City Council Regular Meeting

COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 1. Call to Order: Pres. of Council: It is Thursday, October 24, 2024, and this is our regularly scheduled 7:00 p.m. Council meeting. 2. Opening Prayer: Fr. Mike Matusz, Our Lady of Victory Church, Tallmadge. Pledge of Allegiance: Brownie Troop 91279 recited the pledge. 3. Roll Call: Mr. Bollas, Mr. Bozic, Mrs. Epstein, Mrs. Gutman, Mr. Pavlik, Mr. Roy, Mr. Rubino – present. 4. Correcting and Adopting Previous Meeting Minutes: 10-10-24 Council Meeting Minutes Mr. Pavlik: I move for adoption. Seconded Mrs. Gutman. Roll Call: Mr. Bozic, Mrs. Epstein, Mrs. Gutman, Mr. Pavlik, Mr. Roy, Mr. Rubino, Mr. Bollas – unanimous. The 10-10-24 Councill meeting minutes are adopted by a vote of 7-0. 5. Financial Reports: None. 6. Public Hearings: None. 7. Community Input: Pres. of Council: This is the point in the meeting where anyone from the audience that would like to come up to the podium and speak can do so. You will be given 2 minutes. Just state your name and address. Sue Christopher, 100 North Avenue, Tallmadge. I just wanted to . . . I spoke briefly with the Mayor, and I know that there is probably nothing that can be done about this, but I really wanted to ask your help. The motorcycle traffic down North Avenue is just getting unreasonable. It sounds like the autobahn for motorcycles. They are coming from Cleveland, going to Akron and they are constantly passing my building where Wally Waffle is located, and we never get a minute’s peace. I am just really frustrated. I am going to be 70 and it is a senior building, and it is too close to the road because we are hearing all of the traffic and then to have to put up with 8 or 10 or 12 motorcycles coming down and we even get it at church. Fr. Mike is trying to give his homily or say Mass and there are 8 or 12 motorcycles going behind the front of the church where he is standing and we are trying to hear him and all these motorcycles are blowing by on a Sunday morning and it is just really making me a nervous wreck. Fortunately, winter is coming and so they won’t be able ride them, but I hate winter, but I am praying like crazy that the snow will fall because I am just so disgusted with so many motorcycles blowing through here. I am just wondering if there is something that you can do to make an alternate route or something where they are more on the outskirts of town like North Munroe and Howe where the houses are further back from the street and they are not getting hit with the noise like we are because we are right up here near the Circle. We are getting all of this noise and there is never a minute’s peace. So, that is my concern. Pres. of Council: Thank you Sue. I think we will have to take a look into that. I don’t know exactly but we have a sound ordinance on vehicles on the roadway, but we will definitely take a look at it. 8. Agenda Additions: None. 9. Reports of Administrative Officers: a. Mayor/Dir. of Pub. Safety: • We indicated that we had a firefighter that was on Ohio Task Force 1 and was deployed down into the areas affected. We do now have permission to let you know that it was Battalion Chief Andy Miller. His first day back on shift was yesterday. The history of his search and rescue mission is that he was on in response to Hurricane Helene and Milton. He was deployed to Florida on September 24th and was staging for hurricane Helene and assisting in Pasco and Hernando Counties in Florida until post landfall. They later mobilized in Asheville in North Carolina for flood response efforts then returned back to Florida to support the recovery for Hurricane Milton and we are just very fortunate to have someone on our staff that can leave their community 1  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 Mayor (Cont’d.) and he leaves his family, and he goes and does a job that is not very fun in search and rescue after these events is pretty horrific. So, many of us around here were saying prayers for his safe return and he is back and just when you see him next time give him a thank you. • On the Police Department update, Tallmadge Police Department is partnering with Stow and Cuyahoga Falls to offer a Summit Metro Police Cadets Program and this is for those ages 14 to 20 who is interested in law enforcement. The participants will meet one to two times per month to explore various criminal justice fields with each department rotating as hosts. Cadets also have the opportunity to volunteer at community events and to participate in ride-a-longs with officers and that is the only way that minors can do ride-a-longs is through a program like this. The orientation was tentatively scheduled for January, with a regular meeting starting in February. Stow Police is going to host the open house on October 29th at 7:00 p.m. for interested candidates and their guardians so if you know anybody that is interested, Officer Collin Heffner will be serving as Tallmadge’s advisor for the group so if you know someone, please let Officer Heffner know about that. The department participated in a similar program that ended in 2020 due to the pandemic and Officer Heffner has been very instrumental in reviving this Police Cadet’s Program. • A little bit of really great news that I received just several days ago is that eastern Summit County is going to be getting a new newspaper. Ben Wolford is the editor of the Portager which is the newspaper that was started about 5 years ago after the Record Courier was bought out by Gannett, and it has become a very great asset for residents and businesses. They were awarded a grant from Press Forward to fill local news gaps and they became aware of the gap in eastern Summit County where we have seen a reduction in local news coverage since the sale of the local papers to Gannet and when the Stow Century closed, he launched The Spotlight and that filled that void for Stow and so starting in November they are going to launch a new newspaper in Summit County to give residents information about what is going on and what is happening in their Cities, Villages and Townships. It is going to be called the Summiteer. The first issue might only be online, but it will be a paper newspaper as it moves forward, and we do have our own reporter that has been assigned to us. We already had a meeting with him and so if there is anything that we want to make sure that it gets out, please let me know because I have a standing meeting set up with him and we can make sure that all of our news gets broadcast that way. • The City and the School’s newspaper should be arriving in your mailboxes anytime this week. • Trick or Treat is scheduled for Thursday, October 31, 2024, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Please put on your porch lights if you are participating in handing out candy. • November 11th is the Veteran’s Day ceremony. It is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. at the Historic Church. • Tallmadge is participating along with the City of Stow, Munroe Falls, Silver Lake, Hudson and Cuyahoga Falls in a multi-City clothing drive where we will be joining together to collect cold weather gear for the homeless. This is something that Stow and Munroe Falls and Cuyahoga Falls have done, and they have added Silver Lake and Hudson and Tallmadge to this group. So, we are going to be collecting donations that can be dropped off during the business day here at City Hall from November 11th to December 15th anytime between 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. We are going to have some bins out in the lobby. Please if you have any 2  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 Mayor (Cont’d.) gently used or new cold weather gear; boots, socks, gloves, hats, scarves, coats or any of that stuff and if you want to donate them, please get them here to City Hall. We are also going to host a drive-thru drop-off event on Saturday, December 7th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. here at City Hall. We will just do a drive-thru through the parking lot and I will be staged right out here to help pick up things and go forward that way. • The strategic plan process continues. We have held 5 focus groups. The next significant event is the Town Hall Meeting which is scheduled for November 19th at 5:30 p.m. and it will be at the Community Center and all community members are invited to participate in the Town Hall Meeting. This is how we will get your voices heard so that we can plan the next 5 years of our City. • On October 17th I attended the Akron/Canton Builds Construction Expo at the Summit County Fairgrounds. It featured 616 different trade and union centers along with 25 industry leading contractors all focusing on connecting students and jobs seekers with rewarding careers in the skilled trades. I value the skilled trades very, very much. I think that is the future of our country. We need people to go into these trades and so this was a great event that I was very happy to participate in. As I was walking around, I saw someone that I went to high school with and here he is the President of the Tri-County Building Trades. He was one of the ones who helped put this event altogether. There were thousands of students from many different schools. They see all the different trades that are available; the construction trades; the technology trades that are out there. It was a really great event. • We also had our electronics recycling event. It was this past Saturday. Community participation was high. We had 307 cars dropping off 16 pallets of items. We also had the Outsmart the Scam Workshop. It was held this past Saturday. It was at the high school, and I want to thank our County Executive Ilene Shapiro and our Summit County Council Representative, Christine Higham and we also had the Summit County Prosecutor Elliot Kolkovich and Summit County Sheriff Kandy Fatheree. They were all in attendance bringing this event to Tallmadge. It was very well attended, and it provided a lot of information about all of the scams that are out there. There were a number of people in attendance, and they did a great job. • I also had the opportunity to speak with residents at the Crossings at Northwest Condominiums, their tenant meeting. They had a lot of questions. I was there with Firefighter Sandy and with Captain McGhee as well just answering questions about what is going on in the City. It was a great event. That is about all I have. Any questions? b. Director of Administration/Economic Development: Good evening, Council President Bozic, Council members and the administration. Just a few updates tonight. • A reminder that the Special Joint City Council/Planning & Zoning Commission Work Session on the Overlay is scheduled for Tuesday, October 29th from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. That meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube and then of course residents if they missed it, they could go back and watch it at a later time. • Business and Retention Expansion visits continue. We have held 4 since the last meeting. That is a great way to meet our businesses and see what their needs are and explain how we can help them if they are looking to make any large expansions. 3  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 • Dir. of Administration (Cont’d.) The Budget process continues. The work session is scheduled for November 6th so I will be providing your Budget books by next Thursday in the Council office so you will have a week to review those in detail. I am using the same format that Dir. of Administration Stritch used for the last several years. So, I will be finalizing them over the next day or two and then we will be printing them early next week. If you have any questions once you receive those or at any time, please feel free to reach out to me. • Union negotiations are ongoing. No updates since two weeks ago. Pending your questions, that’s all I have for this evening. c. Director of Public Service: • Just really quick, as the Mayor has mentioned the Veteran’s Day is Monday, November 11th. It starts at 10:00 a.m. and it is always a good event. • Leaf Pickup: We are a week out yet. We will probably get the leaf vacs out running. We might have to do some dry runs and start picking up some leaves, but we are still a week out. As you can see, you can always bag your own leaves. The orange is the first section that we will be going to do. It usually takes about 3 days to get through a section. We leapfrog to the teal section or the purple section, so we are always skipping the section that is next, that way we are not making twice as much work for ourselves. So, we are about 2 weeks out yet. So, that’s it for my report unless there is anything? Oh, and November 6th is the bid opening for the Maca Park Restrooms. So, we should have those numbers before the next meeting. Pres. of Council: I do have one thank you for sending those biographies of the individuals for the Veteran’s Planning Commission or Planning Committee. That needs to be voted on by Council prior to the beginning of next year. Dir. of Pub. Service: January; yes. d. Director of Finance: Thank you. I have no report this evening but if anyone has any questions, I will be glad to answer those. e. Director of Law: • Thank you. I just want to take the opportunity to remind everybody that we do have our prescription drug take-back that is happening on October 26th. All people need to do is pull into the back part of the parking lot and there will be signage to direct you where you need to go. You don’t even have to get out of your car on that day between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. We would encourage people to use that opportunity to clean out their cabinets and we will take over the counter medication as well as prescription medication so bring it to the Police Department. There is a dump box, if you are not able to go, where you do need to get out of your car and go into the lobby and you can deposit those items there at all hours. Again, this is just a good reminder and a way to get people to bring those out. We usually get lots and lots of medications and so I encourage everybody to do that as a safe way to dispose of that medication. • I also want to encourage everyone to recognize Red Ribbon Week. Normally Red Ribbon Week leads right up into the Drug Take Back day on Saturday but because we have the extra kind of week and we have that 5th week the way that it falls, we decided to go in conjunction with the schools so that we can recognize their efforts there too and celebrate the week of October 27th. We would ask everyone to wear red on Monday, October 28th. If you happen to have an elementary school or middle school child, I know they are pushing students or encouraging students to wear red as well to encourage people to say no to drugs if they are older or just make healthy choices if they are younger. Those are the messages that we want 4  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 • Dir. of Law (Cont’d.) to make sure that work in solidarity with our school district as they promote that as well. So, post your pictures on Facebook and wear red on Monday. End of report. Pres. of Council: I just have one question. In regard to the drug take-back, should they be in the bottles, out of the bottles; does it matter? Dir. of Law: We will take them either way. If you want to black out your name before you bring them, you can do that. That saves us time but we will go through and we do black all of the names before we dispose of the trash and the bottles so if you don’t have time to do that, then we will take it and we will do that for you but it does save us time if you have the time to do that ahead of time. 10. Reports of Standing Committees of Council of the Whole: a. PLANNING AND ZONING Mary Gutman, Chair Jessica Epstein, Vice Chair The Planning & Zoning Committee deals with land use, zoning, conditional uses, planning, economic and community development, and public property. Mrs. Gutman: I call the Planning & Zoning Committee to order. We have no legislation before us this evening. Is there anything for Planning & Zoning? Hearing none, I will close committee. i. Additional Items: None. b. FINANCE Donald Pavlik, Chair Jonathon Bollas, Vice Chair The Finance Committee deals with budget, appropriations, reappropriations, bonds, franchises, investments, and expenditures. i. First Readings of Ordinances and Resolutions. A. Ord. 2024-65~Exhibit A – P.H. on 12-12-24 @ 7:03 p.m. – Adopting a budget for various funds of the City of Tallmadge, Ohio, for current expenses and other expenditures during fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, appropriating the necessary funds for the administration thereof, authorizing transfers between funds, and providing for immediate enactment. Sponsor: Mayor Carol A. Kilway Mr. Pavlik: I call the Finance Committee to order. We have Ord. 2024-65 before us this evening. The ordinance was read into the record. It is sponsored by Mayor Kilway. Do you have anything on this? Mayor: Not at this time because you don’t even have the whole budget in front of you. You have a highlight that was attached to this but hey if you want to go ahead and approve it at 1 st Reading that would be great; I’m teasing. There will be a lot of discussion later on. B. Ord. 2024-67~Exhibit A – Tracked – Amending and supplementing Ord. 2023-84 to amend rates, charges, and fees for all recreational facilities and providing for immediate enactment. Sponsor: Mayor Carol A. Kilway Mr. Pavlik: Next we have Ord. 2024-67~Exhibit A – Tracked. The ordinance was read into the record. Mayor Kilway, do you wish to add anything on this ordinance? Mayor: You have received the Recreation Grid Fee tracked document with all the changes. They are in red. The first one going through the list is the Sports Admission Fees. Right now, they are at $3, and they are requesting to change it up to $5 for all spectators. The next item is the 7-day pre-trial. Right now, they offer a free 7 consecutive day membership for anyone that has never had a valid Tallmadge Rec Center membership in the last 12 months. It can be 5  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 Mayor (Cont’d.) used once per person, and they want to do it . . . it used to be used once per person for that person’s lifetime so you could only ever have one free 7-day pass. Now they want to change it once every 2 years because some people will get in and out of their exercise routine and so they want to check to see if the Rec Center is something that they would want to go to in order to go back to working out. So, every 2 years they can get a free 7-day membership in order to check the place out. The next item is the change in the grid for the Maca Aquatic Center Membership Rates. You can see there is no change in the resident rates and little changes in the non-resident rates. Then they are also asking to change the daily admission fees for all people as well. Then on the Parks and Rec Center’s facility rates, the racquetball court they want to make sure it is free to blue, gold and insurance based members and then . . . that is during the off-season and then during the in-season, they want to do $20 per hour for all other membership types and non-members. Those are the tracked changes. Mr. Pavlik: Are there any questions or comments? Mayor: I’m sorry, I must have skipped a page. Another one is the Community Center rental special considerations, so we do have on other rentals we have a Tallmadge based non-profit rate for other types of rentals throughout our Rec Department and they would like to add one for the Community Center. It would be $30 per hour for meeting rentals Monday through Thursday between 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. That would be to allow some of our non-profits to use the Community Center for like a monthly meeting or something like that. So, it is just an option that is out there that can be utilized for any of our Tallmadge non-profits. Also, for the Ritchie Center, they would like to add that as well for the same parameters. $30 per hour per meeting rentals Monday through Thursday from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Mrs. Gutman: Thank you. I was wondering if you could speak more about the increase in the Maca daily rates. There are significant increases, and I wondered what is some background on that decision. Mayor: Well, I know last year they came in front of Council and asked for the increase, and it was denied last year. As you know, Maca is extremely expensive to operate and for those that come in for a daily admission they just feel that according to comparables throughout the area changing it from ages 3 to 12 for $15, ages 13-59 up to $20 and then ages 6 and up up to $10 regardless of residency. It is more in line with other comparables and it also helps cover the cost of the lifeguards that we are now going to have to . . . we are having difficulties not only hiring lifeguards but getting them to work the hours that are needed and so we would like to hire more lifeguards because it is not more hours that we are going to be using but they can clear up the hours that are needed. So, if we have 10 lifeguards and they are only going to work you know 6 or 7 hours a week, you need those 10 lifeguards for the 60 hours. Trying to get them to work more hours throughout the summer has been very hard. People don’t want to work 40 or 50 hours a week as a lifeguard. You get a lot of lifeguard blindness with that too, so you don’t want to overwork them either. This just helps to finance the additional lifeguards. Mrs. Gutman: Are we considering raising their pay? Mayor: Yes, that is part of the budget too. We want to raise their pay so that we can attract more lifeguards, the number of hours that we are going to be using them is still basically the same, but we are going to have to pay them more money so that we can attract more of them. Mrs. Gutman: So, given, and I understand that costs have gone up, but I do have concerns that we are . . . it is not an accessible facility for some of our families and so I thought I wanted to propose maybe 2 solutions we could think about. One would be giving the resident the option of purchasing a one-time discounted pass at maybe a half off rate. We do give guest passes that anyone can give out and so I think if we give them a discounted visit and then another proposal could be that our children that are on maybe the free lunch program or some other criteria that we use could purchase a pass or daily visits at a reduced rate. That way they have a chance to go to the pool too. So, if you could be open to either of those or some 6  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 Mrs. Gutman (Cont’d.) combination thereof or something different, but I would like to see that we are not shutting people out completely. Mayor: OK. We will take that back to Jessica and see what she can do for something like that. I know it would be pretty hard to administer and qualify who would get those reduced passes based on, like, the free lunch program. How are they going to prove that they are on that program and how then is our front desk going to be able to manage that. That is just the struggle that I see that would happen off the top of my head. I don’t mind doing it, but if we are going to do something like that, let’s put together a program that can identify that a little better. Mrs. Gutman: There are certainly other criteria that you can use that are easier to document. There are various criteria. Mayor: OK. No, I don’t have any problem doing something like that. If you have some ideas that you would want to send me an e-mail and I can sit down with Jessica, and we can work something out to add it onto the grid because now is the time to do that. Mr. Bollas: First off, I want to say thank you for meeting with the Tallmadge Little League Board last week. I just wanted to ask to follow-up on it if there had been any determinations as of yet regarding where the Tallmadge Little League would fall within the grid. Were they just aligned to the current structure that we have in place for when the training facility is closed. Mayor: They would align under the Tallmadge Non-profits. Mr. Bollas: OK. Mayor: And in the month of May, we are reserving Court 4 for them so they will have access to rent that at that time. So, it won’t get you know booked out by anybody else because we are getting a lot of interest in our soccer fields and our basketball courts right now. There are lots of contracts out there for rentals on that, so we have already blocked out time for them in May for rain dates. Mr. Bollas: OK. Then any travel team though that is interested that would fall into like looking at our roster for example, 60% are Tallmadge residents and so that would fall into the 50% discount based on the grid? Is that correct? Mayor: I do believe so. I am looking at it right now. Pres. of Council: Yes, I do have a question. So, every year we hear the same about the struggles of finding lifeguards so I was curious if we have conducted any sort of post- employment survey given to those seasonal workers to actually get some data back from them as to you know what is our retention rate for lifeguards. Are we keeping the same guards year in year out or are we having to kind of regroup every single year and what are those reasons for if they are coming back the next year just to kind of find out you know is it pay; is it work environment; you know, the number of hours. What does it truly come down to? Dir. of Pub. Service: Councilman, it is a mix. We do bring back some and some don’t come back so it is a mix and right now it is pay. They can get paid more money somewhere else. Pres. of Council: Do we have that in a data form coming back from the actual guards? Dir. of Pub. Service: No. But we do talk with them and find out what they do want and what would make it better, so we do converse with them. Pres. of Council: OK. Mayor: And that is why the change in the pay is coming up and more lifeguards so that they are not working 40+ hours or 29 hours is how many they can work I think for part-time status. A lot of them have others going on as well too so it is hard to get them to work extra shifts. So, if you have more of them taking up the time, then it just helps. Mr. Rubino: I have one. As far as lifeguards go, I would imagine the Rec Center is less busy in the summer and then Maca is busy and then in the winter it would be peak season for the Rec; is that accurate? Dir. of Pub. Service: I would say it is not that accurate. Mr. Rubino: I have been a member for a while and it seems like it is a lot less busy in the summer than it is in the winter, at least when I go. I didn’t know if there were opportunities for 7  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 Mr. Rubino (Cont’d.) double use of employees that you know they are going to be at the Rec to handle the overflow in the winter and they are going to be lifeguards in the summer. Dir. of Pub. Service: That does occur now. The problem is that it is a minimal number that are certified to be lifeguards. Mr. Rubino: Do we incentivize that at all? Dir. of Pub. Service: More money. I mean seriously if you bump up their pay, it will incentivize them. C. Ord. 2024-68~Exhibit A – Expressing intent to sell unneeded, obsolete, or unfit vehicles and equipment and providing for immediate enactment. Sponsor: Dir. of Pub. Service Rorar Mr. Pavlik: Next we have Ord. 2024-68~Exhibit A. The ordinance was read into the record. The sponsor is the Dir. of Pub. Service. Do you have anything you want to add? Dir. of Pub. Service: No, just some of the vehicles are actually second used. Those are some police vehicles and if you look at the Crown Victoria that would not be a normal Road Department vehicle. We were able to get a couple more years out of it, so these have served their purpose. Mr. Pavlik: Thank you. Are there any questions, comments? With that can I get a motion on this ordinance? Mr. Rubino: I make a motion to adopt. Seconded Mr. Bollas. Roll Call: Mrs. Epstein, Mrs. Gutman, Mr. Pavlik, Mr. Roy, Mr. Rubino, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Bozic – unanimous. Ord. 2024- 68~Exhibit A is adopted by a vote of 7-0. Mr. Pavlik: Is there anything else for Finance? Hearing none, I will close committee. ii. Additional Items: None. c. PERSONNEL Jonathon Bollas, Chair Donald Pavlik, Vice Chair The Personnel Committee deals with personnel, labor relations, insurance claims, Rules of Council and State Statutes. i. First Readings of Ordinances and Resolutions A. Ord. 2024-66 – Tracked – P.H. on 12-12-24 @ 7:05 p.m. – Establishing the number of non-collective bargaining employees by department and position pursuant to R.C. 731.08 and providing for immediate enactment. Sponsor: Mayor Carol A. Kilway Mr. Bollas: I call the Personnel Committee to order. We have Ord. 2024-66. There is a public hearing on 12-12-24 @ 7:05 p.m. The ordinance was read into record. Mayor, do you have anything? Mayor: This is all tied to the budget so if you want to wait and discuss this during the budget meeting, I think that would be best. Are there any questions that you have specifically? Mr. Bollas: I do not. Anything else to come before Personnel? Dir. of Administration: I would offer to all of Council that once you have had a chance to look at this, please call me and I can discuss it with you and Allie, our HR Manager, can also discuss it prior to the budget meeting if anybody has any questions. Mr. Bollas: Also, I just wanted to express my thank you to the Administration and to our HR Manager for meeting with myself and Councilman Pavlik on the 17 th to review the personnel overview in terms of the status of everything and I appreciate it. Pres. of Council: I just have a quick question. I mean, obviously thank you for the invite to give you guys a call for any questions we may have. There are several positions that are crossed out and there are some I wouldn’t say significant changes, but there are quite a few 8  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 Pres. of Council (Cont’d.) changes and so is there just kind of a general summary that you could provide us; a written summary and maybe e-mail out to us? Dir. of Administration: Absolutely. I will get that out by the close of business tomorrow. Pres. of Council: Thank you. Mr. Bollas: Is there anything else to come before the Personnel Committee? Hearing none, I will close committee. ii. Additional Items: None. d. SAFETY Nicholas Rubino, Chair Ted Roy, Vice Chair The Safety Committee deals with disaster services, communications, fire, and paramedics, police and health. Mr. Rubino: I call the Safety Committee to order. We have no legislation before us this evening. Is there anything for the Safety Committee? Hearing none, I will close committee. i. Additional Items: None. e. COMMUNITY ISSUES Ted Roy, Chair Mary Gutman, Vice Chair The Community Issues Committee deals with Parks and Recreation, civic affairs, and liaison between Council and the Recreation Board and intergovernmental affairs. Mr. Roy: I call the Community Issues Committee to order. We have no legislation before us. this evening. Is there anything for Community Issues? Hearing none, I will close committee. i. Additional Items: None. f. PUBLIC SERVICE Jessica Epstein, Chair Nicholas Rubino, Vice Chair The Public Service Committee deals with streets, highways, sidewalks, buildings, and improvements: water, sewer, electricity, gas, energy resources, recycling, waste, and trash. Mrs. Epstein: I call the Public Service Committee to order. We have no legislation before us this evening. Is there anything to come before Public Service? Hearing none, I will close committee. i. Additional Items: None. 11. Reports of Special Committees: a. Council Operations Committee Mr. Bollas: I have nothing for this evening. No report. i. Additional Items: Pres. of Council: I know Gina had put together a quick overview of our last few meetings, but viewership has been very good for the live streaming and throughout the course of the meeting it has been pretty good. Usually, we kind of fall off towards the end, but overall, the meetings have stayed pretty consistent so that is good to hear and good to see. 12. Announcements: Mr. Bollas: Do we have to set a time for the Budget Work Session or has it been set for 5:30 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. 9  COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. October 24, 2024 Pres. of Council: I believe in the past we have done 6:00 p.m. but if we want to make it official, we can definitely set it for . . . Dir. of Finance: I have it at 6:00 p.m. President of Council: Then so be it. Council, the budget meeting will be at 6:00 p.m. on November 6th. Just a reminder that we have our overlay meeting scheduled for next Tuesday, with a start time of 5:00 p.m. I had a conversation with Ms. Raber about whether it would be live streamed, and Joe confirmed that this evening. So, thank you. 13. Adjournment: Mr. Pavlik moved to adjourn. Seconded Mrs. Epstein. Roll Call: Mrs. Gutman, Mr. Pavlik, Mr. Roy, Mr. Rubino, Mr. Bollas, Mr. Bozic, Mrs. Epstein – unanimous. The Council meeting of 10-24-24 adjourned at 7:47 p.m. sb Adopted: ___________________ ___________________________________ ______________________________________ Susan E. Burton, Clerk of Council Adam M. Bozic, President of Council - 10