City Council

VILLAGE OF GREENWICH – STATE OF OHIO Administration Offices: 45 Main Street. Greenwich, Ohio 44837 (419) 752-2441 November 19, 2019 Moment of silence Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call: Lloyd Yes, R. Wilson Yes, King Yes, Phillips Yes Absence: -- Lloyd moved to excuse T. Wilson, King seconded. Vote as followed: Lloyd Yes, King Yes, R. Wilson Abstained, Phillips Yes. R. Wilson moved to excuse Shoemaker, Lloyd seconded. Vote as followed: Lloyd Yes, King Yes, R. Wilson Yes, Phillips Yes. Council met in regular session with additional members present: Police Chief Steve Dorsey, Administrator Virgil Giles, Zoning Inspector Cles Inmon, and Fiscal Officer Jennifer Meyer and from the Greenwich Improvement Group, Gayle Bovia. Clerks Report: N/A Lloyd moved to accept council minutes of the November 5th, 2019 meeting, R. Wilson seconded. Vote as followed: Lloyd Yes, King Yes, R. Wilson Yes, Phillips Yes. Lloyd moved to accept the invoices in amount of $231661.84, R. Wilson seconded. Vote as followed: R. Wilson Yes, Lloyd Yes, King Yes, Phillips Yes Visitor’s Addressing: Gayle Bovia announced that GIG will be having their 7th annual Hometown Christmas. The dates for upcoming events are: December 7th is the Christmas Parade @ 11 am, December 8th is the Christmas Tree Lighting @ 6 pm with Cookies, Hot dogs and Caroling, December 15th @ 6 pm is Christmas Caroling and December 22nd is Christmas Caroling with the Mennonite Church for the shut-ins following with hot coco at Municipal Hall. Mickey Mart will have Coffee on December 6 & 7th for $.50, CiVista Bank will have drawings and East of Chicago will have a basket drawing. The Rotary Club is looking for new members, Bob Buskey is heading up the club and wanting to bring it back to Greenwich and he is the contact person to join, you don’t have to be a business owner to do so. Rails to Trails is a 7 mile, 7-acre trail from New London to Greenwich, it will be for walking, running, bicycling and skating. There will be no 4-wheelers or motorized vehicles allowed on the trail. Fisher Titus is considering to build a maintenance building at one end of the trail to be able to maintain the trail as their donation. Committee Mtgs. Fire Board 12/02/19 @ 7:00 PM Records Committee 05/05/20 @ 6:30 PM Ambulance Board 12/09/20 @ 5:00 PM Administrator’s Report: Administrator Giles states that he will be pouring concrete tomorrow to fix a couple sidewalks. Also wanted to make a recommendation on the sewer rate due to the discussion that took place at the Utility Committee meeting for the sewer structure. Giles is recommending $1.80 increase to the sewer’s base rate (first 2000 gallons). This would make the first 2000 gallons $8.00 a month as it stands now at 1|P a g e Wesley Sallee Mayor  VILLAGE OF GREENWICH – STATE OF OHIO Administration Offices: 45 Main Street. Greenwich, Ohio 44837 (419) 752-2441 $6.20. This would be about a $1,000 dollar a month increase, a $12,000 yearly increase and would be directly funded into a capital outlay asset management account. Chief’s Report: Chief Dorsey stated about officers are still attending court proceedings for the semi’s but that he expects this to be over with by the end of December, as the truck drivers are pleading down on their citations. The Police Department has arrested a person on arson charges, a preliminary hearing was completed on Wednesday and the case will be heard by a Grand Jury in December. The Police Department is still investigating an attempted robbery that happened at the bank. The Police Department is still very busy. Chief will be getting the media releases into the system. The Chiefs of Police and the Sheriff’s Department of Huron County met and discussed money and the 911 system, they are looking at buying new radio equipment for the whole county. Grant money has been awarded through the Fire Department as well and the police department will use some of that money to buy radio equipment as well. It will be a difficult change for Greenwich because there is no repeater, as we lease a repeater through Futronics. Administrator Giles had a question of getting new radios through the grant money and having them tie into other law enforcement agencies, chief answered, yes. Chief states that there is a better signal off of the portable radio’s than the car radio and his officers use the portable’s more often. Zoning Inspector: Cles states that zoning is going ok and that he will be sending in his reports to Norwalk this weekend. Solicitor’s Report: N/A Mayor’s Report: N/A Council Discussion: There will be cake served on the 17th for Betty Inmon and Jerry Shoemakers retirement from the Village. Unfinished Business: New Business: R. Wilson made a motion to go into executive session to discuss Personnel Compensation ORC 121.22 (G)(1) Lloyd seconded. Vote as followed: Lloyd Yes, King Yes, R. Wilson Yes, Phillips Yes, Time Entered: 7:26 pm Time Exited: 7:39 pm Lloyd move to adjourn. R. Wilson seconded. Vote as followed: Lloyd Yes, King Yes, Phillips Yes, R. Wilson Yes. Mayor Wesley Sallee Fiscal Officer, Jennifer Meyer 2|P a g e Wesley Sallee Mayor