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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -319- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Welcome to Canton City Council. Appreciate you all being here. As I’ve said to my fellow Council Members and the Administration, my name is Allen Schulman and I am, and I would like to, oh Cindy’s back, I thought I could ad lib up here for awhile. I do apologize to my fellow Members of Council and the Administration for not being present but, I think all of you know there is a major trial occurring between the two biggest hospitals in our community and it’s a sad case for the community. Sorry to be in it but, never the less often times I have to represent a client and I love to be here and I’ve told Ed Balint that I love being here. I hate to miss Council but often times it’s just unpreventable so I do apologize to the citizens and my fellow Members of Council and the Administration for the times that I’ve not been here but I intend to try to make it as frequent as I can, so with that...... CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Glad to have you back. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s good to be back and I don’t have my little list here. With a quorum being present the Chair calls this meeting of Canton City Council to order. Roll call vote 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 our Invocation will be given by Council Member Jim Griffin. If you’ll all please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. The regular meeting of Canton City Council was held on Monday, May 10, 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 Ward 3 Council Member, James Griffin. The Pledge of Allegiance led by President Schulman. AGENDA CORRECTIONS & CHANGES PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Agenda Corrections and Changes. Members of Council you’re going to be asked to suspend Rule 22A to add the 2nd Reading of Ordinances 3 and 4 tonight. Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Yea, Mr. President. Suspend Rule 22A, add the 2nd Reading Ordinances 3 and 4 to the agenda. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend Rule 22A. Are there any remarks? Hearing none roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -320- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. The motion carries. Rule 22A is suspended and the Ordinances are a legal part of your Agenda.. PUBLIC HEARINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Public Hearings. We have no Public Hearing this evening. PUBLIC SPEAKS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Public Speaks. We have four speakers. I’m going to take them somewhat out of order. Our first speaker is Dick Deitrick. Mr. Deitrick, good evening. Welcome as always and if you’ll give us your name and residential address and tell us what you have to say. DICK DEITRICK: I thought I signed up on like the fourth one but that’s fine. Welcome back Mr. Schulman. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Good to be back. DICK DEITRICK: Good to see you. Yea, I’m Richard Deitrick. I live at 144 Park Avenue SW in Canton and it was brought to my attention, I hope somebody can tell me that I’m way wrong and I’m way out of line when I bring up what I got to bring up because I’m kinda upset and I’m not upset at you guys. Some of you guys are bigger than me and a lot of you’s is meaner ‘an me. But what I really got to say is, somebody wants to charge $2,000.00 to supply police protection for the Memorial Day parade for the Veterans in this town. Anybody hear about this? Anybody know anything? Where’s the Mayor? Where’d he go? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I’m sure he’ll be back, Mr. Deitrick. DICK DEITRICK: Well anyway, I’m gonna say what I got to say because I’m a little bit upset about that and I understand that we’re so broke we can’t pay attention and all that stuff but, because the wars, this city was built. I just found that out by that bright fella that was just talking, the Service Director. I didn’t know that’s why we built this city, because of World War I and World War II but it’s very interesting to know. You learn something every day. But we’re not poor but, we’re having a rough way to go and I want to know that the veterans, I want you to know that the veterans don’t march ourselves, we march for Johnny Wisebroad and Robbie Borger and Sharon Lane and Ben Stouffer and all the people from Canton that gave the ultimate sacrifice to their country. This is hard for me to even say this. And the people that can’t march anymore. They’re the ones that we march for. George Patton, when asked if he was proud of all his many medals told a reporter, he said “These aren’t my medals. I wear them for the men who earned ‘em.” And the same way, the same thing that we march in the parade for. We don’t march for ourselves because we think we’re cool, we march for the people that can’t march anymore. My dad fought in World War II, won a bronze star. I went to Nam. I didn’t win anything, but I came home alive so that was a pretty big deal and I betcha if things are that tough, I betcha I could go to the Police Department tomorrow and probably get 20 or more cops, excuse my language, who would volunteer to protect our parade for free and do it on their own time. I could get ‘em at medically retired cop named Clark, who almost gave his life for his city to stand tall and for free. If you people can’t support, I’m sorry I wrote this down and just now and you know. If you can’t support, support us for our Memorial Day parade, I personally will donate $100.00 toward the cause, but I’d be very COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -321- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 sad to think my city gave up on those who never gave up on them. God Bless Canton, Ohio. God Bless America. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Dick. (APPLAUSE) Thank you and we will check into that. I’m not quite sure what the problem is but we’ll take care of it after the meeting. Our next speaker is John Adkins. Mr. Adkins if you’ll step forward. Good evening sir. That’s OK, I said I love your dog. If you’ll give us sir, your name and your residential address. JOHN ADKINS: My name is John Adkins. I’m currently homeless in Canton, Ohio. I am a little scared right now because.... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: That’s alright. Take your time. JOHN ADKINS: I’ve been here since December 24th last year, from San Diego, California to hopefully build a relationship with a sibling that I have here in this area. The reason that I was trying to develop a relationship with my, with a family member is because at the age of 13, my family moved from this area to Dallas, Texas and a few months after we moved there, I was kidnapped from school and held and things happened and when I was returned home, my family put me out on the street. They didn’t know. They didn’t understand. During that time when I was kidnapped and I was also infected with Hepatitis C and HIV. For the next 28 years, I ran in fear. I couldn’t trust nobody. Couldn’t stay in any city. Never had no friends. Never had any family. Spent all my other holidays in a church, every holiday because from the age of, from the time I was born until the time I was 13 I never had a day without my family and so the only comfort after that, that I had was God and in church because I had nothing else. Many years went by and 2007 I was sitting in front of a TV in San Diego, California and they were talking about a thing called the Stockholm Syndrome and it was about kidnap victims and at that moment I saw my past for the first time in almost 28 years. I realized at that moment I had to be responsible for my own life and my own actions and to somehow find a way to become a productive member in society and somehow work on that. And I began doing it. I began starting to work with local agencies in San Diego to teach me how to do job interviews, to dress, to write out a resume, even carry on a conversation with another human being because I had lived as a subhuman life my whole life. That moment was, my life is different today because of that one moment, you know and I am very grateful and I’m very blessed to be alive today because I’m one of the lucky few that could make it through something like that and to make it through the streets. And I’ve been through every street in this country from New York to San Francisco and even the little streets here in Canton, Ohio. Once I realized that I had to be responsible for my life, I also had to be responsible for my medical needs too, so I found a doctor that began to treat me for my drug addiction and for AIDS in which I was, I was rapidly dying from that. He managed to stabilize me on, for the HIV only to have Hepatitis C begin to ravage my, my liver. I was put on treatment for Hepatitis C and treatment for Hepatitis C left me paralyzed last year. February 26, 2009.... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Mr. Adkins, I hate to interrupt but, I’m sorry we have a..... JOHN ADKINS: I’m getting there. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well, I’m actually given, I’ve given you more time than is customary but if you could just focus in and kinda conclude your remarks, just if you could tell us what it is you want to say to us. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -322- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 JOHN ADKINS: Since I’ve been in this area, I’ve been homeless living in my car because I have a service animal. Not a single shelter, hotel will let me have accommodations with my animal. No business will let me in except for government buildings and libraries and hospitals. I’ve been, I’ve had pneumonia two times. I had a heart attack once. I’ve been unable to walk twice and still I’ve been left, put in my car. So tomorrow, I’m getting in my car, I’m going to Clinton, Iowa where I will continue on with my, with school, which I’m a Psychology major with a 3.3 grade point average with the hopes of doing my internship at the Mayo Clinic. For me, because I’m homeless, I can’t have that relationship that I wanted with my family here, it’s just null and void. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well, I’m sorry, I’ve gotta, you have to conclude your remarks sir, I apologize. JOHN ADKINS: No actually, I’m sorry because every night, you know I don’t pray for myself. I pray for this community. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK, well thank you very much, sir. Thank you and best of good luck to you. JOHN ADKINS: Good luck to you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. JOHN ADKINS: I’ll keep you in my prayers. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Our next speaker is Cindy Cox. Good evening, I’m sorry. I’m a little taken back. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address please and welcome. CINDY COX: Thank you. My name’s Cindy Cox. I live at 201 Brown Avenue NW and my concerns tonight are the demolition of the vacant homes cause I just spent Saturday night watching two of my son’s homes burn and his garage. The house, the one house was on the demo list and it had never been taken down and that’s the house that somebody set on fire. So it’s dangerous to leave these homes standing empty. I, I heard that Mr. Hawk was there. At the time he was there, I was in the house taking care of my 79 year old mother who had to leave the home because the Fire Department told us we had to get out and she was about to collapse so I’m really concerned about the homes that need to be demo’d around here. And there’s a house at 517 Fulton that I guess Betty Smith has. That house needs to come down. It’s a his, she claims it’s a historical home. I don’t see it but my daughter lives on 6th Street. She put her house up for sale, not because she wants to, but because she has to because of the neighborhood. And after they found out that, that house was being taken off the demo list, they dropped the price of her house $6,000.00. So these vacant homes are causing a problem. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay. CINDY COX: And that’s my concern for tonight. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Very good. Thank you very much ma’am. Thank you. (APPLAUSE) OK our last speaker tonight is Bill Sherer. Bill, good evening. If you’ll give us your name and your residential COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -323- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 address. WILLIAM SHERER: President Schulman, thank you. My name is Bill Sherer. I reside at 4670 Frazer NW in the 8th Ward. The reason I’m down here tonight is kinda to vent. To vent my frustration to a certain degree. I commend the city of Canton for trying to bring jobs to the community and the reason I’m down here is the Medline project. Nobody more than me wants to see jobs in this community and trust me as far as the Ironworkers, we see it on a day to day basis about the jobs that are leaving this area period. It doesn’t matter if it’s from the Hoover Company to Republic Steel and down the line. I commend the city of Canton for getting Medline to come in here but I will tell you this, it’s just not about the tax base after it’s built. It’s about, what about the guys that are actually going to build it. I can, I can also commend city of Canton and Council and city government for the recent Project Labor Agreements that they did. That is a monumental step to forging a relationship to keeping local labor in this town. And when I stress the fact about keeping local labor in this town, that means keeping the tax dollars within this community. The way to that Medline project is looking right now, it’s probably going to be about 80 to 85% out of state contractors. And I can tell you this, the Ironworkers in this town get very active in a lot of ways and I can guarantee you one thing, that we’re going to be very active on a picket line down on that job. Right now, I got members of my local union that live in the city of Canton that their walking away from their homes. Literally walking away. Going up to 30th Street and donating plasma because we’re staving to death because they’re running out of unemployment benefits. Now this is nothing personal with anybody but I can tell you this, maybe we need to do a little bit better screening on who we try to help in the future. But I tell you, I commend the city, I do commend you guys for bringing the jobs in this town. But I can tell ya, what about who’s going build it, period. Now, I can tell ya that this job is probably the way things are looking. It’s probably going to be too little, too late. I mean we’re going to do everything that we can do in our power to make sure that these out of state contractors are playing by the same rules that our good local contractors have to play, the rules they have to play by. You know that since Council and the city government was gracious enough to appoint me to the City Income Tax Review Board, is every guy working on that job down there, going be having city taxes taken out period. Are they going to be paying prevailing wage and I would assume that Jeff Harris which is the Prevailing Wage Coordinator for the city of Canton is going to be auditing that payroll in which I hope, long as those out of state contractors are playing by the same rules that our contractors have to play by, I can accept that but one thing I cannot accept is when we, we got guys that are literally staring to death to live in this town. We have always, you know and I could be wrong about this, but I think I’m the only labor leader that still lives within the city of Canton as fair as the building trades. And I was born and bred here. And I’m not leaving. And I can tell you this, we need to do what we need to do. I, this is a line from my father. I had a very, and every, just about everybody on Council knows my dad. I don’t know how many years ago that Cmich was in here but when an out of state contractor would come in here, basically city government would tell then just to get the hell right, period. And obviously that’s not going to happen on this project. Maybe this might be a positive step for the future, maybe we can call it preventative maintenance but I guess they don’t know your hungry ‘til you actually tell them. Right now we’ve been carrying 50% unemployment for the last sixteen God damn months. And then when’s it going to end. If I, if I was the guy that turned this economy around, I would have everybody working right now. And we’re doing everything that we possibly can. I commend everybody that I’m talking to right now for trying to bring these jobs in here but it’s just not about the jobs after the fact. It’s about who’s going to build them. And I appreciate your time guys. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thanks Bill. (APPLAUSE) I’m sure there’ll be some remarks Bill in COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -324- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 Miscellaneous Business tonight on that very subject. INFORMAL RESOLUTIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Informal Resolutions. Madame Clerk would you please read Resolution 34 by title. #34. COUNCIL AS A WHOLE: RECOGNIZING MATTHEW FETTMAN AS ONE OF CANTON’S PROFESSIONALS FOR HIS OUTSTANDING SUCCESS. - ADOPTED PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President. I move we adopt Resolution 34. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Informal Resolution 34. Any remarks? MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. Fettman’s brother Steve called and contacted me and unfortunately or fortunately he’s gotten a big promotion and had to be in Washington or he’d be here tonight still. He’ll be delighted to be here next Monday night for us to award that to him, so if we pass it tonight and then they will be here next Monday night and I think it’s something I’m very, very proud of. So we’ll have it read then on Monday night. Thank you sir. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great, thank you Member Cirelli. Any other remarks? Hearing none all those in favor of the Resolution signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS RESOLUTION #34 PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The ayes have it. The motion carries. Resolution is adopted. 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 MAY 10, 2010. 195. AUDITOR MALLONN: MONTHLY RPT BY FUND FROM 4/1/10 - 4/30/10. - RECEIVED & FILED COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -325- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 196. AUDITOR MALLONN: YEARLY RPT BY FUND FROM 1/1/10 - 4/30/10. - RECEIVED & FILED 197. AUDITOR MALLONN: REQ AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO ALL CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENTS, SUCH AS BOND LEGAL COUNSEL & RELATED BANK SVCS, AS MAY BE NECESSARY FOR CITY TO ISSUE ON THE OPEN MARKET A BOND ANTICIPATION NOTE (ESTATE OF SHAWN PIROLOZZI). - FINANCE COMMITTEE 198. DEV DIRECTOR TORRES: AUTHORIZE MAYOR TO SUBMIT APPLICATION TO OH DEPT OF DEV, EXECUTE GRANT AGMT W/ODOD & ACCEPT UP TO $500,000.00 IN 629 ROADWAY DEV FUNDS; AUTHORIZE AUDITOR TO ESTABLISH A SEPARATE FUND FOR RECEIPT & DISBURSEMENT OF THE 629 ROADWAY DEV FUNDS & DRAW HIS WARRANTS UPON RECEIPT OF VOUCHERS DULY APPROVED BY PROPER DEPT AUTHORITY. - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 199. DEV DIRECTOR TORRES: AUTHORIZE MAYOR OR SERV DIR TO ENTER INTO A JOBS FOR US INCENTIVE W/MEDLINE INDUSTRIES FOR THE EXPANSION OF THEIR FULL TIME JOB COMMITMENT FROM 25 NEW FULL TIME JOBS BY 8/2/11 TO AN ADDTIONAL 30 JOBS BEGINNING ON 1/1/16 & FOR 4 YEARS THEREAFTER. - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 200. DEV DIRECTOR TORRES: AUTHORIZE MAYOR &/OR SERV DIR TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT UNDER NEIGHBORHOOD STAB PROG FOR ACQUISITION/REDEVELOPMENT &/OR NEW CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSING UNITS (SMHA, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, DDK PROPERTIES, JR COLEMAN). - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 201. HAWK, G, FINANCE CHAIRMAN: REQ FOR 2011 BUDGET. - RECEIVED & FILED 202. HEALTH ADMIN, MCBRIDE: APRIL 2010 MONTHLY COMPARATIVE RPT - INS CLAIMS. - RECEIVED & FILED 203. HEALTH COMMISSIONER ADAMS: 2009 CANTON HEALTH DEPT’S ANNUAL REPORT. - RECEIVED & FILED 204. LIQUOR CONTROL DIVISION (OHIO): REQ FOR NEW D1 D3 D3A LIQUOR PERMIT FOR CORK & CANVAS ON 3RD LLC @ 332 3RD ST NW. - RECEIVED & FILED 205. LIQUOR CONTROL DIVISION (OHIO): NOTIFICATION OF ADDRESS CHANGE FOR CORK & CANVAS TO 322 3RD ST NW IN REGARD TO PROPOSED NEW LIQUOR PERMIT. - RECEIVED & FILED 206. STARK COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: RECEIPT OF RESOLUTION APPROVING THE ANNEXATION KNOWN AS THE DELONG ANNEXATION AREA. - RECEIVED & FILED 207. TREASURER SCHIRACK: RPT OF DEPOSITS & PAY INS TO AMBULANCE LOCK BOX ACCT FOR APRIL 2010. - RECEIVED & FILED COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -326- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 208. TREASURER SCHIRACK: RPT OF PARKING METER REVENUE FOR APRIL 2010. - RECEIVED & FILED 209. TREASURER SCHIRACK: RPT OF TREAS OFC BANK RECONCILIATIONS & CITY’S OUTSTANDING INVESTMENTS AS OF 4/30/10. - RECEIVED & FILED ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR FIRST READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for the 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 First Reading Ordinances by title. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #1 AND #2 FOR THEIR FIRST TIME BY TITLE & ANNOUNCED THE COMMITTEE REFERRAL, AS FOLLOWS: #1. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH THE CANTON REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO PROVIDE A GRANT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $175,000.00 FOR A COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC AND DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Community & Economic Development Committee #2. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO ACCEPT A FEMA FIRE PREVENTION GRANT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $116,000.00 TO PURCHASE 2,000 TEN-YEAR LITHIUM SMOKE DETECTORS AND 1,000 FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Finance Committee ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR SECOND READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for the Second Reading. Madame Clerk would you please begin with Ordinance 3. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #3 AND #4 FOR THEIR SECOND TIME BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS: #3. (2ND RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 89/2010 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH TAYLOR CHEVROLET FOR THE PURCHASE OF SIX IMPALA SEDANS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $160,926.00 AND TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL SAFETY ACCESSORIES AND/OR EQUIPMENT FOR THESE VEHICLES IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $40,000.00; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -327- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President. I move we suspend the Statutory Rules for Ordinance 3. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend the Statutory Rules for Ordinance #3. 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: Motion carries. Statutory Rule is passed. You’ve heard the three readings, Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 3. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #3. Any remarks under this Ordinance? MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: I’d like to comment the Community Development or the PPCI for being able to have the money to purchase these much needed vehicles and hopefully it will raise our fleet up to possibly 48 to 52 but I had a contact from someone that read it online and wanted to know the possibility and I’ll put this to, well the Safety Director’s not here. Oh there he is, he’s sitting there and/or the Mayor. The person was brought, is it possible or had the city considered and this is to you Mayor or the Safety Director Ream, but our officers that do reside in the city, the possibility of maybe them being able to take their vehicles that we may have extra, home into the neighborhoods with them, because it’s all in perception. So, I’ll since they saw it online I said, “Well I’ll ask that question.” Because anytime a black and white is out there it apprises people that, you know, we do have people in the city and in the neighborhoods. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Director. SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: Yes that programs been discussed several times previously that I’m aware of with the Police administration. It’s a high dollar item depending on the number of vehicles, etc. and it doesn’t look like at the present time there’s any feasibility in it in this present economic environment but we’ll keep it in mind as we move forward. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Any other remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -328- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. #3 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 89/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance #3 is adopted. Ordinance #4 please. #4. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CLERK OF COUNCIL TO CERTIFY TO THE COUNTY AUDITOR UNAPID AND DELINQUENT CHARGES FOR THE REMOVAL OF NOXIOUS WEEDS AND DEBRIS; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD AND FINAL READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are under Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for the Third and final Reading and vote. Madame Clerk would you please begin with Ordinance #5. #5. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS AMENDED AS ORDINANCE NO. 90/2010 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 1/2010, AS AMENDED, BY MAKING THE APPROPRIATION TRANSFER AND INTERFUND TRANSFERS HEREIN DESCRIBED; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 5. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #5. Are there any remarks? MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we amend Ordinance 5 per the copy in front of all Council Members. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been... MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. AMENDMENT Pursuant to Rule 36, I move to amend Agenda Item No. 5 by the substitution of the attached, revised ordinance for the pending version. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to amend Ordinance #5 per the copy before each Council Member. Are there any remarks under that motion? MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes, Leader Dougherty. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -329- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Yea, Law Director could you summarize that for us please? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Law Director Martuccio. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Thank you Mr. President. Mr. Majority Leader. The original version of this Ordinance contained largely appropriation transfers. It was requested that a supplemental appropriation or a number of them be included, so the exhibit before you, Exhibit A contains those additional numbers. The Ordinance itself doesn’t change except for the addition of the phrase “supplemental appropriations”. For the Members of Council and those in the audience who are wondering, when we substitute an amendment for one that currently pending, the idea isn’t to rewrite the whole Ordinance. That’s not permitted by Council rules, but it’s easier to supplement with a new Exhibit A in this case than it is to do the amendment in a narrative form. The narrative form means we would have to explain in sentences what we’re changing again and again and again. It’s easier, so to answer your question quickly Mr. Majority Leader, it includes additional appropriations that weren’t in the original. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other remarks? OK, by voice vote, all those in favor of the motion signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS AMENDMENT PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The ayes have it. The motion carries. Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 5 as amended. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 5 as amended. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. #5 ADOPTED AS AMENDED AS ORDINANCE 90/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #5 is adopted. Ordinance #6 please. #6. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 91/2010 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND/OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH ECIVIS, INC. TO PROVIDE A GRANT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $19,132.00 UTILIZING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS FOR ESTABLISHING A GRANTS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS SERVICE FOR LOCAL NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -330- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 6. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 6. Any remarks? MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you sir. I have to ask this question since we’re using CD dollars to provide money for establishing grants research for non-for-profits. Is it potentially possible that we could be using CBDG dollars to provide and do the same service for our government entities, sir. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And you’re directing that to whom, Member Cirelli? The Service Director. MEMBER CIRELLI: I think the Service Director would be..... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Director you lucky dog you. (LAUGHTER) SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: Council person Cirelli, what was the, what was the question again. I’m sorry. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thanks, OK, Mr. Service Director. The questions was since we are using CBD dollars, CBDG dollars to establish a grant research non-for-profits can we potentially do the same thing with CBDG dollars to establish grant research for our own government entities. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: My understanding, Councilwoman, Mr. President, is that this, what we’re funding here does, it does that. We also have licenses to use the software and do use it internally within our own departments. Is that correct Robert? DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TORRES: Yes thank you. Councilwoman Cirelli this in the previous year we actually used it for intergovernmental entities to actually apply Health Department, Police, Fire and others had access to this service. What we did this year is, we actually approached eCivis and we said you know we have a greater need in our community within the non-profit community to actually access this entity. They said you know we agree with you and we’ll provide you with 50 different sites that you can establish this service in. So we’re actually accomplishing now that service for non-profits. Each one is doable but this year we opted to with non-profits because there’s a greater bang for the buck. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK, Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President and Mr. Torres. I respect your answer sir and I had to bring that up because Councilman West, where are you? There he is. He’s always talking about we need to have grants writers going out there so, I just wanted to make sure he was abreast of this whole thing and how it works. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TORRES: Yes ma’am. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -331- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Service Director. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: Mr. President, thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: You’re welcome. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: We still have access to it. I mean we have access to that as a resource. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TORRES: That is correct. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: OK, thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK, any other remarks? No remarks. OK, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. Ordinance 6 is the Ordinance we’re on. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. #6 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 91/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #6 is adopted. Ordinance #7 please Madame Clerk. #7. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 92/2010 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO MAKE APPLICATION FOR, EXECUTE THE GRANT AGREEMENT, AND ACCEPT AND DISTRIBUTE FUNDS FOR A GRANT FROM THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 7. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 7. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. #7 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 92/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #7 is adopted. Ordinance #8 please. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -332- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 #8. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 93/2010 AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AND ACCEPTING THE REPLATTING OF ALL OF LOTS 28946 AND 41987; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 8. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 8. 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. #8 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 93/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #8 is adopted. Ordinance #9 please. #9. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 94/2010 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 1/2010; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 9. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #9. 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. #9 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 94/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #9 is adopted. ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And we’re now under Announcement of Committee Meetings. MEMBER HAWK: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Hawk. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -333- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 MEMBER HAWK: Thank you good sir. The Finance Committee will meet at 6:45 on Monday, May 17th here in the Council Chambers. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. MEMBER SMUCKLER: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Smuckler. MEMBER SMUCKLER: Community Development will meet 6:45 next Monday. PRESIDENT SMUCKLER: Great. Any other Committee meetings? MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK, we’re under Miscellaneous Business. Is there any Miscellaneous Business, Member Smuckler? MEMBER SMUCKLER: Mr. President, to begin with I signed a Communication to, for the Law Department to draft a new Ordinance for Medline for further incentives to be coming down. Mr. Sherer, you and your group I would like you to please attend when we have Committee meeting. Make sure you check in with the Clerk and they have the phone numbers that they can reach you at. They will notify you when these Committee meetings do take place. Thank you for that. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well do you want to explain a little bit more detail what you’re proposing. MEMBER SMUCKLER: What I would like to, is when we have the Committee meetings I’m sure that, that would be the proper time for the administration to talk about what Medline’s looking for at that point in time rather than a sketchy idea on Council floor. That way all the information will be available to everybody, so we’ll do that. That should be approximately two to three weeks from now. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well, can we, I don’t mean to interrupt but just staying on that subject, do we have any idea Mayor or Safety Director when this project is going to begin? Bill you yell it out that’s fine. BILL SHERER: It already has. About a week and a half ago. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK. Thank you Bill. OK, sorry Member Smuckler. MEMBER SMUCKLER: I guess I’ve had a conversation with Robert because before this came down, as Community Development Chairman, I had no idea other than a short conversation that I had with the Service Director that this was going be on it’s way down. I was also under the impression that you couldn’t do things after projects had already begun but I guess I’ll be enlightened when we have these, when we have the Committee meetings on this. Also, Mr. President back in the mid 1970's, I had the opportunity to go to Bowling Green State University and at that point in time I made a number of good friends in a fraternity house there and several months ago after 30 years of being absent, I had an opportunity to go back and relive some moments with a lot of good friends. One of the friends came up to me and said “Bill I have original newspapers from 1901 and all of them are from 1901 on McKinley’s death.” And I called in to Canton and nobody wanted them. I told them that City COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -334- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 Council wanted them and I have a paper from the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette dated September 20, 1901, from the Cleveland Plain Dealer dated September 20, 1901 and this is hard to believe, from the News Democrat which was the Canton paper back then, dated September 19, 1901. You know I get a chance to look across at you Mr. Butterworth. All three papers have been donated to Canton City Council for the time David, to hopefully we can figure out some way to preserve them. Hopefully we can figure out some way to hang them and to and they are all on McKinley’s death and they’re a phenomenal piece of history that unfortunately as the years go on we keep losing. Councilman West and Councilwoman Smith talked about this several months ago at a dinner I was at and our most recently a beloved member of our community was laid to rest, Betty Archer and I know that she has a number of artifacts from Esther Archer at her house and I am trying desperately to get a hold of those and if any of you have any contacts to get in to the family to get rid, hold of those, I’m sure City Council would like to do the same thing with Esther Archer’s artifacts too. And I’ll turn these over to the Clerk. Thank you Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Member Smuckler. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli, I’m sorry. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I’m sorry. MEMBER CIRELLI: I have a couple issues, one was the fact of the Medline, what we heard the Union Members come down. I was under the impression they were going to use local laborers on that work and whenever I got a call and I made some calls, I was very upset about that because we need jobs here. Medline came down. I asked them about their products, if they were made in the United States of America and they kinda danced around it and said most of them are. Well however on a recent admission to a hospital, I had the occasion to have three wonderful pillows there, well one wonderful pillow and two not so wonderful pillows. Two were produced by Medline from India. I couldn’t even keep the lousy pillow cases on them. The first one is in their own city a competition of a pillow company that they’re not even aware of that is made in the United States. Now, I’ve already put a call in to the CEO and told him I am very upset with they have done because they’re not going to put a pillow factory and we have pillow factories in the United States to provide pillows. I will be meeting with our local hospital people and the nursing homes and what have you, to encourage them to buy made in the United States while we can still do this, until we turn around and we sit back and let them out source and bring everything in from other countries. We have to start somewhere and say enough is enough. We have businesses here. If we don’t speak up and say they’re not going to take that business from us, telling them to get out of the country and don’t come in here and ask us to give them more money to do things that they’re bringing people even local, ignoring our local contractors and bringing people here under cutting our own people. I won’t have any part of that. I am very quite disturbed by this whole issue and I thank Mr. Sherer for coming down because what he is saying is true. You know, it’s all about jobs. These vacant homes out there, people are having to walk away from them because they can’t find a job in their own local area and here we’re importing contractors and we’re using our money to allow people to come here and the whole statement is this, I’m not going to let anybody whore this community because it’s too good of a city and we’re going to do everything we can to fight to make sure our people are taken care of. That’s one issue. The second issue and I guess I will give this to the Safety Director and or it probably will have some bearing from Mr. Martuccio but I was at a local store that had a shoplifter in there and what have you and the Police did not respond. Well, I’m sending that and people had heard about it also on COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -335- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 one of the local television shows, radio shows excuse me. I got a call from a lady at Mills Park where apparently we are providing cruisers to a private developer at Mills Park during the daytime and with city cruisers. Can anybody speak on that and she said it seems awfully strange they’re not there to protect the business or the neighborhoods, but you have cruisers coming down onto the Mills Park to protect from apparently her hunters or something so I had that on my email. Can somebody address that issue? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Anybody care to address that? LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Law Director Martuccio. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Member Cirelli, I’m not aware of the individual circumstances. We do have an Ordinance in the books that allows cruisers to be rented out for private patrol, off duty jobs. When the Police are hired off duty. I don’t know the circumstances of this... UNKNOWN CITY POLICE OFFICER: (From the audience) That was a side job. A lady took a shot at them down there. At the workers. MEMBER CIRELLI: Ok, then at least I wanted to know that because... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: That’s our new Member of Council back here. MEMBER CIRELLI: Whoever you are Officer, I appreciate that. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Officer. MEMBER CIRELLI: I needed that explanation so I could tell the people. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are very interactive tonight. Go ahead Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Because as we’ve had the incidents of neighborhoods where there’s been guns going off and they’re not responding until next day and so people are trying to say what’s going on here. So I had that issue to come up. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK, great anything else. MEMBER CIRELLI: The third and last charm. I had called a Department head down Friday to speak with him and on the occurrence of speaking with the Department head, another Council Member came into the office and interrupted said that they wanted to speak to this person on a secret matters. This is a transparent board. I was insulted by that. I don’t think that Department head should have been put in that position. I have never placed a Department head in such a position and I just wanted to apprise my fellow Council Members, don’t ever do that to me. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Yes, first of all, Mary was referring to myself and Robert. He was telling me about a meeting that I was to attend this morning and that’s what that was about Mary. I’m sorry you was insulted. I have a couple COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -336- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 of announcements and I have some good news. I always like to share good news when it’s about the 4th Ward and the 4th Ward residents.... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We always like to hear good news. MEMBER SMITH: OK, well I’m quite sure it’s OK, Mr. Majority Leader, I don’t want to cause any confusion or change the agenda or anything like that. Is that OK? Did you say it was OK? OK, anyhow, first of all the Southeast Community Center is celebrating their 25th Anniversary and it’s a benefit breakfast where our own resident Edward Cole from Canton will be there and that’s going to be Thursday, May the 27th . There will be a celebration all week long starting May the 24th. I do have flyers on that. Also the Coalition of Women Voters is having a fund raiser tomorrow at the winery. I have flyers on that. Also, I really want you all to see this. In case you drive down Sherrick Road there’s a big sign that’s out there like this. (APPLAUSE) And if you have a problem getting on Sherrick Road that’s because Sherrick Road is in the process of being fixed. Thank you very much. And there are some resident’s from the 4th Ward that I feel, what they have done is very newsworthy and if it’s OK, Mr. President, Mr. Majority Leader, if Mr. Robert Torres could come up and explain that. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Sure, absolutely. MEMBER SMITH: Thank you. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TORRES: Thank you Members of Council. Back, last July, we had submitted legislation accepting a Brownfield job training grant. At that time, we received $444,000.00 in that job training grant and there were questions as to whether any jobs would be realized by this. This past weekend I was deeply honored, deeply honored to have received the call. Thank you to Linda Barnes from the CIC for staying on top of this. We are in our first class with that Brownfield job training program. They are one week from graduating. When they received the call from SunPro. SunPro is located in North Canton and what they do is environmental and hazardous waste type of training and application. They received 11 of those students in that program, received a call to duty. They got called for a job to serve with SunPro down at the gulf coast in Panama City, Florida to assist with the clean up. Now this is, they’re predicting that they’re going to be down there for about three months initially. They talk about the Exxon Valdez lasting three years. This could be something in that, in that scale. But those are just 11 of the first few students that were in that Brownfield training program. There are nine right now from that class additionally that are on hold right now. They’re waiting for, to get that call. So I just wanted to announce that, that was a Brownfield job training grant that was realized into real jobs for local Cantonians and specifically for residents of the southeast community and I think that all the folks, Stark State, the CIC, Linda who else is involved in that program? The Goodwill Industries and Building Healthy Communities. So many thanks to them and thank you Council, thank you Mayor for allowing us to go after these grants and to apply these to our residents. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Director. MEMBER SMITH: Thank you, Mr. President. (APPLAUSE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other remarks? Thank you, Member Smith. MEMBER WEST: Mr. Hawk first and then.... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Hawk. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -337- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 MEMBER HAWK: Mr. President, thank you. I’d like to thank our Fire Department for an outstanding job Saturday morning very early in the morning with a fire on 7th Street NW. At 7th Street should be 724 7th Street. That was an arson. Somebody set a vacant house on fire then Saturday night late about 10:00, 10:15 there were two fires set. One on 200 Collins that Cindy Cox has already addressed that one. The other ones at 516 McGregor NW. 516 McGregor NW that is the 2nd time in a year that, that building has been set on fire. Again these were all vacant buildings. The three arsons, the three fires that were set effected four buildings. I thank our Fire Department. I was out there watching these guys do the job. I’m telling you, they did a tremendous job and they should be commended. Thank them for protecting us, but it speaks to one issue. We need to drop houses in this city because nothing good happens in a vacant house and if you remember, I held up a paper last week that said Flint is burning. Flint, Michigan suffers the same problem. There are arsonists out there who like to set vacant houses on fire. We need to clean them up before we lose someone’s life. Thank them very much for their hard work. Safety Director please thank them for me. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Member Hawk. Member West. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President, last Saturday we had about 25 individuals that came out for the B-Earthday out in Nimisilla Park and did a courageous job of, it was freezing out there. I don’t know if you guys remember Saturday. Branches was falling and everything but 25 people managed to accomplish the task. They cleaned the park up, planted all three beds and now we scheduled another day and I believe that should be in the next couple of weeks to go out and do some butterfly flower planting. We got enough donations. I want to thank Bill Smuckler for donating some hot dogs, him and Auditor Mallonn. So we’re going to use those hot dogs by the way Bill and I believe we had also moved some real interesting that there was a group that came down and I think that they were called Peace, I can’t remember the name but, they’re going to hold a Peace event down there on the 30th and they did all this filming down there while we were doing all the work but it looks really great and I want to thank everybody involved in Community Development. They came out and helped and supported in getting some supplies there, so just want to thank everybody for that. I also wanted to just briefly talk about and maybe see what we can do about addressing some of the illegal dumping. On 1514 Irwin Place NE, it seems to be a prime area for dumping and we had problems with that area in the past where they dumped, someone came in and just dumped a load of trash right there on the lot. The same thing happened on 508 Schwalm. It just continues to happen throughout the community and I was watching a guy who was tearing down a demolition, a home and I think it was DeSantey. Is there a DeSantey demo company or something like that? (Inaudible remark from audience) Say that, DeSantis. And he was saying how there’s a number of, even our demolition companies that we’re using are illegally dumping. Now I can’t speak to that. That’s not the type of material that was where I seen the dumping occur but I’m, I don’t know how we handle that situation throughout our city but it is happening and then these property owners are the ones that being held responsible for that dumping. So if somebody could address that, I’d appreciate it. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK. Any other Miscellaneous Business? I just want to make a comment. I’m glad I’m here tonight. What Bill Sherer said, I’m sure has outraged every one of you or at least it sure should have. You know everything else that’s been talked about is fine and good. These are people that built America. These are people that built Canton, Ohio. There’s a number of them, other than Bill sitting out there tonight. They’ve been out of work for how long Bill, sixteen months. Now Mayor, and I’m not, I’m not getting upset with you but, here’s a company that comes in gets tax breaks from this Council and from this city to bring in 30 jobs. I agree with Bill. That’s great. We need all the jobs we can get, but this is a job that’s under prevailing wage which means that they have to pay prevailing wage, so you don’t come in from out of state, you don’t get an out of state contractor that brings in workers from South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida (APPLAUSE) where they have no unions, where they union busted for the entire century and these people have lived in our community their entire lives and their families entire lives and it is an outrage. And I’ll tell you something, Mr. Mayor, we should COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -338- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 10, 2010 be talking to the President of Medline if we haven’t. We should call him in here to explain that and secondly this is a prevailing wage job. There are a lot of unscrupulous contractors out there and I’m not suggesting that the contractor that was hired on this job is unscrupulous, but we better have our Prevailing Wage Coordinator get out there and look at every single payroll record because there’s no excuse to bring in somebody from out of state when we have local workers who should be paid prevailing wage. It’s the same wage. It’s not as if the guy from Alabama gets less than the guy from Canton, Ohio. (APPLAUSE) So, I am proposing to some Member of Council or all of you. I say we pass an Ordinance and we bring in if we have to, if we have to do it by Ordinance or we do it by Resolution. The Prevailing Wage Coordinator comes in every week and gives a report to this Council. Every single week to tell us, Oh yea, their paying prevailing wages. There are more ways to screw around with prevailing wage and I know Bill and the rest of the Ironworkers know that, and not pay prevailing wage. We need to be all over this company. I am absolutely outraged that this company would take taxpayer money, come into our community and not hire people that have been off work for 16 months. (APPLAUSE) So welcome back Allen. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes. MEMBER WEST: We forgot to say the most important thing. Happy Birthday Cindy. (LAUGHTER) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK, anything else. Thanks Tom and obviously Happy Birthday Cindy. I hope that some Member of Council, you know, not go to meetings for three weeks with all do respect to Member Smuckler. Let’s help these, let’s help this union. Let’s help our local workers. Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adjourn. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that we adjourn. Roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL: 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: (Gavel falls) Meeting is adjourned. ADJOURNMENT TIME: 8:32 P.M. ATTEST: APPROVED: CYNTHIA TIMBERLAKE ALLEN SCHULMAN CLERK OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT