Tallmadge City Council Regular Business Meeting (2013-2019)

REGULAR COUNCIL in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 12, 13 1. CALL TO ORDER: President of Council Maguire called the Regular Council meeting of Thursday, September 12, 2013 to order at 7:00 p.m. 2. PRAYER: Rev, Doug Walter, First Church of God, Tallmadge. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: 3. ROLL CALL: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Maguire, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker – present. Also present were Mayor Kline, Dir. of Public Service Esler, Sandy Ziegler – Finance Department, Dir. of Law Raber, Economic Developer Loughry and Clerk of Council Burton. Mrs. Ray along with Dir. of Finance Shanafelt were absent. 4. MINUTES: 8-22-13 Regular Council Meeting Minutes. Mrs. Kilway moved for the adoption of the 8-22-13 Regular Council Meeting minutes. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Voice vote 6-0. The Regular Council Meeting minutes for the 8-22-13 Regular Meeting minutes were adopted by a vote of 6-0. FINANCIAL REPORTS:  Appropriation Report, Fund Report, Revenue Report, and Encumber Report for the period ending 8-31-13 to Council on 9-4-13.  Tallmadge Recreation Center Profit and Loss Report for the period ending 8-31-13 to Council on 9-5-13.  Income Tax Comparisons for the period ending 8-31-13 to Council on 9-5-13.  August Financial Reports to Council on 9-5-13.  Revenue Comparisons for the period ending 8-31-13 to Council on 9-5-13.  Maca Park Summary for the period ending 8-31-13 to Council 9-5-13. Mr. Rensel moved to accept the Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Shanafelt. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Voice vote 6-0. The Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Shanafelt were accepted by a vote of 6-0. 5. PUBLIC HEARINGS: None. 6. COMMUNITY INPUT: Pres. of Council: We have several students in the room. City Council is the legislative branch of the City Government. We are like the U.S. Congress on the Federal level. We make laws. Our laws are called ordinances and at the Federal level or the State level; they are called statutes. We meet four times a month. On the Thursday night meetings, we actually approve these ordinances. You are going to see us later tonight go through some of these very rapidly. The reason is because on the Monday night meetings, we meet in committees and we are divided into six different committees. Each of my colleagues is the Chairman of one of those committees and they have two of their colleagues that are on that committee and so in those committees they debate and discuss and recommend whether or not these ordinances should be approved and so the night of the more formal meeting is when we enact that legislation. You will also hear reports from the various administrative offices that are present tonight. Having said that, then I would like to call on Mr. Jerry Craig who is the Executive Director of the ADM Board and he is going to give us a brief presentation. Jerry Craig, Executive Director, ADM Board. I am Jerry Craig and I am the Executive Director of the Summit County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board also known as the ADM Board. Probably more importantly, I am also a product of the Tallmadge School system and a product of Tallmadge. Pres. of Council: Were you sitting out there as a student at one time? Mr. Craig: I think we were still a Village back then! No, but it is neat to come back to your home town and see the familiar names and the faces and a few more creases and maybe a little bit more grey hair, but it is nice to be back in Tallmadge. I wanted to talk a little tonight about something that is very near and dear to me and it is how our ADM system makes services stronger in Tallmadge and why we are better off in Summit County for the ADM levy and also to ask for your help. The ADM Board is an organization that is statutorily responsible for planning, community needs, and assessing community needs for contracting with agencies to provide services. The ADM Board itself doesn’t provide any services; we are kind of like the United Way for mental health and addiction services. We don’t provide direct services, but we contract with agencies to provide those services and then we evaluate their needs and that is a continuous loop that we do. We have contracts with 26 providers throughout Summit County including Shelter Care here in Tallmadge. Our services reach about 50,000 people and so in a county of 450,000; we touch almost one in five people through our services. Our services include treatment for mental health and addictions and we also provide prevention programs and we have prevention programs here in the schools through Mental Health America and also the Community Health Center has its PANDA Program in the Tallmadge School systems. We also provide treatment for people that don’t have insurance coverage and so that is very important for single males with drug addictions. We have a need in our community to make sure that those resources are there for people who don’t otherwise have insurance to pay for treatment. We also pay for services that support treatment and I will give you an example of that; Medicaid or any other insurance company is not going to pay for somebody to do  REGULAR COUNCIL in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 12, 13 Mr. Craig (Cont’d.) outreach or engagement for people who have dropped out of services especially mental health. Oftentimes that happens; we think that is important and so we will pay for it. Another example of that is that in the same agency, Medicaid won’t pay for a case manager and a doctor to talk to each other and there is no incentive for them to do that because it doesn’t generate revenue for the agency. We think it is important that they talk to each other and so we pay for them. We also pay for a lot of other services that support treatment; things like housing, employment services, and we have services through the criminal justice system for example in the Summit County Jail and with the Summit County Juvenile Courts and so we have a collaborative relationship with many parts of our community. Our community collaborations make our services go further and an example of that is that we have an affiliation . . . we are the only board in the State that has an affiliation with a medical school. We have an affiliation with Northeast Ohio University Medical College and what they do is they invent promising practices in our agencies and we study the impact of those programs and so we are on the cutting edge more or less because we are able to do things that are promising practices and we are able to study what the impact of those things are and those things that work well; we can actually provide in our agencies. We also have a relationship with the University of Akron where we have been able to inform some of their curriculum so that people that come out of the schools are more prepared to deal with the issues that we think are important or the skills that we think are important in order to be effective in our community. Not only that, but they have also agreed to work with us so that we can work with clinicians within our agencies and strengthen services that they have there so those skills don’t erode over time. But all of this that we are able to do and all of the collaboration that we do with the community and all of the services that we pay for would not be possible without the support of a strong community and earlier tonight I was at our kickoff for our levy campaign and we were awarded our Issue number this week and we are Issue 1 and so Issue 1 is the mental health and recovery levy and it is a renewal and so it is not a new tax. It generates about $33 million a year and it costs the owner of a $100,000 valuation about $7.50 a month. It is 75% of our budget and so it is a substantial part of what we do. One of the benefits of our levy and what we have seen in the past with all of the challenges with State funding and with Federal funding cuts has been that we have been able to use our levy dollars to make sure that our system has not been negatively impacted by that and that has happened through the fact that with sequestration; we lost 25% of our addiction funding from the Federal government and with mental health services and addiction services at the State level; we have lost 62% of our funding since 2002 until last year, or this past July when the budget appropriated additional dollars. So we are very grateful for this community because of the support they have given us for this levy. I passed out tip cards just to give you a little bit of information and more about what we do. Our website is www.supportadmboard.org. We welcome any of you, if you would like to endorse us either on a personal level or even if the Council would be so inclined to endorse us as well. I appreciate you taking the time to meet with me and thank you for allowing me to answer any questions you may have. Mr. Stalnaker: How many employees do you have? Mr. Craig: The ADM Board has 20 employees, but we don’t provide any services; direct services. We contract for services, evaluate and plan. Our system supports about 1,200 employees through our contracts. Mr. Stalnaker: I read in the paper today about one agency that is going to be giving 10% or 14% salary increases to some people; do you anticipate doing that? Mr. Craig: No, we are not . . . we contract with agencies and they earn their contracts with us by providing services . . . Mr. Stalnaker: Your 20 employees; are there salary adjustments that are going to be in line with this? Mr. Craig: Our salary and we just went to Social Services Advisory Board for the County earlier and we are budgeted for 2% raises for our employees. Mr. Stalnaker: Do you have a budget for this year? Mr. Craig: Yes we do. Mr. Stalnaker: How close did you come to the budget? Mr. Craig: Well, we are still part way through the year, but generally we come in under our budget. Mr. Stalnaker: Good. Thank you. Mr. Craig: Sometimes we don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing because oftentimes our agencies have to earn those dollars by providing services and so we want people to earn their budgets by providing services in as an efficient manner as possible. Mr. Rensel: Jerry, when was the last renewal levy? Mr. Craig: The last levy was actually a replacement with reduction and so this is the first renewal of that levy that was passed in 2007. Mr. Rensel: 2007; so it has been almost 6 years. Mr. Craig: Right. We are on a six-year cycle. Mr. Rensel: Are there any other additional revenue streams beside the levied amount? 2  REGULAR COUNCIL in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 12, 13 Mr. Craig: Yes, we get about 11% of our funding from the Federal government, 10% of our budget or about another 11% from the State government and then the rest of it is from our levy. Mr. Rensel: So, the $33 million is solely the levied amount or . . . is it the total amount? Mr. Craig: Yes, we have a $42 million budget going into 2014. Mr. Rensel: Thank you sir. Mayor: Thank you for coming in tonight and thank you for what you do for not only Tallmadge, but all of Summit County. I know Shelter Care here in Tallmadge serves a lot of folks and they really do a great job and with your support we definitely thank you and I know you already have my endorsement and I have endorsement cards that Council . . . did you already give Council the cards Jerry? Mr. Craig: No I haven’t. Mayor: Here are some brochures I will give you later. Mr. Craig: We are Issue 1 so that is the number. Thank you. Pres. of Council: Thank you for coming tonight. 6.A. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pres. of Council: I do have one on behalf of Kim Ray who couldn’t make it tonight on the th 26 of September, which is a Council meeting night, and we discussed the possibility of changing that but one of us can’t make the change and so we are going to have it at the regular time, but the League of Women Voters and the Akron/Canton Regional Food Bank are presenting “A Place at the Table.” It will be a documentary on food and security, poverty and obesity. There will be invitations sent to all elected officials in Summit County. 7. REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES: None. 8. AGENDA ADDITIONS: Ord. 89-2013 becomes Item 15.A. and Ord. 90-2013 becomes Item 15.B. 9. REPORTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS: MAYOR, DIR. OF PUBLIC SERVICE, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, AND DIRECTOR OF LAW. th Mayor: I will start off with what you were just talking about; that night on the 26 . It is actually a reception up at the High school that starts at 5:00 p.m. and then that movie starts at 6:00 p.m. and I know Council is definitely welcome to go to that. It is open to all of the public and I am sure there will be a lot more advertisement out. With Council starting at 7:00 p.m., you probably can make some of it if you want to go up there and I think they are asking for canned foods at the door. Drop off of canned foods if I recall is . . . there will be more to come on that, but just look forward to that. Today in the mail folks are starting to receive their aggregation program from Constellation; the opt-out program. It is a letter and you all should be receiving a letter of some sort. This one here is to the City; this is the opt-out meaning that you are automatically enrolled in the City’s aggregation program at $4.65 per mcf from November through October, 2014, and if you choose to not be a part of the Tallmadge program, and that is your right to do that; they either tear off the little card on the bottom and mail it back or simply call the 800 number and I will rattle the number off just . . . it is 1-800-718-1493; that is the number to Constellation for any other information or to opt out and folks will also receive a letter called an opt-in. If they want to join the program, then they call that 800 number to join the program and the ones that will receive the opt-out are the ones that are currently in the aggregation program and the SCO rate folks because they are at the Standard Choice option with Dominion and you will get an opt-out and if you want to stay with the variable rate; then you would have to opt- out of Tallmadge. This is fixed for 12 months at the $4.65 per mcf. Any questions you get from anybody; just send them our way. The phone calls did start today because people are starting to get the letters and inside there was also a little brochure that had programs and frequently asked questions; they are pretty thorough on it though. It is that time of year and st we are no longer with Direct Energy as of the 1 of the year. Mr. Rensel: So let me confirm; even though a resident, like myself, may have opted out or be opted out currently, irregardless we will be put back into this program? Mayor: Yes. I am going to say yes, but it depends who you are really with and how you are there. If you are with another supplier, then you have to drop that supplier and join Tallmadge. If you are with the Tallmadge aggregation program today with Direct Energy or with the SCO rate with Dominion East Ohio Gas, you will get this letter saying that you are automatically enrolled. Then if you do not want to be with them and stay with the variable rate with SCO, then you would have to call the 800 number and say that you don’t want to be a part of Tallmadge. But if you go to Apples to Apples; $4.65 per mcf; you won’t find that rate anywhere. It is all at $5 or above. You can if it is a variable. This is a fixed rate and that is the big difference. Now those who . . . like yourself, if you are with another supplier; you could join this but it depends on when your contract is up and if there is an opt-out penalty out of your current person. That is what we talk about when customers call us or th residents call us. This period, you have to opt-out by October 4 . Mr. Sisak: Mayor, I actually got a letter on electric energy. Mayor: By Constellation? Mr. Sisak: I don’t know if it Constellation or another one. Mayor: Or AEP? 3  REGULAR COUNCIL in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 12, 13 Mr. Rensel: Both. Mayor: There are both out there. Constellation just sent . . . that is not part of the aggregation program . . . . Mr. Sisak: OK, so the City does not currently have an electric aggregation program? Mayor: Yes we do. Mr. Sisak: We do. Mayor: It is First Energy. Mr. Sisak: First Energy. OK. When is that up? Mayor: The Constellation document just came out this week and so . . . I wish they wouldn’t do that because now we are doing the gas with Constellation and Constellation electric people did it at the beginning of the week. They are not related at all. The Constellation electrical program was 6.45 cents per kilowatt. I will just say 6.5 cents per kilowatt. The Tallmadge First Energy aggregation is 6% off of shopping credits. At the next Council meeting, I will put it up on the board so I can show you on your electric bill . . . on the left hand side of your electric bill; get your electric bill and on the left hand side it will say that this is the price to compare and right now it is $4.11 per kilowatt. So it is 6% off of that number. If you go to the right column, half way down and you will see exactly what you are paying and right now it is $6.78 cents per kilowatt. So you can save a half of a cent if you switch with Constellation, but to get out of the Tallmadge aggregation for electric, there is a $25 fee to drop out. To make up that $25 at .5 per kilowatt, it would take a lot of time to make up that difference. Mr. Sisak: That is not something that the City shops for on an annual basis; is that something that . . . Mayor: Well, for gas? Mr. Sisak: No, for electric. Mayor: For electric is . . . we signed a contract a little bit ago for a 6-year contract for a 6 cents off the shopping . . . then AEP is the same thing. It gets really confusing; call me. Karen is good at it now! Mr. Rensel: They are projecting anywhere from 12 to 18% off the current energy. Mayor: Correct. It depends on who you are with because everybody’s electric is not the same. It is not like gas; you get $4.65 off of per mcf. Everybody’s is a little bit different. It depends on their load on their meter and the consumption and what type of meter you have and how much electric you are using and so it could be 15%. 15% reduction off of the $7.11 comes down to that number, but we are not paying that. Our savings is less than a half of a percent. Dir. of Pub. Service: I did send out an e-mail to Council members trying to answer some questions that were brought up on Monday. If any of you didn’t get that or for the record, I will just go over some of the things quickly. Barberton did pass their ordinance allowing us to join their contract on Monday. Tallmadge residents are currently paying $14.68 per month for both rubbish and recycling. The new fee will be $12.99 per month. There will also be a fuel recovery fee on top of that which amounts to about .28 per quarter. Right now we are paying about .35 and that is based on; they have in our contract we have a fee schedule similar to an income tax bracket and we look at the price on the highway diesel fuel price index where it currently is and right now we are at 7%. So it would be 7% of your bill is going to be your fuel charge and that comes out to the .28. Right now we are on the four-day week pickup and it will end up just being three days a week and so that will alleviate some of the traffic of these trash trucks in the City. Residents will receive a 96 gallon blue trash can and a 65 gallon recycling cart. Also, Reworks that used to be SAWMA; we are eligible because we are going to mandatory recycling for $15,000 from them and we can use that for recycling or part of our leaf program if we would like. Well meters; the cost is $250 for the well meter. It has to be installed by a licensed plumber. People could save money by doing this instead of paying the flat rate, but if they have a leaky toilet or they do a lot of watering or something through that meter; it could end up being higher. But all of that is spelled out in the forms that they received to fill out and so they need to be looking at that very carefully. We had a bid opening for concrete and asphalt rehabilitation with asphalt overlay improvement and that is for Ivywood. That is a concrete street; we mill it and we will top it with asphalt instead. We did the other street, Ambler Circle, up in that allotment and it worked out very well. So we had four bidders for that. The lowest bidder was Perrin Asphalt at a price of $73,439 and then we had an alternate for part of Timothy and that is $38,965 and so we are proceeding with that. We had a bid opening for temporary labor today for the leaf program and we received one bid and that was from Safe Staffing and it is $10.34 per hour per man. The 2012 price was $10.19 per hour. This is a 6 to 8 week program; 6 if the weather is great and if not, we can go into 8 weeks. The contract for labor costs for 2013 would be between $39,705 and $52,940. Our regular paving and striping contracts are complete. 4  REGULAR COUNCIL in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 12, 13 Construction of the Woodridge Planned Residential Development off of Dunbar by the school there was planned for approval back in 2008; they are looking to start that up again. We received today our salt prices from our CUE contract for the 2013/2014 season and the cost is $39.84 per ton and that is $4.90 less than it was the previous season. We are required to purchase 80% of our allotment, which is 3,150 tons and that cost would be $100,396.80. If we purchase our entire allotment it would be $125,496. End of report. Pres. of Council: Any questions? Mr. Stalnaker: On the 96 gallon trash cart; are there any provisions to be able to pay extra to have more than one? Dir. of Pub. Service: I don’t . . . if you are doing the recycling, I don’t believe that you are going to have that; you will be able to put additional bags out. Mr. Stalnaker: Oh, you will be able to put . . . they are going to have the arm to pick the large container up? Dir. of Pub. Service: Right. Mr. Stalnaker: And if you have another container sitting out there; the arm won’t pick that up? Dir. of Pub. Service: It will have to be a Republic trash receptacle that they will supply. But, what we are finding is because we are staying with the weekly recycling; if you are actually doing the recycling, it is very unlikely that you are going to fill that 96 gallon container. Mr. Stalnaker: All I have to do is go out and rake once and I will fill it and that won’t even count the garbage. Dir. of Pub. Service: You can put bags out for yard waste. Mr. Stalnaker: You can put bags out but not any containers other than the 96 gallon ones? Dir. of Pub. Service: That’s correct because the arm will just pick up those types of containers. It won’t pick up . . . if you purchase one at Home Depot or something; it is not going to be able to pick that up. Mr. Stalnaker: That is what I was wondering if there was any provision to work with them to buy a container or pay the extra fee a month to have more than one 96 gallon container. Dir. of Pub. Service: I believe you will be because currently you can do that. Mr. Stalnaker: You can? Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes. Mr. Stalnaker: And I contact them separately? Dir. of Pub. Service: Republic? Mr. Stalnaker: I am on Republic now, but then I will contact them to see if I can get another 96 gallon container? st Dir. of Pub. Service: That’s correct. This will not go into effect until January 1 . Mr. Stalnaker: What date? st Dir. of Pub. Service: January 1 . Mayor: Gene, if I may; you currently have a big bin? Mr. Stalnaker: Yes. Mayor: And you can put supplemental bags on the ground beside it? Mr. Stalnaker: No, I have about four big containers. You see, I have a huge sycamore tree that sheds bark this big anytime there is a cloud up there! I have contacted Davey Tree and they said that it is because it is growing. This is probably the largest sycamore tree in Northeastern Ohio. It was just 47 years ago that it was the largest sycamore tree at that time and you drive up and you can see that it is straight up, but that bark comes off and the leaves are that big and they come down first and I can spend one day a week just cleaning up around that sycamore tree and I will fill three or four containers. Mr. Donovan: That is why it is the biggest one! Everybody else cut theirs up. Mr. Stalnaker: Hey it costs me thousands of dollars a year to have those trees treated because that thing was struck by lightning thirty some years ago and I have nursed that thing and they come out four times a year and they take care of it like a baby because I would have to sell the house to take it down. Nobody would want to pay for the house! So that is the reason for the containers. Mayor: Interesting. Thank you. Mr. Rensel: Mr. Esler; the 96 gallon; I recall that the people in Akron with the 96 gallon; the older people had trouble with this because it is so large. Dir. of Pub. Service: Right. Mr. Rensel: What is . . . was this debated by our Council members or evaluated by the Administration as to . . . Dir. of Pub. Service: It was evaluated by the Administration. Basically we would be coming back to you with another ordinance allowing us to make changes to this contract at no more cost. Basically, our collection is going to be the same as it is right now other than the . . . Mr. Rensel: Just do what you do. Dir. of Pub. Service: Just do what you do and there isn’t going to be any additional cost. Mr. Rensel: I think the public would appreciate that. It depends on where you are . . . Dir. of Pub. Service: And they don’t advertise the . . . 5  REGULAR COUNCIL in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 12, 13 Mr. Rensel: No, but it depends on where you are at in your life cycle. It is like you said when you are just empty nesters, it is easier, but when you have a family and I watch the people up and down the street and they have huge amounts. Dir. of Pub. Service: Basically it will stay the same as what we are doing now. Mrs. Kilway: Mr. Esler; in reference to Tallmadge Woods; you are going to be doing all of Ivywood? Dir. of Pub. Service: Correct. Mrs. Kilway: And then what portion of Timothy; where are we going to stop? Dir. of Pub. Service: From Ivywood north to the next intersection. Mrs. Kilway: So just those two houses right in front of . . . Dir. of Pub. Service: It is a little more than that. We are going just past the intersection. Mrs. Kilway: Just past the intersection. Do we have any plans as to when we are going to continue that because I know I am going to get phone calls asking why they stopped. Dir. of Pub. Service: I cannot perform that at all and just do . . . that is a bad section of the road. We can’t afford to do the whole road. Mayor: Next year. Mrs. Kilway: Next year? Dir. of Pub. Service: Nothing more is going to happen this year. Mrs. Kilway: So, hopefully we will get that on the agenda for next year? Dir. of Pub. Service: It’s possible. Mrs. Kilway: OK. Dir. of Pub. Service: I won’t guarantee it. Mr. Sisak: Mr. Esler; what is your current salt container and how much when we order this salt . . . I mean we can’t get it all delivered at once; where do we stand with what we currently have versus what we will get delivered? Dir. of Pub. Service: Our dome is full right now. Mr. Sisak: That is what I expected. So you buy ahead and they just deliver it as needed? Dir. of Pub. Service: They deliver it as needed. As we use it we call them and place orders and then they truck it into us. Mr. Sisak: Now is there ever a chance that we wouldn’t use all of the salt that we have purchased in this fiscal year? Dir. of Pub. Service: There is a chance. Mr. Sisak: But then there is carryover for the next year; you are not at a loss? Once you buy it; it’s yours? Dir. of Pub. Service: Right. Mr. Sisak: OK. Mayor: To answer your other question; 1,400 tons? Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes. 1,400 tones is the dome. Mayor: In the dome behind the service center. Mr. Sisak: And we are going to order 100 tons or whatever? Dir. of Pub. Service: We won’t order anything until we start using that. Mr. Sisak: OK, so the numbers you gave us isn’t for like a pre-order? Dir. of Pub. Service: No. Mr. Sisak: OK. Dir. of Pub. Service: That is what we can use for the whole season. Mr. Sisak: Gotcha. Mr. Rensel: It is their allotment. Pres. of Council: Are there any other questions? No one responded. Economic Developer: This is my first meeting; Mr. Rensel welcome back and I would like to remind Mr. Sisak that he just strayed into Mr. Rensel’s territory talking about the salt! We have been very busy this summer and I am going to give you a bunch of dates and they th are all subject to change. So, Planet Fitness is scheduled to open on September 17 . rd Sammy’s Bar & Grille is set to open on September 23 . rd Cortabella’s Italian Restaurant is set to open on September 23 . The Sound Garden, which is a restaurant entertainment venue that will be serving alcohol, is on the Planning & Zoning agenda for the public hearing in October. Lastly, I reported earlier that the Testa Project did not get funded and we were also told that the State was not going to change their scoring parameters until 2015, and so because of that Mr. Testa was not going to resubmit. He was looking at other alternate projects for that site, but late last week, the State changed their minds and they are changing the scoring system. Mr. Testa has figured the project based on the new testing structure and feels confident that they will be awarded it next year and so he is going to resubmit the project that was before you earlier. We will monitor that to see if we need to tweak the legislation and bring something back to you based on timelines and things like that. End of report. Sandy Ziegler, Finance Department: The Finance Director along with the Ass’t. Finance Director are at a GFOA conference and I have no report. Dir. of Law: No report. 6  REGULAR COUNCIL in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 12, 13 nd 10. Ordinance 78-2013 At 2 Reading. COMMUNITY ISSUES/SAFETY Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a con- tract for disposal of end of life electronic equipment and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Stalnaker moved for the adoption of Ord. 78-2013. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Maguire, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 78-2013 is passed by a vote of 6-0. nd 11. Ordinance 84-2013 At 2 Reading. FINANCE Accepting the LGIF Report from the Summit County Broadband Initiative Grant and providing for immediate enactment. Pres. of Council: According to my notes we were going to poll; is that correct? Mr. Sisak, since you are the Vice Chair; would you call your committee to order? Mr. Sisak: I call the Finance Committee to order; myself and Mr. Stalnaker are present. Kim Ray is absent. What would you like to do? Mayor: The purpose of the polling was to give you time to read the 54 page document and if you had any questions; I would answer them for you. I think that was the purpose. Pres. of Council: Mr. Rensel has a question. Mr. Rensel: I can wait or I can ask. The Beacon published they, and I think it was maybe in Dyer’s column, about the wasting of $6 million of taxpayer money on the wireless initiative . . broadband initiative in Akron and it became a flop and they are dismantling it. Is this issue . . because I am coming back here . . . does this have any connection at all to what the published report is? Mr. Sisak: That was a wireless issue to make the City of Akron a wireless . . . Mr. Rensel: Yes, and it fell apart. Mr. Sisak: This is a broadband and so it would be cable based. Mayor: Yeah. This is not related to that whatsoever John. This is fiber optic that they are looking at and it really gave us the roadmap of who has fiber; where is the dark fiber at; who needs fiber yet to connect and what type assured services could you do if you had the fiber. So, what Dyer was referring to I think was their Wi-Fi network throughout the City. Mr. Rensel: Correct; it was. Mayor: It has nothing to do with this. Mr. Rensel: OK, thank you. That was my question. Mr. Sisak: I would like to call the Finance Committee closed with a recommendation to nd Council to adopt by a vote of 2-0. I will make the motion to adopt Ord. 84-2013 at 2 Reading. Seconded Mr. Stalnaker. Roll Call: Mr. Maguire, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous. Ord. 84-2013 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. st 12. Ordinance 85-2013 At 1 Reading. PUBLIC SERVICE Determining the structure at 1240 Broad- view Road to be blighted; authorizing the Mayor to enter into all necessary agree- ments pursuant to the Moving Ohio For- ward Grant Program and providing for immediate enactment. st Pres. of Council: Ord. 85-2013 is at 1 Reading and is assigned to the Public Service Committee. st 13. Ordinance 86-2013 At 1 Reading. FINANCE Authorizing the appropriation of funds from unappropriated fund balances and pro- viding for immediate enactment. st Pres. of Council: Ord. 86-2013 is at 1 Reading and will be assigned to the Finance Committee. st 14. Ordinance 87-2013 At 1 Reading. COMMUNITY ISSUES/SAFETY Authorizing the donation of a Lifepak 12 Heart Monitor to the Faithful Servants Care Center and providing for immediate enact- ment. Mayor: You do not have to adopt. This is really the sister ordinance to the next one that is really st appropriating almost $100,000 and I am not asking Council for 1 Reading adoption on that. If you would just go ahead and assign it to the Community Issues/Safety Committee. 7  REGULAR COUNCIL in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 12, 13 st Pres. of Council: Ord. 87-2013 is at 1 Reading and will be assigned to the Community Issues/ Safety Committee. st 15. Ordinance 88-2013 At 1 Reading. FINANCE Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a con- tract for the purchase of Lifepak 15 Heart Monitors without competitive bid through the State Purchasing Program #800252 and providing for immediate enactment. st Pres. of Council: Ord. 88-2013 is at 1 Reading and will remain before the Finance Committee. st Dir. of Law: Point of order Mr. Maguire. It is actually at 1 Reading and it will be assigned to the Finance Committee. Thank you. st 15.A. Ordinance 89-2013 At 1 Reading. PUBLIC SERVICE Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a con- P.H. ON 10-10-13 @ 7:03 P.M. tract for trash and recycling collection and providing for immediate enactment. st Pres. of Council: Ord. 89-2013 is at 1 Reading and will be assigned to the Public Service th Committee and we need to set a public hearing for October 10 at 7:03 p.m. st 15.B. Ordinance 90-2013 At 1 Reading. PLANNING & ZONING Granting a conditional zoning certificate to applicant Robert Morrison, owner, Frank Rocco to operate a dining establishment serving alcoholic beverages at 290 West Avenue, Suite G. st Pres. of Council: Ord. 90-2013 is at 1 Reading and is assigned to the Planning & Zoning Committee. st 16. Resolution 19-2013 At 1 Reading. Extending the sympathy of the Council and the Administration to Cheryl and Bryan Esler and members of their family in the death of Zobby Miktarian and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Stalnaker moved for the adoption of Res. 19-2013. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Mr. Rensel: He was a great guy; great person. Voice vote 6-0. Res. 19-2013 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. st 17. Resolution 20-2013 At 1 Reading. Extending the sympathy of the Council and the Administration to Donald J. Zesiger and members of his family in the death of Joanne Costello and providing for imme- diate enactment. Mr. Stalnaker moved for the adoption of Res. 20-2013. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Voice vote 6-0. Res. 20-2013 is adopted by a vote of 6-0. 18. ADDITIONAL ITEMS: None. 19. ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Donovan moved to adjourn. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Voice vote 6-0. The Regular Council meeting of 9-12-13 adjourned at 7:47 p.m. sb Approved: _____________________________________ __________________________________ Susan E. Burton Robert D. Maguire Clerk of Council President of Council 8