Tallmadge City Council Regular Business Meeting (2013-2019)

REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. June 14, 18 1. CALL TO ORDER. President of Council Kilway called the Regular Council meeting of Thursday, June 14, 2018 to order at 7:40 p.m. 2. PRAYER: Doug Walter, First Church, Tallmadge. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: 3. ROLL CALL: Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Ms. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman - all present. Also present were Mayor Kline, Dir. of Pub. Service Rorar, Dir. of Law Raber, Dir. of Finance Gilbride, Dir. of Economic Development Weinberg and Clerk of Council Burton. Dir. of Administration Cooper was excused. 4. MINUTES: 5-24-18 Regular Council Meeting minutes. Mr. Donovan moved to adopt the Regular Meeting minutes of 5-24-18. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Voice vote 7-0. The Regular Council Meeting minutes of 5-25-18 were adopted by a vote of 7-0. FINANCIAL REPORTS: • Appropriation Report, Fund Report, Revenue Report, and Encumber Report for the period ending 5-31-18 to Council on 6-1-18. • Tallmadge Recreation Center Profit and Loss Report for the period ending 5-31-18 to Council on 6-5-18. • Income Tax Comparisons for the period ending 5-31-18 to Council on 6-5-18. • Revenue Comparisons for the period ending 5-31-18 to Council on 6-5-18. • May Financial Reports to Council on 6-5-18. • Consolidated Investment Portfolio for the period ending 5-31-18 to Council on 6-5-18. Mr. Sisak moved to accept the Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Gilbride. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Voice vote 7-0. The Financial Reports submitted by Dir. of Finance Gilbride were approved by a vote of 7-0. 6. PUBLIC HEARINGS: None. 7. COMMUNITY INPUT: Pres. of Council: We do have a presentation tonight to the Tallmadge K-9 Unit. Would you please come to the podium and please state your name and your presentation. Scott Heilmeier, 1013 East Avenue, Tallmadge and Lisa Heilmeier at the same address. I want to wear a couple of different hats tonight just real quick from the Tallmadge Post Office; I want to thank the City for putting notice up on the Circle that helped us to raise over 3,200 pounds of food in our canned food drive on the 13th of last month and because of the churches who put notices up; we did much better than we have done over many years now and so it was kind of like a record for us. Wearing a different now; we all know Gene Stalnaker. He was an honored member of this group for a long time and we formed along with the Historical Society a grant program and my wife was on the committee with us when we developed the program and we awarded three different residents grants. We are proud to say we issued the first check last week to the Reisig’s to help in restoring some of their house and so those two things; I thought you might want to be kept Then for the reason why we are here tonight; the Rubber City Kennel Club, which is very proud to have been able to donate in the past to the Tallmadge K-9 Unit, is here again tonight to do another award. Since that one award, we have been donating to other cities for their K-9 units whether it be respirators, jackets, improvements for their vehicles, etc., and we came back to Tallmadge and talked to Mr. Ickes trying to find out just what it was that Tallmadge might need or want because luckily you are pretty well equipped with your K-9 unit and after some thought, he came back to us and gave us an idea of something that he would like to try. It is a GoPro Unit for his K-9 unit; for the dog. When we took it back to our group, the Rubber City Kennel Club; we had to talk for quite a while because this was something a little bit different and what we decided was that we would use Tallmadge as kind of the experiment area where we will try the K-9 Unit with the GoPro and see how it works; have Mr. Ickes and Axel come back and talk to us about it and see if they have been able to use it and if it was really worthwhile and if it is, we will then use our funds to give other K-9 units around the area GoPro Units. So you are kind of like our lab right now. So at this time; Mr. Ickes. I want to thank you and Axel for all of the great work that you guys have been doing for the City of Tallmadge and for the residents to live here. We are proud to be able to support you at this time and my wife has a check of $700 to be used for the GoPro Unit and any of the equipment that he might need to go with it. Pres. of Council: Thank you. Mr. Carano: Excuse me, but what is the GoPro? Officer Nate Ickes, City of Tallmadge Police Department, 53 Northeast Avenue, Tallmadge. Actually they are purchasing more than just a GoPro camera. The GoPro camera is going to be used; it can be used on traffic stops, tracks, buildings and area searches and can link up to your phone within a certain distance and you can watch if he goes into a building and things like that. The other thing that they are purchasing is the harness, which is a special harness, which I don’t have, the clip that goes on the harness which I don’t have and then all the accessories that go to it; the waterproof, that case and all of that kind of stuff. I can use it while I am working and then like we had spoken; it is going to be used a lot during training to see what the dog is doing; how he is reacting; how we can do it better. So, we talked quite a bit about this and like you said, we are the trail dog on the camera, but we are going to give it a try and then hopefully we will see how it works. I am going to take it to the trainings with us and the other dogs will then use it a little bit and see how they like it and then I will get back to him on that. So, I really do appreciate it. Thank you very much.  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. June 14, 18 8. ANNOUNCEMENTS: None. 9. REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES: None. 10. AGENDA ADDITIONS: None. 11. REPORTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS: MAYOR, DIR. OF PUBLIC SERVICE, DIR. OF ADMINISTRATION, DIR. OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, DIR. OF FINANCE AND DIR. OF LAW. Mayor: Thank you Madame Chairman. It has been really a busy start of the summer. Our departments have been doing a lot of work. Hats off to them. The Circle and all of the landscaping that is around town; to the Service Director and Mike Weigand and his group; I am very happy how everything is starting to pull together and it is really looking good, so good for them. The economic development side; I’m sure Rita will talk a little bit about that tonight, but as usual I will give a little bit of her thunder. We had a pre-con meeting out at that location and if anybody remembers that; that was about . . . I am standing about where the club house was located at Maplecrest Golf Course. As you can see way in the back; that is way back there off of Crystal Parkway and so that is a long way away. A lot of earth moving. Standing on top of that mound looking over across the street. So today’s meeting was a pre-con meeting for the road improvements out on County Road 18. It was not the ODOT meeting for the improvements on the expressway corridor, but it is just in front of Maplecrest itself is the developer’s responsibility. So they will be doing new traffic signals, widening of the road in front of that, but ODOT was at this meeting so they know about tying everything together. The ODOT Project will probably not kick off on their construction for about a year yet. But, this will be done and ready for the ODOT to tie into it so things are moving along fairly well on that. It is just amazing when you look at how much earth is moving around. It is just like there is no rhyme or reason for the trucks playing around out there, but it is coming together and so the infrastructure and the main road will start . . . you will start seeing that take shape. Outside of that, there are a couple of ordinances there; the dispatch will just be a 2nd Reading. Item 18, Ord. 57-2018 that is the codified code and there are a couple of exhibits there, but that is ready to go. That is part of our Code. That is really housekeeping. Then Item 19, the finance for the gas station and I will talk about that. That is the Tinker Jack’s location; we are closing out one grant and starting the next grant to finalize the cleaning of the dirty soil that is underneath the ground and that’s it. Pres. of Council: And you are asking for 1st Reading on 18 and 19. Mayor: We have received the grant. It is just a matter that Council has to accept it before they can start doing the work. Mr. Donovan: You didn’t find a Nike out there did you? Mayor: No, but I don’t know if you guys are on Facebook, but there was a certain Tallmadge business owner on West Avenue who had a Facebook page of him out there with his golf clubs and he said he was going to hit one more drive from this location and so he was out there and I told the guys about it and they said, is that why our trucks are all dented. He wasn’t kidding. So somebody was out there hitting golf balls where Hole No. 1 and Hole No. 10 used to be. He posted it on Facebook. I do owe you the Police Reports and Fire Reports. I do have them. Sorry I didn’t get them to you. Dir. of Pub. Service: Good evening. Before I get onto the slide show something that I do want to bring up; backflow prevention; does everybody on Council understand backflow prevention. When you have a swimming pool and you have an irrigation system in your front yard, you have to have a backflow on it and we have noticed that a few folks don’t and we have noticed this by OUPS (Ohio Utility Protection Services) tickets where the irrigation system was broke over the wintertime and we gone out to OUPS and we realize that there are no backflows on these folks, so just kind of like the tree letter, we are sending out a letter to these folks and knocking on the door and letting them know that they have got to put this backflow on these because you don’t want that water in a negative pressure to come back in our drinking water. Businesses have them. Citywide we probably have about 360 throughout the City that we know of. So, just in case you guys hear some rumbling that . . . what is the City talking about as far as backflows go. Mr. Donovan: I am familiar with it. I have a couple of them myself. Dir. of Pub. Service: Just so the residents and everybody understands. Mr. Donovan: Those have to be checked annually too. Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes, they should be checked annually. That’s right. Mr. Loughry: Yeah, at about $200 bucks a pop. Dir. of Pub. Service: So, just letting you know. Moving on; the monthly report for May for the Service Department; we had the Food Truck Festival up at the Rec Center. There was a good turnout; about 9,000 to 12,000 estimate. It was pretty packed. I don’t know if anybody was up there. It is a nice thing when the food vendors run out of food about an hour before the end of the event. The crocodile vendor ran out the fastest, which was pretty neat. We are possibly looking at moving this to the Fairgrounds for 2019. It’s a good thing. Maca Pool; this is Maca Pool being filled up. It was opened; a soft opening on the 25th and then it was open to the public on the 26th. So far everything is going well; knock on wood. 2  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. June 14, 18 Dir. of Pub. Service (Cont’d.) Those that could attend; the band concert at the school. We had to move it because of the inclement weather. Thank you to the school system for allowing us to host that concert. There were two concerts there; one was John Trapani; he was the big band and before him was the Summit Choral Society and they did a nice rendition and Abe Lincoln was there. Moving on to the Memorial Day observance. It was a great turnout and great program. A special thanks to the Memorial Day Committee for pulling this together. We recognized the 14 Tallmadge residents who lost their lives in battle and it was done and a special thanks to both Tallmadge High School who did the readings and the East High School ROTC students who were representing the 14 that passed. In the utilities; we have installed a generator at the Tallmadge Highlands allotment and this is on Ledgebrook and what this does is this is a lift station and before . . . it is not hooked up yet, but it is getting there; a sewer lift station and so it pumps the sewer upgrade because where these houses are located; they are down below grade where the normal line would be and until now you always had to rely on getting over there with the generator, hooking it up and making sure it ran in the middle of the night storm events or just a power outage. It could be quite costly and so it is a great asset and improvement to the City that we relocated this generator from a water tower that used to run the radio system over there and it was no longer needed, so why not use it and we transferred it. So we should be up and running by August with this so it will be good. I know the Mayor will sleep better at night. The sidewalk repair program as we talked about is underway and we are moving at a pretty good clip and we are doing this before the pavement goes and so sidewalks are being done first, concrete panels are coming next and the asphalt is coming last except on this road, this is Jennifer Trail; it didn’t make sense to just do the sidewalks and leave and so that contractor did all of the concrete repair because that road is getting paved too as well and so he knocked out everything. We also talked about the trees being removed. This is a program and I just went back and looked and I sent an e-mail out to Council on May 30th and June 6th. The May 30th one had the letter in there for the sidewalks. It talked about here was our sideshow from the last time talking about what roads were getting sidewalk repair. The Rec Center has a sidewalk in front that is falling apart. I’m sure everybody sees that and let’s get that, but the rest of those are all the drives. In addition to that is the concrete panel replacement. These are the streets . . . probably Clark Drive is getting the most, not for any particular reason, but that is in really bad shape out there if anyone has driven on Clark Drive, the entrance off of Munroe is terrible. Mr. Sisak: The residents abuse it. Dir. of Pub. Service: We have done more concrete this year at the end than we have done in quite some time. Then here is the paving and I do want to note that the ones with the red font behind it; those are very small sections and so Beachwood Drive; not much of that road is getting