City Council Regular Meeting
Regular MeetingTallmadge, OH · February 10, 2022
Minutes
COUNCIL MEETING
Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. February 10, 22
1. CALL TO ORDER. President of Council Loughry called the Council meeting of Thursday, February
10, 2022, to order at 7:00 p.m. Just a note, we will have an Executive Session this evening to
discuss pending court action prior to adjournment.
2. OPENING PRAYER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
Pres. of Council: At this time, I would like to call to lectern Pastor Deborah Wissner from St. Mark
Lutheran Church to lead us in prayer.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: I would ask that Ethan Hall, a 5th grader at Tallmadge Elementary
School to lead us in the pledge.
3. ROLL CALL: Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Bozic, Mrs. Gutman, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr.
Sisak – present.
4. Correcting and Adopting the Previous Meeting Minutes
1-27-22 Council Meeting Minutes. Mr. Sisak moved to adopt the minutes as presented. Seconded
Mrs. Kilway. Roll Call: Mr. Bollas, Mr. Bozic, Mrs. Gutman, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak,
Mrs. Allman – unanimous. The 1-27-22 Council Minutes are adopted by a vote of 7-0.
5. Financial Reports:
• Fire & EMS Fund Transfer in the amount of $135,000, and Street Maintenance &
Repair Transfer in the amount of $210,000 to Council on 2-1-22.
• Appropriation Report, Fund Report and Revenue Report for the period ending
1-31-22 to Council on 2-4-22.
• January Financial Reports to Council on 2-4-22.
• Tallmadge Recreation Center Profit and Loss Report for the period ending 1-31-
22 to Council on 2-4-22.
• Income Tax Comparisons for the period ending 1-31-22 to Council on 2-4-22.
• Revenue Comparisons for the period ending 1-31-22 to Council on 2-4-22.
• Consolidated Investment Portfolio for the period ending 1-31-22 to Council on
2-4-22.
Mr. Sisak moved for the acceptance of the Financial Reports. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Roll Call:
Mr. Bozic, Mrs. Gutman, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas – unanimous.
The Financial Reports submitted by Finance Director Gilbride were accepted by a vote of 7-
0.
6. Public Hearings: The public hearing for Ord. 2022-29 will be moved to the Community Center
and it will start at 6:01 p.m. Mrs. Raber, I spoke to Council, and they are available at 6:00 and so,
do you want us to set the public hearing now or wait and do it on the agenda.
Dir. of Law: If you would wait for that ordinance on the agenda that would be great.
7. Community Input: Letter received from Janice Rogers, 1316 Tansy Court regarding snow
removal on Tansy Court cul-de-sac.
Pres. of Council: Ms. Rogers has requested that the letter be read into the record, so Mrs. Burton.
The Clerk of Council read Ms. Rogers letter into the record.
Mrs. Kilway: Mrs. Rogers did call me first before she wrote the letter, and we had a long discussion
about everything, and I asked her to put in writing what her issues were so that was the letter and
then she said that she wanted to have it read into the record. We did have many discussions and
I talked with Mr. Rorar about it too. Are you going to get into this a little bit later?
Dir. of Pub. Service: Mrs. Rogers was able to supply some photos and I’m not sure how good
everybody can see that. When the storms are going on on cul-de-sacs, we will not clean them out.
We give a path in and a path out. Much like anybody who is in a cul-de-sac, you have to plow or
snow blow from your driveway to our path.
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Dir. of Pub. Service (Cont’d.) The next photo shows a similar picture. We were in there and we
did plow. We have GPS units on all of our trucks now. There was further discussion regarding this
issue.
Pres. of Council: Is there anyone else who would like to speak before Council this evening?
8. Agenda Additions:
• Becky Allman – Presenting Larry Bagnoli with Certificate of Appreciation.
As the first of these presentations, I wanted to recognize someone who is not only been
instrumental in our community, but someone who has utmost passion for our community
and its members. The person I am giving this certificate to this evening is Larry Bagnoli.
There were many accolades given to Larry and he spoke himself thanking everyone for
this wonderful ceremony.
• Jerry Feeman, Summit County Council
Pres. of Council: Next, we were hoping to have Councilman Feeman, who is our Summit
County Council person, but he was unable to attend, but we got lucky, and we have our State
Representative here today; Mr. Bob Young. So, Bob, you can take a few minutes and update
us.
Mr. Bob Young: I am currently your State Representative. I have been a legislature for just
over a year now. Previously before I was on the legislature, I served on Green City Council for
7 years and so this is my first Council meeting since my last meeting in Green.
Mr. Young gave a short presentation about what is going on at the State Legislature.
9. Reports of Administrative Officers:
a. Mayor/Director of Safety: Mayor Kline was out of town.
b. Director of Administration: Good evening everyone. I have no report this evening, but
I am happy to answer questions.
c. Director of Public Service: Good evening. I brought this up at the last meeting and I
want to visit it again; we are going out for bid for several of the capital items out there;
paving, concrete and we are getting numbers back that did not . . . they exceeded what we
budgeted for. I am just letting everybody know so I might be coming back and asking for
maybe some additional funds.
Moving on, the monthly report. For the month of January, we had 48 total permits issued;
28 which were street openings which shouldn’t be a surprise with Tallmadge Reserve going
on.
Code Violations we had 24; nine of which were property disrepair. Sadly, we had to
cancel the P&Z meeting because of the weather. We rescheduled for February 22nd and
that is at 6:00 p.m. at the Tallmadge Community Center.
In the cemetery, we had 4 burials, 3 were full land one was cremains.
The columbarium: we only have 20 spaces left until . . . we budgeted to add an additional
columbarium this year. The columbarium has actually become a pretty good item out there.
Parks & Rec: First of all, I would like to say that I hope everyone saw the Profit and Loss
Report for the Parks and Rec. Kudos to Jessica Simons and her staff. She has done a
great job. It is down less than $700. I don’t know when the last time that has happened,
but great job.
Membership at the Rec Center is up. Actually, we surpassed our 2019 number for
January. Visits are up 68%.
The Community All Stars are wrapping up. They had 48 teams this year. A couple
complaints was that the season went long, and it is mostly because Christmas and New
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Dir. of Pub. Service (Cont’d.) Years landed on the weekends and so we couldn’t do those
weekend tournaments.
We also did a Princess Tea Party on January 23rd. This was a reimagined event. There
was a Princess Parade that we held at the Community Center, and it turned out pretty well.
There is a new fitness class; Tone Every Zone. It is being offered and we actually took
that from the Kent Parks and Rec. They actually cancelled that class and we picked up
the instructor. So, a big following and well attended.
We actually closed 3 days due to weather.
Maca passes went on sale to residents on February 1st. They go on sale to non-residents
on February 16th. We are up to 284 passes sold to date which is pretty good.
The whale slide is being replaced this year with a dolphin slide. The whale slide has been
in disrepair for a few years and needs to get done.
Here is a picture of the 20 princesses at the Princess Tea Party held at the community
center. It received some good press both in the Tallmadge Express and the Beacon.
In the Street Department, the first part of the month was pretty good until Martin Luther
King Day came and then we spent 1,295 hours on snow and ice control. We did 20
lineal feet of ditching and we installed 3 catch basins and there were 31 mailboxes
that were repaired which isn’t bad, but . . . you know that is just part of snow and ice.
Spot salting is what we do during the storm event and that is where we hit the intersections
and curbs and grades and those should be in much better shape than some of the other
roads. The objective for the City during snow and ice events is to maintain roadway safety
while striving towards more passable roads. So, your pavement doesn’t always have to
be running wet to be safe.
Water Department – They had 7 water breaks. I would like to commend the guys. They
had 4 water breaks over 3 days from January 12th to January 14th. They did a great
job, and they didn’t have to bring in any contractors which is great. They did it all in-house
and unfortunately our average right now for water breaks over the past 3 years is 17 and
we might end up surpassing that this year in just 2 months because February we had just
as many water breaks as we had in January. Sewer backups: we are at none.
We are doing our own BOD which is biochemical oxygen demand as well as the SN
sampling which is suspended solids at our master meters. We are doing our own sampling
to make sure that it matches Akron’s.
We did 1,000 new feet of sewer videoing.
Lastly, we talked about the sewer increases on the sewer bills. It does start on May 1 st.
d. Director of Economic Development: Good evening. I will be somewhat brief. For this
evening’s report, just a snapshot of the available real estate in the community. We will
start first with the Industrial side of things. There are currently 88 acres of vacant land.
41 of those acres are located in the Tallmadge portion of Portage County. Many years
ago, when that land was annexed, it started with about 250 acres and so you can see that
we still have about 41 acres available. I can tell you as of today, almost 30 of those acres
. . . it is a very good likelihood that those will be taken off of this list. There are a couple
of good perspective users for that land.
On the Tallmadge/Summit County portion, there are 46 acres. Within the JEDD there
is another 150 that is still available. It’s not to say that 150 couldn’t be increased, but as of
right now, there are 150 that are available for development. It does not include the land
where Hamrick is currently constructing or the 30 acres in which Kenda will be constructing
and hopefully occupying by 2023.
There is no change on the Commercial side. As far as the lands remaining the same
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Dir. of Econ. Development (Cont’d.) as well as the building, but you can still see the
breakdown between the office and retail space.
Nothing new to report on the 2021 New Jobs Program.
You may have seen the progress at Petitti’s. I had the opportunity to meet with A.J.
yesterday and tour the interior. I didn’t want to give it all away and so I am going to refrain.
You can see the exterior. It is really good to see one of those reinvestment sites having
reinvestment back into it. They do anticipate having a soft opening in early March and then
obviously we will invite all of Council and we will do a big celebration.
The available real estate in terms of the Industrial space is only 4,000 square feet
remaining in the City of Tallmadge. 6,600 square feet was taken off of the market and it
is because Dove Audio visual who is also doing this evening’s camera work. They made
a good acquisition. This is the former Speelman facility at 358 Commerce Drive and as
you know, Speelman had consolidated their operations into their Northeast Avenue
headquarters freeing up this building which Dove Audio was able to acquire, so it is another
really nice industrial building and it is great to see that Dove being able to be retained within
the community and backfill a really nice building. So, with that, that concludes my report,
but I would also be happy to entertain any questions.
e. Director of Finance: Thank you. I have submitted my written financial report. In January
we were looking pretty good with everything. January was a busy month getting the year
wrapped up and starting to prepare for the audit and if anybody has any questions on the
financials, I would be glad to entertain those.
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
Carol Kilway, Chair
Rebecca Allman, Vice Chair
The Planning & Zoning Committee deals with land use, zoning, conditional uses,
planning, economic and community development, public property.
i. Second Readings of Ordinances and Resolutions
Ord. 2022-29 – P.H. on 3-10-22 @ 7:01 p.m. – Amended – Amending the
zoning map by rezoning the property of Applicant, Pulte Homes of Ohio LLC
and owner, Mindale Farms Co. from R-1 Residential District to R-6 Residential
Open Space Planned Development District consisting of approximately 124.3
acres and approving the General Development Plan located at 1485 Northeast
Avenue, Parcel 6008558.
Sponsor: Councilperson Carol Kilway
Mrs. Kilway: We do have at 2nd Reading Ord. 2022-29. Ord. 2022-29 was read into the
record. We had a public hearing scheduled, but we are going to have to amend that based
on the Planning & Zoning meeting being changed and so I would like to schedule the public
hearing for March 10th at 6:00 p.m. instead of 7:00 p.m.
Dir. of Law: Mrs. Kilway, if you could set the public hearing at 6:01 p.m. just because as
the public hearing, it wouldn’t start immediately.
Mrs. Kilway: The public hearing will be at 6:01 p.m. at the Tallmadge Community Center
instead of here at Council Chambers. Is there anyone here today to speak to Ord. 2022-
29?
Mick Belknap, 785 Bentley Place Blvd., Tallmadge. My wife wrote a letter . . . I don’t
know, she was under the assumption that it was going to get read today. She submitted
one.
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Pres. of Council: Sir, we are in receipt of the letter, but the letter did not ask that it be
read into the record and so that e-mail was forwarded to the rest of Council and so Council
is in receipt of that letter.
Nick Belknap: OK. Is there any way to get it read, or no?
Dir. of Law: Sure, if you guys want to pull it up.
Mrs. Kilway: I have it pulled up on my phone in case you want me to read it.
Nick Belknap: I am a little nervous up here. She explains it a lot better than I do.
Mrs. Kilway: This letter is from Michelle Belknap, 785 Bentley Place Blvd., Tallmadge.
Mrs. Kilway read the letter into the record.
Dir. of Law: Mrs. Kilway, we need to have amendments today because of the change in
the time for the Planning & Zoning Commission meeting and your resetting of the public
hearing. We have the amendment that reflects those changed dates and so if you want to
go ahead and adopt that this evening that would be preferable. Again, I would note for the
record that the meeting of Planning & Zoning will be at the Community Center at 6:00 p.m.
on February 22nd and the public hearing for City Council has been set this evening for 6:01
p.m. on March 10th which will also be at the Community Center.
Mrs. Kilway: Yes, we do have Ord. 2022-29 that does need amended. Do we have a
motion.
Mr. Loughry: So, moved. Seconded Mrs. Allman. Roll Call: Mrs. Gutman, Mrs. Kilway,
Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Bozic – unanimous. Ord. 2022-29 is
amended by a vote of 7-0.
There was additional discussion on the number of homes, the impact to the schools and
the traffic on 261.
ii. Additional Items: None.
b. Finance
Craig Sisak, Chair
Jonathon Bollas, Vice Chair
The Finance Committee deals with budget, appropriations, and reappropriations,
bonds, franchises, investments, and expenditures.
i. Second Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances
A. Ord. 2022-30 – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract with the K Company
through Ohio Buys State Purchasing Program without competitive bid for the
HVAC system located at the Recreation Center and providing for immediate
enactment.
Sponsor: Mayor David G. Kline
Mr. Sisak: I would like to call Finance to order. We currently have Ord. 2022-30 at 2nd
Reading. The ordinance was read into the record. I would imagine this was budgeted for
in the 2022 Budget.
Dir. of Pub. Service: It was not budgeted. We talked about it, and we looked at possibly
getting into the ARPA Funds to fund that. Does anyone have any questions about this? It
looks like it is going to be about $150,000 they are going to borrow from the parking lot to
pay for this HVAC and handling system. Any questions about this?
Mrs. Kilway: Would we be able to use the ARPA Funds then for the parking lot?
Dir. of Finance: Yes.
There was continued discussion regarding what the ARPA Funds could be used for.
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Mr. Sisak: Can I get a motion to pass this?
Mrs. Kilway: I would make a motion to approve Ord. 2022-30 as it is written. Seconded
Mrs. Allman. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway - yes, Mr. Loughry - yes, Mr. Sisak - yes, Mrs. Allman
- yes, Mr. Bollas - yes, Mr. Bozic - no, Mrs. Gutman yes. Ord. 2022-30 is adopted by a
vote 6-1
ii. First Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances
A. Ord. 2022-31 – Tracked – Amending 62-2020 and setting tap-in fees for
proposed subdivisions of 10 homes or more and providing for immediate
enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Public Service Michael Rorar
Mr. Sisak: Next, we have Ord. 2022-31. Ord. 2022-31 was read into the record. Do any
of these need to be passed at 1st Reading?
Dir. of Pub. Service: No.
Mrs. Kilway: Are we making this revision because we are having more developments
coming in and so we want to kind of give the developer a break on the tap-ins because
they are going to be doing more at once, so they will have an economy of scale putting
them in?
Dir. of Pub. Service: Not to give them a break, it was more or less a learning curve the
last year with Pulte. I have never seen a development go in with 5 phases in a year and
we just didn’t budget or appropriate that type of money and so the Water Department was
actually showing issues and it just didn’t make a lot of sense for us to go buy it and go drop
it off . . . it was a learning curve. It would just be a lot easier for them to do it in-house.
Dir. of Law: May I just add that I think the difference here is the purchase of the equipment
and so when you look at the pricing, it is basically just allowing that when there is a
development going in with more than 10 homes that they are allowed to purchase the
equipment, but it has to meet our requirements and then they can install it and then all we
do is inspect it and that money is just the tap-in fee part where the other two types of fees
that you see there it is either all of it like if it is a single home, you purchase the equipment
and we install the equipment and there is the tap-in fee part or the second option was . . .
We provide the materials, and they install it and then pay the tap-in fee. That is the
difference. They are providing the material and the reason for that is because it is a lot of
time, energy, and expense from our department when there are that many being installed.
Mr. Sisak: OK, we will just give that a 1st Reading.
B. Ord. 2022-32 – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract for the purchase
of snowplows and hitches through the State Purchasing Program and providing
for immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Public Service Michael Rorar
Mr. Sisak: Next, we have 2022-32. Ord. 2022-32 was read into the record. We will also
just give this a 1st Reading.
i. Additional Items: None.
C. Ord. 2022-33 – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract for the Lease/
purchase of an excavator through the Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing
Program and providing for immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Public Service Michael Rorar
Mr. Sisak: We also have Ord. 2022-33. Ord. 2022-33 was read into the record. We will
also give this a 1st Reading.
i. Additional Items: None.
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D Ord. 2022-34 – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract for the
lease/purchase of a freightliner truck and snowplow package through the State
Purchasing Program and providing for immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Public Service Michael Rorar
Mr. Sisak: Next, we have Ord. 2022-34. Ord. 2022-34 was read into the record. We will
just give this a 1st Reading also.
i. Additional Items: None.
Ord. 2022-35 – Authorizing the Director of Law to enter into an agreement with
Brouse McDowell as legal counsel in the matter of the City of Tallmadge, et al. v.
Midway Plaza Realty, LLC, et al., appropriating funds and providing for
immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Law Raber
Mr. Sisak: Next, we have Ord. 2022-35. The ordinance was read into the record.
Dir. of Law: A civil case has been initiated by the City of Tallmadge in the County of
Summit and the Summit County Court of Pleas is the next step in the enforcement of the
partial condemnation order for remediation for various code violations of the Midway Plaza
property. Brouse McDowell is representing the City of Tallmadge and the County of
Summit. I am not going to make any further statement due to pending litigation on the
floor. We do have an Executive Session should Council have in regard to this.
Mr. Sisak: Would you like action taken on this after the Executive Session?
Dir. of Law: That would be asked for please.
Mr. Sisak: So, we will go ahead and table that until after the Executive Session. I will
close committee.
i. Additional Items: None.
c. Personnel
Jonathon Bollas, Chair
Adam Bozic, Vice Chair
The Personnel Committee deals with personnel, labor relations, insurance claims,
Rules of Council and State Statutes.
Mr. Bollas: I call the Personnel Committee to order. We have no legislation before us this evening.
Does anyone from Council or the Administration have anything for the Personnel Committee this
evening. I close committee.
i. Additional Items: None.
d. Community Issues
Mary Gutman, Chair
Carol Kilway, Vice Chair
The Community Issues Committee deals with Parks and Recreation, civic affairs,
and liaison between Council and the Recreation Board and intergovernmental affairs
Mrs. Gutman: I call the Community Issues Committee to order. We have no legislation before us
at this time. Does anyone have anything for Community Issues? I have my own comment, the
Tallmadge Girl Scouts are working on a community service project to clear the fire hydrants and so
you might see them out and about this weekend. Give them a shout-out if you can. They are little
and it is cold. I close committee.
i. Additional Items: None.
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e. Safety
Adam Bozic, Chair
Craig Sisak, Vice Chair
The Safety Committee deals with Disaster services, communications, fire, and para-
medics, police, and health
Mr. Bozic: I would like to open the Safety Committee. We have nothing currently on the agenda.
I do want to bring up a couple things here. We have the Summit County Regional Dispatch Center
Ceremonial Contract Signing that will take place on February 17 th at 10:00 a.m. and that is going
to take place on-site at the dispatch center.
The other thing I would like to mention would be as Ms. Gutman had mentioned, the fire hydrants,
I did have a conversation with Deputy Fire Chief Ben and Mr. Rorar about fire hydrants and the
shoveling and everything like that and I do want to make you aware or make everyone aware that
as I was made aware by Mr. Rorar, our fire hydrants are GPS locations and actually our IT guy
actually informed me this evening too that that information is accessible to the Fire Department
when they are on location. So, I think that is great information to have. I don’t think that should
mean that we shouldn’t shovel around them. I still think we should, and I just wanted to share that
information. Any other additional comments or information for the Safety Committee? I close
committee.
i. Additional Items: None.
f. Public Service
Rebecca Allman, Chair
Mary Gutman, Vice Chair
The Public Service Committee deals with streets, highways, sidewalks, buildings,
and improvements; water, sewer, electricity, gas, energy resources, recycle, waste,
and trash.
Mrs. Allman: I call the Public Service Committee to order. We have no legislation at this time.
Does Council or the Administration have anything? Seeing none, I close committee.
i. Additional Items: None.
11. Reports of Special Committees:
a. Council Operations Committee:
Pres. of Council: Mr. Bollas, would you like to give us an update on this project?
Mr. Bollas: Yes, thank you Mr. President. I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank Dove
Audio Video and Justin, Scott in the IT Department, and Mr. Cooper in the Administration. This
has really been expedited; you know the original timeline for this we had estimated three to four
weeks and all the supplies came in ahead of schedule and there were some faulty parts that got
replaced rapidly and the staff from Dove is here now, so I just want to say to Mr. Davis thank you
again.
We are essentially just piloting this at this point and working out the kinks and there were some test
runs done earlier. Again, I just want to say sincerely thank you to everyone involved in this.
We did have a meeting with Mr. David Omni at Tallmadge High School, and this was just an
exploratory discussion around potential volunteer hours or extra credit opportunities or a community
service requirement for graduation. We need to look at 1) if it would even be an option working
through our guidelines and we would primarily target next school year if that would be something
to consider. Dove is going to put together some documentation for us to hopefully make it as easy
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Jonathon Bollas (Cont’d.) as possible to operate. A lot of the equipment right now is automated
and so there are options for voice activation and where the cameras will put it and there is also a
control panel for camera views so the audience at home can see our presentations and
PowerPoints to guest speakers. Again, they did a great job with the installation. No interruption to
daily operations. We are still exploring that in terms of the staffing. We do have their services
included for three additional meetings. We had initially, at this point we are still in a pilot phase and
are working out several questions we have, but right now we are targeting the April 14 th meeting to
go with our first live stream of that meeting. Dove will be here as we continue to work through the
operation on that. I think it is a really great thing for our community.
Mrs. Kilway: Just a quick question, I know that tonight is our big test night. Is there any way we
could get the link sent to everyone on Council so we can take a look at it and see what it looks like?
Mr. Bollas: Yes, I’m sure we can.
i. Additional Items: None.
Pres. of Council: I will add one more item, Mr. Bollas and I will be meeting with Mayor Adamson
from New Franklin on February 25th. They have been live streaming for a long time just to get
some input from them on lessons learned. That is one of the reasons we are waiting until April to
kick this off.
With us also this evening, I invited Mrs. Conti to come in. She made me aware of something that I
didn’t even know existed. I am sure that most of our community does not, so the floor is yours.
Deputy Clerk Conti: It is kind of an appropriate time now that we are having a lot of interest in
some public meetings, so this is the ability to go on the website. Don is going to show you, that
icon there takes you to the “Notify Me” category and from there you can put your email in and you
can be notified of every public meeting that we have; you can choose an e-mail most times or a
text message and so one of the things when I put the agenda out to the public, I send it to the press
and some people who have actually asked for e-mail copies and then I send it to all of the
Administration and inside and then I send it to the Council office and additionally when it is posted
to the website, there is a place to put in a message that goes out to everyone who has subscribed
to this “Notify Me” so right now I think we have about 26 people that have subscribed and it is
probably the same that it has been for a long time. Any resident that wants to be proactively notified
about a type of meeting can sign up and be notified to a message and link to the agenda that is on
the website that has all of our legislation reports, etc.
It is an easy way if somebody says, well I didn’t know, well we have this capability that is pretty
simple to do.
Pres. of Council: I would also like to add that Mrs. Kidder was also very helpful this week as well.
As you know, she will post it on Facebook and now when our agenda is done, she will, this morning,
the day of the meeting, she will send out another post and that will have the live agenda on it with
the links. So, not only are we willing to send things out, e-mail, text notifications, etc. to anybody
that is on Facebook will see and actually be able to click on the live link on our agenda and
participate somewhat on our livestream and at least be able to follow along with what we are doing.
12. Announcements:
Pres. of Council: We will at this time entertain a motion to go into Executive Session for the
purpose of Pending Litigation.
Mrs. Kilway: I moved to adjourn into Executive Session . . .
Dir. of Law: You are not adjourning; you are just . . .
Mrs. Kilway: I’m sorry, I move to go into Executive Session. Seconded Mr. Bozic. Roll Call: Mr.
Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Bozic, Mrs. Gutman, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous.
The vote is 7-0 to into Executive Session and the time is 8:16 p.m.
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COUNCIL MEETING
Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. February 10, 22
Pres. of Council: It is now 8:27 p.m. and we are back on Council floor, and I call the public meeting
open and I will recognize the Finance Committee.
Mr. Sisak: Thank you. I would like to call Finance back to order. We have Ord. 2022-35 before
us. Ord. 2022-35 was read into the record. Can I have a motion on this please?
Mrs. Kilway: I move to adopt. Seconded Mr. Loughry. Roll Call: Mr. Sisak, Mrs. Allman, Mr.
Bollas, Mr. Bozic, Mrs. Gutman, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry – unanimous. Ord. 2022-35 is adopted
by a vote of 7-0
13. Adjournment: Mr. Sisak moved to adjourn. Seconded Mr. Bozic. Roll Call: Mrs. Allman, Mr.
Bollas, Mr. Bozic, Mrs. Gutman, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak – unanimous. The Council
meeting of 2-10-22 adjourned at 8:29 p.m.
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Adopted:
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Susan E. Burton, Clerk of Council Dennis K. Loughry, President of Council
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Agenda
Council Meeting Agenda
THURSDAY, February 10, 2022 IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS
7:00 P.M. 46 NORTH AVENUE, TALLMADGE, OH
Executive Session
Re: Pending Court Action
Prior to Adjournment of the 2-10-22 Council Meeting
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MEETING PROCEDURES
Public input is invited at the beginning of the meeting to discuss an item not on the agenda, during a public hearing, or
in Council Committee Reports to discuss an agenda item. Please wait until you are recognized by the Chair, 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 online form by 3 pm on the day of the meeting.
Written comments may be submitted to Council and should be received by 3 pm on the day of the meeting. All comments
will be read into the record. Written comments and participation registration may be submitted via:
1. City’s Website (https://tallmadge-ohio.org/meetingregistration)
2. Email (council@tallmadge-ohio.org)
3. Mail (46 North Avenue, Tallmadge, OH 44278)
1. Call to Order:
2. Opening Prayer & Pledge of Allegiance:
Prayer: Pastor Deborah Wissner, St. Mark Lutheran Church.
Pledge of Allegiance: Ethan Hall, 5th Grader - Tallmadge Elementary School.
3. Roll Call:
4. Correcting and Adopting the Previous Meeting Minutes:
1-27-22 Council Meeting Minutes
5. Financial Reports:
• Fire & EMS Fund Transfer in the amount of $135,000, and Street Maintenance & Repair
Transfer in the amount of $210,000 to Council on 2-1-22.
• Appropriation Report, Fund Report and Revenue Report for the period ending 1-31-22
to Council on 2-4-22.
• January Financial Reports to Council on 2-4-22.
• Tallmadge Recreation Center Profit and Loss Report for the period ending 1-31-22 to
Council on 2-4-22.
• Income Tax Comparisons for the period ending 1-31-22 to Council on 2-4-22.
• Revenue Comparisons for the period ending 1-31-22 to Council on 2-4-22.
• Consolidated Investment Portfolio for the period ending 1-31-22 to Council on 2-4-22.
6. Public Hearings:
7. Community Input: Letter received from Janice Rogers, 1316 Tansy Court regarding snow removal on
Tansy Court cul-de-sac.
8. Agenda Additions:
• Becky Allman – Presenting Larry Bagnoli with Certificate of Appreciation.
• Jerry Feeman, Summit County Council
9. Reports of Administrative Officers:
a. Mayor/Director of Safety
b. Director of Administration
c. Director of Public Service
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d. Director of Economic Development
e. Director of Finance
f. Director of Law
10. Reports of Standing Committees of Council of the Whole:
a. Planning and Zoning
Carol Kilway, Chair
Rebecca Allman, Vice Chair
The Planning & Zoning Committee deals with land use, zoning, conditional uses,
planning, economic and community development, public property.
i. Second Readings of Ordinances and Resolutions
A. Ord. 2022-29 – P.H. on 3-10-22 @ 7:01 p.m. – Amended – Amending the
zoning map by rezoning the property of Applicant, Pulte Homes of Ohio LLC
and owner, Mindale Farms Co. from R-1 Residential District to R-6 Residential
Open Space Planned Development District consisting of approximately 124.3
acres and approving the General Development Plan located at 1485 Northeast
Avenue, Parcel 6008558.
Sponsor: Councilperson Carol Kilway
ii. Additional Items:
b. Finance
Craig Sisak, Chair
Jonathon Bollas, Vice Chair
The Finance Committee deals with budget, appropriations, and reappropriations,
bonds, franchises, investments, and expenditures.
i. Second Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances
A. Ord. 2022-30 – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract with the K Company
through Ohio Buys State Purchasing Program without competitive bid for the HVAC
system located at the Recreation Center and providing for immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Mayor David G. Kline
ii. First Readings of Resolutions and Ordinances
A. Ord. 2022-31 – Tracked – Amending 62-2020 and setting tap-in fees for
proposed subdivisions of 10 homes or more and providing for immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Public Service Michael Rorar
B. Ord. 2022-32 – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract for the purchase
of snowplows and hitches through the State Purchasing Program and providing
for immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Public Service Michael Rorar
C. Ord. 2022-33 – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract for the lease/purchase
of an excavator through the Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing Program and
providing for immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Public Service Michael Rorar
D. Ord. 2022-34 – Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract for the lease/purchase
of a freightliner truck and snowplow package through the State Purchasing Program
and providing for immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Public Service Michael Rorar
E. Ord. 2022-35 – Authorizing the Director of Law to enter into an agreement with
Brouse McDowell as legal counsel in the matter of the City of Tallmadge, et al. v.
Midway Plaza Realty, LLC, et al., appropriating funds and providing for
immediate enactment.
Sponsor: Director of Law Raber
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c. Personnel
Jonathon Bollas, Chair
Adam Bozic, Vice Chair
The Personnel Committee deals with personnel, labor relations, insurance claims,
Rules of Council and State Statutes.
i. Additional Items
d. Community Issues
Mary Gutman, Chair
Carol Kilway, Vice Chair
The Community Issues Committee deals with Parks and Recreation, civic affairs, and
liaison between Council and the Recreation Board and intergovernmental affairs
i. Additional Items
e. Safety
Adam Bozic, Chair
Craig Sisak, Vice Chair
The Safety Committee deals with Disaster services, communications, fire, and para-
medics, police, and health
i. Additional Items
f. Public Service
Rebecca Allman, Chair
Mary Gutman, Vice Chair
The Public Service Committee deals with streets, highways, sidewalks, buildings,
and improvements; water, sewer, electricity, gas, energy resources, recycle, waste,
and trash.
i. Additional Items
11. Reports of Special Committees:
a. Council Operations Committee
i. Additional Items
12. Announcements:
13. Adjournment:
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