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MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL CITY OF GARFIELD HEIGHTS, OHIO Monday, March 22, 2021 (Note: This meeting was conducted via Zoom due to the current Covid-19 outbreak.) MEETING CALLED TO ORDER AT 7:00 p.m. by Council President Michael Nenadovich. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Welcome, everybody to the Council meeting. Ladies and gentlemen, it's seven o'clock on Monday, March 22, 2021 and I would like to call to order the Council meeting for Garfield Heights. Barb, would you take a roll call please. ROLL CALL: PRESENT: Council Members Dudley, Donahue, Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn EXCUSED: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Clwn Shayla Davis is not present tonight. Could I get a motion to excuse her from the meeting, please? CLMN DUDLEY: I make the motion to excuse Clwn Davis from the meeting tonight. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: May I have a second please? CLMN DONAHUE: I'll second it. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: On the motion by Clmn Dudley and seconded by Clmn Donahue, Barb, take a roll call please. AYES: Dudley, Donahue. Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn ABSENT: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: That passes 6 votes with 1 being absent. READING AND DISPOSAL OF MINUTES: PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: We will move on to tonight's business. The reading and disposal of the Minutes from the Council meeting for Monday, March 8, 2021, as written. I'd like to make a motion to consider the Minutes as written. Do I have a second? CLMN DONAHUE: I'll second it. 1 PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Mr. Donahue. On the motion made by Council President Mike Nenadovich and seconded by Chuck Donahue, please take a vote, Barb. AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis That passes 6 to 0 on the Council minutes. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS TO COUNCIL: PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: We will move on to written communications to Council. Barb, are there any written communications to Council? CLERK: No, Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: There are none? CLERK: No, sir, there was one, but during Caucus we said not to read it. CLMN BLAKE: There was, Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Yes, Mr. Blake. CLMN BLAKE: There was one received Friday to Council. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Who has a copy of that? Who has it in front of them right now? Barb, did you get that one? CLERK: I received one today. I received an email today. From (I'm sorry, I was not sure if you wanted it read). The email I received is from Mrs. Melissia Leonard. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Please go ahead. CLERK: “Melissia Leonard, 4893 E 84th St., Garfield Heights. Dear City Council, I would like to request that the city obtain at least two additional estimates before voting on Ordinance NO. 27-2021. In addition, I would like to request that Council review Sections of the Charter regarding Boards and Commissions, including Section 44, Section 45, Section 46, Section 47, and Section 48. As a community, we would like to see some accountability, oversight, and transparency regarding these Sections of the Charter, including, but not limited to the following: 1. The public should have easily accessible information to the current Board and Committee members. 2. Board and Committee meetings should be made public and the public should be made aware of any meetings by advertisement on the city website and/or public media. 3. Per Section 49 of the Charter, “A member of any Board or Commission may be removed by the Mayor for neglect of duty, incapacity, incompetency, or malfeasance in office, etc”. According to members of Council, there have been several committee members that have been inactive. These issues need to be addressed in accordance with Section 49. 2  4. Positions that are open to the public should be handled in a fair and equitable fashion, including a standardized process for application and interview process. Thank you for your consideration, Melissia Leonard “ PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Barbara. In answer to that letter briefly so we can get going here, we did address the issue of the bids in Caucus. Barb Biro gave the explanation that Ohio Bids finds the cheapest and we are by law, not required to go to two bids when we use Ohio Bids for our project because they get us the cheapest price. The last half of that letter will be addressed by comments at the end of the meeting. It'll be addressed at the end of the meeting in Comments by Citizens because it is not part of tonight's agenda. The first part was and that's why we took care of it at Caucus. So we will move on. CLMN BLAKE: Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Yes, Mr. Blake. CLMN BLAKE: The letter from Friday was not sent to Barb Molin. It was sent to members of Council. If you'd like I can read it. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: If Barb does not have it, Mr. Blake, I would like for you to read it. As long as all the Council did get it. It should be part of the communications Go ahead. CLMN TAGLIARINI: It was not sent to me. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: You will be informed right now because I didn't get a copy of it. Go Mr. Blake. CLMN BLAKE: It says: “I would like this read at the upcoming Council meeting. I just finished watching the recording from the Council meeting on March 8th and was disappointed by some of the things I heard on the call. Although you all are public servants, there is a feeling I get from any meeting I've been a part of that you look out for yourselves first. When residents raise complaints the first reaction from almost every member of Council is to defend themselves and to make sure everyone knows they're doing the best they can. Rarely do we ever hear a Council member admit that they were wrong. End of story. More often it feels like I hear Council putting the onus back on the residents to do better. Correct me if I'm wrong but as the elected officials you are accountable to us not the other way around. I'd like to encourage each member of Council to remember that their primary job is to serve the public, not to get reelected or to get elected to a new position. The public doesn't want to hear you say how good you have done. The public wants to know that they are heard and that you're looking to act. When the Council isn't busy defending themselves, they are patting each other on the back and defending only those they see fit. Case in point would be the baseless attack on Clwn Davis from the last meeting. A resident came on the call with a totally unsubstantiated claim of an FBI investigation, which was taken from a far from reputable news source and went on to slander Ms. Davis's name. Clmn Nenadovich seemed like he couldn't bring himself to actually put a stop to it. I will give credit to the Mayor for 3  speaking against it at the end of the call, but the silence from other members of Council was sickening. There were no words said there to discourage that kind of talking to meeting yet there was plenty left congratulating Mr. Kelley, Mr. Dudley and Mr. Tagliarini. Where did all those voices go when Ms. Davis was attacked? Each Council member had the opportunity to defend the slander at the end of the meeting. Instead, we hear about St. Patrick's Day and a long commercial from a Mayoral candidate who mentioned everything under the sun but the slanderous attack on a fellow Council member. It felt like the Council selected who they wanted to praise and defend and who they didn't. This is the type of behavior that won't gain trust with the community. How can we be sure you have the best interest of others at heart when it seems like you can’t stop thinking of yourselves? Don't tell us you are doing the best you can. Show us. Michael Peters.” PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Clmn Blake. Being as that is not part of tonight's agenda, we will address that under Comments by Citizens before the end of the meeting. And if anybody wishes to speak on that--any of the Council representatives or any of the Directors--we will give them permission at that time to answer Mr. Peters’ letter. Right now we don't want to get into a discussion because we have to get on with the business portion of the meeting. But there is a time allotment for that at the end. Thank you very much. And thank you, Mr. Peters for your input. We appreciate it. OK. We've gone through the Council communications. Are there any Committee reports? No committee reports. OK. Reports from the Mayor and the Directors. CLMN DUDLEY: Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Dudley. CLMN DUDLEY: If I may be allowed to read a letter I have at this time? PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: We have time. It's communications. Go ahead. CLMN DUDLEY: All right, thank you, Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: This is Communications, correct? CLMN DUDLEY: Yes, this is Communications. I would ask all members of Council to check their emails as well. Mr. Tagliarini, you might want to check your text message. I couldn't find your email. A copy of this has been forwarded to the Mayor, members of Council, the Law Department and also the individual herself. I received this information and I'm going to read it here: “It says from the city of Cleveland, reference Public Records Request of Reference # C000536-031221.” And it says, “Dear Publisher Kimberly Brown, The city of Cleveland has received a public records request from you on March 12th, 2021. You requested the following: We are seeking the employment date with the city of Cleveland for Shayla Davis of Garfield Heights, Ohio. Start Date of employment. End date of employment with the city of Cleveland. 4  Davis email is (and this is public information) sdavis6@city.cleveland.oh.us. Is. Davis is currently employed with the City of Cleveland. If so, what department within the city of Cleveland? Shayla Davis is currently employed with The City of Cleveland as a Project Coordinator in Public Safety. Her original start date was 12/07/2014. She resigned 8/18/2015. She was rehired 9/30/2019 and currently still employed in Cleveland. If you have any questions, or wish to discuss this further, you can reply to this email or go to Cleveland Public Records Center and Send a New Message. Sincerely, City of Cleveland - Public Records. Mayor Frank G. Jackson.” I want to say, I gave her an opportunity. I sent her a copy of this letter as well as emailed it to her so that she may be able to reply. But I want to thank Ms. Kimberly Brown and the Brown Report, as we had several discussions that we was able to get this email information and she's the one who actually provided it for us. The people of Garfield Heights deserved a response, and I hope that this can bring to the end of all the finger pointing and we can move on with city business. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And if you want a copy of this, you feel free, I’m willing to email it to anybody who wants a copy of it. It is public information. So she is still currently an employee by serving in Council in Garfield Heights. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Dudley, you can have this actually notarized and proven, right? CLMN DUDLEY: Yes, we can have it notarized and proven. And it came from the email sent from the city of Cleveland from the Public Records Department. And anyone can obtain this information on any public employee. You can request it personally yourself as well. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK. CLMN VAUGHN: Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Vaughn. CLMN VAUGHN: Mr. Chairman, I would like to make a motion at this time that these concerns about Clwn Shayla L. Davis be moved to an Emergency Council Meeting on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. So that would be tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m. Do I have a second? CLMN DUDLEY: I second. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Please, please hold on. Thank you for your second. I'm pretty sure we're legal in doing that. I'm pretty sure Mr. Dudley's ducks are all in a row. And on your motion, Mr. Vaughn and on your second, Mr. Dudley, I'm going to ask Ms. Barb Molin to take a vote. It’s the only thing I can do. AYES: Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue, Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini ABSENT: Davis 5 That's a motion to have an Emergency Special Council meeting tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. on Zoom, I'm assuming and it passes 6 to 0 with one Council member not present. I wish tonight she would have been present. Anyway, we'll get on with our business. CLMN VAUGHN: Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Yes. CLMN VAUGHN: I would like to make another motion. I would like to make a motion that the talk concerning Clwn Shayla L. Davis be tabled for this evening. We must continue with the business meeting for the city of Garfield Heights. This is what we need to do and we need to move forward. With that, I would like a second. CLMN DONAHUE: I second. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: You're making a motion that we table all talk on the information we have just received tonight from Mr. Dudley and voting on the second. Another meeting tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. No talk tonight. Everything will be tabled till tomorrow. Barb, would you take a vote on that? AYES: Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue, Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini ABSENT: Davis That passes 6 to 0 with one Council member missing. And I am to understand that there will be no talk of that tonight at all. So we've got that on the books, even if it's comments by citizens, because it will be tomorrow and that meeting tomorrow is a public meeting. All the citizenry is involved. There will be comments. There will be input and we will go from there. It will not be a closed meeting. We will not go into Executive Session. REPORT OF THE MAYOR AND THE DIRECTORS: PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Well, we're on the reports by the Mayor and the Directors. Mayor, do you have a report tonight? MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Yes, I do. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Would you give it to us, please. MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Yes. I’m a little shocked right now. But yes. I’m moving right along. Number one, I would like to issue my sincere sympathies for the passing of Donald J. Roman. He's the husband of Sheila Roman, one of our CERT members. And on behalf of the City of Garfield Heights, we offer our condolences to her and her family. The second thing I wanted to report tonight, I feel bad because Ms. Rosemary Nowitzki has asked me about three/four weeks ago and I missed it at the last Council meeting. She sent me a message through my Facebook Instant Messenger, that the Garfield Heights Historical Society is looking for any kind of memorabilia, any kind of information that they can obtain, to help showcase some of the notable African American residents of Garfield Heights. And if you have any information, you can either send it here to the Civic Center, we'll make sure that she gets it or you can send it directly to the Garfield Heights Historical Society. And then I got a message today through Pat Salemi that the Cuyahoga County Public Library, in conjunction with FEMA. It says the FEMA staff will be available this week at Cuyahoga County Public Library branches to help County residents register for vaccine appointments at the Wolstein Center. This was today and also Wednesday, March 24th , between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., and they'll 6 be doing it right here at the Garfield Heights branch, 5409 Turney Road, Garfield Heights, Ohio, 44125. Phone number is (216) 475-8178. And speaking of the COVID-19 vaccination, I just want to again say thank you to Pastor McHenry and his wife, Tomika, all the volunteers of the Garfield Heights Church of Christ. And all of the staff at Walgreens and our city service workers that worked on a Saturday to help inoculate. Over 200 vaccines were administered on Saturday here at the Civic Center. I will say that I did see a lot of you Council people that were there to get your vaccine as well. I think that you can agree that this was run absolutely amazing. The way that they had it organized was incredible. I will say again, thank you to everybody involved. Thank you so much because there's going to be a day that we're going to be able to look back at City of Garfield Heights and say that, you know, we made history as a community. I have to tell you we had it was a pleasure to see school board President Nichelle Daniels there with her Abundant of Love Community Outreach, passing out all kinds of PPE and masks, etc. It was a really a community effort. I think the entire community needs to be applauded for it. It needs to be thanked for it. Channel 19 News did a brief story on it and I felt really well, really proud, to be a Garfield citizen that day. And I think we all do. Again, I say, you know, to all the Seniors and everybody that was there thanking me, I just tell them all I did was cooperate and listen to the people that put it together. We, you know, we definitely made history that day and I could feel really good about that. Right now, I think we're all looking for something to feel really good about. With that, let me get into tonight's legislation. Ordinance number 27-2021 is to obtain or purchase 15 Motorola APX 6000 portable radios for our Police Department. I certainly ask your support for that, because it is a safety issue for our police. Ordinance number 28-2021 is entering into an agreement with Kimble Recycling and Disposal, and piggybacking on the contract that we have with South Euclid. The reason why we really need to address this, we really need to pass this piece of legislation is because if we don't do this, our trash pickup fees will go up. And they will go up substantially. If we do it this way, the city and I have decided to absorb the $200,000.00 cost that it's going to go up. But if we don't approve this piece of legislation, I'm worried that we will not be able to absorb the increase in rubbish fees and we would have to go to the taxpayers on that. I really don't feel that that is necessary if we can avoid it by addressing it with this ordinance. Ordinance number 29-2021 is basically entering into a Ward map, I think I've talked at a couple meetings about this Ward map. Basically is going to allow us to give to the residents a system where they can go right on the Website, they can click on the Ward map, they can put their address in, it's going to tell them who their Council person is. It's going to tell them what Ward they're in. They'll have a lot of information for the residents. But also there's different layers involved that will be helpful to the Economic Development Director, to the Chief Police, the Fire Chief, there's so many things that we can do with this type of Ward map. And looking at some of the other communities out there. Like Westlake for instance, they do have this Ward map (this GIS technology) already working for them and it works well for them. And it's no wonder that they get a lot of economic development opportunities out there because they have this type of thing in the works. Ordinance number 30-2021 addresses Garfield Boulevard. I got a letter earlier this month, stating that the Cuyahoga County Division of Public Works has approved 80% funding for this project and 60% of the design. We're currently looking at plans to possibly put a bicycle trail that would connect Garfield Park Boulevard, our Garfield Park Reservation, through Garfield Park Boulevard all the way down to the canal towpath. Currently there's a towpath trail that comes up through Bacci Park. It comes all the way up Warner Road, and it stops right there at Garfield Park or Garfield Boulevard. So as you're coming down, hopefully we can connect that and we can make it nice. Right now we can probably just throw in a couple of bike lanes and striping it but we're looking at different ways to maybe make it a little safer for cyclists in that area that may want to travel from one Metro Park down to the towpath. Ordinance number 31-2021 is just entering into an agreement with OHM Advisors to provide the engineering and bidding for Antenucci Boulevard. It's something that we have looked at as far as you know the guardrails and things like that. That project is just in an engineering phase. 7 Resolution 13-2021 is just to apply for some training and equipment grant. Just training and equipment. It's a grant that we usually do every year, and I'm told that we are, you know, basically we'll probably get it again this year. Resolution number 14-2021 is to deal with the parking issue over on Thornton Avenue. Mr. Blake can get into that. That is in his Ward. And with that, you have my report. Thank you. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Mayor. Are there any questions for the Mayor on tonight's agenda? Mr. Dudley, the floor recognizes you. CLMN DUDLEY: Oh, no, Mr. Chairman, I had a comment to make in reference to his comment that he had said. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Go ahead. CLMN DUDLEY: All right. I just want to let you know, Mayor, that's a good thing that far as anything that can help us out with COVID in the city of Garfield Heights, no matter what it is, that can help individuals and Garfield Heights residents and family members is a great idea. We definitely got to stay on top of that. And I think Pastor McHenry and his wife, First Lady, does a great job. I want to have reference to the Black History item for the Historical Society. We are working on something for them. We know the basic information and we are pulling additional information on the first Black Councilman in Garfield Heights was the late Montana Almond. Also the first Black Councilwoman in Garfield Heights was the late Mrs. Janet Almond. So we are pulling information on that. We are also going to actually donate one DVD for all the Black History Programs we have done in Garfield Heights for the last 16 years. We will give them a copy of that as well. And we have some other things. So I think that's great that we put that stuff in there so when people go through, they can actually get a chance to see the heritage as well, because it's all about education, Mayor. It is all about education. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mayor. MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Mr. President, if I may. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Please. MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: I left something out. I should have included it. I'm sorry, Mr. Dudley. Mr. Dudley has put us in contact with World United PPE. This is a company out of San Francisco or Los Angeles, California, who does free COVID testing. They will do a drive by testing. We have said, speaking to Nathan over there, he is going to try to do it in the parking lot down there by the Rec Center. It's just in the infant stages. They came in and tried to test some of the city workers but only one of them. I think one or two people got tested. It’s strictly volunteer but will be offered to the community as testing and they do not charge for it. They're funded by, you know, when I look at their Website, they're actually funded by companies like Anheuser Busch and Coca Cola. So this sounds like a pretty good organization. The other thing is, they are looking for a building or some place in Garfield Heights where they can have their offices here and I got to say, you know, thank you to Mr. Dudley, for actually bringing them to us. This is what I meant. This is when we look at COVID-19 we look at pandemic. This is a community effort and I really think that, you know, I got to commend you, Mr. Dudley, thank you so much. I really enjoyed meeting them there. They have become new friends of ours and I think that, you know, we'll be in front of this pandemic going forward. Thank you. CLMN DUDLEY: Thank you, Mayor. Appreciate that, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you for the meeting we had. 8 PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Councilman. Anybody else have any questions? OK. If not, we'll move on. Are there any Directors that have a report this evening? BUILDING COMMISSIONER MORO: Mr. President. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mark Moro, you have the floor. BUILDING COMMISSIONER MORO: Thank you. I just wanted to comment on Ordinance 29-2021. for the map, GIS mapping. It is a very important tool for the city and for the residents. It's unlimited is the information that we could get into that map and have at our fingertips, and it would be a huge time saver to be able to find all that information in one place, as opposed to having to go to several points of reference to get answers to questions. I would just urge Council to support that and push that through tonight. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Mr. Moro. Are there any other Directors that wish to speak tonight? OK. If there are no other Directors we’ll go to Communications by Citizens on the agenda. Barb, would you read the rules please? COMMENTS BY CITIZENS ON THE AGENDA: CLERK: Comments shall be strictly limited to brief statements not to exceed five minutes with comments limited to legislation on the current evening's agenda. No citizen shall speak more than once. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Are there any citizens wishing to speak on tonight's agenda? CLMN BLAKE: Ms. Kekyshia Cole would like to speak. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Ms. Cole, state your name and address for the record and we can go from there. Ms. Kekyshia Cole, 10911 Thornton Avenue. Hello. Thank you so much. I just wanted to quickly speak to the resolution that Mr. Blake has put forth regarding the parking on Thornton Avenue. I've lived here for a little over four years and in that period of time, every Friday and every Saturday, with the exception of when the pandemic closed the bars, I have been awakened in the middle of night routinely. There is consistently garbage in my yard, on my property. People are urinating in my yard. It is not just my home. It's every one on the street. People here are very hard working. We just want to sleep at night. And I know that you know Council is going to be voting on this tonight. And I would just really say that, you know, as Council members as you take this vote to please think of if this was your home and if you were not able to sleep two nights out of the week, and you were having to routinely call the police. You're picking up broken bottles, watching people urinate in your yard. And quite honestly, these people who are trashing our street are taunting us at this point. So I just wanted to bring that to the floor. I truly appreciate Mr. Blake, for really taking action on this because I've spoken on this before. I've expressed this concern before and this is the first time that any sort of action has been even attempted. So thank you, Mr. Blake. And that's all I have to say. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Are you the lady that lives next to Bonkers? MS. COLE: Yes, I am. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: I remember that. I understand what you're going through. Thank you, Ms. Cole. MS. COLE: Thank you. 9 PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Is there anybody else wishing to speak on tonight's agenda? Mr. Blake? CLMN BLAKE: I'm not seeing anybody but let me do one more scroll. I do not see anyone. ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS: PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Mr. Blake. I appreciate that. We will move on with the city's business as of now. And it'll be ordinances and resolutions. Starting off with Ordinance 27-2021. Barb, would you read the title? ORDINANCE NO. 27-2021 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR OR HIS DESIGNEE TO PURCHASE FIFTEEN (15) MOTOROLA APX6000 PORTABLE RADIOS FROM MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS TO BE USED BY THE GARFIELD HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT Moved by NENADOVICH to CONSIDER BY TITLE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to SUSPEND THREE READING RULE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to WAIVE RULE 24: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis VOTE ON ADOPTION: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Ordinance 27-2021 passes 6-0. There is an order of business that I want to go back to. I believe we forgot to excuse Ms. Davis from tonight's proceedings. Did we do that already, Barb? CLERK: Yes, sir. We excused Ms. Davis during the Council session. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK. Because I know we did it during Caucus. I just want to make sure I covered the bases. I apologize. That passes 6-0. We'll move on to Ordinance 28-2021. ORDINANCE NO. 28-2021 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH KIMBLE RECYCLING AND DISPOSAL, INC., THROUGH THE CITY OF SOUTH EUCLID FOR REFUSE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL AND CURBSIDE RECYCLING SERVICES Moved by NENADOVICH to CONSIDER BY TITLE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to WAIVE RULE 24: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to SUSPEND THREE READING RULE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis 10 VOTE ON ADOPTION: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Ordinance 28-2021 passes with 6 Yes votes. ORDINANCE NO. 29-2021 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH OHM ADVISORS FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A DIGITAL INTERACTIVE ZONING AND WARD MAP Moved by NENADOVICH to CONSIDER BY TITLE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to SUSPEND THREE READING RULE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to WAIVE RULE 24: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis VOTE ON ADOPTION: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Ordinance 29-2021 passes with 6 Yes votes. ORDINANCE NO. 30-2021 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ENACTED BY THE CITY OF GARFIELD HEIGHTS, CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE MUNICIPALITY THAT REQUESTS THE COOPERATION OF THE COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, OHIO, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE COUNTY, IN THE MATTER OF THE HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED IMPROVEMENT Moved by NENADOVICH to CONSIDER BY TITLE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to SUSPEND THREE READING RULE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to WAIVE RULE 24: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis VOTE ON ADOPTION: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Ordinance 30-2021 passes with 6 Yes votes. ORDINANCE NO. 31-2021 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH OHM ADVISORS TO PROVIDE ENGINEERING, BIDDING AND CONSTRUCTION TASKS FOR THE CUY- ANTENUCCI BOULEVARD; PID113268, ANTENUCCI BOULEVARD REHABILITATION PROJECT, PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT “A”. 11 Moved by NENADOVICH to CONSIDER BY TITLE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to SUSPEND THREE READING RULE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to WAIVE RULE 24: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis VOTE ON ADOPTION: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Ordinance 31-2021 passes with 6 Yes votes and 1 not present. RESOLUTION NO. 13-2021 AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR OR HIS DESIGNEE AT THE GARFIELD HEIGHTS FIRE DEPARTMENT TO APPLY FOR A TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT GRANT PROVIDED BY THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY – DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES Moved by NENADOVICH to CONSIDER BY TITLE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to SUSPEND THREE READING RULE: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis Motion to WAIVE RULE 24: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis VOTE ON ADOPTION: AYES: Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue ABSENT: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Resolution 13-2021 passes with 6 Yes votes and 1 not present. RESOLUTION NO. 14-2021 A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING THORNTON AVENUE BETWEEN TURNEY ROAD AND EAST 112TH STREET A “NO PARKING/TOW AWAY ZONE” BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 10:00 PM AND 6:00 AM. CLMN BLAKE: Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Blake. CLMN BLAKE: I’d like to make a motion to amend this resolution to emergency status. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK on the resolution, but we need a second on the motion. CLMN DUDLEY: I second it. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Dudley seconded it. On the motion by Mr. Blake to make this an emergency ordinance, Barb, would you take a vote? 12 AYES: Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue, Nenadovich ABSENT: Davis It’s now an emergency resolution. CLMN BLAKE: Mr. Chairman. Mr. Riley. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Riley. You have the floor. LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: (Unintelligible) You can't just say you're making an emergency. (Unintelligible) PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Riley, when I have Barb read the consider by title I'm going to ask her to make this an emergency resolution designating Thornton. Could I do that on the floor? LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: Yes, (Unintelligible). PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK. That would be done on the main ordinance. So that would also be on the title consideration, right? LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: Yes, (Unintelligible). PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK. That's what I'm saying. I was going to do that because I know you told me that once before. You got to change it on the paper and on the on the title when it's read. LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: Yes, (Unintelligible). PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: So we're going to amend Clmn Blake's motion to change the title on the paper resolution to “An emergency resolution designating Thornton Avenue between Turney Road and East 112th Street, a “no parking/tow away zone” between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.” Am I correct in doing that? LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: Yes, you need to put in there “Council declares this resolution to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and welfare; therefore, this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon the adoption by Council and approval by the Mayor; otherwise from and after the earliest period allowed by law.” PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Are you writing that all down, Barb? CLERK: I didn't get all that. LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: It’s the standard language that is in every ordinance or resolution that’s an emergency, Barb. On 27-2021 this is Section 3 right now. All you have to do is read that. That’s simple. So that has to be amended on to that resolution. CLERK: I’m sorry. Which ordinance has this text in it, so I can find it? LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: If you look at Ordinance 27-2021, there is emergency language in it, which is the same in every ordinance and resolution we pass. So if you read that in that is the amendment that could go in there. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: It's on tonight's agenda. It's part of Section 3. Do you have 27-2021 in front of you? CLERK: OK. This is in Ordinance 27 and it's Section 3. 13 PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Yes. What you're going to do to get this legal for our Law Department. In the title consideration you're going to put “an emergency resolution” and then reading the title and at the end, after 6:00 a.m., you will read Section 3 of 27-2021 to complete the title consideration. CLERK: All right. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK? LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: No. That's not proper. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK? Then what do we do? LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: Just say it’s an emergency resolution and then the rest of it is the same. Then you move to amend the body of the resolution and add a Section 3 which I just gave to Barb. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK. I see. I see what you're saying, Tim. I thought it had to be in the title. So we're going to add a Section 3 in the Whereas. LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: No. It’s in the Whereas with Section 3. (Unintelligible). PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Do we have to read that on the floor, Tim? LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: (Unintelligible). PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: We'll play it by ear, Barb. I'll guide you through this. You're going to read the title of this resolution. Starting off with “An emergency resolution”, then read the title. We'll go from there. We're making the amendment for Mr. Blake's motion. So Barb, would you please read the title? RESOLUTION NO. 14-2021 CLERK: Resolution number 14-2021. Sponsored by Clmn Jason Blake, Clmn Vaughn, Clmn Donahue, Clmn Dudley. An emergency resolution designating Thornton Avenue between Turney Road and East 112th Street a “no parking/tow away zone” between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. according to Clmn Blake's amendment. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Right, and we are going to also amend Section 3. We're going to add a Section 3 after Section 2 and it will be as follows. You will read Section 3 of part of Council Ordinance 27- 2021 to amend this after Section 2. So you have to say I'm amending the original ordinance and adding a Section 3 and add Section 3. CLERK: We are amending the original ordinance and adding Section 3, which is, “Council declares this Ordinance to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and welfare; therefore, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon the adoption by Council and approval by the Mayor, otherwise from and after the earliest period allowed by law.” LAW DIRECTOR RILEY: This is a resolution--not an ordinance. So let’s correct it. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Pardon? MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: This is a resolution and not an ordinance so when you add Section 3, it should say Council declares this resolution to be an emergency. 14 PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: I stand corrected. Thank you, Tim. How would we live without you, my friend? OK. We're changing that one word in Section 3, from ordinance to resolution. OK. Now, if we're all correct, I would like to make a motion that we consider by title, the amended Resolution as rewritten for our Law Department and Mr. Blake's motion. Would you take a vote Barb, starting with Mr. Blake. Moved by BLAKE to CONSIDER BY TITLE AS AMENDED: AYES: Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue, Nenadovich ABSENT: Davis Motion to SUSPEND THREE READING RULE: AYES: Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue, Nenadovich ABSENT: Davis VOTE ON ADOPTION: CLMN BLAKE: Before I vote, I want to thank Ms. Cole for speaking and giving everybody an idea of what's been going on. There's another issue involved I spoke about in Caucus. At times the parking on the street hinders safety vehicles from entering the back part of the fire station. We can't continue to allow that to happen. I did a ride along this past weekend and was able to see firsthand some of Ms. Cole's concerns as well as the other residents. I spoke to the majority of the residents on the street, and they've pretty much echoed similar concerns that Ms. Cole has, and I hope this, you know, fixes the problem. With that, I vote Yes. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Before I vote, thank you, Mr. Blake, for your real input in this and actually looking into the situation with the Police Department on your ride along. Thank you very much. And with that, I vote yes. AYES: Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley, Donahue, Nenadovich ABSENT: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: The Resolution number 14-2021 passes as amended. And that my Council members and public, concludes our ordinances and resolutions for the day. MISCELLANEOUS COMMENTS BY CITIZENS: PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: We will now move on to comments by citizens. Barb, would you read the rules please? CLERK: Comments shall be restricted to any problem a citizen has which has previously been submitted to his/her Councilperson or to the city hall department directly involved. If submission of a problem to a city hall department or a Councilperson is made and there is a lack of service rendered in this regard, the problem may then be presented during Comments from Citizens at a future meeting. It is the intention of this rule that no request of a first nature is presented on the floor at this time. Comments shall be limited to five minutes. No citizen shall be heard more than once. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Barb. Mr. Jason Blake, I'm referring to you for your first hand. CLMN BLAKE: Ms. Renae Bolton has her hand raised. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Ms. Bolton, would you please state your name and address? My name is Renae Bolton, 5749 Turney Road, Garfield Heights. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: You have the floor. MS. BOLTON: OK. So I think I have more of a question, not in like a statement. So as I've been walking around Garfield Heights, two things that I have noticed that I'm wondering what's happening with them on Woodward, there is a very serious sewer issue going on in the 12300 block of Woodward 15 and it's to the point where the sewer is backing up into people's facility in their homes. Their backyards are being like flooded, if it rains really bad. They were saying some really bad things about the sewer. And all of them have said that the sewer issues are coming from the street. So I'm just wondering what's being done there to try and resolve some of these issues for residents on Woodward? That's my one question. My other question is, also, as I've been walking around, I've seen a lot of sidewalks that are, the concrete is broken or uneven and it's due to tree roots from trees that are on the tree lawn. The roots are breaking up or pushing up the concrete blocks from the sidewalk. So it's all uneven in a lot of areas. I'm wondering, whose responsibility is it to fix those sidewalks and what can be done? I've seen several streets in Ward 6, for sure that need sidewalks repaired. And I don't know, I'm just thinking about it now that the weather is starting to break. Children will be out riding bikes and scooters and skateboards and all of that, and it's just injuries waiting to happen. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: We do have the Service Director on board. Mr. Sikon, could you address those issues, please? SERVICE DIRECTOR SIKON: Yes, first off, I heard nothing on Woodward. My department has not received a complaint on Woodward. I'm a little confused on what might be going on over there. But I would certainly investigate it if we had some more substantial addresses. We could check with the County see if something's going on with the sewers. But again, we haven't received anything. So I don't know if people were complaining to you and they didn't tell us possibly. And then as far as the sidewalks, it’s residents’ responsibilities that they're allowed to remove the roots and then replace the sidewalks. I think Mark Moro could also chime in on this but it is residents’ responsibility on the sidewalks. MS. BOLTON: So just one quick follow up question if I may. The city plants the trees on the tree lawn. The trees grow. The roots mess up the sidewalk and then the resident has to fix the sidewalk that's messed up because of the trees that the city plants. SERVICE DIRECTOR SIKON: The way it's written right now that's what we were always been told. That's how it's responsibility does lie on the residents to maintain their sidewalks. Yes. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: I went through that myself. I had to I had to replace my sidewalks. I cut the tree roots. If the tree doesn't die, fine. If it dies, the Service Department will take it down. I just chopped two roots right now. MS. BOLTON: OK. Thank you. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Ms. Bolton. Appreciate that. Jason. CLMN BLAKE: Mr. Chairman, Clifford Kelley has his hand raised. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Kelley, you have the floor. State your name and address please. Clifford Kelley, 12312 Eastwood Blvd. As I'm walking the Ward of Ward 6 myself, residents on Wolf Avenue. I know this has come up in the past but the residents on Wolf Avenue. The lower portion of Wolf Avenue in the 13600 block complain about the streets had been tore up for it seems like eons of time. I know the streets on the upper level of you know, some of the other streets they have been taken care of. But what are we doing for or every time I talked to them. This is not the first time. It's always on the list. It's on the list. And one resident had a clever joke. I guess they said you're on the list right behind the one who's dead. So in other words, you know, it seems like they're never getting to that street. So what 16 do I tell the residents on Wolf Avenue and so many other streets that that really need maintenance in the Ward? PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Mayor, I allude to you. MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Yes. Mr. Kelley, first of all, also for Ms. Bolton, I do recall I want to say about a year ago when we had the heavy rains on Woodward. And I did speak to then Service Director, Tim McLaughlin, they sent out somebody to dredge the entire main line that goes down Woodward. I've had just only one call from a resident over there and it seemed to take care of the problem. But he, you know, unfortunately, every time that it rained, he had some water in his basement, as did all of us too. Mr. Kelley, I will tell you that Multi Street Phase 5 covers Wolf from East 135th to its East end. I have been fighting for the residents on that street probably since day one as a Councilperson and I'm happy to tell you that I just talked to Jim Sickles this morning about Multi Street Phase 5. It's a $5 million project, which the city of Garfield Heights is paying $250,000.00. So this is a concerted effort between not just Garfield Heights but the County. They are scheduled to start sometime June or July of this year to do that street and I remember making the comment to Mr. Sickles that I can't wait for that one to get done so we could have a party on that street. I'm kind of glad you brought it up, because I did not report on it earlier. It was one of the things that just kind of, I mean, we kind of got dealt a blow today. So I'm a little shocked. So I'm glad you brought it up. Thank you. So you can tell everybody there probably June/July. MR. KELLEY: Thanks. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Sikon, you were waiting? SERVICE DIRECTOR SIKON: I just wanted to reiterate to Ms. Renae Bolton, I didn't realize you guys were speaking of this past problem, because we did address quite a bit on Woodward when we did jet and vac out all the main lines. I haven't heard of any complaints since. It was my point. I don't know if this was something new or something pre-existing. So, again, if we get some more solid addresses, they can just call or email my office. I will certainly reinvestigate if needed. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Mark. Mr. Kelley, we will allow you more time since Mark spoke. So go ahead if you have any more questions. MR. KELLEY: The second half of my comment was, there are several residents who complain about vehicles parked on aprons and on the sidewalk. Several complaints about that but it seems they are the houses that are like mainly on a side street, it looks like it only affects them because obviously they're the shorter driveways. But if you have like three, four or five cars you got to put them somewhere but the apron and the sidewalk to my understanding is the property of the city. So it affects people from walking or riding or walking the dogs, whatever they're doing. So that's an issue. And then I believe it's over on is that I believe it’s Shady Oak where the houses were torn down. We got rid of them. OK. Just put it on the floor There are a couple of residents who are interested in a dog park put there as opposed to maybe one day selling the lot and putting more houses there. We have the space there. We have several dogs in the area. It would be nice if a dog park was considered. So just you know, that is all. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: On that dog park idea. Why don't you drop a formal letter to your Council representative and we'll go from there and we could discuss that in our Parks and Recreation meetings. Make it a formal letter rather than here and that way we have a hard copy record of it. MR. KELLEY: Yes, sir. Okay. 17 PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Mr. Kelley. Anything else? CLMN BLAKE: Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Blake. CLMN BLAKE: Ian Cox has his right hand raised. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Ian, state your name and address and the floor will be yours after you do that. Mr. Cox: My name is Ian Cox. I'm at 10920 Elmwood and I need to take my hand down. I just wanted to know because is Elmwood a part of that street project? Because Elmwood is terrible. I know there's a neighbor of mine and myself. I'm not sure if there's any other neighbors have sent letters. I don't know if they've been received, but I have not received a response. Because Elmwood is pretty bad streetwise. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: You sent those letters to who, Sir? MR. COX: I sent them to the current department of the guy that was just talking with the blue hat on. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: The Service Department. MR. COX: Yes. I did that about two weeks ago. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Sikon. I'm sure that you're hearing what he's saying. I'm sure you'll look into it. SERVICE DIRECTOR SIKON: I did have some correspondence with Shayla on this. Right now we haven't even determined if there's a budget for repaving. Obviously I know of the street and it is in tough shape. We've made great strides with a lot of streets, who's got more work to do, but right now we're just waiting to see if there was a kind of budget for the streets this year. MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Mr. President, if I may, Multi Street Reconstruction Phase 5 streets in the project include East 109th, Langton to Edgepark, Turney to East 135th, South Parkway from East 131st East 139th, Garfield Drive from Turney to East 104th, Wolf from East 135th at the East end, East 88th Street from Grand Division to Birchwood, Park Heights from Turney to East 113th, Monica Lane from Thraves at Rockside and Darlington from East 128th to East 133rd. That's Multi Street Phase Five. Mr. Cox, I'll look into seeing if Multi Street Phase 6 includes Elmwood. But when we do these in phases, it's because they assess the streets and make sure that they're taking care of the worst ones first. And then we'll add the other ones in the next phase. Currently, we're looking for funding for Phase 6. So I will get with the City Engineer and find out if he has Elmwood on that list. If it's really bad, definitely, Mr. Sikon can go out take a look at it. Mr. Moro can go out and take a look at it, we can definitely try to assess it and see if it's on the list or put it on the list. MR. COX: OK. And in the meantime, if I may, Mr. Chair. In the meantime, there I have seen for the past couple of years where they, where they have the guys come out and put gravel in the areas where there's problems on the road. I see it happen every spring. I just would like some in the front of my driveway because my driveway apron is getting far from the street and it's causing some problems with me getting in my driveway in the wintertime. I don't know if I should reach out to you directly or if I should reach out to the Mayor directly or to just to the Mr. I can't pronounce his name and I don't want to mess it up. 18 MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Sikon. MR. COX: I want to reach out to him directly to have that done. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Yes, please. MR. COX: All right, that's all I got. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Just for the information of the people listening before I go to the next one. Mr. Blake has somebody for me. I know. There's 176-178 streets in the city. There's 82 miles of streets. So you know when we pave maybe a couple 100 yards. It's costing us a lot to do all of them. Just multiply it by two miles. Mr. Blake, do I have somebody else? CLMN BLAKE: Yes, Melissia Leonard. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Ms. Leonard, please state your name and address for Barb and the floor will be yours. Ms. Leonard. Hi, I’m Melissia Leonard, 4893 East 84th Street. I just had three main points that I wanted to discuss. The first is the Kimble contract with South Euclid. I appreciate the fact that we're trying to save money on the trash. So thank you guys for that. My biggest concern though, with that is there's been a lot of complaints and concerns overall in general in the city with trash, litter, trash, you know, blowing everywhere. You know, pretty much a few people already on this call tonight have discussed issues with that. My concern is how much of that is happening from the actual trash pickup. I know I've witnessed multiple times when the trash pickup comes, you know, they throw the can into the bin, and then trash flies everywhere all over the street, and no one picks it up. So I'm just wondering if anyone has been reaching out to Kimble and finding out, you know, their responsibility to pick up the trash that has blown out of the cans while they're, you know, in the process of disposing of it. So that's my first question. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: If I may stop you there for a second, I do have an answer for you. The Service Department under Mr. Sikon's direction, has called Kimble. Today, it was our trash day in Ward 3. I called the Service Department, they sent three trucks to pick up the streets that I gave them and the streets are impeccably clean. So this is a project that Mr. Sikon and the city is going through, and it is working, we are calling Kimble, they are sending a truck back to pick it up. But we have to notify the Service Department. You have to make that call. You would call the Service Department downtown at City Hall and if it's early enough in the day, they will go send another truck down to pick it up. MS. LEONARD: OK. So I guess my concern is not that them sending a truck to pick up the trash the second time around my concern is the first time around. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Yes. MS. LEONARD: If someone can have a conversation with them, I don't know if it's a staffing issue or, or what I mean today, like the recycle. You know, truck didn't come till six o'clock tonight. So I don't know what was going on with that tonight. They're usually here pretty early. But that's you know, besides the point, my main point is when they are picking up the trash, that if they notice something fell out of the trash that they would, you know, kindly pick it up and put it in. If not, then maybe we need to have more discussions with them and, and, you know, bring that to their attention and not to have to send someone out here the second time and pick up the trash that they dropped the first time. So obviously the city, you know, the citizens need to do their part. But you know, if they could help picking up the trash that they dropped, that would be helpful. 19 So my second point is to Renae's point, as far as the sidewalk issue. She makes a very valid point. It's pretty clear to me that possibly the city could look at, you know, revamping that policy, if there's a city tree lawn, and there's a tree on the city tree lawn, and it's corrupting the sidewalk that is also owned by the city, then why is it the citizens’ responsibility to correct that? Just makes no logical sense to me other than a financial burden on the city, which I understand as well. But I'm thinking it makes more sense to look at that ordinance and revamp it and figure out what we can do to make that make logical sense. If this is a city tree lawn, if it's a city tree that's causing damage, then it seems like the city should be responsible for repairing that damage to the sidewalk. And then last but not least, you know, I brought up in the letter that I am requesting that the sections in the Charter be reviewed and amended as far as the boards and committees. So I haven't heard anyone speak about that yet. So I guess now's the time, if anyone has comments about that, but I'm really hoping that we can look at amending that, and at least reviewing that in Legislative Committee. MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Mr. President, if I may. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Go ahead, Mr. Burke. MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: In regards to your letter, Ms. Leonard, I did get that earlier today. I really wish I would have had a little bit more time to review it before I had to address it. I did fully intend on making a comment but with the some of the things that came out earlier today in this meeting, it was a little choppy. I do and will take everything you've written in your letter under consideration. As you know, because you went through an interview process with me the other day in regards to the Community Relations Committee, I am working on committees. I am working on getting people appointed. I am working on getting the Website done and these things will take time to do so I ask your patience in that. I also would hope that in revealing some of these conditions in boards that we do not hold up processes in progress for the city in regards to some of the businesses out there that are trying to come to Garfield Heights and want to have their zoning issues or planning issues addressed. We don't have people that are on those issues or on those boards, we have to put it out to the public and get people apply, which could be, as the committee for the public relations is taking about two months now, to get people interviewed. I went through 14 interviews last week, in regards to that. So I assume we'll have about 14/15 interviews per committee position that is open. And as soon as we can get those listed all on our Website, we will. In regards to the sidewalks, I've lived in this community my entire life and the sidewalk issue has always been the responsibility of the residents. I've had to replace my sidewalks in the past, I certainly don't see why that should change. However, if it needs to be changed, and Council would like to pass an ordinance to put more money on the backs of the taxpayers that address the sidewalks that can be done. But where are you going to get the money to replace every sidewalk in the city without having to go into fiscal emergency to do so? These things take a lot of money and unfortunately, we just don't have it in the budget. I'm not telling you that to blow smoke, I'm just telling you, it's real numbers. And you're more than welcome to meet with me, meet with the Finance Director and help us try to find where we can get the money to replace sidewalks. It's a very real issue. Like I said, something we have been doing since the very beginning of my time in Garfield Heights for about 30 years now and I believe it's been that way since the Charter was written. MS. LEONARD: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that if I said that I wasn't insinuating that we replace everyone's sidewalk, I was only insinuating that we replace the sidewalk where the city tree is causing damage. So if I said that wrong, I'm sorry. But that's not what I didn't mean to replace everyone’s sidewalk. 20 MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: I appreciate you for clarifying that. But it comes at a cost to the residents of the city. And I mean, if that's what Council wants to do, if that's how you want me to spend the city money, and possibly put the city back into fiscal emergency, then I'm sure that everybody will be on this call blaming the Mayor for putting the city back in the fiscal emergency. I mean, these are real issues that we have to deal with. The very first priority I have is to try to bring businesses in here so that we can address the tax issues. So that we have money to be able to do those types of things. But I'll be honest with you, I mean, since 1956, when this city was founded, or whatever the Charter was founded, it's always been the residents’ responsibility to keep up their sidewalk. I mean, I've had to do it, my neighbor currently is doing it because of a tree. It just is something that has to happen and it usually falls on to the residents. That's just the way it's always been until it changes. There's nothing we can do. And again, you know, where do we get the money? I would love for you to sit down with me and go over the budget. Show me where we're going to get the money to do exactly where we're going to get the money. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Mayor. MS. LEONARD: So are we not going to look at amending anything? That's I guess, back to the committee's and board discussion. MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: I would say you know, I don't know, that is up to Council. But I will tell you that usually that type of stuff is talked about in a committee meeting. It is not talked about on the Council floor where the meeting is really to address the legislation and stuff that we have the business dealings of the city of Garfield Heights. That should be something that could be talked about in a Ways and Means Committee, or in a Safety Committee or of that nature, and that's something that they would have another committee meeting on. So I would start with your Council member and then have him call a meeting or call on whoever it is to call that meeting. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: In answer to that last chat, I saw the city has stopped planting trees, number one due to the cost of the tree, and number two to the damage. We don't plant trees anymore. And as far as the roots go, everybody that, like I said before, including myself, when the sidewalks needed to be replaced--you cut the roots. If the tree dies, the Service Department will take it down. That's our property. But other than that, this has been this way since like the Mayor says, the Charter, and it's written right into your I believe it's written into the paperwork when you buy the home, that the sidewalks and the apron are your responsibility. And I believe you signed for that. So it could be looked at. I'm not saying it can't. Everything can be looked at. There's 17 committees in this city. And a lot of them we’re already working on. A lot of the committees are up to snuff. And the other ones we'll address as the questions arise. I’m not putting you off, Ms. Leonard, I'm just giving you the facts that they come through that I've been dealing with for the past 47 years that I've been in the city. So anything else, Ms. Leonard? You still have the floor. CLMN VAUGHN: Time time. Okay. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Time, Tom? OK. Thank you, Tom. CLMN BLAKE: Mr. Chairman, Mark Sikon was raising his hand. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Sikon, you have the floor as a Director. SERVICE DIRECTOR SIKON: I just wanted to respond to Melissia and let her know that I did have extensive conversations with Kimble, their general manager, and he sent out one of their inspectors to have a conversation with me. I did discuss that exact situation that, you know, I felt that some of the 21 trash during the transfer from putting it in the hopper and bringing it into the truck was causing some of the litter issues that we are having. It's certainly not all the litter issues we're having--but it's some. They said that the drivers have mirrors and they're supposed to be picking this stuff up. I just made a special request that they bring in their supervisors to supervise them more because I thought that there was an issue. They told me 100% they will get this rectified. I know they already did speak with their drivers. So I just wanted to let her know. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Mr. Sikon. That's the exact answer I got from your assistants in the Service Department today that you are handling this and you've been doing it for the past couple of weeks with Kimble. I appreciate that, Sir. Thank you. Mr. Jason. CLMN BLAKE: Mr. Chairman, Kevyn McHenry. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. McHenry, Please state your name and address for the record and the floor will be yours. Mr. McHenry. Thank you, Chairman, Kevyn McHenry. We're at 12108 Henia Circle. That is in the city of Garfield Heights. We first of all just want to say it was an honor to be able to serve the community the citizens of Garfield Heights. It was just really a tremendous honor and tremendous effort on all. We want to also thank the city of Garfield Heights for their support. We do want to thank Mayor Burke for his input making it happen as far as the Civic Center and belief in the city's need to be safe. Also, on a side note, I want to also thank Clmn Michael Dudley, because he did invite me to the meeting, he did invite us to put this idea of the vaccination on the market for the citizens of Garfield as well. We want to thank everyone--all of our volunteers. We had a number of them. We also want to thank Nichelle for her support and for her distribution of PPE, the volunteers at Walgreens, the Love of the Community Outreach, Black Nurses Society of Cleveland and the Garfield Heights Civic Center staff. Those guys were great. They made sure we had everything we needed. I mean, they were instrumental in making the operation as smooth as it was. And again, we want to give a big thanks and a big shout out to all the Garfield Heights residents, they came out, were patient with the process and were eager to do their part in their portion in taking responsibility of presenting a safer community. We want to thank them for their courage in coming out and also experiencing the vaccination. We just want to thank the neighborhood entirely for all their support. We are here at Garfield Heights Church of Christ. We're here to serve the Garfield Heights community and anybody else in any way we can. So once again, our conversation is not any kind of concern. It's a thank you to the city of Garfield Heights. We saw a number of the Councilmen. I believe not all of you came out, we had some Judges, we had some secretaries of the city. So we met a lot of people and it was just a great occasion and a greater friend. We just want to say thank you again my wife and myself, the First Lady here, Tomika, very instrumental in the medical facility and the medical field as well for her team we together to make this day possible. So we just want to say thank you all. God bless. With that, Chairman, I'm done. MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Pastor McHenry, I want to say I'm honored you even thought of partnering with us. And certainly like I said before, it's our civic duty. I feel we made history, I think we're probably the first city to help roll out the vaccine. I don't know of any other cities around us that have done it. But I'll tell you and I said it earlier in my report, I have to say thank you to you and your staff. The countless hours you guys put in. How well you organized this whole event, along with the staff at Walgreens. We were just impressed with how well everything went. I can't thank you enough. I know that one of these days, like we talked about, we're going to be old and gray and we're going to look back and say, you know, we made history on March 20, 2021, in administering and inoculating people and doing our duty as American citizens to do that. I thank you. 22 And by the way, I know I spoke with Brianna, that night there and I hate to get off the subject, but you need to please tell her to call Lawrence Lane because he can help her with her dream of becoming the culinary expert and owning her own business. CLMN BLAKE: Mr. Chairman. Clmn Tagliarini had a comment. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Clmn Tagliarini, you have the floor. CLMN TAGLIARINI: Thank you. I just want to thank Pastor McHenry and his staff and all his volunteers. Me and my wife have been trying for weeks to get vaccinated. We're both over 60 and 68 years old and had no response from anybody. This came along. You did a fantastic job. We're just amazed how smooth it went. We sure do appreciate it and I just wanted to thank you. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Myself, also Mr. McHenry and Tomika. This moved smoother than butter flying across a frying pan. Everything just sort of flowed. I mean, come in, the movement around the room and the volunteers you had. I applaud you, Mr. and Mrs. McHenry. Great job. Mr. Blake, do you have anybody else? CLMN BLAKE: Yes, Ms. Gisele Gaynor. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Dudley, right after Ms. Gisele Gaynor, we're going to put you back on the floor, Mr. Dudley. After Jill. She had her hand up a little bit before. Ms. Gaynor, state your name and address and the floor is yours. Hi, Gisele Gainer, 4957 East 81st Street. I had a really quick question. I won't spend too much time here. But back on the sidewalk issue. My overall question is, is there a set budgetary meeting or something that shows the allocation of percentages for tax dollars that we pay, like what buckets they go into? And if there is, how often is that revisited? Because I'm sure like any other budget, you move numbers around as need be depending on you know, what the city's needs are? PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: I could address that issue for you. Ms. Biro, the floor is yours. See how I addressed that? MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Mr. Chairman, I don't know if Ms. Biro is still on the call. However, I can tell you that there's different fund, Ms. Gainer. You have your General Fund and then you have like your street lighting fund and street repair. So for instance, street construction maintenance and repair fund. There's $1,857,000.00 that goes to that fund. And the sad part about that is it does not take long for you to go through $1,857,000.00 when you're reconstructing the streets. And then your other question, and this is something I found out when I became a cost person, I said, we've got all this money in the Rec Fund that's, you know, abundant. Why can't we use it to fix the streets? And I found out through David Yost, who at that time was the State of Ohio Auditor, he said that's against the law to do that. You can only take money out of the General Fund and move it into other funds but you can't take money out of a Rec Fund and move it into your Street Fund. If you'd like, you know, again, we could sit down and talk about this. I have the budget I literally carry that thing with me everywhere I go because it literally tells me what we have in the budget to do with. And I'll be honest with you, I wish the numbers were bigger than these, it would help us address a lot of stuff here in Garfield Heights, you have to keep in mind, it's not stuff that we don't want to do it. It's just it takes money to do it. And unfortunately, when you look at some of these funds, I mean, there's things that you pull your hair out at because what you think is important in one fund, you know, you can't move it to another fund, where it really is important. But it's something that we deal with every day here. And 23 again, you know, if you would like, I'd love to sit down and go over it with you, I can have Barb Biro. And certainly anytime you guys want to speak with Barb Biro, she is available, she makes herself available to go through and literally show you our budget and what goes on with it. MS. GAINER: Sure, and I appreciate that, Mayor Burke, but I don't think it's necessary for me to look at the budget. I have my own budget. That is enough. But from an annual financial review perspective. I'm used to the corporate side of things. And I know from corporate leadership, we review our budgets annually. And then we choose how we allocate dollars throughout the year based on our fiscal plan. Is something similar followed through the city where you have that prioritization conversation in those meetings, and if so, is it annually or twice a year? What does that cadence look like? MAYOR MATTHEW BURKE: Mr. Vaughn, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we do a Finance Budget hearing at least once a year, probably twice a year from what I remember. CLMN VAUGHN: We go over the entire budget, October, early November, so that everything can become in line so that it can be approved of by for the first of the year. We also do previous looks during the year, you know, where are we behind? Where are we ahead? That type of thing. If you want a breakdown of where your tax dollars are going, flip over the backside of your tax invoice. It will list how much the schools get, how much parks like Metro Parks, Metro Health System, the County government, all that gets from your tax dollars. If I remember correctly, we're getting about 22 cents on every dollar that comes in on the tax budget from last year. So but yeah, you can always look at your tax bill and that kind of breaks it down. I understand what you're asking, but there's where I would look first. MS. GAINER: OK. Thank you. I'm so used to it rolling into my mortgage. Right, I will definitely take a look. Thank you. CLMN VAUGHN: No problem. Good question. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Ms. Gainer. That was a good question. Yes, very much so. Mr. Blake. CLMN BLAKE: I'll do one more scroll, but I'm not seeing any more hands. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK. I do have a hand. I do have a head. Mr. Dudley. You have the floor. You want to make this your Comments by Council? CLMN DUDLEY: No. Mr. Chairman, I can cover this in Comments by Council. I will save it for then. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: OK. Mr. Blake, Do we have anything else? CLMN BLAKE: I'm not seeing anybody. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: So at this time, we will move on to. Well, first of all, I want to thank everybody. Great meeting, again, two in a row. I don't want to jinx us. Let's go for three. But great meeting, very calm, very well run as residents were very, very helpful and going with some good questions this time--excellent questions. I like the responses, especially by our Service Director and our Mayor. I really appreciate that. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS: PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: So we will move into comments by Council. We will start off with Mr. Dudley. 24 CLMN DUDLEY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Council. I want to first thank Minister McHenry and the First Lady because since I have really been involved in this city, and maybe became more involved, and I'm thinking for the journeys that we done last year when it was a lot of you know, times it was going on some tough times and a lot of things we were facing throughout the nation and I know he attended several meetings with me and he would take off work actually to come to the meetings as well. I appreciate what you're doing on the COVID for the city and I think that's a great idea that you brought it home to help the residents in the city of Garfield Heights. I would love to have attended Saturday, but it was my First Lady's birthday, that’s where I was, but I did see the pictures and I thank Ms. Nichelle for being up there as well. So I thank what you guys are doing and it is appreciated. I know everybody appreciates the effort that you put in. Also everybody who volunteered as well, who in all sort of elected officials who attended and showed support and the residents also. So just continue doing what you're doing and believe me everybody do notice. We all appreciate you Minister, you and the First Lady as well. Thank you for that. Also, I wanted to touch base, like the Mayor have mentioned about United for the company came in, we're going to be doing this testing, we also going to be up at Holy Spirit as well, we did have an opportunity to meet with Father David and also Dr. Aikens who runs Smart Academy up there. So that's in progress also, because have you noticed something they mentioned on a news, even if you take the test, you need to still take the little stick prick on a finger that made sure that you develop the antibodies that it's going to fight that COVID testing. But I was in all honesty in Garfield Heights, it's not something I'm doing something just Council or doing something the Mayor doing, and something we work on unitedly because it's important that your public health is one of the most important things to all of us, not just me, not just America, but to all and people who serve you. So that is going to kick off soon. I will get it out to the city and well as my colleagues as well. I know they definitely will be able to attend and come through and see how the processes work. This is going to be a short one. But I like to say I wish everybody I don't believe we're going to meet before Easter. I wish everybody a Happy Easter and have a safe Easter and just enjoy your family. Enjoy the meal. And on the 27th, right. On Saturday, I don't have my calendar for and I believe at the 27th we will be doing our annual dinner for St. Timothy Manor and what we do we provide them with a hot meal and like Clmn Vaughn said, it is something that I've been doing for, I guess 15 years or better, but I love my Seniors and we love the community. You know, as I say we, not I, we do love this community. And you know, through the tough times and the good times that we try to be there. So I just want to thank all y'all. Y’all stay safe, enjoy your Easters, your family, most of all. Just take a step back at all we went through and things to happen last year and even going in this year with COVID and now you get an opportunity to spend a lot of time but do ventilate. I want to say honestly ventilate if you can. With that, I thank you, Mr. Chairman. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Dudley, thank you very much for your comments. Mr. Vaughn, we're going to bounce on to the end. You have the floor next. CLMN VAUGHN: Mr. Chairman, you're throwing me off there. First. I would like to express my condolences to the Roman family. Sorry for your loss. Vaccine Center, the McHenrys. What a great job this weekend. It ran like a fine oiled machine. Everybody was pleasant. It was enjoyable. I am very apprehensive at needles. I didn't even feel it. It was great. An excellent thing for our community. And I thank Mayor Burke and the McHenry’s for getting involved in doing this. I am informing everybody that the end of April I will be bringing back my Block Watches and they will be starting again--weather permitting. We're going to be outside. So bring your lawn chairs. We'll sit. We'll 25 have a talk, we'll chat and maybe we can bring everybody up to speed. There are so many misconceptions out there on Facebook, social media. It's best we sit down, we talk and we can express concerns on everything. A lot has happened in the past year and we all need that human element. Everybody, as my good friend Mike Dudley said, Easter's coming up. I looked up at the calendar and he's right. We're looking at almost what 10 days away. So everybody have an enjoyable, safe and a blessed Easter. That's all I have. Thank you. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you, Councilman. We will next go to Mr. Charles Donahue. CLMN DONAHUE: OK. This is going to be unusual. I do have something. I've got a lot written down, which is unusual for me. After I get done talking, I'll probably be ridiculed for it, but I have a few concerns. When, I don't mind people talking at the end when residents get there, get to communicate. But you're supposed to talk to your Councilman first. A lot of times your Councilman or Councilwoman can take care of you; they can investigate this for you and get back to you. So you don't have to wait until the Council meeting to actually voice what you want to voice. And a lot of people that are talking, aren't getting or haven't talked to their Council people. And that's part of the process, you talk to your Council member, then you get in if we can't do anything for you or if we say go ahead and talk at the meeting, then you go ahead and talk into the meeting. Well, I mean, we will never stop you from talking in a meeting. It's just there is a process to this. This is supposed to be a legislative meeting. Next, and this is going to I'm going to get ridiculed from the city for this. Why can't we open the Civic Center? We open the churches, the bars are open, we can go shopping, but we can't get in our Civic Center. Now the Council people can, and I've gone in there and it might be because everybody that’s working in there--they don't wear their masks--and I believe that's against CDC law. You're still supposed to have your mask on while you're in there. You go to the Building Department. They're sitting there without their masks. Somebody comes up to the little piece of Plexiglas, and boom, they don't have a mask on but you have to wear your mask. I think the Civic Center needs to be opened back up to the people. Council packets. I've asked for Council packets to be so I like to pick it up at the Civic Center. Last meeting, I was under the impression we got that. I went to the Civic Center to pick up my packet. I'm told well you got to go back to the police station. I don't want to go to the police station anymore. I want to pick up my packet at the Civic Center. I've got time. There are other members to Council that work and maybe can't get to the Civic Center and the police station is open 24 hours a day. I don't want to go over there and bother those people. These people are sitting in the Civic Center doing I'm sorry, nothing, because we're not allowed in there. I want to go in there and get my packet there. I want to congratulate the McHenry's. I didn't get to the vaccination center. I didn't need to. I have other ways. I'm a VA, I'm a Veteran. I go to VA, they took care of me there. But for everything they did for all these other people. That was great. You people you're fantastic to get to organize this and get it all done. You’re really fantastic. I applaud you for that. OK. I think I've got enough. I'm going to get ridiculed and beat up by the city and beat up by my residents. But I'm, I really want this done. We need to get back in the Civic Center. The elderly need to get back in there and work. They've got their shots already. They wear masks, they can go in there. They can go do what they need to do. Now something nice, I wish everybody a Happy Easter. That's all I have to say. Thank you very much. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: When it's my turn to talk, Mr. Donahue, I have one point I would like to bring up with you. I'll address it but I'm going to go through the meeting because I'm going to speak last. So we will next go to Mr. Tagliarini. 26 CLMN TAGLIARINI: Thank you, Sir. Again, I’d like to thank Pastor McHenry. He did a fantastic job and maybe you saved some lives in the city. That's possible. With that I take my hat off and I'm sure many others do. It was a great thing that you did. I believe there's going to be another wave this Saturday? Am I correct on it? Good. That is true. It'd be great as we continue with that program. I’d like to send my condolences out to the Roman family. Sad loss. I’d like to address Mrs. Cole’s concerns tonight about Thornton Avenue. It's a long time coming that we did something with that, too. It's been a thorn on Thornton for a long time. Time that we did something to help them people out. Nobody should have to live with. I'd like to wish everybody a great Easter--safe, eat hearty, and enjoy your families. With that, I'm done. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you Mr. Tagliarini. We will move next to Clmn Jason Blake. CLMN BLAKE: I'll be brief. Mr. Chairman. I'd also like to thank the McHenry’s for their vaccination program. It was really efficient and everything moved so effortlessly. I would just like to thank you for your commitment to the city of Garfield Heights. As everybody said it was a really great thing that that you guys did. I’d like to offer my condolences to the Roman family as well. I would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter. With that, Mr. Chairman, those are my comments. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Thank you very much. OK. I'll make it brief. First of all, I’d like to thank the Mayor for taking the initiative to open up our Civic Center to the McHenry’s for the job they had done. I think it was a great move, to show that Garfield Heights is doing their part. It wasn't something Council did. It wasn't something that the Administrators did. It was something that the Mayor did when he heard Mr. McHenry needed a place. And he heard that through Mr. Dudley. I commend them both on that for acting on it so quick. Again, Mr. and Mrs. McHenry, butter in a frying pan, just smooth as grease. So I thank you for that again. I want to thank Walgreens for all the employees they sent over there. They were very pleasant, they did a great job. And the only argument I got was for my wife, she had to walk more than 10 feet. But that's my problem. Ms. Daniels, thank you very much for all the handouts you gave us. All the personal protective equipment. I've been handing it out to some of my residents that I see at the convenience store. And they're very, very appreciative. I think we're moving ahead with this in the right direction. I'm looking at the papers and stuff and the numbers are getting lower and lower. Maybe pretty soon we can start meeting and having get-togethers again at City Hall, cookouts and maybe even something in the summer at the band concert. I again, appreciate Ms. Daniels’ efforts too. She was in there. My sympathies to Sheila and her family--the Romans. Any death is a tragic tragedy. And we've all been through it quite a few times, especially as older residents. It's not something you can avoid. It's a reality. But you can't tell that to the person that lost a loved one because to them it's a tragedy. You just have to work through it. And some people never do. I see the results of that sometimes. Mr. Blake, I want to thank you so much for the help you've given me on these meetings, running the roster and many people in the room keeping the hands raised. I thought I could do it myself. There was a guy, I don't know what his name was. But he told me he says Mike, I don't think you're going to be able to do it by yourself. I think they call him Mayor or something like that. But with your help we're moving through this here and it's a very smooth transition. I like the way these meetings are going. I still 27 can't wait to get back in Council chambers. But I'm really pleased with the way you're handling this and taking care of us on Council, Jason. I really appreciate that. And Chuck, I spoke with the Mayor about this. There's people that want packets at the police station, people that want them delivered to the home. People that want them delivered at City Hall. What I did last week, as I told the Mayor, I took it upon myself and said all packets will go to the police station. If somebody wants to have a packet delivered someplace else, I would appreciate if they would give the Law Department and the Mayor a letter stating where they want their packet dropped. So at least we can keep track of it and know that this person is there. That way if it gets missed because you didn't make it for some reason, or you know I forget to go to the police station. There are weeks I don't pick my packet up till 11 o'clock at night at the police station. I give them a call, they meet me in the door. It takes me about half a minute. But I mean, I would request that just for all clarification so we don't go back and forth. Where's this one's going to be dropped? Just drop a note. “Chuck Donahue pick up at City Hall. Thank you” and just submit it to the Mayor or our Clerk, and that should take care of that. Like I said, I want my police station. I don't know how everybody else feels. I like the convenience. I can go at one o'clock in the morning and get it if I forget. On another note. I want to thank all the residents again, for actually talking at the meetings, sitting here making civil discussions, no beating on the table yelling or screaming. I think we accomplish more with honey than we do with vinegar. And again, I thank all the Directors that are here. Mark, thank you for your input. Paul, I see you sitting there, you're doing a great job, I think in the Rec Center. And with that, I want to wish everybody a Happy Easter. And don't forget tomorrow night for Clmn Tom Vaughn's request and motion. There will be a meeting at 6:30 p.m. It will be a Zoom meeting and it will be discussing the information that was brought to light tonight through Mr. Dudley. And with that, I would like to entertain a motion from somebody to adjourn tonight's meeting. CLMN DONAHUE: I got a motion to adjourn the meeting. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Do I have a second? CLMN TAGLIARINI: I'll second it. PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: Mr. Tagliarini on the motion to adjourn tonight's Council meeting. Barb, would you take a roll call? AYES: Donahue, Nenadovich, Blake, Tagliarini, Vaughn, Dudley ABSENT: Davis PRESIDENT NENADOVICH: That’s 6 Yes votes. At 9:06 p.m. on 3/22/2021 the Council meeting for Garfield Heights stands adjourned. APPROVED: RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED: _____________________________ __________________________ Michael T. Nenadovich Barbara Molin President of Council Clerk of Council 28