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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -653- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Sorry. Welcome to Canton City Council. We appreciate you all being here this evening. Before we begin, I do want to say that Canton lost a great friend and a great leader in the loss of our former Mayor, Richard Watkins. Dick was a friend of mine. He married me as a matter of fact. Chrissy and I were grateful to have him be at our wedding and actually perform the ceremony and he gave his life to our city. He did wonderful things on behalf of it’s citizens and he will truly be missed. Actually the sad part is, as we all grow older, eras come and eras go and this is the end of a tremendous era in our city. So, let’s take a moment of silence and remember my friend and yours, Dick Watkins. Moment of Silence Observed for Richard Watkins PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. With a quorum being present the Chair calls this meeting of Canton City Council to Order. Roll call vote please, Madame Clerk. ROLL CALL TAKEN BY CLERK TIMBERLAKE: 10 COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: (FRANK MORRIS, CHRIS SMITH, JAMES BABCOCK, RICHARD HART, BILL SMUCKLER, GREG HAWK, THOMAS WEST, JAMES GRIFFIN, KEVIN FISHER & JOHN MARIOL) TEN COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT. (MEMBERS DOUGHERTY & MACK ABSENT) CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, ten present, Mr. President. EXCUSING MEMBERS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Leader. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President I move we excuse Members Mack and Dougherty from tonight’s meeting. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to excuse Members Mack and Dougherty from this evening’s meeting. Are there any remarks? I will just say for the record that Edmond Mack had a legal matter for a Board of Zoning Appeals tonight and Member Dougherty had to be at work, in his work at Aultman Hospital. So, any other remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. The motion carries. Members Mack and Dougherty are excused from this evening’s meeting. Tonight’s invocation will be given by my friend and Council-at-Large Member Bill Smuckler. If you’ll stand and remain standing for our Pledge of Allegiance. The regular meeting of Canton City Council was held on October 6, 2014 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 William Smuckler. The Pledge of Allegiance led by President Schulman. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -654- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 AGENDA CORRECTIONS & CHANGES PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Bill. Those were very touching words. We appreciate it. Thank you. We’re now under Agenda Corrections and Changes, Leader. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move that Rule 22A be suspended to add 2nd Readings Ordinances #8 through and include #12. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to Suspend Rule 22A to add the 2nd Reading Ordinances 8 through and including 12 to this evening’s agenda. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. The motion carries. Rule 22A is suspended and the Ordinances are a legal part of your agenda. PUBLIC HEARINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We turn now to Public Hearings. We do have a Public Hearing this evening. It is scheduled for 7:30 and it’s AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 55/77, AS AMENDED, KNOWN AS THE CITY OF CANTON ZONING ORDINANCE. PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED APPROVAL. (1501 HENRY AVE SW, CANTON, OHIO FROM B-2 (NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS) TO PB-4 (PLANNED SPECIAL BUSINESS) IN WARD 5. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to speak for or against this Zone Changes, will you please step forward. And I have to say it again. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to speak for or against this Zone Change, will you please step forward. Seeing no one rise to the dias, the Chair declares the public hearing over in regard to this matter and the matter will now rest in the hands of Council. The Ordinance will follow later this evening. OLD BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Turning now to Old Business. I understand we have none from our Deputy Mayor. PUBLIC SPEAKS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We turn now to Public Speaks. We do have four speakers tonight. Our first speaker is Mr. Charles Killins. Mr. Killins. Mr. Killins, good evening. Welcome. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address please and as always, welcome to Canton City Council. CHARLES KILLINS: My name is Charles Killins. I live at 1223 Market Avenue North. I’m here to talk to Council and Mr. Martuccio. I hear, I have here a letter that I, a copy of a letter from the Akron Beacon Journal where Mr. Martuccio and our Health Department done an atrocious job. They tore down my house and didn’t pay me for it and also Mr. Martuccio the documents that you sent me was falsified and had the wrong name on it. I would like to know what you intend to do about this here. Are you going to pay me for my house or straighten this out? COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -655- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: This is not the time to ask a question. If Law Director Martuccio wants to respond... CHARLES KILLINS: When is the time to ask a question? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well no, you can ask the question Mr. Killins, if just that the Law Director doesn’t have to answer you at this stage. CHARLES KILLINS: Well, I want it publically because he can, so this way he can’t say he didn’t get the right answer from me. I would like to have a straight answer from him and the Mayor and the Service Department who are conducting this same type of atrocious crime in other cities. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: In what, I’m sorry. CHARLES KILLINS: Here, you want to read it? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: No, no. I thought you said, and another thing. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: In another city. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: In another city. I’m sorry. CHARLES KILLINS: Is that all? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: If that’s all you have. If you want to pass that up, we’ll certainly read it for you. CHARLES KILLINS: Oh, you want to look at it? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I’d be happy to. CHARLES KILLINS: Can you answer it. Can you give me an answer to these questions? How soon? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well, we’ll try to get back to you as soon as we can sir. CHARLES KILLINS: Next week? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I’ll try my best. Thank you sir very much. You got it there sir. John you want to help him get that. Thank you Mr. Killins. Our next speaker is Jason Scaglione. Mr. Scaglione good evening. As always welcome to Canton City Council. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address please. JASON SCAGLIONE: Good evening. Jason Scaglione. 3027 Glen Place NW. Down here tonight cause I think we all need to think about and talk about what we can do about the crime in this, in this city and actually the state really. If we can just take care of the city, that’d be great. Been looking at this long and hard and we’ve had many neighbors that are putting their houses up for sale because they just, they won’t take it no more. I wanted to read something that I”ve written that’s went to some State Representatives. I know that we’ve talked. The city’s fundings are being cut and we’ve often said, get a hold of your Senator. Get a hold of your Representatives. I’ve done that. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -656- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Good. JASON SCAGLIONE: Each and every one of them. I have spoken with one of them on the phone. I just want to read what I’ve written here. I’ve said before crime, the crime going on around here has made me more than mad. Just wanted to share with everyone, that I also sent a message to State Representative Stephen Slesnick and I appreciate his call back as well as Sherrod Brown and I did contact the others today. This is what I sent: Hello. I’m contacting you about the rising crime in our area. In just the past couple months, the amount of auto theft and break ins has been horrible and this isn’t just of the Harter Heights area, and I have pulled police reports to verify these thefts. My neighbor is so disturbing that I’m seeing these neighbors just putting their houses up for sale. I’ve talked to many of them, they said nobody’s doing anything about it. We’re not going to stick around and be the next victim. We had a vet, a World War II vet that was shot and killed in his house about a year ago. Now we have a guy that’s working at a gas station that feels so unsafe that he has to take a gun to work with him and he gets shot. He also shot and killed two suspects but, I won’t even comment on that. I just don’t know what it’s going to take for us to say hey, we’ve got to do something. I mean for crying out loud, this, this is one that is really dear to me. Anderson’s Flowers is moving to North Canton and one of the things they site is, I love Canton. It’s nothing against Canton he said, it’s just gotten dangerous here. Are we going to wait until everything’s moved out. Are we going to wait until we’ve lost all of our neighbors. I think we need to start in the neighborhoods. We need to get something going. We need to get something done. Everything keeps moving out, there’s not going be anything left. Every little bit of taxes this man pays or that man pays, is a contribution. I think they deserve to get an end or at least to slow down this problem. I’d love to know what anyone here can do or will do to help with this. There’s a lot of people that want some answers. I’m tired of seeing in Harter Heights, an area where you couldn’t buy a house 10 years ago because they didn’t sell them. Now there’s for sale signs everywhere you look. And these are good people. I’ve walked and I’ve talked to a lot of them. They’re good people and they have valid concerns. Let me know what you can do to help. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much Mr. Scaglione. (APPLAUSE) Our next speaker is Jim Adams. Mr. Adams welcome, as always. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address please. JIM ADAMS: Thank you Mr. President. My name is Jim Adams and I live at 3518 Crown Point Street NW in Massillon, Ohio. I didn’t really have many prepared remarks this evening but in light of the recent news of the ebola outbreak and the case that we have in Texas, I felt compelled to at least talk to Council for a couple of minutes about what is going on at the Health Department relative to that. First of all, I want to thank Council for their support for the Department. I think you know, that you have the author...the responsibility and moral responsibility to provide public health services in our community and you do that through your generous support of our Health Department. I hope that we’re up to the challenge and fulfill those needs that you expect from us. People have said that when public health does it’s job well, it is largely unseen. We don’t know the work that we do. So, what I want to let you know is that in the background we are working very hard on these preparedness plans to address communicable disease outbreaks such as the one that we’re currently facing. And I want to assure you that we had been working on that for a long time. We maintain a situational awareness of the potential for the risk in our community as well as in the state of Ohio and we all share that responsibility to respond if we need to do that. I can give you one example of what goes on in the background. Since 1999, we have met with the other departments within Stark County as well as a wide variety of partners in our hospitals, in our health care providers, Fire and Police in an organization called the COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -657- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 EHPC which stands for Emergency Healthcare Planning Coalition and we’ve been meeting since 1999 routinely on a monthly basis to plan for and respond to threats in our community. That collaboration, that relationship that we’ve built with these partners, will, has served us well in the past and it will serve us well in the future. And so, I just want to let Council know that your Health Department is here. We are working. We’re doing our job well and we’re doing it quietly because we don’t want you to really notice us. So we thank you for your support. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much Commissioner. (APPLAUSE) Our last speaker I hope I’m pronouncing your name right is Connie Weidlema. Weidleman. I’m sorry. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and then I’ll apologize for making a mess of it. And if we could have your address too please. CONNIE WEIDLEMAN: Yes. My name is Connie Weidleman. I live at 1020 Smith Avenue SW. Public speaking is well out of my realm but, I feel it necessary this evening. I have lived 9+ years here in Canton at my address on Smith Avenue and I want to talk to you guys about crime and statistics and you guys are aware of all of this. Something that I ran across was an article from the Rep dated April 4, 2011 about statistics in Stark County. And from the stats, I find that living in Canton firsthand, that we’re not moving forward at all I feel to make this a safer place with everything going on. And I’m just thinking that if law enforcement would show up and take care of more of the smaller violations and hold criminals accountable that they would keep, it would keep them from pushing on to bigger things. For example, enforcing the curfew that’s already supposed to be in existence for the juveniles. Parents should be responsible for their children and held accountable for them and why not punish them both or put something in place and follow through with it. If they know that they’re not allowed out, and won’t get away with it in the first place, so many other things wouldn’t happen. I understand that we only have 2.7 police officers per 1,000 people and there’s been a grant to hire 9 more. The criminals know this is an unrealistic ratio and show that they have no problem challenging it. I’m curious to know how Canton can come up with money and the cooperation of so many Law Enforcement Officers and offices around Hall of Fame time to do drug sweeps and clean up the streets to keep all the out-of-towners safe but we don’t see much of this the rest of the year. I understand money has to come from somewhere but does all have to be spent within a two week period before a big event. Now we have people driving down my street and openly shooting at houses. To my knowledge, they have not been caught yet and I haven’t seen any groups of law enforcement to help us. I know we’re not aware of everything going on to catch criminals and I understand some people really care and put time in to make a difference but there’s power in numbers and a show of force for more than one big event that happens in Canton might make it a safer place. Obviously this won’t be solved overnight but, my hope is that you will look at me as a person and not just a name that shows up on next month’s file for your minutes meeting. We don’t feel safe. We can’t walk outdoors without wondering what’s going to happen next. Please think about how the money you have to spend is spent. We need more prevention and accountability and I’m asking of the town leaders to lead responsibly and not be satisfied with the status quo any longer. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much Mrs. Weidleman. (APPLAUSE) Thank you and thank you to all our speakers tonight. We appreciate your coming forward and giving us your views. That concludes Public Speaks. INFORMAL RESOLUTIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Now we turn to Informal Resolutions. We have none this evening. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -658- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 COMMUNICATIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We’re now under Communications. Let the journal show that all Communications are received as read. NOTE: ALL COMMUNICATIONS WHICH FOLLOW, LISTED BY AGENDA TITLE, ARE ON FILE IN THEIR ENTIRETY IN THE COUNCIL OFFICE WITH THE AGENDA ITEMS FILE DATED OCTOBER 6, 2014. 425. AUDITOR MALLONN: MTHLY REPORT BY FUND FOR 09/01/14 THRU 09/30/14. - RECEIVED & FILED 426. AUDITOR MALLONN: YRLY REPORT BY FUND FOR 01/01/14 THRU 09/30/14. - RECEIVED & FILED 427. COMM DEV DIR MILLER: REQ WITHDRAWAL OF COMMUNICATION #414 FROM THE 9/22/14 AGENDA. - RECEIVED & FILED 428. COMM DEV DIR MILLER: ESTABLISH FAIR REUSE VALUE OF 2 PARCELS OF REAL PROP & AUTHORIZE THE DISPO OF SAID PROP (PARCEL #02-16208 AND #02-16209; PART LOTS OF #7851, 7854, 7855, 7856 AND 7865 (COMBINED) LOCATED ON HARRISBURG AVE NE (LENA A. & JACK E. PORTER). - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 429. COUNCIL MEMBER-AT-LARGE HART: LETTER TO LAW DEPT REG REMOVAL OF BRICKS TO REPAIR BRICK STREETS. - RECEIVED & FILED 430. COUNCIL MEMBER-AT-LARGE HART: LETTER TO LAW DEPT REG DEAD TREES IN AREAS OF CITY PROP AND PARK LAND USED BY RESIDENTS. - RECEIVED & FILED 431. COUNCIL MEMBER-AT-LARGE HART: LETTER TO COUNCIL MEMBER CHRIS SMITH, COMM DEV DIR LISA MILLER, AND DEPUTY MAYOR FONDA WILLIAMS REG FUNDS FOR HOME REPAIR TRAINING PROGRAM FOR CANTON RESIDENTS. - RECEIVED & FILED 432. DEPUTY MAYOR WILLIAMS: AUTHORIZE SERV DIR TO ADVERTISE, REC BIDS, AWARD, AND ENTER INTO CONTRACT FOR SALE OF LAND AND STRUCTURE AT 2506 CLEVELAND AVE. S. (PARCEL #285889 - OLD SERVICE CENTER). - PUBLIC PROPERTY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE 433. DEPUTY MAYOR WILLIAMS: REQ WITHDRAWAL OF COMMUNICATION #420 FROM THE 9/29/14 AGENDA. - RECEIVED & FILED 434. FINANCE DIRECTOR DIRUZZA: REQ AMEND O#264/2013 ($35,000.00 FROM UNAPPROP BAL 2111 STREET MAINTENANCE FUND TO 2111 104020 TRAFFIC SIGNAL - OTHER; $85,000.00 FROM UNAPPROP BAL OF 6041 DMV FUND TO 6041 208010 SERVICE AND REPAIR - OTHER; $12,000.00 FROM 2216 505010 FAIR HOUSING DEPT - PERSONNEL TO COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -659- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 2216 505010 FAIR HOUSING DEPT - OTHER). - FINANCE COMMITTEE 435. HEALTH COMM ADAMS: REQ TO AMEND O#264/2013 FOR INTER-FUND TRANSFERS FOR PMT OF GRANT EXPENSES ($3,800.00 FROM 2312 301001 OTHER TO 2312 301001 PERSONNEL; $8,000.00 FROM 2321 301001 OTHER TO 2321 301001 PERSONNEL). - FINANCE COMMITTEE 436. MAYOR HEALY: AUTHORIZE RE-APPT OF TERRY PRATER TO BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS FOR 3 YR TERM OF 1/1/15 - 12/31/17. - PERSONNEL COMMITTEE 437. MAYOR HEALY: ADVISE OF RE-APPT OF DR. MERLE GRIFF TO AREA AGENCY ON AGING AREAWIDE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR 3 YR TERM FROM 1/1/15 - 12/31/17. - RECEIVED & FILED 438. MAYOR HEALY: ADVISE OF RE-APPT OF DR. DEBORAH WATKINS TO AREA AGENCY ON AGING AREAWIDE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR 3 YR TERM FROM 1/1/15 - 12/31/17. - RECEIVED & FILED 439. MAYOR HEALY: ADVISE OF RE-APPT OF ROBERT THOMPSON TO CANTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION FOR 1 YR TERM FROM 1/1/15 - 12/31/15. - RECEIVED & FILED 440. MAYOR HEALY: AUTHORIZE RE-APPT OF JOHN STRAUSS TO ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD COMMENCING 1/1/15 - 12/31/18. - PERSONNEL COMMITTEE 441. PLANNING COMMISSION: REQ AUTHOR FOR REPLAT OF PART OF OUTLOT 577; LOCATED AT AND AROUND MAHONING RD NE AND HARMONT AVE NE, WARD 6. (DOLLAR GENERAL). - PUBLIC SAFETY & THOROUGHFARES COMMITTEE 442. SAFETY DIRECTOR PERRY: AUTHORIZE DEMO LIENS, ASSESSMENTS, PENALTIES, AND INT DISCHARGED FOR VACANT LOT @ 710 WILSON PL NW IN AMT OF $9,795.59. - COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 443. SAFETY DIRECTOR PERRY: ADOPT LEGISLATION AUTHOR SAF DIR TO REC AND APPROP 2014 COPS HIRING PROGRAM GRANT #2014UMWX0192 FOR HIRING 9 POLICE OFFICERS. ($1,125,000.00 OVER 3 YRS; CITY CASH MATCH OF $411,713.00). - FINANCE COMMITTEE 444. SERVICE DIRECTOR BARTOS: AUTHORIZE MAYOR AND/OR SERV DIR TO ADVERTISE, REC BIDS, AWARD, AND EXECUTE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT; AUTHORIZE MAYOR AND/OR SERV DIR TO ENTER INTO COOP AGMT WITH AEP; MAKE SUPP APPROP OF $80,000.00 FROM UNAPPROP BAL OF 4501 (CAPITAL FUND) TO 4501-202001 (CAPITAL FUND - ENGINEERING ADMINISTRATION) - OTHER; AUTHORIZE AUDITOR TO DRAW WARRANTS UPON RECEIPT OF VOUCHERS (CHAPEL RIDGE AND PLAIN CENTER ESTATES). - PUBLIC PROPERTY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -660- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR FIRST READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And turning now to First Reading Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for the First Reading. Madame Clerk would you please begin with Ordinance #1. 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 (13 PROPERTIES CITYWIDE) Referred to Judiciary Committee PUB HRG 10/27/14 @ 7:30 PM #2. (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 (915 WERTZ NW FOR DENNIS & CAROLYN COPELAND) PUB HRG 10/27/14 @ 7:31 PM Referred to Judiciary Committee #3. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE DISCHARGE OF THE DEMOLITION LIEN, ASSESSMENTS, PENALTIES AND INTEREST ON THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1417 4TH STREET NE; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Community & Economic Development Committe #4. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 264/2013; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ($40,000.00 SUPP APPROP FROM UNAPPROP BAL 1001 GENERAL FUND TO 1001 102001 POLICE ADMIN - OTHER) Referred to Finance Committee #5. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO PURCHASE ONE VACALL AJV 1015 WITH ACCESSORIES FROM SOUTHEASTERN EQUIPMENT CO. INC., AT AN ESTIMATED COST OF $332,000.00 THROUGH THE NATIONAL JOINT POWERS ALLIANCE COOPERATIVE PURCHASING AGREEMENT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH OHIO REVISED CODE SECTION 9.48 AND CANTON CODIFIED ORDINANCE SECTION 105.11; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Public Property Capital Improvement Committee #6. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WITH GREG MENCER IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $30,000.00; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (SANITARY SEWER ENGINEER) COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -661- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 Referred to Finance Committee #7. (1ST RDG) A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE AMOUNTS AND RATES AS DETERMINED BY THE BUDGET COMMISSION AND AUTHORIZING THE NECESSARY TAX LEVIES AND CERTIFYING THEM TO THE COUNTY AUDITOR Referred to Finance Committee ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR SECOND READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We turn now to Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for their Second Reading. Again Madame Clerk, would you please begin with Ordinance #8. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #8 THROUGH #12; FOR THE SECOND READING BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS: #8. (2ND RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 207/2014 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 181.08, DUTIES OF THE TREASURER AND INCOME TAX DIRECTOR AND SECTION 181.90, INVESTIGATIONS; INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL; PENALTY FOR DIVULGENCE; RECORDS TO BE KEPT FOR FIVE YEARS OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Leader. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move we suspend Statutory Rules for Ordinance #8. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend the Statutory Rules for Ordinance #8. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance #, excuse me, you’ve heard the three readings Leader. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President I move we adopt Ordinance #8. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #8. Any remarks? Hearing none again Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -662- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. #8 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 207/2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Now, Ordinance #8 is adopted. Ordinance #9 please. #9. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE VACATING AN UNNAMED ALLEY; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (LEE DICOLA FOR FOLTZ MACHINE - ALLEN AVE SE) PUB HRG 10/20/14 @ 7:30 PM #10. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WITH LEONARD INSURANCE SERVICES AGENCY, INC. IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $175,000.00 FOR A ONE (1) YEAR FIRE, VANDALISM & MALICIOUS MISCHIEF (PROPERTY) INSURANCE POLICY FOR THE CITY-OWNED BUILDINGS AND CONTENTS; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY #11. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CHANGE ORDER 2 IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,319.01 WITH BLACK HORSE BRIDGE COMPANY FOR THE NAVARRE ROAD SANITARY SEWER AND BRIDGE PROJECT, GP 1159; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY #12. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ADVERTISE, RECEIVE BIDS, AWARD AND ENTER INTO CONTRACT FOR THE PURCHASE OF TWO (2) ASPHALT PATCHERS; AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ALTERNATIVELY PURCHASE SAID ASPHALT PATCHERS PURSUANT TO STATE COOPERATIVE PURCHASING AGREEMENTS; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 264/2013; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ($65,000.00 FROM UNAPPROP BAL 4502 MOTOR VEHICLE PURCHASES FUND TO 4502 202210 STREET MAINT - OTHER) ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD AND FINAL READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. We’re now under Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for Third, Final Reading and Vote. Would you please begin with Ordinance 13? NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCES #13 THROUGH #18 FOR THE THIRD READING BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS: #13. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 208/2014 AMEND O#55/77, AS AMENDED, COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -663- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 KNOWN AS THE CITY OF CANTON ZONING ORDINANCE; EMERGENCY. (1501 HENRY AVENUE SW., CANTON, OHIO FROM B-2 (NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS) TO PB-4 (PLANNED SPECIAL BUSINESS) FOR JOHN GABRIEL PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #13. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 13. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Hearing none, Madame Clerk again, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. #13 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 208/2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance 13 is adopted. Ordinance 14 please. #14. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 209/2014 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND/OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT WITH BROWNFIELD RESTORATION GROUP IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $200,000.00 FOR WORK TO BE PERFORMED AT THE FORMER OHIO CAST PRODUCTS, INC. UNDER THE CLEAN OHIO ASSISTANCE FUND; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 264/2013; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ($200,000.00 FROM UNAPPROP BAL 2814 CLEAN OHIO FUND TO 2814 506001 CLEAN OHIO - OTHER) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Morris. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #14. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 14. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. #14 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 209/2014 COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -664- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance 14 is adopted. Ordinance 15 please. #15. (3rd RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 210/2014 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 88/2012; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (STARK STATE PARKING SPACES IN CORNERSTONE DECK) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Morris. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #15. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 15. Any remarks under this Ordinance? MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader. MEMBER MORRIS: You have a few comments. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: I do. MEMBER MORRIS: Then I would like to trail you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: OK fine. Last week as you know, President Para Jones of Stark State addressed our group and I was privileged to sponsor this Ordinance through a Communication asking Council to reduce the rate of parking for the parking garage from its customary $30.00 a month to $15.00 a month indicating that this was a win/win for the city of Canton. Bringing students downtown and not just students in the sense that their 18 through 24 or so but actually bringing people of all ages downtown to enjoy what I believe to be a safe and very welcoming urban area. In any case, after the meeting Member Fisher came up and indicated to me that there was some concern on the part of our friends in organized labor that Stark State College was not as sensitive to the fact that the workers that they hired to build the buildings downtown and help them repair and remodel buildings downtown for their use, those organized labors were not being used. And they gave, and I found out later, that one example was an Amish contractor who built the building for Stark State College used Amish workers who were non-union and as a result of, not just the fact that they were non-union but, because there wasn’t much responsiveness from the officials at Stark State to organized labor, in fact the result was that they Iron Workers picketed that job. So, obviously that presents a concern because I, I’m not going to speak for everyone but I think most of us obviously, I think all of us believe that we have to put our local people to work. That’s important and more over, these are prevailing wage, wages jobs and it’s important for organized labor to if not participate, at least be factored in to those jobs. So as a result, I contacted President Jones on Saturday after having spent some time with Bill Sherer the Business Agent for the Iron Workers the night before and President Jones was extraordinarily receptive. Her dad was a Canton Police officer and she indicated very clearly that she was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She understood the concerns of organized labor and more importantly she wanted local workers to work in this community at good wages, not simply minimum wage and in fact, she indicated to me that her whole purpose in serving as President of Stark State College was to advance that kind of responsibility in the community to pay good wages and good benefits. As a result, I COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -665- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 suggested and she certainly concurred that we meet with members of organized labor in the next two weeks to sit down and discuss Stark State’s plans for downtown and similarly it’s views on hiring organized labor going into the future. And she was very receptive to that. I talked to Bill Sherer again from, the Business Agent from the Iron Workers. He was very receptive to that and we’ll have other leaders from organized labor, the, we’ll have the Electrical Workers, the Trades and Bill Sherer in that meeting. So, Mr. Sherer felt very satisfied that this was coming together in a good way and, I wanted all Members of Council who might have had some concerns about that to be informed of the outcome. And lastly, I was very candid with Bill Sherer and President Jones in saying that there’s always that tension that we have because we want organizations and great educational institutions like Stark State College to come down and invest in our urban area and spend money and bring in students and bring in professors who will enjoy the benefits of our downtown community on the one hand. On the other hand, there’s a tension that we want our local labor people to work and we want them to be paid, not just minimum wage. We want them to be paid the best wages they can make and we want them to have the best benefits that they can obtain because without a strong middle class, as Dr. Jones indicated, everything we do is somewhat worthless. So, those are the two tensions that presented itself in this instance and I think we’ve remedied it. I think we have a great potential to have organized labor and President Jones and Stark State College come together and that will be taking place probably within the next three weeks. So if anybody has any questions of me, I’d be happy to respond. Member West. MEMBER WEST: Oh yea. I’m lost because I’m hearing this is $15.00 for the students and not for the College. Is that correct? PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yea, let me...that has, the parking was from $30.00 to $15.00. That’s for the students and that’s by the way paid by Stark State College. That wasn’t the concern. The concern was briefly that Stark State College when they built this facility used non-union labor and there was some disagreement between organized labor in the community and some officials at Stark State who labor didn’t feel was very responsive to them. And we’re, I know I am sensitive to that. So the parking price is separate from the issue of going forward that we want Stark State College to invest in our downtown urban area but we want to do it with organized labor’s help. OK. MEMBER FISHER: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes, Member Fisher. MEMBER FISHER: Thank you sir. I want to thank you for taking the time to reach out to all sides on this and this was a concern for me in the respect that you know, I feel pretty strongly and I know a lot of my constituents do as well that when you’re using tax dollars to build a facility, that local taxpayers were flipping the bill to build it or to renovate it should have a fair opportunity getting the work to do that job. Their tax dollars are going into it. They should have the opportunity to earn that. That was a concern of mine. I also spoke to Bill Sherer on a number of occasions this week who’s you know, a good friend of many people in Council and we all know him well and he you know, echoed very similar to what you had just said that, that the point is now, you know moving forward, that obviously everybody understand that Canton City Council pays attention to these things, that we know, you know, when our local construction workers are not given a fair opportunity to get that work and so you know, I will be supporting this in lieu of the work you’ve done to put that together and conversations but I’ve had but I wanted to thank you for going the extra mile to facilitate that. I think it was an excellent job. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Thank you Leader. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -666- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 MEMBER MORRIS: Yes thank you Mr. President. I just wanted to echo what Member Fisher just stated. I also would like to thank Members Mariol and Fisher for getting involved. But also I like to bring out a point of clarification. It’s not so much union labor as it is complying with the prevailing wage laws. What transpired on this particular project was, they were bringing in a subcontractor who was using subcontractors. So, this contractor had an unfair advantage in bidding the project over everyone else. They weren’t paying the same payroll taxes nor were they paying Workers’ Compensation and it was just a shady deal all the way around and I think as a city, we did a great job of recognizing this to avoid this from ever...well to try to keep it from occurring against with Stark State as well as other people that come into the city. I think that it’s a great idea that we watch how our tax dollars are spent and we keep everything local. So, hat’s off to you and the other two Council Members, I know that you guys spent all weekend working on this and great job. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Leader. Member Hart. MEMBER HART: Yea, you know, sometimes I think the low bid is sometimes the best bid and I can just go back in history being a school employee thinking after the schools were built, where the low bid... (inaudible)...and they brought labor in from wherever and we had no clues what they were doing and roofs were flashed improperly, plumbing was done, wiring, 220 lines were hooked up to 110 lines and again the sad thing was, the students in the classes I had were bothersome. Others had to go down and sit behind them...(inaudible)...and always, you know, they’re the ones that are here begging that they should be given the chance of getting these jobs not bringing those in from Cuyahoga County or wherever else to work in Canton or Stark County. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member Hart. Member West you OK? Hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. #15 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 210/2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance 15 is adopted. Ordinance 16 please. #16. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 211/2014 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO COMPLETE THE CONTRACTING PROCESS FOR THE AULTCARE CORPORATION AND UMR, INC. CONTRACTS PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED BUT NOT COMPLETED BY JANUARY 1, 2014; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Morris. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #16. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 16. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -667- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. #16 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 211/2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance is adopted 16. Ordinance 17 please. #17. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 212/2014 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THE STARK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR THE WERNER CHURCH ROAD AND BRIDGE REALIGNMENT JOINT PROJECT; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Morris. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #17. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 17. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. #17 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 212/2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance 17 is adopted. Ordinance 18 please. #18. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 213/2014 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CHANGE ORDER 2 IN THE AMOUNT OF $418,635.00 WITH ARCADIS US, INC. FOR THE 12TH ST. NW, BRIDGE REPLACEMENT AND STREETSCAPE PROJECT, PID 90671, GP 1160; AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Morris. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #18. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -668- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 18. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. #18 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 213/2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Ordinance is adopted 18. ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We now turn to Announcement of Committee Meetings. MEMBER HAWK: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Chairman Hawk. MEMBER HAWK: Thank you good sir. The Finance Committee will meet Monday, October 20th at 6:45 p.m. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. MEMBER MARIOL: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Chairman Mariol. MEMBER MARIOL: Public Property Capital Improvement and Judicial Committees will meet same time, same place. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President. CD will also meet at the same time, same place. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Chairman. MEMBER HART: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Chairman Hart. MEMBER HART: Personnel will meet same time. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other announcements? MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Turning now to Miscellaneous Business. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -669- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader. MEMBER MORRIS: I think if there’s one thing about Council that I, on our Council Rules that just completely drives me crazy is, we cannot address our constituents when they come up to that microphone due to Council Rules. They have to be recognized by the Chair so sometimes they’ll ask questions and we never answer the questions. It’s not that we don’t care, it’s under Council Rules. Now, if we can have the Law Director answer Mr. Killins questions cause I’m dying to hear the answer to this one as to why his house was torn down. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Law Director. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: I would be happy. Mr. President, Majority Leader Morris, I would be happy to share my time with the kind and considerate Health Commissioner, Jim Adams, who has more familiarity with this case than I do. I did not directly work on this Mr. Killins and I have reviewed all of the paperwork you’ve brought me and really none of it had directly to do with it. But, Mr. Adams has taken some time to help. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Commissioner. HEALTH COMMISSIONER ADAMS: I think we did work closely with one of your predecessors, Mr. Bernabei. That name sounds familiar to some people as I think he was the Law Director at the time. Unfortunately Mr. Killins had a public health nuisance that was declared a nuisance by the Board of Health approximately 27 or 26 years ago. We did try to work closely with Mr. Killins to try to get his property issues resolved to the satisfaction of the Board and the community at that time. It was unable to be resolved and the only remedy was to have his house torn down and hauled away and that was done through an order of the Board of Health with close work with the Law Department. I do recall Mr. Killins appearing at several Board hearings to plead his side of the case and we were unable to resolve the case without having the public health nuisance removed by the Board at the time. It was done lawfully. I believe there were several, a court challenge before the actual remedy was affected. I’m thinking it was Judge Farmer that was involved and like I say, it was around 25 years ago when that happened. It was very unfortunate but at the time, we thought it was best for the community. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Commissioner. Leader any other questions? MEMBER MORRIS: No, great answer. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Yes, thank you. Any questions? Any other Miscellaneous Business? MEMBER HAWK: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Chairman Hawk. MEMBER HAWK: I greatly appreciated you speaking on Mr., Mayor Watkins and Member Smuckler speaking about Mayor Watkins. He was a friend and a good man who always said yes and I can remember years ago when I decided I wanted to open up a business in downtown Canton and everybody told me I was out of my mind. I talked to Mr. Perez and Mr. Perez got me, and the rest of this city by the way told me no, or didn’t give me any help at all. I talked to Mr. Perez and he got me an appointment with Dick Watkins and I took a plan to Dick Watkins and sat in his office. We talked for a good bit and he thought it was a wonderful idea and it took us some time but we went forward and got it completed. He was also my very first customer. He brought his staff down and fed them. He made sure that everybody knew and promoted me and did a wonderful job. It was COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -670- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 later on through that experience that I decided I would like to get into politics. I had some help from some people in this very room, Mr. Dougherty, Mr. Smuckler, Mr. Perez all supported me and Dick Watkins although of the opposite party, did support me and I just, I truly am going to miss him. He was a wonderful man and did a lot. There’s a lot of other stories and people should know and understand what Mr. Watkins did for just the average person in order to make our city better. He will always be Mayor Watkins to me and will always be that top notch person. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Chairman. Member Hart. MEMBER HART: Yea, a comment to Mr. Adams. My wife is a Senior Pathologist over at Mercy Medical Center in the Microbiology Department. I can’t speak for all the hospitals but I will say they have some of the state of the art technology, believe it or not. They’re able to identify viruses with DNA and things literally take weeks to do, they can do in literally hours in terms of care and identification in case something does happen you know...(inaudible)...didn’t pay that much attention to eagle eye and it’s just like Gary Larson had a cartoon with two bacteria in an airport and one bacteria said to the other, you know we’re going to go to France and you know, whether or not people like to say this, things are so easy to go just like the flu, and you know things could be coming and it’s good to know that our Health Department has been meeting with the local hospitals and both the state and federal, you know to fight this because believe it or not, a simple virus...(inaudible). In terms of honoring Mayor Watkins, what would be the procedure for flying our flags at half-mast.. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Mayor. MAYOR HEALY: Thank you Mr. President and thank you for that. We, we have them at half-mast right now. I ordered that when I found out. We’ll probably fly those until after the funeral. I did have the, the honor to attend the funeral. I know Bill Smuckler and several others were there. Mr. Babcock and others were there today and the funeral is actually tomorrow at 2:00. They have services if anybody’s interested but you know, it is a sad day for the city of Canton. Mayor Watkins will be long remembered for his commitment to our city and what he’s accomplished and I quite frankly Bill, Smuckler, whatever Councilman Smuckler, you said it best with your opening today. That was very eloquent and very appropriate so thank you for that. Since I’ve been Mayor, you know we did kind of our research to determine how many Mayors there have been. Who was Mayor, when were they Mayor and how many Mayors were still alive at the time. And we’ve lost 3 Mayors since I’ve held this office and there are only 2 other Mayors that are still alive and that is Sam Purses and Janet Creighton so, there’s not much history still alive in reference to those who served in the Chair in the Mayor’s office so this was a big loss for the city of Canton and we all feel it. We’ll remember him for a long time. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Mayor. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Griffin. MEMBER GRIFFIN: As Chairman of the Parks and Recreation I was given a report by the Stark County Visitors, Convention and Visitor’s Bureau on the softball tournaments we had last summer. We had 9 big tournaments, the Eastern, East National Men’s Class C tournament, Girls fastpitch 10 and under, 12 and under, 14 and under, Mother’s Day tournament, the Girls fastpitch 10 and under, 12 and under, 10 Ohio tournament, Girls fastpitch 14 and under, ASA USA National qualifier, Men’s Class D and E National slowpitch qualifier, MRDD State slowpitch qualifier, Girls fastpitch 16 and under, 18 and under, College Shiltcase, Girls fastpitch COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -671- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 16 and under, Sweet 16 tournament. The 9 tournaments brought in 3,375 participants. They figured they had 1,125 spectators and they estimated that 50% of these people stayed overnight. It brought in an estimated economic impact with the 9 tournaments $907,681.00. These tournaments they average from, the smallest was 225 participants and we have 2 of them at 600 participants so I thought you might, that’s going on at Willig Field. Thank you. (APPLAUSE) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great job Jim. MEMBER GRIFFIN: Incidentally Mr. President, in today’s paper I noticed that two of our colleagues here, are going to receive an award Saturday evening, the, where am I at here...down here, oh yea, the Boys to Men award from the Monroe Community Family Center, Deputy Mayor Fonda Williams and our own Councilman-at-Large from Ward 3, James Babcock. (APPLAUSE) Congratulations gentlemen. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Any other....yes Member West. MEMBER WEST: I had the opportunity to tour the Onesto again today and I got to give an update. This, that building is so beautiful, I would move in tomorrow and I got to tell you, they are doing an awesome job on that and they have so many events there. Like over 26 events I believe, already scheduled. The top floor, Fonda and I was over there today. I mean it was just a beautiful experience and I, you know I often hear people say negative things about the city of Canton and then I go over to Onesto or I you know, talk to a business person that’s coming downtown. You know the Onesto’s bringing 111 people downtown Canton. Those are people that are moving in to downtown Canton and that’s very positive. When I hear negative reports that go along with crime, I see it here and you know, of course I speak with Zac Reed up in Cleveland regularly where he’s fighting over a 100 deaths already in the city of Cleveland within, I think it was 6 months. 100 deaths and they’re doing, trying to do some amazing things there. All across the country we’re dealing with crime. Not just in Canton, Ohio and I need people to see this and I can tell you, there’s not a day that goes by that this Council and this administration’s not thinking about how do we address these crimes. When we hear a shooting that happens on the southwest or downtown or wherever it may be, believe me we are feeling it and we are trying our best to do whatever we can to make that happen. That’s why we rejoice when we seen the 9 officers coming. A $1,000,000.00 coming in to down, I mean in to Canton to be able to combat crime. You know, these are things that I know we’re on the right direction. I know we’re moving forward but if you guys have solutions, if this community has other solutions that we’re not doing, bring it to our, bring it to us and we’ll try our best to make that happen and I think that, that’s key. I mean even before the meeting starts, started today, we were talking about prostitution and how we combat prostitution. Over the last 12 years I’ve been battling prostitution but hey, if we have solutions...this is a, this is the city of Canton problem. This isn’t 12 Members problem. This is the city of Canton which means we’ve all got to come together and try to solve this problem. We’ve all got to work together to combat this problem and that includes people speaking out when they see crimes in their neighborhood, calling the police when they see these things so, I say that today off the tails of coming at the Onesto because I really enjoyed it over there today and I just see us moving in the right direction but at the same time I understand that we still have a problem and we still got to address it. So, I just wanted to say that. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Member West. Any other Miscellaneous Business? Leader. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President. Motion to Adjourn. MEMBER SMITH: Seconded. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 102 JOURNAL PAGE -672- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OCTOBER 6, 2014 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adjourn. Madame Clerk roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 10 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Ten yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. (Gavel falls) ADJOURNMENT TIME: 8:22 P.M. ATTEST: OCTOBER 9, 2014 APPROVED: OCTOBER 9, 2014 CYNTHIA TIMBERLAKE ALLEN SCHULMAN CLERK OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT