate about this because I do run the free income COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -251- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 tax program here in Stark County and there are some people who brought in over $27,000,000.00 through our program this year but it’s simply not enough. We have people with college education all the way down to high schoolers and we did invite some youth here tonight because you know what, 38 kids pregnant two years ago in the school systems. You haven’t seen nothing yet. The gangs, the people that are involved in ‘em, and I don’t often say it but guess what, I got one that got in trouble too. But you know what, it’s going to increase. It is going to increase if we collectively don’t do anything. I know I only have three minutes so if you just let me get this statement out, I’m done. We found out last week that the city has no plan for summer employment this year and I do have an understanding just as a courtesy, it’s not the city’s responsibility. It used to come under several other programs. We have a urgent matter that I know some people in this room are ready to sit down to the table and put a plan together and work. There is millionaires, there’s millionaire companies, and there are businesses here that need to invest in these kids. Over 8,000 kids will not have jobs this summer if we don’t do something about it. So we can plant the flowers, we can have the cook-outs and we’re gonna do it too. We’re gonna do back the school. We’re not making light of that, but the urgency is more children and adults will die and go to prison. More babies will be had in this community if we don’t do something about it and we’re gonna put it out there that we’re available for a meeting as soon as tomorrow morning. That’s how urgent this is and I think that if we address that, we’ll address everything else we talked about. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) Veronica I cannot remember the last time I ever interrupted you. (LAUGHTER) That would be really stupid of me. Okay, our next speaker is Constance Brown. Constance if you’d come forward. Good evening. And give us your name and your residential address and welcome to Canton City Council. CONSTANCE BROWN: Thank you. Good evening. I’m Constance Brown. I reside at 620 Bachert Ct SW. As we’re coming into the summer, we would find that a lot of families like to do recreational things and that sometimes includes having a marshmallow roast, a wiener roast in the backyard, but I have been a little bit uncertain about is what the Ordinances are regulating fires in your yard and another example of the area that I know there’s Ordinances that address dogs and vicious dogs and what types of registration and licensing and even insurance are required to have certain types of breeds. I was wondering if there’s any place where a person can go on the Canton city website and read these Ordinances that says simplify to layman’s language that we could then copy and paste into newsletters that go out into the community so that all of us then would really understand what the law is and what we should be reporting. And it could be a big help to us. And another thing that I would really like to hear tonight addressed to the entire group is the phone number that we can call to report violations without being asked who we are and where we live. So there are many people that live close to drug dealers and others where it is a dangerous situation. We would like to report it but they are afraid to. So if that could even be spoken to the group tonight, I think that would be appreciated. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much, Ms. Brown. (APPLAUSE) That’s why we like to have members of the community come down and talk to us because you give us some very good ideas, so thank you very much. Our next speaker is Patricia Kirk. Miss Kirk, good evening. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address, I know you’ve been here before. PATRICIA KIRK: Hello, good evening. My name is Patricia Kirk. I live at 131 5th St NE. Thank you very much for having us and we’ve had a lot of good speaking tonight. And I wanted to remind you that we represent Downtown Central Neighborhood Association. Also I want to say that we are unique. We are business, we are agencies and we are rental residences, and when we are that many different types of people, we care a lot about a lot of different things. I’m going to make this very, very short but there is a lot that we COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -252- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 can do but, we need your help. We thank you for your representation. We would like more help and we would like to help you more. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Our next speaker is Jason Scaglione. Good evening. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address and I know you’ve spoken before us. JASON SCAGLIONE: Good evening. Jason Scaglione. 3027 Glen Place Canton, Ohio here. I’ve come here tonight with a lot of the concerns we already have. A couple of my members in my association, Fairgrounds Residential Neighborhood Association, I am President of, have some big concerns. If you walk out onto Tusc. or Wertz your liable to get run over. Now we’ve asked and we’ve asked, for something to be done with the speeders but we’re not seeing it. I know that there’s one officer in the paper that wrote over a 1,000 traffic tickets on 77. That’s great, I’d love to have him in my neighborhood for a couple days. There are other areas of the city that we make money off of traffic tickets besides 77 and I think if we take a look at our neighborhoods and do some things in our neighborhoods, you’re going to get a greater impact than you’ll have on 77. I know that there was a gentleman arrested that we had problems with speeding through the neighborhood almost hit two kids. I found out when he did get arrested, that he was taken down with drugs as well. I think that we’d all like to see more of that and see it on a regular basis not just once a year or anything like that. So, I’d really like to see what we can do to get something going there. You know we talk here about creating administrative jobs, I want to see some Police Officer jobs. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) Our next speaker is Cindy Mandrell. Miss Mandrell good evening. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address and welcome. CINDY MANDRELL: Good evening, my name is Cindy Mandrell and I live at 7967 Norriten Circle NW in North Canton, Ohio but I did graduate from Woodland Avenue grade school, now Barbara Schrieber and Lehman High School. The class that didn’t win the state tournaments, but anyhow, I represent tonight, C.O.O.L., Community Outreach Of Love and my original purpose for coming here tonight was to challenge a letter that I had received but from, after being here I understand that this was a general letter that went out to everybody about police protection and my reason, my personal reason for being here was to say that our organization we did not believe needed the extra police protection because we clean up after ourselves and because we’re an organization that is doing a community clean up program. June 5th of this year we will be going into the Summit School neighborhood with approximately 1,500 volunteers from about 22 to 26 churches that have signed up so far. We’re still accepting registrations and we’re still accepting churches but we’re planning on going into the Summit neighborhood to clean up, fix up, repair, restore, plant flowers, have a lunch for the neighbors, have a band for the neighbors during the lunchtime and we did this last year on Henry Avenue with the SWING groups, South West United, or South West Involved Neighborhood Group. This year we’ll be working the Summit United Neighbors and also Hammer and Nails will be joining us and also Habitat for Humanity along with these 26 churches. We have no budget. We have no funding. Everything that we do is volunteer. Donated by the volunteers themselves who will be working on the homes. And so for us to have to pay for police protection would possibly stop the entire project. So, I’m just asking that you would consider that but, I also want to say that I have also had conversations with Mary Cirelli, Greg Hawk, Derek Gordon, Robert Torres, Lt. John Rubis, Sargent Fox from the Southwest, from the Summit Substation and I would like to say that the men that are working with me who are retired men, who moved to the Canton area because of their grandchildren but come from the Northeast, or East coast, they are absolutely amazed, absolutely amazed at the cooperation that we are getting from the people that I just mentioned from City Council and from the City of Canton. And so, there have been some promises made and I hope those COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -253- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 promises would be kept so I guess I’m here to draw attention to our C.O.O.L. project on June 5th and to thank you for the help that you’ve given us so far. I hope it’ll continue. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) Thank you for your volunteer efforts. It’s most appreciated. Our last speaker tonight is John Stone. Mr. Stone if you’ll step forward and give us your name and residential address please. JOHN STONE: Hello, my name is John Stone and I reside at 2906 12th St and I’m here to talk about all the positive things happening in Canton, okay. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: That’s why I saved you for last. JOHN STONE: Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: But make it quick. JOHN STONE: OK, well, you know, I don’t know if everybody has seen this beautiful Canton Connection magazine from a couple of months ago but we started something in Nimisilla Park last year. We had a day called B-Earthday to just start bringing the birth, rebirth to the park and I just really believe that there is a new vision that is brewing in Canton and that, and one of the things that I really wanted to say getting up here is that I’m happy that this city puts God first in starting this meeting with prayer, because I really believe that it’s through God and our connection in him that this new vision will be brought about. And we’re holding this day again on Saturday, April 24th and I believe you all have a flyer in front of you and if you look you can see the before on one side and the after on the other side which I think is a pretty beautiful picture. And last year, you know, I made a statement here about the most important jump in the city and the evolution of the city of Canton being in its collective realization that it is the heart of the heartland and the origin station of the Love Train and I still hold to that statement and of course we see it right here on the cover. The heart of it all, right. After B-Earthday, I want to pass this picture around, there was a tree that fell before the event and it was cut up and after the event there was a stump that was left over. Strangely, I went and picked it up and stuck it in my garden and just noticed that it happened to be heart shaped, interestingly enough. So, we’re just inviting everyone to join us on Saturday, April 24th in Nimisilla Park, the heart of the heartland to continue this positivity and just to bring, bring the love into the park and you know we’d like to have everybody come and participate in the cleaning and the planting of flowers and things like that. We’ll also have art events for the kids. Actually peace pals or collages of art that anyone can create and we’ll be sharing these with a city in Guyana called Powong actually as Canton is initiated some sister city connections too, which is all part of Canton being the heart and Nimisilla being the heart. The garden that we planted in the center, we’ve actually designated as an international garden and have had some people from around the world plant bulbs in the garden even. And I want to mention this book, “Utmost”, the quest of two global humanitarian foundations, physicians, to give their utmost to the world because Canton was very warmly mentioned in this book and all the proceeds go to world outreach programs. And also because I’m broke and I do everything voluntary, I have $7.00 in my wallet, if anyone needs a great photographer with a resume of an exhibit at the Empire State Building and celebrities and dignitaries and the City of Canton, by the way, I’m available and Thomas West has my number and I’d love to thank him so much for everything that he’s done with these projects. Thank you. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -254- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) I want to thank everyone for coming down and giving their views to the administration and the Directors, and the Law Director, and Council Members. We do appreciate it and we hope to see you again soon and we’ll be here after the meeting if you have any questions or concerns. COMMUNICATIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Communications, let the journal show that all Communications are received as read. NOTE: ALL COMMUNICATIONS WHICH FOLLOW, LISTED BY AGENDA TITLE, ARE ON FILE IN THEIR ENTIRETY IN THE COUNCIL OFFICE WITH THE AGENDA ITEMS FILE DATED APRIL 12, 2010. 161. AUDITOR MALLONN: CERTIFICATE OF TOTAL AMT FROM ALL SOURCES FOR 2010. - RECEIVED & FILED 162. DEV DIRECTOR TORRES: AMEND O#50/2010 TO CHANGE PAYMENT SCHEDULE & AUTHORIZE MAYOR OR SERV DIR TO ENTER INTO AMENDED ECONOMIC GROWTH INITIATIVE AGMT W/AMERIDIAL, INC PROVIDING A JOB CREATION TAX INCENTIVE IF THE COMPANY LOCATES IN CANTON, AS AUTHORIZED IN O#2/2006. - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 163. DEV DIRECTOR TORRES: RECEIPT OF 2009 REVIEW OF TAX ABATEMENTS; AUTHORIZE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL. - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 164. DEV DIRECTOR TORRES: AMEND O#118/2009 & O#17/2010 TO SUBSTITUTE FUNDING SOURCES FROM NSP TO HOME FUNDS. - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & FINANCE COMMITTEES 165. DEV DIRECTOR TORRES: AUTHORIZE MAYOR ON BEHALF OF CITY TO ENTER INTO FUNDING AGMT W/STARK CTY OUT OF POVERTY PARTNERSHIP TO PROVIDE CDBG FUNDS IN AMT OF $50,000.00 & NSP FUNDS IN AMT OF $30,000.00 TO ADMINISTER THE CITY OF CANTON’S HSNG PROGS & BENEFIT LOW & MODERATE INCOME FAMILIES FOR A RETRO PERIOD OF ONE YR FROM 1/1/10 THRU 12/31/10. - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & FINANCE COMMITTEES 166. FINANCE DIRECTOR ALGER: REQ APPROP TRANSFER & INTERFUND TRANSFERS (FOR CITY’S CONTINUING OPERATIONS). - FINANCE COMMITTEE 167. LIQUOR CONTROL COMM (OHIO): REVERSAL OF ORDER OF REJECTION OF 2009-2010 RENEWAL APPLICATION OF D5 LIQ PERMIT FOR MARK & FRANCES MILLS DBA FRIENDLY KORNER TAVERN @ 1503 HARRISON AVE, SW, 1ST FLOOR. - RECEIVED & FILED COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -255- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 168. PRATER, T, WARD 5 CNCLMBER, SMUCKLER, B, CNCL AT LG: AUTHORIZE LEGISLATION TO PROCEED W/THE FIRST PHASE OF PROVIDING WATER & SEWER SVCS TO A PORTION OF THE I-77 FAIRCREST ANNEXATION AREA PURSUANT TO THE CEDA AGMT ENTERED INTO IN 2003 W/CANTON TWP. - ANNEXATION COMMITTEE 169. SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: AUTHORIZE SAF DIR TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT W/TAYLOR CHEVROLET FOR PURCHASE OF 6 IMPALA 4-DOOR SEDANS FOR POLICE DEPT IN AMT NOT TO EXCEED $160,926.00 & ADDT’L SAFETY ACCESSORIES TO OUTFIT THESE VEHICLES IN AMT NOT TO EXCEED $40,000.00. - PUBLIC PROPERTY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE 170. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: ADVISING THAT NORTHEAST COMM CENTER IS ASKING THAT THE CITY FORGIVE THE GRANT BASED UPON ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES. - RECEIVED & FILED 171. TREASURER SCHIRACK: RPT OF DEPOSITS & PAY INS TO AMBULANCE LOCK BOX ACCT FOR MARCH 2010. - RECEIVED & FILED 172. TREASURER SCHIRACK: RPT OF PARKING METER REVENUE FOR MARCH 2010. - RECEIVED & FILED 173. TREASURER SCHIRACK: RPT OF TREAS OFC BANK RECONCILIATIONS & CITY’S OUTSTANDING INVESTMENTS AS OF 3/31/10. - RECEIVED & FILED 174. TREASURER SCHIRACK: COMPARATIVE RPT OF CASH RECEIPTS FILED AS OF 3/31/10. - RECEIVED & FILED ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR FIRST READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for their First Reading. Let the journal show that all Ordinances are being given their reading as required by state law. Madame Clerk would you please read the 1st Reading Ordinances by title. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #1 THROUGH #4 FOR THEIR FIRST TIME BY TITLE & ANNOUNCED THE COMMITTEE REFERRAL, AS FOLLOWS: #1. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 55/77, AS AMENDED, KNOWN AS THE CITY OF CANTON ZONING ORDINANCE; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PUB HRG 4/26/10 @ 7:30 P.M. Referred to Judiciary Committee #2. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE VACATING A PORTION OF LLOYD COURT NE ; APPROVING AND ACCEPTING THE REPLATTING OF LOTS 2699, 2700, 2701, 2702 AND 2703 AND THE VACATED PORTION OF LLOYD COURT N.E.; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PUB HRG 4/26/10 @ 7:31 P.M. Referred to Public Safety & Thoroughfare Committee COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -256- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 #3. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE AUDITOR TO PAY $106,894.78 TO MOTOROLA, INC. FOR THE 2010 SERVICE AGREEMENT; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Finance Committee #4. (1ST RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 72/2010 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 50/2010; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Community and Economic Development Committee PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Ordinances and Informal Resolutions for their 2nd Reading. Madame Clerk will you please read Ordinance #5. Oh, I’m sorry. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ordinance 4. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: What is it? CLERK TIMBERLAKE: We’re now in recess for Ordinance 4. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now in recess. Sorry Member Smuckler, I’m rushing through the meeting. I apologize. (COUNCIL RECESSED AT 8:26 P.M. FOR COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS ORDINANCE #4; RECONVENED AT 8:28 P.M.) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Chairman Smuckler. Council’s reconvening after the recess. Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President I move we suspend Rule 22A to place Ordinance 4 back on the agenda. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to place Ordinance 4 back on this evening’s agenda. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Motion carries and Ordinance 4 is a legal part of your agenda. Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we suspend the Statutory Rules on Ordinance 4. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -257- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend Statutory Rules on Ordinance #4. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The motion carries, you’ve heard the three readings, Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 4. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adopt Ordinance 4. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. #4 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 72/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance 4 is adopted. ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR SECOND READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under, and I apologize Member Smuckler for not getting to you earlier. We’re now under Ordinances for the Second Reading. Madame Clerk, would you please read Ordinance #5. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #5 THROUGH #8 FOR THEIR SECOND TIME BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS: #5. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 150.02, POWERS AND DUTIES OF CHAPTER 150, SYSTEMS PLANNING BOARD #6. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND/OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH TRINITY GOSPEL TEMPLE TO PROVIDE A GRANT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $25,000.00; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY #7. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ADVERTISE, RECEIVE BIDS AND ENTER INTO CONTRACTS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $38,000.00 FOR THE PURCHASE OF ONE (1) 2011 HEAVY DUTY CREW TRUCK CHASSIS AND IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $43,000.00 FOR THE PURCHASE OF ONE (1) 2011 HEAVY DUTY DUMP TRUCK FOR THE WATER DEPARTMENT; AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -258- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH GERMAIN FORD IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $32,921.58 FOR THE PURCHASE OF TWO (2) 2010 SERVICE VANS PURSUANT TO O.R.C. SECTION 125.04; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 1/2010; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY #8. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND/OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ADVERTISE, RECEIVE BIDS AND ENTER INTO A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR THE CLEVELAND AVENUE N.W. RESURFACING PROJECT, G.P. 1109; EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING SERVICES WITH OMNI PRO SERVICES LLC; RECEIVE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT (ARRA) FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $102,345.00 FOR THIS PROJECT THROUGH THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (ODOT); RECEIVE FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,728,000.00 TO FUND THE COST OF BOTH THE CONSTRUCTION AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CONTRACTS; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 1/2010; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD AND FINAL READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. We’re now under Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for their Third and Final Reading. If you have your wind back, would you please read Ordinance #9. #9. (3RD RDG) DEFEATED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING EXHIBIT A TO ORDINANCE NO. 164/2001, AS AMENDED, THE CLASSIFICATION PLAN AND SALARIES FOR ALL MANAGEMENT AND NON-BARGAINING UNIT EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF CANTON; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (COMM DEV & PLANNING) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: I move we adopt Ordinance 9. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adopt Ordinance #9. Are there any remarks, Leader? MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President I move we amend Ordinance 9 per the amendment given out to everyone. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. AMENDMENT Pursuant to Rule 36, I move to amend Exhibit A to Agenda Item/Ord No. 9 as follows: COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -259- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 Office of Community Development and Planning Director 1 C1 $89,000** E **Effective with the passage of this Ordinance, this salary is established at $59,200.00, and will remain at said rate until Council rescinds the current salary freeze on management and non-bargaining unit employees. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that Ordinance #9 be amended per the copy before each of the Members of Council. By voice vote all those in..... MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes, Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Can I have the Law Department summarize the amendment please? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Sure. Director Martuccio. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Thank you Mr. President, Majority Leader Dougherty. This is an amendment prepared at the request of the Mayor at who, who is sponsoring this particular Ordinance to create a position of a Director of the Office of Community Development and Planning. A number of Members of Council asked and the Mayor agreed to produce an amendment that says that when this Ordinance is effective which could be tonight, if it’s voted for and signed, the salary is established at $59,200.00 instead of a range with a cap at $89,000.00 and it will remain at $59,200.00 until Council rescinds the current salary freeze on management and non-bargaining unit employees which is in place. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other remarks Leader? MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 9 as amended. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I don’t think we had the motion... MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, we need to get, yea, we need to get the vote first. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We have to get the motion to amend. So by voice vote, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS UNDISTINGUISHED YEAS AND NAYS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Alright, we’ll have a roll call vote, please Madame Clerk. This is on the motion to amend the Ordinance per the copy before each of you that Law Director Martuccio just explained. Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL: 5 YEAS, 7 NAYS (MEMBERS DOUGHERTY, WEST, GRIFFIN, SMITH & BARTON VOTED YEA) COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -260- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s a tie. What do we do in a tie? The motion to amend fails. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Five yeas, seven nays. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Five, I’m sorry. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Five yeas, seven nays. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The motion fails clearly. So now you would be voting then on Ordinance 9 without the amendment. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member West. MEMBER WEST: Can I have the Law Department explain that? So currently we’re voting on the salary of $89,000.00 and is that correct? And still for the Director’s position or could you clarify that for me? LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes, Law Director Martuccio, I’m sorry. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Member West. The Ordinance before you does a few things. The Ordinance you’re about to vote on does these things; it creates the Office of Community Development and Planning under a particular group that’s described in the Personnel Ordinance under the Department of Development and I think more to your interest, it creates the classification called Director of Community Development and Planning which is given grade C1. One employee allowed in that office. Exhibit A, which is what was before you with an attempt to amend it, puts a position called Director into that Personnel Ordinance for non-bargaining unit people. Under the separate category called Office of Community Development and Planning. Again, it creates the position called Director. One position at a grade C1. It sets the maximum or cap on the range that this position can earn at $89,000.00. My understanding of how that would work is, over the last couple of years, this Council was amended to, was asked to amend the way salaries are awarded. How they start. How they proceed in terms of being raised or not. My understanding is that this one would start at, could start at 85% of that particular amount, so 85% of $89,000.00 is roughly $72,000.00 I believe. That would be the starting salary under the new policy. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President, can I also PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member West. MEMBER WEST: Can I also for the record ask the Mayor if he could summarize the need for this position as a Director. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Mayor Healy. MAYOR HEALY: Thank you. This is a re-definition of the job that Carmen West held. She was a Deputy Director or acting Deputy Director of Community Development. There is a tremendous amount of work in the Department of Development and there is two distinctly different jobs that need to be done by Community COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -261- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 Development or by Economic Development, the Department of Development. One job is the community needs and we have all the Neighborhood Associations here. Many of you have worked with Carmen West. She is no longer with us but as Deputy Director. She did not have the final authority with dealing with community issues that had to be passed along to Robert Torres who’s in the back as our Development Director. What we wanted to do was formalize that position so the person who was in charge of Community Development would have the authorization to make those decisions when working with the community. In addition to that, it would take those responsibilities away from Robert Torres and allow Robert to be a full time Economic Development Director, which means he would spend all of his time creating and retaining jobs in the City of Canton. That’s what this was for. This would allow us to have a person dedicated to creating jobs, which as we heard tonight, is felt to be the most important thing we could do, and it would allow us to have one person that was designated with the authority to address the community development needs. And again, we have brought in $13,000,000.00 extra in NSP money. Most of that has went through the Development Office, so we have more dollars and we have more need than ever as well to address this. I was willing to start this person at the exact same pay that Carmen was making, which is what the amendment was for. That did not pass Council but, we still need this position and we still have the needs to address our neighborhoods and again to focus on creating jobs in our community and having somebody dedicated 100% to that. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member West anything else? MEMBER WEST: Just one last question. If this does not pass, then my understanding is, there’s still a Deputy Director position and would that be filled or how would that be filled or how would that work? MAYOR HEALY: There is an Executive Specialist position that we used, it’s basically an appointee of the Mayor. We used that position for Carmen and gave her the acting Deputy Director role. We can still fill that position. I made a commitment to this Council that if we created the Director position, I would not fill that position. If we don’t, we still have that position there. The maximum salary that we can hire in is 85% of the cap on that range, which I believe is around 56 or $57,000.00 which means we could come in at that number and still bring somebody in. We could change the job description but it would not be recognized by Ordinance by this Council and it also complicates things in the department because by Ordinance, Robert Torres is still responsible which means he would have to still oversee the community side of things. If we could separate these two positions, that person by authority of Council and Ordinance would have the ability to make the final decision on those Community Development issues and free up Robert. So that’s the purpose of this, is to split those up, to create a focus on those two areas. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other remarks? MEMBER GRIFFIN: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes, Member Griffin. MEMBER GRIFFIN: I feel we need somebody in this position but for the record, I cannot support this Ordinance, sorry. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Member Griffin. Any other remarks? OK, you are, it’s been moved and seconded to... MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -262- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well let’s, yea, Leader Dougherty since the amendment failed, let’s go back. You wish to move for the adoption of Ordinance #9. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Yes Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 9. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 9, understanding it is without the amendment. Are there any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL: 2 YEAS, 10 NAYS (MEMBERS WEST AND SMITH VOTES YEA) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Two yeas, ten nays Mr. President. #9 DEFEATED PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The motion is not carried, therefore Ordinance 9 is not adopted. We’re now under Ordinance 10 please Madame Clerk. #10. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO.73/2010 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA HOUSING COUNCIL’S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREAS; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 10. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adopt Ordinance #10. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Hearing none Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL: 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. #10 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 73/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #10 is adopted. Ordinance #11 please. #11. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 74/2010 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH BOBCAT COMPANY IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $32,991.00 FOR THE PURCHASE OF ONE (1) SKID STEER LOADER MODEL 300 FOR THE COLLECTION SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT PURSUANT TO O.R.C. SECTION 125.04; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -263- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 11. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adopt Ordinance 11. Any remarks? Hearing none Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL: 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. #11 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 74/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #11 is adopted. Ordinance #12 please. #12. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 75/2010 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH ZAYO BANDWIDTH TO PERMIT CONSTRUCTION OF A “FIBER PLANT”; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 12. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #12. Any remarks? Hearing none Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL: 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. #12 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 75/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #12 is adopted. ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Announcement of Committee Meetings. Member Hawk. MEMBER HAWK: Thank you Mr. President. I greatly appreciate that recognition. We will have Finance Committee meeting at 6:45 P.M. on Monday, April 19th. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: 6:45. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other? Member West. MEMBER WEST: Judiciary will meet at the same time and the same place. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -264- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Anyone else? Any other announcements, Public Safety. MEMBER SMITH: Yes Mr. President. Yea, Public Safety and Thoroughfares. Same time, same station. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Member Smith. Any other announcements? MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Miscellaneous Business. Is there any Miscellaneous Business? MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Smith. MEMBER SMITH: OK, I would like to invite each and every one of you on Saturday, April th 17th, to the Democratic Headquarters. At that time we’re going to be having a special guest which is the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, which is non other than Yvette McGee Brown. It is free and we also looking for members so, please come out on Saturday, April the 17th at 12 noon. That’s from 12 to 2 at the Democratic Headquarters and that’s located at 4200 12th Street NW. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Member Smith. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member West. MEMBER WEST: Yes, I just wanted to comment, I know a lot of people talked about gangs tonight. A lot of the young men and gang activity on 13th, 14th, first before I get there, I want to thank Safety Director, the Mayor, Member Smuckler, Member Hawk, for coming out last week. You heard me say the sky is falling, the sky is falling, and also Chief McKimm for all of his support in that 13th Street and Plain area. They came out and I just appreciate you guys making that happen for us and the continued support is definitely necessary as you heard tonight. But this past week, I went to Stark State College with, and many of you guys know City Flooring, up on the corner of Cleveland and 12th. But they had 17 young men and these are young men that if you seen them on a corner, street corner 13th or 14th, you might have thought that they might have been gangs. But these boys learned a skill. The CCIC provided, with Linda Barnes support, provided some monies for these boys to learn how to lay flooring. Each of those boys got up and they spoke and I mean it really touched my heart cause these young men that day learned how to fish. Now each and every one of those boys now can go out and lay flooring and actually can be productive. And it was something that the CCIC did and I was really proud. Was it CCIC, Linda or Community Development? But that’s the type of activity that we’re going to have to continue to do is to create service learning opportunities. If jobs are not available, we’re going to have to start providing service learning opportunities so that these kids can fish themselves. So I just want to thank Linda and Leonard, he left. I seen him earlier, but these boys really showcased their talent. And then last, I want to mention, we had an event at the Stark County Minority Health Coalition. About 300 people in the room and Senator Ray Miller spoke and it was just a marvelous time so all of those who have attended, I appreciate it. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Member West. Member Griffin. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -265- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 MEMBER GRIFFIN: Mr. President, thank you. I would like to point out the banner that’s on the wall about the 2010 Census. I trust that everybody has sent their census report in. If you haven’t please do so and also more importantly, you know, ask your friends, your neighbors if they’ve sent their census forms. It’s very important for the community that we set, everybody is counted and I understand we are like at 70% right now and the more people that send their forms in, the fewer we have to have send out. They say it costs $57.00 per person to go knocking on the door. So please get your forms in and thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Griffin. Any other remarks? Member Smuckler. MEMBER SMUCKLER: Mr. President, last week we had some comments from Ward 2 and myself and Member Hawk went out there later that night. It’s not the first time that we’ve been out in the neighborhood. After my remarks were in the newspaper, I got calls from 22nd & Maple. I got calls from further into the inner city at Mahoning Road where a bullet actually, three week old Habitat home, bullet went through the porch, through the living room, into the bedroom, and when I say the bedroom, I don’t mean the adult’s bedroom, I mean the children’s bedroom and fell on the floor. When the Police came by the following day and picked up the bullet and took it with them for further examination. I met with a few of the neighbors in that area there and I still firmly believe that this has to be what was done several years ago on what we called SWAT basis, where the neighborhood homes that are dilapidated and closed up need to be dealt with at the exact time, the same time we’re dealing with safety issues. And I know that besides that, you could walk into a number of the neighborhoods that have called me and you’ve expressed the same concern. We are on a very tight budget but we do have some money in an unappropriated balance. Police Chief McKimm I realize that you take the responsibility for where the officers are placed and I also had several conversations with you that it’s all a matter of money. We have $50,000.00 in unappropriated balance that was taken out of the Mayor’s budget several weeks ago on the leaving of one of his employees. Member Cirelli’s been having an ongoing email battle that I’ve watched and Member Hawk was kind enough into that neighborhood to send some Weed & Seed people in over the last few nights. But I think it’s time now that we made a greater police effort and myself, Member Cirelli and Member Hawk who have been very active in this have a communication after my weekend to submit to the agenda for next week, to take the $50,000.00 out of the unappropriated balance and to place it into the safety force for the Police Department for the Police Chief to please consider placing some of the police back in the neighborhood. I think that one of the people that spoke here tonight said what the overwhelming sentiment was in all the neighborhoods that I heard on Friday night and that was if you want to pick up speeders, if you need to pick up people running stop signs, you can do a lot of that in the neighborhoods. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Smuckler. (APPLAUSE) MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you Mr. President. Question to the Law Director, Joe Martuccio. Joe, I sent you some emails and what have you questioning about the fact, can we use Community Development dollars for police protection in the CD area? Have you been able to get that researched sir and tell us if we can do that to beef up our neighborhood police patrol please. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Law Director Martuccio. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -266- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Mr. President, Member Cirelli, it’s not, I don’t have the final answer but our preliminary research indicates that under certain parameters we can. With certain parameters. MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you, Mr. Martuccio can you speak on those parameters and would they happen to be what we’ve been hearing here tonight because all the time that I’ve sat in Council and even when I was in other offices, I’ve always watched and I have never seen nor heard what we are hearing now. And I think we are all really looking for, we want zero tolerance in gang distribution and we have Bruce Allison that we brought back in. So far he’s supposed to be doing something but I don’t know exactly what, and it doesn’t seem like we’ve got a hold of this whole picture and I think we have got this...take this very seriously and do something and bring a stop to this somehow. So can you tell me about the parameters, sir that are set. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Mr. President, Member Cirelli I don’t have those specifications but as soon as we have them, we’ll make them available to you and if you’d like, I can share them with Council through their mailboxes. MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President and Mr. Martuccio, I would appreciate that and if you can do it as soon as possible if not yesterday, it would be greatly appreciated. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great, thank you, thank you Member Cirelli. Member Smuckler, anything else? MEMBER SMUCKLER: Mr. President, to Virginia Callahan I have a number of tests that I have to have run in the next few days but beginning next week I believe there needs to be a summer jobs program in this city and I will, I know with a lot of the other Council people, we’ll sit down with you and try to make sure that we can come up with something for summer jobs in this community. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other remarks? Law Director Martuccio. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Thank you Mr. President. I wanted to thank all of the folks who came tonight representing N.A.V.E. or otherwise for showing your civic interest in both thanking and criticizing your leaders for things that could be done better. To directly answer some of the questions that were placed to us. Dogs, vicious dogs, pit bull breed must have insurance of $100,000.00 under state and local law when they’re on premises they have to be secured in certain kinds of fencing. When they’re off premise they have to be securely in the control of the person they’re with and muzzled. You can find those, as you asked at cantonlaw.org or you can simply go to the City of Canton’s website which is an excellent website and well maintained and go to the Canton Law Department where you’ll find a section for Ordinances. You can type in the keyword vicious and you’ll find vicious dog for example and some of those requirements. Our city Ordinances mirror state laws. With regard to fires, you can cook food outdoors. Be courteous of your neighbors and this is a courteous group. One of the reasons we had to do what we did as a Council on outdoor wood burning appliances was the smoke that was going into people’s windows and choking asthmatic children for example. You can cook out but please be careful. If you have any concerns about what size fire or how far it has to be from the nearest residence, visit cantonlaw.org or call your local Fire Department and ask the fire prevention man of those officers, I’m sure would be able to assist you in answering that question. Thank you. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -267- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 12, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Any other remarks? I just want to thank Office Brown and Officer Pellegrino for staying here tonight. I hope I have your name right. Appreciate it, thank you very much. Chief and I want to thank you for last week. I sort of stuck you with an assignment that I don’t think you really came in believing you would take but that’s your job and in having said that and listening to all that we’ve heard tonight, you know the jobs, the job of our public safety forces is monumentally difficult, so hard and we owe them such a debt of gratitude. We do appreciate what you do under the kinds of circumstances that you work, so you deserve a great round of applause tonight. (APPLAUSE) Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adjourn. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adjourn. Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL: 12 YEAS, 0 NAY CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. (Gavel falls) . ADJOURNMENT TIME: 8:57 P.M. ATTEST: APPROVED: CYNTHIA TIMBERLAKE ALLEN SCHULMAN CLERK OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT