Tallmadge City Council Regular Business Meeting (2013-2019)

REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. February 8, 18 1. CALL TO ORDER. 2. PRAYER: Pastor Stevens, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Tallmadge. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: 3. ROLL CALL: Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Ms. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso – all present. Also present were Mayor Kline, Dir. of Pub. Service Rorar, Dir. of Law Raber, Dir. of Finance Gilbride, and Clerk of Council Burton. Dir. of Administration Cooper along with Dir. of Economic Development Weinberg were excused. 4. MINUTES: 1-25-18 Regular Council Meeting minutes. Mr. Donovan moved to adopt the Regular Meeting minutes of 1-25-18. Seconded Ms. Tricaso. Voice vote 7-0. The Regular Council Meeting minutes of 1-25-18 were adopted by a vote of 7-0. FINANCIAL REPORTS: • Fire & EMS Fund Transfer in the amount of $170,000 to Council on 1-31-18. • Street Maintenance & Repair Transfer in the amount of $175,000 to Council on 1-31-18. • Police Pension Transfer in the amount of $70,000 to Council on 1-31-18. • Fire/EMS Capital Transfer in the amount of $60,000 to Council on 1-31-18. • Appropriation Report, Fund Report, Revenue Report, and Encumber Report for the period ending 1-31-18 to Council on 2-5-18. • Tallmadge Recreation Center Profit and Loss Report for the period ending 1- 31-18 to Council on 2-5-18. • Income Tax Comparisons for the period ending 1-31-18 to Council on 2-5-18. • Revenue Comparisons for the period ending 1-31-18 to Council on 2-5-18. • January Financial Reports to Council on 2-5-18. • Consolidated Investment Portfolio for the period ending 1-31-18 to Council on 2-5-18. Mr. Sisak moved to accept the Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Gilbride. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Voice vote 7-0. The Financial Reports have been accepted by a vote of 7-0. 5. PUBLIC HEARINGS: None. 6. COMMUNITY INPUT: Pres. of Council: We do have Health in All Policies who are here today which is a Summit County initiative to help cities and townships keep the health and equity of its residents at the forefront of the policy and decision making. If you would like to come forward. Mr. Cory Kendrick, Director of Population Health with Summit County Public Health and with me is Marie Curry. Marie is our Community Chairperson over the policy committee. Summit County has a coalition called the Summit Coalition for Community Health Improvement and within that coalition we have different subcommittees and policy is one of them. The coalition is made up of community members, most of the major non-profits in our area, hospital systems and various other partners in the community. So the policy committee looks at specific things and what policy work can be done to improve the health of the citizens of Summit County. One strategy with that is “Health in All Policies.” Health in All Policies is really just a strategy to look at everything that influences health and equity in a community and looking at that through a health and equity lens. I will let Marie explain that a little more here in a few minutes. But, I just wanted to kind of give an overview of where we are at with the Health in All Policies Initiative. So we started this last year and the City of Akron and the County of Summit have both passed resolutions basically committing to looking at Health in All Policies and really, we are doing a lot of that right now. I am looking at the State of the City’s health for Tallmadge. You guys are really doing some awesome things with economic development, looking at sidewalk planning, Farmer’s Market, Freedom Trail; those are all examples of how health and equity have probably been thought about in that, but maybe not directly correlated as we are thinking of it. So, just real quick; when looking at what makes the health of an individual based on the most popular models out there is that medical only results in about 20% of someone’s health and their likelihood of how long they are going to live. It is a very small percentage. Where you live, work and play; your health behaviors and your social economic status make up the rest of how healthy and thriving you are likely to be. So, looking at the policy aspect and thinking about those factors is how Health in All Policies can play a role in that. I will let Marie take a little bit of time here. Marie Currie: I am actually a Managing Attorney at Community Legal Aid and as part of that work, I do a lot of health policy work and have the opportunity to work with the Health Department. The Health in All Policy; we like to think of it as changing the default decision. So I say to people, you can have as many Snickers bars as you want, but maybe we could put apples in the vending machine too and maybe we could put them at eye level so that you see them. So it’s those kinds of things to help people change the default decision and make it a little bit harder to make it a unhealthy and a little bit easier to make it healthy. So, when we think about Health in All Policies, as Cory said, we are really thinking about a strategy for how you look at things that you are doing and it encompasses this wider view of health. It’s not just about health care or what happened in the doctor’s office and a core tenant of the Health in All Policies is equity so that we are looking at how to lift everybody to level of good health and equity is a challenging concept sometimes because we like to think of ourselves  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. February 8, 18 Marie Curry (Cont’d.) as being very fair and everybody gets something; right? So I have a pile of cookies and everybody gets a cookie. If I bring cookies to my class and everybody gets a cookie then I feel very good; I feel very fair, but if somebody came and missed lunch because they were running around like a crazy person, then giving them a cookie is great; everybody else got a cookie, but really they need lunch. So, we think about how we want to lift everybody to a certain level of health; some people are going to need more than other people to get there and that is the concept of equity and so as you look at the decisions that you are making like sidewalks; like decisions of where to put grocery stores and different types of zoning decisions; when you are doing that you use a health prism to kind of look through and that is the idea of Health in All Policies. So, when you are thinking about . . . whatever you are thinking about. So in Akron we just had a bunch of schools close and you know if the school closes it really has a significant impact on the health of a neighborhood; on individual health and on community health. So to be thinking about those things as you make those decisions so you can respond to the health aspect of them rather than kind of letting it happen without paying attention to it. So, you are all in a position to be making those kinds of decisions. You are already making decisions when you think about the health of the residents of Tallmadge all the time and so to think about it . . . to lay a Health in All Policies overlay over that is really just to say that we want to be intentional about thinking about health when we make our decision because we know that the health and well-being of our residents is something that is really important to them and also really to you as their leaders. It doesn’t mean that you always have to make the decision that people might say that is the most healthy decision. There are a lot of things that have to come into every decision. You are balancing all kinds of factors, but that health is one of those factors that you take into consideration in an intentional way. So that is basically the structure of Health in All Policies. Mr. Kendrick: So, basically we are here asking you to 1) educate on Health in All Policies and Health Equity, but also in your packet there is a sample resolution included and maybe you would consider adopting a resolution with some of the other townships and municipalities, villages and cities in Summit County that have passed this. This is simply feeding the commitment to Health in All Policies and again, you are doing a lot of these things and it is affirming your commitment, but we are looking at some of the specific Health in All Policies that might resonate a little more; complete green and livable streets, tobacco policies. Those are things that are kind of no-brainers. This is just committing to look at those things and you may not always think of them as being health related, but often do have an impact on someone’s health anytime education and all of those things make up such a vast majority of someone’s health. So, that is kind of what we would like to have you consider. Also in the packet, there is some snapshot data of the City of Tallmadge and these are from our data dashboards at the County Health Department and so if you go to our website, scph.org there is a “resources” tab and we have a whole bunch of dashboards on there. These are just some snapshots from them. They are interactive. We have breakdowns for every municipality in Summit County; basic census data, poverty, birth and death data; we just put up a new influenza date dashboard and an opiate data dashboard. So this is a tool that you can also use to look at various health issues in your particular jurisdiction. So, I wanted to kind of give some examples in there, but also encourage you to please use our website to take a look at that. So with that; are there any questions? Mr. Loughry: Sir, when you look at . . . what did you call them; snapshots; when you look at our snapshot and you compare us to other Summit County communities were there any red flags that appeared to you? Mr. Kendrick: Well, in many regards you guys are much better off than you know, say some of the more urban populated areas, but I think there is a trend that throughout most of these chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s; those are things that are kind of trends throughout entire Summit County and so you know, we get caught up in the media of kind of the buzz of the day, but really when you look at the data, you know what is killing the vast majority of the residents of Summit County are heart and lung related issues. Mr. Loughry: The one thing that caught my eye quickly, I mean we just had a minute to look at this; was that I always thought, and I was surprised by this, that the number or the percentage of people that have Bachelor Degrees that live in our community. I thought it would have been higher and that just kind of caught me by surprise. Mr. Kendrick: Actually we just received today the latest version of the census data and so this is hot off the press. This was from the latest edition of the American Community Surveys. So it might have changed since the last time you looked at it, but we literally just updated the dashboard today and actually reran some fresh copies with the new data. So, I haven’t had a chance to look at all of the differences from the last year’s snapshot and this year’s snapshot, but I did want to make sure that I did hand you guys the most available data. Mr. Loughry: Thank you very much. Mr. Carano: I would like to commend you on your work and your presentation here that you lead with a concept that how as a community, we are all in this together in a sense and that some with better economic circumstances than others tend have better outcomes and if we start thinking in terms of ourselves as a community as people sharing in things rather than just as individuals out on our own and so I just wanted to commend you on that presentation; that part of it. I thought it was very important, especially since nowadays too much tends to try to make us seem as individuals and not as a part of a community. Thank you. 2  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. February 8, 18 Mr. Carano (Cont’d.) Mr. Kendrick: Thank you. Pres. of Council: Are there any other questions? Thank you very much. Mr. Kendrick: If you guys have any further questions; I will make sure that you guys have my contact information and we can make a digital copy of this available to make it easier and help support you with any questions you might have for the resolution or if there are any health related questions about this data, please feel free to contact me and I will make sure that you all have my contact info. Thank you so much. Pres. of Council: Thank you very much. Is there any other community input at this time? No one responded. 6.A. ANNOUNCEMENTS: We do have the 6th & 7th Graders from the Tallmadge Middle School who are members of the “Builders Club” here with us and they are sitting among us. Thank you guys again for coming. 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, DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Mayor: Thank you Madame Chairman. First of all, February 22nd from 11-12:30 p.m. here in Council Chambers, the School District’s Focus Group are asking the City Administration to be a part of it and Council is invited to that also. We will send out an e-mail tomorrow. I just confirmed that with the School District tonight at the Middle School; my High School . . . it will always be a High School. So on February 22nd it is the Focus Group and there is strategic planning that they worked on five years ago and they are updating that plan and they are asking; the Administration will be at that meeting. They will be provide lunch at that meeting. Mr. Loughry: What were the hours; what was the time again Mayor? Mayor: 11:00 – 12:30 p.m. here in Council Chambers. I’m also happy to announce that this past week we hired a new Tallmadge Police Officer from the lateral transfer. His name is Charles Stack and he came to us from Summit County Sheriff’s Department. Nice young fellow and he and his wife were here in Council Chambers this week. I know that Dennis was here and Craig was here so thanks for coming to that. On the East Avenue Corridor; you know we applied for the AMATS funds and the ODOT funds for upgrading that. We did not get funded this round. We are meeting with our engineers’ tomorrow morning to talk about a different funding source; the safety funds and whatever else and other funding sources that we can try to get. So that is tomorrow morning and we will talk about the Circle as Craig was asking about earlier. The Fire Station Study Group; I am reactivating that. Dr. Cooper and myself met . . . well, we are meeting tomorrow morning. It was scheduled for this afternoon, but he had an appointment he had to go to. Part of the Council will be the Finance person and also the Community Safety person. I will update Council on that committee that is being formed to look not only at the Station replacements, but how to fund it. It is very vital figuring out funding sources. I already talked about the electrical aggregation, but for the record on tonight’s meeting; the electrical aggregation will be with First Energy. Our contract is a three-year contract and that is still good to go and I am pretty excited about that. I am asking for Council’s adoption of Item 10, Ord. 20-2018, Item 12, Ord. 27-2018, and Item 13, Ord. 28-2018. That is Nottingham and when it comes up; end of report. Pres. of Council: Great. Thank you. Any questions for the Mayor? No one responded. Dir. of Pub. Service: Thank you. For the month of January as the Mayor brought up, we are starting the process to interview for consultants for the water and sewer rate study and so you should be hearing more about that. Also, we have had two new hires. One was Kyle Kline; he is the General Laborer for the Utilities Department; that was part of the budget. Second was our Utilities Superintendent resigned in the middle of January and we have a new hire. His name is Daryl Steinman and he starts Monday as the Utility Superintendent. Daryl is well qualified. He has an Operator 2 Certificate and we need that to run the water part and he has about 16 years of service working for the utilities up in Stow. So he comes well referred and we are excited about that. Moving on, in the cemetery, in January we had five full burials. In Zoning, we issued 33 permits; 17 of which were the Zoning Certificates. Keep in mind that is for fencing and setbacks and that sort of stuff. Parks & Rec; they had a great basketball season out there. They actually profited $89,000 and so that is great. It shows their hard work. Nice job. We talked about how well the center is doing out there and that is a huge program for them. The new membership drive did pretty well. That is where you get 13 months for the price of 12 and they ended up getting 72 new members. The Spinning or Cycling Room; the planning and design for that is going on. That is the cycling room where there are 16 bikes there. It is in the one racquetball court and just so you guys hear and know it now; we are going to move it to the other racquetball court and there are several reasons why. You need some drip lines in there and so on the other side the drains are on that side and the other thing is why would we move all of the cycles out? Why are we handling things three times, so you have an empty racquetball court and it makes sense to move it over there and so you might hear some grumblings from some racquetball players, but we are going to wait until April or May before we do that. 3  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. February 8, 18 Dir. of Pub. Service (Cont’d.) Maca passes are also on sale and we are also starting the hiring of the seasonal staff as we speak. The Utility Department; we had two new water services; two hydrant repairs and the big thing though is the water breaks. We have had four water breaks in the month of January. There have been ten since November and we average about 17 water breaks over the course of the year. The big snafu though is that we actually had 28 water breaks in 2016 and so hopefully we don’t get anywhere near that. The Street Department; I want to commend those crews. They have done an excellent job battling the snow and ice. We actually have over 1200 hours in snow and ice control. That is about 400 more than we had last month. Keep in mind that we are on second shifts and one of the things that the second shift has been doing when they are not out battling the snow is they are doing the street light inventory and what they have done is they have gone through the whole City and inventoried the street lights that are out. We pay the bill whether they are working or not. So, let’s make sure that they are working. So, that street light inventory is important and it is finally complete. So we are notifying First Energy as to which lights are out and that is my monthly report, so unless there are any questions? Mayor: Ralph Jordan is in the audience. He used to be with the Water Department and as soon as Mike started talking about water mains breaks I saw Ralph shake. You never talk about them. Now tonight we will have one. And the Kline is not related to Dave Kline just for the record. It is spelled different. I’m spelled right and he is wrong! Pres. of Council: Mr. Rorar, I had a quick question. Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes. Pres. of Council: With the cycling room being switched over to the other racquetball court, and I could have heard wrong, but I thought the City was going to move it to another room to help with the acoustics? Dir. of Pub. Service: That is what the design and planning is for is for the acoustics in the racquetball court are going to change. The ceiling is going to be lowered and they are going to work on that and so that is what the design is going to help with. Also the air flow and the electric. Pres. of Council: OK, so that is all going to take place then? Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes. Pres. of Council: Alright, thank you very much. Dir. of Pub. Service: You’re welcome. Dir. of Finance: Thank you. We did have our pre-audit conference last week with the Auditors and so I will be looking for the Auditors to start next week. Part of our annual audit. End of report. Mr. Loughry: I have a question. Just because I am new; on the financials, anything that is outside a certain percentage low, I guess, would be a red flag and what I gathered from all of those reports is that you thought everything was fine. Dir. of Finance: That is correct. The percentages you look at on our financial reports are based on a 12-month percentage and so it doesn’t necessarily mean that revenue or expense is received or spent on that same monthly percentage and so that percentage is just a gauge. There might be a, you know, an expenditure line item, for instance, we pay Stow for dispatch services in January and July and so that expense line item is going to look you know almost 50% expended, but that is because we did expend 50% and that is normal. So the percentages are based on that the financial report puts out is on a 12-month period, but just because they’re outside of one month of a percentage does not mean that that percentage is out of line. Dir. of Law: Thank you. I will keep my report brief. Again, I would just encourage all of the Council members and the Administration and anyone in the audience to pick up a pamphlet on their way out; the blue one that discusses the N.O.P.E. presentation, which is an anti- narcotics; both prescription drug and illicit drugs presentation that is going to happen on February 22nd. The N.O.P.E. group is a national group and they are coming in to present and it is really a powerful presentation and so I know . . . unfortunately it is the same night as Council, but it you can share on your social media and spread the word to anybody that you have out there on your networks; it would be greatly appreciated because it is a really important and we want people to come out for that. In addition, I am working with the Start Talking Tallmadge Group. I am going to be presenting in April to the Senior class a program called, “Now You’re 18” and it is kind of bringing awareness to the fact that as an adult you have additional responsibilities and legal obligations and kind of flushing out . . . it is through the Ohio State Bar Association and we are kind of putting together some skits to make it a little bit more entertaining for the students and so I am excited about that and grateful to Jen Stewart who is assisting me in that process. Thank you very much. Pres. of Council: I do think that that program, “Now You’re 18” I think that is going to be a phenomenal asset because sometimes they just don’t get it as having an 18 and 19 year olds. Dir. of Administration: (Mayor): They are not here tonight. Pres. of Council: Neither is the Dir. of Economic Development. Is there anything from the Mayor on those two? Mayor: No; I’m fine. 4  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. February 8, 18 10. Ordinance 20-2018 At 3rd Reading. FINANCE Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with Autosales, Incorporated for a New Jobs Program Grant pursuant to T.C.O. 160.05 and providing for imme- diate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 20-2018. Seconded Ms. Tricaso. Mr. Loughry: Mrs. Kilway, just because we have more visitors in the audience tonight than normal; Autosales is Summit Racing and this is a program that has been going on a long time and it basically rebates income tax that would have been paid for those companies that are growing and committed to our community and so it is a great program. Basically we thank those that have been committed to us for a long time and growing as well or maybe even more so than somebody new coming to town. So anyway; it is a great program and a lot of people that aren’t involved don’t know that Autosales is Summit Racing and how important they are to our community and how much we appreciate them. Roll Call: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano – unanimous. Ord. 20-2018 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 11. Ordinance 26-2018 At 2nd Reading. PLANNING & ZONING Supplementing the Tallmadge Codified P.H. ON 3-8-18 @ 7:33 P.M. Ordinances by establishing Chapter 766, Medical Marijuana Cultivation, Processing and Retail Dispensing; prohibiting the same; and establishing enforcement and penalties for violations. Pres. of Council: Ord. 26-2018 is at 2nd Reading and will remain before the Planning & Zoning Committee and there is a public hearing on 3-8-18 @ 7:33 p.m. 12. Ordinance 27-2018 At 1st Reading. FINANCE Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract for the purchase of two police cruisers through State Purchasing or local preference and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 27-2018. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Mr. Carano: I was wondering about . . . are the type of vehicles already determined? Mayor: That is correct. The Ford vehicle. There are two styles of Police cars; there is the Chevy side or the Fords. Our fleet has been the Fords. The body has not changed so therefore by purchasing this new equipment, if something were to happen to one of our newer vehicles, all the equipment can be transferred over with the same body style without rebuilding the entire cage mechanism; the back tailgate and stuff, but for now it is the same. Mr. Carano: The reason I ask is because you know, I was doing some small research and Ford has a, and there are probably other car companies too, but Ford was the only one that seemed to come up; it was a hybrid vehicle and it was based on it must be the Ford, not the Focus, not the Taurus, it was based on . . . I used to own the car; I should be able to tell you what it is. But, this . . . it was the Fusion. You know with all those F’s; it was the Ford Fusion, but the . . . statistically what I couldn’t find out was the difference between a regular vehicle and one of these hybrids, but it did was over a period of a year it would save . . . of course, I hope these aren’t Volkswagen numbers, but it would save as far as gasoline, close to 500 to 1,000 gallons of gasoline per vehicle and some of that would be because Police often sit idling their cars or something like that; and so 996 gallons of that was from idling and the other 585 were from driving. Now, of course, I don’t know if it is set in stone that these vehicles; they are sort of a done deal on that, but if it’s not, you know, moving to green technology for the future is . . . and another benefit is there are hundreds and hundreds of pounds of CO2 that are not put into the air as a result of these vehicles each year. So, I don’t know if it would be feasible what the Police think about it. One thing I know they may be concerned about, but these statistics; you know, I don’t have . . . you know high speed chases and things like that; I don’t imagine Tallmadge Police have too many high speed chases and even then the vehicles now are equipped in such a way that they will handle that and the other thing is in terms of miles per year. I don’t know what an average vehicle gets per year and that type of thing. But, is there any chance that they could look into that kind of thing and see if the Police are amenable to that? Mayor: This ordinance only allows us to start that process of going out and looking. If you could send me your information that would be great. Mr. Carano: OK; great. Mayor: We will get Denny LaHurd from the garage to look at it and we really want to see what other Police Departments have used this vehicle. Mr. Carano: New York City. Mayor: For a front line Police Officer; that might not be, but maybe for detectives or someone like the Chief’s vehicle or other vehicles like that. 5  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. February 8, 18 Mr. Carano: Even the Fire Department because they are not; they are going on probably short trips and the first 21 miles of this particular vehicle is all electric and so that type of thing. So, yeah, I will send you some information. Thank you. Pres. of Council: Great information. Any further discussion? No one responded. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 27-2019 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 13. Ordinance 28-2018 At 1st Reading. PUBLIC SERVICE Determining the structure at 138 Not- tingham Street to be blighted; authorizing the Mayor to enter into all necessary agreements pursuant to the Tallmadge Demolition Program and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Allman moved for the adoption of Ord. 29-2018. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Mayor: Madame Chair, up on the wall you can see, and I will come in closer, but here is Overdale coming down Nottingham towards West Avenue. The parcel is that house right there. We did get approval to demo that. Andrea Kidder has been working on that for quite a while, but you can probably recognize it in this view. This street is Garden right there and that little house right there. We do have it singed off now so that this can be demoed and this is part of the grant program though the Land Bank and the County and so this is ready to go. It does have asbestos in there that does have to be removed, but it is partially being funded by the Land Bank folks. Pres. of Council: Very good. Any further discussion? Mr. Sisak: Madame Chair, I know that being the Ward 1 representative, have gotten probably three or four phone calls on this house over the past probably six to nine months; more recently. Mayor: It takes a long time to get this stuff through. Mr. Sisak: But, I would say that you know, it was on the list and so it was on the City’s radar and I appreciate that from the Administration. Mayor: It is actually two on Nottingham; this will be the second one on Nottingham that we are able to demo under that program. Mr. Sisak: Unfortunately; yeah. Pres. of Council: And with this one being on the corner of Garden; Garden goes back to that newer development back through there on Maryann and so to get a nice, new house there would just be really nice segway to that nice little neighborhood back there. Mr. Loughry: Excuse me; when we demo a house; who retains the ownership? Mayor: The property owner. Mr. Loughry: The property owner? Pres. of Council: Yes. Mr. Loughry: So in some cases, in some cases; the lot becomes worth more when the house is demoed and the property owner can increase or make a profit and we pay to demo the house; is that correct? Mayor: That’s correct. The nice thing about this one just like Mr. Sisak said; the blight in the neighborhood; we are cleaning that up and the ones that we have torn down out on Eastwood and different locations; Broadview and Fenn you have brand new homes up there now. Mr. Loughry: I just wish that we would have first right of refusal to predetermine price so that then we in turn could give somebody a value for building a new house on the site as opposed to letting the property owner make that profit. I mean, I am glad; I am all for eliminating blight. You know those neighbors have put up with that for a long time and when they go to sell their home, they pay the price for that and so anyway, I just . . . Mayor: And this may not be 100% of the total demo. It depends on the asbestos. This house will be 100%, but the new policies from our grants and that; the asbestos has to be done by the property owner. Mr. Carano: OK because I was thinking the same thing that the property owner kind of gets a free ride on this. They should have some responsibility to some degree, but in the future it will be different; the way the formula will work? Mayor: A little bit different, but for the most part; it is getting rid of the blight and we are getting a new house and new residents moving in. Pres. of Council: OK. Clerk call the roll. Roll Call: Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous. Ord. 28-2018 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 14 ADDITIONAL ITEMS: Pres. of Council: I would like to thank the Builder’s Club for coming today and putting up with us at our meeting and seeing what goes on around here. Thank you very much. 15. ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Donovan moved to adjourn. Seconded Ms. Tricaso. Voice vote 7-0. The Regular Council meeting of 2-8-18 adjourned at 8:12 p.m. sb Approved: _________________________________ ____________________________________ Susan E. Burton, Clerk of Council Carol A. Kilway, President of Council 6