City Council Regular Meeting

VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. August 27, 20 1. CALL TO ORDER. President of Council Kilway called the Virtual Regular Council meeting of Thursday, August 27, 2020 to order at 7:00 p.m. This is a virtual meeting due to the State of Emergency. 2. SILENT PRAYER: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: 3. ROLL CALL: Mr. Bollas, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak – present. Also present were Mayor Kline, Dir. of Administration Cooper, Dir. of Economic Development Springer, Dir. of Law Raber, Dir. of Finance Gilbride and Clerk of Council Burton. Mrs. Allman was excused. 4. MINUTES: 8-13-20 Virtual Regular Council Meeting minutes. Mr. Loughry moved for the adoption of the 8-13-20 minutes. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Voice vote 6-0. The 8-13-20 Virtual Regular Council Meeting minutes were adopted by a vote of 6-0. 5. FINANCIAL REPORTS: None. 6. PUBLIC HEARINGS: None. 7. COMMUNITY INPUT: Pres. of Council: We do have Mr. Christopher Norman, who is the Director of Capital Projects and Sustainability at the Akron Zoo and he is here to give a short presentation. So, Chris; it’s all yours. Mr. Christopher Norman gave a presentation regarding what is going on at the zoo then discussed the ballot issue and just what the funds would be used for. Pres. of Council: At this time, I do not have any other community input that has been given to us. As we all know, if the community has anything that they would like to talk about or have talked about during our Council meetings, they are to get a hold of our Council Clerk any time before, I think it is 4:00 p.m. on the day of the Council meeting, and as of this afternoon we have had no other community input. 8. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pres. of Council: There is going to be a short Richardson Trust Fund Committee meeting prior to adjournment of this evening’s Council meeting. 9. AGENDA ADDITIONS: None. 10. REFERRALS OF FIRST READING ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS: 10. REFERRALS OF FIRST READING ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS: a. The following shall be referred to the Finance Committee: • Ord. 51-2020 • Ord. 53-2020 • Ord. 54-2020 b. The following shall be referred to the Planning & Zoning Committee: None. c. The following shall be referred to the Personnel Committee: None. d. The following shall be referred to the Community Issues Committee: None. e. The following shall be referred to the Safety Committee: • Ord. 52-2020 f. The following shall be referred to the Public Service Committee: None. 11. REPORTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS: MAYOR, DIR. OF PUBLIC SERVICE, DIR. OF ADMINISTRATION, DIR. OF ECONOMIC DEV., DIR. OF FINANCE AND DIR. OF LAW. Mayor: Thank you Madame Chair. It is nice seeing all of the Council folks here tonight. I have a lengthy list here. The Tallmadge Fire Department training for the live burn has been going on all week, but the actual burn portion will start tomorrow out at the Ripley Farm. They will train with multiple jurisdictions; the City of Akron, Brimfield, Mogadore, Munroe Falls and a few other agencies out there. They will be training all day tomorrow and then burning down one or two of the homes and then on Saturday they will continue the training and complete the burn for those houses and so you don’t get too often the chance to burn down a structure for live training and it is very well needed and that is why there is so much interest in that. The staging area for the Fire Department is in the church beside it. We do have signs out there posted that this is training; keep driving by and don’t stop and don’t call 911, but I’m sure all of that won’t happen. We have been very busy with the LPA ODOT Project. We have legislation that was not here tonight, but it will be at the next Council meeting to authorize us to enter into agreements with ODOT for the East Avenue Corridor Improvements which you all know we received that and then a separate ordinance will be authorizing us to enter into the  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. August 27, 20 Mayor (Cont’d.) engineering of that project through ODOT and was through safety funds. It is a $2 million project; roughly $2 million for the engineering which is paid 100% from safety funds and ODOT so we were very fortunate that we were able to get that project in before the Covid season hit. We were awarded that last year, but we are just getting to it now. We have been very busy on the budget. We have been meeting daily on the budget . Hats off to the team that is working on that; Jill Stritch, Mollie, Don Cooper and myself. We set in this little Council chamber and I call it the war room and it looks like one right now as Carol can see, but they are doing a great job and we have met with all of the Department Heads and now we are looking at how to trim the budget down being cognizant of the shortfall that we foresee for the 2021 season. Mike, I don’t know if you were going to talk about the bid opening, but we did have a bid opening today for our trash and so Mike is evaluating the three bids that are in there and we will work on that for the next week and figure out what is up. I am happy to announce that I was on the way here tonight to listen to the Beacon Journal’s Best of the Area and the Tallmadge Rec Center was nominated in the top three and they actually won as the Number One Fitness Center in the Beacon Journal’s Best so hats off to that. Taking that another step further, Novus Clinic also received one for their portion and Carol Martin Salon won two awards in two different categories and Gionino’s Pizza also won. So, Tallmadge had a pretty good showing on The Best of the Best in the Akron area so hats off to all of those. As you know, school started back and so be aware of the busses out there and officially Monday will be the day that all the kids will be back in the classrooms and all of the rotations and I am not going to go into the detail on that because you probably all know. We had RFQ’s turned in last week for the fire station buildout. There was a lot of excitement on that. We had 24 architects submit their qualifications and so we are evaluating that and we will whittle it down to probably the top 5 to start with and do personal interviews with them in our little room in here and try to get it down and I will bring legislation back to Council so we can get an architect on board and start designing that and then we can construct it and then by, I would hope, by the second quarter of 2021. Planning & Zoning is next week. There are two items on the agenda. The CARES Act, the legislation that is in front of you tonight, and I’m sure Mollie will talk about it, but she won’t talk about how hard she worked on that and put that together, so hats off to the Finance Department. I know Don has been working with the FEMA portion of it and it has just been a lot of moving parts and Megan with the legislation and putting it together, but it is a very great gift that the City of Tallmadge is receiving money through the CARES Act. It will help some of our shortfalls and different budget categories. I will entertain any questions you have and if not; I’m here. Dir. of Pub. Service: How are you guys? Real quick, once again, the Mayor mentioned it but congratulations to Tallmadge Rec for winning the Beacon Journal Best Award. That is a nice honor for them. I really don’t have a report this evening, but I do want to bring up the school zones. As the Mayor said, school starts next week, and we have turned on the school zones and we have two mains ones in the City right now. East Avenue; that is all up to code and we are looking at adding the warning light to that because it would make that zone a little bit more . . . you might be more aware of that zone if those lights are on flashing. It’s not needed, but it might help out that zone and people traveling through it. The school zone on Munroe is going to stay put. That actually runs with the school property and I know that Munroe grade school has been torn down but that has nothing to do with the school zone. The school property still continues that way and so the school zone is laid out per school property, so just in case you get any questions on that. That’s my report unless there are questions. Pres. of Council: I do have one thing on school zones; actually, I have two things. First of all, I want to thank you for looking into potential flashers on East Avenue. I know that is the biggest complaint that I have had from residents over the last 8 years is that it is really hard to see where the school zone is at and so thanks for looking into potentially getting flashers in there. 2  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. August 27, 20 Pres. of Council (Cont’d.) The other thing is that there is another school zone on South Avenue just to make everybody aware. There is the Kiddie College right on South Avenue and so just be cognizant of that as you are going through during the school day. Is there anything else for Mike? Dir. of Administration: Good evening everyone. The Mayor covered everything quite well, so I will just say no report from me this evening. Mayor: He has been very busy keeping us all in line with all this Covid stuff. As I mentioned off-line before that things are changing for the sports leagues; can you play two games in a day; can you play two separate games; that changed today and you get a call from Little League and Little League is not part of that rule that you can have back to back games with two different teams and they are part of that; I did confirm that with the Health Department; they can only play one game per day with the team and then the next day they can play that team again or a different team. But they can play back to back, doubleheaders. Pres. of Council: With the same team? Mayor: With the same team. Dir. Econ. Development: Good evening. I don’t have an official report this evening, but I would be glad to entertain any questions you might have. Dir. of Finance: Good evening everyone. I will save any discussion on the appropriation on the CARES Act dollars for when we get to those funds, however, just as I completed those ordinances, we were notified that we are going to be getting more. The State Controlling Board approved a second distribution of the CARES Act dollars down to the local government and so it will be about half of the previous distribution and so we will receive another $300,000 from the State for that so we are starting discussions now about what we want to do to move forward with that. There also is potential that there will be legislation to provide additional funds after those. We are not aware of how much that is or what that will look like, but just so you know, that that potential also is looking to be coming down the pike. End of report. Dir. of Law: Thank you. I have no report this evening. 12. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL OF THE WHOLE: a. FINANCE Craig Sisak, Chair James Donovan, Vice Chair Michael Carano • Ord. 49-2020 (2nd Reading) – Exhibit A – Expressing intent to sell unneeded, obsolete, or unfit equipment, vehicles, and vehicle accessories by Edinburg Auction in calendar year 2020 and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: I would like to go ahead and call the Finance Committee to order; myself, Mr. Donovan and Mr. Carano are present. We currently have Ord. 49- 2020 at 2nd Reading. It is expressing to sell unneeded, obsolete, or unfit equipment, vehicles, and vehicle accessories by Edinburg Auction in calendar year 2020. Any input on this. Mr. Donovan: I would recommend to just adopt it tonight. Mr. Sisak: We have a recommendation 3-0 to adopt Ord. 49-2020 at 2nd Reading. • Ord. 51-2020 (1st Reading) – Chip-Seal Contract – Chip-Seal Change Order – Authorizing the Mayor to exceed a contract with Specialized Construction, Inc. in excess of ten percent (10%) for completion of the 2020 Chip Seal Program and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: We also have Ord. 51-2020 at 1st Reading. This is a Chip-Seal Contract Change Order and authorizing the Mayor to exceed the contract with Specialized Construction, Inc. in excess of ten percent (10%) for completion of the 2020 Chip-Seal Program and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Rorar; do you have any comments on this? Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes. This was . . . I’m not going to say it was a mistake on my behalf because I knew what I was doing, but at the end of the day it dawned on me that as the concrete contractor was working on the playground on Maca that the park was empty and the parking lot needed to get some repair done too and so I switched up parks and I switched up the plan for Chip-Seal and I had them do an additional seal coat on there called a Bog Seal just to really tighten that parking lot up, but the problem was that I made a decision in less than a week to do that and we didn’t have another Council meeting, but moving forward, I would probably reach out to Council and ask for their approval before I did that in the future. 3  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. August 27, 20 a. FINANCE (Cont’d.) Craig Sisak, Chair James Donovan, Vice Chair Michael Carano Mr. Sisak: Are there any questions for Mr. Rorar? Pres. of Council: I don’t have any questions on it, but I just want to say that even though the Chip-Seal was just a sealant; it is not like redoing it all, but it still looks very, very nice and I think it was a wise decision to do that. I know it was last minute, but just to help preserve the parking lot; I think it was a wise decision to do it at that time. Dir. of Pub. Service: Thank you. Mr. Donovan: Do you need this Mike? Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes. Mr. Donovan: I would recommend adoption at 1 st Reading. Mr. Carano: The same. Mr. Sisak: I will go ahead and recommend adoption of Ord. 51-2020 by a vote of 3-0 at 1st Reading. • Ord. 53-2020 (1st Reading) – Appropriating funds for the Summit County Covid-19 Local Government Payroll Support Program Grant and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: Next we have Ord. 53-2020 and it is at 1st Reading and is appropriating funds for the Summit County Covid-19 Local Government Payroll Support Program Grant and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Gilbride? Dir. of Finance: Yes. So at the last meeting Council had authorized us to enter into an agreement with Summit County and Summit County did receive Direct CARES Funding from the Federal Government and developed this payroll support program grant and so at this time I am asking you to appropriate the funds. The grant suggests that we can use those funds to supplement our Police and Fire payroll for the additional time and effort that is required of them to deal with the Covid pandemic. We are allowed to take that money back to March 1st and so currently we will be using 15% of our Police salaries and 25% of our Fire salaries towards those funds as of our August 14 th payroll, we had used $363,000 of the $492,000 that we received from the County. At that rate, I am expecting that we will have exhausted those grant funds by mid-October with our Police and Fire salaries. Mr. Sisak: Are there any further questions for Mrs. Gilbride? Pres. of Council: I just have one question on that. The funds that we did receive; do we have a time period . . . I know it said we could go back to March; do they have to be used up by a certain time period? Dir. of Finance: Yeah, so all of the CARES Act money has to be spent; the bills paid and the cash out the door by December 30 th. Pres. of Council: And then if there happens to be any money left over would that have to get returned? Dir. of Finance: Correct. Pres. of Council: But it doesn’t look like that is going to be the case; correct? Dir. of Finance: We were able to take care of the first two rounds; yes. Pres. of Council: OK. Thank you. Mr. Sisak: Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan; your thoughts. Mr. Carano: I feel we should move forward with it. I don’t think there is any reason to wait. Mr. Donovan: I agree. Mr. Sisak: OK, so we will go ahead and make a recommendation 3-0 to adopt Ord. 53-2020 at 1st Reading. • Ord. 54-2020 (1st Reading) – Appropriating funds for the State of Ohio House Bill 481 distribution and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: We also have Ord. 54-2020 at 1st Reading appropriating funds for the State of Ohio House Bill 481 distribution and providing for immediate enactment. Again, Ms. Gilbride; do you have any comments on this? Dir. of Finance: Yes. I think the WHEREAS clauses in the ordinance are self- explanatory, but we are going to be able to reimburse the City for the paid administrative leave that we put our employees on who in the early stages when we had the stay at home order and such and we were staggering 4  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. August 27, 20 Dir. of Finance (Cont’d.) schedules to make sure that we had people in place to ensure continued operations and continue to serve our citizens and so we will be able to use this entire amount to reimburse ourselves for that paid administrative leave. Mr. Sisak: Are there any questions for Mrs. Gilbride? No one responded. Mr. Donovan; Mr. Carano? Mr. Donovan: I would recommend adoption. Mr. Carano: I would second that. Mr. Sisak: OK, so we will recommend adoption of Ord. 54-2020 at 1st Reading. I also heard today that, and I don’t know, Mrs. Gilbride you are probably hearing about this, that the State of Ohio got FEMA money and they are going to distribute it at some point in time as well. I don’t know if that is new information or if that is something that has been coming down the pike. Dir. of Finance: Actually, I just briefly saw something on that before the meeting and I was actually on a webinar about CARES Act money, so I did not get to listen to the Governor’s address today, so I am sure the information will be coming down about that and I will look into it and let Council know if there is anything that we should expect to receive from them. Mr. Sisak: Excellent. Thank you so much. Alright, anything else to come before the Finance Committee? No one responded. Seeing none; I will go ahead and close committee. Thank you. b. PERSONNEL Michael Carano, Chair Rebecca Allman, Vice Chair Jonathon Bollas No legislation at this time. Mr. Carano: I call the Personnel Committee to order; myself and Mr. Bollas are present. Mrs. Allman is excused. We have no legislation before us. Jonathon: anything on Personnel you want to speak about. Mr. Bollas: No, I have no comment this evening. Thank you. Mr. Carano: Council? No one responded. Administration? Mayor: Yeah, just briefly. I just want to let you know how proud the Administration is about all of the employees working these rough times; the Police Department, Fire Department; there are a lot of things going on in society and that and so hats off to all the employees of the City of Tallmadge for what they are doing for the citizens of Tallmadge. Mr. Carano: Mayor Kline, are you still doing a pretty good job of keeping employees safe from Covid and all of that? Mayor: Yes, we are doing a good job. We have a couple cases that are being handled properly and everybody is doing what they are supposed to be doing and all in all; we maintain social distancing; we wear our masks; we clean and we recommend a lot of things and people seem to be abiding by that and so things are going well. Mr. Carano: I would like to thank the Administration. You are doing a fine job on that; an impressive job actually. So, thank you so much for that. Is there anything else? No one responded. I will close committee. c. PLANNING & ZONING James Donovan, Chair Craig Sisak, Vice Chair Dennis Loughry No legislation at this time. Mr. Donovan: I will call the Planning & Zoning Committee to order; myself, Mr. Sisak and Mr. Loughry are present. We don’t have anything on the agenda this evening. Is there anything from the committee? No one responded. Council? No one responded. I will close committee. 5  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. August 27, 20 d. COMMUNITY ISSUES Dennis Loughry, Chair Jonathon Bollas, Vice Chair Rebecca Allman No legislation at this time. Mr. Loughry: I call Community Issues to order. We are all present. We have nothing in our committee. Is there anything from Council? No one responded. Administration? Mr. Bollas: I had a quick question. Regarding the . . . I had wanted to ask the Service Director and the Mayor if there was any update on planning a meeting regarding the easement proposal at the Washburn and Hanna area? We had had an e-mail string on that, and I am just asking for a quick update on that. Do you need any help with that at all? Dir. of Pub. Service: Councilman, I appreciate that. No, there is no update and we are still trying to work out the kinks on setting up that meeting. Mr. Bollas: OK. Thank you. Secondly, I just had a community input this morning around a concern about speeding down Washburn and as the traffic increases with the projects that are going on over there and the developments, the constituent just asked if there was anything we were planning to do or if we could increase patrols in that area to help enforce the speed limit? He had mentioned just anything we could do as they have children playing and riding bikes and what not. Mayor: Thank you Jonathon. Both traffic trailers are on East Avenue right now for the fire burn. After this weekend, we will move the traffic trailers down there; one at both ends and stating the speed limit and they will show what your current speed is and I will have Chief Williams also see if he can’t pick up patrols on there because there is a lot of traffic on Washburn now. Mr. Bollas: OK. That will help. Thank you. Lastly, a question around the trash service regarding some of the . . . could you expand on that at all via the criteria around that bidding process and what we are looking for in terms of price, quality? Mayor: Well, our current provider, if Mr. Rorar wants to speak up; but the current contract with Republic is expiring at the end of this year so we are going out for bids for a new trash hauler or our current one. Mr. Bollas: OK. Mayor: The quality and the criteria are the same; curbside pickup, recyclables; there are a couple different categories on that. Low volume and time of day they have to be in the same zone that we currently have been in. The receptacles that they have; what they pick up; unlimited trash. Mike, I don’t know if you want to add anything? Dir. of Pub. Service: No, we just started reviewing those bids today and so I really have no comment other than it will mirror exactly the same service that we have now. Mr. Bollas: Thank you. I received some questions on that; thank you. Mr. Sisak: Mr. Loughry, in regards to what Mr. Bollas was talking about about speeding; I have reached out to the Police Chief and the Service Director about getting some type of permanent traffic monitoring for different specific parts of town that we know are problematic and Mr. Rorar did look into some things and I don’t know if that is something that we would be able to look at putting in the budget for next year, but instead of a speed trailer, it would be a solar sign that would just flash and tells you what your speed is. I don’t know if any of them collect data to provide feedback to the Police Department to see if there is truly an issue or not, but I have seen it in other communities and I thought it might be something that we could maybe selectively put in our community in hot spots for more awareness of speed and controlling speed especially in our residential neighborhoods. Mr. Loughry: Well, thank you. Thank you for those comments everybody. The whole subject is a very sticky wicket. You know, I received a couple of calls regarding the Circle and speed on the Circle you know, and speed on the spokes. It used to be 35 mph, and everyone drove 45 or 50 and now it is 25 mph and everyone is still driving 45 or 50 and if you go the speed limit, you are 6  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. August 27, 20 Mr. Loughry (Cont’d.) going to get happy waves if you are looking in your rear-view mirror, so you are better off not to look in your rear-view mirror and just drive the speed limit. But thank you for your comments. It was a good discussion and the Administration I’m sure will take it under advisement. Anything else for Community Issues? Mr. Carano: I would like to ask Mr. Rorar a question. If the trash haulers . . . I talked to a friend in Kent today and I guess they still pick up glass there. Will all the trash haulers not be picking up glass? Does that have something to do with the County, or do they all take their stuff to the same place, but they don’t recycle glass anymore? Dir. of Pub. Service: That is true, but it appears that the three bidders have added glass back to the recycling that we got. It seems like glass is back in these three at least. Mr. Carano: Thank you. Dir. of Pub. Service: You’re welcome. Mr. Loughry: Is there anything else? No one responded. OK, I will close committee. e. SAFETY Jonathon Bollas, Chair Michael Carano, Vice Chair Craig Sisak • Ord. 52-2020 – (1st Reading) – Exhibit A – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the County of Summit for the Juvenile Diversion Program and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Bollas: I call the Safety Committee to order; myself, Mr. Carano and Mr. Sisak are all present. We have Ord. 52-2020 at 1st Reading this evening. That is authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the County of Summit for the Juvenile Diversion program and providing for immediate enactment. Mayor: I don’t know if we need this tonight or not, but it is a housekeeping ordinance that we enter into every year. Dir. of Law: It is just simply a housekeeping ordinance. It was forwarded to us to adopt it again this year and it is the same amount of grant money that we receive annually, the last several years anyway. Mr. Carano: I would recommend adoption. Mr. Sisak: I would agree. I would recommend adoption. Mr. Bollas: I would second that so we will recommend adoption by a vote of 3- 0. Any other items for the Safety Committee this evening? No one responded. I actually have one question now that I am thinking about it. Did we have any safety forces that were called upon to help in the Route 8 traffic accident this week? Mayor: We were called out initially because of the smoke over Tallmadge, but we did not have to respond. We were not up on Route 8. Mr. Bollas: OK. Thank you. Alright. Thank you and I will close committee. f. PUBLIC SERVICE Rebecca Allman, Chair Dennis Loughry, Vice Chair James Donovan No legislation at this time. Mr. Loughry: I call the Public Service Committee to order; myself and Mr. Donovan is present. Mrs. Allman is excused. We have no legislation. Does anybody have anything for the Public Service Committee? No one responded. Hearing none; I close committee. 13. REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES: None. 14. THIRD READINGS OF RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES: None. 15. SECOND READINGS OF RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES: a. Ord. 49-2020 – (Finance) – Exhibit A – Expressing intent to sell unneeded, obsolete, or unfit equipment, vehicles, and vehicle accessories by Edinburg Auction in calendar year 2020 and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 49-2020 at 2nd Reading. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mr. Bollas, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak – unanimous. Ord. 49-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. 7  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. August 27, 20 16. FIRST READINGS OF RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES: a. Ord. 51-2020 – (Finance) – Chip-Seal Contract – Chip-Seal Change Order. Authorizing the Mayor to exceed a contract with Specialized Construction, Inc. in excess of ten percent (10%) for completion of the 2020 Chip Seal Program and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 51-2020. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Bollas – unanimous. Ord. 51-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. b. Ord. 52-2020 (Safety) – Exhibit A. Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the County of Summit for Juvenile Diversion Program and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Bollas moved for the adoption of Ord. 52-2020 at 1st Reading. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Carano – unanimous. Ord. 52-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. c. Ord. 53-2020 (Finance). Appropriating funds for the Summit County Covid-19 Local Government Payroll Support Program Grant and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 53-2020. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 53-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. d. Ord. 54-2020 (Finance). Appropriating funds for the State of Ohio House Bill 481 distribution and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 54-2020. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous. Ord. 54-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. Pres. of Council: We are going to have a short Richardson Trust Fund meeting prior to adjournment, so Mr. Sisak, would you like to start that? Mr. Sisak: Yes, I would like to call the Richardson Trust Fund meeting to order. It is 8:00 p.m. and everyone on Council is in attendance. Our agenda is to vote on Kim Ray as a replacement of the late Barb Mattern. So, can I have a motion? Mr. Loughry moved for the replacement of the late Barb Matter with Kim Ray. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Mr. Sisak: We have a motion and a second. Can I do a voice vote? All those in favor. All voted aye and the motion carries by a vote of 6-0. So, Kim Ray will be replacing Barb Mattern on the Richardson Trust Fund. So, thank you to Kim. Mayor: If you could just make note that Becky Allman was not here. I know you started a new meeting and so the vote was 6-0. Mr. Sisak: Yes; 6-0. Becky Allman is not in attendance. Thank you. Is there anything else to come before the Richardson Trust Fund this evening? Mr. Loughry: I just would hope that we could address the amount of funding that is in this account. We discussed it so many times that I even forget what we are allowed to do or not allowed to do, but I don’t see how we can actually offer meaningful help to a number of folks for no more money than is in that account and I would like to see us funding it to where it can have a greater impact or find something else; something else to do with the money or . . . that is not the right wording. I just think that if we are going to offer help to people that we should fund it in a more meaningful way. Mr. Carano: Mr. Sisak, I agree with Mr. Loughry and he has voiced this before and it seems it does need to be more helpful in funding; I’m not sure what limitations there are on the funding. If it could be some kind of public . . . raising funds for it I mean at community events in the future when we have community events, but I don’t know what the limitations are, but it does seem, as Mr. Loughry says, to be more meaningful than what it is. So, thank you Mr. Loughry for that. Mr. Sisak: Is there anything else to come before the Richardson Trust Fund Committee? No one answered. Seeing none, I will go ahead and close the meeting of the Richardson Trust Fund. It is 8:04 p.m. Thank you. Mr. Donovan: I do have a quick question and maybe the Mayor can help me. The building that Jim Evans had rented over there that the City owns; what is the status of that at the moment or what is happening? Mayor: We just entered into a contract to . . . the CIC did to repair items inside of the building. The ceiling on the second floor needs to be repaired and that is going to be done and some of the basement mold will be mitigated and that project should start . . . I thought it might have started today, but the CIC has a contract in place to get that thing moving so we can get it rented out hopefully before the snow flies. 8  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. August 27, 20 Mr. Donovan: OK. And a quick question about the Zoo presentation. Are we doing anything with that with a resolution or something? Pres. of Council: That is something for us to discuss. Mr. Donovan: OK, I just didn’t know if someone was moving forward. I appreciated the presentation. Thank you. Pres. of Council: Yes, I really did too; thank you. 17. ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Donovan moved to adjourn. Seconded Mr. Loughry. The Virtual Regular Council meeting of 8-27-20 adjourned at 8:06 p.m. sb Adopted: _______________________________ _________________________________ Susan E. Burton, Clerk of Council Carol A. Kilway, President of Council 9