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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -233- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s a rowdy crowd tonight. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Canton City Council. Want to thank the Neighborhood Associations for sending their representatives to tonight’s meeting. We appreciate all you do for our city and our neighborhoods. And I know it’s hot in here, but as I told our Clerk at least that’s a sign that Spring is here. At least it’s hot. Now, if the sun was out right now would be even more enjoyable. With a quorum being present, Chair calls this meeting of Canton City Council to order. Roll call vote, please, Madame Clerk. ROLL CALL TAKEN BY CLERK TIMBERLAKE: 12 COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: (FRANK MORRIS, CHRIS SMITH, JAMES BABCOCK, RICHARD HART, WILLIAM SMUCKLER, GREG HAWK, THOMAS WEST, JAMES GRIFFIN, KEVIN FISHER, DAVID DOUGHERTY, JOHN MARIOL & EDMOND MACK) TWELVE COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: All present, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Madame Clerk. Tonight’s invocation will be given by my good friend, At Large Council Member, William Smuckler. Will you all please stand and remain standing please for the Pledge of Allegiance. The regular meeting of Canton City Council was held on April 13, 2015 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 Bill Smuckler, At Large Council Member. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by President Schulman. AGENDA CORRECTIONS & CHANGES PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Bill, very much. We’re now under Agenda Corrections and Changes. Leader Morris. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move Rule 22A be suspended to add 2nd Reading Ordinances #4, through and include #6, please. MEMBER SMITH: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to Suspend Rule 22A to add the 2nd Reading Ordinances 4 through 6 to this evening’s agenda. Any remarks? Hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote, please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 12 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Twelve yeas, Mr. President. PRESIDENT SHULMAN: Thank you Madame Clerk, the motion carries and Rule 22A is suspended and the Ordinances are a legal part of your Agenda. PUBLIC HEARINGS COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -234- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Turning now to Public Hearings. We have no Public Hearings this evening. OLD BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Under Old Business, I’ve been advised by Deputy Mayor Williams that there is no business to discuss. PUBLIC SPEAKS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And now that turns us then to Public Speaks. We have a number of speakers this evening. For those who have not spoken, there are some names that I don’t recognize, we do have a time limit of three minutes. We’re always interested in what you have to say, but for the sake of moving the meeting along we have restricted that time. However, the Mayor, his Administration, Members of Council, are always available to discuss any issues you might have after the meeting. So with that said, our first speaker is a recognizable one, Henry Preston. Mr. Preston is always welcome to Canton City Council. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address, please. HENRY PRESTON: Good evening. My name is Henry Preston. I live at 326 31st Street NW, Canton. This evening my message tonight is don’t shoot the messenger. The City of Canton should be very grateful to Mr. Bob Myers for taking his valuable time to provide this Administration, Council, and other involved parties up to speed on the precise procedures to be used while applying asphalt in potholes from Allied Asphalt. Mr. Myers claims that he’s been making the asphalt for 25 years. Those decision makers working for the City of Canton should all have given Mr. Myers their full attention and not attempt to discredit him because they may not have liked what they heard as Mr. Myers described the physical asphalt patching results he observed in Canton, which put into question the Canton City Street Department’s employees’ asphalt application processes. Mr. Myers never says that the Canton City Street workers were not hard workers, he was addressing the application process that was employed by the street workers since the product that Mr. Myers appears to be closely connected was referred to as being un... totally unsatisfactory. I find Mr. Myers’ appearance here last week was a reasonable report. I strongly suspect that money and a very strong pride in the product that Mr. Myers produces were the two main drivers that pushed the pedal to the metal and prompted Mr. Myers to make a personal appearance here at Council. I say so be it. This is how things get accomplished sometimes. If Mr. Myers had not come forth with this pertinent and valuable information, Council Members who are decision makers may not... would still be making seemingly uninformed and misguided decisions about how to fund street hole, pothole repair projects. Without Mr. Myers’ appearance at last week’s Council Meeting the dialogue (inaudible) among Council Members, the Mayor and the Service Director would not be going on. I commend Councilman West for taking the lead to become more informed about the asphalt from Allied Asphalt and request a tour of the facility. Your request to see if Mr. Myers’ statements were authentic, I used the Internet to help from the WKBM website. Each day trucks from the Mahoning County Engineer’s Office make the one hour drive to Central Allied Enterprises to pick up a specific type of patching asphalt known as hot cold mix. Engineer Pat Ginnetti said that Canton business is the only place in the region making this particular material, and it sells it... sells the mix to the municipal governments as well as the Ohio Department of Transportation. From Channel 33 website I find a video of people performing court ordered community service in Mahoning County applying asphalt exactly as Mr. Myers outlined during his appearance at Council. This video has since been removed. If the court ordered community service workers in Mahoning County can learn how to apply asphalt using correct techniques as supplied Mr. Myers, why haven’t Canton City’s street employees been taught the very same occupational techniques. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Mr. Preston, very much. (Applause) Our next speaker’s Fred COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -235- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 Johnson. Mr. Johnson, welcome to Canton City Council. Take your time. If you want to step forward though, sir, and give us your name and your residential address. And again, welcome. FRED JOHNSON: My name is Fred Johnson. I live at 2438 East Tusc... East Tuscarawas Street. I have a great concern what is happening or happened to the East Tuscarawas area. If you were to drive down going east from Leatherman’s Seed Store and go... and go, uh, yes, east, you would find that it is horrible. And the way the houses are kept, trash cans go out far too early or the furniture is sitting outside, and of course, you know what this is done for those of us that live in that area. The value of our houses have depreciated so much that you can’t... you can’t afford to sell it because those of us at a certain age can’t afford to buy a new one. But if you... any of you were to drive down East Tuscarawas Street you can start looking from where Leatherman’s Seed Store was on down, it... it’s just... And at Young Avenue that service station you have there, just tires and just like the hair on your head, just thrown everyplace. It’s deplorable. And we would like to be know by our address, not by our name and crossing two railroad tracks. So, we don’t have any service station, we don’t have any gasoline station, no grocery stores, none of those things we have in the southeast end in that... in that area of town, and we would like to have some of those things too. It would make our lives good, much better. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Great. Thank you very much, Mr. Johnson. (Applause) Appreciate it. Our next speaker is Patricia Kirk. Ms. Kirk as always it’s good to see you. Welcome to Canton City Council. If you’ll step forward and give us your name, though, and your residential address please. PATRICIA KIRK: Yes. Hi, my name is Patricia Kirk. I live at 131 5th Street NE, and I’m President of Downtown Central Neighborhood Association. The Downtown Central Neighborhood Association and Can Do will hold a downtown celebration of Arbor Day from 9:00 to 1:00 on April 22nd in the McKinley Room and the Children’s Department of the Main Library. It will be unique to our area, so we hope you can stop in. Also, in the future I want to show a 1953 picture of the downtown area before the freeway was built. Notice the trees, and there were more population at that time than now. More than anything downtown needs a park. And Kresge Lot is it. Someone or some group is always using it as a park, not a storage area or another empty building. Also, this year’s Christmas Village was almost invisible in the center of Market Avenue. It needed to be in Kresge Lot as before for the people’s enjoyment. It is the trees that control runoff flooding. There needs to be ground and the trees need to be properly planted. As they say, the first thing to change to control crime is the environment. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Ms. Kirk, as always. (Applause) Our next speaker is Pete DiGiacomo. Mr. DiGiacomo, welcome as always. If you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address, please. PETE DIGIACOMO: My name’s Pete DiGiacomo. I live at 600 Dent Place SW, Canton, Ohio. Last week I was up and I was criticizing the Sanitation Department, the way things were handled, way they were done. This week my agenda is working, patching the potholes on Cleveland Avenue South. I was driving down there, I’m not exactly sure which day it was. There was a crew down there, they had rollers, they were putting asphalt in, there was no water in the holes, and to me they were doing a really good job of it. And as I drove by I put the windows down and they had one side done, the other side was really bad, had not gotten to it yet, but I put the windows down and gave them a thumbs up, said thank you very much. They all were appreciative of it, and I want to give them the kudos. They did... they’re doing a good job from what I’ve seen. The other thing is the gentleman that was from Central Allied, if that was my company, this is my own opinion, if that was my company and he did what he did without consulting me, he wouldn’t have a job. Thank you. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -236- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Mr. DiGiacomo. (Applause) Our next speaker is Bruce Nordman. Mr. Nordman, welcome as always to Canton City Council. If you’ll give us your name and your residential address, please. BRUCE NORDMAN: Thank you. My name is Bruce Nordman. I reside at 1623 Logan Avenue NW. Those of you who have known me over the last three years know that our primary mission in Group 175 is to concern ourselves with public safety in terms of more police strength and more fire strength. But I’m here tonight to talk about the third peg in this stool, and that third peg are our streets. Citizens are losing confidence in the direction and the problems that we’re having with streets. I’m going to offer some suggestions, some of which you may have already done, but this is a real pressing serious problem. We’ve spent $350,000.00 on coming up on a consultant group to work with plans for the City. My suggestion is that we go outside of our present personnel and find ourselves a consultant who is gonna give us some real straight from the shoulder information about what we can do. I would also suggest that the Commissioners from Stark County who certainly are very proud of their jewel city that is Canton, and if we haven’t met with them, they have the same kind of a problem as we do in terms of streets. And maybe we can get some good information by just walking across the street and arranging a meeting to sit down to attack this as a joint issue. Now, I’ve heard a lot of conversation about other cities, but the... but the group that oversees the cities is the Stark County Commission. Now, I also want to recognize Derek Gordon who has worked very, very well with citizen groups, and tonight behind me and beside me are representatives of many neighborhood associations. I would suggest to each of the Councilmen here that they find out who and what and start talking to citizens about their needs. Now, this city was originally started with brick streets, and I’m not suggesting that we do this for Market Avenue or Cleveland Avenue or any of the traffic streets, but some of the side streets have stood up very, very well that are brick, and it would also reduce the speeding problem because nobody drives across brick streets at 50 miles an hour without tearing out the bottom of their vehicle, so you solve a problem right there. So, within that situation let’s... let’s get together, let’s get some outside advice from some experts and draft up a plan and get this situation behind us because we have great opportunities going forward in the City. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Mr. Nordman, very much. (Applause) Our next speaker is Patricia Altoward. Patricia? Patricia? No, not here? Yes, oh, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I... it looked like Altoward, sorry. Patricia Howard. Excuse me. PATRICIA HOWARD: I answer to anything. That’s okay. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: No, that’s alright. I just made a mistake in reading it. Sorry. PATRICIA HOWARD: Thank you. My name is Patricia Howard, and I reside at 1109 Melchoir Place SW. I’m here tonight to introduce the 50 plus neighborhood associations in the Canton area. At this time I would like to ask them to please stand and introduce yourselves. (Applause) Everyone of us represent a group of concerned citizens and we are concerned about the quality of our... of our children’s education, their health, their safety, and the security of the most vulnerable residents here. We only ask that our Councilpersons, our street workers, our safety directors put our needs first, and take care of those things that we are concerned about. We’re asking this because we know that there are many issues in each neighborhood. They’re issues of... and we’ve heard a lot of them tonight, streets that need paved, there are potholes, there are vacant lots that are in disarray. I think the term that was used on one of our... um, was the noxious weeds, somebody said. Thought that was a really good term for the conditions of the weeds and the grass cutting that isn’t happening in our city, and it happens every summer. We have grass growing three to four feet high before anyone bothers to cut it, and we’re so COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -237- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 grateful that the lots are now... the homes that were in a derogatory condition are now torn down, but we’re now concerned about the weeds that are growing in those lots that have been vacated. So we ask that Council and that the City Street Department and everyone concerned, before we make an issue of it, take care of it for us and make it a great summer for everyone. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Ms. Howard, very much. (Applause) Our next speaker is Gwen Corbett. Ms. Corbett, good evening, welcome. If you’ll give us... uh, step forward and give us your name and your residential address, please. GWEN CORBETT: My name is Gwen Corbett, and I live at 1902 4th Street, and I am the President of ELHNA, which is East Lincoln Highway Neighborhood Association. First of all I come to thank you for all the work that the City has done with the vacant lots and the grass in our neighborhood. When I first moved there we had a lot of boarded up homes cause my home was boarded up, and now we cut our grass, we take care of our neighborhood, and I just want to thank you for that. That’s considering us and we are on the map. And the only problem that I have is what everyone else has, potholes, ditches. And I know that the City’s gonna get to them, but I’m asking you to expedite it because it’s really bad. The second thing that I did was work with Director Gordon on the Lee Park and expanding that, and which I will be and I thank... I’ve been told that some things are gonna be done over there because we have no place for recreation or family picnics or any plug ins for, you know, anything. And so I’ll be seeing Director Gordon now that the weather has changed. He... he received me back in December very well and without concern there. And I just want to thank you and please have the Street Department come over as soon as possible cause our neighborhood is beautiful, wonderful people. And we put out our flowers, and Stark County Community Foundation gives us money to do that. And thank you and I’m very proud of all of you and all the work that you’ve done for us over on the East Lincoln Highway Neighborhood Association foundries which are from Madison to Belden and from Tusc to 8th. So, thank you so much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you very much. (Applause) Thank you very much for all that you do. Our last speaker is Christopher Leach. Mr. Leach, good evening, welcome. When you make it out, if you’ll step forward and give us your name and your residential address, please. CHRISTOPHER LEACH: Christopher Leach, 1368 Scoville Avenue SW, Chairman of Swift Neighborhood Association. First off, Mr. Mayor, went to the Hall of Fame, watched the City... uh, the... what did you call it, the address of the City? Is that the correct term? (Inaudible background voice) State of the City, there you go. I was really impressed with what we’ve done to improve Canton. I also liked the fact that you shared the success we’ve had with those people who are involved because just like us, without people you’re lost, you can’t do it all by yourself. I was truly impressed. Okay, now to the complaint department. (Laughter) With the good is the bad. I understand the City does get a break with the electricity when... when you sign up and you send out all these notices to everyone that’s here that they had the option of going with the same carrier that you did or opting out, but there was no envelope in there. You couldn’t call so I had to provide my own envelope, my own stamp to get the response. I... I actually feel it should be the other way. If I want to get on board with the City’s company then it should have been my option to contact them, not backwards. Um, let’s see, I... I know we’re getting some new police. My big thing I want to know is I notice a lot of cars with a lot of major damage on them. If you was to go to the State to have your car inspected I know these cars would never pass inspection, no headlights, no turn signals, different things such as smashed out windshields. What I want to know is, I know in the past we had a special force of people and all they did was wrote speeding tickets. Is it possible we can get some of these new officers to pull these people over. Let’s see if they have a license. Do COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -238- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 they have insurance? You know, these are things we’re all supposed to have, okay. Let’s see, oh, in my neighborhood I have a lot of rentals. In the past week two of them came vacant. One landlord paid for a dumpster to come and haul away all the excess. The other landlord put all of the trash out and let the City come and take it away. I’m not sure they should be getting the same rate as I do since they’re making a profit off of this. Also, I’d like to know how often do we inspect rentals to make sure that they’re up to par. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Well, we’ll... (Inaudible background voice) We’ll get back to you on that. CHRISTOPHER LEACH: We’re getting close. Once again, Mr. Mayor, I’m definitely impressed with what the City of Canton has done. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, sir, very much. (Applause) I want to thank all our speakers obviously for coming down and sharing their views. It’s much appreciated, and it certainly shows your dedication to this community and we do listen. INFORMAL RESOLUTIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Now turning to Informal Resolutions. Madame Clerk, would you please begin with Informal Resolution 15. #15. PERSONNEL CMTE: RE-APPT DON TARVER TO BOARD OF BUILDING APPEALS COMMENCING RETRO TO 1/1/15 - 12/31/17. - ADOPTED PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Morris. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move we adopt Informal Resolution #15. MEMBER SMITH: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Resolution 15. Any remarks? Hearing none, by voice vote all those in favor signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS RESOLUTION #15 PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The ayes have it. The Motion carries, and Informal Resolution 15 is adopted. Informal Resolution 16, Madame Clerk. #16. PERSONNEL CMTE: RE-APPT WILLIAM EUSTATHIOS TO BOARD OF BUILDING APPEALS COMMENCING RETRO TO 1/1/15 - 12/31/17. - ADOPTED PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Morris. MEMBER MORRIS: Mr. President, I move we adopt Informal Resolution #16. MEMBER SMITH: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Informal Resolution 16. Any remarks under this Resolution? Again, hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote... I’m sorry, Madame Clerk... COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -239- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 forget Madame Clerk. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Those opposed no. NO REMARKS RESOLUTION #16 PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: The ayes have it. The Motion carries, and Informal Resolution 16 is adopted. COMMUNICATIONS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We now turn to 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 APRIL 13, 2015. 140. COUNCIL-AS-A-WHOLE: REQ LEGISLATION ENACTING AN ANIMAL CRUELTY ORD IN CITY OF CANTON THRU AMENDMENT TO CANTON CODIFIED ORD CHAPTER 505 OR OTHERWISE. - JUDICIARY COMMITTEE 141. COUNCIL-AT-LARGE HART: LTR TO SERV DIR REG THE 12TH ST. CORRIDOR PROJECT RESURFACING. - RECEIVED & FILED 142. LIQUOR CONTROL DIV (OHIO): REQ TRANSFER OF C1 C2 PERMIT FROM SUNNYS DRIVE THRU LLC TO PEACH ENTERPRISES LLC, DBA PEACHES DRIVE THRU @ 1901 HARRISBURG RD NE (WARD 9). - RECEIVED & FILED 143. MAYOR HEALY: REQ AUTHORIZATION TO RE-APPT AMY LAKRITZ, MD, TO CANTON CITY BOARD OF HEALTH FOR 5 YR. TERM COMMENCING 5/3/15 - 5/2/20. - PERSONNEL COMMITTEE 144. MAYOR HEALY: REQ AUTHORIZATION TO APPT PATRICK WYATT TO CANTON CITY HEALTH DISTRICT LICENSING COUNCIL FOR 5 YR. TERM COMMENCING 5/1/15 - 4/30/20. - PERSONNEL COMMITTEE 145. SERVICE DIRECTOR BARTOS: AUTHORIZE MAYOR AND/OR SERV DIR TO ENTER INTO COOP AGMT WITH ODOT; AUTHORIZE CITY OF CANTON TO CONTRIBUTE $50,000.00 TO FINAL DESIGN OF PROJECT, CONTINGENT UPON ODOT BEING AWARDED GRANT; FUNDING NOT NEEDED UNTIL CALENDAR YR 2016 (US30 EXTENSION). - FINANCE COMMITTEE 146. TREASURER PEREZ: RPT OF PARKING METER REVENUE FOR MARCH 2015. - RECEIVED & FILED 147. TREASURER PEREZ: RPT OF AMBULANCE LOCK BOX ACCT FOR MARCH 2015. - RECEIVED & FILED ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR FIRST READING COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -240- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And now turning to 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 #3 FOR THEIR FIRST READING BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS (ORDINANCE #3 NOT ADOPTED; PROCEEDED TO SECOND READING): #1. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING CANTON TO ANNEX THE TERRITORY KNOWN AS THE WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY ANNEXATION AREA CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 184.450 ACRES; ASSIGNING SAID TERRITORY TO WARD 4 OF THE CITY; ZONING SAID TERRITORY AS I-2 (HEAVY INDUSTRIAL); AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY Referred to Annexation Committee PUB HRG 4/27/15 @ 7:30 PM #2. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 266/2014; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY($35,000.00 SUPP APPROP FR UNAPPROP BAL OF 2332 DENTAL SEALANT FUND TO 2322 DENTAL SEALANT - OTHER) Referred to Finance Committee (COUNCIL RECESSED AT 7:56 PM FOR THE FINANCE COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS ORDINANCE #3; RECONVENED AT 8:09 PM) #3. (1ST RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY AUDITOR TO PAY AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $150,000.00 TO NORTHSTAR ASPHALT, INC., AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (EMERGENCY POTHOLE PATCHING) Referred to Finance Committee PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: And at this time the Chair would declare an in-house recess for the Finance Committee to meet in regard to Ordinance #3. You’re now in recess. Chairman, Hawk. (RECESS) (ORDINANCE #3 NOT ADOPTED; PROCEEDED TO SECOND READING) MEMBER HAWK: Mr. President, the floor is yours, sir. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Chairman Hawk. Council will therefore reconvene after its recess. ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR SECOND READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We now turn to Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for their Second Reading. Madame Clerk, would you please begin with Ordinance 4, and before you do that, Madame Clerk, just so the audience understands, Leader Morris left as you can see, and he wasn’t doing that in any way to be disrespectful to anyone in the audience. He’s really very sick tonight, and he wanted to come down particularly for the neighborhood associations. So, I want you to understand he decided he would go home, which obviously we COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -241- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 hope he feels a lot better. Thank you. Madame Clerk. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ ORDINANCES #4 THROUGH #6 FOR THE SECOND READING BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS (ORDINANCE #6 ADOPTED): #4. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO: ADVERTISE, RECEIVE BIDS, AWARD AND ENTER INTO CONTRACT FOR THE PURCHASE OF VARIOUS VEHICLES AND/OR EQUIPMENT; ALTERNATIVELY PURCHASE SAID VEHICLES AND/OR EQUIPMENT PURSUANT TO STATE COOPERATIVE PURCHASING AGREEMENTS; ENTER INTO CONTRACT FOR ONE LADDER TRUCK WITH PUMP IN ACCORDANCE WITH O.R.C. SECTION 125.04; ENTER INTO A FIVE- YEAR LEASE AGREEMENT FOR THE ABOVEMENTIONED LADDER TRUCK WITH PUMP FOR AN ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $252,000.00 PER YEAR; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 266/2014; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (7 FORD POLICE INTERCEPTER SUV’S; 1 PUMPER TRUCK FOR FIRE DEPT; 1 HYDRAULIC COUPLER LOADER FOR STR DEPT; SUPP APPROP OF $875,000.00 FR UNAPPROP BAL OF 4502 MOTOR VEHICLE PURCH FUND TO 4502 102001 POLICE ADMIN - OTHER FOR $307,000.00, TO 4502 103001 FIRE ADMIN - OTHER FOR $408,000.00, AND TO 4502 202210 STR MAINT FOR $160,000.00) #5. (2ND RDG) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO CHANGE ORDER 3 IN THE AMOUNT OF $324,248.00 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; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 266/2014; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY ($94,781.40 SUPP APPROP FR UNAPPROP BAL OF 4506 INFRASTRUCTURE BOND FUND TO 4506 202091 INFRASTRUCTURE BOND - 12TH ST NW BRIDGE REPLACEMENT AND STREETSCAPE PROJ, PID 90671, GP 1160 - OTHER; $29,466.60 SUPP APPROP FR UNAPPROP BAL OF 4501 CAPITAL FUND TO 4501 202091 CAPITAL FUND - 12TH ST NW BRIDGE REPLACEMENT AND STREETSCAPE PROJ, PID 90671, GP 1160 - OTHER; $200,000.00 APPROP TRF FR 2113 202001 MUNICIPAL RD FUND ENG ADMIN - OTHER TO 2113 202091 MUNICIPAL RD FUND - 12TH ST NW BRIDGE REPLACEMENT AND STREETSCAPE PROJ, PID 90671, GP 1160 - OTHER) #6. (2ND RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 77/2015 TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES, IN ONE OR MORE SERIES, IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,500,000.00 FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING COSTS OF REVITALIZATION WITHIN THE CITY AND ADDRESSING PROPERTY CONDITIONS THAT ARE DELETERIOUS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY THROUGH THE DEMOLITION OF COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -242- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 DETERIORATING STRUCTURES AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THOSE SITES, THEREBY ENABLING THE USE OR REUSE OF LANDS WITHIN THE CITY. (REVITALIZATION NOTES, SERIES 2015A). PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Acting Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President, I move we suspend the Statutory Rules on Ordinance #6. MEMBER BABCOCK: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to suspend the Statutory Rule for Ordinance #6. 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: Thank you, Madame Clerk. Leader Smith, you’ve heard the three readings. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #6. MEMBER BABCOCK: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #6. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas, Mr. President. #6 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 77/2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Madame Clerk. The motion carries, and Ordinance #6 is adopted. ORDINANCES & FORMAL RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD AND FINAL READING PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We now turn to Ordinances and Formal Resolutions for their Third and Final Reading and vote. Would you please begin, Madame Clerk, with Ordinance #7. NOTE: PRESIDENT SCHULMAN CALLED UPON CLERK TIMBERLAKE TO READ THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCES #7 THROUGH #12 FOR THE THIRD READING BY TITLE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW, AS FOLLOWS. #7. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 78/2015 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE AUDITOR TO PAY AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,400.00 TO ACY COMMUNICATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PERFORMED IN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -243- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 FEBRUARY, 2015; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (DETECTIVE BUREAU) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #7. MEMBER BABCOCK: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #7. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas, Mr. President. #7 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 78/2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Madame Clerk. Ordinance 7 is adopted. Ordinance 8, please. #8. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 79/2015 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE AUDITOR TO PAY AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $342.60 TO REMINGTON ARMS CO. INC. FOR WORK PERFORMED IN NOVEMBER, 2014; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (POLICE DEPARTMENT) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #8. MEMBER BABCOCK: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 8. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote, please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas, Mr. President. #8 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 79/2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Madame Clerk. Ordinance #8 is adopted. Ordinance 9, please. #9. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 80/2015 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 266/2014; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (SUPP APPROP OF $19,744.22 FR UNAPPROP BAL OF THE 2761 ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION FUND TO 2761 102001 POLICE ADMIN - OTHER) COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -244- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #9. MEMBER BABCOCK: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #9. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas, Mr. President. 9# ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 80/2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Ordinance #9 is adopted. Ordinance 10, please. #10. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 81/2015 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ADVERTISE, RECEIVE BIDS, AWARD AND EXECUTE A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AND TO EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OVERSIGHT SERVICES FOR THE APPLEGROVE STREET/MIDDLE BRANCH AVENUE/WERNER CHURCH ROAD PROJECT - CITY ONLY PORTION; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 266/2014; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (SUPP APPROP OF $1,260,000.00 FR UNAPPROP BAL OF 5201 WATER FUND TO 5201 207034 APPLEGROVE/MIDDLE BRANCH/WERNER CHURCH WATER MAIN PART A - CITY ONLY PORTION - OTHER) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #10. MEMBER BABCOCK: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance 10. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas, Mr. President. #10 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 81/2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Madame Clerk. Ordinance 10 is adopted. Ordinance 11, please. #11. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 82/2015 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ENTER INTO A SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT TO THE CANTON/HARTVILLE CONTRACT 2002- COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -245- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 66 AND TO ENTER INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR CONSTRUCTION OVERSIGHT FOR THE HARTVILLE PHASE III WATER MAIN EXTENSION PROJECT; AMENDING APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NO. 266/2014; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY (SUPP APPROP OF $1,060,497.00 FR UNAPPROP BAL OF THE 5201 WATER FUND TO 5201 207026 HARTVILLE WATER MAIN EXTENSION - OTHER) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #11. MEMBER BABCOCK: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #11. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas, Mr. President. #11 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 82/2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Madame Clerk. Ordinance 11 is adopted. Ordinance #12, please. #12. (3RD RDG) ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 83/2015 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CLERK OF COUNCIL TO CERTIFY TO THE COUNTY AUDITOR UNPAID AND DELINQUENT CHARGES FOR ALL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABATEMENT OF NOXIOUS WEEDS, GRASS OF RANK GROWTH AND LITTER; AND DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Mr. President, I move we adopt Ordinance #12. MEMBER BABCOCK: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded that you adopt Ordinance #12. Any remarks under this Ordinance? Again hearing none, Madame Clerk, roll call vote please. NO REMARKS ROLL CALL 11 YEAS, 0 NAYS CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Eleven yeas, Mr. President. #12 ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE NO. 83/2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Madame Clerk. Ordinance #12 is adopted, and that concludes Third and Final Reading Ordinances. ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -246- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: We now turn to Announcement of Committees Meetings. MEMBER HAWK: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Chairman Hawk. MEMBER HAWK: Thank you, good sir. The Finance Committee will meet Monday, April 20th at 6:45 P.M. right here in Council Chambers. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. MEMBER WEST: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member... Chairman West. MEMBER WEST: Annexation will meet same time, same place. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Chairman. Anyone else? Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: (Inaudible) same time. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: No, it’s not CD, it’s Personnel. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Personnel? CLERK TIMBERLAKE: Personnel Committee. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Chairman Hart. MEMBER HART: No, I’m not up yet. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: There’s two resolu... Communication 143 and 144 for reappointments that need to go to Personnel Committee. Communication 143, 144, they’re reappointments. MEMBER SMUCKLER: Got it now? MEMBER HART: Okay. I’m sorry, we will have... let me find my glasses here. Please brail this for me next time. That would help. CLERK TIMBERLAKE: I’ll see what I can do. MEMBER HART: Okay. Thank you. We... (chuckles) we will have Personnel Committee meet same time next week. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Alright. Thank you, Chairman Hart. We got there. It’s over. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -247- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Now we turn to Miscellaneous Business. Is there any? MEMBER FISHER: Mr. President. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Member Fisher. MEMBER FISHER: Thank you, sir. I wanted to address a couple of the issues brought up for... by Chris Leach over from Swift, and it’s a piggyback by the way on the Mayor’s point and whether if you think that he was wearing shorts today only because it was 75, that lunatic will wear them when it’s 15 degrees below zero, so... always dresses like that. But, Chris, we had spoke before about the property where the landlord didn’t bring the dumpster after the eviction. If you’d E-mail me that address I’ll make sure I get that over to the proper department. About the question as far as how often do we inspect rental properties, previously I want to say, it was before I was here, so I want to say 2009, 2010, there was a change. We used to do mandatory inspections, and maybe the Law Director would know the exact, I think it was every three to five years. Those are now complaint driven, so there’s not an actual schedule when they are inspected. It is driven by complaints as whether or not they are inspected. So, hopefully that answers your question. Maybe if the Law Director knows more precisely on how it used to be, I know that’s how it is now. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Law Director Martuccio. LAW DIRECTOR MARTUCCIO: Thank you, Mr. President. Are you through, Mr. Fisher? I didn’t want to interrupt you. Thank you. To follow up on that question and a few others that the President from the southwest has brought to us, yes, it was periodic. I don’t remember if it was three years or five years, but it was absolutely periodic. It was changed after much debate and a long time in front of Council and at the State, at various departments, and back in front of Council, to make it a mandatory inspection when it became a rental for first approval for a certificate of occupancy followed by complaint driven inspections. On your other point about the electric aggregation or gas, I think you were talking about electric, many years ago when this all began back... I think around 2000 after the State deregulated it. We did a opt in first where people could affirmatively come into our program to buy gas at a discounted rate negotiated on a large scale because the whole city was involved. When we went to the opt out the next year by ballot in front of all the voters and 70% agreed to let us get consultants and broker gas and eventually electricity, this same thing happened. A very large man, larger and not nearly as kind as you, came to see me at my office and was about to hit me because he had to use his own stamp and envelope. We made sure (chuckles) with future service directors as we recently had with our current service director and purchasing agent, purchasing director, that our broker always negotiates the right to opt out by phone or computer and not have to spend any money. There’d been a... there was a screw up recently and a number of letters went out to the wrong people saying the wrong things, and First Energy Solutions is doing the best they can to solve that. We brought it to our broker’s attention, they contacted First Energy as well as the PUCO, so I’d be happy to reimburse you (chuckles) for that and anyone else. That was... that was a screw up and we’re aware of it, and we caught it. On a second note, if I can, I wanted to thank all of you for coming and raising issues, not only tonight, but on a weekly basis. You keep us accountable. You keep two branches of the city government accountable to you, the Executive and the Legislative obviously. So thanks to faces new and veteran faces for coming here, and all those things you do with your community centers and tree commissions and your neighborhood groups. Lastly, I want to make a historical note. Last Thursday at about 3:15, one of our assistant prosecutors was on the telephone with a defense lawyer discussing the next day’s jury trial, and a very loud bell or series of them began to ring very loudly, and he muttered into the headphone what the heck is that noise, it’s driving me crazy. That noise was the commemoration of the end of the Civil War. 150 years that COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -248- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 day at that minute, at 3:15 on April 9th the Civil War ended with the surrender of Appomattox. So Judge Eddie Elum from our western rivals and local green actor, Attorney Daryl Markijohn, passed the word through many governments and museums to join together and ring all the bells they could at 3:15 on April 9th for four minutes, one minute for each of the year... each of the four years of war. And I want to thank the Service Director who on very short notice, and Mr. Rorar and Randy Dolak and Cliff Graves, for unlocking that giant antique bell we have on the square and making it sound and resound in celebration of the end of the great bloody era. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Law Director. Mayor Healy. (Applause) Mayor Healy. MAYOR HEALY: Just a followup with the Swift sermon, you got a lot of attention today. We’ll... I’ll try to join into the answer, so I think we’ve addressed the pothole situation. We have heard you, we’ve seen them, we drive on them, and we’re doing everything in our power to kinda speed up this process. On the containers, there is an ordinance that requires rental property owners to put a container out there, and if they don’t then we can fine them. And so your councilman will address that. On the rental inspections, we converted to the International Property Maintenance Code with that change you were referring to. Before that the rental inspections was every three years. They would do inside and out. The International Property Code though is not just by request. They actually do regular inspections exterior, and if a rental property fails the exterior inspection, then they are required to go inside. So it can be triggered through regular external inspections as well as complaint driven, so that’s happening on a regular basis, but that allows them to make sure the exterior of the properties are maintained and they can get many more houses done that way. So that’s the International Property Maintenance Code and you can get more information from that from the Building Department if you want, but I think it’s making impact, but you have the ability to change that. In fact all of you have the ability to call in any address that you want to make sure we get inside if you feel it’s a problem in your neighborhood. Lastly, which wasn’t addressed yet was the traffic bureau issues. When we lost revenue from the... from the recession and the cuts from the State government, we of course had to live within our means and our police and fire numbers dropped significantly. In fact, 2010 was at a low, and 11, 12, 13 we started to bring it back up. This year we’re adding more policeman and fireman, but this year’s addition, I’ve got a commitment from our police chief who said that when we get these guys up and running from this year’s class, he is going to bring back a traffic division. And that we haven’t had for several years, but when we had it, it was very, very effective for us, not just helping with speeding which is a big problem in all the neighborhoods, but also in reference to picking up people with outstanding warrants and finding things before it happens because you’re catching folks that are getting nervous when you pull them over for speeding. But more importantly, or just as importantly, one of the things they’re gonna add with the traffic bureau is weights and measures, and they’re gonna start checking all these trucks. With all the oil and gas stuff and everything going on we have more trucks on our roads than ever before, and many of them are overweight, we know that, but we don’t have a way to catch them right now. We’re gonna have the scales in partnership with the County, and that will help our roads because those overweight trucks, and as Kevin Fisher’s pointed out many times, they destroy your roads. And so another area that we’re gonna work on to help fix our roads and address that is by having a traffic bureau that’s gonna enforce the weights and measures. So, that’s all coming with this new addition, so I want to make sure you knew that. (Applause) PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Mayor. MAYOR HEALY: I do have one more thing, if you don’t mind. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -249- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Mem... are you done? MAYOR HEALY: I do have another issue though if I could... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Sure. MAYOR HEALY: And I appreciate your letting me talk a little bit further. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Sure. Not a problem. MAYOR HEALY: While we’re sitting here, I literally just got a letter E-mailed to me from Eric Cook who is the President of Republic Storage. I met with him last week when this was all happening. We sat down and discussed a lot of details that I’d take way too much time to get into the details right now with you, but I literally just got a response from him. I also had conversations with the head of the labor union who’s working on it. We’re getting the information. The company that bought them out is looking at moving some of the products or the equipment into the Chicago area, and we’re gonna be contacting that company to negotiate with them to see if we can keep some of that stuff here, get them back up and running. One of the problems that they had is, just real quick, is in the last seven or eight years they’ve had three different owners, they’ve been in bankruptcy, they were on the verge of closing several years ago. We actually worked with them. About four years ago we got them a million dollar loan from the State of Ohio to help them get their... some equipment that they needed to be able to upgrade their process that the industry had gone to that they hadn’t done yet, and so they lost all the business. And so this powder coding system they were able to bring in which allowed them to be competitive. The problem was it was a little bit too late cause they lost over half their business in the education business, which is their main business, and they were never able to recover that. So they were a company that was done significantly and losing money for seven or eight straight years. In addition to that their building is a million square foot under roof, a million square foot, and they said they can operate well under a hundred square feet, hundred thousand square feet. So you got a facility that’s nearly ten times the size of what they need. There was no way that they were gonna be... have the efficiency. The new company had considered moving into another building and had questions about potentially looking for a facility they could move into to keep their operations going. We’re gonna try to continue those conversations by getting ahold of the owners and saying before you move that equipment out of the area, let’s see if we can find a place locally to do so. But, there were a number of issues there and we were aware of them and we were working with them, and we were able to hold off their closure for four or five years with the last assistance we gave them. But, again, it’s a pretty big problem, and as taxpayers, as much as we want to keep those jobs here, you don’t want this body and this administration giving your taxpayer dollars to a company who’s losing money and is eventually gonna go out of business anyway, so it’s a rough call for us too to not take that next step, but we’re gonna continue working with them, but we’re also gonna be smart about your taxpayers’ dollars. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Mayor. Director Bartos. SERVICE DIRECTOR BARTOS: Yes, President Schulman, just real quickly. I wanted to follow up on street patching and thank Superintendent Rorar just as the Mayor did. You know, we’ve been telling you we needed some more equipment. We needed, you know, the equipment, the rollers and the hot box that holds the materials. We told you it would make us more efficient, make us better equipped to handle this. I just wanted to compare some numbers between this time last year and this... and numbers to date. At this time last year we had put down 1092.87 tons of material. At this point today we’ve put down 1581 tons. That’s a 44% increase in tonage. When you add in the 115 tons that the outside contractors have done for us, that’s a 55% increase. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -250- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 So I think you’ve seen that what we said was true. We needed the mater... the additional capital equipment and that would make us more effective and better equipped to handle the patching issues, and it shows in the numbers. Also, we all know hot mix is important. Hot mix usage has gone up six times, six times from last year. At this point last year we had only used 33.67 tons of hot patch. At this point we’ve used 210.5 tons of hot mix. So, not only were you able to get more equip... uh, more material down, we’re being smarter, we’re using the better material also. So, and that’s all a credit to Mr. Rorar cause some of this period that I’m referring to last year he wasn’t even here, so I really appreciate him. Also, to the gentle lady that mentioned the grass I wanted to let you know that we’re already in the process of ramping up our grass mowing for this year. In fact, notices are going out to the habitual offenders already, and our contractors that we have under contract to mow the grass are getting ready to go. I think within the next couple weeks they’ll be started, so we’re already working towards that. I’m glad you asked that question, so... And one final note, we will be having a meeting with Central Allied. The leadership, the President of Central Allied, will be meeting with us and also one of... one or more of his technical assistants will be meeting with me, the Superintendent, the Engineer, the Capital Chairman, and I believe if he’s well enough the Majority Leader will also be joining us. So I’ll be able to report back what... the substance of those discussions next week. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you. Member Hart. MEMBER HART: Yeah. Today I received a letter from a Daniel Van Epps, and he is head of the Conotton, Sandy, Tuscarawas Valley Community Improvement Corporation. And in the letter, you know, he states that they’ve been researching brick repair, things like that, and there is a machine that is made in the Netherlands, you know that could help assist because if anybody’s laid any bricks, very labor intensive. And, you know, this is again looking at joint ventures be... uh, sharing the cost between communities because believe it or not they were used in a lot of communities in Stark County. So I’ll be researching that a little bit further and, you know, also I really do want to thank President Schulman, you know, for his letter, hopefully, you know, educating some of the people because it’s not necessarily that government is being wasteful, and again we look at our own communities and it’s just like hoarding the money and you need a new roof on your house. You know, pretty soon those damages are going to just be out of sight. But, you know, again it’s something that I have not ever been able to quantify, but I remember a year ago at the State of the... uh, City address, you know, it was stated I guess regionally we had received... or there had been like 20, help me out here, 20 billion dollars within the community brought in. And has that ever been able to be quantified in terms of what Canton has been able to get out of that? You know, I had talked to some auditor’s office, and... PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Deputy Mayor. DEPUTY MAYOR WILLIAMS: Mr. President, Mr. Hart, that report actually was done by the Canton Repository, so perhaps they could shed some insight there, but to specifically answer your question, no, that can’t be quantified through the City of Canton. MEMBER HART: Okay. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: (Inaudible)... southeast area. Appreciate you all coming out. I’d like to say thank you, and for those of you that saw (inaudible)... come up here frantically. She says to me the southeast end didn’t get none of that hot mix. (Inaudible) (Laughter) (Inaudible) Thank you so very much, and I’d also like to thank COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS JOURNAL 103 JOURNAL PAGE -251- MINUTES OF THE MEETING APRIL 13, 2015 (inaudible). PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thank you, Member Smith. Member West. MEMBER WEST: Yes, I’d like to invite Council Members as well as the public to the Stark County Minority Health Coalition’s Annual Conference that’ll be held at First Friends Church on the 24th and it’s free. All you have to do is sign up on the mental health... Stark County Mental Health Board website. There’s also a Hoops for Health event which is on the 18th. All of you are invited. There’s going to be a health expo, and again, our health is very important, so make sure you come out and get the information. That’ll be at Malone College and that’s on the 18th, so you’re all welcome to attend. Thank you. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: Thanks, Member West. To our neighbors, thank you very much for coming down. We appreciate you. We appreciate all you do. I want to re-emphasize what the Mayor said, I would like each of you and everyone in your group to call the legislator... legislators from this area this week and complain. Complain about the fact that cities are being starved for revenue, and folks I’m telling you that’s the reason these streets are in such deplorable shape. That’s the reason in large part our neighborhoods can’t grow. That’s the reason our safety forces are insufficient. The State of Ohio has stripped cities in Ohio, Canton specifically, of 17.5 million... million dollars over the last three years, 17 million dollars. That’s where we should be, and we’re 17.5 million dollars in the hole. It is a disgrace, and as the Mayor said, the State of Ohio is sitting on 1.9 billion dollars that we know of, and I guarantee you there’s 2.5 billion dollars sitting in Columbus, and the legislature is showering the rich with one tax break after another and absolutely screwing our cities and its inhabitants. Enough is enough. So, please, pick up the phone. You ha... you know how powerful you are when you’re on a microphone. We all listen to you, and we really listen to you if you’re complaining because you elect us. So, please get on the phone tomorrow or sometime this week. Encourage your friends and your neighbors to call Oleslager, call Schuring. These are gentlemen that have been in the legislature for years, and they can’t do anything for communities that are starving for money to help residents. It is a disgrace. Please pick up the phone. Any other remarks? Leader Smith. MEMBER SMITH: Motion to adjourn. MEMBER BABCOCK: Second. PRESIDENT SCHULMAN: It’s been moved and seconded to 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. (Gavel falls). Meeting’s adjourned. Thank you again, folks. ADJOURNMENT TIME: 8:41 P.M. ATTEST: APPROVED: CYNTHIA TIMBERLAKE ALLEN SCHULMAN CLERK OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT