Tallmadge City Council Regular Business Meeting (2013-2019)

REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 25, 14 1. CALL TO ORDER: President of Council Donovan called the Regular Council meeting of Thursday, September 25, 2014 to order at 7:00 p.m. 2. PRAYER: Pastor Josh Deeter, First Church of God, Tallmadge. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 3. ROLL CALL: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker – present. Also present were Mayor Kline, Dir. of Pub. Service Esler, Dir. of Finance Shanafelt, Dir. of Law Raber, Economic Developer Loughry and Clerk of Council Burton. Mr. Rensel and Ms. Tricaso were excused. 4. MINUTES: 9-11-14 Regular Council meeting minutes. Mrs. Ray moved to adopt the 9-11-14 Regular Council meeting minutes. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Voice vote 5-0. The 9-11-14 Regular Council meeting minutes were adopted by a vote of 5-0. FINANCIAL REPORTS: None. 5. PUBLIC HEARINGS: None. 6. COMMUNITY INPUT: Pres. of Council: I would like to welcome the students that are here this evening and I am going to read this really long thing and see if I can do that without goofing it up! So, Tallmadge City Council meets on the second and fourth Thursday’s of the month for their Regular Council meetings. The preceding Monday’s are the Council Committee meetings. Council is divided up into six different committees with one of the Councilmembers acting as the Chair of that committee. Legislation is discussed thoroughly at the Committee meeting and then the committee gives a recommendation to Council-of-the-Whole whether to adopt, amend or reject, hold or table the legislation. We do allow time for community input at this point in the meeting and so if there is anybody who would like to address Council; you are welcome to come forward. Again; no takers! 6.A. ANNOUNCEMENTS: None. 7. REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES: None. 8. AGENDA ADDITIONS: None. 9. REPORTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS: MAYOR, DIR. OF PUBLIC SERVICE, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, DIRECTOR OF LAW AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPER Mayor: I will be very brief tonight. Today I attended the Grand Opening at Serpentini Chevrolet. If you have not been down to see the new facility that they put together . . . I was talking to Bob Serpentini quite a bit and he took me on a tour of the whole place. They spent a little over $2 million doing renovations to that facility and I was really impressed with the inside of it. I think I bought my first vehicle back at that same location. I forget what dealership it was at that time, but it has changed, but it really looks good and I really encourage all of Council to make it down there. Next we will be moving on down the road to Park Ford and they are almost done with their façade and their big remodel too and so I am pretty happy with what is going on there and I’m sure Dennis will talk more in Economic Development. I would request since you only have five Council people tonight; the ordinances that are at 3rd Reading; Ord. 69-2014, 70-2014 and 71-2014 if you could adopt those tonight. I think you had motions on Monday to adopt those. The other ones that are at 2 nd Reading; I would prefer waiting two weeks for when we have at least six members here. End of report. Dir. of Pub. Service: Thank you. The regular paving is almost complete. Everything is completed and paved except a small section of Ledgebrook where we found that we needed to do some more full depth repairs. The full depth has been done and they just need to put the top course on that. It is just a very short section. Tallmadge Woods; they are supposed to start in there on Monday milling and it will probably take five or six days to do that job. We bid temporary labor and Safe Staffing won that again. They are a very good company and we have had excellent service from them. The strength area up at the Rec Center; we are going to begin tomorrow to move some of the equipment out of there because we are changing the flooring up there from a carpet to a similar material that is on the other side. It is a lot easier to clean and it has thicker padding and so when the people are dropping weights up there; you are not going to hear it all over. End of report. Dir. of Finance: I would just like to make mention that I brought copies of our 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) and they are back on the table and for which we were awarded from the Auditor of State the “Excellence with Distinction Award” and I believe this makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 years in a row. Just so you know. End of report. Pres. of Council: Congratulations. Dir. of Law: No report.  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 25, 14 Mayor: If she will yield some of her time to me, I forgot just one item. I just wanted to congratulate City Council, especially the Clerk’s Office for getting a “Certificate of Achievement” for doing passports. You know there is a lot of work in that office and this wasn’t really part of the function of that office, but I think today Sue said that she did seven of them today and so for two consecutive years in the Council office and what a great service that we provide to our residents to be able to do passports here in City Hall and so congratulations to Sue and her staff and to Council for having a good Clerk. Economic Developer: This week we met with representatives from the City of Akron and had a discussion on Brittain Rd. and the Chapel Hill area just to talk about some zoning issues and also to brainstorm and that was a very productive meeting. The lot in front of the “Y” at 125 West Avenue abutting Dr. Schmeiser’s new office building has been placed into the Tallmadge Grow; into the CIC and so we will be working with the CIC, or actually the CIC will be determining how to market that lot. Panera Bread in the JEDD will open sometime between December 2nd and Christmas. Klaben; the new used car lot has been pushed back to early next year. We met with the Portage Development Board representatives at Bang Printing; it used to be Press of Ohio, and they flat out told us that they can hire 100 employees right now if they could find good drug-free employees. So, the drug issue is still an issue especially for all of our employers that are manufacturing. So, anyway, we need to continue to work on that and everything else is good. End of report. Pres. of Council: Any questions? No one responded. 10. Ordinance 69-2014 At 3rd Reading. COMMUNITY ISSUES/SAFETY Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an ADOPT 3-0 amended Memorandum of Understanding with the County of Summit and other poli- tical subdivisions for job creation, retention, and tax revenue sharing and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 69-2014. Seconded Mrs. Ray. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 69-2014 is adopted by a vote of 5-0. 11. Ordinance 70-2014 At 3rd Reading. PLANNING & ZONING Approving and granting a conditional P&Z REC. APPROVAL 5-0 zoning certificate to applicant Richard ADOPT 3-0 Bowling and owner Samuel Keller for a motor freight garage at 1247 Eastwood Avenue. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 70-2014. Seconded Mrs. Ray. Mayor: First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Bowling for his efforts out there. You know, you have a business, Keller Hall that has been out there for 50 years and at that location; it is a very difficult location when they decided to close their doors, this location could have been shut down for a long period of time, but we never skipped a beat I think with them moving right into it. It is a great fit for them. Everything . . . I think the stars were aligned perfectly and thank you and welcome to the City of Tallmadge and we look forward to having a great, long relationship, so thank you. Roll Call: Mrs. Ray, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous. Ord. 70-2014 is adopted by a vote of 5-0. Mrs. Ray: Welcome to Tallmadge. 12. Ordinance 71-2014 At 3rd Reading. FINANCE Declaring certain City-owned personal ADOPT 3-0 property to be excess/obsolete and author- izing the Chief of Police to sell such equipment at public sale or trade-in and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Ray moved for the adoption of Ord. 71-2014. Seconded Mr. Stalnaker. Roll Call: Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray – unanimous. Ord. 71-2014 is adopted by a vote of 5-0. 2  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. September 25, 14 13. Ordinance 72-2014 At 3rd Reading. PLANNING & ZONING Granting a conditional zoning certificate for GIVE 3rd READING 3-0 special nonresidential development to applicant Cynthia A. Mason, owner, Donald W. Hamilton to operate an elder law office at 1347 Southeast Avenue. Pres. of Council: Ord. 72-2014 is at 3rd Reading and will remain before the Planning & Zoning Committee. 14. Ordinance 77-2014 At 2nd Reading. FINANCE Amending Ordinance 82-1997 authorizing a GIVE 2nd READING 3-0 formal policy for limitations upon issuance of debt, capital improvement planning, debt structure, and overall financial credit object- tives and providing for immediate enact- ment. Pres. of Council: Ord. 77-2014 is at 2nd Reading and will remain before the Finance Committee. Mayor: Just briefly, just to give Council a little update. The five-year Capital Plan that we have been working on with our staff, the Finance Department and really all of the employees; we have been working together and we will be presenting to Council shortly. That is really part of this whole thing that we have started on for the debt limits and I think you will be pretty impressed with the end result; the end document. Also the 2015 Budget is at the final draft version and so we will be getting that to Council within the next three weeks or so. We are very close. 15. Ordinance 79-2014 At 1st Reading. FINANCE Authorizing the Mayor to solicit and adver- tise for bids and to enter into a contract to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder for billing and collection of fees for emergency medical services and providing for immediate enactment. Pres. of Council: Ord. 79-2014 is at 1st Reading and is assigned to the Finance Committee. 16. Ordinance 80-2014 At 1st Reading. FINANCE Appropriating additional amounts and pro- viding for immediate enactment. Pres. of Council: Ord. 80-2014 is at 1st Reading and is assigned to the Finance Committee. 17. ADDITIONAL ITEMS: None. Mr. Stalnaker: It’s too early and I have to bore you with a little story here. When I saw the Minister coming to give the prayer and I looked at the agenda and it says Fr. Mike from Our Lady of Victory. Our Minister told us a little story the other day about being at the Chamber of Commerce dinner and he was sitting at a table with a Priest and a Rabbi. They were talking about the hardships that churches have today. They have lost a whole generation of people. From the age of 30-50; they have lost this generation for some reason or another and of course they have unbalanced budgets and no leadership; nobody wants to step forward and take a leadership role. They were talking about this and dinner was served and they served pork. So they kept on talking and the Rabbi pushed the pork aside and the Priest said, “You are not going to eat that” and he said no. He said, “Come on now, this is the 21 st Century. I marry lesbians, I marry homosexuals and I marry people who have lived together for years and I marry people who have two and three children and he said; get with it; this is the 21 st Century.” The Rabbi says, “Well, I have tried to change and he said I have an I-pad and I have a telephone that takes pictures and I have a camera on the dashboard so when I back up I can see where I am going and I have an alarm that if I am too close to somebody; the car stops and he says, I have tried to adapt. The Priest says, “Under what conditions would you eat that pork dinner?” The Rabbi said, “At your wedding!” 18. ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Sisak moved to adjourn. Seconded Mrs. Ray. Voice vote 5-0. The Regular Council Meeting adjourned at 7:16 p.m. sb Approved: _____________________________________ __________________________________ Susan E. Burton James M. Donovan Clerk of Council President of Council 3