City Council Regular Meeting

COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. November 11, 21 1. CALL TO ORDER. President of Council Kilway called the Regular Council meeting of Thursday, November 11, 2021, to order at 7:00 p.m. Public input is invited at the beginning of the meeting to discuss an item that is not on the agenda. So please wait until you are recognized by the Chair and state your name and address so that your comments may be properly recorded and limit your remarks to a period of two (2) minutes or less. It is appreciated that anyone wishing to address Council register with the Clerk of Council or through the on-line form by 3:00 p.m. the day of the meeting. This is not necessary; it is just appreciated. 2. OPENING PRAYER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 3. ROLL CALL: Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mr. Grimm, 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 Law Raber, Dir. of Finance Gilbride and Clerk of Council Burton. 4. Correcting and Adopting the Previous Meeting Minutes 10-27-21 Regular Council Meeting minutes – To be provided. 5. Financial Reports:  Fire & EMS Fund Transfer in the amount of $100,000 to Council on 10-28- 21.  Bond Retirement Transfer in the amount of $75,000 to Council on 10-28- 21.  Street Maintenance & Repair Transfer in the amount of $150,000 to Council on 10-28-21.  Bond Retirement (Safety Services Income Tax Fund) in the amount of $133,010 to Council on 10-28-21.  Appropriation Report, Fund Report and Revenue Report for the period ending 10-31-21 to Council on 11-4-21.  October Financial Reports to Council on 11-4-21.  Tallmadge Recreation Center Profit and Loss Report for the period ending 10-31-21 to Council on 11-4-21.  Income Tax Comparisons for the period ending 10-31-21 to Council on 11- 4-21.  Revenue Comparisons for the period ending 10-31-21 to Council on 11-4- 21.  Consolidated Investment Portfolio for the period ending 10-31-21 to Council on 11-4-21. Mr. Loughry moved to accept the Financial Reports. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Roll Call: Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mr. Grimm, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman – unanimous. The Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Gilbride were accepted by a vote of 7-0. 6. Public Hearings: None. 7. Community Input: Pres. of Council: Is there anyone here that would like to discuss anything that is not on our agenda this evening? Hearing none; OK. 8. Agenda Additions:  Swearing in of Police Officer Jacob Miller and Officer Collin Hefner.  There was discussion about the Crisis Intervention Team. Ralph Stover is our Crisis Intervention Team Coordinator. He is actually the CIT Coordinator for Summit County now. Ralph talked about a pilot program that they are running. 9. Reports of Administrative Officers: a. Mayor/Director of Safety:  Outstanding investigative work spearheaded by Jason Corzine. They arrested a person here in Tallmadge for drug dealings and some arms and with the help of the Northeast Ohio Fugitive Task Force, which Pat Fairhurst is on, it was just a team effort by the Tallmadge Police Department to make our city much, much safer. Hats off to the Police Department for the outstanding work.  My Item No. 3 is the Tallmadge Rec Center. On election day, November 2nd, the Tallmadge Rec Center had a full arrest. That guy wants to come and talk at our next Council meeting. He was gone, we defibbed and brought him back. It was a true save and that was not the first save that the Rec Center members have done at that location. Her staff did an outstanding job and she actually did the CPR. The Fire Department got there in a great time and so thank you.  Next is an update on the Fire Station. The Mayor explained a photo he was showing Council. We are on budget. The amount in the contingency fund is $98,000. Tomorrow they are going to asphalt the front driveway and the back driveway and move all of the materials onto the asphalt.  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. November 11, 21  You have Ord. 120-2021 at 1st Reading this evening. We aren’t going to talk about it very much tonight, but that is the new Joint Dispatch that is going to be at the corner of Route 91 and Howe Road. Summit County introduced legislation on Monday, the City of Stow, Cuyahoga Falls, Tallmadge, Fairlawn, and Akron will be submitting legislation to their respective Councils and so tonight will strictly be a 1st Reading. We will have the County here. Mollie is not here this evening, but she has requested, and I also request the adoption of Ord. 113-2021 and 114-2021. We will talk about those when they come up. End of report. b. Director of Administration: Good evening. Just quickly, negotiations are continuing with the three labor unions. They are progressing well. Our first meeting with the firefighters is tomorrow. Otherwise, end of report. c. Director of Public Service: Good evening. I have no PowerPoint this evening. I was anticipating a long meeting. The leaf pickup; Zone 1 was completed last week in 2 days and Zone 2 was completed this week in 2 and a half days and when we finish, we leapfrog the Zone in front of us to get to the farther back sections to pick up the piles and that way they don’t sit there for four or five weeks at a time and so that program is going along pretty well. We did have a request to ask ODOT for sound walls as well as jake brake signs on I- 76 and both are no. We knew that, but the reasoning behind it is that the sound walls would have to be part of a project. You just don’t put sound walls up. The jake brake, the Ohio Office of the Attorney General has a difference of opinion and then I’m not sure on highways if that is constitutional and that is why ODOT will not do that. An update on East Avenue/Washburn Intersection Improvement; partial paving tomorrow as well as milling and I am going to advise everybody to not go that way. Find an alternate route. They are paving the north side of the road and they are going to flip traffic over and get everybody on the north side. Also, Summit County sewer rate increases were in the paper today and I’m sure everybody saw that, and I think the paper said that the last time Summit County had any increases was 10 years ago. There is a split difference; the Munroe line while not truly accurate, but the best way to sum it up is to the east of the Munroe Road line is the Summit County sewer in Tallmadge and everything west of Munroe is the Tallmadge sewer. Is that pretty close Dave? Mayor: Correct. Dir. of Pub. Service: So, there is a difference in the sewer rates for Tallmadge residents and so some of our Summit County sewer rates might see an increase and then lastly, I would like to ask that Ord. 117-2021 be considered for passage at 2nd Reading and so that would be the next meeting. It is at 1st Reading tonight, but I would ask for 2nd Reading adoption because of the new year coming in and people want to buy passes at the Rec Center. That concludes my report. d. Director of Economic Development: I will to be brief. Thank you for coming out to the Henry Bierce Hardsky Showroom Grand Opening. Just as a recap, this is about a half million-dollar project that they invested on South Avenue, and they retained about 25 employees and has about $1 million annual payroll and so it was really good to see the situation work out. Bierce moved out of their space, and it was backfilled immediately and the spaces that were left vacant have also been backfilled. If you haven’t seen recently, the Wash-Works located at South Thomas and West Avenue; that is going to be a redevelopment site. ModWash has acquired a portion of the property that is approximately 5 acres and they are going to go through a lot split process and demolish the existing Wash-Works and then construct a new ModWash facility. The closest facility that ModWash has currently is in Kent. Again, it is about a 4,500 square foot laser wash. It is a good addition to West Avenue, and they did work with our new Code to bring the buildings closer to West Avenue and kind of mirror that West Avenue Overlay District that we were going for. Next, the Beacon Journal had reported just yesterday that the Duchess Gas Station at Southeast Six Corners is going to be a complete site redevelopment. They are investing about 3.5 million. They are pulling out the existing tanks and installing new underground storage tanks; a brand-new building and they are going to push it back off the roadway to give them an additional pump, but as you can see right here, it is going to be a really nice addition to Southeast Six Corners. A question that we have received a lot is; is there an Aldi’s coming to the JEDD and the answer is yes. We do have a site plan. It is roughly just under a 20,000 square foot Aldi and it is going to be located just east of Parliament Drive and it is still under ownership of the DeHoff Group, but there is a site plan, and it is now pending and being reviewed, and we do anticipate that being approved in the very near future. 2  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. November 11, 21 Dir. of Econ. Development (Cont’d.) There have also been a lot of questions about the vacant land directly to the west of Parliament Drive that is also being graded. I can tell you right now that there have been no applications with Brimfield Township and so at this point it would be pure speculation and it is zoned in a Commercial development which is the exact same classification as what the Wal-Mart is in the Cascades and Kohl’s and some of those areas back there. It does allow for some mixed uses. That is roughly 20 acres, and I will certainly keep you posted if we learn new information. With that being said, I think that is going to conclude my report and I would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Mr. Loughry: Can you give us a brief update on Chapel Hill and Midway Plaza? Dir. of Econ. Development: Chapel Hill Mall, as I think most of us know, is owned now ICP Industrial Commercial Properties and they are based out of Solon. They are a very reputable developer. It is entirely inside the City of Akron, ICP has been paying contractors to mainly from what I can tell and what we have discussed with the City of Akron reps is to gut and clean out most of the mall space. It is roughly 800,000 square feet that would obviously be subdivided for multiple users. Obviously, it is going to have an enormous impact on the Britain Road Corridor and some of the spin-off effects so it is something that we will definitely watch closely and work with the City of Akron. Midway Plaza: We met earlier this week and Midway Plaza continues to be on our radar. The Chief Building Official for Summit County has issued partial condemnation orders. We do anticipate that there could be some additional orders forthcoming. They have inspected all of the vacant units and we had no mixed words with the out of state landowners out of New York about what our expectations are and there have been certain statements made on their behalf and we are still waiting for them to live up to. I think we have stressed all along in good faith; we want to work with them, and we think there is a higher and better use for that piece of property. It is zoned retail right now and certainly with what ICP is doing up at Chapel Hill Mall, I think you could see something mirror that 20-acre site at Midway Plaza. So, we have offered different programs through Jobs of Ohio and the Ohio Site Inventory Program being just one that helps reposition underutilized sites. Mayor: If I could just share one thing, the Aldi’s site; if you go into the drives and this driveway that is back there and it deadheads into the field that is under contract to get completed before the end of the year to take that driveway and tie it into a permanent drive. That is under contract as we speak. e. Director of Finance: Absent f. Director of Law: Thank you. I have no report this evening. 10. Reports of Standing Committees of Council of the Whole: a. Planning and Zoning James Donovan, Chair Craig Sisak, Vice Chair Mr. Donovan: I call the Planning & Zoning Committee to order. I don’t see any items for us to discuss. Is there anything from Council or the Administration? Hearing none, I close committee. i. Additional items. None. b. Finance Craig Sisak, Chair James Donovan, Vice Chair i. Third Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances A. Ord. 103-2021 – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a lease with Southeast Avenue Company, LLC, for 731 Dunbar Road and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: Thank you. I would like to call Finance Committee to order. We currently have Ord. 103-2021 at 3rd Reading. Ord. 103-2021 was read into the record. Is the legal work done on this? Dir. of Law: No, we are still . . . we are not ready for this. Mr. Sisak: OK, so we will just leave this at 3rd. B. Ord. 109-2021 – Exhibit A – Exhibit A Tracked – Amending Ord. 66-2013 rates, charges, and fees for the Zoning Department and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: Next, we have Ord. 109-2021. Ord. 109-2021 was read into the record. Mayor: This was amended the last time. It is at 3rd Reading. We vetted out these numbers with the Zoning Department and we feel these numbers are in line with not only the City of Tallmadge, but our neighboring communities. I think it is ready to go unless Council has some questions. 3  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. November 11, 21 Mr. Sisak: Hearing none; can I have a motion please? Mr. Loughry moved to adopt Ord. 109-2021. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mr. Donovan, Mr. Grimm, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas – unanimous. Ord. 109-2021 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. i. Second Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances A. Ord. 110-2021 – Adopting a budget from various funds of the City of Tallmadge, Ohio, for current expenses and other expenditures during fiscal year ending December 31, 2022, appropriating the necessary funds for the administration thereof, authorizing transfers between funds, and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: Currently we have Ord. 110-2021. Ord. 110-2021 was read into the record. There is a public hearing on 12-9-21 @ 7:03 p.m. Mayor: I know there are a couple of people who would like to speak on this. We had a Work Session last Monday that was about 2-1/2 hours long. I think it is a good budget and we worked hard on it. There were a couple of items that you questioned about the sound system in Council and the video, and we do have a rep here to talk about that a little bit. We are going to add it to the budget. We came up with a couple different scenarios. We also had a lot of discussion on the Fire Department; the personnel. As you know we have in this budget 6 new full-time firemen and the one thing that we did not talk about at length, but it was in the budget, was that we have a part-time IT person and also at the Rec Center it was funded last year for the Assistant Rec Center Manager’s position. It has been modified and you also have the grid that is a companion piece to the budget and so it depends on the budget how that grid will go. Mr. Loughry: Also, the Assistant Service Director. Mayor: The Assistant Service Director has always been funded and never filled and that position is going to be filled . . . I will let Mike speak. Dir. of Pub. Service: We offered that position after the past year and a half of working with the Department Heads to Mike Weigand and he has accepted that position and he starts Monday. Mr. Loughry: Mayor, you were just going to make a comment about the ARPA Fund that is in the budget. Mayor: So, I did receive . . . Dennis asked me about the ARPA Fund and what is that being spent on based on the article in the Beacon Journal. The City of Tallmadge received $1.8 million and so our professional consultant is Mrs. Gilbride and City Council of course, and she has put together a spreadsheet of what you are allowed and what you can’t do with the money. I also have an ordinance tonight that I talked about in the budget meeting. One of the items that you are allowed to do is the vaccine incentive program and that is Ord. 119-2021. That would be allowing us to spend of the $1.8 million slightly under $200,000. That is the only thing that is of the $1.8 million that is earmarked that I am asking to be earmarked to spend. So, short story is more to come, and Council will be involved in that budget process. Mr. Sisak: Thank you. Any further discussion? Is there anyone here that would like to speak in regard to the budget tonight? Pres. of Council: Yes, we do have one individual that would like to speak; Mr. Capers and then we also have Mr. Davis from Dove Audio Visual. Pat Capers, 547 Deerwood Drive, Tallmadge. As far as my background, I am a retired District Fire Chief from the City of Akron. I was there for 30 years, and I was a firefighter paramedic; I was a shift commander; and I was also in charge of all of the paramedics for the City of Akron. There was discussion regarding having 3 men on the squad instead of just 2. So, I really encourage the Council to consider the minimum manning be established for all units to have 3 people at all times. Thank you very much. Mr. Sisak: Thank you. Chad Davis, Dove Audio Visual. I live in Tallmadge on Timbertop. I am glad to present this. So, we are here to discuss the live streaming for Council Chambers. Mr. Delaney and I have been talking about this for a year maybe knowing that we should try and live stream the Council meetings and other meetings that occur in here. The total cost is $18,135.00. Mayor: So, I know we have a lot to think about and there were great comments from everyone, and I appreciate that, and I am not on the band wagon because I have a room full of firemen, but I would do it without them. It’s all in my notes here. I can 4  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. November 11, 21 Mayor (Cont’d.) answer any questions you might have or feel free to come in or do it on the floor. I’m open. And as you know, 75% of the operating budget you can’t touch anyways because it is salaries for the bulk of it; salaries, electric bills, gas bills, gasoline for the vehicles and that type of stuff. It is very hard to modify that. Mr. Grimm: It is all based off a zero-based then? Mayor: Yes. Mr. Grimm: I just thought somebody should say something about the operating portion of the budget. Pres. of Council: Mr. Sisak, I am just looking through my notes and I don’t see where we have actually scheduled a public hearing for this. Mr. Sisak: I would be happy to. December 9th at 7:03 p.m. Mr. Loughry: Mr. Sisak, before we leave this ordinance, just so everyone knows, I have told many that I will not be able to be at that December meeting, but I want everyone to know that I support this budget and all of the effort that has went into making it. B. Ord. 113-2021 – Authorizing the appropriation of funds for purposes of funding the City’s health insurance reserves and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: Alright, on to Ord. 113-2021. Ord. 113-2021 was read into the record. Mr. Loughry: Mr. Sisak, we had a request to adopt this and so I would move to adopt Ord. 113.2021. Seconded Mrs. Allman. Roll Call: Mr. Grimm, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 113-2021 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. C. Ord. 114-2021 – Appropriating additional amounts and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: Next is Ord. 114-2021. Ord. 114-2021 was read into the record. Mr. Loughry: Mr. Sisak, we had a request also for this ordinance and so I would move to adopt Ord. 114-2021. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mr. Grimm – unanimous. Ord. 114-2021 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. ii. First Readings of Resolution and Ordinances A. Ord. 117-2021 – Rec. Fees Grid – Tracked Rec. Fees – Amending and supplementing Ord. 64-2020 to amend rates, charges, and fees for all recreational facilities and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: First reading ordinances. We have Ord. 117-2021. Ord. 117-2021 was read into the record. We will just go ahead and give that a 1st Reading if everyone is in agreement. Mayor: If you would, Mr. Chairman, please look that over and please call if you have any questions on the grid. This changes some of the fee structures for the memberships to join the Rec Center and Maca. B. Ord. 122-2021 – Declaring the 1995 Pierce Dash Ladder Fire Truck to be excess/obsolete and authorizing the sale of said equipment to Stark State College with certain conditions and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak: We also have Ord. 122-2021. Ord. 122-2021 was read into the record. Mayor: This could just have a 1st Reading. This is our current ladder truck. The new ladder truck is very close to going into service and I am sure you have seen it out and about. There has been a lot of training on that thing, and this would allow . . . you know you don’t get a lot of money for this old of a piece of equipment and Stark State, where a lot of folks go down for training, they asked if they could purchase that truck. It is a State college and I think it is a good thing that we are able to offer that truck. We are not going to certify the pumps nor the ladders and the pumps . . . that is up to them once they have it, so if you read the ordinance . . . I think the offer was for $10,000 for that vehicle that is 27 years old. Mr. Sisak: We will give that a 1st Reading if everybody is in agreement. Anything else to come before the Finance Committee? I close committee. iii. Additional Items: None. c. Personnel Christopher Grimm, Chair Rebecca Allman, Vice Chair i. Second Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances A. Ord. 112-2021 – Exhibit A – Exhibit A Tracked – Clarifying and defining personnel benefits and policies for non-collective bargaining employees and providing for immediate enactment. 5  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. November 11, 21 Mr. Grimm: I call the Personnel Committee to order. We have Ord. 112-2021. Ord. 112-2021 was read into the record. You should have all received a rather large document with all the benefits and I will presume as I go through there that anything marked are the changes to it. Mayor: That is correct. There were actually 9 modifications to the ordinance, and it starts on page 18. Chris, do you want to go over all of those now? We don’t need it tonight . . . Mr. Grimm: The first thing I noticed about this as I go through this thing is that there are a lot of exceptions in this thing, for instance, on page 7 it says, “shall apply to individuals on the payroll excluding bargaining employees prior to December 31, 1998” and that is 23 years ago. Then you have ones that talk about employees on the payroll on January 1, 2014, and then you have some other ones in here as you go through. I wonder if as we do this that it says any employees hired between January 1, 2010, and January 1, 2018, shall not receive retroactive vacation beginning January 1, 2018, . . . I wonder if we have ever thought about just going back and seeing if we can get rid of some of these exceptions. I mean, you have one here from June 24, 1987. Mayor: I would have to defer to the Finance Director on that. I know that she is not here tonight, but I know we carry these as long as we have an employee; should we have an employee from 1998; Chief Passarelli is probably one of them. Mr. Grimm: On page 19, you had a Juneteenth to the designated holidays and in 2.05 A.2 you need to add Juneteenth there. I mean, you have Labor Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Memorial Day, New Year’s Day, and you have to add Juneteenth in there also. H.R. Manager: For some of the part-time seasonal, not all of the holidays are paid at time and a half; they are paid at straight time. Mr. Grimm: That is why I was saying Juneteenth has to go in there too. H.R. Manager: We can do that. Mr. Grimm: While you are there, on page 23, this is for the opt-out of hospitalization, explain to me single coverage; this is for the opt-out for hospitalization. It says, “The employee eligible to participate in a family coverage due to a spouse and/or eligible dependents 22 years old or younger may elect to . . .” you are going to give them $1,200. What is that? H.R. Manager: That is an opt-out so if you have a spouse or a child and they are on the City’s insurance, if you can get them off the City’s insurance, because they have coverage elsewhere; they are not dropping them; they have to prove that they have coverage elsewhere, then they will get an opt-out of $1,200. It is a complete win/win situation because then the City is not paying for their coverage, and you are self- funded and for whatever you might be paying for out of there and instead you are incentivizing that employee to leave your insurance and get the insurance that they have available elsewhere. Single coverage could cost anywhere between $10,000 and $11,000 and we are giving them $1,200. We have done this for years. We just haven’t changed the opt-out amount forever. Mr. Grimm: I understand the opt-out and the concept, but I’m just curious with a child 22 years or younger; is he still under this verbiage. You are saying that if I have a wife and an 18-year-old child, then my wife and the child go under her coverage and then I can take a single coverage. H.R. Manager: That is correct. Mr. Grimm: Then under Military Leave, it says, “All permanent employees of the City, including elected officials, are eligible to receive certain military duty benefits. So, when you read this, it doesn’t take into the fact that my term could end . . . elected officials’ terms come to an end and under this I could go into the military and then come back and claim my job again the way this is kind of written. You might want to take a gander at it. It doesn’t say anything about as long as you are in office for elected officials. It simply says, I can go off to the military and come back and claim my job which is fine if I work in the Finance Department or another office, but as an elected official, I do believe that when my term expires . . . Dir. of Law: We can take a look at that, but I would think the answer would be that you are no longer an elected official. When you are no longer an elected official, then that terminates. Mr. Sisak: Mr. Grimm, you have someone who would like to speak. Chief Passarelli: I would like to speak to this piece of legislation. I got it and read it through and highlighted a few things that are pertinent to me. I’m close to retirement and they will be hiring another Chief and in this City a Chief can come into my spot with an Associate degree. OK? That is the minimum qualification. I am in Band 6, and I believe the Police Chief is in Band 6 and I don’t know who else is. I don’t think 6  that that position should be eliminated from an education incentive. A person can come into this job pretty young with an Associate Degree and want to better himself COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. November 11, 21 Chief Passarelli (Cont’d.) to better do the job and I guess he has to do it at his own expense. If you go outside, that is not going to help you. I don’t understand the logic to that. Is there logic to that? Dir. of Law: The logic to that is that you are hired as a Band 6 and there is no additional place for them to go into and so the education incentive is kind Chief Passarelli: So, you are relating it to income is what you are saying? Dir. of Law: No, we are relating it to growth within the organization, within the City of Tallmadge to the point where you are advancing when you are coming in. There was continuing conversation regarding this topic. Mr. Grimm: Council’s thoughts on that? Pres. of Council: I say give it a 3rd Reading and think about it. Mr. Grimm: Just a 2nd Reading. We can change it without amending the ordinance because it is an attachment to it. Thanks Mike. I understand what you are saying. You are basically taking the top 6 people that are relied upon; the Police Chief, the Fire Chief, and all of your assistants and saying to them that we are not going to pay for your education. I agree with you. ii. First Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances A. Ord. 118-2021 – Tracked – Establishing the number of non-collective bargaining employees by department and position pursuant to R.C. 731.08 and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Grimm: Ord. 118-2021 was read into the record. I am going to suggest we give this a 1st Reading and then allow Council to adopt it in January after you have your budget taken care of because that is when your budget is going to determine how many employees you are going to have. Any problem with that? We will give Ord. 118-2021 . . . we just adopted something like this a few months ago. It is the same ordinance. Dir. of Law: I believe that this one needs a public hearing set for January 13th at 7:03 p.m. Mr. Grimm: I will go ahead and set a public hearing for Ord. 118-2021 on January 13th at 7:03 p.m. B. Ord. 119-2021 – Creating a voluntary Vaccination Incentive program for City employees and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Grimm: Next is Ord. 119-2021. Ord. 119-2021 was read into the record. This is basically allowing a one-time bonus of $1,000 for all vaccinated employees, full-time, part-time, or a $500 . . . and then they have $100 for every person in your family who is on our hospitalization. Mayor: This is part of what I talked about earlier as the ARPA Funds. This is a qualifying event that is eligible and actually we got this ordinance from other communities across the State of Ohio. I feel it is a good thing and again this is to help our health care system since we are partially self-funded because we do have a stop loss and so anything I can do to help and anything the employees can do to stay out of the hospitals and help not getting sick to reduce the cost of our health care; that is what this incentive is really all about. There was continuing discussion regarding this issue. Mr. Grimm: Anything else to come before the Personnel Committee? I close committee. iii. Additional Items: None. d. Community Issues Dennis Loughry, Chair Jonathon Bollas, Vice Chair Mr. Loughry: I call the Community Issues Committee to order. We have no legislation. Is there anything to come before Community Issues? Mayor: You might want to talk about the Veteran’s Day Ceremony at the church. I know you were in attendance. Mr. Loughry: So, it is always emotional and the people that come year after year after year . . . the lady today with the walker that made an effort to come to the event just shows you the passion that that generation believes in everything that I think some of our younger people are sliding away from. Today was special for me because my son Tod is a veteran as were both of his grandfathers and so it was nice being there with him. I close committee. i. Additional Items: None. e. Safety Jonathon Bollas, Chair Christopher Grimm, Vice Chair 7  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. November 11, 21 Mr. Bollas: I call the Safety Committee to order. We have no legislation this evening. Does anybody have anything for the Safety Committee? Alright, I close committee. i. Additional Items: None. f. Public Service Rebecca Allman, Chair Dennis Loughry, Vice Chair i. Second Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances A. Ord. 116-2021 – Exhibit A – Exhibit A Tracked – Repealing Tallmadge Codified Ordinance Chapter 1327.13 Unsafe Structures/Demolition of Buildings and Chapter 1327.14 Maintenance Responsibility of Vacant Structures and Establishing Chapter 1328 Dangerous Buildings in Part Thirteen-Building Code and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Allman: I call the Public Service Committee to order. We have Ord. 116- 2021. Ord. 116-2021 was read into the record. Mayor: This is an ordinance that will definitely help us out for the demo process, and I will just use the house at 176 Northwest Avenue. I know that it has been a thorn in Council folk’s side, and I will say that December 11th it is up for auction and the minimum price is $21,878. So, if anybody would like that property, that is the price for that. This ordinance helps us facilitate that a little quicker than it was. Mr. Grimm: I don’t have a problem with adopting this tonight, so I will make a motion to adopt. Seconded Mr. Loughry. Roll Call: Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mr. Grimm, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous. Ord. 116- 2021 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. ii. First Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances B. Ord. 120-2021 – Ex. B, C, D, E, G, H, I, Ex. One, Other Info – Authorizing the Mayor to execute a cooperative agreement with the City of Akron, the City of Cuyahoga Falls, the City of Fairlawn, the City of Stow, and the County of Summit whereby the County will acquire, design, construct, furnish, maintain and finance a joint PSAP building, and authorizing the Mayor to execute those agreements defined in the Cooperative Agreement, including but not limited to, an Intergovernmental Agreement for the establishment of a Council of Governments with the City of Cuyahoga Falls, the City of Fairlawn, the City of Stow, and the County of Summit, for purpose of operating a consolidated primary PSAP, guarantee agreements, lease agreements, and a joint use agreement for the use and operation of the joint PSAP building located in the City of Tallmadge, and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Allman: Next, we have Ord. 120-2021. Ord. 120-2021 was read into the record. Mayor: Just think, you get to read that a couple more times. This is the Joint Dispatch Center as I stated earlier in the budget. This is a very powerful piece of legislation that Council is going to be asked to consider. To bring the PSAP to that location in Tallmadge is phenomenal. There were a lot of hard hours have gone into this. We started with this committee in this Council Chambers about 2017 I think at the end of 2017 we started with that and even Council members, some of you when we went to Stow for a joint meeting in Stow because Stow could not have a neutral location. Their Charter says they have to meet in their chambers and so we did go up there and talk about that. That is how long it took to get to this point. It is lengthy. Read it and we can talk more about it. You are welcome to come in if you have questions. The County is asking all of the communities if they could adopt it before the end of the year. We do not have a second meeting in December. There was additional conversation regarding this issue. C. Ord. 121-2021 – Ex. A, B, C, D, and E – An ordinance to approve, adopt and enact the 2021 replacement pages to the codified ordinances; to repeal ordinances in conflict therewith; to publish the enactment of new matter; and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Allman: Next, we have Ord. 121-2021. Ord. 121-2021 was read into the record. Dir. of Law: This is essentially a housekeeping ordinance. Mrs. Allman: We will give this another reading. Anything else for the Public Service Committee? I close committee. 8  iii. Additional Items: None. 11. Reports of Special Committees: None. 12. Announcements: We are going to have a short Richardson Trust Fund meeting to reimburse the fund. Can I get a motion to start that? Mr. Grimm: So moved. Seconded Mr. Sisak. All voted aye. COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. November 11, 21 Mr. Sisak: It is 9:06 p.m. and I call the Richardson Trust Fund meeting to order. Note for the record that everyone is present. The purpose of the meeting is to reallocate the fund with $2,000. We have used $1,000 this year and are still receiving calls for extra help. So, can I have a motion please? Mr. Loughry: I would move to reimburse the fund with $2,000. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Roll Call: Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Donovan, Mr. Grimm, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry – unanimous. The fund will be reimbursed in the amount of $2,000 by a vote of 7-0. Mr. Grimm: I move to adjourn. Seconded Mr. Loughry. All voted aye. It is now 9:08 p.m. and the Richardson Trust Fund Committee meeting is adjourned. 13. Adjournment: Mr. Donovan moved to adjourn. Seconded Mr. Grimm. The Council meeting of 11-11-21 adjourned at 9:09 p.m. Adopted: ___________ ____________________________ _______________________________ Susan E. Burton, Clerk of Council Carol A. Kilway, President of Council 9