done. It is a pretty small section; probably about only 300’ lineal feet. Lastly, Ord. 54-2018 at 1st Reading tonight; I would like to request that Council adopt this. WE are looking at selling obsolete items. Remember a couple of months the used water meters that were stored and we got rid of them, well this is the same thing. We just have a bunch of stuff that we don’t use; implements on tractors that we don’t even own anymore and stuff that we can’t . . . lighting parts for street lights that they don’t even make anymore and so why we hold these things . . . electrical conduit; I mean, look at all of that conduit there; I mean I don’t even know what project that was bought for, but why are we holding this and why don’t we try to recoup some money off of it and clean up those garages down there. The other one was Ord. 55-2018; this is something new here. It is an Ohio EPA Grant and we have those two vehicles that you can see that we slightly use right now. We used them pretty heavily up until a couple of months ago. They definitely need to be replaced and you can replace those vehicles using this EPA Grant. It is through Volkswagen and they will replace those diesels with cleaner diesels. It is an alternate fuel, but there again newer diesels are part of the grant and so why don’t we throw our hats in the ring? The match is 25% would be our responsibility and 75% from the EPA. Mr. Sisak: What is the mileage output on those? I’m kidding; that is why Volkswagen got in trouble! Dir. of Pub. Service: But why don’t we try it and see what happens. All they can say is no. That takes three readings as well. Mr. Loughry: Mr. Rorar, a concrete replacement question; before you came to the City, we were experimenting with grinding down the concrete and putting asphalt on top I believe it was Ambler Circle. Pres. of Council: All of Tallmadge Woods; yes. Mr. Loughry: Was that successful? Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes. Mr. Loughry: So, that being said, then how do you decide now when to replace the concrete or when to convert to that? 3  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. June 14, 18 Dir. of Pub. Service: That is a pretty good sum of money to do that. Right now I think we are at the point that we could probably salvage most of these slabs. Our biggest problem from what I have seen in the last year is that we didn’t crack seal these and that has allowed that breakdown to occur on those joints. I have not seen an allotment yet that I would say is in that condition. Most of these are OK and have a few panels here and there. That’s it. Mr. Loughry: Thank you. Pres. of Council: The Dir. of Administration is not here. Dir. of Econ. Development: Thank you. A while back we had received some grant funding indirectly through Summit County Public Health for a sidewalk grant or GAP analysis and we received that and had some cost estimates that identified all of the gaps in the City but they had some additional funding. Summit County’s grant goes through September 29th and so we met with them to identify how else we could take advantage of some of those grant funds and decided that we would focus on pedestrian and bicycle access around the Circle to make it safer and another transportation use around the Circle. So they are going to be looking at ways in which we can address that and cost those things out, looking at landscaping needs to slow down traffic around the Circle and just some, you know, small ways in which we can maybe at least try it and see how it affects traffic and safety. The other one is to look at signage in those areas where the Freedom Trail crosses the spokes to the Circle and try to make those safer because it just . . . maybe some advanced warning signs as to what they can expect and we looked at ways in which we can do painting on the pavement to slow things down and to let them know that there might be some pedestrian traffic and so on, so we are going to try to get some creative things. They are going to look at all of these and then come back to us with some recommendations and cost estimates. Mayor: Just so you know, they had a drawing; a 3D sidewalk crossing on the roadway and when you look at it, it looks like the 4 x 4’s are raised off of the pavement about 4”. When you are driving down you lock the brakes because you think you are going to hit this thing, but it is a 3D drawing on the road that’s flat. Pres. of Council: Like those sidewalk paintings that you see? Mayor: Yeah, you think you are going to step in water and it is really not there. They showed us the picture of that today and we should have gotten that. We would have so many rear end collisions. Someone did it up in Canada and I’m telling you; you think it is elevated; 4 x 4’s laying on top of the roadway. Mr. Carano: Ms. Weinberg; I commend you on that around the Circle for the future. I have been to some communities that were not so much in Ohio, but in other places, where people deem that the attitude of people in cars is quite different toward pedestrians have the right of way and cars get in the way for that. I know that is not here yet in Ohio, but these are the kinds of changes that you are looking at and you know, it is probably very good for if you want to make it more walkable where people can get to our restaurants and things around the Circle and that and enjoy those aspects of those types of improvements that you are looking at. I think it is very beneficial. Dir. of Econ. Development: Some of the things that we might be looking at is some temporary painting on the roadway; you know, maybe not something that elaborate, although that would be kind of cool, but if we can find people to do the painting and have some of the paint donated through the grant program so if anybody knows any artists that want to contribute their time to that; we could do something like that; do some planters around there and just to kind of give the affect that we have . . . you know we have a narrow that roadway a little bit without sacrificing safety so that the safety forces could still get around and not worry about hitting anything, but it is interesting to watch traffic when they see something painted, they automatically want to stay within those lines whether they need to or not. So, that is something that we might want to try to do there as well. Mr. Loughry: Ms. Weinberg; regarding the Maplecrest site; do you have an estimate of when Meijer or Menard’s should be open? Dir. of Econ. Development: Well, we probably won’t see any vertical construction there until the spring. So I would imagine . . . Mr. Loughry: 2020 then? Dir. of Econ. Development: Yeah. It might be 2019. It is going to be like a year; I would imagine a year construction. Mr. Loughry: So they might try to shoot for Thanksgiving of 2019. Dir. of Econ. Development: It might be late. Mr. Loughry: So, oftentimes on a project like that, there is also an estimate of the job creation; have you heard any numbers of how many jobs may be created? Dir. of Econ. Development: I think we have that, but off the top of my head I don’t recall what they are estimating. Mr. Loughry: You know, that is going to be significant because the JEDD increases; the collection increases; correct Mrs. Gilbride, and so then when you add 500 or 600 jobs to that it is going to be very beneficial to us and Brimfield. Mayor: What I was going to . . . and I haven’t talked to Mollie about today, but I said something to Rita that the construction workers who are working on site; there has to be a couple hundred people there working and we will have to figure all that out and I’m sure Mollie will be on top of that. Mr. Sisak: Just due west of there is that housing project. Do we have an update on that? 4  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. June 14, 18 Dir. of Econ. Development: I really don’t have anything more to report than we did from the last time. I mean, they are still going forward and they are still committed to that project. They extended their due diligence period until mid-August I believe. So they have been working through a number of . . . the sewer and how to manage all of that and increase the capacity that they are going need. They are working with getting some easements and the attorneys are talking on that in terms of running it out through like where Tarpon is out there. It is going to serve both Ripley and some of the others. It is going to be more of a regional solution and it will also impact Maplecrest and so it is just in the process. As they get further and further down the road, they become more and more committed so I think we will see something happening, but this is going to take some time. Mr. Sisak: Then next door; I mean, do we have any information or progress on . . . Dir. of Econ. Development: Well, they were working on some electrical . . . I think it was generators to serve Jimmy Johns and also the medical facility and so we will start seeing some building happening in the next probably couple months. Giving that medical facility going up, Jimmy Johns should be in there hopefully within the month and then the day care has backed out of that because of the cost and the environmental issues that were there and so we don’t know what the future holds for that building. Mr. Sisak: Are there any concerns about the main apartment building being so vacant with the retail space? Dir. of Econ. Development: I think what we are going to see is . . . they are talking, but it sounds like it is going to go towards office use possibly; possibly a single user and probably medical related. That his all I know about that; nothing concrete, but I don’t think you are going to see the retail of the restaurant use that I think we were anticipating or hoping for for that site just because of the way it was constructed and so we can get office use there and I think that is going to be the highest and best at this point. Mr. Sisak: Thank you. Dir. of Finance: Thank you. Everybody should have received their financial reports. As I stated, our income tax is still down, however, I do think in looking at the preliminary numbers this month; we will see a little bit of an uptick. We are still not going to be you know, bouncing back to the positive, but I am seeing a little uptick so hopefully we won’t be quite as far down, but I will keep everyone up to date on that. You did receive information regarding our audit that is wrapping up. If anybody has any questions on that, they can feel free to contact me. Just want to remind everybody that that is a confidential document from the Auditor’s Office up until they release the audit. You will receive an additional e-mail once it is released and it is available for public information. Once that is released also, I will post it on the City’s website. I also am in the process of finalizing the popular annual financial report that we send out to the residents and am hoping to get that distributed near the end of July through the Tallmadge Express. End of report. Mr. Loughry: Mrs. Gilbride, regarding income tax; do you get or have access to regional comparisons so that you can compare Tallmadge to the region to see if . . . Dir. of Finance: I would have to request that from other entities. I don’t . . . that is not information that is shared among . . . I can’t look at other people’s income tax information that’s not public and so I would have to review . . . I am going to be in contact with R.I.T.A.; I have just not been able to do that to ask them what they are seeing across all of their agencies and trends. Another factor which I knew about, but I kind of forgot about was that we did receive our first distribution also from the State for Net Profit Taxes and so that could also be affecting some of our cash flow being that the State is also now is another place where we get those distributions from and so I did receive some money from that for the first time in June and so we will see if maybe that will . . . is causing part of the net profit tax to be so far down. That could be a factor that people are now making those estimated payments to the State and then they are paying them to me 30 days to 60 days after they receive them and so I think that could potentially be part of the issue and so I am just trying to nail it all down and hoping it turns around a little bit and just see what happens. Mr. Loughry: Thanks. Ass’t. Dir. of Law: We have no report at this time, but would be happy to answer any questions that Council may have. Mayor: I’m sorry, part of my report, if you recall Jessica Simons from the Rec Center sent out a request for Council to be part of the Parks Committee that is forming to look at the Master Park Plan and so she was requesting that two members of Council be amongst you guys. Pres. of Council: Right. It is the Citizens Steering Committee; we did receive that e-mail with the letter stating that the first meeting I think is the 27th and they are asking for two representatives from City Council . . . Mayor: You are all welcome to come. Pres. of Council: Is anyone interested? Mr. Carano; are you interested? Mr. Sisak: I would be interested, but I won’t be at that first meeting. I will just go to the other meetings. Pres. of Council: OK. Is there anyone else interested in doing it? I wouldn’t mind being part of it. Mayor: We don’t care who is on it. Pres. of Council: OK. Mr. Carano, you and I will be on that steering committee. Do we need a motion then? Mayor: No. 5  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. June 14, 18 Pres. of Council: No; OK. Mayor: No, just respond to Jessica. Pres. of Council: We will do that. OK. Thank you very much. Mr. Donovan: Thank you Mr. Rorar for your quick, fast service; I forgot to mention this; he brought me some pictures; I don’t know if anybody drives by the bike path there where it has a little Bierce Park pavilion or shed or whatever and it was getting pretty rough. It was intended to look rough and aged to begin with, but it was about ready to fall down and so I just mentioned it to him a week or so ago and it is already fixed and he brought me some pictures if anybody . . . I will just pass them down. So, thank you very much. Dir. of Pub. Service: You’re welcome. 12. Ordinance 51-2018 At 2nd Reading. FINANCE Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a con- tract with the City of Stow for upgraded computer aided dispatch software, appro- priating funds from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund for the admin- istration, maintenance, and training thereof, and providing for immediate enactment. Pres. of Council: Ord. 51-2018 is at 2nd Reading and will remain before the Finance Committee. 13. Ordinance 52-2018 At 2nd Reading. PERSONNEL Tracked Establishing the number of employees by department and position pursuant to R.C. 731.08 and providing for immediate enactment. Pres. of Council: Ord. 52-2018 is at 2nd Reading and will remain before the Personnel Committee. 14. Ordinance 53-2018 At 2nd Reading. PUBLIC SERVICE AMENDED Supplementing the Tallmadge Codified P.H. ON 7-12-18 @ 7:33 P.M. Ordinances by establishing Chapter 1192 Small Cell Facilities and Wireless Support Structures within the right of way. Ass’t. Dir. of Law: At this point, we need to go ahead and amend that to change the title of what the section will be. The new sections needs to read, I think there was a memo; do they all have that? Mayor: It is right here. Ass’t. Dir. of Law: OK. There we go. Mayor: So just accept the amendment; what was it in the title? Ass’t. Dir. of Law: The change is from what it currently reads to “management, administration and control of the use of the City’s public rights-of-way. Pres. of Council: OK, so we need to make an amendment on that? Mr. Donovan: So moved. Mr. Sisak: Yeah, I move to amend. Ass’t. Dir. of Law: You will need to change the public hearing date as well. Pres. of Council: OK, so we have a motion to amend Ord. 53-2018; to amend the title . . . Mayor: The title and are we changing the public hearing? Ass’t. Dir. of Law: Yes, we need to change the public hearing. Pres. of Council: Then we are also going to set a public hearing for August 9th @ 7:33 p.m. Do we have a second? Ms. Tricaso seconded. Roll Call: Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano – unanimous. Ord. 53-2018 is amended by a vote of 7-0 and will remain at 2nd Reading and we have a public hearing scheduled for August 9, 2018 @ 7:33 p.m. 15. Ordinance 54-2018 At 1st Reading. FINANCE Expressing intent to sell unneeded, obso- lete, or unfit truck and tractor accessories, miscellaneous tools, pipes, and fire hydrants by Edinburg Auction in calendar year 2018 and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 54-2018. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Roll Call: Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano, Mr. Loughry – unanimous. Mr. Loughry: Mr. Rorar; how was Edinburg auction selected? Dir. of Pub. Service: Just by word of mouth and Darrell Stineman, the Utility Superintendent who came from Stow said that is where Stow gets rid of items of this nature. 6  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. June 14, 18 Mr. Loughry: Did they provide an estimate of what we should expect to net? Dir. of Pub. Service: No, but they will keep it there until they sell it. Mr. Loughry: Thank you. Pres. of Council: Roll call. Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan – unanimous. Ord. 54-2018 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 16. Ordinance 55-2018 At 1st Reading. FINANCE Authorizing the Mayor to apply for and accept, if awarded, the Ohio EPA Alterna- tive Fuel Vehicle Grant Program; and pro- viding for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 55-2018. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Mr. Loughry: If we accept the grant are there any constraints or restrictions or requirements on us? Dir. of Pub. Service: We have to keep that vehicle for a length of time; I think it is five years. That’s probably the biggest constraint that we have. Mr. Loughry: Normally we would keep those vehicles at least that long? Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes. Mr. Donovan: The current vehicles; would they be used as a trade-in? Dir. of Pub. Service: You actually have to destroy them because they want . . . this is the hitch that they want those diesels off the roads and so you have to punch a hole in the block and then you scrap it and you have to verify . . . Mr. Donovan: Drive it to Edinburg first and then . . . Mr. Loughry: Do we have an estimated value; I mean do we have those on the books of any kind of value? Mayor: It is a fixed asset. Dir. of Finance: I mean, they are probably fully depreciated. That one vehicle is an old squad that we have passed down and so they are completely depreciated. The trade-in value on items like is going to nowhere match 75% of the value of a new item and so it is worth giving up the trade-in value for 75% of a new vehicle. We would get maybe $1,000. Mr. Donovan: So, they would just be sold as scrap too? Dir. of Pub. Service: Yes, and that is part of the grant. We have to show that quote so we have a scrap value from a guy that is going to come and get those and he quoted them out and so there again, that 25%; it will be part of the 2019 Budget for each of these vehicles, so we will put that in there because we should hear anywhere between November and January whether we received that grant. Mr. Carano: Let’s hope that we get it; that is a good environmental thing to get those off the road. Mayor: Going green! Roll Call: Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway – unanimous. Ord. 55-2018 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 17. Ordinance 56-2018 At 1st Reading. IN PROGRESS Pres. of Council: This is in progress and we don’t have it at this time; right? Mayor: Does anybody know what 56 is? Pres. of Council: I have no idea. I have a note here that we do not have Ord. 56-2018 at this time so we need to go on. Ass’t. Dir. of Law: That’s the case. There is nothing; there is no Ord. 56-2018 this evening. Mayor: I thought I had the wrong agenda up. 18. Ordinance 57-2018 At 1st Reading. PUBLIC SERVICE TCO Exhibit A (1) TCO Exhibit A (2) TCO Exhibit A (3) An ordinance to approve, adopt and enact the 2018 replacement pages to the Codified Ordinances; to repeal ordinances in conflict therewith; to publish the enactment of new matter; and providing for immediate enactment. Mrs. Allman moved for the adoption of Ord. 57-2018. Seconded Ms. Tricaso. Mr. Loughry: Why are we . . . just so I understand; why are we adopting a Code replacement at 1st Reading? Dir. of Finance: These are already code that you adopted in previous ordinances; it is just incorporating them into the Code so you are not voting on any new code; you’re voting on putting all the code that you previously approved into one document. Ass’t. Dir. of Law: These are basically, like she just basically said; these are already passed. These are just the printed pages that are going into the book and it is basically more of a housekeeping matter than it is . . . 7  REGULAR MEETING in Council Chambers @ 7:30 p.m. June 14, 18 Mr. Loughry: So you vote twice. You vote to change it and then you vote to put it into the book? Ass’t. Dir. of Law: To update the book; correct. Mr. Loughry: Government at its best. Ass’t. Dir. of Law: Well, it is basically just a housekeeping measure. Mr. Loughry: Thank you. I understand. Roll Call: Mr. Sisak, Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry – unanimous. Ord. 57-2018 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 19. Ordinance 58-2018 At 1st Reading. FINANCE Accepting the Ohio Development Services Agency Grant for the remediation of the former gas station located at 913-917 Southeast Avenue; authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with Ohio Develop- ment Services Agency (ODSA) to complete the project as part of the State of Ohio Abandoned Gas Station Cleanup Grant Program; appropriating the necessary funds and providing for immediate enactment. Mr. Sisak moved for the adoption of Ord. 58-2018. Seconded Mr. Donovan. Mayor: Just briefly to give you an update. This is the old Tinker Jack’s location. We did receive a grant back in 2016 to do the investigation of that; that was about a $95,000 grant and part of that grant; we used $66,862 and so what they have determined . . . there was a tank there; a small fuel tank and they took that out. The ground; there is still dirty dirt that they need to mitigate and so they applied . . . we got a pre-grant to do it and so we are going to close that $95,000 with a balance and roll it into the new grant for $147,000 to mitigate that property so we can get a no further action letter on that and then we can do with it whatever we want to do with it; either economic development, the round-about . . . Mr. Loughry: Fire station. Mayor: Fire station, but we would still have to acquire more land for that because it is not large enough for that. So this grant is no money out of the City coffers; it is just a grant for a gas station cleanup. Mr. Donovan: Would that mean excavating that out? Mayor: Yes; hauling the dirt away and bringing in clean dirt. Mr. Donovan: Sometimes they clean the dirt and bring the same dirt back. Mr. Carano: I always wondered you know, there was a gas station there at one time; they leave and then the public is responsible for cleaning up the mess. Is there ever anything in place ahead of time for these businesses . . . . Mayor: The previous owner is still a part of records and you can go after him, but these EPA Grants for abandoned gas stations; there is a lot of money out there to clean these locations up and we just happened to have the station here to be able to do that, but it is . . . Mr. Carano: That’s fine, it is just the thing of you know they want to take public costs . . . Mayor: Somebody is paying it; we all are paying it indirectly. Mr. Carano: It’s just a matter of principal. Roll Call: Ms. Tricaso, Mrs. Allman, Mr. Carano, Mr. Donovan, Mrs. Kilway, Mr. Loughry, Mr. Sisak – unanimous. Ord. 58-2018 is adopted by a vote of 7-0. 20. ADDITIONAL ITEMS: 21. ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Donovan moved to adjourn. Seconded Mr. Sisak. Voice vote 7-0. The Regular Council meeting of 6-14-18 adjourned at 8:29 p.m. sb Approved: _________________________________ ____________________________________ Susan E. Burton, Clerk of Council Carol A. Kilway, President of Council 8