City Council Regular Meeting

VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 1. CALL TO ORDER. President of Council Kilway called the Virtual Regular Council meeting of Thursday, December 10, 2020 to order at 7:01 p.m. This is a virtual meeting due to the State of Emergency. 2. PRAYER: Silent prayer. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: 3. ROLL CALL: Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak – present. Also present were Mayor Kline, Dir. of Public Service Rorar, Dir. of Administration Cooper, Dir. of Economic Development Springer, Dir. of Finance Gilbride, Dir. of Law Raber and Clerk of Council Burton. Mr. Carano was excused. 4. MINUTES: 11-12-20 Virtual Regular Council Meeting minutes. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of the 11-12-20 Regular Council meeting minutes as presented. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Voice vote 6-0. The Virtual Regular Council meeting minutes of 11-12-20 were adopted by a vote of 6-0. 5. FINANCIAL REPORTS: • Fire & EMS Fund Transfer in the amount of $145,000 to Council on 11-30- 20. • Street Maintenance & Repair Transfer in the amount of $86,000 to Council on 11-30-20. • Appropriation Report, Fund Report and Revenue Report for the period ending 11-30-20 to Council on 12-3-20. • November Financial Reports to Council on 12-3-20. • Tallmadge Recreation Center Profit and Loss Report for the period ending 11-30-20 to Council on 12-3-20. • Income Tax Comparisons for the period ending 11-30-20 to Council on 12- 3-20. • Revenue Comparisons for the period ending 11-30-20 to Council on 12-3- 20. • Consolidated Investment Portfolio for the period ending 11-30-20 to Council on 12-3-20. Mr. Sisak moved to accept the Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Gilbride. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Voice vote 6-0. The Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Gilbride were accepted by a vote of 6-0. 6. PUBLIC HEARINGS: Ord. 69-2020 At 3rd Reading. FINANCE Adopting a budget for various funds of the City of Tallmadge, Ohio, for current expenses and other Exhibit A expenditures during fiscal year ending December 31, P.H. ON 12-10-20 2021, appropriating the necessary funds for the admin- @ 7:03 P.M. istration thereof, authorizing transfers between funds, and providing for immediate enactment. Pres. of Council: It is now 7:05 p.m. and I call the public hearing for Ord. 69-2020 open. Due to the pandemic and State of Emergency, this meeting is virtual. We have asked that if the public had any input on it to please contact the Council office by 3:00 p.m. today whether you call in or write in. As of 3:00 p.m. we had not received anything, but we are going to go through all the steps just to make sure that we are dotting our i’s and crossing our t’s. So, is there anyone who would like to speak for Ord. 69-2020? No one responded. Is there anyone who would like to speak against Ord. 69-2020? No one responded. Second time; is there anyone that would like to speak in favor of Ord. 69-2020? No one responded. Is there anyone who would like to speak against Ord. 69-2020? No one responded. Third and final time; is there anyone who would like to speak in favor of or against Ord. 69-2020? No one responded. It is now 7:06 p.m. and I will call the public hearing for Ord. 69-2020 closed and I will recognize the Finance Chair, Mr. Sisak. Mr. Sisak: Thank you. I would like to call the Finance Committee to order; myself, and Mr. Donovan are present. We have Ord. 69-2020 before us, and we had no comments from the public regarding this. Mr. Donovan: what is your recommenda- tion? Mr. Donovan: I recommend adopt. Mr. Sisak: I would agree. The Finance Committee recommends adoption of Ord. 69-2020 by a vote of 3-0. I will go ahead and close committee.  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 7. COMMUNITY INPUT: Pres. of Council: We had asked that if anyone had anything for input to call into the Clerk’s office and either give it in writing or if they would like to talk, if it is specific to an ordinance, you are allowed to speak about that ordinance. I know we have a couple people here waiting for one particular ordinance, but I have nobody else, so there is no community input. Dir. of Law: Madame Chair, if I can discuss before we continue and I know it has been a while, but we actually would typically take the vote on that ordinance. That ordinance does not appear later in the agenda and we need to take the vote with regard to Ord. 69-2020. So, if you could entertain a motion. Pres. Of Council: I am so sorry about that. Is there a motion for Ord. 69-2020? Mr. Sisak: I move to adopt Ord. 69-2020. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Mayor: Madame Chair, yes, thank you and thank Council for their consideration. The 2021 Budget, as we have talked multiple times; it is a good budget; it is a well- balanced budget and the funds during the Covid season; the unknown for 2021. This budget does reflect some of that. We were very conservative in the budget. The Total Fund Balance; funds for all of the accounts are $35 million. If you recall with the quarter percent income tax, we did separate out the safety forces and created their own category for Fire Capital which is new to this budget. The only new hire for the budget is the Assistant Service Director who has always been there; we never replaced Bob and so we put it back in there or continued to fund that so Mike Rorar can get some help in the Service Department. A couple of things that are not in this budget. We received notice of funds to replace the culvert on Howe Road and Crystal Parkway and also the radius there and that could use some grant money and we applied with the Portage County Engineers. We will probably receive that. The total project is $355,000 and the Tallmadge portion $112,000 and that is not in the budget, but I just wanted to bring that up in case we do get it and it sounds like we might sometime within the first quarter or the second quarter. That would be additional, and we would ask for your consideration at that time. Then we are also going to do a study on fiber optics throughout the City. We are trying to get an engineering firm. We will eventually be able to give it to all of our residents. We are still working on that and we will come to Council for their consideration; maybe $50,000. I just wanted you to be aware of a couple things that are not in the budget. They have great balances. Hats off to the department heads and especially Jill Stritch, Mollie Gilbride, Don Cooper, and the team that put that budget together and as I stated earlier, it is a very good budget, a lot of good things. $4.5 million in capital projects. I know they would like more money in the street program, and we will look at that after we see where we are at with the fund balances in the beginning of next year. We did receive some windfall money and we are being very cautious about how we are spending it. Mollie is very cautious and that is a good thing. She keeps us all going . . . hats off to Mollie. Roll Call: Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman – unanimous. Ord. 69-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. 8. ANNOUNCEMENTS: There is going to be a Board of Control and an Investment Board meeting following the Council meeting this evening. 9. AGENDA ADDITIONS: None. 10. REFERRALS OF FIRST READING ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS: a. The following shall be referred to the Finance Committee: • Ord. 78-2020 • Ord. 79-2020 • Ord. 80-2020 • Ord. 83-2020 • Res. 16-2020 b. The following shall be referred to the Planning & Zoning Committee: • Ord. 81-2020 • Ord. 82-2020 • Ord. 84-2020 c. The following shall be referred to the Personnel Committee: • Res. 17-2020 d. The following shall be referred to the Community Issues Committee: None. e. The following shall be referred to the Safety Committee: None. f. The following shall be referred to the Public Service Committee: None. 2  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 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 and thank you all of Council. I do have a couple guests that are here. Under my report tonight, instead of having them wait through the whole agenda, I would like to discuss the Summit DD site and I do have a PowerPoint that I want to share with Council. So, let me talk a little bit about Summit DD. There was discussion about the purchase of the Summit DD site. (These minutes were recorded and are available for public use). Mayor: Moving on with my report and I will be very brief. A couple of ordinances; I know the Service Director probably also ask for some; Ord. 71, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83 and 84-2020. I think I have hit all of my highlights for tonight. Dir. of Pub. Service: Good evening. I would like to request Ord. 79, 81, 82, and 84- 2020 and I believe Dave just asked for those to be passed. For the monthly report, . . . Dir. of Administration: Thank you and good evening. I have no report this evening. Dir. of Econ. Development: Good evening. I will try to also be brief. Some highlights along some of the commercial development. I am going to start first on West Avenue and this is something that we talked about briefly about two weeks ago, and many of you are probably aware that there have been articles in the newspapers covering Midway Plaza. As you know, the State has issued some citations and many of the citations associated with that property were given to the property owner and many of them have been noted and they are looking into repair work and we are going to monitor that situation closely as it proceeds. As you travel eastbound, Franklins Furniture, as you know, was damaged by fire earlier this year. They are in the process of remodeling. Approximately 6,500 square feet in that building and they are putting on a new façade and new windows and it is looking quite well. In speaking to the property owner, it looks like they are going to try to subdivide it for different tenant space. As you continue to move eastbound at 271 West Avenue, this is on the east side of the skating rink and this property is in the process of transferring to new ownership and we are talking very closely with that new property owner about their long-term plans. They had this recently demolished. It was good to see that come down. I’ve included Serpentini on the far side of the circle; you will be hearing about this in the coming weeks; possibly months, but Serpentini has been able to execute a purchase agreement for the 6 acres of undeveloped land directly behind 7 Grains. That property is in the process of transferring to Serpentini and they do have plans to expand their facility. If you go onto the next slide; we will jump over to South Avenue and earlier this week there was concrete being poured at Bierce Hardware. This is to make way for their new 500 square foot showroom for their hardscape patio and design, so the project is moving along quite well. I think you will see construction as early as 2021 of the actual facility being constructed. As you go down to the new U-Haul location at 555 South Avenue, they did get the plans early this week and they are going to be moving forward with a complete façade revamp. So, this is a really nice addition to what is otherwise a pretty boring façade and they are going to incorporate some new façade elements and that will be a nice addition. The next slide (inaudible) again, this is a $1.5 million investment, and it is going to equate to job opportunities and really get ready for another expansion at some point in the future. The steel beams were set earlier this week and I just wanted to share that with you. The last slide I have is this is where some of the CARES Act money is being useful to the restaurant and bar industry. Individuals who have a working liquor license are being offered another $2,500 grant. The application deadline is December 18, 2020. We gave this information out, but unfortunately there have only been a few from the State that have made applications to receive these funds. I can tell you that I have gone door to door trying to make it known and we are going to try to continue to reach out, but if you know of anybody from the local area please make them aware and that concludes my report, and I would be happy to answer any questions you might have. 3  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 Mr. Sisak: I noticed that the; I think it was Munroe Muffler; I don’t know if they changed hands or have new ownership that is next to the GetGo on West Avenue. I didn’t know if they had an opportunity for maybe a ribbon cutting or anything like that here? Dir. of Econ. Development: Let me do some research on it Craig. I’m not familiar with that situation but I will certainly look into it for you. Mr. Sisak: Yes, it has definitely changed names and signage probably in the past two months maybe. Dir. of Econ. Development: I will take a look at that. Dir. of Pub. Service: For the month of November, the Zoning Department there were 34 total permits issued. 17 of which were for zoning and that was led by fences believe it or not. 20 open projects in the commercial and industrial and I think Matt just touched on those: the Henry Bierce and even the nursing home down on Northwest. Code Enforcement: we had 33 open violations. Code update: we are in the final phase of completing and reviewing the final draft that was done and so hopefully we will have something out the first of the year for everybody. Cemetery: there were 5 total burials; four of which were full, and one was cremains, and you can see what available spaces are left. Moving on, as everybody knows hopefully the trash and recycles; we have a new contractor; Kimble, who will start the first of the year and they sent out letters to everybody and literature to the right is about the cans that are being delivered this week. Please note that the smaller cans are for the recycles. Then the darker can is for the garbage, but note the important thing there is do not use these until January 1st. Store these in the back of your garage or building or somewhere. Do not put trash in them because Republic will not pick them up and then also please leave the Republic carts out and they will come through and pick them up immediately. There is an 800 number there if you are having any issues with the carts. Mayor: Mike, I did receive a robo call about that so hats off to the Service Department; I know Linda has been doing a heck of a job of fielding multiple phone calls with what is going on; what are these green cards; what does this mean. You know we have advertised it in the paper, and we put it on the signs and put it on everything, so you know this is something that is good for the City and I thank you all for all of the work down there in the Service Department for putting this program together and to Linda. Dir. of Pub. Service: And you know, we knew this was going to be hard when we started. About every four years this happens, so it is always a difficult transition. The Rec Center: the hours there, as you can see, we have some news that I don’t like to talk about, but we cancelled the Community All Star Basketball League and that was due to the uptick there in Covid as well as the strong recommendation from the County about leagues being played. As you probably know the school has put their winter sports on hold for a while. Also, the mask policy has been increased. It used to be if you weren’t doing heavy exercise you didn’t have to wear it, but now because of the uptick and going purple, we decided to make it mandatory that you have to wear your mask all the time. Starting December 4th, which is this week, 15 years of age and under have to be accompanied by a parent. That was due to the school closing. We didn’t want the Rec Center to be a drop off point for kids to be dropped off there. If you are 16 years and over, you can come in and use the facility like an adult, but if you are 15 and under; you have to be accompanied by an adult. Membership is up 100 from last month, however, we are down 600 from last year at this time. Business is up $800 from last month but down $14,000 from last year. Like I said, it is very complicated and very frustrating with this whole Covid thing and dealing with the Rec Center. We are doing what is best safety-wise for the users. An upcoming event: we had the tree lighting on December 5th. It went real well; the tree got lit believe it or not and we did actually have five good winners and three were outstanding. Everybody did a great job. Something new we are doing at the Rec is the letter to Santa mailbox. That is good through December 15th. Believe it or not, Santa Claus was actually writing a letter back to these folks. 4  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 Dir. of Pub. Service (Cont’d.) Then we get into the no school day camp December 23rd, 28th through the 30th as well as January 4th through the 6th. Lastly the park halls and shelters are still closed at least until January 15th. Leaf season: we are getting a good handle on this. We finally pushed through; I think we are on-time there. We had to extend last week because of the three snow days that were there. We weren’t out picking up leaves for two days last week. We are done with Section 1 except I saw some leaves pop out from nowhere over the last 24 hours on one section so I’m not sure where they came from. But Section 2 we should complete by the end of this week I think and be rolling into Section 3, or we might be back on time next week. They guys are doing a great job. We have been real creative because of the lack of manpower because we didn’t hire the seasonal workers and I am going to say from this negative experience with Covid, this is something positive because I think the Leaf Program definitely will move in a better direction in the future on this. Mayor: Hey Mike, you are going to be shocked if you go up North Avenue at Tallmadge Oaks. Dir. of Pub. Service: I saw that. Mayor: What a mess. They emptied the whole complex onto North Avenue. Dir. of Pub. Service: After we already went through. I wasn’t going to throw out any names but thank you Dave. In the Street Department, zero tons of debris from the street sweeper was picked up this month, however, we had 230 hours of street sweeping. What does that mean; we are only picking up the leaves that are in the street; we are not really grinding in and picking up all of the soot and sediment. That type of street sweeping has to be dropped off in a landfill. We can’t just deposit it, but the leaves are recycled and taken to a mulch place. There were 22 days of leaf removal; over 7,000 cubic yards of leaves have been removed. We do about 16 on average annually. There were two culvert replacements. 200 lineal of swale and ditch work and the holiday lights and tree were installed. I do want to point out; look at all of the zeros there and that is what gives me heartburn; we have done very little street work if any. So, I will be glad when leaf season is over too because I would like to get back on the streets. The Street Department Snowplow Route. It is that time of year. Let’s talk about this real quick. You can see the blue are the primary routes and these are the routes that we have to get open first. These are the main and as the storm is progressing and we are slowing down, we will jump into the secondary routes. The secondary routes are those red lines in there and what those are is a pass through most of the allotments and give everybody a way to get to the mains and then the allotment roads, which are last; those are done at the end of the storm event because you have to keep in mind that we have to keep going back onto the main roads and keep them open. So, it is not one and done; you have to keep repeating that. ODOT; we received a good price on tonnage; $55.91 a ton and that is down from $74.24 and keep in mind that we didn’t like all our eggs in one basket because of the prices and so we are on two contracts now. Their price hasn’t dropped; they are $79.81 like it was last year. However, we are only getting 500 tons from them and the majority of our salt is coming from the ODOT contract which is $1,500 and just so everybody knows, we use about 3,400 tones on average and because of the lack of winter last year we are probably sitting on about 4,000 tons in a barn this year and so we are in good shape however the weather can come back and bite us sooner or later because we are not going to be able to apply for that salt and so we will probably end up with a shortage in there. Watermain breaks for the Utility Department; we have had 4 and they were on Progress, East, Barnes and Allendale. It is that time of year when the frost is going into the ground and it is affecting the pipes and, in the springtime, when the frost is coming out of the ground and that is when you get the watermain breaks at this time of the year. You can see right now we are still below the average which is 12. Sewer backups: we had none. Meter sets were at seven. Two backflows were installed. 5  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 Dir. of Pub. Service (Cont’d.) We had an inspection and cleaning done of the areas down there in the southeast down there like Sunset by Beachler and this is part of our maintenance program where we clean and determine bad spots and we video and clean these lines and we figure it takes about 8 years before we get back around to that section again, that is how big the sewer system is. We also did the annual winterizing of the meter pits and that was completed this month. Training again, with the Ohio EPA on sewer collections. Are there any questions? I would be happy to answer them. Pres. of Council: You are really busy; that is all I have to say. Dir. of Finance: Good evening everyone. Everybody should have received their November financial reports. We have maintained pretty consistent with our income tax staying around 3.25 to 4% behind where we were last year. However, that is relatively close to where we were budgeted so I do anticipate that we will actually come in in the General Fund with the income tax pretty close to where we anticipated which is kind of shocking with all that has gone on this year. But I am still cautiously optimistic about that because I do think we are going to see some further negative economic impact down the road in terms of that. As Service Director Rorar indicated the Rec Center continues to be a difficult task during this time on the finance side and so we are monitoring that and working together to see what kind of decisions need to be made financially for that. I would ask for adoption of Ord. 71, 79, 80, 83 and Res. 16-2020. End of report. Dir. of Law: I just wanted to briefly say that I have been working hand in hand with the Zoning Department with regard to the Zoning Code rewrite. We did receive a full draft of the Code given that it is such an undertaking and we reviewed it thoroughly and had quite a few rewrites in the sections that needed to be cleaned up before we can present it. We are hoping to get those turned back around as quickly as possible. We have pushed them back to the consultant so hopefully we will be getting those shortly and we will be looking forward to starting to present that and roll that out to the public as soon as we possibly can. But we are working diligently on that. End of report. Mr. Loughry: Mrs. Kilway, I would just like to publicly thank Megan for her help and being willingness to help on the DD legislation. So, thank you. Dir. of Law: Absolutely. 12. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL OF THE WHOLE: a. PERSONNEL Michael Carano, Chair Rebecca Allman, Vice Chair Jonathon Bollas • Ord. 70-2020 – (3rd Reading) – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Tallmadge Part-Time Firefighters Association consisting of Tallmadge Part-Time Firefighters and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Allman: I call the Personnel Committee to order; myself and Mr. Bollas are present, and Mr. Carano is excused. We have before us Ord. 70-2020 at 3rd Reading authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Tallmadge Part-Time Firefighters Association consisting of Tallmadge Part-Time Firefighters and providing for immediate enactment. Mayor: Madame Chair, I would ask that you just continue to hold that or give it a 3rd Reading. We did meet with the part-time firefighters and we will continue to meet with them, but tonight; we are not ready for it. • Res. 17-2020 – (1st Reading) – Extending the sympathy of the Council and the Administration to Billie Jo Haas and members of her family in the death of Milford “MC” Haas and providing for immediate enact- ment. Mrs. Allman: Next we have Res. 17-2020 extending the sympathy of the Council and the Administration to Billie Jo Haas and members of her family in the death of Milford “MC” Haas and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Bollas: I recommend adoption of Res. 17-2020. Mrs. Allman: We recommend adoption of Res. 17-2020 by a vote of 2-0. Hearing nothing else, I close committee. 6  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 b. FINANCE Craig Sisak, Chair James Donovan, Vice Chair Michael Carano • Ord. 71-2020 – Exhibit A – (3rd Reading) – Creating the Tallmadge Reserve Tax Increment Financing Incentive District; declaring improvements to the parcels within the Incentive District to be a public purpose and exempt from real property taxation; requiring the owners of those parcels to make service payments in lieu of taxes; establishing a Municipal Public Improvement Tax Increment Equivalent Fund for the deposit of those service payments; requiring the distribution of a portion of those service payments to the Tallmadge City School District; specifying the public improvements that benefit or serve parcels in the Incentive District; and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: I would like to call Finance to order; Mr. Donovan and myself are present this evening. We have Ord. 71-2020 at 3rd Reading and it is creating the Tallmadge Reserve Tax Increment Financing Incentive District; declaring improvements to the parcels within the Incentive District to be a public purpose and exempt from real property taxation; requiring the owners of those parcels to make service payments in lieu of taxes; establishing a municipal pubic improvement tax increment equivalent fund for the deposit of those service payments; requiring the distribution of a portion of those service payments to the Tallmadge City School District; specifying the public improvements that benefit or serve parcels in the Incentive District; and providing for immediate enactment. Is there anything from the Administration? Mayor: Yes, this is Tallmadge Reserve. It is in the JEDD and I think that this is ready to go. Mollie: do you have any comments? Dir. of Finance: No, this just is ready to go. We have received inquiries from residents on this to help them understand this so there is actually interest of people looking to build in that area and so I think this is ready to go. Mr. Sisak: I agree. Mr. Donovan? Mr. Donovan: I would recommend adoption also. Pres. of Council: I have a quick question. Actually, and it was Mrs. Allman who called and asked me this question too; and I didn’t have an answer for it. How is the . . . I know it is going to be a tax instead of the real estate taxes and I believe my answer is yes, it is tax deductible, but is there a way that the residents can write this tax off on his taxes? Dir. of Finance: So, for these; taxes are actually billed on your real estate tax. I’m not a tax attorney, but I did actually receive that question from some of the residents and I spoke with our financial and our legal counsel so neither considered payments in lieu of taxes, but they are treated equidistantly I believe for Federal tax purposes as a deductible expense where your property tax . . . you are able to do so on your tax returns. Mayor: Madame Chair, if I could add one thing then maybe Mollie could reiterate this. The millage that are on the properties, this 75 mills; of the 75 mills only 20 mills are actually being deferred and payment to the TIF instead of to the entities it is going to; is that correct? Dir. of Finance: That’s correct. Because of the way we established the TIF, we are not affecting any of the millage that the school district receives so that tax, which is the majority of your property tax bills which is I believe, but I don’t have in front of me, buy I believe about 55 mills and that millage is not being touched and is considered your normal property taxes and so the millage that is being redirected is still considered a property tax; we are just diverting the use of that property tax for a period of time. Mr. Sisak: Are there any other questions for the Administration? Seeing none, we will make the recommendation to adopt Ord. 71-2020 by a vote of 2-0. 7  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 b. FINANCE (Cont’d) Craig Sisak, Chair James Donovan, Vice Chair Michael Carano • Ord. 78-2020 – Exhibit A – (1st Reading) – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a Cooperative Agreement among Summit County Developmental Disabilities Board and Summit County and the City of Tallmadge which results in acquiring 730 North Avenue and portions of the property known as 89 East Howe Road and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: We also have Ord. 78-2020 and it is authorizing the Mayor to enter into a Cooperative Agreement among Summit County Developmental Disabilities Board and Summit County and the City of Tallmadge which results in acquiring 730 North Avenue and portions of property known as 89 East Howe Road and providing for immediate enactment. Any questions from the committee or Council at this time? Mr. Donovan: I have no questions, but the presentation was great. They answered all of the questions I had so, I would recommend adoption at 1st Reading. Mr. Sisak: I guess there are like four or five here that all go together. Well, just two go together; 78 and 79. No, Ord. 78 and then . . . Dir. of Law: No, Ord. 79-2020 , , , the cooperative agreement incorporates a variety of other different agreements including our purchase agreement for the central parcels and the ball fields and soccer fields. But it is actually just one agreement. The reason it incorporates the others, some of which don’t even really pertain to us, is so that everything happens simultaneously . . . Mr. Sisak: It just came over in multiple documents. So, it is just the one ordinance; are there any questions from anyone? No one responded. OK, so Mr. Donovan said yes to adopt, and I will also say yes to adopt Ord. 78-2020 by a recommendation of 2-0. • Ord. 79-2020 – (1st Reading) – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a Cooperative Agreement with Portage County Engineer for construction costs associated with the Tallmadge Road Corridor Project in Brimfield Township and the City of Tallmadge, Portage County and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: We also have Ord. 79-2020 which is authorizing the Mayor to enter into a Cooperative Agreement with Portage County Engineer for construction costs associated with the Tallmadge Road Corridor Project in Brimfield Township and the City of Tallmadge, Portage County and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Donovan; any questions on that? Mr. Donovan: No, I would recommend adoption. Mr. Sisak: Mayor; do you have any comments? Dir. of Pub. Service: Councilman, this the agreement with Portage County for the Tallmadge Corridor Project down by the I76 and there by East End Welding; that portion and it is a $9.1 million project and our share of that is $97,000, and we have been looking at this for opening that section up for a better flow of traffic. Mayor: Mr. Chairman, also it is the ODOT Project and Portage County is the lead on it. The project is earmarked to start in the spring of 2021. Is that correct Mr. Rorar? Dir. of Pub. Service: That is correct. Mayor: Unfortunately, this legislation probably should have been adopted a long time ago. Mr. Sisak: Is there anything else from Council? No one responded. We have a recommendation 2-0 to adopt Ord. 79-2020 at 1st Reading. • Ord. 80-2020 – (1st Reading) – Authorizing the appropriation of funds from the Unappropriated Fund Balances and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: Next we have Ord. 80-2020 and that is authorizing the appropriation of funds from the unappropriated fund balances and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Gilbride? 8  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 Dir. of Finance: Yes, this is . . . we have had some carryover funds in our CDBG Funds that we have been trying to get down and we currently have a project pending that needs this additional amount of money in order to complete it. This is just a part of our Fund Balance while we did not accept any additional CDBG Funds this year with the minor home repair program, like I said, we did have some carryover funds and like I said, this is allowing us to finish that last project that we have on the table for the year and we have those funds in the balance. Mr. Sisak: Mr. Donovan; any questions? Mr. Donovan: I would recommend adoption. Mr. Sisak: So, we will make a recommendation to adopt Ord. 80-2020 at 1st Reading. • Ord. 83-2020 – (1st Reading) – Appropriating funds from the State of Ohio House Bill 641 Distribution and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: We also have Ord. 83-2020, and it is appropriating funds from the State of Ohio House Bill 641 distribution and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Gilbride? Mrs. Gilbride: Yes, so part of the provisions of the House Bill 641 where it says that entities that did not spend all of their money had to return it to the County in which they had gotten it from and a redistribution would be made to the entities that have spent their funds. So, Portage County had some money returned and Summit did not, and so Portage County ended up sending us another $408 and so I need to have Council appropriated that so that we can use that in our expenditures for the year. Mr. Sisak: Mr. Donovan? Mr. Donovan: I’m good with that also. Mr. Sisak: So, our recommendation for Ord. 83-2020 is for adoption. • Res. 16-2020 – (1st Reading) – Ratifying the expenditure of Cares Act Funds and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: Next we have Res. 16-2020 ratifying the expenditure of Cares Act Funds and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Gilbride? Dir. of Finance: Yes, so in several seminars that I was in with the Auditor of State’s Office and the different entities, the Auditor recommended that we prevent a comprehensive list of ways that we spent the CARES Act funds and after Council adopt those legislatively that they understood what those were and agree that the Administrative decisions that were made by the Mayor in terms of how we are spending those funds and so I felt the bests way to do this was to provide Council with a resolution laying how the City had spent those funds and why we had spent those funds the way we had and then asking you to ratify those and to speak that you were in agreement that Administratively we were doing what was right for the City. Mr. Sisak: Are there any questions for Mrs. Gilbride? No one responded. Mr. Donovan Mr. Donovan: I again would recommend adoption. Mr. Sisak: With that, I would agree to recommend adoption of Res. 16-2020 by a vote of 2-0 at 1st Reading. Is there anything else to come before the Finance Committee? No one responded. Hearing none, I will go ahead and close committee. c. PLANNING & ZONING James Donovan, Chair Craig Sisak, Vice Chair Dennis Loughry • Ord. 68-2020 – Amended – (3rd Reading) – P&Z Rec. Adoption 5-0 with Conditions – Approving and granting a conditional zoning certificate to applicant DWC Pipeline, LLC on behalf of the property owner Heritage Woods, LLC for contractor’s services with materials and equipment storage yard located at Parcel No. 6006017. Pres. of Council: Mr. Donovan, I will just remind you that with Ord. 68-2020 we have several participants who would like to talk in reference to this. 9  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 Mayor: Mr. Donovan, I am going to allow . . . they are in the waiting room and I am going to open up the waiting room to Dave Wartko, Matt Wartko and one of the Ward’s. That phone number gives the Ward’s a program so before you call your committee together, I will allow them to enter into the room. Matt Wartko and Mrs. Ward signed into the meeting. Mayor: This is Mayor Dave Kline and Mr. Donovan is just starting his committee, so I will allow him to go ahead with his committee. Mr. Donovan: I call the Planning & Zoning Committee to order; myself, Mr. Sisak and Mr. Loughry are present. Currently we have Ord. 68-2020 and I believe we have some discussion. Mayor: Yes, first of all let me go ahead and get started. This is the ordinance approving Planning & Zoning’s recommendations for the Wartko DWC Pipeline whose property is out on Mogadore Road off of Southeast Avenue and allowing the driveway to come into Southeast Avenue and Jim, if you want to let the Wartko’s or Matt to go ahead and speak a little bit and say what the project is about, and I will defer to the Law Department, Megan. Dir. of Law: If I could just briefly say also that just for Council’s information, the properties; both parcels are actually zoned Industrial and the request is for a conditional zoning to allow outside storage. The only property that needs to be conditionally zoned is the larger parcel where the outside storage is actually going to be. The . . . Dave is going to pull up the map which would be helpful, but the other parcel is not included in the conditional zoning because it is already zoned Industrial and it will just be used for a drive and so really the only issue or the only parcel at issue for consideration is the larger parcel and I think Dave is going to pull that up here and so it might give you a better idea of where we are talking about. Mayor: So, if I may continue a little bit here. Here is the bulk plant off of Southeast Avenue, June Drive; the building where the baseball practice facility is there and the property in question that is being rezoned is back in here behind the bulk plant off of Mogadore Road back there and the driveway; this parcel, right in here is another parcel that is going to be the entrance side. Matt, or Dave; it is this parcel right here; correct? Matt Wartko: That is the driveway; yes. Mayor: Any questions from Council regarding this? It is zoned Industrial currently and there is no request for any zoning at that spot. There would not be any request for conditional zoning except that they want the outdoor storage instead of building the building which would be allowed to store inside the building. Since they want to store some stockpile material outside; that is why it went to Planning & Zoning. There was discussion between Matt Wartko, Dave Wartko, Mrs. Ward, Council and Administration regarding the conditional zoning. (These minutes were recorded and are available for public use). Mr. Donovan: It is the recommendation of the Planning & Zoning Committee to adopt Ord. 68-2020 by a vote of 3-0. • Ord. 81-2020 – (1st Reading) – Amending Ord. 102-2017 to extend the time for sidewalk completion in Bakers Acres Phase II Subdivision and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Donovan: Next we have Ord. 81-2020 which is amending Ord. 102-2017 to extend the time for sidewalk completion in Bakers Acres Phase II Subdivision and providing for immediate enactment. Dir. of Pub. Service: Councilman, this is just an extension of the sidewalk bond. That allotment still has probably about 50% of the sidewalk yet to go and we talked to Mr. Baker and told him we would give him another year and at that time he will have to put the sidewalks in. Mr. Donovan: I would recommend adoption. We have done this before. Mr. Loughry: I agree. Mr. Sisak: I agree. Mr. Donovan: We recommend 3-0 to adopt Ord. 81-2020. • Ord. 82-2020 – (1st Reading) – Accepting the dedication of streets within the Tallmadge Reserve Phase I Subdivision for public purposes; setting performance and maintenance guarantees therefore and providing for immediate enactment. 10  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 Mr. Donovan: Next we have Ord. 82-2020 accepting the dedication of streets within the Tallmadge Reserve Phase I Subdivision for public purposes; setting performance and maintenance guarantees therefore and providing for immediate enactment. Again, that is nothing unusual. Mr. Mayor or Mike; do you want to comment? Mayor: Yeah. Well, I will start and then Mike can talk. This is the Tallmadge Reserve. If you have been out there, the roads are in and they are ready to go and they are anxious to start selling the lots. They have waiting lists with people and they want to record the plat so they can start that process. The waterline was connected this week and they still have some of the bonds and Mike might be able to speak on that, but it is Phase I and it is ready to start selling lots. Mr. Donovan: Great. Dir. of Pub. Service: Councilman, just to add onto what the Mayor was saying, there is about $709,000 in performance bonds and about $106,000 in maintenance bonds. Mr. Donovan: Committee? Mr. Loughry: I would go with the recommendation to adopt. Mr. Sisak: I would agree. Mr. Donovan: So, the committee recommends adoption of Ord. 82-2020 by a vote of 3-0. • Ord. 84-2020 – Exhibit A – (1st Reading) – Accepting a waterline easement from Tallmadge City Schools at 480-484 East Avenue and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Donovan: Next we have Ord. 84-2020 accepting a waterline easement from Tallmadge City Schools at 480-484 East Avenue and providing for immediate enactment. There again, I defer to Dave or Mr. Rorar. Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes, we extended the waterline when the construction of the two schools were being built there and this is just the easement that just gives us the access to that waterline to do any work or repairs if needed. Mr. Donovan: Nothing unusual about that; again, I would recommend adoption. Mr. Loughry: Agree. The Mr. Donovan: We will recommend 3-0 to adopt Ord. 84-2020 at 1st Reading. Is there anything else to come before Planning & Zoning? No one responded. I will close committee. d. COMMUNITY ISSUES Dennis Loughry, Chair Jonathon Bollas, Vice Chair Rebecca Allman NO LEGISLATION AT THIS TIME. Mr. Loughry: I call the Community Issues Committee to order; myself, Mr. Bollas and Mrs. Allman are present. We have no legislation before us at this time. Does anybody on the committee have anything to bring up? Mr. Bollas: I just had a few updates. I am continuing to keep in touch with the Service Director and wanted to thank him again for the Hanna and Washburn easement project proposal. He has been keeping in touch via e- mail and the phone and I just wanted to ask the Service Director if he wanted any support or help from me getting a hold of any of those residents and follow up on that? Dir. of Pub. Service: I appreciate that Councilman, but I have been in contact with five separate residents down there and we have it; it is just a long process and we are just trying to make sure that we are not hounding them and so it is a little bit of a lengthy challenge, but we have been in contact with all five. Mr. Bollas: OK. Great. The last communication and I just wanted to follow up to see if you needed help with that last resident, but if you got it, then that sounds good. Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes, I did reach out to him probably two days after our last e-mail. 11  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 Mr. Bollas: I just wanted to say thanks for your assistance on the leaf complaint I got. Your team hopped all over that the next day and got that cleaned up, so the resident was happy, and I just wanted to say thanks again for that. Mr. Loughry: Thank you. Anybody else on Council? No one responded. Any administrative items for Community Issues? Mayor: Just the tree lighting ceremony that we had. Andrea Kidder and Justin from IT and Scott and also Dr. Cooper helped put that together. I don’t know if you were able to view the video. It was cold and it was snowing; it was the perfect time to light the Christmas tree. The tree of hope; it really is in thee trying times they did a phenomenal job and so hats off to the team that put that together. Mr. Loughry: Thank you. Hearing nothing else; I will close committee. e. SAFETY Jonathon Bollas, Chair Michael Carano, Vice Chair Craig Sisak NO LEGISLATION AT THIS TIME. Mr. Bollas: I call the Safety Committee to order; myself and Mr. Sisak are present. Mr. Carano is excused. We have no legislation. Does anybody on the committee or Council have anything on the Safety Committee this evening? Mayor: The only thing I have if no other Council member has anything, is that tonight after the Council we will have a Board of Control meeting which I am going to, if Council passes the ordinance, to enter into contract with our architect to start the fire station. We are going to meet with that architect to get that project moving along so we are looking forward to getting them on board and get things moving along and I will get Council showing you all what is going on with that project. Mr. Bollas: Thank you for that update. I also wanted to thank the Finance Director for her help with questions I received on the fire truck cost breakdown. I got that all cleared up and I want to thank you for that as well. Mr. Sisak: I don’t know if the Mayor can comment or not, but an update on the part-time firefighter’s contracts? Mayor: All I can say is that we did have a tentative agreement and they took it back to their board; their membership and they did not accept it. Mr. Bollas: Anything else for the Safety Committee this evening? No one responded. I will close committee. Thank you. f. PUBLIC SERVICE Rebecca Allman, Chair Dennis Loughry, Vice Chair James Donovan NO LEGISLATION AT THIS TIME. Mrs. Allman: I call the Public Service Committee to order; myself, Mr. Loughry and Mr. Donovan are present. We have no legislation at this time. Committee or Council; do you have anything? No one responded. Administration? Mayor: Just to reiterate and I know it is getting late, but we have to say that the Street Department and Mike Weigand and his crew did a phenomenal job on the leaf program. With no temporary help and they are collecting more tonnage of leaves; more cubic yards and if you ever witnessed the operation; it is blowing with the leaf blowers on the edges of the property and putting them into the road and they have done a phenomenal job and hats off to Service Director Rorar and his team for doing a great job. It took a while there wondering if we were going to get this done or not, but they did a great job. Mrs. Allman: I second that as well. Anything else to come before the committee? No one responded. I will close committee. 13. REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES: None. 12  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 14. THIRD READINGS OF RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES: a. Ord. 68-2020 – Amended – (3rd Reading) –– Planning & Zoning – Approving and granting a conditional zoning certificate to applicant DWC Pipeline, LLC on behalf of the property owner Heritage Woods, LLC for contractor’s services with materials Mr. Donovan moved for the adoption of Ord. 68-2020. Seconded Mr. Loughry. Roll Call: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas – unanimous. Ord. 68-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. b. Ord. 70-2020 – (3rd Reading) – Personnel – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Tallmadge Part-Time Firefighters Association consisting of Tallmadge Part-Time Firefighters and providing for immediate enactment. Pres. of Council: Ord. 70-2020 is at 3rd Reading and will remain before the Personnel Committee and just as a reminder, I will have no discussion on this ordinance because my husband is on the Part-Time Fire Department. c. Ord. 71-2020 – Exhibit A – (3rd Reading) – Finance – Creating the Tallmadge Reserve Tax Increment Financing Incentive District; declaring improvements to the parcels within the Incentive District to be a public purpose and exempt from real property taxation; requiring the owners of those parcels to make service payments in lieu of taxes; establishing a Municipal Public Improvement Tax Increment Equivalent Fund for the deposit of those service payments; requiring the distribution of a portion of those service payments to the Tallmadge City School District; specifying the public improvements that benefit or serve parcels in the Incentive District; and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 71-2020. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 71-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. 15. SECOND READINGS OF RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES: None. 16. FIRST READINGS OF RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES: a. Ord. 78-2020 – Exhibit A – (1st Reading) – Finance – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a Cooperative Agreement among Summit County Development Disabilities Board and Summit County and the City of Tallmadge which results in acquiring 730 North Avenue and portions of the property known as 89 East Howe Road and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 78-2020. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Mr. Loughry: I just wanted Council to know that I am going to support this, and I wanted to thank all of the Administration. We have had several conversations and we had one long meeting to discuss this thing in its entirety and we agreed on most and we can disagree on some aspects of it, but I would just remind you that what this comes down to with the way I see it is that it all revolves around income tax and holding costs, so in my mind I will evaluate this going forward by the following formula if you will. I’ll take the net income tax of the dispatch center that the City receives, and I will add that with the net income tax that is generated from the schools for economic development and I will total those two and I will take that figure and compare it to a holding cost that we have annually to own and operate that building and then that figure will either be a profit or a loss. So, I am going to support this, and I am going to hope; I am going to hope that I am wrong and that that will be a profit at the end of each year. So, I support this. Roll Call: Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous. Ord. 78-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. b. Ord. 79-2020 – (1st Reading) – Finance – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a Cooperative Agreement with the Portage County Engineer for construction costs associated with the Tallmadge Road Corridor Project in Brimfield Township and the City of Tallmadge, Portage County and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 79-2020 at 1st Reading. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry – unanimous. Ord. 79-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. 13  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 16. FIRST READINGS OF RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES (Cont’d.) c. Ord. 80-2020 – (1st Reading) – Finance – Authorizing the appropriation of funds from the unappropriated fund balances and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 80-2020 at 1st Reading. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak – unanimous. Ord. 80-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. d. Ord. 81-2020 – (1st Reading) – Planning & Zoning – Amending Ord. 102- 2017 to extend the time for sidewalk completion in Bakers Acres Phase II Subdivision and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Donovan moved for the adoption of Ord. 81-2020 at 1st Reading. Seconded Mr. Loughry. Roll Call: Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman – unanimous. Ord. 81-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. e. Ord. 82-2020 – (1st Reading) – Planning & Zoning – Accepting the dedication of streets within the Tallmadge Reserve Phase I Subdivision for public purposes; setting performance and maintenance guarantees therefore and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Donovan moved for the adoption of Ord. 82-2020. Seconded Mr. Loughry. Roll Call: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas – unanimous. Ord. 82-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. f. Ord. 83-2020 – (1st Reading) – Finance – Appropriating funds from the State of Ohio House Bill 641 Distribution and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 83-2020 at 1st Reading. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 83-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. g. Ord. 84-2020 – Exhibit A – (1st Reading) – Planning & Zoning – Accepting a waterline easement from Tallmadge City Schools at 480-484 East Avenue and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Donovan moved for the adoption of Ord. 84-2020 at 1st Reading. Seconded Mr. Loughry. Roll Call: Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous. Ord. 84-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. h. Res. 16-2020 – (1st Reading) – Finance – Ratifying the expenditure of Cares Act Funds and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Res. 16-2020 at 1st Reading. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry – unanimous. Res. 16-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. i. Res. 17-2020 – (1st Reading) – Personnel – Extending the sympathy of the Council and the Administration to Billie Jo Haas and members of her family in the death of Milford “MC” Haas and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Allman moved for the adoption of Res. 17-2020. Seconded Mr. Bollas. Voice vote 6-0. Res. 17-2020 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. Pres. of Council: I do have something that I want to bring to Council’s attention real quick. We have Res. 17-2020 as well as Res. 13-2020 that everyone needs to come in and sign those. So, if you could come in this week and they will be ready for us. Mayor: Madame Chair, just a couple comments. First of all, to Megan Raber in the Law Department; the amount of work that was put in to get our agenda and all of that hard work of writing the ordinances, putting them together; making them legal back and forth between Megan and Susan and everyone else. Phenomenal job and thank you Megan for all the hard work that you do in putting that together and also Mollie in the Finance Department for the resolutions and working on that CARES Act. That is not an easy chore. There is so much work involved in that. So, thank you. And speaking of unsung heroes; the safety forces such as the Fire Department and Police Departments and they do a phenomenal job and they are in harm’s way every day with the Covid going on and the squad calls that are going out, it seems like they are running on someone who appears to be positive just about every day; a couple of times a day, so hats off to the safety forces and thank you for what you are doing. Lastly to my staff. I have such a phenomenal staff between Dr. Cooper, Matt Springer, Jill Stritch, Andrea Kidder, Karen Morgan in the administrative wing and not including Mr. Rorar and his staff downstairs and Helene in the Zoning Department. Great job. It has been a very busy and trying 2020 and we will be glad when it is over, but I still think the first phase of 2021 we will still be in that same boat. 14  VIRTUAL REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 20 Mayor (Cont’d.) And lastly to Council. Thank you for what you do. It is a great Council and we have gotten a lot of good work done and we have a lot of good work coming up; a lot of fun stuff coming up. So, thank you for what you do and to everyone have a Happy Holiday and a safe holiday; wear your mask, work on your distance, and wash your hands. The three w’s. Have a very merry Christmas. Pres. of Council: Real quick, before we adjourn, I would like to thank Council very much for a great year. We did accomplish a lot, and everyone brings a lot of different things to the table and I appreciate every single comment that is brought. I also want to thank Mike Carano who has decided to resign. I really want to thank him for all of his input and the great discussions that we have had. We are going to miss him and I know that the Precinct Committee is working on getting his replacement. I want to thank everyone very much; Susan and Gina thank you for all of your hard work. It has been great working with you guys this year as always and I am just finishing up my 9th year as a Councilperson and I can’t believe that. Mayor Kline; do you have one more thing? Mayor: Yes, that last thing on my page in big, bold letters is Pat Carano. Thank you and if Pat is out there listening. Pres. of Council: You said Pat and you mean Mike. Mayor: Geeminy Christmas!! Shame on me, but that is his brother, his twin brother. Thank you for all you did Mike. Mr. Donovan: Yeah, thank you Mike. 17. ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Donovan moved to adjourn. Seconded Mr. Loughry. Voice vote 6-0. The Virtual Regular Council meeting adjourned at 9:20 p.m. sb Adopted: _______________________________ _________________________________ Susan E. Burton, Clerk of Council Carol A. Kilway, President of Council 15