Tallmadge City Council Regular Business Meeting (2013-2019)

REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. July 9, 15 1. CALL TO ORDER: President of Council Donovan called the Regular Council meeting of Thursday, July 9, 2015 to order at 7:00 p.m. 2. PRAYER: Silent prayer. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 3. ROLL CALL: Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan – present. Also present were Mayor Kline, Dir. of Pub. Service Esler, Ass’t. Dir. of Finance Gilbride, Dir. of Law Raber, Economic Developer and Clerk of Council Burton. 4. MINUTES: 6-25-15 Regular Council meeting minutes. Mrs. Ray moved to accept the 6-25-15 Regular Council meeting minutes. Seconded Mr. Rensel. Voice vote 7-0. The Regular Council Meeting minutes were adopted by a vote of 7-0. FINANCIAL REPORTS:  SMR Transfer in the amount of $200,000 to Council on 7-1-15.  Bond Retirement Transfer in the amount of $200,000 to Council on 7-1-15.  Fire Fund Transfer in the amount of $100,000 to Council on 7-1-15.  Appropriation Report, Fund Report, Revenue Report, and Encumber Report for the period ending 6-30-15 to Council on 7-2-15.  Tallmadge Recreation Center Profit and Loss Report for the period ending 6-30-15 to Council on 7-2-15.  Income Tax Comparisons for the period ending 6-30-15 to Council on 7-2-15.  Revenue Comparisons for the period ending 6-30-15 to Council on 7-2-15.  June Financial Reports to Council on 7-2-15. Mrs. Ray moved to accept the Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Shanafelt. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Voice vote 7-0. The Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Shanafelt were accepted by a vote of 7-0. 5. PUBLIC HEARINGS: None. 6. COMMUNITY INPUT: Pres. of Council: Tallmadge City Council meets on the second and fourth Thursday’s of the month for the Regular Council meetings and the preceding Monday’s are the Council Committee meetings. At the Committee meetings legislation is discussed thoroughly with Council deciding to adopt, amend, reject, hold or table the legislation. We do allow time for community input at this point in the meeting. Is there anybody that would like to address Council, please come forward and state your name and address. John Coorey, Regional Liaison for State Auditor, Dave Yost. The reason I am here this evening is to present to Molly Gilbride and the City of Tallmadge Finance Department with our Ohio Auditor of State Award with Distinction. This award is presented for excellence in financial reporting for your Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports for the fiscal year ending 2014. I would like to note that Tallmadge is one of the few entities that we have that have won this award the four years that it has been in existence since Auditor Yost took office in 2011. So you guys should be really proud of the work that your Finance Department is doing. I would like to also add into the record a letter from State Auditor Dave Yost. “Dear Financial team of the City of Tallmadge. Congratulations. Based upon your recently completed financial audit, it gives me great pleasure to inform you that the City of Tallmadge has received the Auditor of State Award with Distinction. Clean and accurate record-keeping are the foundation for good government, and the taxpayers can take pride to your commitment to accountability. The Auditor of State Award with Distinction is given to those entities that file an annual CAFR and timely financial reports in accordance with GAAP, as well as receive a “clean” auditor report. The “clean” report means that your financial audit did not contain findings for recovery, material citations, material weaknesses, significant deficiencies, Single Audit findings or any questioned costs. Congratulation again on receiving the Auditor of State Award with Distinction. My office looks forward to continuing to work with you to ensure clean, accountable and efficient government for all Ohioans. Sincerely, Dave Yost Auditor of State” So I would like to present this to Molly on behalf of the Department of Finance. Congratulations. Sherry Blair, Project Director, Child and Family Health Services. Thank you for having me. Today I am here just to thank you for the resolutions for August Kids Month. This is our 6th year of doing the “First Things First Initiative” facing some important issues facing  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. July 9, 15 Sherry Blair (Cont’d.) Summit County. First Things First is an initiative that brought on the August Kids Month and we started with a community assessment which was done to identify the barriers and assets and the work in the community and to pursue funding both public and private to address areas of concern and implement strategies to improve early education, health and wellbeing of the children in Summit County. I am afraid if I don’t read it I will miss something important. So, bear with me. August Kids Month is a month long awareness campaign highlighting available programming, serious health issues and events promoting early childhood education. This year the Kids Month committee has made it their goal to equip every library in Summit County with information about available programs, educational resources and safety information that they can provide to families. Additionally, we brought a supply of that information for you here to distribute throughout your building as well as some Kids Month little cards and posters for you. Each week of the Kids Month, as you may know, we focus on the importance of different topics from early childhood care, education, health, behavioral health, family support, special needs and early intervention. So this year on Week 1, which is August 3rd through the 9th is the Early Learning Great Beginnings and that focuses on Kindergarten readiness for children age 0-5 and by securing Kindergarten readiness we are investing in the future prosperity of our community because as we know, high quality early childhood development is a critical component of the K-12 success and instrumental in cultivating a skillful work force. So, Summit Education Initiative is hosting two Great Beginnings Early Learning Fairs. One will be at the Barberton YMCA on August 5th and one at the downtown Akron Library on August 7th and of course, that is open to anyone from Tallmadge and all over Summit County. Those are from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and they have information, story time, mascots and the focus will be on preschool age children. Then Week 2, which is August 10th through 16th is Family Week and this focuses on activities and events that are geared toward family engagement such as father involvement which we have been having some different teachings and trainings regarding fatherhood involvement because it has been a piece that has been missed; healthy life course model, family planning and community services. Then we go into Summit for Kids Symposium and luncheon which is on August 14th and this is the evolution of the First Things First with an overview of the resources, accomplishments, and future goals of our community. The big one is the Summit for Kids Expo which connects families with businesses, organizations and agencies that focus on children’s programming, health, education and activity. That entertainment and event is on August 15 th. Then Week 3, which is August 17th through the 23rd is the Child Wellness Week and this focuses on the comprehensive child wellness which includes mental health, physical health, lead screening, diet and exercise and oral health. In fact, we are also doing a Breastfeeding Shower Date on that week on August 21st. The last week is Child Safety Week, which is August 24th through the 30th and that is on encouraging kids to use the safe routes to school program and share information about safety in Summit County such as proper car seat and bike helmet use. In addition to the school program, we will also be talking about safe sitters, proper use of the car seat and bike helmets which is missed a lot. A lot of programs will emphasize the bike but they don’t incite the helmet. So the Child Passenger Safety Event and Vaccines is also one of the events that will be occurring in Twinsburg. So, we would like again to thank you for your support. I know the Resolution has already gone through for Tallmadge from my understanding and we appreciate you getting the word out about this event and about these resources. We would also invite you to see the website; it is on the bag here as well as on the Items and Events, which is Summit County First Things First. So thank you again. I really appreciate it. Mayor: Thank you. Pres. of Council: Is there anyone else who would like to speak this evening. No one responded. 6.A. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bd. of Control meeting following Council meeting. I am also going to move Item 17 up and it will be immediately following the reports of the Administrative Officers. 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 have quite a few items to talk about tonight. First of all, on behalf of the Administration and the Mayor’s Department, I would like to congratulate the Finance Department for such a fine job. I know that she has the CAFR that she is going to talk about it. It is truly a group effort in her department and they work extremely well with all of the different departments and when you are dealing with a $32 million budget and to get such a clean audit and the Auditors come in here and they seem like they camp out in here for a couple of months. 2  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. July 9, 15 Mayor (Cont’d.) They go through everything and I know it bothers the different departments because they are always asking for files, but congratulations to Mr. Shanafelt and Mrs. Gilbride. Last night we did have a meeting in here and Keven and Carol came to it. It was about Healthy Transportation and it was held by the Summit County Health Department and also by Akron U about how to communicate and how travel around the City and connectability and the grants and so I thought that was a lot of great information. They are taking that dog and pony show around the County so Tallmadge offered to host it last night. I though it went very well. Concerts in the Park starts this Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. and so that will be the first one in a series of five then ending up with the Circle Fest which will be on August 15th. In the Fire Department, I am happy to announce that I will be swearing in Mike Passarelli as the Fire Chief for the City of Tallmadge and that will be on July 20 th at 10:00 a.m. Also that same day there will be a swearing in of the Deputy Fire Chief Ben Stasik and also that day; a historic day for swearing in people; Carl Syx will be moved up from the part-time Fire Department to the full-time and so with Pat leaving it just moved a lot of people around and we have gone through all the Civil Service testing and so on July 20th we will historically swear in three firemen in the Fire Department. That is pretty cool. Mrs. Ray: What time is that? Mayor: It all starts at 10:00 a.m. July 15th don’t forget that we have the Comprehensive Board. We meet here and that is an on-going series and that will be going on all summer long. This one will primarily focus on the Brittain Road, West Avenue Corridor and then on August 12th will be the next one and that will be on Southeast Six Corners all the way out to the I-76 corridor. Since you are on break, August 9th is the Soap Box Derby run and we will have West Avenue paved; Bryan will talk about that; they are out there as we speak working on that project. So, Adam Bozic in the Rec Center has done a great job starting to organize that and we are getting a lot of publicity on the Soap Box Derby run and that will be the dedication of that hill. It is the 80th Anniversary of the running of the first Soap Box Derby on West Avenue hill and we will be dedicating that. Some of you may have gotten a few phone calls. There was a letter dropped off by a person which was unsigned around the East Avenue corridor talking about five bullet points which is great to let you know what is going on in the neighborhood. I just wanted to make a note that there was never and we have never planned on making East Avenue a four-lane highway. So whoever got that information; we were talking about skinny roads and we were talking about reducing Howe Road from a 4-lane to a 3-lane and that is called a road diet. Part of last night’s meeting was about road diets and I wish I could do West Avenue for the road diet. We are putting new pavement on. We talked about should we stripe it as a road diet, but the break for a road diet is about 18,000 cars a day and West Avenue is right on that verge of the 18,000 vehicles travelled and so West Avenue would probably not, but East Howe Road from 91 all the way to the Roundabout will be a skinny road eventually. I would request for your consideration tonight of Ord. 54, 56, and 57-2015 and the reason I am requesting those is because you will not be here for the next month. End of report. Mr. Rensel: I didn’t get a letter; do we know who it was or . . . I live on East Avenue and didn’t get one. Mayor: Well, Mrs. Reisig came into my office this morning and somebody had stuck it in her newspaper box and it was unsigned. The five bullet points said that there is a meeting coming up which is a public meeting for Planning & Zoning about the East Avenue Project. They wanted to inform them that the Lemmon and Lemmon Project, which will be starting here, was approved and so I thank them for announcing that. Also there was one about the school district and they are looking at planning on doing some building upgrades. I am just summarizing what these bullet points were. It was more like a . . . make sure you are aware that this is going on. East Avenue is being widened to four lanes and the other bullet point was . . . I might have said five. Mr. Rensel: No, that is fine. Mayor: Oh, five is the possibility of a fire station of Community Drive and they don’t want to hear sirens on East Avenue. Mr. Rensel: We never really talked much about that. We have only talked in a preliminary way. Mayor: If you get it; it is out there. We welcome input and we welcome people to come to the Planning & Zoning meeting and I know that Dennis has a report from the future developer that they will be having public meetings on that East Avenue Project. I will let him talk about that. Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes, thank you. You are all aware of all the rain that we have had in June. I think it was the rainiest June on record. Fortunately we had no major storm water issues. We did have a lot more on work orders than normal. During June the Street Department took care of 88 storm water related work orders and spent approximately 1,128 man hours addressing those. Those were mostly culvert replacements, repairs to collector systems, catch basins, rebuilds and things like that. Pending the Board of Control’s approval tonight, Cement Tech will be awarded this year’s concrete maintenance contract at a cost of $82,650. 3  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. July 9, 15 Dir. of Pub. Service (Cont’d.) The University of Akron is currently soliciting expected salt quantities from CUE members for the upcoming winter season. It is so hard to judge that. I try to look at a couple of the European forecasts, our forecast of what the winter is and of course, they are completely opposite. We have to take 80% of whatever we request and so we could end up with a lot of salt stockpiled somewhere if we have a mild winter, but we will have enough salt if we do have severe weather. We are planning on that. The bid opening for the City Building roof is next Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. The Service Awards luncheon is on the 16th at 11:45 a.m. at the Community Center. Touch-a-Truck is this Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to Noon at the Rec Center. West Avenue; they are almost done with the milling and they will be closing it from midnight until 3:00 a.m. tonight from West Avenue to Sperry Drive so they can do that section. End of report. Ass’t. Dir. of Finance: Everyone should have received their reports from Finance Director Shanafelt on July 2nd. I did just want to touch on a couple items. We are about 7-1/2% of where we were last year ahead in our Income Tax collections which is very good and partially expected due to the fact that the JEDD rate did increase ¼% in 2015. In terms of our operating budget, everything looks like its running in accordance as budgeted and we will continue to monitor that as the year goes by. I did want to mention that we did finish our Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and it has been sent to the Government Finance Officers Association for review for their Annual Certificate of Achievement Program and I do have some copies with me if anyone on Council is interested in having one. I know they are available on-line and so you can get them there, but if anybody is interested in a hard copy; I do have those. End of report. Mrs. Ray: Thank you Mr. Donovan. I would just like to take a moment to congratulate the Finance Department; the entire department for a job very well done. I, for the last 15 years, have worked with government entities throughout the State of Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and the award that you received tonight; it really is an Award of Distinction. There are less than 5% of governments that are awarded that particular award in the State of Ohio. That particular program is also held in Michigan and Pennsylvania as well. So, I just wanted to congratulate you and I wanted to congratulate especially Mrs. Gilbride because I know that she is really the bedrock of that department and we really appreciate that fact that you do have a background in Municipal Finance. It is a very different animal, but just congratulations to everybody in the department and in the City because it is a big deal. Ass’t. Dir. of Finance: Thank you Mrs. Ray. Mrs. Ray: I wish Holly was here tonight so she could have gotten some pictures, but I am sure we will send them to the Tallmadge Express, so congratulations. Thank you Mr. Donovan. Dir. of Law: Thank you. I would just ask for the adoption of Ord. 50-2015. Thank you. Economic Developer: Thank you. Please mark your calendars if you would like to attend on Thursday, July 23rd and Thursday, July 30th at 7:00 p.m. here in Council chambers; the developer, Melbourne Development, for the proposed project on the 20 acres on East Avenue. He is going to have two different question and answer sessions. Obviously it is for the public; it is for the neighbors and it is for basically anybody that wants to come. The Developer’s name is Bob Reese and he will be doing those and again that is Thursday the 23rd of this month and the 30th at 7:00 p.m. So with that, since you are going to be off for a while, I just wanted to give you an update on Bob’s Big Boy. Mr. Mosholder should have the demo permit shortly. So, while you are off there will be activity on that site. We had a conversation with Mr. Testa regarding putting the boulevard road in on the site and coordinating that in conjunction with North Avenue next year and the first building to be built that needs to get approved will be for Akron Children’s Hospital on the rear of the site, but the road needs to be done for when they open for access. Danbury is having a pre-construction meeting next week and the Construction Manager will then meet with the Mayor and I. There should be a ground breaking at that site very soon; probably while you are off or shortly after you come back. Eastwood Glenn; the near 65 single family house development on Eastwood; they are completing the water and sewer installation and so construction will start there once the roads get put in. But anyway, they are on track of where they wanted to be. Woodridge, the residential project on Dunbar that is, I believe, 65 single family houses and that project is on track and basically at the same stage. So, I know that in the forefront it has been a lot about senior housing, but we do have 130 new housing starts coming up shortly. So that is all good news. Crystal Parkway in Portage County/Tallmadge two industrial lots have been sold there recently and two new companies will be building new buildings and moving into Tallmadge. End of report. Mr. Stalnaker: You answered two of my three; how about the apartments behind K-Mart? 4  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. July 9, 15 Economic Developer: Oh, Mr. Didato, after doing more market research, decided to change the project a little bit and put elevators in the building and so that created some redesign, but I saw him probably about six weeks ago and basically he is involved with several companies and his wife is actually handling this project, but he said that he still intended to start yet this year. That is the latest update I have. Pres. of Council: Next we are going to jump up to Item 17, Resolution 8-2015. 17. Resolution 8-2015 At 1st Reading. Congratulating Lauren Moses on her Level Nine Eastern National Championships victory and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Rensel: I move for the adoption of Res. 8-2015. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Mayor: Since she is here in the audience; if you would like to say a couple of words at the podium just to tell us what it was about. If you would like to? Lauren Moses: This was the second Nationals that I have been able to attend and the top seven make it and then there are like alternates and it was in Orlando, Florida and so we got there and there was like a training day and then we got to do kind of whatever we wanted and then when we were competing I made a mistake on the first event so then it was kind nerve wracking and you want to do good, but then when you make a mistake and it is hard to come back. So I just tried my best on the next three events and on the last event, which is my favorite event, which is beam; I made it and so then I ended up 5th in the All-Around and 2nd on Beam, 2nd on Bars and 1st on Vault. Mayor: That’s great. Mrs. Ray: Wow! Congratulations. Pres. of Council: We have a motion and a second. Voice vote 7-0. Res. 8-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. Thank you very much. We appreciate you making all of us look good. 10. Ordinance 50-2015 At 3rd Reading. PUBLIC SERVICE An ordinance to approve, adopt and enact the 2015 replacement pages to the codified ordinances; to repeal ordinances in conflict therewith; to publish the enactment of new matter and providing for immediate enact- ment. Mr. Stalnaker moved for the adoption of Ord. 50-2015. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 50- 2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 11. Ordinance 51-2015 At 2nd Reading. COMMUNITY ISSUES/SAFETY Amending T.C.O. 505.071, Cruelty to Com- panion Animals and providing for imme- diate enactment. Mr. Rensel: I move to amend Ord. 51-2015. Pres. of Council: Do we have a second? No one responded. We have no second. Would anybody like to make another motion? Ms. Tricaso: I move to adopt Ord. 51-2015. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Pres. of Council: We have a motion and a second to adopt Ord. 51-2015. Any further discussion? Mr. Rensel: Thank you. Madam Law Director, is there a requirement for an amendment to add names to the ordinance? I don’t recall after . . . the time that I have been here that we have required such procedural attention to adding names to the ordinance. Dir. of Law: What I am familiar with is that we typically would do that. It is not very common that we only are adding a name to the ordinance so . . . it is technically changing the ordinance. Mr. Rensel: Changing the ordinance? Dir. of Law: It’s amending the ordinance. Mr. Rensel: I see. Mr. President, thank you. Pres. of Council: Is there any further discussion? No one responded. Roll Call: Mrs. Ray – yes, Mr. Rensel – no, Mr. Sisak – yes, Mr. Stalnaker – yes, Ms. Tricaso – yes, Mr. Donovan – yes, Mrs. Kilway – yes. Ord. 51-2015 is adopted by a vote of 6-1. 5  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. July 9, 15 12. Ordinance 53-2015 At 1st Reading. PLANNING & ZONING Approving and granting a conditional zoning certificate for special nonresidential development of Parcels 6007614 and 6007615 on East Avenue between Cambrian Drive and South Alling Road for construction of a wellness senior living campus. Pres. of Council: Ord. 53-2015 is at 1st Reading and is assigned to the Planning & Zoning Committee. 13. Ordinance 54-2015 At 1st Reading. PUBLIC SERVICE Authorizing the Mayor to advertise for bids, enter into an agreement, and appropriating $35,000 for demolition of residential struc- tures and providing for immediate enact- ment. Mr. Stalnaker moved for the adoption of Ord. 54-2015. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Mayor: Thank you. I want to thank Council for your consideration. This is our demo permit and if you recall when we did the community survey, the number one thing on the survey was to take care of the blight in the neighborhoods. I am happy to announce with the passage of this ordinance and Item 16 that is coming up which is another house; we will be able to have removed 14 blights in the neighborhoods throughout the whole community. To date we have already removed 8 of those and this week we removed number 9 which was on Eastwood and we were supposed to do one on Geneva today but they were held back because of the weather and these are all blights in the neighborhoods and to tear these houses down is just good for the whole neighborhood. By passage of this ordinance it allows us to add more money to the program to then get us up to the 14 that we have on the books right now. Council did approve $30,000 in the budget and this does not include the money for the Tallmadge Bowling Alley which we did receive a grant to remove that. Tallmadge Bowling Alley will be removed ten days from this past Tuesday. After you do the EPA Reports you have to wait ten days for that and you can’t touch the building and in every one of these you can’t do anything for ten days after the EPA is done with it. So with that, we have 10 days from Tuesday for the wrecking ball to hit the Tallmadge Bowling Alley. So, I think it is a great program. It is good for all of us; it is good for the neighbors and the nice thing about it, and I will just briefly talk; the one on Ferguson got a new house completed; the one on South Munroe was sold and a new home is being constructed; the one on South Avenue – it is a substandard lot and they can’t really build on it but it took that blight away; the one on Broadview – they are combining with the next door neighbor to build another house on that lot; on Perry Road – a brand new house completed; Southeast Avenue – a new industrial building to go up; Southeast Avenue – it was a substandard lot, but they are selling the lot and then 26 Nottingham, which took us forever to get that building down – we have a potential lease and a buyer for that lot which would be Leppo and so that has worked out good there; the Geneva one will be for industrial use; the Eastwood one – it was scheduled for a new home to be constructed as soon as the house is removed; the one on East Avenue – we already have the building plans for a brand new house on East Avenue; the North Avenue one – they will subdivide the lots and a new house will go on that; the one on Beachler was the house that burnt down and they did not have any insurance or anything on it and so that house will sit like that forever and so Pat Sauner has been working with them to get that house demoed so it is not a blight to that neighborhood; the one on Ferguson is a potential new house for construction and so you can see the program works. That is what it is all about; remove a blight and revitalize the neighborhood and so thank you for your consideration. Mr. Rensel: Thank you. Mayor are there any charge backs to the future owners or the property owners? Mayor: Not with this program with the County Program and with our program. We ask that a new house go in so the whole purpose is wanting to get rid of the blight and then . . . next year we are looking at whether we should set maximum limits on a house or do something like that, but as of this program in the last two years; there are no charge backs to remove the blight. A lot of it, as you recall, we did get grants for it and we just matched that grant. Mr. Rensel: The reason I ask is because if I am sitting on cash I would run around and buy up these blighted lots so that the City could tear them down and I would benefit financially from doing that. I know the outcome is nice, but again someone is watching for financial gain. Mayor: Sure and it is really about cleaning up the neighborhoods and this type of program . . . you know property maintenance is a big issues and we try to work hard on it. Look how long it took us to get that tree off the house across from your house. Mr. Rensel: Right. Mayor: When you are dealing with absentee landlords, and absentee bankers out of Texas then it goes from Texas to California and back to Louisiana or somewhere to track those down and our guys do a great job with the help of the Law Department to really track and find these. It is good to get rid of the blight. 6  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. July 9, 15 Mr. Rensel: And we are not using the Fire Department at all for potential . . . Mayor: The Fire Department will go in and play in it, but the EPA requirements to burn a house down; it’s not like the days when I was on the Fire Department and we loved to get houses for training. Now it is just so hard to get the EPA approvals for that. Roll Call: Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray – unanimous. Ord. 54-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 14. Ordinance 55-2015 At 1st Reading. FINANCE Accepting a donation to the City of a garage at 1046 North Munroe from the Tallmadge Historical Society and autho- rizing the Mayor to enter into a memoran- dum of understanding for its use and providing for immediate enactment. Pres. of Council: Ord. 55-2015 is at 1st Reading and is assigned to the Finance Committee. Mayor: Just to give you a little update on what that is; our 1947 Historic Fire Truck has been stored behind Dr. Massoud’s building. They were paying rent at that location for many, many years and they elected to build a building. This building is the nicest thing that we have at the old Tallmadge Asphalt site. We looked at different locations; 210 Osceola and behind the Aquatic Center on West Avenue; 111 West Avenue, but really the best location was out at the Tallmadge Asphalt site. Our portion that we own on the building is scarlet and gray and before you adopt it I will have a picture up on the screen for you. They now store that fire truck out there and since it is on our property, they are donating that to us, but they will maintain it and it is a good place to keep that fire truck safe and dry and clean. 15. Ordinance 56-2015 At 1st Reading. FINANCE Authorizing the purchase of a 0.3552 acre parcel at 150 Tallmadge Circle for a munici- pal parking lot, appropriating funds there- fore, and providing for immediate enact- ment. Mrs. Ray moved for the adoption of Ord. 56-2015 at 1st Reading. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Mayor: Just for the record, this is a building that we had talked about a month or so ago. This is the 10-Minute Lube site on the Circle. We have the opportunity to purchase that and due to all of the construction and all of the projects going on on the Circle and since we do rent out the Historic Church and we have the Old Town Hall that we rent out and we have been relying on private property for all the parking and although I would love to see another building go up on that site for economic development, I think the due diligence for the City of Tallmadge is to provide parking not on private property. The Bob’s Big Boy site will soon be, as Dennis said, demoed and they are going to put a fence around that site within the next week to two weeks and so it will block it off to anybody and we do have our Concerts in the Park coming up and Key Bank has been gracious to let us park there and Fancy Dan’s and all of them, but this will just clean up that corner a little bit. Roll Call: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso – unanimous. Ord. 56-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 16. Ordinance 57-2015 At 1st Reading. PUBLIC SERVICE Determining the structure at 683 North Avenue to be blighted; authorizing the Mayor to enter into all necessary agree- ments pursuant to the Tallmadge Demoli- tion Program and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Stalnaker moved for the adoption of Ord. 57-2015. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Mr. Rensel: I would like to hear from the Mayor. The owner and everyone has been contacted and everyone is in agreement? Mayor: The only way that Council . . . that I would ever bring legislation to Council just like we have done in the past; we have to have signatures of all property owners on it. So, we do not go out to look for the blights. We will try to get them and try to get the absentee someone to pay for it, but in this case we have a signature from the four people that own that house. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 57-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. Pres. of Council: Is there anything else to come before Council this evening? No one responded. 18. ADDITIONAL ITEMS: None. 7  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. July 9, 15 19. ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Sisak moved to adjourn. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Voice vote 7-0. The Regular Council meeting of 7-9-15 adjourned at 7:42 p.m. Mayor: Council, have a safe summer break. sb Approved: _____________________________________ __________________________________ Susan E. Burton James M. Donovan Clerk of Council President of Council 8