City Council

VILLAGE OF GREENWICH – STATE OF OHIO Administration Offices: 45 Main Street. Greenwich, Ohio 44837 (419) 752-2441 December 17th , 2019 Moment of silence Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call: Shoemaker-Yes, Lloyd-Yes, T. Wilson-Yes, R. Wilson-Yes, King-Yes, Phillips- Yes Council met in regular session with additional members present: Police Chief Steve Dorsey, Administrator Virgil Giles, Zoning Inspector Cles Inmon, Fiscal Officer Betty Inmon, and Fiscal Officer Jennifer Meyer. Clerks Report: Finance will be going into temporary appropriations on Monday December 30th, 2019. Lloyd moved to accept council minutes of the December 3rd, 2019 meeting; R. Wilson seconded. Vote as followed: Shoemaker Yes, Lloyd Yes, T. Wilson Yes, R. Wilson Yes, King Yes, Phillips Yes. Shoemaker moved to accept the invoices in amount of $73,764.29, T. Wilson seconded. Vote as followed: Shoemaker Yes, Lloyd Yes, T. Wilson Yes, R. Wilson Yes, King Yes, Phillips Yes. Visitor’s Addressing: Committee Mtgs. Fire Board 01/06/20 & E.O.Y 12/30/19 @ 7:00 PM Records Committee 05/05/20 @ 6:30 PM Ambulance Board 12/09/20 & 01/20/20 @ 5:00 PM Administrator’s Report: Administrator Giles reported on the meeting he attended that took place with the SCEIG Finance committee, they give the best feedback to small communities to help find funding for upcoming projects. Nothing is definitive but it looks promising, he will be going for one nomination of grants at time. On the substation owned by AEP, Virgil has been granted oil testing on the transformer and will be hiring SD Myers to do so. He will later be bringing back more information about purchasing the substation to council and in a future budget meeting he will discuss the funds for the Village upgrades. Lynne asked if he has looked into Ohio Rural Development. Virgil answered that is exactly what he has looked into and that they are looking like the best group and beneficial to go with. There is also CDBG and Ohio Public Water Works and he will be going after multiple sources. Chief’s Report: Chief Dorsey stated that the new ID maker has been set up and if anyone would like an ID card made issued, Officer Painter can print one out for them, he recommends that all Village employees get issued one, especially when the utility guys are out reading meters. The Fire department had gone in on half the cost of the printer and it does a nice job. On December 29th there will be a meeting that will take place about the new radios and if they decide to go with the Kenwood radio’s the Village may lose the use of the repeater. Right now, there are 4 felony cases that are at the prosecutor’s office for indictments and that there have been 3 OVI stops with in the Village. Chief states that thanks to the bridge being down it has taught our officers to be more aggressive in stops and that is why the increase of OVI stops. No other serious 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 crimes have been reported and there are no updates on the status of the camera. Chief will be sitting down with the Utility Dept to work out issues with the weather and road conditions. With the finance report, he has been looking over the payments from the courts and he is still waiting for the month of December’s court fines to come in and that with the truck citations the fines were roughly around $32,000.00. The police department is ready for the holidays and Christmas is covered but that officers will be taking their vacations by the end of the year. Zoning Inspector: Cles Inmon states that zoning is going ok. There has been a letter sent out to an property owner to clean up their property and. Chief addressed this by stating he too has sent a certified letter out to the owner but it is hard to track him down because there is warrants out for his arrest. A permit to Mickey Mart has been issued for a new chicken and deli restaurant business Solicitor’s Report: Attorney Palmer advised that the truck cases should all be resolved by January as there have been pretrial set but that he has received phone calls from their attorneys. Attorney Palmer also states to Jerry and Betty that they will be missed by him. Mayor’s Report: Mayor Sallee stated that he didn’t get to make it to the tree lighting ceremony but that he had heard that it was a good turnout. Cles had stated that there were over 200 hotdogs given out. They Mayor also stated that he appreciates all that the Greenwich Improvement Group does for the Village and that he is always hearing good things about them. Council Discussion: Discussion took place about a resident applying for a release from using Rumpke trash service. The resident left the property to be managed by a family member who left a bill of over $1,000.00 and she is refusing to pay that bill. The resident did not attend the council meeting to speak on her behalf and has already hired Flashes Trash to remove her rubbish. Attorney Palmer states, what’s causing his concern is that they have already acquired a debt with a trash service, what happens if they run up another debt with the new trash service. Will they be asking to be released from that service as well and it may set precedent from people trying to get out of that debt as well. Lloyd made a motion to deny the release application submitted by Terry & Lynna Morrison, R. Wilson Seconded. Vote as followed: Shoemaker-Yes, Lloyd-Yes, T. Wilson-Yes, R. Wilson-Yes, King-No, Phillips-Yes Councilman T. Wilson stated that there is some movement on the annexation and that he will have an update soon. Mayor Sallee asked council to make a motion allowing for the last payroll checks be issued on December 24th, 2019 R. Wilson made a motion to allow the employees to be paid on the 24th of December, 2019, Lloyd Seconded. Vote as followed: Shoemaker-Yes, Lloyd-Yes, T. Wilson-Yes, R. Wilson-Yes, King-Yes, Phillips-Yes. Unfinished Business: N/A 2|P a g e Wesley Sallee Mayor  VILLAGE OF GREENWICH – STATE OF OHIO Administration Offices: 45 Main Street. Greenwich, Ohio 44837 (419) 752-2441 New Business: R. Wilson moved to have first reading of Ordinance No.: 2019-12 by title only, Lloyd seconded. Vote as followed: Shoemaker Yes, Lloyd Yes, T. Wilson Yes, R. Wilson Yes, King Yes, Phillips Yes. (AN ORDINANCE DEEMING IT ADVISABLE TO CHANGE SEWERAGE RATES AND CHARGES: AND AMENDING SECTION 1044.02 OF THE GREENWICH CODIFIED MUNICIPAL CODE: AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY) Lloyd moved to waive the second and third reading of Ordinance No.: 2019-12, Shoemaker seconded. Vote as followed: Shoemaker Yes, Lloyd Yes, T. Wilson Yes, R. Wilson Yes, King No, Phillips Yes. R. Wilson moved to adopt the Declaration of Emergency of Ordinance No. 2019-12; Lloyd seconded. Vote as followed: Shoemaker Yes, Lloyd Yes, T. Wilson Yes, R. Wilson Yes, King No, Phillips Yes. R. Wilson moved to adopt Ordinance No.: 2019-12, Lloyd seconded. Vote as followed: Shoemaker Yes, Lloyd Yes, T. Wilson Yes, R. Wilson Yes, King No, Phillips Yes. End of the Year Reports: a. Fiscal Officer: Jennifer Meyer read her report, please see attached document. b. Cemetery Sexton: Randy Wilson will provide his report at next Council Meeting. c. Mayor: Thank goodness that we made it through the detour, the police department is still up and running after that. He states, being the Mayor has been a good test for him. He has had excellent people to work with. Council, the Solicitor, Utilities and the Police Department has been awesome and makes his job a little easier, and He jokingly states it’s still out on Virgil but that the Village has been able to update vehicles for him. The Village has gotten to pave numerous streets in town and that he has gotten good comments from residents. Over the last couple of years, he has noticed more support from the residents and after some good finagling we got a new contract for the Solicitor and he would like to thank everybody for that. The only bad part is that he will be seeing two people retiring this year and that he hates to see them leave. Shoemaker move to adjourn. R. Wilson seconded. Vote as followed: Shoemaker Yes, Lloyd Yes, T. Wilson Yes, R. Wilson Yes, King Yes, Phillips Yes. Mayor Wesley Sallee Fiscal Officer, Jennifer Meyer 3|P a g e Wesley Sallee Mayor