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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -230- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Again welcome to Canton City Council. Thanks for your patience. We try to start our meetings on time but as I said, we had a fairly lengthy presentation this evening and Executive Session. Before we begin, I want to just recognize a young man who’s here, Zachary Lindesmith is here from Central Catholic. Director Williams indicated that Zack is a Repository Teen Board President, two year National Speech qualifier, Honors Government and unfort...no that’s good, a future medical, well no it’s not good, medical law student. So he, but I’d like to introduce Zack, would you stand up. (APPLAUSE) I would recommend Law School and also before we begin, I’ve had a number of requests and I was going to do this in any case. The recent tragedy in Florida brought to bare a very unfortunate situation and a particularly egregious result and a tragic result so if we could have a moment of silence for Trayvon Martin please. (MOMENT OF SILENCE OBSERVED) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. We may have some comments about the law which permits that kind of thing but, with a quorum being present, the Chair does call this meeting of Canton City Council to order. Roll call please Madame Clerk. ROLL CALL TAKEN BY CLERK TIMBERLAKE: 11 COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: (PATRICK BARTON, JAMES BABCOCK, MARY CIRELLI, JOE COLE, GREG HAWK, THOMAS WEST, JAMES GRIFFIN, CHRIS SMITH, KEVIN FISHER, EDMOND MACK & FRANK MORRIS) ELEVEN COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT. (MEMBER DOUGHERTY ABSENT) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven present Mr. President. EXCUSING MEMBERS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Member Barton and Assistant Leader Barton, I’ll recognize a motion to excuse Member Dougherty from this evening’s meeting and I just for the record would reflect that Member Dougherty, Leader Dougherty, had pressing business outside of Council tonight and he’s always here, but tonight he just could not make it. MEMBER BARTON: Mr. President I move we excuse Member Dougherty from tonight’s meeting. MEMBER BABCOCK: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to excuse Leader Dougherty from this evening’s meeting. Any remarks? Hearing none Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The motion does pass and Leader Dougherty is excused from this evenings meeting. Tonight we’ll have our invocation given by Ward 8 Council Member Edmond Mack. Will you all COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -231- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 please stand and remain standing for our Pledge of Allegiance. The regular meeting of Canton City Council was held on March 26, 2012 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 8 Council Member, Edmond Mack. The Pledge of Allegiance led by President Schulman. AGENDA CORRECTIONS & CHANGES PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Mack. Leader Barton, we’re now under Agenda Corrections and Changes. MEMBER BARTON: Mr. President, I move we, I move Rule 22A be suspended and add 2nd Readings Ordinances 8 and 9. MEMBER BABCOCK: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to Suspend Rule 22A to add the 2nd Reading Ordinances of 8 and 9. Are there any comments? Hearing none Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Rule 22A is suspended and the Ordinances are a legal part of your agenda. PUBLIC HEARINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Turning now to Public Hearings. We have none scheduled this evening. OLD BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Director, I hate to jump on you when you just walked through the door, but we’re now under Old Business. Do you have any? SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: (Inaudible) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: There’s no Old Business so.... PUBLIC SPEAKS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We now turn to Public Speaks. We have a number of speakers this evening. Our first is Sharon Garrett. Miss Garrett would you step forward and give us your name, your address please and welcome to Canton City Council. SHARON GARRETT: Please Schulman if would mind, wouldn’t mind, I have some pictures here that I would like to give out. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Sure. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -232- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 SHARON GARRETT: Because as they say, A picture is a million words. MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President, (inaudible) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: You can just hand those too, yea because we don’t want to take up your time here. SHARON GARRETT: My name is Sharon Garrett and I live at 1718 14th Street SE, Canton and the reason I’m here today is for a complaint of the Slesnick Company. Our neighborhood is west of, it’s east of Warner Road. We’re bordered by 12th Street SE and 14th Street SE and just a half of block west of Hartford. I’ve lived in the community almost 40 years and basically everybody else has been there before me. The people that resides in this neighbor has worked for the Stark County Sheriff Department, the Hoover Company, the Board of Education, Hercules White Engine, Republic Steel, the Timken Company, the FBI and yes, the City of Canton. As you can see in the pictures here with Slesnick, we have a serious problem. They took and built a big crushing machine there. It had to be about three years ago, maybe four. Time passes by pretty fast. As you can see they’re stock piling scrap metal all the way up to Route 30. As you can see, some people are having scrap metal shown right in front, right in their front door. They also have a drainage problem because it sits up on a hill. Fast forward to today. We went along and said OK, they’re here. We have to put up with the noise. Somebody came out and did a decimal point of how, of what the meter of noise is. OK, we decided to live that. It’s always been dead end back up in that area and then all of a sudden, they opened up a road which as you can see, the dust is flying everywhere. There’s senior citizens that used to walk that road everyday just for exercise. There children that ride, used to ride their bicycles and it would, just a nice community. We watch out for one another in the community and even the surrounding areas because we were the ones that got Squink’s closed. I don’t know if all, if any of you are familiar with Squink’s but it was a bar and there were plenty of gunfire and everything going on. Two decades later we got a motorcycle club going on there with the same thing happening and gunfire but they’re protected because they are a club and not a bar but we’ll get to that another day. As you see the one street basically an alley, they bought property on Sherrick Road and they’re using that to take and come through there. We need help. The Councilwoman have tried to help us. I’ve called the Health Department and some people have called the Zoning. We need some help. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much, Miss Garrett. (APPLAUSE) Thank you for coming down. As I tell all the speakers, everyone will be here after Council and be happy to hear you and listen to your suggestions as well. Our next speaker is Mr. Charles Killins. Mr. Killins, good evening. You’re an old hand at this. If you’ll give us your name and your residential please and welcome. CHARLES KILLINS: My name’s Charles Killins. I’m at 1223 Market Avenue North, Canton, Ohio. I’d like to ask Councilman that’s here. I’d like to know all of you here if you don’t like me, you don’t like me, don’t raise your hand. When you go home tonight, pray to God and tell him you don’t like the way he made me and I’m still here and maybe by next Council meeting, he will send a change but last week I walked up 12th Street and you have a gas station there that’s tore down, then you have a couple houses and I think the Safety Director have the Building Inspector have his eyes checked because if you go further than that, you walk down Carnahan to 8th Street and you see oh, about 8 or 9 poles, Ohio Power that are in bad shape. And you walk on up 8th Street to Schwalm and you see buildings falling down. Then you go on around and come back, you go up Cherry there’s a telephone pole belongs to the Ohio Power Company, the dead man’s broke in it. Then you come up a little farther on Cherry, there’s another building that’s been there for quite a number of years. It’s COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -233- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 been there so long, ivy has grown all over it and the ivy has died. I think the city should have it’s Service Director do something about this here and that’s about all I have to say and thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much, Mr. Killins. Our next speaker is Monique Davis. Miss Davis good evening. Welcome to Canton City Council. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address please. MONIQUE DAVIS: Good evening Council. My name is Monique Davis and I live at 1446 Miami Court NE. First I would like to say that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. I’ve been back in Canton a little over a year as I said a couple of weeks ago and I’ve, after speaking in Council, I was approached by a couple of people and said I couldn’t believe, I don’t believe you speak so well. I don’t know what the image of speaking well is supposed to look like but I hope that I am the new image of what it is. Let me start there. Lately I’ve been noticing a rise in gangs. Me, myself not being afraid of much, much at all, I’ve been approaching some of the gang members that I see and I asked them about their colors. They can’t even answer the right questions. They look like deer in headlights so what I would ask that the Council and the police, I understand that shootings been going on because I live in that neighborhood. I understand that these are still children and when you do approach them and you see the deer in headlights syndrome, remember that they are children. We need something for them to do. They’re bored to death. They have nothing to do. My children don’t even have nothing to do unless I dig deep in my pocket and I don’t have much to pull out, and find something to do. I spoke with my grandmother before I came to Council today who is a 94 year old squaw. She’s a Cherokee little woman and she said, you know this generation is not afraid of much of anything. Our generation we seen much from hangings and lynchings, you know we were kind of a settled generation but this generation right here not afraid of much and I turned to my grandmother and I said you’re absolutely right. Afraid of nothing. We need something for our children to do. The gang members believe it or not, just don’t live in my, live in Canton, northeast side, southeast side, but they live in Louisville, because I’m talking to them and they don’t even live here. They come to visit, to socialize with the other children. We need something for them to do besides football and sports because believe it or not, everybody doesn’t want to play sports. We need some kind of programs for them to teach them math and science and technologies. Not just in school but everyday. I know what money smell like and Canton has a lot of money in it. It may be private money but I’m asking Council, talk to your friends and get us some money. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) Thank you very much Miss Davis and again if you’ll stick around, we’ll be here, I’d be interested in talking to you afterwards. Our next speaker is Allita and I apologize, it’s either L Gray-Britton or Allital L Gray-Britton, but good evening. Welcome. It’s a pleasure to have you to Canton City Council. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address please. ALLITAL L GRAY-BRITTON: Good evening. My name is Allital L Gray-Britton. I live at 1730 14th Street SE, Canton along with Mrs. Garrett and Slesnick. I’m here about Slesnick. I had to purchase 4 tires for my car, cost a little over $1,100.00. I got 5 nails and sharp metal objects in them. My husband built me a patio enclosure on the back. They bought the property that used to be Diano’s, that man passed away. It juts right up to my house and the patio enclosure’s all glass. I was sitting on my patio Saturday trying to eat my breakfast, they have trucks. The trucks just roll the dust in. I actually had dust in my food, in my mouth and just in my windows. I had to get up and close the windows because there’s so much dust, I mean they just, they have no respect for the neighborhood if you ask me. The streets that they come up and down on, 13th COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -234- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 Street. That’s a residential street. I went to turn into the street, of course the street is a two way street so an 18 wheeler truck has to swing out. The truck almost ran me over because he had to swing out so far so he didn’t go up on the curb because the streets not big enough for this 18 wheeler and I just wanted to know if we can get some help or if that’s not the way...I been in that neighborhood for over 32 years, living in that same house, have done additions, three additions. I mean I planned to stay there but it’s just, it’s just awful the way the dirt, the dust that rolls in, the traffic. I mean these men, these trucks will run you over if you don’t get out of the way. I mean I have been literally almost hit twice trying to turn down into my street because you can only get down in there one way. They have no respect and then they just look down at you like, get out the way. I really do think that, you know, we just need some help. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK, very good. Thank you very much ma’am. (APPLAUSE) Our next speaker is Richard Drake. Mr. Drake good evening. Welcome again to Canton City Council. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address please. RICHARD DRAKE: Good evening City Council. I know what you’re thinking. Once the smell wears off, I come back. My name is Richard Drake. I live at 3020 Sycamore Avenue SE. You notice I left paperwork on the sensitive aquifers. Now back in ‘07 Governor Stickland did a survey on drilling on these sensitive aquifers in the state of Ohio through the Division of Natural Resources. I recommend you read that because it, it explains all about the drilling process and drilling’s fine but the chemical, it’s not. So you people are responsible for our water. I would recommend you really read through that and understand what happens because when they put these big wells in, they drill down real deep. They also go out two miles horizontally and we got all our water treatment plants like Sugarcreek down there in Bolivar and you get one of them wells near by, you’re going to poison all the water supply and I’m not worried about us so much as our children and their children. There’s not going to be nothing left after you get done with this fracking. So, unless it’s supervised properly and drilled properly, we got big concerns lay ahead. It’s fine now. There’s a big bust of economy, jobs and everything but what’s gonna come after that. Devastation just like all the other states complaining about and also about the earthquakes and whatever. There’s a lot of unknowns with this. This is a new process so I recommend you read that and I spent a lot of money have all those copies made, that’s how important I think it is, honestly. I didn’t get them printed here or nowhere. I went to Avondale out there and I got over $300.00 in those copies so it’s very important that you read that and then back to our trees. Go through your parks, go anywhere and look at them. What do you see? You see all old trees. Where’s the new generations and then around the city I been doing a lot of trees lately, cutting them down. There’s none going back and every block I’ve told you before, when there’s no trees there, it’s a heat out and effect. We just keep getting warmer and warmer and more energy costs all the way around so we need to start replanting trees and we need to actually get Arbor Day back. If you get donations of trees every year and the kids planting them every year, it’s going to save a lot of money in memory and have someone there to make sure they get the right site, the right location because if not then you got the wrong tree in the wrong area. Just like people telling me, oh we got an Ordinance. We’re not allowed to have this tree or that tree. We don’t have no poplar trees. Well you do have a poplar tree. I’ve been doing trees in the city of Canton over 20, 25 years. Got a poplar growing right down here at 6th and Cleveland. It’s doing well for where it’s at but you know, site and location, if it doesn’t have the right soil and nutrients, it’s not going to grow to it’s potential but, long story short, we just need to step up and look for the future and we aren’t going to have any parks. Them trees go down everyday. There’s none there to take their place. You’ll have all ballfields. Is that what you want? So I suggest that we get on the program here and start getting some trees planted and that’s all I got to say. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -235- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you as always, Mr. Drake. (APPLAUSE) Thank you. Thank you for spending your money on that. We really appreciate it and I know Members of Council and the administration will read it. Our next speaker is Joseph Eldred. Mr. Eldred good evening. Welcome to Canton City Council sir. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address please. JOSEPH ELDRED: My name is Joseph Eldred. I live at 638 Bellflower Avenue SW. I coming here this evening just to thank the Board Members just for their encouragement, for their support for Timken Senior High School in our endeavors to raise money for uniforms. This is something that’s been going on for a couple months now with no support but after last week we left here encouraged. After we were able to speak with a number of the Board Members. Councilman-at-Large Mr. Babcock, the first time I came here approached my house and when he left I was overwhelmed. I should have know why Miss Smith was so encouraging with band. I didn’t realize that Tyrell was your grandson. He is a very respectful young man and he was my son’s section leader. But again I just want to thank you and we are continuing on. It was, I was encouraged this evening to start a Facebook page and maybe with that we can reach out to some of the Timken Band members that have moved away from Ohio. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Thanks Mr. Eldred. Now we have, I thought this was written twice but Joseph Eldred Jr. If you’ll step forward, Mr. Eldred and welcome. And I presume you are related to that last speaker. JOSEPH ELDRED JR: Somehow. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Good evening. Give us your name and your residential address please. JOSEPH ELDRED JR: I’m Joseph Eldred Jr. I also live at 638 Bellflower Avenue SW, Canton and I just, I would just like to thank you guys as well. As a band member, I’m very thankful for all that you guys have done and all that the board has done and I just want to encourage you guys to keep on thinking about us and you know, it may seem little but to us, it’s a big deal because we look terrible. The uniforms, they’re terrible and everybody else has new ones and it’s just, it makes us feel bad. And even though I’m a senior and I won’t even have a chance to wear one, I know that all my other fellow band members would love the opportunity to have a new uniform to look nice for once. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Would you bring us up to date. Now your dad came in last, two weeks ago and last week and I wasn’t here, I apologize. Can you bring us up to date as to where you are as far as fundraising and how much more you need to go and what you actually need. JOSEPH ELDRED JR: We need the maximum, the ones that we want, the ones that have, there’s the certain ones, like if we want to get a hat when you have certain accessories, would be about $30,000.00 and the minimum which is just the basic overlay and pants is $11,000.00 and we’ve tried many different fundraisers. We tried a Jazz Concert. We had two local bands play. Didn’t raise much money. We basically broke even. We’ve had, we’re selling candy, doing, selling pizzas for Little Caesar’s and things. We’ve tried a whole bunch of stuff. We’ve been downtown begging for money wearing the uniforms but over, we really don’t have much. So, all the other bands, McKinley they have their pavilion and all the other bands at their football games or basketball games, they have the concession stands that they run and the one for our football games and our basketball games are run by somebody completely else so, we don’t get money from that so we don’t get, we have our own parents trying to raise the money. And you know, it’s hard. We’re not really getting the COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -236- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 support so, we just need and many, we’re just trying to find out as many different ways as possible to try to raise money. We’re trying to reach out in many different ways and we just figured that if we came to the city that Canton, city of Canton, we talked to the board members, hopefully we can get something going to where we can get some money so we can get uniforms so we can actually look presentable. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. Good luck to you. Thanks. (APPLAUSE) Our next speaker is Patricia Kirk. Miss Kirk good evening, welcome, as always. If you’ll come up and give us your name and your residential address and I think we have some idea as to what you’re going to talk about. PATRICIA KIRK: No. One of these days I’m going to surprise you. First I would like to pass out these pictures. I’ll start at this end. I’ll pick them up down there. You’ll see the same pictures on the tri-fold in back of the room. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And don’t forget, we need your name and your address thanks. PATRICIA KIRK: My name is Patricia Kirk. I live at 131 5th Street NE and the pink pictures that are coming around are examples of topping, tipping, heading, shaping. It goes by different names. It is a very, very bad practice that causes the death of trees and you don’t have to take my word for it. There is an ISA pamphlet on the back that describes why it is bad. The green pictures on the back of the tri-fold are satellite images of canopy that other cities like the city of Akron uses to sees where the flooding control needs to be in the city. The less canopy, the worse the flooding control. Next Monday, April the 2nd is the third reading of the Tree Ordinance during the Caucus meeting. This Ordinance is different from an earlier on the books that mainly objected to a few things in the city area. This Ordinance addresses proper tree care by the city and it’s residents. It protects residents by alerting them to dangers and establishing a Tree Commission which is open to the public, which is meant to be representative of the public. This Ordinance has definitions of tree care practices and encourages their proper usage. One of the things mentioned is seeing if people are currently and properly licensed in tree care. It’s like going to a doctor. Correct me if I’m wrong here Mary, but if you go into a clinic or some, and someone says they’re a nurse or a doctor and they start poking around in your arm and they go, I’m sure there’s a vein there someplace, you want to know if this person is licensed, currently licensed. The same goes for people that take care of trees. They’re tree doctors, OK. They go to school. They have education. They have to pass a license. They have to pass a board. They have to get their license renewed. For instance, I don’t specialize in trees but I keep up my LSW in social work and that’s every two years, 30 credit hours. That’s because you have to update your occupational knowledge. Same thing goes for tree care. These are all things we need to be aware of and all this saves the city money. Think of baby steps. We have to start small. I encourage you to pass the Tree Ordinance next Wednesday. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Blanche Williams. Miss Williams if you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address and good evening and welcome to Canton City Council. BLANCHE WILLIAMS: Good evening. Blanche Williams. 1302 Slesnick Warner or Warner Slesnicks. I live at 1302 Warner Road SE. I will be there 34 years come this October. When we moved there I knew it was commercial. We’re living in a changing world and you better believe Warner Road has changed. I’m sick of the pebbles, the rocks, the dust. I’m a gardener. I get this nice little fuzzy dust all over my flowers and my garden. My years is behind me, you know. I’m no young woman. My years is behind me and the ones that’s ahead of me, I want to sit on my porch and enjoy it and I just wish something you could do for Mr. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -237- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 Slesnick. I don’t know how old he is but I bet you he’s enjoying where he’s at. I bet you he enjoy every minute where he’s at and you’ll see me next year, if ain’t nothing’s changed. (APPLAUSE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. Our next, I hope we see you next week frankly but our next speaker is Louise Bowen. Miss Bowen if you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address. Oh, I’m sorry. I was just asking the Director whether something couldn’t be done down there. Would you give us your name and your residential address please. LOUISE BOWEN: My name is Louise Bowen and I live on 1905 14th Street SE, Canton and I been there since ‘62 so that tell you how many years I been there. But right now I’m not enjoying it because all of this grinding of the cars and the stuff coming over getting on my car and then my driveway. All kinds of noise. You can’t sleep. You better not take no nap in the day time cause you ain’t gonna get a nap. You probably have to go somewhere else and take your nap in a quieter neighborhood. And plus the dust and they have up there in the trucks. Their trying to come through this, this little small street there by my neighbor’s house which they never used till they started using lately. The type of trucks that need to be out on 77 somewhere and they trying to come through this street but they don’t care. We had to call the Police up there this one time because of the man that had this truck trying to haul some stuff through there, he didn’t even have a license plate on the back of the truck and he was hauling stuff for Slesnick cause he say Slesnick told him to come through there. And all these years, we’d never had that problem. That was a beautiful neighborhood but it ain’t beautiful now with all of that junk and like they closing us in coming from 13th Street, going around behind us, coming back around to 14th Street. And I think it’s so much disrespect on Slesnick. I didn’t know he was like that. He doesn’t act like a human being. He doesn’t, he acts like some of Hitler’s people. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you ma’am very much. Ok, our last speaker, do you want to speak? Oh, you’re trying to trick me. Our next to the last speaker, well I’ll, there’s one more. James Parker. Mr. Parker good evening. You’ve been here plenty of times. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address please. JAMES PARKER: Good evening James Parker. 630 Penny Street SE, city of North Canton. Today, March 28, 2012 marks for instance the day Pete Calac, Jim Thorpe’s good friend, Canton Bulldog joined the Canton Police Department 86 years ago. We now have three generations of Calac’s on service to City Hall through his son and his daughter Christine. There’s a wonderful Proclamation that has gone forth honoring the late Pete Calac Sr. that has joined the Police Department on this day. Wanted to bring attention to that. Today also marks the anniversary of the death of Jim Thorpe, greatest American athlete. In honor of the 100th anniversary marking the gold medals in pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm, Sweden the Olympics in 1912. In honor of that, this billboard, this picture is now up 48 feet long, 14 feet high on US Route 62. It conveys a positive message of excellence by the Values.com organization, the Foundation for Better Life and Living. I’d like to thank Clear Channel publicly and the Values.com organization. So that is displayed on Rt. 62 between Maple and Harrisburg Road for an indefinite period of time, where after it will be relocated throughout the greater Canton area and they’ve donated all that. They convey positive messages on billboards, bus stops and if you check out the opposite side of the billboard as well, you’ll see a beautiful display of the plane on the Hudson River with all those people standing on it and the message “Preparation.” I think we can all get that. Next I’d like to highlight aspects of the 2003 Downtown Development Plan that pertained to or are relevant to an au van guard sports art partnership for downtown. I encourage everyone on Council to read this entire plan as I run out of time doing this, keep in mind this plan is already almost 10 years old. It is available at the Canton Chamber of Commerce office. Thank you. I’ll start in the beginning where it does say COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -238- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 the key objective, #1.4 build on our target market of regional visitors; objective 3, build a distinct identity for downtown. I think as you’ll hear me go through this next week, you will see that they are claiming from Denver, Colorado, Meadow and Morrows or whoever, that we lacked an identity for our downtown, that our character is lacking. This is something that I brought up a year ago when I asked about how have we remembered Jim Thorpe. For instance this will show the enhanced cultural corridor of Lincoln Way that I’ve proposed a football heritage trail for, that I’ve met with the Massillon Mayor, that everybody’s real positive about including the ODOT people and I do want to leave the last 10 seconds to say the Slesnick family is one of the most honorable families in town and I think if you do business with them, you’re doing business with great people and they’ve done a lot for this town and I’m sure they’ll work with you and help resolve your issues because they’re wonderful people. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much sir. Our last speaker is Andrea Perry. Miss Perry if you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address. ANDREA PERRY: Hi. My name is Andrea Perry. 1128 Los Olas Boulevard NW, Canton, Ohio. I’m here as the Director of Compliance relative to April is Fair Housing Month and just to notify everyone, we’re celebrating 44 years of the Fair Housing Act. The theme for this year is to live free creating equal opportunity in every community. My staff has compiled a series of events we’re going to do for the month of April. The first one starting on April 3rd at the Northeast Area Renaissance Annual, 6th Annual Business Appreciation Luncheon. That’s going take place at Antioch Baptist Church and our own Dan Moeglin is the keynote speaker. We’re going to have all these dates available and all the things we’ll be doing. We’re also doing a Fair Housing essay and coloring contest in conjunction or collaboration rather with the Canton City Elementary and Middle Schools. One of my staff, Ashanti Alexander is going to be in all of the schools throughout the month the April reading a book called “When Chocolate Milk Moved In”. So I’ll make certain that we get it to all the communications. Make sure that it’s posted so everyone knows and we’d like for everybody in Council to make certain that their available to attend the events. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Miss Perry very much. (APPLAUSE) I want to thank all our speakers this evening. Thank you. You’re as always, very informative and we do appreciate you taking the time to come down. Hopefully we’ll be able to help you in some of your issues. INFORMAL RESOLUTIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Informal Resolution. Madame Clerk would you please read Resolution 28 by title. #28. PERSONNEL COMMITTEE: REQ CONFIRMATION OF RE-APPT OF DR. STEPHEN HICKMAN TO BD OF HEALTH OF CANTON CITY HEALTH DISTRICT FROM 4/1/12 - 3/31/17. - ADOPTED PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Barton. MEMBER BARTON: Mr. President, I move we adopt Informal Resolution 28. MEMBER BABCOCK: Seconded. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -239- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Informal Resolution 28. Any remarks? Hearing none, by voice vote all those in favor of the Resolution signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS RESOLUTION #28 PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The ayes have it. The motion carries and Resolution 28 is adopted COMMUNICATIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Communications. Let the journal show that all of the 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 MARCH 26, 2012. 129. AULTMAN HOSPITAL, APPLICANT: APPLICATION TO REZONE 14 LOTS ON BEDFORD AVE SW FROM R1A TO PCS TO HOUSE 2 SEPARATE 2500 KW GENERATORS & A FUTURE 2500 KW GENERATOR TO REPLACE OBSOLETE EXISTING GENERATORS. - PLANNING COMMISSION 130. COMM DEV DIRECTOR MILLER: APPOINT MEMBERS BABCOCK & HAWK TO COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA HOUSING FROM 3/1/12 - 2/28/15. - PERSONNEL COMMITTEE 131. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: ADVISING THAT LEGISLATIVE OBJECTION BE OVERRULED & PROCESSING OF APPLICATION CONTINUE FOR CLASS D-1-3 LIQ PERMIT FOR LENA A PORTER DBA HOB NOB @ 1604 HARRISBURG RD NE. - RECEIVED & FILED 132. HATTIE HARRIS GOOD SPIRITS CLUB INTERNATIONAL: RECEIPT OF PROCLAMATION OF APPRECIATION FOR CANTON CITY COUNCIL PRESENTED IN SPIRIT OF NAT’L FELLOWSHIP. - RECEIVED & FILED 133. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: REQ TO ADVERTISE, REC BIDS & ENTER INTO CONTRACT FOR 1 HEAVY DUTY CREW TRUCK & CHASSIS IN AMT NOT TO EXCEED $42,000.00 ALL FOR WATER DEPT; ALSO REQ TO PURCHASE 6 ADDT’L VEHICLES; REQ $362,449.67 SUPP APPROP TO FUND PURCHASE OF THE VEHICLES, PURCHASE & INSTALLATION OF DUMP BODIES ON INTERNATIONAL CAB/CHASSIS, PURCHASE & INSTALLATION OF A SVC BODY & CAP FOR THE PICKUP TRUCKS & A SULLIVAN AIR COMPRESSOR W/ACCESSORIES. - PUBLIC PROPERTY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE 134. STARK METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY, APPLICANT: APPLICATION TO REZONE 617 MCKINLEY AVE SW FROM R-1A TO PR-4 FOR HOUSING &/OR RESIDENTIAL NEEDS OF SMHA’S TENANTS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO PARKING SPACE. - PLANNING COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -240- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 COMMISSION ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR FIRST READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Turning now to First Reading Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for the First Reading. Let the Journal show that all the 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 THROUGH #7 FOR THEIR FIRST READING BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS: #1. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 55/77, AS AMENDED , KNOWN AS THE CITY OF CANTON ZONING ORDINANCE; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (TIMOTHY GILLEMS - 509 15TH ST NW) Referred to Judiciary Committee PUB HRG 4/9/12 @ 7:30 PM #2. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 220/2011; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (HEALTH DEPT FUND NAME CHG $75,000.00) Referred to Finance Committee #3. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY AUDITOR TO PAY $3,248.40 TO PHILIP SEDLACKO; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Finance Committee #4. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO NEGOTIATE, EXECUTE AND GRANT A PERMANENT EASEMENT TO THE EAST OHIO GAS COMPANY DBA DOMINION EAST OHIO FOR GAS LINES IN AND THROUGH CITY PROPERTY KNOWN AS REIFSNYDER PARK AND MARTINDALE PARK; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Environmental and Public Utilities Committee #5. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND CONSENTING TO INSTALLATION OF CONCRETE OVERLAYS AND PAINTING ON BRIDGES AT CLARENDON AVENUE, HARRISON AVENUE, DUEBER AVENUE AND A 24 INCH OVERHEAD WATER MAIN OVER U.S. 30; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Public Safety and Thoroughfares Committee #6. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND CONSENTING TO THE SANITARY SEWER BETTERMENT AT A STRUCTURE OVER NIMISHILLEN CREEK; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Public Safety and Thoroughfares Committee COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -241- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 #7. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND CONSENTING TO RESURFACING OF STATE ROUTE 297 (RAFF ROAD) FROM US 30 TO STATE ROUTE 172 (WEST TUSCARAWAS STREET); AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Public Safety and Thoroughfares Committee ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR SECOND READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. We’re now under Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for the Second Reading. Would you please begin with Ordinance 8. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCE #8 AND #9 FOR ITS SECOND READING BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS: #8. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY AUDITOR TO PAY $750.00 TO MARK I. LURE INC.; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY #9. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND/OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO: ADVERTISE, RECEIVE BIDS, AWARD AND EXECUTE A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR THE STA-SR43-12.64, WALNUT/CHERRY COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT, G.P. 1153; EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING SERVICES; RECEIVE TRANSPORTATION REVIEW ADVISORY COUNCIL (TRAC) FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,500,000.00; AUTHORIZING THE AUDITOR TO ESTABLISH THE 4567 WALNUT/CHERRY COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT FUND, G.P. 1153; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 220/2011; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD AND FINAL READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Turning now to Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for the Third and Final Reading and vote. Would you please begin with #10. #10. (3RD RDG) RECONSIDERED AND ADOPTED AS AMENDED AS ORDINANCE NO. 40/2012 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATE ORDINANCE NO. 220/2011 TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL MONEYS NEEDED FOR THE OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE CITY OF CANTON FOR THE REMAINDER OF FISCAL YEAR 2012; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Barton. MEMBER BARTON: Mr. President, I move we reconsider Ordinance #40/2012 adopted on March 26, 2012. (Member Barton meant adopted on March 19, 2012) MEMBER BABCOCK: Seconded. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -242- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to reconsider Ordinance 40/2012 which was adopted on March 26, 2012. (President Schulman meant adopted on March 19, 2012). Are there any remarks? Hearing none Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 9 YEAS, 2 NAYS (MEMBERS CIRELLI AND HAWK VOTED NAY) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Nine yeas, two nays Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Madame Clerk. The motion carries. Leader. MEMBER BARTON: Mr. President I move we amend Ordinance #40/2012 per the copy that all Council Members have in front of them. Could we please have that summarized? MEMBER BABCOCK: Seconded. AMENDMENT Pursuant to Rules 41 and 36, I move to reconsider and amend Ordinance No. 40/2012 by the substitution of the original Exhibit C with the new, amended Exhibit C. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to amend Ordinance 40/2012 by virtue of the copy before each Member of Council. Somebody care to summarize that very briefly. Finance Director, if you would. FINANCE DIRECTOR DIRUZZA: The amendment is basically just a change in language. The first amendment that came down last week stated that it was for Exhibit A. In actuality Exhibits A and C were presented and Exhibit C was not mentioned in the first amendment. MEMBER BARTON: Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Are there any questions? Any comments? So it’s been moved and seconded to amend the Ordinance. All in favor, signify by, per the copy before each of you. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 9 YEAS, 2 NAYS (MEMBERS CIRELLI AND HAWK VOTED NAY) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The ayes have it. Motion carries. Leader Barton. MEMBER BARTON: Mr. President I move we adopt Ordinance #40/2012 as amended. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -243- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 MEMBER BABCOCK: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 40/2012 as amended. Are there any remarks under this Ordinance as amended? Hearing none Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 9 YEAS, 2 NAYS (MEMBERS CIRELLI AND HAWK VOTED NAY) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Nine yeas, two nays Mr. President. #10 RECONSIDERED AND ADOPTED AS AMENDED AS ORDINANCE NO. 40/2012 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: There was one no that was louder but otherwise the Ordinance 40/2012 as amended is carried and has been adopted. Ordinance #11 please. #11. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 47/2012 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND/OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH LOCAL AGENCIES IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $390,000.00 IN HOME FUNDS; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Barton. MEMBER BARTON: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #11. MEMBER BABCOCK: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #11. Any remarks under this Ordinance? MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: I want to thank the lady that came and made that presentation to us earlier but this has to do with local agencies and I for one would just feel better if people, being the local agencies themselves, would reside in Canton. They’re coming here to take the money that comes from the government to help them, you know, fix our properties in Canton. I would like to see them people living in Canton. Thank you sir. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: You’re very welcome. Thank you Member Cirelli. Any other remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please on motion, Ordinance 11. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -244- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas Mr. President. #11 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 47/2012 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance #11 is adopted. ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Announcement of Committee meetings. Is there any? MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member West. MEMBER WEST: Judiciary will meet on April 2nd at 6:45. I think that gives us enough time. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: 6:45, thank you. You think that’s enough time Member Cole? Maybe we should.... MEMBER COLE: Finance Committee will meet at 6:15. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: 6:15, alright. MEMBER CIRELLI: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Environmental and Public Utilities will meet at 6:15. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Member West, 6:15 for your Committee? MEMBER WEST: 6:15. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: One other.... CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Wait a minute. Public Safety and Thoroughfares, that’s Chairman Cirelli. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I think Chairman Cirelli just said that. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: She’s Public Safety, you’re Public Safety and Thoroughfares, Mary. MEMBER CIRELLI: Oh, I’m sorry. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Member Cirelli. You’re fine. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -245- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 MEMBER CIRELLI: Public Safety and Thoroughfares. I got three of them there. I knew I had a bunch. I put myself down first and then I said no. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Babcock. MEMBER BABCOCK: She already announced it but.... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: You know Member Cirelli wants to take over every Committee in Council. OK so all the Committees will meet at 6:15. You know I was just kidding Member Cirelli. Any other announcements? None. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Miscellaneous Business. Is there any? MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President. MEMBER FISHER: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. OK, Member Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Yes Mr. President. I’d just like to address the resident’s from the 4th Ward that came down. I really appreciate you coming down. I think that we should collectively go over to Slesnick, discuss what is in this packet and I’m quite sure that something can be done about it so we gonna try it again. You know I would like for the records to know that we did go down and discuss some items before with Slesnick and I’m quite sure he will be willing to work with us and see about getting things done because doing it collectively is the best way to do it. Although we can still meet with Service Director just to see what his feel would be about it but I think that if we go down with the package and we’ll see if we can get some things dissolved. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Smith. Before we go on, just to follow up on Member Smith. You know I really appreciated you folks, we all did, coming down in regard to the Slesnick matter and I’m not going to pick on any one speaker but the comment comparing the Slesnick family to Hitler was not appropriate. This is a family that cares about our community. I know you’re having difficulty. I hope that you’ll be able to resolve it. We’ll obviously do everything that we can but I do personally know the Slesnick family. That was a very unfair characterization. I’m sure it was in the heat of the moment which is why, and frankly I didn’t hear it until I was told what was said so, I just ask that if you turn down the volume a little bit sometimes, that’s a lot more helpful. Any other Miscellaneous Business? Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you sir. And I guess I’ll address this to the Safety Director. Someone sent me this about sidewalk. Apparently the sidewalk slabs that they’re replacing in the North Lehman Neighborhood Alliance. It says that the sidewalk slabs that we not broken are being sold to a pre-established buyer for $450.00 each. My sidewalk pieces alone were worth $4,500.00. Who does that go to because it doesn’t go to the resident? And they put that on Facebook and then they contacted me about that and I thought I’ll check and ask and see, you know, what’s going on. I didn’t know the city sold sidewalk pieces. I mean I thought they usually would replace them if they were good. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -246- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Director. SERVICE DIRECTOR: Thank you Mr. President. So who’s, it’s one of the contractor who’s doing the sidewalk replacement at Lehman or is it the city? MEMBER CIRELLI: It’s the North Lehman Neighborhood Alliance. That organization. This was a new one for me. SERVICE DIRECTOR: I’ll look into it Mary. MEMBER CIRELLI: And I just got it late today or I would have called you. SERVICE DIRECTOR: OK, no. I’ll look into it. We don’t....what I would image is that if somebody is selling anything, it’d have to be the slate. It’s have to be large pieces of slate that probably does have some value but I’ll find out. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you very much because people are told that the sidewalk is theirs and they’re supposed to maintain it but then from the way it sounds, it’s like somebody’s coming in and buying it and they were a little bit upset about that so if you could let me know. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Director. MEMBER CIRELLI: ...And then I’ve got a couple of other things on the gentleman that’s come to us about the school band uniforms. I’ve been a McKinley alumni, you know, for ions and I know that they do have that concession booth and I can’t figure out why it isn’t fair that Timken gets an opportunity to, you know, do the same so that those kids there can be treated and are the going to the School Board and with their concerns about their uniforms too. You know I think that’s very important and it’s something that we want to... each school should be treated equally. That’s the way I look at that. And the last thing that I had and I was flabbergasted when I did get an answer on this because identity theft that we’re all being told how important it is to watch all your credentials and what have you, so and, Mr. Adams, I was hoping he was still here but he left. I emailed him because, and I shared this with you President Schulman when we walked in. If someone would know my name and my birthday and know my mother’s maiden name, anybody could go into the Board of Health and get my birth certificate and that’s rather scary. Now if this is a possibility, what he sent back to me is this is state legislation that has to be passed. Well I think then maybe, he’s not here. I was looking for him. Maybe we ought to put a Resolution into something to that affect that we’re aware of this because the person that called me said that only Stark County was the only county in the state but then he mentioned it was under the ORC so if maybe our staff could kind of call the Health Department tomorrow and get some actual knowledge of what the whole thing is so that we can get that corrected because we want to do everything we can to protect people with their identity theft. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Cirelli. Very good point. It’s really remarkable you’re allowed to do that. Member West. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. Yes, I wanted to alert Council that Stark County Minority Health Coalition, COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -247- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 it’s 9th Annual Minority Dinner which is at Skyland Pines is being held on April 12th. You’re all invited. It’s only $5.00 for a nice dinner and we have a top speaker, Terry Williams coming from Atlanta who’s gonna really shake up the world. I think it’s a great play. It’s also open to the audience. We usually have about 350 people there, so you’re encouraged to attend. I also wanted to mention to Monique, thank you for coming down once again and speaking very eloquently and I didn’t expect anything less but that. But I also want to tell you that, the YMCA is coming back down, downtown which is pretty exciting and of course they’re looking for donations throughout the community. They’ve already raised 3/4 of the money and that is going to happen and that is one recreational thing that’s going to occur and we’re working with a amusement park right now that’s going to be coming to Nimisilla Park. Although those are recreational activities, they’re, it’s just our start. I think we need much more for different age groups and to reach out for those age groups to find out what they want to happen in our community but I can definitely tell you that we’re trying to make some of those things happen. Alright and one last thing with Pat Kirk. I think you mentioned about voting on the Tree Ordinance next week. It’s in 2nd Reading. I think Joe Martuccio will be back on Wednesday. If anybody has any other issues that they want to bring up before the Tree Ordinance, by all means, get it to him so that we can get this thing passed. It won’t happen next week but it probably will happen the following week OK. If there’s no other issues cause I think it’s still in 2nd Reading. OK? And, excuse me, I forgot, someone mentioned something about trees being planted. That’s something that’s definitely happening on Cherry Avenue where I’m looking at that. I think Cherry and Walnut they’re going to be doing some things and in Nimisilla Park. I know we’ve been planting trees there and all throughout the community. I think they have been doing a good job of planting trees and you could help them with giving them some more sites that we need to plant trees. Alright, thank you. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Mr. President. MEMBER FISHER: Mr. President PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Member West. Member Griffin. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Mr. President on that part I, in Ward 3 at the Pocket Park there at the (inaudible) behind Country Fair Shopping Center, we planted 16 trees there last fall. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great. Thank you Member Griffin. Thanks for letting us know that. Member Fisher. MEMBER FISHER: I had wanted to ask a question to Mr. Reese from the Law Department. A couple of months ago we had a meeting upstairs with several members of the administration. Member Morris, myself, Director, Law Director Martuccio, Jason Reese, Angela Cavanaugh and some others discussing the proposed Ordinance that’s in the Law Department now dealing with bank owned foreclosures in the city. Since then, you know, several of the issues were brought up with enforcement, I’ve had some conversations with some staff from Sherrod Brown’s office, Senator Brown’s office, Members of Congress about trying to get on board ahead of time but, I needed to know to talk to them, what is the status of that legislation in the Law Department and when we can expect, excuse me, when we can see something coming downstairs. Thanks, PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Director Reese. ASSISTANT LAW DIRECTOR REESE: Thank you sir. That is correct. You and Councilman Morris did present us with some information which was a significant amount of information dealing with the foreclosures. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 100 JOURNAL PAGE -248- MINUTES OF THE MEETING MARCH 26, 2012 Currently we’re also dealing with another issue with the Building Department which is vacant houses so what we’re trying do is to wrap up the changes to the IPMC along with your, the information you would like added. I would think we would probably have something down here in two weeks, at least a rough draft in two to three weeks. I do know that Law Director Martuccio and I discussed this sometime last week right before he left so there is some rough draft on it’s way down soon that we’ll present to you guys. MEMBER FISHER: Thank you sir. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Anything else Member Fisher? Member Morris. I’m sorry were you done Member Fisher. MEMBER FISHER: Yes sir. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Member Morris. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President. Safety Director Ream I would like to compliment you and the entire staff of the Canton Police Department for your quick response to the wild west show in Ward 9 this past week. Our new Chief of Police, I don’t know how many other Council Members have gotten the opportunity to interact with the Chief. He did an exception job. I spoke to him four times, keeping me in the loop on exactly how the investigation was going and what plans were coming which makes it real easy for me to communicate with my constituents and kind of put them at ease a little bit so, hats off to you guys and keep up the great work. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Anything else? Leader Barton. MEMBER BARTON: Mr. President, I move we adjourn. MEMBER BABCOCK: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adjourn. Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL: 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Meeting is adjourned. Be careful going home everybody. (Gavel falls) ADJOURNMENT TIME: 8:34 PM ATTEST: MARCH 30, 2012 APPROVED: MARCH 30, 2012 CYNTHIA TIMBERLAKE ALLEN SCHULMAN CLERK OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT