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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -339- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Canton City Council. I was a little concerned that you didn’t hear my gavel, everybody just kept on talking. Good evening, welcome, we appreciate you coming out on not the most beautiful evening but for the flowers and the grass and as my dear friend said “the weeds too” they all enjoy the rain. So, thank you for coming, we’ve got a full agenda tonight, we’ve got a number of speakers and I’m very excited to hear from all of you, as I’m sure Council and the Administration is. And with that, 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: Very good, thank you Madame Clerk. Tonight we’ll have our Invocation given by 4th Ward Council Member, Chris Smith. Would you all please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. The regular meeting of Canton City Council was held on Monday, May 17, 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 4 Council Member, Chris Smith. 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 9 and 10. Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Yeah, Mr. President, I move to suspend 22A, add 2nd Reading Ordinances 9 and 10. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend Rule 22A to add 2nd reading Ordinances 9 and 10. 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 and Rule 22A is suspended and 9 and 10 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. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -340- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 PUBLIC SPEAKS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Public Speaks. We have a number of speakers signed up this evening. Our first speaker will be Vince Watts. Mr. Watts, good evening, welcome. VINCE WATTS: Good evening Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And I still owe you a contribution, but with that, would you give us your name and your residential address. (Laughter) I missed that. VINCE WATTS: My name is Vince Watts and I reside at 431 Henrietta Avenue NE in the City of Canton in the 4th Ward. On last week I heard an impassioned plea by local labor for Council to look into hiring of local union members in contracts awarded by the City. I rise tonight to state my agreement with their plea. I agree that local jobs are a must. I agree that Council should look for ways to support and enforce local labor agreements. I agree that they have members who have been out of work for months and months and still cannot find a job. With all of that agreement, however, I have some significant differences with the local unions. Local construction unions are not representative of the constituency that you represent. Very few, if any of the local construction unions have minority representation that approaches 5%, let alone the 25% minority population of the City of Canton. Though union workers have been out of work for a significant period of time. They are skilled laborers who will likely at some point be back at work. I’m standing for inner City population that represents the last hired and first fired. If union members have been out of work for a long time, we’ve been out of work for an even longer time. Most importantly, laid off local union members for the most part aren’t watching people that do not look like them outside of their front door making 10, 15, 25 dollars an hour to wave a flag or to turn a sign from slow to stop while their being told that their not qualified for those jobs. So, I stand here today, not in opposition of local labor but in agreement with stipulations. Stark County has 330,000 residents, 38,000 of them being people of color. The City of Canton has 20,000 of that 38,000 within its City limits. That’s 53% of all the minorities in Stark County live right here in the City of Canton. So, while you are considering strengthening labor agreements in favor of local labor, let’s also consider how the City of Canton can help its residents by encouraging local unions to diversify their membership, require contractors to meet, not only the letter of the law but also the spirit of the law. Let’s work for all 80,000 residents of the City of Canton to encourage job growth. Don’t leave one out of every four residents in the Ward you represent, standing on the sidewalk while these valuable construction jobs are being done in our neighborhoods. I’m not asking you to do the impossible nor to reinvent the wheel. Part 1, Title 15, Chapter 188 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Cleveland has what is known as the Fanny M. Lewis, Cleveland Resident Employment Law. It has certainly been challenged and it makes no claim to be perfect but it has made a difference to the residents of the City of Cleveland. Call it the Bob Fisher Law, call it the Joe Smith Law, call it the Schulman, Healy...Healy, Schulman Law. (Laughter) But let’s at least look into what can be done so that we can re-employ the citizens of the City of Canton. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Mr. Watts. And I certainly like the last part, thank you. (Laughter) Thanks Mr. Watts, very much. Our next speaker is Ken Ash. Mr. Ash, good evening. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address please. KEN ASH: Yeah, my name is Kenneth Ash, I live at 1105 Young Avenue NE, for over 69 years. I’m here to voice my objection to the proposed zone change at 1750 Ira Turpin Way, NE so they can house ex-offenders. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -341- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 I don’t know if the same law applies to parks and playgrounds as to schools and that is this house has to be at least 1,000 feet away. It is right across the street from a park and playground and about a block from another park and playground. I’ll go back to the ‘70s when the Government started doing low income housing and apartments in my neighborhood and now the Police Department knows the problems at these sites. One between 9th Street and Lippert Road NE, which is sadly the site where postal woman was shot and killed. The other side is on 10th Street NE. I have a pack of notices here, right here which show...which show the sex offenders that have moved into the neighborhood since 2002. I don’t know how many still live here because in this pack, one man has moved back into the same house every other month five times. The houses are listed at 1153 Arch Court NE, 1205 Highland Road NE, 1121 Laiblin Place NE, 945 Rowland Avenue NE, 929 Strubble Avenue NE and 1310 Twin Place NE. And I think our neighborhood has endured enough, this Council doesn’t vote for any new housing with the exception of Habitat Houses in our neighborhood and I don’t think they should vote for this zone change. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Our next speaker is Commissioner Jim Adams. Commissioner, if you’ll come forward and give us your name and your residential address please and good evening again. JIM ADAMS: Good evening, my name is Jim Adams, I live at 3518 Crown Point St NW in Massillon, Ohio. I’m the Commissioner of the Canton City Health Department in this fine City of Canton. Mr. President, Members of Council, Members of the Administration and guests that are assembled here this evening, I want to take this moment to stand before you as I’ve done last year to express my appreciation for your continuing support of our public health programming in our community. It has done much to improve the health of our community. For every dollar that you invest in our public health programming, we are able to leverage two additional dollars in grants, fees and other fees for service so that we can have a well funded public health program. Beyond the department funding, we also can use this money to stimulate further economic activity within our community. For example, our WIC Program, for every dollar that we spend in our WIC Food Program stimulates $1.73 in economic activity in our community. In Ohio alone, over $203,000,000.00 is spent just on food packages alone, which helps our community greatly. Last month, I was able to provide you with our annual report but that only really tells part of our story of public health. The story of public health is one that touches each and every one of us everyday, everyday of the year. When we get up in the morning, we have the ability to wash and bath ourselves in clean water. We have the ability to eat safe and healthy food. We can breathe air that is clean. The waste that we happen to generate is properly treated so that we protect our waters and our land. All of this has because of public health. When we go to work in the morning, we work in work places that are safe and healthy. Since 1964, there’s been a 40% reduction is workplace injuries because of public health activities. As we travel to work, we travel on highways that are designed to be safe for us to move upon. Cars and busses that are cleaner and more fuel efficient are used and cars that are safer to reduce accidents and injuries, all of this because of public health. At lunch, again, we are able to eat clean and safe food, more nutritious food. We can drink water that is not only safe but contains fluoride to help prevent tooth decay and tooth loss. At night we are able to reflect upon how we can control communicable disease and infectious disease through better education, through our vaccination programs and our prevention programs. Today we have a greater access to family planning which has resulted in a much greater increase in health for moms and babies. And speaking of moms and babies, I always like to mention our WIC Program as part of that programming because it has been an extremely successful program, our supplemental division program. Right now our project in Stark County is serving over 7,600 families. And in Canton alone, our clinic serves 2,622 families, we’re about 1,000 over caseload right now. About 1 in 2 children in the United States are served by the WIC Program. So this nutritional COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -342- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 program has resulted in lower childhood obesity, better birth outcomes and more successful breast feeding for new moms. Since 1990, there’s been a 90% decrease in infant mortality and 99% decrease in maternal fatalities, which is a great, great number. Since 1900, there’s been an overall increase and thirty years added to our life span. The vast majority of that, twenty five years of that increase in life span has been provided by public health activities. The other five is through advances in health and medical treatment. So I thank you for your continued investment in our public health system. I thank you for your confidence in our public health department and I especially thank you for your commitment to make Canton a healthy community in which to live, work and play. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much Commissioner. Thank you. Thank you for your public service. Our next speaker is Thomas Howell. Mr. Howell, good evening, if you’d step forward and give us your name and your residential address please sir. THOMAS HOWELL: My name is Thomas Howell, I reside at 618 Prospect SW, I’ve been there for 12 years. I don’t have a speech like everybody else had. But I’m here to come to see if we can get some help from the City service people, a City Official, namely the Law Director, the Mayor, Service and Safety Director. We’ve had calls come in to the Police Department asking for cruisers to cruise the neighborhoods when we have trouble and the tell us on the phone, if we’re not in a high crime neighborhood, they don’t bring a cruiser in there. That’s number one. Number two, we need better trash, when they empty the trash, they empty it all over our driveway, the roads out there, everything, you know. And we need something done with the...what do you call it, the empty properties. Down there on Prospect, there are a few of them and stuff like that and one the name is...what is it, The Camden Veterinarian Hospital, we got trees hanging over in our alley. You have a trash truck that hits it every Friday morning coming up our alley. They don’t report it, nothing. This man has been reported to the, what do you call it...the Officials of the City that cut down the trees. This has been going on for 10, 15 years and it’s not being done. We need something done. We got rodents back there, we got racoons as big as a bear, you know, we want something done. Excuse me, I know it’s funny but it’s true. You know, I’ve been trying to hold City community people and we can’t even get the City Officials to show up at the meetings. I had one last Thursday, I had to cancel it. Mr. Prater is my Councilman, he had a phone call where I guess one of Officials was supposed to show up and never even showed up. What is it, you know, where can we get help from, this is what we want. What do we got to do, take it in our own hands...the matter in our own hands? We need help and we can’t do it by ourselves without the City Officials. If there would be...they could call me, they have my phone number, I put flyers out, my ads has been in the paper every month, where the meetings are going to be, everything. I’ve had no contact for none of them. And Mr. Prater, I gave him, you know, flyers, he’s gave it to the different offices so I know they know about it. Okay, and we want something done, we just can’t go along...go like this forever. If we could get some help, you could call me, maybe we could talk things out or talk things over, whatever. I’d appreciate it. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay, thank you very much sir. And for those like Mr. Howell who have problems, I always try to say, if you can hear me alright, I try to say that we’ll all be here after the meeting, the Administration, the Safety, Service Director, Members of Council, will be happy to talk to you about any problems you have, alright? And that goes for obviously any speaker this evening that has any difficulty with services that are either not being provided or not being provided as you think they ought to be. Our next speaker is Antoine Hodge. Mr. Hodge, good evening, if you’ll step forward sir and give us your name and COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -343- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 your residential address. ANTOINE HODGE: Good evening. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Good evening. ANTOINE HODGE: My name is Antoine Hodge, I’m here on behalf of C.M.B.-3 Corporation, whose primary location is 2124 3rd Street SE, Canton, Ohio. It’s at 5013 status that we’re currently applying for, for individuals that does not know what that means, it’s for a nonprofit organization on the behalf of the public. We having a meeting, me and my acquaintance (inaudible) in a Community Develop meeting at Jependaz on the corner of 200 block of Monroe, Tusc and Northeast. If you have any further questions, contact me at 330- 452-1047. The meeting is at 5:00 tomorrow. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great, thank you very much sir, appreciate it. Our next speaker is Richard Deitrick. Mr. Deitrick, where’d he go? Alright, I’ll slip by him and then we’ll get back. How about Jennifer Lewis, Jennifer Lewis. Good evening Ms. Lewis, if you’ll give us your name and your residential address please, I know you’re no stranger to Council, so. JENNIFER LEWIS: Jennifer Lewis, 805 13th Street NE. First I wanted to thank all of the Council Members that have come out into my neighborhood and made a difference. We have been able to sleep a few nights, the shootings have gone down, it’s been much quieter. One concern I still have that just happened a couple of nights ago is, I went to approach a police vehicle to speak to them. My husband and I are active outside in the evenings because the gang members are still pretty active at night and it was a purchased police vehicle by the gang members. What concerns my husband and I is that they are not being stripped all the way down. This vehicle still looked very much like a police car and they were kind of riding around, swinging the red shirts, I got almost to the vehicle, just because it didn’t have its lights on it, we’ve seen undercover vehicles look just like that. So what...what scared me was is like 15 of them jumped into the car and they were going like 80 mph around the neighborhood in it. First when you saw it hiding in the alley, you really thought it was an undercover police vehicle. So, I’m just curious why we are selling those vehicles at auction, not painted or being told they had to paint them, or they look just like a police vehicle. The second concern I have is the vacant properties in our neighborhood. I know that there is not a lot of funds to tear down all of these homes, I’ve been made aware of that by Council and I understand some houses are more pertinent then others. But we seem to be paying an awful lot attention to a certain Council Member and his property that is no where near the properties around our home. We have landlords that have grass up to the knees, we have snakes, we have rodents, we have rats, trash being thrown all around 1315 and 1318 Plain. I’m just wondering if the Health Department is spending as much time and money pursuing these landlords as we are a Council Member that can be easily accessible. So, the vacant properties if they can’t be taken down and their not on that list, why are we not finding these landlords and going after them, or some of the neighbors who are keeping up their properties want to purchase these lots. So I’m also wondering why that’s not an option too. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. I’m sure the Safety Director will have some remarks about that Ms. Lewis after the meeting during Miscellaneous Business. Our next speaker is Richard Deitrick. Mr. Deitrick, if you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address please sir. I was COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -344- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 worried for a minute, you weren’t here. RICHARD DEITRICK: I had to step out to fix my hair. (Laughter) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It looks incredibly great. RICHARD DEITRICK: I have a house in my neighborhood you’d have to...the guy would have to fix it up to get it condemned, it’s so horrible, he just...every time he breaks a window he puts a piece of ply wood over it. I don’t know what to do about that guy either, I feel for that lady that just spoke. Anyway, what I came to whine about again tonight is the Memorial Day Parade, I never heard a thing..... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Mr. Deitrick, I’m sorry just for the record, your name and your address. RICHARD DEITRICK: Oh I’m sorry, my name is Richard Deitrick, I live at 144 Park Avenue, SW, Canton. You can find me real easy, just ask for the guy that’s not on crack. (Laughter) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay. RICHARD DEITRICK: Anyway...I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I don’t get out much...(Laughter) Anyway, what was I going to say, yeah, the Memorial Day Parade, I...last week I was concerned about the Memorial Day Parade, I understand that the City wants to charge the Veterans $2,000.00 for police protection for the parade and I was very upset about that. And like I said, I speak for the Veterans, I speak for the Veterans that...you know, the reason we have Memorial Day Parades is for the Veterans that...that gave the ultimate sacrifice for their Country and that upsets me to no end that our City can’t do...you know, afford to have police protection for the parade. And now I understand that Massillon offered, they said if we just move our parade to Massillon they’ll protect us for free and that infuriates me, you know. Well not that, you know, that ambitious Mayor has anything to do with me but it’s just, this is my town and I think we ought to do something about the Memorial Day Parade and if there’s a problem, you know, I’ll take up a collection personally if our police can’t afford to, you know, march...or protect us for the parade. I’m not quite understanding why we need protection for the parade but maybe...maybe there’s a reason for it. But anyway, getting back to what I came for, this is very serious in my heart and I didn’t mean to make jokes about everything but it’s...I could tell ya, you know, stories...war stories about Vietnam and all kind of things like that but I won’t bore you guys to tears. But I will tell you that this means so much to me and I would like to know what’s going on, who is behind...who says that we have to pay all this money for police protection. And if we do, tell me if we can’t have the parade and I’ll raise the money myself. God bless you, God bless America. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. And as always Mr. Deitrick, thank you for your service. Our next speaker is Ida Ross Freeman. Ms. Freeman, good evening, if you’ll give us your name and your residential address please. IDA ROSS FREEMAN: Good afternoon, or good evening. And to Ms. Lewis, I think they all moves to my neighborhood cause they’ll be getting the shooting, firing and all that kind of stuff where I live at now. So, they, like roaches, they move from one neighborhood to the other. We here at...oh, did I give my address and stuff? Okay, Ida Ross Freeman, 1129 7th St NW, Canton, Ohio. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -345- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. IDA ROSS FREEMAN: Okay, notice how I say that, Canton, Ohio, not Canton, it’s Canton. Okay, anyway, we here in the City...in the City need to review our policies and rules as it relates to the hiring and contracting of minorities. Every citizen who lives in the City of Canton deserves an opportunity to be employed. Council People, Mayor and Government Officials need to see...need to see that. All citizens who so desire to work and all qualified to work are considered equally for any position, whether it’s employment or contracting. Also, keep in mind, and this was brought to my attention last year when I submitted a proposal locally, they didn’t know what a minority was. But keep in mind, minority is...does not just mean African Americans, it’s anyone that fits into the minor majority. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Our last two speakers are going to talk about Canton Peace Day, I’m very excited to hear that. Our first speaker would be Kristen Moore. Ms. Moore, if you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address please. Good evening. KRISTEN MOORE: Good evening, Members of the Council, my name is Kristen Moore and I live at 6537 Danforth Circle. I along with my husband, Tim Moore, are directors of a local faith based nonprofit called Kingdom House Ministries. And we’re here today to tell you a little bit about one of our initiatives we’re very excited about, Canton Peace Day. Canton Peace Day is the brainchild of three young adults who have dedicated themselves to full time service in the City of Canton. And a new pilot program we have called Kingdom Year and the essence of this program is very simple, we took young people, they’re living together in community, they are serving in local, nonprofit organizations, they’re in elementary schools, they’re in faith based non profits. They are being provided with vital education, with a emphasis on application and not only head knowledge. And the idea is just to provide them with the skills that they need to equipt themselves to find their identities, find their calling and begin to prepare for a lifetime of service, not overseas but right here in their community, something that will help them take that step forward in being lifetime servants. And Catherine is going to tell you a little bit more about the specifics of Canton Peace Day. But it is an initiative that was started out of some of their education and the classes that they have and I just want to share with you that it is our greatest hope and prayer at Kingdom House that we can be a part of helping Canton achieve greater unity among different communities, different races, different denominations and we want to do whatever we can to serve that ultimate goal and help achieve non violence, reconciliation and healing in our City and I hope that Canton Peace Day can be just a small step towards achieving that goal and Catherine will tell you much more about that. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great, thank you so much. And our next speaker is Catherine Bules. Good evening Catherine, if you’ll give us your name and your residential address please. CATHERINE BULES: Good evening Council Members, my name is Catherine Bules and my address is 2216 Cleveland Avenue NW, Canton, Ohio 44709. Alright, I am a member of the Kingdom Year Program. For the past year I have been living at Kingdom House, studying under John (inaudible) who is a professor at Malone for 30 years. I’ve been serving at Lighthouse Ministries in the southeast end of Canton with Darren (inaudible) at Belden Elementary. During this time, I’ve had the blessing to work with a 9 year old boy named Lonnie Richardson. You maybe familiar with his father, and his story has touched my heart so deeply. His love for his family, the reality that he’s been born into and the hope he has for his own future. And I believe that his story is powerful and it’s a very good example of reconciliation in the City. We have been studying, I represent a beautiful group of people, we are a small but passionate undercurrent in the City COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -346- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 that truly believes that peace and reconciliation can be made through the churches, through the non profits and through the City members itself. So we are proposing an event at Nimisilla Park on May 30th, we’re calling it Canton Peace Day. We hope that this can be something that continues along that’s not just an event but that it’s a movement. It’s a belief that we actually can work together and breakdown these dividing walls of hostility. The event itself will be a celebration that Canton has the lowest crime rate that it’s had in a decade. However, we did have many homicides last year, we had 3,000 child abuse cases and if you break down the statistics, that means that 1 in every 7 children in the City was a victim of child abuse, that’s a pretty big deal. And we believe that we can work together to break this cycle. So, this event will be a big family style potluck, there is going to be music and dance, everything from ballet to break dancing, folk music to hip hop. It will be a true integration of what this City represents and there will be...I don’t know what else I really should say about it, I’m sorry, I’m kind of nervous right now. Community organizations, okay, we’re inviting all of the different community organizations, whether they be faith based or community based to set up booths around the City because, the reality is that they are doing work and they’ve been doing work for 10, 20, 30 years but some people in the community may not know that they have these options. So, we’re inviting them out so that people who are just come and bring their kids to have fun are also going to say “Oh, I can get help from these people.” But also the people that are invited from the churches can say “Oh, I’ve been wanting to serve somewhere for so long, here is a place where I can serve.” So it’s bringing together churches from the City, churches from the suburbs, churches from the Country, organizations from the City, organizations from the suburbs, a true integration of what this City really looks like. So, I just wanted to invite you all to the event, if you’d like to come. Also, any questions that you may have, I gave you all my contact information, so you can contact me about that. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And before you...thank you by the way all that you do, but before you sit down, I know a number of your group came in this evening, do you want to all stand please because there are quite a few of you. (APPLAUSE) CATHERINE BULES: They’re awesome. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. Dr. (Inaudible) thank you as always, I appreciate it. And there’s a hand out in each of the Council Members papers that reflect the Canton Peace Day, which again is Nimisilla Park, May 30th from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM, so, I look forward to seeing you all there. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes Member West. MEMBER WEST: We also sent an email link to Cindy’s website or to her email that she’s going to forward to every Council Person and it will share the story that she’s talked about Lonnie Richardson. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great. Before we get into Informal Resolutions, I want to thank all of you for coming down and if you don’t want to stay for the meeting, we understand that, if you do, we’d love to have you stay but if you want to leave don’t feel that you, you know, have to be tied to the meeting. INFORMAL RESOLUTIONS COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -347- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: But last week we had an Informal Resolution and our Honore was not available because our Honore was actually doing the service for which he has been honored. It’s Matthew Fettman and he has been appointed President of the Ohio Pharmacy Council and Member Mary Cirelli is going to give him his well deserved . So, Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. If you’ll take the purgative of the Chair and have our Clerk read it sir, I’d appreciate that before the Fettman’s come up. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Sure, Madame Clerk, if you’ll read the recognition please. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Whereas, Matthew Fettman is a lifelong resident of Canton, Ohio. A true Cantonian following in his father’s footsteps as well as his brother, he has chosen to return to his hometown to practice in pharmacy, and; Whereas, After 5 years of schooling, Matthew Fettman graduated in the top 10 of his class with a Bachelor in Pharmacy from The University of Toledo, which was the last class and in doing so it was reminiscent of the similar event that his father who also graduated from his last Class in 1959, and; Whereas, Matthew a young, outstanding man of class and integrity was President of Stark County Pharmacy, as well as a Trustee to the Ohio Pharmacy Association has now been appointed as President of The Ohio Pharmacy Council. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: that we, the Members of Canton City Council, do hereby acknowledge and recognize MATTHEW FETTMAN as one of Canton’s professionals for his outstanding success and applaud his foresight to remain amongst our community thus being a role model for future generations. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk and Member Cirelli, and Mr. Fettman, congratulations, come on up. (APPLAUSE) MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you Mr. President and Honorable Council Members. If you want a better shot of your brother over there, it would be fine, where ever you want to place yourself is fine with me. This is a real honor to be able to present this Matthew tonight. Matthew am I correct, you’re also the National....oh, that’s big enough, knowing you, you’ll go for that. We have with him here tonight, his brother Steve, his brother Michael and mom, Gloria Fettman there. The Fettman Family, everybody knows is Davies Drugs okay. When this came out in the paper, I had some nice calls from people and there’s a story that I’d like to share with you. A constituent called and said “You know the Fettman Family, I see they carried on the tradition, they stayed in Canton and this is a wonderful thing” he said, “I had a child that was sick and I needed medication, so I went to Davies Drugs years ago.” And he said “I gave the prescription to your father who was a wonderful man.” And he said “I don’t have any money.” And Mr. Fettman, this young man and all these folks here, their father, gave him the prescription and told him to pay when he could pay. Now that has been the tradition that these Fettmans have learned the integrity and what have you, of their father, who was a wonderful person. And it’s just been...we are just gracious to have you amongst us and we want to keep you here, a local business. We always hear about the brain drain, well it’s staying right here, they’ve chose to come here in Canton and to stay in Canton and we are so proud to have them here and it’s a delight for me to be able to give this to you and say God bless you and....and wish you all very well. Thank you. (APPLAUSE) COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -348- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 MATTHEW FETTMAN: I will just say a quick word here. I just want to thank everybody, that was a very nice recognition. And that was absolutely correct about my dad that, that is exactly how he operated. His first concern was the...was the person, the patient. And fortunately, Steve and Michael and I were able to take that, you know, lesson and learn from that and try to carry on with the work that he did. Again I want to thank you for this nice recognition and just mention that I am glad to be here in Ohio, in Canton. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else, I know you talk about the brain drain and I read about it in the newspaper but this really is a great place to be and I wouldn’t have considered going anywhere else. I would hope that others, you know, see it the same way and are as glad to be here in Canton as I am. So, thank you all very, very much. (APPLAUSE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. Well, it’s been a good meeting so far. We’re continuing on under Informal Resolutions. Madame Clerk will you please read Resolution 35 by title. #35. CNL-AT-LRG MBRS CIRELLI & SMUCKLER, CNL MBRS BARTON, GRIFFIN, HAWK, PRATER AND WEST: REQUESTING BP OIL TO PAY FOR ALL COSTS REGARDING THE CLEANUP OF OIL TO THE GULF OF MEXICO. - ADOPTED PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President. I move we adopt Resolution 35. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adopt Resolution 35. Any remarks? Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you Mr. President. I appreciate all the Council Members agreeing with me on this issue. This is something that we need to send to all of our Congressmen, a copy I’m asking our staff to forward it to them because the taxpayers should not have to pay for what has happened down there. This is BP’s responsibility. And they have...they have the deep pockets and they had the deep well that caused this mess. So, therefore, we want to encourage our Congressmen to come forward and say “If you’re going to play, you gotta pay.” So thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Good, thank you for the Resolution. Any other remarks? Hearing none then, a Motion has been made and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS RESOLUTION #35 PASSED BY VOICE VOTE PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The ayes have it. I have to ask...I have to talk to you after the meeting. We’re now under....and the Informal Resolution carries. We’re now under Resolution 36. #36. CNL-AT-LRG MBRS COLE & SMUCKLER, CNL MBRS BARTON, BUTTERWORTH, DOUGHERTY, GRIFFIN, HAWK, HORNER, PRATER, SMITH AND WEST: SUPPORTING THE COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -349- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 PROPOSED RENOVATION PROJECT AT THE NEW ERIC SNOW/YMCA IN DOWNTOWN CANTON. - ADOPTED PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President. I move we adopt Resolution 36. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Resolution 36. MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Excuse me, I believe my name is probably the only one that was not on there and that was because I wanted to see their mission statement. I wanted to make sure that this young gentleman, if we name the facility after him, as I’ve told some of the other Council Members, we hear so much about the stadium, Thurman Munson Stadium, we’ll hear people talk negatively about it and what have you and that hurts a family. I don’t ever want to see this come back to haunt anybody. So therefore, and I also wanted to make sure I got the mission statement, which I did from the gentleman at the YM....he emailed it to me, to make sure that this would be available to all children whether they can afford it or not and what have you. And so, that’s why, until I got all that information, so I will support this sir. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay, thank you. Any other remarks? Hearing none all those in favor of Resolution 36, signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS RESOLUTION #36 PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The ayes have it. The Resolution is adopted. COMMUNICATIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re 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 17, 2010. 210. COMPLIANCE DIRECTOR MINOR SMITH: REQ APPROP OF FUNDS FOR TRAVEL, MILEAGE, MEALS & LODGING FOR 4 INDIVIDUALS TO ATTEND THE FEDERALLY MANDATED NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING POLICY CONFERENCE FROM JULY 19 - 23, 2010; HUD AUTHORIZES $8,500.00 TO BE USED FOR THIS TRAVEL. - FINANCE COMMITTEE 211. COURT ADMIN KOCHERA: REQ AUTHORIZATION FOR MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AGMT W/STATE OF OHIO, DEPT OF REHABILITATION & CORRECTION (ODR&C) FOR RECEIPT OF COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -350- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 FY 2011 COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS ACT (CCA) GRANT IN AMT OF $170,601.00 FOR PERIOD OF 7/1/10 - 6/30/11. - FINANCE COMMITTEE 212. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TORRES: AUTHORIZE MAYOR &/OR SERV DIR TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT W/STARK COUNTY JOB AND FAMILY SERVICE TO PROVIDE A WAGE SUBSIDIZED SUMMER EMPLOYMENT PROG FUNDED THROUGH ARRA FROM 6/1/10 - 9/30/10. - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 213. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TORRES: ESTABLISH FAIR REUSE VALUE OF PARCEL OF REAL PROP & AUTHORIZE DISPOSITION OF SAID PROP, PARCEL #02-02091, ELSIE MCCARTHAN @ 446 WAYNESBURG RD SE. - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 214. HEALTH COMMISSIONER ADAMS: REQ TRANSFER OF FUNDS FROM OTHER ACCTS TO TRAVEL ACCTS FOR REQUIRED ATTENDANCE AT MEETINGS AND TRAINING. - FINANCE COMMITTEE 215. PASTORE, M., AGENT: APPLICATION FOR ZONE CHG @ 3145 W TUSC ST FROM B-3 (GENERAL BUSINESS) TO PB-4 (PLANNED SPECIAL BUSINESS) FOR SPIKE’S SHINE SHOP, LLC. - PLANNING COMMISSION 216. PLANNING COMMISSION: RECOMMEND APPRVL OF REPLAT OF OUT LOTS 1309 AND 1308 IN MILLS INDUSTRIAL PARK #1 & REPLAT OF OUT LOT 1326 IN MILLS INDUSTRIAL PARK #2. - PUBLIC SAFETY & THOROUGHFARES COMMITTEE 217. SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: REQ O#63/2009 BE AMENDED TO READ “IN AMT NOT TO EXCEED $170,400.00" TO REFLECT REVISED PROPOSAL FOR ARCHITECTURAL & ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE NEW NO. 4 FIRE STATION. - JUDICIARY COMMITTEE 218. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: REQ AUTHORIZATION TO ADVERTISE, RECEIVE BIDS AND ENTER INTO CONTRACT IN AMT NOT TO EXCEED $100,000.00 FOR PURCHASE OF A NEW ICP USED IN ANALYSIS AT WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY. - PUBLIC PROPERTY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE 219. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: REQ AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO PROF SVCS CONTRACT W/US HEALTHWORKS MEDICAL GROUP TO PROVIDE NECESSARY MEDICAL SVCS FOR CITY OF CANTON EMPLOYEES FOR 3 YR CONTRACT FROM 6/15/10 - 6/15/13. - FINANCE COMMITTEE ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR FIRST READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re 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 will you please read the First Reading Ordinance by title. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #1 THROUGH #8 FOR THEIR FIRST TIME BY TITLE & ANNOUNCED THE COMMITTEE REFERRAL, AS FOLLOWS: COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -351- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 #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 (1750 IRA TURPIN WAY) PUB HRG: 6/7/10 @ 7:30 PM Referred to Judiciary Committee #2. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 1/2010; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GRANTS $450,000.00) Referred to Community & Economic Development Committee #3. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE AUDITOR TO ENTER INTO PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS FOR ALL CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENTS, INCLUDING BOND LEGAL COUNSEL AND RELATED BANK SERVICES NECESSARY FOR THE CITY OF CANTON TO ISSUE A BOND ANTICIPATION NOTE; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (ESTATE OF SHAWN PIROLOZZI) Referred to Finance Committee #4. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT (ODOD), EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE ODOD AND ACCEPT UP TO $500,000.00 IN 629 ROADWAY DEVELOPMENT FUNDS; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Community & Economic Development Committee #5. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO A JOBS FOR US INCENTIVE AGREEMENT WITH MEDLINE INDUSTRIES; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Community & Economic Development Committee #6. (1ST RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 95/2010 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CAPTION AND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 3/2010; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (NSP - JR COLEMAN) Referred to Community & Economic Development Committee #7. (1ST RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 96/2010 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CAPTION AND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 4/2010; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (NSP - DDK PROPERTIES) Referred to Community & Economic Development Committee #8. (1ST RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 97/2010 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH STARK METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE A GRANT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $920,000.00 AND WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER STARK AND CARROLL COUNTIES TO PROVIDE A GRANT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $322,220.00 TO ACQUIRE, REHABILITATE AND RESELL PROPERTIES TO COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -352- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 BENEFIT LOW AND MODERATE INCOME FAMILIES; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (NSP) Referred to Community & Economic Development Committee (COUNCIL RECESSED AT 8:18 P.M. FOR COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS ORDINANCES #6, #7 AND #8; RECONVENED AT 8:34 P.M.) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Council will reconvene after the recess. Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we suspend Rule 22A to place Ordinances 6, 7 and 8 back on this evening’s Agenda. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend Rule 22A to place Ordinances 6, 7 and 8 on this evening’s Agenda. Are there any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS, 2 ABSTAIN (MEMBERS COLE AND SMITH ABSTAINED) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, two abstain Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The motion carries, Ordinances 6 , 7 and 8 are now a part of your legal Agenda. Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we suspend the Statutory Rules on Ordinance 6. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend the Statutory Rule on Ordinance 6. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS, 2 ABSTAIN (MEMBERS COLE AND SMITH ABSTAINED) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, two abstain Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk, the motion carries. Leader, you’ve heard the three readings. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: I move we adopt Ordinance 6. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adopt Ordinance 6. Are there any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -353- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS, 2 ABSTAIN (MEMBERS COLE AND SMITH ABSTAINED) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, two abstain Mr. President. #6 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 95/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk, the motion carries, Ordinance #6 is adopted. Ordinance #7, Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we suspend the Statutory Rules on Ordinance 7. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend the Statutory Rules on Ordinance #7. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS, 2 ABSTAIN (MEMBERS COLE AND SMITH ABSTAINED) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, two abstain Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk, the motion carries, Leader Dougherty, you’ve heard the three readings. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: I move we adopt Ordinance 7. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #7. Are there any remarks under this Ordinance? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 9 YEAS, 1 NAYS, 2 ABSTAIN (MEMBER BARTON VOTED NAY AND MEMBERS COLE AND SMITH ABSTAINED) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Nine yeas, one nay, two abstain Mr. President. #7 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 96/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The motion carries and Ordinance #8 is now adopted....Ordinance #7 is adopted, I’m sorry. Now we’re on 8. Leader MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President. I move we suspend the Statutory Rules on Ordinance 8. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -354- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded...the Law Director and I are just having so much fun up here....It’s been moved and seconded to suspend the Statutory Rules on Ordinance #8. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS, 2 ABSTAIN (MEMBERS COLE AND SMITH ABSTAINED) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, two abstain Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. The motion carries, Leader Dougherty, you’ve heard the three readings. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance 8. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to adopt Ordinance #8. Any remarks? Hearing none...... MEMBER HAWK: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes, Member Hawk. MEMBER HAWK: A quick point here, we’re going to spend $920,000.00 with Stark Metropolitan Housing and they said that’s about 10 houses, that’s about $92,000.00 per home. And then we’re going to spend $322,000.00 with Habitat and they are going to build 5 houses and that’s about $64,400.00 per home, for a $27,600.00 difference. I just wanted to point that out to everybody folks. I don’t see that much difference in construction or quality of homes but a $27,000.00 disparity is a considerable amount of money. (Inaudible)...but I just wanted to point that out. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Hawk. Any other remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS, 2 ABSTAIN (MEMBERS COLE AND SMITH ABSTAINED) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, two abstain Mr. President. #8 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 97/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk, Ordinance #8 has been adopted. ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR SECOND READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And now we are ready for Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for their Third and Final Reading. Madame Clerk, will you please read Ordinance 11. Oh, sorry, Ordinances...you know this First Reading stuff is really not easy. Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for the Second Reading. Madame Clerk would you please start with Ordinance 9. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -355- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #9 AND #10 FOR THEIR SECOND TIME BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS: #9. (2ND 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 #10. (2ND 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 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD AND FINAL READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for the Third and final Reading and vote. Would you please read, Madame Clerk , Ordinance #11. #11. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 98/2010 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CLERK OF COUNCIL TO CERTIFY TO THE COUNTY AUDITOR UNPAID AND DELINQUENT CHARGES FOR THE REMOVAL OF NOXIOUS WEEDS AND DEBRIS; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. 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. 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. #11 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 98/2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #11 is adopted. ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Announcement of Committee Meetings. MEMBER HAWK: Mr. President. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -356- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Hawk. MEMBER HAWK: Thank you good sir. The Finance Committee will meet at Monday, May 24th at 6:45PM right here in Council Chambers. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you sir. Any other announcements? Member Smuckler MEMBER SMUCKLER: Mr. President. Community Development will meet same time, same place, dealing with only Ordinance #4 and not dealing with Ordinance #5. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay, thank you Member Smuckler. Member West. MEMBER WEST: Judiciary will meet the same time, same place. PRESIDENT SMUCKLER: Thank you. Any other announcements? MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Miscellaneous Business. Director Price. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: Mr. President, thank you. I have two issues, one, Council Woman Cirelli at the last meeting had, I think during Caucus, mentioned when we submitted the list for properties, for the liens on the....okay, you had asked me about a couple of the individual cases that stood out. I had met with the Street Superintendent and I’ve talked to the Law Director. I just wanted to follow up since you’d talked about that and I know Member Hawk has talked about accountability in terms of, we all agree that we, you know, we don’t want to be in the lawn mowing service, rather we’d like to, you know, prevent people from...we’d like people to maintain their properties. So, we’re going to get together and talk about some ideas in that regard and some things we’ve actually done in the past. It might be time to prosecute a couple of these, more (inaudible) cases. So, we’ll be looking into that Mary and for the rest of you. The other issue I wanted to mention, sometimes those of us who sit up here, we screw up and when we do that I think the best thing for us to do is to acknowledge that screw up. I’m looking at my blackberry and schedule for May 13, 2010, which was last Thursday, my day began with a staff meeting in the morning and then I met with the Compliance Director on a subject. We had a cabinet meeting, I discussed a 19 supplemental agreement between Stark County and The City of Canton regarding our sewer service. Had a couple other meetings and then maybe 4:30 or 5:00 I got to some business that I need to attend to, got in the middle of a phone call and at about 6:30 PM I left City Hall and I made a decision, I’d missed a half hour of what in hindsight I will acknowledge was the most important appointment I had that day and that was your meeting Mr. Howell at 6PM at the Trinity Gospel Temple. It had been one of those days and I having been kept a half hour over in this phone call I was in, I just decided to head on home. Here in City Government, the most important meetings we have are with our constituents, you are my employer as well as, you know, the rest of the people of the City of Canton and the...the complaint this evening regarding the Administrations failure to show up at that meeting, that...that was deserved. And what you deserve is my full attention regarding the issues you and your neighbors face, and so, get with me after the meeting, I’ve got my calendar here. I can either talk through these issues with you on the telephone or I’m available as early as tomorrow evening to meet with you. I want you to note, Councilman Prater had not only called me but he came to me personally during a Council Meeting and I had put that on my blackberry and we’ll get attention to the issues that you’re concerned about. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Director Price, thank you. Any other Miscellaneous Business? COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -357- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Okay, once again, I’d like to invite each and everyone of you to the 25th Anniversary of the Southeast Community Center. On the back table there are hard cards which will give you a schedule for that week and that’s week of May 25th through the 29th. Thank you. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Smith. Any other Miscellaneous Business? Member West. MEMBER WEST: I wanted to thank the Law Department for inviting the State down, I think we really ironed out a lot of things through the IPMC and I’m sure we’ll hear about it in the future. So, I just wanted to thank the Law Department for setting it up. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member West. Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you Mr. President. Service Director Price, I appreciate you and the Law Director looking into the weeds. Now, I too want to apologize to somebody here because I brought up one person was DDK Properties and it turns out to be DK Properties, which I did turn and send an apology to him and he is here tonight, it’s DDK, so I wanted to publically apologize to him for that. Because I did go over those with a fine tooth comb and that sort of caught me and this gentlemen was kind enough to speak with me tonight and say that he seen where there some problems there also. I have a couple of other things to bring up, one is, I place before here, there’s a Bernie Angelo Foundation for Seniors Incorporated that I was asked that they are going to launch a new foundation and it’s going to be, the date will be June 6, 2010, on a Sunday from 1 to 5PM at the VFW Post. What they are attempting to do is, we all know about the sad case of Bernie Angelo and his murder and what have you. So, they want to do something positive in Bernie’s name and the funds that they get, they want to buy these security devices for seniors like I’ve fallen and I can’t get up. So that’s what the monies will be used for. And so the tickets will be $10.00 and there’ll be all kinds of functionings going on. So, I believe Pattie may even have some tickets...oh it’s Bennie, excuse me, I know his brother too, it was Bennie not Bernie, thank you. Secondly, at the Public Works Meeting, we had....I asked Dan Moeglin to send down to Council, it’s the City of Canton’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. It is a Municipal storm water pollution prevention storm watch program, there is a DVD and also this here for Council Peoples if they want to apprise themselves of our situation, as we all know we’re all paying for the Muskingum Water Shed and they’re going to have to repair dams and what have you. But if you want to enlighten yourself, it will be here and you could probably tell the girls who wants to take it out and when you want to bring it back. So, I wanted to make sure each Council Person had the opportunity to be aware of that situation. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great, thank you Member Cirelli. Service Director Ream....or Safety Director Ream, I’m sorry. SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: Two issues here, first reference of Veteran’s Parade. I was going to correct it last week but I saw Mr. Deitrick had already left. The discrepancy wasn’t $2,000.00 it was $200.00, Dick. And my office has been in continual communication with the Veterans, reference their parade, it will still be in Downtown Canton. We’ve made adjustments because of the budget issues that the City is experiencing and we’re doing COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -358- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 business a little differently. But that certainly doesn’t mean that we’re none supportive of the Veterans and the parade will proceed this year. Second issue is....(applause)...thank you. Second issue is reference the car that was mistaken as a police cruiser, for some years now the vehicles that are done being used by our Police Department are not sold at auction. One of two things either happen to them, they’re either good enough that we recondition them and use them as plain cars or for our Detective Bureau or Vice Bureau, etc. or they’re junked. We don’t take emblems off and sell them to the general public. However, there is other departments in the community who go with a different route and I’m sure most of you have seen them on the road, they just have the emblem taken off, they still resemble a police car, I don’t want to name various agencies but that’s done and they’re sold at auction and people can pick them up pretty cheap. And I would guess that the folks up around Plain Avenue saw and mistook for a police car. But chances are great that, that didn’t come from our fleet of vehicles and it was brought in from outside. So, I just wanted to let everybody know. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. And Mr. Deitrick, the Law Director just mentioned briefly that it’s not to protect the Veterans, it’s to close the roads so we can maintain safety for the Veterans and the people that want to attend the parade. So, I hope that answers your question. Any other Miscellaneous Business? MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member West. MEMBER WEST: Just for a point of clarity. Did you say other departments within the City of Canton then sells the police cars or other Municipalities throughout the district, I’m sorry. SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: No, it would be other jurisdictions within this area. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other....Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you sir, for indulging me. I hope everybody saw in yesterday’s paper, we can go on...and I tried to send it to all the department heads, I’m sure you all got one and asked you to forward to vote for 911 so that we could possibly win some money to help that. Maybe Martuccio, our Law Director could speak a little bit more on that...my voice is kind of going out on me but I think it’s a very crucial thing, I sent it to everybody in my mailbox and I think if everybody could, we could use the monies. So, if you could speak on that Law Director, sir. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Law Director Martuccio. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Thank you Mr. President and Member Cirelli. Members and Council and the audience, indulge us just one more minute. This is important, I’m grateful to the Repository for their editorial and the coverage they have given this issue. There are monies out there to be had by deserving projects. There are at least nine projects that I am aware of for multiple jurisdictions around...in northeast Ohio that are asking for significant amounts of money. The joint 9-1-1 Regionalized Dispatch is among those projects and I think most of you know enough about it to know that in the end, it will save lives when all our safety forces can talk to one another on the same equipment in the same frequencies and get to each other more quickly and save money and consolidate resources and begin to regionalize, which is what a lot of people would like to see. I’m over simplify but the point is you can go to a computer site and even I in my technical weirdness and inexperience could find it, or you can call a certain toll free number or could mail in the blank that was in the newspaper. And the more votes that come in, the more likely we are to place in the top three and get that money. Last year one of the projects in Stark County got no money cause we finished fourth, and it’s like finishing fourth in the Olympics, COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -359- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 nobody remembers you, nobody gets you anything. So, please, please, please, please, if you find that, cut it out, go to the website, call the phone number and it’s only one vote per household. But if we can place in the top three, we can get a significant amount of money to help our project. You can vote for up to three but if you feel very strongly, like a lot of us do, vote for that one, it’s Project B, B as in...B as in butterflies. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Do you have the website Member Cirelli by any chance? MEMBER CIRELLI: I will send it to you sir. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay, great. SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: Mr. Schulman. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes. SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: That website would be efficientgov.now and you can vote right online. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: .now? SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: Yes. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: No wonder we never heard of that. Any other Miscellaneous Business? I want to thank our fellow citizens for coming tonight, you’ve been illuminating and intelligent and probing and we appreciate it. I hope we’ll get your problem straightened out, we’re trying. And have a wonderful week. Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we adjourn. MEMBER PRATER: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to we adjourn, Madame Clerk. 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: 8:53 P.M. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 98 JOURNAL PAGE -360- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 17, 2010 ATTEST: APPROVED: CYNTHIA TIMBERLAKE ALLEN SCHULMAN CLERK OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT