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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -203- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Welcome as always to Canton City Council. Before we begin tonight’s meeting, our Clerk indicated and I know that Member Griffin had indicated to me last week that his nephew was very, very sick and sadly Jim’s nephew, William Griffin died on Easter. He was 43 years old, he left a 5 year old son who is in 5th grade. So, with that, if we could have a moment of silence for Member Griffin. Our hearts and prayers go out to you and your family. (MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR WILLIAM GRIFFIN) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Thank you Member Griffin. Our meeting will begin with a quorum being present, the Chair calls this meeting of City Council to order. Roll call vote please Madame Clerk. ROLL CALL TAKEN BY CLERK TIMBERLAKE: 12 COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: (DAVID DOUGHERTY, JAMES GRIFFIN, JAMES BABCOCK, MARY CIRELLI, JOE COLE, GREG HAWK, THOMAS WEST, CHRIS SMITH, KEVIN FISHER, JOHN MARIOL, EDMOND MACK & FRANK MORRIS) TWELVE COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Tonight’s invocation will be given by my friend and Council Member at Large Member Mary Cirelli. Would you all please stand and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. The regular meeting of Canton City Council was held on April 1, 2013 at 7:30 P.M. in the Canton City Council Chamber. The roll call was taken (see above) by Clerk of Council Cynthia Timberlake. The invocation was given by Council-at-Large Member, Mary Cirelli. The Pledge of Allegiance led by President Schulman. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Cirelli. AGENDA CORRECTIONS & CHANGES PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Agenda Corrections and Changes, Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President, I move we suspend Rule 22A to add 2nd Reading Ordinances #4 through 8 and to hold Informal Resolution 23. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to add 2nd Reading Ordinances 4 through 8 and to hold Informal Resolution 23 on this evening’s Agenda. Are there any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -204- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 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 to Public Hearings. We have none this evening. OLD BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Under Old Business, the Mayor’s Chief of Staff and Director Price is not with us this evening, our hearts and prayers go out to his family. His father is sick and we wish his dad a very speedy recovery. PUBLIC SPEAKS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Public Speaks. We have five speakers signed up this evening. And our first speaker is Bret Moore. Mr. Moore if you’ll step forward and give us your name, your residential address and as always, welcome to Canton City Council sir. BRET MOORE: Good evening Canton City Council. Mr. Griffin, I’d like to say that my heart truly goes out to you. My name is Bret Moore, 1511 Harvard Ave NW, Canton, Ohio. I called...or I came here this evening, and was hopeful that Mr. Healy would be joining the party this evening. I’d like to speak to him about...who’s pointing, you’re pointing where? CLERK TIMBERLAKE: He’s out in the hall. BRET MOORE: Oh.... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well, he’ll be here after the meeting as I tell all the speakers, so. BRET MOORE: Okay. We...we are wondering, is it a fact that there has been no contract yet signed on the demolition of the houses in Canton? Can anybody give an answer on that? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I’m not sure what the question is. Is it... BRET MOORE: I understand there is a million dollars plus...plus a matching fund set up for demolition of some of rat nest houses we have... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Right. BRET MOORE: And I don’t know that I have been informed that there is no contract for them to get started going yet. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We can discuss that with you if you’ll stick around in Miscellaneous Business, I promise. BRET MOORE: Okay. Alright. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much sir. Our next speaker is Pete DiGiacomo. Good evening COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -205- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 Mr. DiGiacomo. As always, welcome to Canton City Council. If you’ll give us your name though and your residential address please. PETE DIGIACOMO: My name is Pete DiGiacomo, I live at 600 Dent Place SW, Canton, Ohio. I guess what I’m here to talk about, well I don’t guess, I know what I’m here to talk about, is I’ve...this is the third time I’ve come up and brought up about putting cruisers on 77, one to make it a safe interstate to drive on and to also help to raise money for the City so that we can get police back up to the strength they should be. The last two times I was up here, first time Mayor Healy, after, you know, spoke with me, not much. And second time nobody spoke with me. This is the third time. Redflex, part of it I like, part of it I didn’t like, it’s dead. It’s in the ground, it’s buried. Sorry Tom but you’re not going to get any money there. So, I would like the City to look at some other options to bring in funds to hire police to put out on the street. To me it seems kind of like a no brainier. If you have speeders going way over the speed limit, you put cruisers up there, ya stop them, ya get money. It’s...it’s...it seems pretty simple. And I know that the police force right now is very under strengthed and they’re very overloaded with calls but somewhere along the line, you have to stop and how can we get money? If you got to bite the bullet a little bit now to get them out there so you can make money then that’s what you have to do. I mean, we’re not a bunch of clowns sitting up here with nothing else to do. Do you understand? We are up here because we care about the City, we live here and we want to see it improved. Crime is just, you know, it’s...it’s bad, it could be worse, it could be a lot better. Like I said, if you get the officers on the street, get them out there, that’s going to help bring down the crime. In order to get new officers, you need the money. 77 is like a NASCAR race in the mornings, in the evenings. Speed limit is 55, I drive 62 and I get run over. Again, it’s a no brainer. So for somebody, you know, Administration wise put their hands in their pockets, ah, I don’t know what to do, we don’t want to do it, we don’t have the people to do it. That excuse doesn’t get it. If you don’t have a plan to do it then there’s something wrong with you. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you as always Mr. DiGiacomo. Our next speaker is Bruce Nordman. Mr. Nordman, as always welcome. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address sir. BRUCE NORDMAN: I’m Bruce Nordman, I reside at 1623 Logan Avenue NW. Councilman Griffin, my condolences. I’m here representing group 175. What is group 175? Group 175 is an outgrowth of our conceal carry contacts over 500 citizens and businesses in the City. We have a meeting with the Mayor April 16th at 10:00 to discuss this matter. What you have in your hands, this flyer which is where this group 75 originated. In 2008, we had 2432 arrests and arrest per officer is at 14. We’ve gone down 843 arrests through 2012. This is alarming. This is a City that should be the jewel of the County and we’re dealing with crime issues that are swallowing us up. In the Canton Repository, in the last four issues, I gave you another flyer crime report, the Repository. We had 39 crimes, violent crimes in four days and most of them burglary, theft and breaking and entering to count for 62% that total with four arrests. It looks like we got crime out of control in this City and this is why we are asking for you to press forward for another $825,000.00 to hire an additional 25 officers. Thank you God to the Mayor, he got another 14 policemen on board and with retirements, that’s going to come out to about 150, add 25, that’s what we come out with 175. We’re asking that you press on with this and help us with this endeavor. Now, President Schulman, you asked about us contacting our legislators, we have a drive going. We’ve already met with the County Commissioners asking that three State Senators and the...and the State Reps, I’m sorry, and the one State Senator appear before the Commission. I would like you to do it and we are going to press to see that they stand in front of you and report about what they’re going to do going forward. This is extremely important to us. We’re asking for another $825,000.00 in the last two weeks, not counting the raises, we’ve spent $3,360,000.00 that we COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -206- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 grabbed out of the sky and we’re asking you to find another $825,000.00 to fund these officers that we dearly need on the street and I’m asking Chief Lawver, please get down inside of your offices and find out every swinging officer that we can get on the street. This is extremely important to this City. Thank you so much for your time. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you sir, very much. Our next speaker is Richard Manson. Mr. Manson, good evening. Welcome to Canton City Council. If you’ll give us your name sir and your residential address please. RICHARD MANSON: Hi my name is Richard Manson at 601 High Avenue SW. (Inaudible) stole my thunder. My...my what I’m going to talk about is not quite as serious as some of the previous speakers but it’s on a lighter note and a simpler note it’s basically about city development. And I know a couple people have mentioned to me before, I know on the books there’s...there’s some kind of plan that sidewalk replacement can be shared with the homeowners and the City. I...I’ve heard it said by several people that it’s too costly for the City to of course to replace all the sidewalks. Of course that...those statements didn’t come with any qualifiers. The qualifiers would be in what period of time. I mean I can imagine, your talking in a year, two years or three years span, so it’s probably a very costly project, way too costly to handle. But who said it had to be in a couple years time? We have sidewalks in the City that are 80, 90 years old in front of my house. I have sidewalks that are slat or flagstone. I have a curb that’s made out of granite. When’s the last time...when did we last put granite curbs in the City? 1920's I think before concrete was invented in the 30's. I think...I..I just feel that’s...that’s one of the things that’s contributed to the blight of the City, now...now as we know, pretty much all of the City is blighted. We have blighted housing. We have a few pockets of decent areas up on Market Avenue but my...my neighborhood specifically, the Mayor of Canton used to live my house. I’m....Not our present Mayor, it was Mayor Witter, you can go look on the City website, H.R. Witter, two time Mayor, 1920-1922 and 1930-1932, they were two..two year terms. That’s back when my neighborhood was a really nice neighborhood. My next door neighbor, Rita Barrett, she...I...she told me she lived there with...since she was a little girl and she remembers when it was a really nice decent neighborhood in the 1940's and ‘50s. It’s not that way now, sidewalks are an issue. But...I’m probably not the best person to speak to this, I don’t have any numbers or data in front of me, which I could probably come close later but what’s it cost to replace all the sidewalks in the City? I don’t know, a few million, a hundred million, three hundred million. What if that was divided up over not just a couple years, 10, 20 maybe 30, 40 years? We haven’t had a City plan on the books approved, I think 1969. I think that’s part of a City plan or it could be if we divided 300 mill...or...yeah, 300 million over 40 years, what would that be? I don’t know 2 or 3 million a year. I think it would be well worth the City’s investment because just about every other City from Segovia, Illinois, which is about the same size as us, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has redeveloped a portion of their intercity, has made a bedroom district and it’s had middle income people who...I mean it’s not impossible, everybody thinks that’ll never happen in Canton but it’s not impossible. You got to start somewhere like sidewalks would be a great start. It doesn’t have to be street scapes with lighting, street scape (inaudible) but replacing broken up sidewalk where grass and dirt has grown would be...that would be a big benefit. I think it would encourage other homeowners to start fixing up their houses. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much sir, I appreciate it. Our last speaker is Henry Preston. Mr. Preston, good evening. Welcome to Canton City Council. If you’ll give us your name sir and your residential address. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -207- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 HENRY PRESTON: Yes, my name is Henry Preston, I live at 326 31st Street NW. I’m here to talk about what I consider to be exceptional poor planning and lack of thought as presented at the Ward 9 meeting last week with Dan Moglin, the City Engineer. It was proposed plans for bicycle lanes in the City.... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Sir, could you move your microphone just a little closer? I’m having trouble hearing you and obviously that’s the reason.... HENRY PRESTON: Hello...hello Mr. Schulman... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: A little closer this way. Push it down toward you. HENRY PRESTON: Down... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: There ya go. Let’s try that. HENRY PRESTON: Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Your welcome. HENRY PRESTON: Specifically I am going to address the proposed changes as presented by...that will affect Market Avenue by 25th Street and 31st Street, which will add two five foot bicycle lanes and narrow the two traffic lanes to eleven feet. I had a engaging conversation with Mr. Moglin last week. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s Dan Moeglin by the way. HENRY PRESTON: Thank you... thank you. I had a engaging conversation with Mr. Moeglin last week and he doesn’t see the need to have wider than eleven foot lanes and I strongly disagree. I talked to the firefighters, I asked them how long are...how wide are your vehicles, they said ten to twelve feet. I talked with a bus operator, they said a bus is ten to twelve feet. This is what large vehicles require. Putting eleven foot traffic lanes in busy intersections is just ridiculous. At the meeting, I got a copy here from Frank Morris because he was there. (Inaudible) .......from the North Carolina Department of Transportation and up in there in the very first line it says, they talk about low posted speed limit, six foot wide bike lanes beside twelve foot wide travel lanes. That’s what I think we need here in Canton. Okay, now we come down streets with bicycle lanes should be part of connected bikeway system rather than a isolated feature. Well the plan there is an isolated feature between 25th and 31st Street or 30th Street. Okay, then it changes. When you...when most bicycle motor vehicle crashes occur at intersections and driveways. Going north bound on Harvard, there’s 10 driveways, 10 driveways, which is about a third of a mile, then there’s six on the other. That’s not good because you got everybody can visualize that, that’s been driving awhile. Bicycles on the lane, people want to cross. Okay, that’s not good. Inadequate length, inadequate lane widths or the use of concrete gutter, as the bike lane is not desirable. Which means the gutter pan, when they go across 30th Street, there’s a big gutter pan and the highway narrows...(inaudible).... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I’m going to give you a couple more seconds sir because I interrupted you. HENRY PRESTON: Okay, in summary, to me this about blunders and planning and engineering of facilities COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -208- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 and I think this Council as a whole needs to start looking and see what is good planning and I think we’re missing the boat. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much sir. Thanks to all our speakers for coming down. If you’ll either wait for Miscellaneous Business, we’ll try to get the answers that some of you asked and some more information on your issues. INFORMAL RESOLUTIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We are now under Informal Resolutions. Informal Resolution 23 has been postponed. COMMUNICATIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Turning now to Communications. Let the journal reflect that all Communications are received as read. NOTE: ALL COMMUNICATIONS WHICH FOLLOW, LISTED BY AGENDA TITLE, ARE ON FILE IN THEIR ENTIRETY IN THE COUNCIL OFFICE WITH THE AGENDA ITEMS FILE DATED APRIL 1, 2013. 144. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: REQ AUTHORITY TO PREP ORDINANCE APPROVING THE EDITING & INCLUSION OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES ADOPTED FROM 3/2/12 TO 2/28/13 TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE CITY’S CODIFIED ORDINANCES; REQ AUTHORITY TO SUBMIT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TO DISTRIBUTE, FREE OF CHARGE, TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS & PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, COPIES OF 2013 SUPPLEMENT TO CITY CODE & AFFIX PRICE OF $14.70 FOR SALE OF 2012 SUPPLEMENT TO THOSE HOLDERS OF CITY CODE. - JUDICIARY COMMITTEE 145. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: AUTHORIZE SERV DIR TO ENTER INTO PROF SERV CONTRACT WITH CTI ENGINEERS, INC. TO PREPARE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS IN AMT OF $95,000.00; AUTHORIZE $95,000.00 SUPP APPROP FROM UNAPPROP BAL OF 5201 WATER FUND TO 5201 207029 WATER FUND - WESTMORELAND WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT FUND. - FINANCE COMMITTEE 146. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: AUTHORIZE AMENDMENT TO EXISTING JACKSON-CANTON JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT CONTRACT (JEDDC) TO PERMIT A BUSINESS LOCATED WITH THE COVERED AREA TO OBTAIN WATER FROM CITY OF NORTH CANTON ON PARCEL NOS. 16-16999, 16-18059 AND 16-18060. - JUDICIARY COMMITTEE 147. SERVICE DIRECTOR PRICE: AUTHORIZE & DIRECT CITY OF CANTON TO ENTER INTO GRANT AGMT WITH CANTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORP FOR PURPOSE OF ADVANCING, ENCOURAGING & PROMOTING THE INDUSTRIAL, ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL & CIVIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY; AUTHORIZE $175,000.00 APPROP TRANSFER FROM 1001 202210 OTHER TO 1001 201001 OTHER; AUTHORIZE $175,000.00 APPROP TRANSFER FROM 4501 201001 OTHER TO 4501 202210 OTHER. - COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -209- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 PUBLIC PROPERTY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR FIRST READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Turning now to First Reading Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for their First Reading. Let the journal show that all Ordinances are being given their reading as required by State law. Madame Clerk, would you please read the First Reading Ordinances by title. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #1 THROUGH #3 FOR ITS FIRST READING BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS: #1. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING THE 3% CAP FOR THE FINANCE DIRECTOR’S POSITION Referred to Personnel and Finance Committees #2. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A STIPEND, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $12,000.00 PER YEAR, TO ANY INDIVIDUAL SERVING SIMULTANEOUSLY AS THE DIRECTOR OR PUBLIC SAFETY AND DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Finance Committee #3. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WITH BENNETT & WILLIAMS ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS, INC. IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $498,600.00 TO PERFORM A COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PROJECT; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 209/2012; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Finance Committee ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR SECOND READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Turning now to Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for Second Reading. Madame Clerk, would you please begin with Ordinance #4. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #4 THROUGH #8 FOR THE SECOND READING BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS: #4. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A WAGE INCREASE FOR MANAGEMENT AND NON-BARGAINING UNIT PERSONNEL; AMENDING EXHIBIT A TO ORDINANCE NO. 100/2011, AS AMENDED, THE CLASSIFICATION PLAN AND SALARIES FOR MANAGEMENT AND NON-BARGAINING UNIT EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF CANTON; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY #5. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 707.02 LICENSE; FEE; DURATION; ISSUANCE AND REVOCATION, OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CANTON COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -210- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 #6. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY AUDITOR TO PAY $14,857.98 TO SUNPRO, INC.; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY #7. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,500,000.00 FOR THE PURPOSE OF REFUNDING BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FUNDS TO PAY A COURT-APPROVED SETTLEMENT OF A CLAIM AGAINST THE CITY #8. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY (WRF) PHOSPHORUS/TOTAL NITROGEN REMOVAL AND MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT TO: FILE AN APPLICATION AND ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (OEPA) FOR A LOW-INTEREST LOAN; ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH OVIVO USA, LLC FOR PURCHASE OF MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR (MBR) EQUIPMENT AND ASSOCIATED COMPONENTS; ADVERTISE, RECEIVE BIDS AND ENTER INTO A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR THE PROJECT; FILE AN APPLICATION AND ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH OEPA FOR A LOW-INTEREST LOAN TO FUND THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE OF THE PROJECT; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 209/2012; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ($28,500,000.00 FROM UNAPPROP BAL 5442 WRF PHOSPHORUS/NITROGEN PROJ FUND TO 5442 206044 WRF PHOSPHORUS/NITROGEN PROJ - OTHER) ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD AND FINAL READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Turning now to Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for their Third, Final Reading and vote. Madame Clerk, would you please begin with Ordinance 9. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCES #9 AND #10 FOR THE THIRD TIME BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS. #9. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 64/2013 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 209/2012; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ($7,859.36 SUPP APPROP NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROG & $13,946.42 APPROP TRANSFER NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROG) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President I move we adopt Ordinance 9. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 9. Any remarks under this COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -211- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 Ordinance? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas Mr. President. #9 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 64/2013 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance 9 is adopted. Ordinance 10 please. #10. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 65/2013 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 209/2012; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ($22,262.77 AND $21,389.72 SUPP APPROP FOR WEST SIDE INTERCEPTOR SANITARY SEWER REHAB PROJ, GP 1138) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Dougherty. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Mr. President I move we adopt Ordinance 10. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 10. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas Mr. President. #10 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 65/2013 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance 10 is adopted. ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Turning now to Announcement of Committee Meetings. MEMBER COLE: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Chairman Cole. MEMBER COLE: Finance will meet April 8th at 6:30. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Mr. President. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -212- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Chairman Griffin. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Personnel will 6:30. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay, now we’re under Miscellaneous Business. Is there any? MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member West. MEMBER WEST: Yes, I wanted to let everyone know that, many of you guys know I’ve been serving on the Minority Health Coalition for the past 10 years and it’s their 10th annual dinner this year. They are rolling out with two different events. They have on April the 3rd, they will have a youth obesity conference at the First Christian Church, it’s a free event. They got top notch speakers that will be their presenters. So, I want to invite all of you out to First Christian Church on April 3rd. Then on April 4th we have the annual dinner which is sponsored by Aultman Hospital. That will be at Skyline Pines...Skyland Pines and that’s on the 4th at 5:30 and the cost of that is $10.00 and I know a lot of the Members of Council, some have attended in the past. So, I wanted to invite you again. Alright, thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member West. Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Might I ask Member West, did you say what time the April 3rd function was sir? I might have missed that. MEMBER WEST: Yes, that’s from 9:30 AM to 2 PM. And also if I can mention real quick. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Sure. MEMBER WEST: I also forgot to let everybody know that the Ohio Senior Games, the Senior Olympics, this is something I learned about last year but I was trying to get seniors involved in, of course, athletics and there’s all kinds of things. So, I’m putting a plug in for some of you guys that are senior members. Senior is 50 on this so you guys can still play basketball and play corn hole and it’s a very good event. So.... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Do they have a defibrillator there? (Laughter) Sign me up, otherwise forget about it. When is that Member West? MEMBER WEST: It’s actually June 21st through the 30th of 2013 and I’ll try to have some of these in the Council window for people. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great, thank you. Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: Thank you Mr. President. Gee, there’s nobody here from the Administration. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -213- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well we have...we have Director Ream and the Mayor. MEMBER CIRELLI: Oh, there he is. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Other than that, no ones here. MEMBER CIRELLI: I just didn’t know the Mayor was over there talking to somebody. Sorry about that. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Time to adjourn Leader. (Laughter) Go ahead Member Cirelli. MEMBER CIRELLI: They were replacing the street lights with LAD lights instead of the old incandescent bulbs and in the historic areas they were using the same, I believe, the same wattage of the LAD, even though they are much cheaper and they are brighter light. The only trouble is in the historic area and Jim might find this out, Member...Councilman Griffin, you might find this out in his area also, the street lights there are only about 12 feet tall. So, these much brighter lights are really shining right into the people’s homes and I checked the ones out on Market Avenue because they have the historic lights, they go straight up and they’re up probably about 20 feet or something like that. So, I had spoke with Dan Moeglin and Dan said that it’s like for instance, people in Ridgewood, he said if they want the old lights, they’ll be glad to put them back and Ridgewood can pay they’re own bill. But I don’t believe that’s doable. I would like to suggest that possibly we use a...the LAD lights but a lower wattage because we’ll still even...that’s even a win, win situation, it’s still cheaper to run those. So, could you maybe...one of you let him, you know, put that in...bug in his ear and... SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Director. SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: I’ll make sure that I pass that suggestion along. MEMBER CIRELLI: I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Cirelli. Any other Miscellaneous Business? SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes, Director. SAFETY DIRECTOR REAM: In response to the gentleman about the demolition process, the Building Code Department is going full force with the processes that we have in place internally, within the City to legally get those structures down and they have not gone to the bidding process yet. They’re still in some of the preliminary stages but they’re moving the process as fast as it’s possible to make sure that we get as many structures down as we can with that money that’s available through the County and...which this Council matched with the other million dollars. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Any other Miscellaneous Business? If I could just take a moment. Director Ream indicated to me earlier that this is going to be his last meeting and I’m sure there’ll be a recognition at some point but I just want to say publically that he has had an incredibly distinguished career as a public servant COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -214- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 in the Police Department, as Safety Director. You are to be commended for the outstanding job you have done for the citizens of this community and we thank you Tom very much. (Applause) Yes? MAYOR HEALY: Thank you. First I’d like to assure you that he will be back for at least one more meeting. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Okay good. MAYOR HEALY: And we’ll do a more formal recognition of him. (Laughter) But I...I...I.... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: No, he assured me this is his last meeting. (Laughter) No, he’s done. MAYOR HEALY: Well anyway, we want to make sure we recognize him more formally then that. But thank you for that. I wanted to mention too to the...the..the guest that spoke in reference to the concern about the member of Police Officers and the funding and what have you. As you know, we do have a meeting scheduled, I look forward to sitting down with all of you. And I just want to let peop...you know...you...you mentioned something when you were speaking that is really the...the jest of this whole thing and...and the fact is you understand that there’s a cost that goes with the request. And you know, you made it part of your conversation to say, you know, find the money. You know, there’s been proposals for that, it hasn’t necessarily been the ones that Council has agreed upon as...as a majority but there’s got to be other means out there and you know, certainly we would all like.... PETE DIGIACOMO YELLING FROM THE AUDIENCE: (INAUDIBLE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well... MAYOR HEALY: Well.. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: ...wait... PETE DIGIACOMO YELLING FROM THE AUDIENCE: (INAUDIBLE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: ...no, you’re really not. MAYOR HEALY: I’ll be more than happy at our meeting to go through some of the specific details with you. But I did want to thank you for some of your concerns and also again thank you for understanding the fact that we got to have a way to pay for that type of investment and that’s...that’s the big issue right now. So, I look forward to our meeting coming up, thanks. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And I want to follow up. I want to thank Representative Schuring and Representative Slesnick. We met with a very small group, just three the other day, informally just to try to get an idea from them what’s going on. Representative Schuring has some ideas to help cities in urban areas, we’ll wait and see what happens. But I just want to stress that he also confirmed to me...just confirmed to me, just so you’re aware...the public is aware that I wasn’t mistaken, the State of Ohio will have a surplus at the end of it’s next fiscal year of over 2 billion dollars....2 billion dollars. The local government funding for the entire State of Ohio, to my understanding, was $575,000,000.00. Don’t tell me that the legislators in Columbus and the Governor can’t see fit to restore local government funding to the position and to the extent that it was before they took it away from the urban areas with 200..with 2 billion plus dollars in surplus. And by the way, that 2 billion maybe a conservative figure. By the time COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -215- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 it’s done, there maybe 2.5 billion dollars in surplus. As the Mayor says and as we all indicate, we want police, we want fire, we want improvements in infrastructure, we want sidewalks, we want to tear down homes, we can’t do it without money and the State is starving local communities like ours and until the public sends the message to the State Legislature and to the Governor that, that....that most people live in urban areas and we need those resources restored because that was the promise that was made in 1934 when the State wanted it’s first income tax. The only way you’re going to get 175 Police Officers and we’re able to transform this City finally is with money and they’ve got it and we don’t. So, I just want to reiterate what the Mayor is saying. We all want more police, we all want more fire, we all want sidewalks, we all want to demolish bad and terrible homes that are killing our neighborhoods. We want better housing stock. We can’t do it without funds. The State has it, please contact your legislators, tell them enough is enough. They have the money, send it back. Anything else? Leader. MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Yeah, just a couple notes. I got an email awhile back, I forwarded it to the Mayor’s Office about a program to train someone for grant writing. So, to my understanding he’s going to be sending somebody to that, I hope that is still the case. That’s another way you can then try to find monies through grants for possibly safety and things like that. Also, the gentleman talking about sidewalks, all of Council knows of course because we’ve been working on things. The sidewalk program we currently have isn’t working and so there’s been a sidewalk committee formed and you know, our goal, the majority of Council’s goal is that, you know, we really revise this and make it much better so that we don’t make a difference with a house here and a house there. You make a difference a block at a time. And can we start doing that kind of program and aligning it with our paving program and things like that. So, it’s not, you know, a dead issue. We are looking into that and so I just wanted to mention that. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Before...I’m sorry, Ms. Bates had one thing to say. ASSISTANT LAW DIRECTOR BATES: I’d just like to elaborate on this for the gentleman from Harvard, in my neighborhood. And our Building Official has a really exciting idea and we’re trying to go out to bid in a new way this year where we’re going to bid in pockets and we’ve been doing a lot of legal research to make sure that’s appropriate and it’s cheaper number one and number two we’d make an impact because we’d actually do them in groups on the same street. And so we’re trying to get that going where we would actually bid out several homes in the same area to the same contractor, cheaper for them, they have their men right there altogether and we make a big impact on the community. So, that’s a new idea that our Chief Building Official is championing and I think it’s a great idea. So, we are working on it and we’re real close. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. I’m sorry Leader. Anything else? MEMBER DOUGHERTY: Move to adjourn. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adjourn. Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Safe trip home everyone. (Gavel falls) Meeting is COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 101 JOURNAL PAGE -216- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 1, 2013 adjourned. ADJOURNMENT TIME: 8:13 PM ATTEST: APRIL 3, 2013 APPROVED: APRIL 3, 2013 CYNTHIA TIMBERLAKE ALLEN SCHULMAN CLERK OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT