Tallmadge City Council Regular Business Meeting (2013-2019)

REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 15 1. CALL TO ORDER: President of Council Donovan called the Regular Council meeting of Thursday, December, 10, 2015 to order at 7:00 p.m. We will begin with a silent prayer. We are lucky enough to have Scout Troup 361 here this evening. After the prayer, if you would like to lead us in the pledge that would be wonderful. We will put you to work since you are here. 2. PRAYER: Silent prayer. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. Pres. of Council: I do want to mention that we do have an Executive Session at the end of the meeting this evening regarding contract negotiations. 3. ROLL CALL: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso – present. Also present were Mayor Kline, Dir. of Finance Shanafelt, Dir. of Pub. Service Esler, Dir. of Law Raber, Economic Developer Loughry and Clerk of Council Burton. 4. MINUTES: 11-12-15 Regular Council meeting minutes. Mrs. Ray moved to approve the 11-12-15 Regular Council meeting minutes. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Voice vote 7-0. The 11-12-15 Regular Council meeting minutes were adopted by a vote of 7-0. FINANCIAL REPORTS:  Fire Transfer in the amount of $200,000 to Council on 11-30-15.  Appropriation Report, Fund Report, Revenue Report, and Encumber Report for the period ending 11-30-15 to Council on 12-8-15.  Tallmadge Recreation Center Profit and Loss Report for the period ending 11-30-15 to Council on 12-8-15.  Income Tax Comparisons for the period ending 11-30-15 to Council on 12-8-15.  Revenue Comparisons for the period ending 11-30-15 to Council on 12-8-15.  November Financial Reports to Council on 12-8-15. 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: Ord. 71-2015 At 3rd Reading. FINANCE Adopting a budget for various funds of the P.H. ON 12-10-15 @ 7:03 P.M. City of Tallmadge, Ohio, for current and POLL 3-0 expenses and other expenditures during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016, appropriating the necessary funds for the administration thereof, authorizing transfers between funds, and providing for immediate enactment. It is now 7:03 p.m. and I call the public hearing for Ord. 71-2015 to order. Is there anyone who would like to speak in favor of Ord. 71-2015? Please come to the podium and state your name and address for the record. No one responded. Is there anyone who would like to speak against Ord. 71-2015? No one responded. Second time; is there anyone who would like to speak in favor of Ord. 71-2015? No one responded. Is there anyone who would like to speak against Ord. 71-2015? No one responded. Third and final time; is there anyone who would like to speak in favor of or against Ord. 71- 2015? No one responded. It is now 7:04 p.m. and I call the public hearing for Ord. 71-2015 closed and I will turn this over to the Finance Committee; Mrs. Ray. Mrs. Ray: Thank you Mr. President. I will call the Finance Committee to order; myself, Mr. Sisak and Mr. Stalnaker are present. We have Ord. 71-2015, which is at 3rd Reading and I believe ready for adoption. Gentlemen; what say you? Mr. Stalnaker: Yes. Mrs. Ray: Mr. Donovan, we move to adopt Ord. 71-2015 by a vote of 3-0. I will now close the Finance Committee. I will move for the adoption of Ord. 72-2015. Pres. of Council: Ord. 71-2015. Did I hear that right? Mrs. Ray: I’m sorry; did I say 72? I did. I will correct myself and say Ord. 71-2015. I am getting ahead of myself; I apologize. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Pres. of Council: We have a motion and a second for the adoption of Ord. 71-2015. Is there any further discussion? Mayor: First of all I would like to thank the Administrative staff for putting the budget together. We spent a lot of hours putting this budget together. I think it is a fair budget for the City of Tallmadge and especially for the residents. Beginning Fund Balance of $4.4 million with an ending Fund Balance of $4.42 million and so it is slightly ahead. It does have a sewer rate increase in there. There are a lot of nice capital items for the benefit of the City also. Three new Police cruisers, a website upgrade, TV listening system at the Rec Center, Rec Center equipment, jaws of life for the Fire Department, the lease payment for the squad and we did look at the squad this week. The Fire Chief went over to see the new squad. We are taking  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 15 Mayor (Cont’d.) delivery possibly tomorrow and then it gets detailed; well, the details are being put on now near the Cleveland area and so we are excited about that. The Road Program is almost $1 million. That is all funds within the Road Program and then we also have the North Avenue Road Improvement, which is a little over $5 million project which is about $600,000 worth of storm water work just on North Avenue. Sewer jetting, televising will be $80,000 and you know that sewer is going to be a major function of the whole City. Our team is really trying to see what we can do to reduce the cost. On a side note, I did talk to the City of Akron Finance guy today and he is watching our rates and he actually lives here in Tallmadge; Steven Dyer. He said we are currently . . . this month is the lowest sewer rate flow into Akron in the history of Tallmadge. So, from some of the work that we have done through the lining; the little bit of lining that we are doing now, but we don’t quite understand what that meant, but I am happy with it. Pres. of Council: As long as it is not backing up somewhere! Mayor: Well, we did have one backup this week. There is also a utility dump truck within the Street Department, Knollwood capital project, storm water ditching and contractual stuff with the storm water mapping that we are updating and so I think it is a good budget and I appreciate Council’s consideration on that tonight. Pres. of Council: I would also like to thank you and your staff and Dr. Pascarella for the work session and how thorough everything was and I know it is a time consuming project. Mayor: It does include a brand new Officer; brand new to the whole system. Mrs. Ray: Thank you Mr. Donovan. I would also like to commend Administration and Dr. Pascarella and Mr. Shanafelt and his staff for putting together a really good budget. I think together with the new policies that we implemented surrounding debt and the capital improvement; the five-year plan that we put together; I think all of those things working together will really put us on strong footing going forward and so I really appreciate that. Thank you. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 71-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 6. COMMUNITY INPUT: Pres. of Council: Tallmadge City Council meets on the second and fourth Thursday’s of the month for the Regular Council meeting. 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. Anybody who would like to address Council, please come forward and state your name and address. No takers? No one responded. 6.A. ANNOUNCEMENTS: There will be a Board of Control meeting immediately following the Council meeting. We will be scheduling an Organizational meeting for Monday, January 11 th at 6:45 p.m. We do that every couple of years. I believe Sue passed out a tentative meeting schedule for next year. If everyone would like to take a look at that and see if that looks like it will work for you; that would be greatly appreciated. 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: First, we had a JEDD meeting; our Joint Economic Development Board meeting with Brimfield. We had that this week. It is the organizational meeting; the annual meeting. Actually it was one of the longest JEDD meetings I have ever sat at. It was about an hour long to go over some different things. Things are doing very well in the JEDD and I am continuing for the next year as the Chairman of the JEDD. Dennis is also on that. Megan and I attended a forum on opiate awareness this past week in Cuyahoga Falls at the Natatorium. It was sponsored by Mayor Don Walters and the Summit County Mayors. It was a very well attended meeting. It was a very frightening meeting. Megan suggested that we do that here in Tallmadge for our parents and residents of Tallmadge. When you look at the statistics that they were passing out from this . . . DeWine’s office was also there and it is just staggering. The amount of work by just putting the kit inside of each Police car is staggering too. Cuyahoga Falls alone, in their Police Department, saved 20 people; overdoses of an opiate by just administering the Narcan kit that is in the back of the Police cruisers. I had conversations with Chief Williams and they are 100% behind starting that and so I have a Labor Management meeting tomorrow morning with the Police Department and that is one of the topics that we will be talking about even though our first responders are really quick here in town, but seconds could change the lives of different people and I’m sure you will see more coming out when Megan can organize or we can organize that meeting here in Tallmadge. 2  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 15 Mayor (Cont’d.) We do have a Board of Control tonight and I see Lloyd is here. We are going to enter into a four-year contract with Windstream for our IT telecommunications upgrade. You know we started this four or five years ago and it stuck with me John when you said that those numbers; that is just a number that we would like to hit to save $400,000 over the life of that contract. I am happy to say that we exceeded that and this contract we are entering into is a new four-year contract for all IT that is lower than the one we entered into five years ago on a monthly rate and so hats off to the IT Department. We have been working on that and so as long as the Board of Control agrees with me tonight; we will have that contract starting really quick. I want to personally thank each and every one of you Council folks for your great last year of working here. I think we have had excellent rapport and good communications going back and forth and my pledge to you folks who will be here next year, and all of you will be, is that we will do a little better job on communicating back and forth with Council on different items and so that will be one of my goals for our staff to work closely and Council working closely with us and it did work well. Last but not least, I would personally like to thank Steve Shanafelt for his four years of service here as the Service Director . . . Brian . . . you got demoted . . . as Finance Director here in Tallmadge. He was really very professional and dedicated to his job and it shows by all of the documents that come out of your office. Thank you and anything that we can do here in the City for you; we know where you live and you know where we live and so thank you. End of report. Pres. of Council: Any questions? Mr. Sisak: I have a couple questions. Do you know if Attorney General DeWine; does his office have any kind of grants of funding for those Narcan kits or anything like that? Did they speak to that at all? Mayor: From what I learned, and Megan you can correct me; they are free. Mr. Sisak: Oh, they are free? Mayor: For residents that have a situation that you may be in need of one; family members or whatever or even someone who is not really a drug addict, but someone who is on it for pain medication. That is how this really opened my eyes to what we consider heroin overdoses and all druggies and that, but it is common folk who are on either a patch due to pain medication and they get dehydrated and they can go into that attack and the Narcan will bring them right out of it. Mr. Sisak: So that would be free for the City then? Dir. of Law: I didn’t pick up on that part. I picked up that you can get it over the counter in some situations and you can get it prescribed as part of the prescription for those types of opiates; a lot of doctors are having people prepared in the event that they would need it. So, we will be looking into all of that in more detail. Mr. Sisak: OK. Good. Mayor: The Police Chief thought it was $6 a kit. Mr. Sisak: Secondly, with the IT contract; was Windstream the lowest bid? I know there have been on-going things and I don’t work here on a daily basis, but I know that Windstream has struggled it seems at times to support our network from the phones to . . . Mayor: There is a lot of protection in this contract that Lloyd has really had a lot of things added to this contract for that protection and when you look at the outages; Windstream has upgraded their network system; is it Windstream; is it the national network or is it the AT&T; we had multiple vendors in town and this is a sole proprietary contract. Mr. Sisak: That is what I understood when Lloyd presented it last time was that no one was able to identify or no one wanted to accept responsibility for it. It was our downed lines or it was our technical problem. I don’t know how you will monitor that moving forward, but based on the history; it doesn’t seem like it wouldn’t be favorable to use them again. I don’t know. Mayor: Lloyd; you can speak at Dennis’ mike. Just plug it in. Lloyd Alger, IT Administrator, City of Tallmadge. One thing that we have done in this particular contract that we were not able to negotiate in our past contracts was an SLA modification. So in our current contract, we have no recourse except for credits in the event that Windstream goes down for a period of a couple of hours, couple of days or what not. In the future contract that we hope to have approved through the Board of Control, if Windstream goes down for a period of two hours or more, more than three times in a 90-day period; we can cancel the contract without any penalty whatsoever. It is a very aggressive step that we are taking to enforce that they do what they are supposed to do to maintain the network. The other thing that this contract does to insure up time and to make sure that we know who is responsible; by making Windstream the single source provider, whoever the third party contact or vendor they use to make that home run to our location; they are 100% responsible for that and all of the equipment on site. Mr. Sisak: So currently you had multiple contracts so to speak? Lloyd Alger: Correct. Mr. Sisak: To provide the IT support infrastructure? Lloyd Alger: Yes. Mr. Sisak: Now it is just going to Windstream and so you won’t have to call or your department won’t have to call two or three different locations? 3  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 15 Lloyd Alger: Correct, we won’t be in the business of trying to figure out who is responsible; it is Windstream 100%. Mr. Sisak: That makes more sense. Mr. Rensel: Thank you. Maybe this is to the Mayor or to Lloyd; how many . . . this was competitively bid; the contract or was this . . . ? Lloyd Alger: Yes. We went out to competitive bid for this contract. We had two bids. Mr. Rensel: Windstream and . . . Lloyd Alger: Windstream and TTX/First Communications. Mr. Rensel: So, somebody like AT&T didn’t even bother? Lloyd Alger: They did not bother. They did not participate; they did not receive a packet. They opted not to participate. Mr. Rensel: OK. Thank you. Pres. of Council: Any other questions? Mrs. Ray: I just have some input because I will forget it I’m sure by the end of the Council meeting and so I wanted to make this point. I was recently at the ADM Awards Breakfast several weeks ago and the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board here in Summit County actually has programs for the heroin and opiate education for parents, for teachers and they provide it at no cost. They have done that in the Hudson schools most recently and so I spoke to Jerry Craig; I had the opportunity to do so and they would be more than happy to come to Tallmadge and provide that along with suicide detection and prevention programs. Again, it is at no charge and they would love to participate and I would be happy to work with Mrs. Raber to make those connections and get that program started here in town and I am sure that there are multiple organizations within the community that would be happy to fund those programs if there were any costs associated. So, thank you. Mayor: Mr. Donovan, I neglected to say that ADM was at the meeting yesterday. They are the ones who were 1/3 of the whole meeting and Mr. Craig was there. Dir. of Pub. Service: Is it still me?!! You will start to see some work next week on North Avenue. The contractor that was awarded the contract for relocation of all of the natural gas lines will be starting next week. So the North Avenue Project is going to be starting off. As the Mayor mentioned, we are out cleaning and videoing the sanitary sewers and making any repairs of defects that we are finding. We just did Garwood and we are on Kent Drive right now. We are actually repairing a defective sewer in White Gate tomorrow. We have a contractor doing that. January 4th we have a company to do a zero calibration on our sewer master meters. That is something that Akron hasn’t been doing because the ultrasound that actually takes the depth measurement of the sewer going through there; well, they haven’t checked to see if that flume has built up with debris on the bottom and so they may not be getting a true reading. So we have a company coming to make sure that reading is true. Cuyahoga Falls had it done and they found out that no, it wasn’t; they were actually being overbilled quite a bit. We are currently digitizing all of the water valve maps and all of the water meter location books and everything and so hopefully in not the too far future; everything will be digitized. All the men in the Water and Sewer Departments will have laptops in their trucks and so anytime they are out on a job; a water main break or anything, they will be able to find the valves and know everything about them. Memorial Park; the installation of the new equipment is in now and it is going to be open tomorrow. They poured the concrete today and so they are waiting until tomorrow to open that up. Leaf collection was officially done last Friday. We have cleaned up all the leaf machines and serviced them and put them away except one and we are doing kind of a final wrap- around this week. End of report. Pres. of Council: Any questions? No one responded. Dir. of Finance: Thank you Mr. President. I just have a few notes here that I want to go through. First of all, prior to the meeting, I handed out a letter that we received from or a notification that we received from RITA and it is letting us know that they sent out non-filer letters to our taxpayers here in Tallmadge. The second and third page is an example of the actual letter itself. People are being advised to contact RITA. This is basically just an FYI, however, you may get calls on it and ask the folks to forward that information to RITA is the right response. There are a couple of . . . I think on the second page, there are addresses and phone numbers and e-mails and that sort of thing to help direct people as to what they should be doing and all of that is on their letter. This is just a actual copy of the letter they will receive. Any questions on that program at all? Mrs. Ray: So, was there a threshold where they just didn’t bother sending letters or did they send the letter for someone that they thought was a non-filer? Dir. of Finance: I was not aware of any thresholds. All I know is that they sent out 4,351 of these and so there may not have been a threshold. 4  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 15 Mrs. Ray: I don’t even know if they . . . they just assume that these are non-filers. I don’t know that they even know how much the penalty would be. Dir. of Law: Right. Ms. Ray, if I could answer that one. Typically on a non-filing, the issue is that you can’t really ascertain the amount and so they need to have at least filed so that we know whether or not they have a liability or not. Mrs. Ray: So they would have gotten on that list because an employer reported income to the City? I mean; how would they have gotten on that list? I don’t even know if they . . . they just assume that these are non-filers. I don’t know that they even know how much the penalty would be. Dir. of Law: Right. Ms. Ray, if I could answer that one. Typically on a non-filing, the issue is Dir. of Law: RITA has access to the Federal IRS records which is part of why we had decided several years ago now to let them be the ones who are pursuing those non-filers because they have access to the information and can point them in the direction of people that otherwise we would never even be able to pick up on. So, that was one of the tools that they had that we thought would be a good resource for us. Mrs. Ray: OK. Thank you. Dir. of Finance: Are there any other questions? No one responded. OK. As of the end of November, of course we are about 92% of the way through the year. You will see 92% happen here a few times. The General Fund has collected 89% of the estimated revenue. Our Income Tax is at 92% of the estimated revenue. It is 4-1/2% ahead of last year. The General Fund Balance is a little under $4.5 million. We received $474,731 in Local Government Funds, which is greater than what the estimated revenue was and so we did a little bit better with our Local Government monies. The Fire Fund balance is $513,171. The Street Maintenance balance is $660,137. Sewer Operating balance is almost $1.6 million. The Water Operating Fund is about $2.2 million. Storm Water has collected $301,585. I would like to request, if possible, a 1st Reading adoption of Ord. 78-2015. That is kind of a housekeeping ordinance and has to do with donations that we received this year. So it is just you folks ratifying the fact that these donations were received. They are spelled out actually in the ordinance itself. Then, as you know, I am retiring at the end of the year and I would just like to say that it has been an honor and privilege to work with the good people of Tallmadge. I wrote this down because I will forget it for sure. From Council to the Administration and all staff, in particularly my Finance Department, the last four years have been a real pleasure and I would like to thank you and God Bless all of you. Pres. of Council: Thank you. Ms. Tricaso: Thank you. Mr. Stalnaker: You are too young to retire! Mr. Rensel: Steve, just one more quick question on the non-filers. What percentage of the total filers is this in the City of Tallmadge? Roughly; is that a third or a half or 20%; 5%? Dir. of Finance: That is a good question and I will have to get back to you. Mr. Rensel: I am just sitting here thinking when Ms. Ray asked about it; it seemed to be a large number and I am trying to figure . . . is it somehow retirees got passed by or . . . it just seems like a lot and I don’t think there are that many total filers in Tallmadge when the population is 18,000. Dir. of Finance: The filers in Tallmadge include those who work here and not just live here. Those who are transient work that come through and we have had a lot of construction going on and so the number of total filers is very difficult to ascertain. I would suspect that this 4,300 probably represents maybe around a 10% number of less. But there are quite a few . . . like I say, you have got to consider all the employees that we have here in the City of Tallmadge as well as those who work out of their homes potentially and those who work in areas perhaps who live here, but work in areas that don’t have a tax program and so it still comes out. Mr. Rensel: OK. Thank you. Dir. of Law: Thank you. I had the pleasure of presenting, in the last few weeks, to a group of individuals being trained in victim assistance services. They have developed a 40-hour program over the course of a week and I had the privilege to present about the court system and how to maneuver through the court system and kind of give an update to them for that and so that was great. I also, as Mayor Kline indicated, am very interested in trying to coordinate a heroin opiate forum for our community and so I know Ms. Ray that you had indicated that you would be interested in assisting and anyone else who would like to do that as well, just let me know and I can bring you in so we can make that a joint effort. Lastly, I want to thank everyone for a wonderful year. It was a great year; a busy year. It is going to be a busy year again next year. I want to especially thank Steve for being a great co- worker and Finance Director for the last four years and I will certainly miss you and your friendly face around here as well as all of your expertise and professionalism. So, thank you. 5  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 15 Economic Developer: I have a brief report this evening. Last week Planning & Zoning approved the Dayton Freight expansion and so that will create some new additional jobs in Portage County/Tallmadge. Chipotle has been moved back to late or mid-January so they will not be open in December as they had hoped. Homes are being built in Eastwood Glen. Woodridge is moving right along and the Jaber site is going up. Danbury is going up and Testa is ready to push dirt or approved to push dirt and so everything is good. Projects that we really hoped would come in this year; all of those have and so that is a good thing. So, end of report. Pres. of Council: Dennis, I thought you could maybe help us; I have a liquor control application. Economic Developer: If you can remember Seven Grains was on the ballot I believe for Sunday beer sales on premise; sales, not consumption. That passed, but even though it passed, there is still a formal process of applying to the State to get that approval and so that is what that is. That is notification to us if we wanted to have that hearing that you guys hear about all the time. I met with the owner yesterday and she reassured me that that is all that is. This is the process post-election. Pres. of Council: There are no issues that you are aware of? Economic Developer: No. Pres. of Council: I guess I will bring it to Council; do you want to have public hearing. It is not actually here as I recall. It is at the State level and so it is something that we normally don’t do. If somebody would like to make a motion as to whether we want to or not have a hearing. Mrs. Ray: I would forego the hearing for this application. Seconded Mr. Rensel. Roll Call: Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous. The vote is 7-0 not to have a public hearing on the Seven Grains application. 10. Ordinance 72-2015 At 3rd Reading. FINANCE Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an 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. Mrs. Ray moved for the adoption of Ord. 72-2015. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Roll Call: Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray – unanimous. Ord. 72-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 11. Ordinance 74-2015 At 3rd Reading. PLANNING & ZONING Amending and supplementing Ord. 110- 1991 approving and granting a conditional zoning certificate to First Apostolic Church for an addition located at 199 South Avenue. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 74-2015. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Roll Call: Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel – unanimous. Ord. 74-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 12. Ordinance 77-2015 At 2nd Reading. FINANCE Declaring certain City-owned personal property to be excess/obsolete and authorizing the donation of said equipment to C-TEC, Career & Technology Education Center, with certain conditions and pro- viding for immediate enactment. Mrs. Ray moved for the adoption of Ord. 77-2015. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Roll Call: Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak – unanimous. Ord. 77-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 13. Ordinance 78-2015 At 1st Reading. FINANCE Accepting donations to the City of Tall- madge for 2015 and providing for imme- diate enactment. Mrs. Ray moved for the adoption of Ord. 78-2015. Seconded Ms. Tricaso. Roll Call: Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Ray, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker – unanimous. Ord. 78-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 6  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:00 p.m. December 10, 15 14. Ordinance 79-2015 At 1st Reading. PERSONNEL Authorizing the Mayor to enter into learning partnerships with Columbia Southern Uni- versity and Waldorf College and providing for immediate enactment. Pres. of Council: Ord. 79-2015 is at 1st Reading and is assigned to the Personnel Committee. 15. Ordinance 80-2015 At 1st Reading. PUBLIC SERVICE Authorizing the donation of various use of the Tallmadge Recreation Center to the Tallmadge Relay for Life and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Rensel moved for the adoption of Ord. 80-2015 at 1st Reading. Seconded Mrs. Ray. Mayor: Thank you. I apologize I didn’t bring this up and thanks to Megan, she said thanks John for making that offer there. Relay for Life; as you know it started off in the Tallmadge football stadium at the high school, or the middle school; I call it the high school, and it moved over to the Overdale field and now they are asking for our help to move it inside the Rec Center. It will be a joint thing inside the Rec Center and also outside the Rec Center. I thought what a perfect venue to have a Relay for Life. If it is bad weather; they will be walking the track; well, they will be walking the track anyways, and at nighttime the luminaires will be set outside the Rec Center and they will be walking around the Rec Center. I think it is a great cause and a great opportunity. They need to start their planning session on this and I would ask Council for their consideration on that tonight. Roll Call: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso – unanimous. Ord. 80-2015 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. Pres. of Council: I will make the motion to go into Executive Session for the purpose of discussing contract negotiations. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. It is 7:40 p.m. Mayor: Mr. Chairman . . . Dir. of Law: Did you take the roll call vote on that? Pres. of Council: Not yet. Dir. of Law: OK. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mrs. Ray, Mr. Rensel, Mr. Sisak, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Tricaso, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. It is now 7:40 p.m. and we are going into Executive Session by a vote of 7-0. Mayor: Mr. Chairman, if you could please explain to the audience that we are going into Executive Session, or if you want I will; we are going into Executive Session to talk about contract negotiations with the Police, Fire and the Teamsters. The contracts are not signed and so we can talk about it publically. When we come back; we are done and so we are really done right now. Thank you to the Boy Scouts for coming here. Congratulations and I hope you learned something. Do you have any questions about anything? Economic Developer: I will do signatures. Mayor: So thank you everyone and have a Merry Christmas. Mrs. Ray: Happy Holidays. Pres. of Council: It is now 8:00 p.m. and we are back on Council floor. 16. ADDITIONAL ITEMS: None. 17. ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Rensel: I moved to adjourn. Seconded Mrs. Kilway. Voice vote 7-0. The Regular Council meeting of 12-10-15 adjourned at 8:00 p.m. sb Approved: _____________________________________ __________________________________ Susan E. Burton James M. Donovan Clerk of Council President of Council 7