Feb 09, 2026 City Council Meeting

WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES.

SECOND.

WE HAVE A MOTION.

AND SECOND, IS THERE DISCUSSION? OKAY.

AND I KNOW WE ARE STILL GETTING KIND OF USED TO SOME OF THE AUDIO EQUIPMENT THAT WE HAVE, SO I JUST WILL GIVE EVERYONE A REMINDER AGAIN THIS EVENING.

UH, WHEN YOU SPEAK, MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE TALKING MORE DIRECTIONALLY INTO THE MICROPHONES RATHER THAN OFF TO THE SIDE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR VOICE IS CARRIED THROUGH ALL THE RECORDING.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

NEXT IS ITEM NUMBER SIX,

[6. Approval Of Minutes]

AND ITEM SIX A IS THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES DATED JANUARY 12TH, 2026.

THOSE MINUTES HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED BY TONY TO EVERYONE.

IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, CORRECTIONS, COMMENTS, LET US KNOW NOW, PLEASE.

FACING NONE, THOSE MINUTES WILL STAND AS APPROVED.

AND NEXT UP

[ 45th City Of Huber Heights/250th United States Of America Anniversary And Huber Heights Founders Day Proclamation Presentation To The Wayne Township/Huber Heights Historical Society And The Huber Heights America 250th Committee - Mayor Jeff Gore]

IS I, NUMBER SEVEN, SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

TONY ITEM SEVEN A 45TH CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS, 250TH UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANNIVERSARY AND HUBER HEIGHTS, FOUNDER'S DAY PROCLAMATION PRESENTATION TO THE WAYNE TOWNSHIP, HUBER HEIGHTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND THE HUBER HEIGHTS AMERICA TWO 50TH COMMITTEE BY MAYOR JEFF.

SO WE WOULD ASK, UH, THE STAFF AND MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE, UH, TWO ENTITIES TO COME FORWARD WITH THE MAYOR, UH, FOR THE PROCLAMATION PRESENTATION

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CAN COME BACK FURTHER THIS WAY.

OVERHEAD MICS ON THE I THINK SO.

IS THAT, THERE WE GO.

I THINK I CAN, I CAN HEAR NOW.

SO, UH, HOPEFULLY THIS IS GOOD.

I WON'T NEED THE, UH, THE EXTRA MICROPHONE.

SO THIS FIRST PROCLAMATION IS THE HEBREW HEIGHTS FOUNDER'S DAY MAYORAL PROCLAMATION.

SO WHEREAS 2026 MARKS THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ON JULY 4TH, 1776, A DEFINING MOMENT THAT GAVE RISE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY UPON WHICH THE UNITED STATES IS FOUNDED.

AND WHEREAS 2026 ALSO MARKS THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE SEAT OF HEBREW HEIGHTS FROM WAYNE TOWNSHIP, CREATING A CITY ROOTED IN HISTORY WHILE COMMITTED TO PROGRESS.

AND WHEREAS THE WAYNE TOWNSHIP, HEBREW HEIGHTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY HAS UNDERTAKEN A TIME CAPSULE INITIATIVE TO PRESERVE AND SHARE THE STORIES, ARTIFACTS, AND LIVED EXPERIENCES OF TODAY'S COMMUNITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS, REINFORCING THE IMPORTANCE OF REMEMBERING THE COMMUNITY'S SHARED PAST.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS 250TH COMMITTEE HAS COORDINATED A YEAR LONG OBSERVANCE THROUGHOUT 2026, OFFERING A DIVERSE SERIES OF MONTHLY PROGRAMS THAT INVITE RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES TO REFLECT UPON THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE ROLE OF THE HEBREW RIGHTS COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO PLAY IN ITS ONGOING STORY.

AND WHEREAS THESE COMMEMORATIVE EFFORTS COL COLLECTIVELY STRENGTHEN CIVIC PRIDE, PROMOTE HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING, AND REAFFIRM THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS, COMMITMENT TO UNITY, INCLUSION, AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.

AND NOW, THEREFORE, I JEFF GORE, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF HUB HEIGHTS, OHIO, AND TO HEREBY RECOGNIZE AND ENCOURAGE ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO CELEBRATE JULY 4TH, 2026 AND THE ENTIRETY OF 2026 AS A PERIOD OF COMMEMORATION AND HONOR OF THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND DO DECLARE JANUARY 23RD, 2026 AND EACH FUTURE YEAR AS HUB HEIGHTS FOUNDER'S DAY.

FURTHERMORE, I COMMEND THE WAYNE TOWNSHIP, HEBREW HEIGHTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THE CITY OF HUB HEIGHTS 250TH COMMITTEE FOR THE DEDICATION AND MARKING THIS HISTORIC MILESTONE.

AND I URGE ALL CITIZENS TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENTS AND PROGRAMS ORGANIZED BY THE HEBREW RIGHTS TWO 50TH COMMITTEE THROUGHOUT 2026, CELEBRATING THESE HISTORIC MILESTONES TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I HERETO SET MY HAND AND CALLS THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS.

SO WE AFFIXED THIS NINTH DAY OF FEBRUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 2026.

AND TONY, I APPRECIATE VERY MUCH YOU'RE NOT WRITING SEQUENTIAL OR WHATEVER THAT TERM IS IN THERE.

YEAH, EVERY, EVERY TIME THAT, UH, TWO 50TH WAS, WAS PRONOUNCED, THAT WAS MUCH, MUCH BETTER, MUCH EASIER.

SO, YEAH.

CENTENNIAL THAT, IS THAT WHAT IT WAS? CENTENNIAL.

THERE WE GO.

YOU COULD ALSO DO SEMI CENTENNIAL.

THERE WE GO.

UH, TODAY, THINGS LIKE TECHNOLOGY, SO WE CAN SEE HOW MUCH IT CHANGES OVER TIME, UH, LIKE, UH, THE LATEST IPHONE OR IPODS, UH, A LABU BOO IF YOU'RE INTO THAT KIND OF THING, RIGHT? WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO SHOW OFF WHAT TODAY IS LIKE FOR OUR PEOPLE.

SO, UM, DO WE HAVE MEMBERS, UH, UH, WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK OR, OKAY.

YES, PLEASE GO RIGHT IN.

HI THERE, MY NAME'S MASON KNICKERBOCKER.

I'M, UH, I WAS ASKED TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TODAY.

GOT A COUPLE THINGS TO TELL YOU ABOUT THIS LOVELY TIME CAPSULE WE HAVE, UH, OVER BEHIND THE MAYOR, UH, TO MY LEFT, UH, THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MYSELF.

WE'RE EXCITED TO INTRODUCE YOU OFFICIALLY TO OUR AMERICA TWO 50 TIME CAPSULE, THE INITIATIVE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TAKING UP THIS YEAR, UH, IN CELEBRATION OF AMERICA'S 250TH ANNIVERSARY, UH, AS WELL, WELL AS THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS.

UH, THE CITY HAS PURCHASED THIS TIME CAPSULE TO BE FILLED WITH ITEMS REPRESENTING OUR COMMUNITY, UH, AND THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S BEEN TASKED WITH COLLECTING THOSE ITEMS, UH, CURATING THEM, FILLING THEM, UH, AND THEN, AND THEN PROMOTING ITS, UH, THIS, THIS FULL INITIATIVE.

UH, AND SO JUST SOME THINGS TO KNOW AS A COMMUNITY IF YOU'RE WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TIME CAPSULE INITIATIVE.

UH, WE ARE COLLECTING DONATIONS STARTING NOW.

UH, SO THE, THE TIME CAPSULE APPLICATION FORM OPENED AT THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED.

UH, WE'RE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO SUBMIT PHOTOS AND VIDEOS OF SIGNIFICANCE, UH, OR EVEN SCREENSHOTS OF FACEBOOK POSTS.

UH, YOU COULD WRITE LETTERS TO FUTURE RESIDENTS OF HUBBERT HEIGHTS.

I'M ENCOURAGING ALL MY STUDENTS TO WRITE LETTERS TO FUTURE STUDENTS, UH, SHOWING OFF PICTURES OF THE HIGH SCHOOL THINGS AROUND THE COMMUNITY.

SO WHEN WE UNBURY IT DOWN THE LINE, EVERYBODY CAN SEE WHAT OUR COMMUNITY WAS LIKE TODAY AND HOW MUCH IT'S GROWN AND CHANGED OVER THAT, THAT PERIOD OF TIME.

UH, WE'RE ALSO COLLECTING SMALL ITEMS THAT REPRESENT OUR CULTURE AND OUR COMMUNITY,

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UH, ALSO SPECIFIC THINGS THAT REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITY, THINGS LIKE A BUCKY'S KEY CHAIN ONCE IT OPENS UP, OR A TICKET TO A SHOW AT THE ROW, THINGS TO SHOW OFF.

WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO THE CITIZENS OF HUBER HEIGHTS TODAY, UH, ARE THE KIND OF THINGS WE'RE SEARCHING FOR.

UH, AND SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN DONATING, UH, SENDING IN YOUR PICTURES, SENDING IN THINGS THAT YOU'VE WRITTEN, UH, THERE IS A SUBMISSION FORM ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE.

YOU CAN ALSO GET TO IT THROUGH OUR WEBSITE, UH, WWW.HUBERHISTORY.ORG.

WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE WEBSITE RECENTLY.

CHECK IT OUT.

UH, THERE'S PLENTY OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE HUBER OF HI, UH, THE HISTORY OF HUBER HEIGHTS AS WELL ON THERE.

UM, BUT IF YOU GO TO HISTORY HUBER HISTORY.ORG/TIME CAPSULE SPECIFICALLY, THERE'S AN APPLICATION LINK ON THERE AND SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT.

UH, YOU CAN ALSO FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK.

WE'LL BE PROMOTING ALL THE AMERICA TWO 50 EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE TOWN.

YOU CAN FIND US THERE TO ASK US QUESTIONS, UH, OR I'LL BE AROUND AT THE END OF THE MEETING TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AS WELL.

THANK YOU GUYS.

PLEASE CHECK OUT THAT WEBSITE AND MAKE FORWARD TO SENIOR ONE OF THESE EVENTS SOON.

HI, I AM MOLLY WITH PARKS AND RECREATION.

UM, I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYBODY BEHIND ME AND THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING OUT.

WE ARE VERY, VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT HUBER HEIGHTS TURNING 45 THIS YEAR, AND ABOUT AMERICA TURNING 250.

WE'VE BEEN PLANNING ALL THINGS AMERICA 250 SINCE ABOUT LAST MAY.

UM, WE'VE BEEN MEETING ABOUT EVERY QUARTER.

EACH OF THESE AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS BEHIND ME HAS TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES TO BE A CHAMPION OF A THEME EVERY MONTH.

SO THE STATE OF OHIO DEVELOPED, UM, A 12 MONTH THEME.

EACH MONTH REPRESENTS SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN THE COMMUNITY.

SO I'M JUST GONNA RUN THROUGH KIND OF THE LIST REAL QUICK AND MENTION OUR, UM, CORRESPONDING PARTNERS BEHIND ME.

UM, THE NEXT ONE UP WILL BE INNOVATION MONTH IN FEBRUARY.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS HOSTING AN INNOVATORS AT HUBER HEIGHTS AWARD CEREMONY ON FEBRUARY 26TH.

THE SENIOR CITIZENS PROM IS ARSON ENTERTAINMENT MONTH.

UM, IT IS FREE, BUT YOU DO HAVE TO REGISTER FOR ANYBODY AGES 50 AND UP.

THAT IS A PARKS AND REC AND SENIOR CENTER SPONSORED EVENT ON APRIL 4TH.

THE TRANSPORTATION MONTH, THE MIAMI AREA CANAL HISTORICAL TALK WILL HAPPEN AT THE HUBER HEIGHTS LIBRARY THAT IS SPONSORED BY THE OPTIMIST CLUB AND THE HEBREW HEIGHTS LIBRARY MAY 2ND IT'S ARTS AND BEAUTIFICATION MONTH.

UM, WE ARE HAVING THE, UH, DED ART SHOW ON MAY 2ND AT THE SENIOR CENTER.

IT IS FREE TO ENTER INTO THE DRED ART SHOW.

YOU CAN ENTER IN ON THE HHOH RECTUS SITE.

MAY 25TH IS AWESOME MEMORIAL DAY, UM, CELEBRATION AT THOMAS CLOUD PARK.

JUNE 3RD AND FOURTH IS ALL THINGS OUTDOORS.

PARKS AND REC BOARD BEHIND ME IS TAKING OVER THE CREEK WALKS.

ON JUNE 3RD AND JUNE 27TH, YOU'LL HAVE OUR STAR SPANGLED HEIGHTS WILL BE EVEN BIGGER AND BETTER TO CELEBRATE ALL THINGS AMERICA'S TWO 50TH THIS YEAR WILL BE ON JULY 3RD AND JULY 4TH AT THOMAS CLOUD PARK.

ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS AT TAR PARTAKE IN OUR TWO 50 CELEBRATION WILL BE REPRESENTED THERE AT THAT CELEBRATION TOO.

JULY 18TH WILL BE OUR TIME CAPSULE WHERE WE ACTUALLY WILL BURY THE TIME CAPSULE.

I'M IN THE LONGEST TABLE PICNIC WITH HUBER HEIGHTS.

COMMUNITY CARES ON JULY 18TH HERE AT THE GOVERNANCE CENTER.

AUGUST 1ST IS FAIR AND FESTIVAL MONTH.

UH, FIVE RIVER METRO PARK HAS THEIR SMALL FARM FESTIVAL ON AUGUST 1ST.

VET'S MONTH IS ON SEPTEMBER.

WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE VET'S NIGHT CELEBRATION AT WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL.

THE TASTE OF HUBER HEIGHTS, EVERYTHING TASTE AND ENTERTAINMENT RELATED, IT'LL HAPPEN IN OCTOBER.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS HOSTING A TASTE OF HUBER HEIGHTS PASSPORT PROGRAM.

VETS CEREMONY IS ON NOVEMBER 11TH.

DECEMBER IS ALL THINGS FUTURE RELATED.

WE'RE GONNA HAVE A, UM, CHRISTMAS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE THEMED CELEBRATION FOR OUR TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY THAT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 5TH.

AND THEN ALSO IN REGARDS TO THAT FUTURE HUBER HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CARES AND THE PARKS AND REC ARE GOING TO HOST A NEXT GEN INNOVATION EXPO ON DECEMBER 12TH.

I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, THE HUBER HEIGHTS COMMUNITY LIBRARY, THE HUBER HEIGHTS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE OPTIMIST CLUB, THE YMCA, THE HUBER HEIGHTS CITY SCHOOL OF DISTRICTS, HUBER HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CARES, THE ROTARY CLUB, FIVE RIVERS METRO PARKS, THE HUBER HEIGHTS SENIOR CENTER, THE PARKS AND REC BOARD, THE OURS OF BEAUTIFICATION MISSION, AND OF COURSE, MY FAVORITE PARKS AND REC, RIGHT? .

PLEASE GIMME A ROUND APPLAUSE FOR ALL THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS PLAY THESE AWESOME THINGS ALL GET AROUND.

THIS I SAID YOU PROBABLY CAN'T SEE IS THE MAGNET MAILER THAT WILL BE HITTING HOMES LATER THIS MONTH TO ALL THE HUBER HEIGHTS RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES WILL TELL YOU ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT WE HAVE PLANNED ON THE HH OH ORG SITE.

UNDER COMMUNITY EVENTS, YOU WILL SEE THE HUBER HEIGHTS AMERICA'S TWO 50TH LOGO THAT WILL SHOW YOU AND HIGHLIGHT ALL THOSE EVENTS WE HAVE PLANNED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

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PASS OUT SOME COINS THAT WE HAVE FOR OUR BIRTHDAY HERE.

SO TALKING ABOUT THE TIME CAPSULE, UH, IT JUST, UM, IS ANY I'LL JUST, IS ANYBODY A TV SHOW FAN OF A PARKS AND REC? HAVE EVER WATCHED THAT BEFORE? ? SO DO YOU REMEMBER THE, DO YOU REMEMBER THE TIME CAPSULE EPISODE? OH, YEAH.

YES.

SO WE DO NOT NEED ANY TWILIGHT BOOKS.

NO .

SO I, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THAT, IT WAS BROUGHT UP, THAT'S LIKE THE FIRST THING THAT WENT THROUGH MY MIND IS, YOU KNOW, PARKS AND REC.

LOOK, THAT'S, THAT'S A GREAT SHOW.

IF ANYONE WANTS TO GO BACK AND LOOK AND SEE EVERYTHING THAT, THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ISN'T , THAT'S A GREAT SHOW TO WATCH.

UM, BUT YES, SAY THERE WAS AN EPISODE WHERE THEY DID THE, THE TIME CAPSULE AND SOMEBODY CAME IN LITERALLY CHAINED HIMSELF TO A CHAIR UNTIL THEY AGREED TO PUT LIKE ALL THE TWILIGHT BOOKS INTO THE TIME CAPSULE.

IT WAS, IT WAS FANTASTIC.

UH, SO SECONDLY, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO ALL THESE FOLKS THAT ARE BEHIND US, YOU KNOW, GROWING UP IN HEBREW HEIGHTS, IT IS, WHEN I THINK BACK ABOUT HOW THIS COMMUNITY GREW, WHEN I THINK BACK ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT PUT IN TIME AND EFFORT IN MAKING THIS CITY REALLY WHAT IT IS, AND FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DID THINGS FOR ME AS YOUTH GROWING UP IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND ATTENDING OUR CITY SCHOOLS HERE, WE TRULY, PROBABLY MORE THAN ANY OTHER COMMUNITY AROUND THAT I KNOW OF, WE REALLY ARE A COMMUNITY WHERE THIS WAS TRUTHFULLY BUILT ON THE BACKS OF VOLUNTEERS.

THIS CITY WOULD NOT BE, IT JUST SIMPLY WOULD NOT BE WHAT IT IS TODAY WITHOUT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO VOLUNTEERED OVER THE YEARS TO REALLY MAKE IT WHAT IT IS.

IT IT WAS TRUTHFULLY BUILT ON THE BACKS OF OUR VOLUNTEERS.

AND WHEN MOLLY READ OFF ALL THE NAMES OF THE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES, AND THOSE COMMITTEES AREN'T JUST COMMITTEES.

THOSE COMMITTEES ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MADE UP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE GIVING OF THEIR TIME AND THEIR ENERGY AND THEIR, THEIR GIFTS AND THEIR CRAFTS, UH, AND ALL THEIR ABILITIES TO BE ABLE TO, TO VOLUNTEER, TO MAKE OUR CITY EVEN BETTER FOR THE, SO THE RESIDENTS HAVE THINGS TO DO TO MAKE THEM FEEL LIKE A, A A MORE ENGAGED PART OF THE COMMUNITY.

WHAT'S ALWAYS MADE HUBER HEIGHTS FEEL LIKE HOME IS THE SENSE OF PLACE THAT IT IS.

AND THAT SENSE OF PLACE JUST WOULDN'T BE WHAT IT IS WITHOUT THE PEOPLE OF THIS TOWN.

AND AGAIN, THIS TOWN, THIS CITY WAS BUILT IN THE BACKS OF VOLUNTEERS, JUST LIKE THE FOLKS BEHIND ME.

SO IF YOU WOULD PLEASE GIVE EVERYONE UP, UH, ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE.

AND TO ALL OF OUR PASTOR, ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING OR HAVE ANY OTHER WORDS FOR SOMETHING I FORGOT TO MENTION? WE DO NOT KNOW IF THERE'S AN EXISTING TIME CAPSULE FROM 1976.

SO IF YOU'RE AROUND IN 1976, IF YOU REMEMBER THERE BEING A TIME CAPSULE, PLEASE FIND US.

WE CAN'T FIND IT.

THANKS.

WHO KNOWS WHERE IT IS? SOMEBODY MIGHT FIND IT SOMEDAY.

, I SAY SOMETHING? YEAH, PLEASE, PLEASE DO.

AND THEN I WILL JUST OPEN IT UP IF ANYBODY UN WOULD LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING SHORTLY.

THANK YOU, SIR.

SO, UM, THE LONGEST TABLE PICNIC THAT MOLLY TALKED ABOUT, WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR BUSINESSES AND ALSO, OF COURSE, HOMES THAT ARE INTERESTED IN COMING THAT DAY.

AND WHAT YOU WOULD DO IS BRING A SIX FOOT TABLE, FILL IT FULL OF FOOD, AND JUST SHARE IT WITH EVERYBODY.

SO WE PLAN TO LINE THOSE ALL UP, OUT BACK, AND THEN JUST HAVE THIS REALLY LONG ROW OF FELLOWSHIP AND TALKING AND, AND A GOOD EXPERIENCE.

SO IF YOU'RE WILLING TO COME OUT, HAVE A TABLE, UM, PROVIDE SOME FOOD ON THAT TABLE, PLEASE CONTACT ME.

THANKS.

ANYONE ELSE? UH, THE VOLUNTEERS.

ITEM SEVEN B, SPECIAL RECOGNITION, RECOGNITION PRESENTATION FOR HEROIC ACTIONS TO MR. MATTHEW SAMSKY.

ANYONE FROM COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK? CERTAINLY.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DO SO.

THIS IS FREE SPECIAL, FREE SPECIAL OCCASION.

OKAY, NEXT UP WE HAVE

[ Special Recognition Presentation For Heroic Actions To Mr. Matthew Siemaszko, Amazon Delivery Driver - Fire Chief Keith Knisley And Mayor Jeff Gore]

SCO SCO, SORRY, AMAZON DELIVERY DRIVER BY FIRE CHIEF KEITH LEY AND MAYOR JEFF GORE.

YOU DON'T, YOU DON'T NEED TO BE UP THERE.

I'M GOOD.

GOOD TO SEE TIME YOU, SIR.

HOW ARE YOU DOING? GOOD.

YEARS AGO, GOOD EVENING.

WE'RE, UH, WE'RE HERE TO

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RECOGNIZE, UH, THE ACTIONS OF MR. SAMAS.

CORRECT.

UH, ON, UH, NOVEMBER 24TH, UH, 2025, RIGHT IN THE PRIME OF, UH, DELIVERY SEASON.

UM, UH, HIS ACTIONS, UH, SAVED, UH, QUITE A BIT OF PROPERTY SAVED LIFE.

AND, UH, UH, ASSISTANT CHIEF STIFEL HERE IS GONNA READ, UH, WHAT WE'VE WRITTEN AND KIND OF TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, THE INCIDENT THAT WE HAD ON QUEEN ANNE ON, UH, NOVEMBER 24TH.

UH, SO BEFORE I READ FORMALLY WHAT'S ON THE, UM, CERTIFICATE OF ACCOMMODATION IN OUR PROFESSION, FIRE GROWS RAPIDLY.

THEY SAY IT DOUBLES IN SIZE EVERY MINUTE, UM, AS IT DOUBLES AND GETS INTENSE, IT CREATES HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT FROM SMOKE, FROM HEAT.

UM, THOSE THINGS WERE ALL PRESENT IN THE FIRE THAT WAS MITIGATED BY, UH, MATTHEW THAT DAY.

AND WE WANT TO, IT'S OUR HONOR AND THE FIRE DIVISION'S HONOR TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THIS TIME TO, UH, SAY THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID THAT DAY FOR THE CITIZENS OF HUBER HEIGHTS THAT LIVED IN THAT BUILDING.

AND IT'S JUST VERY PROUD OF YOU.

SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND READ THIS.

I'M BLIND AS A BATT.

ON NOVEMBER 24TH, 2025, WHILE WORKING AS AN AMAZON DELIVERY DRIVER, MR. SAMAS DEMONSTRATED EX EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE, QUICK THINKING, AND SELFLESS DEDICATION TO THE SAFETY OF OTHERS WHEN HE NOTICED SMOKE ISSUING FROM AN APARTMENT AT 5 8 5 8 QUEEN ANN COURT, RECOGNIZING THE IMMEDIATE DANGER, MR. SAMAS DID NOT HESITATE.

HE RETRIEVED A FIRE EXTINGUISHED FROM HIS VEHICLE AND MADE ACCESS TO THE APARTMENT BUILDING.

DESPITE THE PRESENCE OF SMOKE IN AN UNKNOWN HAZARD ENVIRONMENT, ACTING DECISIVELY, MR. SAMCO QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY EXTINGUISHED THE FIRE BEFORE IT COULD SPREAD TO OTHER APARTMENTS OR THREATEN ADDITIONAL LIVES.

MR. SAMCO THEN ENSURED THAT ALL OCCUPANTS HAD SAFELY EXITED THE BUILDING AND REMAINED CLEAR OF DANGER.

HIS CALM DEMEANOR, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS AND WILLINGNESS TO ACT WITHOUT REGARD FOR HIS OWN SAFETY PREVENTED WHAT COULD HAVE BECOME A SIGNIFICANT AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY INCIDENT.

HIS BRAVERY AND COMMITMENT TO THE SAFETY OF OTHERS ARE TRULY COMMENDABLE AND DESERVING OF FORMAL RECOGNITION.

SO WHAT WE'D ALSO LIKE TO PRESENT MATTHEW WITH TODAY IS THIS IS A CHALLENGE COIN THAT WE HAVE WITH OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT.

AFTER WE HAVE AN EMPLOYEE FOR A YEAR AND THEY GET OFF PROBATION, WE GIVE THEM THIS COIN TO SYMBOLIZE THAT THEY'RE PART OF THE FIRE DIVISION'S FAMILY.

AND WE'RE VERY HONORED TO GIVE THIS TO YOU TODAY, MATTHEW.

MUCH I WAS GLAD I WAS ABLE TO HELP PEOPLE OUT, WAS ABLE TO DO WITH THE TINY LITTLE FIVE SINGERS.

I'LL HAVE, YOU KNOW, THAT MATTHEW WAS QUITE ELUSIVE, UH, AFTER HE DID HIS ACT, HE WENT ABOUT DELIVERING PACKAGES.

UM, HAD TO SEARCH 'EM OUT TO GET HIM HERE TODAY.

SO THAT'S VERY COMMENDABLE AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME TO COME HERE TODAY WITH YOUR FAMILY TO LET US RECOGNIZE YOU.

NO PROBLEM.

APPRECIATE YOUR ACTION.

BE THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR TIME.

WE HAVE ITEM SEVEN C CATHOLIC SCHOOL SCHOOLS WEEK, MERRILL PROCLAMATION PRESENTATION TO ST.

NEXT UP

[ Catholic Schools Week Mayoral Proclamation Presentation To Saint Peter Catholic School - Mayor Jeff Gore]

PETER CATHOLIC SCHOOL BY MAYOR JEFF GORE.

SO WE'D ASK THE REPRESENTATIVES OF ST.

PETER, UH, TO COME FORWARD, PLEASE.

SO NEED, I'LL READ THE PROCLAMATION AND I'LL LET YOU SAY SOME WORDS.

SO THIS IS A CATHOLIC SCHOOL'S WEEK MAYORAL PROCLAMATION.

SO WHEREAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK IS AN ANNUAL NATIONAL CELEBRATION OF THE IMPORTANT ROLE THAT CATHOLIC EDUCATION PLAYS IN PROVIDING A COMPREHENSIVE VALUES-BASED EDUCATION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.

AND WHEREAS ST.

PETER CATHOLIC SCHOOL AT 61 85 CHAMBERSBURG ROAD HAS SERVED AS A CORNERSTONE OF FAITH-BASED EDUCATION IN THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS, FOSTERING ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, MORAL INTEGRITY, AND A LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO SERVICE.

AND WHEREAS THE 2026 THEME FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK IS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS UNITED IN FAITH AND COMMUNITY IS SHOWN IN THE PARTNERSHIP OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WITH FAMILIES, PARISHES, AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY TO NURTURE THE WHOLE PERSON, MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT, PREPARING STUDENTS TO BE LEADERS WHO LIVE OUT GOSPEL VALUES.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS VALUES AND APPRECIATES THE TEACHERS AND AUXILIARY PERSONNEL WHO HAVE PROVIDED AND CONTINUE TO PROVIDE OUTSTANDING EDUCATION TO STUDENTS IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, IN THE HEBREW RIGHTS COMMUNITY AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS RECOGNIZES THE COMMITMENT OF PARENTS AND GUARDIANS WHOSE CHILDREN ATTEND CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JEFF GORE, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS, OHIO, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM LUKE OF JANUARY 25TH

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THROUGH THE 31ST 2026 IN THE CITY OF HUB HEIGHTS AS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK AND WITNESS WHEREOF I HEARING TO SET BY HAND AND CAUSE A SEAL OF THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS TO BE AFFIXED THIS NINTH DAY OF FEBRUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2026.

AND THE REASON THAT DATE ON HERE, CATHOLIC SCHOOL WEEK HAS COME AND GONE, BUT BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER, WE POSTPONED OUR MEETING.

SO WE ARE A COUNCIL MEETING AHEAD OF WHEN CATHOLIC SCHOOL WEEK WAS, BUT WE CERTAINLY DIDN'T WANNA LET THE TIME GO WITHOUT PRESENTING THIS, UH, VERY IMPORTANT PROCLAMATION.

I JUST WANNA GIVE THIS TO MRS. KALE.

I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW MUCH THE SCHOOL IS FOR THIS COMMUNITY.

I WAS UNDER THE PR IMPRESSION THAT IF YOU WENT A PRIVATE SCHOOL, THAT YOU'RE ONE OF THE RICH PEOPLE.

I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE THAT AREN'T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING RICH, INCLUDING US, THAT MRS. KALE ACCEPTS THEIR KIDS AND WELCOMES 'EM LIKE THEY ARE HER OWN CHILDREN EVERY DAY WHEN YOU DROP OFF.

SHE IS THE PERSON GREETING, GIVING HUGS EVERY SINGLE DAY.

AND I CAN'T TELL YOU AS A PARENT HOW MUCH THAT MEANS TO ME THAT SOMEBODY LOVES MY KID THAT MUCH THAT'S GONNA CARE FOR 'EM THAT DAY.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

WELCOME.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

OKAY, LAST

[ Government Communicators Day Proclamation Presentation To The Huber Heights Communication Team - Mayor Jeff Gore]

UP.

WE HAVE, UH, ITEM 70 GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATORS DAY PROCLAMATION PRESENTATION TO, TO THE HUBER HEIGHTS COMMUNICATION TEAM BY MAYOR JEFF.

SO BE BEFORE I GET STARTED ON THIS PROCLAMATION, UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANNA SAY, LOOK, THERE ARE, THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE WHO HELP MAKE MY JOB SO MUCH EASIER, AND TWO OF 'EM ARE, ARE WITH ME IN THIS, UH, BUILDING RIGHT NOW.

AND ONE OF 'EM, OF COURSE IS, UH, MR. TONY ROGERS AND SARAH WILLIAMS. SO IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION, PLEASE WATCH, UH, THE MAYOR'S MINUTE.

UM, WE GO THROUGH AND PUT THAT TOGETHER AND SARAH WORKS INCREDIBLY HARD BEHIND THE SCENES, MAKING SURE THAT I HAVE ALL THE THINGS THAT I NEED TO BE ABLE TO RECORD TO THOSE SERIES, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, SHE'S ALWAYS ENGAGED WITH THE COMMUNITY, MAKING SURE THAT THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ARE THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND WHEN WE HIT THAT, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, OUR CITIZENS ACADEMY, THE WORK THAT SHE DID TO PUT THOSE THINGS TOGETHER, THE BOOKLETS, THE PAMPHLETS, ALL THE THINGS THAT CAME TOGETHER, UM, JUST SHOWS HER LEVEL OF COMMITMENT.

AND IT'S NOT JUST BETWEEN THE HOURS OF, YOU KNOW, EIGHT IN THE MORNING UNTIL FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON.

UH, IT IS, I HAD TO MESSAGE HER THIS WEEKEND, JOHN, SORRY, .

BUT IT IS, UM, IT IS A JOB THAT SHE DOESN'T TAKE LIGHTLY.

AND I AM SO INCREDIBLY THANKFUL FOR BEING ABLE TO WORK AS CLOSELY WITH SARAH AS WHAT I DO AND HOW WELL I'VE KIND OF GOTTEN TO KNOW HER AND US WORKING TOGETHER OVER, OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF OR SO.

SO, SARAH, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT BEFORE I READ THE PROCLAMATION.

SO THIS IS THE CITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS MARITAL PROCLAMATION RECOGNITION, RECOGNIZING GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATORS DAY.

WHEREAS THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONALS IS TO INFORM, EDUCATE, AND ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITIES.

AND WHEREAS ROBUST COMMUNICATION AND GOVERNMENT CREATES TRUST AND INSPIRES RESIDENTS TO TAKE ACTION AND BE INVOLVED.

AND WHEREAS GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS CREATE RELATIONSHIPS AND CALLS TO ACTION, BUILD AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING THROUGH STORYTELLING, ENGAGE IN FOSTERING ENGAGEMENT AND CIVIC ISSUES AND USE OF CHANNELS TO INCLUDE PEOPLE AND CRITICAL DECISIONS.

AND WHEREAS IT IS ESSENTIAL TO HAVE STRONG COMMUNICATIONS IN GOVERNMENT BECAUSE IT IS FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENT OF LIVING IN A DEMOCRACY WHERE CITIZENS HAVE THE FREEDOM TO MAKE THEIR VOICE HEARD.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS UTILIZES A COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL MEDIA, INCLUDING THE WEBSITE, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND AN ENEWSLETTER TO PROVIDE TIMELY, ACCESSIBLE AND TRANSPARENT INFORMATION TO RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES REGARDING CITY SERVICES, PROJECTS, AND COMMUNITY UPDATES.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY IS REVITALIZING A MAILED NEWSLETTER DELIVERED TO ALL HOUSEHOLDS AND BUSINESSES TO ENSURE INCLUSIVE COMMUNICATION AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO INFORMATION FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY PRODUCES AM MANAGEMENT VIDEO MESSAGE SHARED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO HIGHLIGHT CITY INITIATIVES, CELEBRATE COMMUNITY SUCCESS AND PROVIDE DIRECT COMMUNICATION FROM CITY LEADERSHIP.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS PRODUCES HEBREW HEIGHTS MEANS BUSINESS, BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS THAT SHOWCASE LOCAL BUSINESSES, ENTREPRENEURS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY, CELEBRATING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND STRENGTHENING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES, AND CITY LEADERSHIP.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY PRODUCES A SHORT FORM VIDEO SERIES HOSTED ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE THAT EXPLAINS CITY TAXES SERVICES DEPARTMENTS, WHILE DIRECTING RESIDENTS TO FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY INFORMATION TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRUST IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY PRESENTS A STATE OF THE CITY VIDEO THAT PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF COMMUNITY PROGRESS, PRIORITIES AND CHALLENGES, WHILE CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CITIZENS AWARENESS AND ENGAGEMENT REGARDING THE OVERALL DIRECTION

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OF THE CITY.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY ALSO HOSTS QUARTERLY CUPS AND CONVERSATION EVENTS TO FOSTER MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE TO LISTEN TO RESIDENTS CONCERNS AND STRENGTHEN RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE COMMUNITY.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS LAUNCH ITS FIRST EVER CITIZENS ACADEMY TO EDUCATE RESIDENTS ON MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS, PROMOTE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND ENCOURAGE INFORM PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

AND WHEREAS THESE COMMUNICATION AND ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVES DEMONSTRATE THE CITY'S COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY, ACCESSIBILITY, INNOVATION, AND BUILDING TRUST THROUGH PROACTIVE AND RESPONSIVE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS IS PROUD AND AS DEEP GRATITUDE AND RECOGNITION FOR GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATORS, PROFESSIONALISM, DEDICATION, HARD WORK, COMMITMENT, ENTHUSIASM, AND SACRIFICE.

AND NOW THEREFORE, I JEFF GORE, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF HEBREW RIGHTS, OHIO, TO HEREBY PROCLAIM FEBRUARY 20TH, 2026 AND THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS AS GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATORS DAY AND ENCOURAGE ALL RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO RECOGNIZE AND THANK THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY'S COMMUNICATION TEAM WHO HAVE DEDICATED THEIR CAREERS TO ENSURING THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS MAINTAINS EFFECTIVE, IMPACTFUL, TRANSPARENT AND RELEVANT COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES THAT INFORM, ENGAGE, AND CONNECT THE COMMUNITY AND WITNESS WHEREOF.

I APPEAR TO SET MY HAND AND CALLS THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS TO BE AFFIXED THIS NINTH DAY OF FEBRUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2026.

SARAH, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

NOW WHATCHA GONNA DO NEXT MONTH? .

THANK YOU, SARAH.

HEY, THINK I'M DONE, FOR NOW, RICE.

KIM, BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I, UM, WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT WE DO HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST THIS EVENING, AND THAT IS, UH, UH, ONE OF OUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, UH, MS. CAROLYN RICE.

SO, UH, WE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE FOR THE TWO DIFFERENT, UM, CELEBRATIONS THIS EVENING AND KIND OF BE HERE FOR THAT AND JUST CERTAINLY WOULD WANNA OFFER YOU AN OPPORTUNITY.

IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY, CERTAINLY PLEASE DO.

BUT IF YOU DON'T, DON'T FEEL ANY PRESSURE.

, UH, I, THIS IS MY FIRST TIME IN THE BUILDING.

IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

WE'RE PROBABLY NOT PICKING YOU UP ON THE, IT'S MY FIRST TIME VISITING YOUR NEW, UM, GOVERNMENT CENTER.

IT IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.

SO I COMMEND YOU ALL, UH, FOR THIS ACHIEVEMENT, AND IT IS SO OPENING AND FRIENDLY AND WONDERFUL.

I'M, I'M THE, UH, MONTGOMERY COUNTY LIAISON FOR AMERICA TWO 50.

SO I HAD A VERY SPECIAL INTEREST BECAUSE, UH, MOLLY WAS ON OUR CONFERENCE CALL THIS WEEK AND WAS TELLING ME ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE PLANNED.

SO DON'T BE SURPRISED IF I SHOW UP AT THE SENIOR PROM, UH, ON MARCH 6TH.

UH, BUT NO, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 45TH, UM, BIRTHDAY AND FOR BEAUTIFUL GOVERNMENT CENTER AND JUST WONDERFUL COMMUNITY THAT YOU ALL ARE CREATING.

SO MY PLEASURE TO BE HERE.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER RICE, WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE THIS EVENING.

OKAY, LET ME FIND MY SPOT.

WHERE ARE WE, CITIZENS? CONFERENCE NUMBER SEVEN OR EIGHT.

OKAY, NEXT UP WE HAVE ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, WHICH IS CITIZENS' COMMENTS ON SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEMS THIS EVENING? MR. R? UH, THERE ARE NONE THIS EVENING, MAYOR.

WHICH IS OUR CITY MANAGER REPORT.

AND NEXT UP WE HAVE ITEM NUMBER NINE,

[9. City Manager Report]

SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO JOHN.

GOOD TO SEE YOU, SIR.

MAYOR AND COUNSEL.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

UM, JUST A FEW REMINDERS THAT YOU'LL SEE AND THEN A, A COUPLE OF THE EVENTS THAT ARE UPCOMING, UM, TO KIND OF KEEP, UH, WITH THE THEME.

I KNOW, UH, WE TALK QUITE FREQUENTLY, UM, ME AND YOU AND I DO AND, AND, AND ALL OF COUNCIL ABOUT JUST OUR HIRING PROCESSES, HOW WE'RE STREAMLINING OUR HIRING PROCESSES.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE MADE SOME, SOME MONUMENTAL LEAPS HERE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.

UM, WE'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE IN PLACE NOW TO KIND OF, UH, CAPTURE THOSE PEOPLE THAT, UH, MAYBE, UH, WE WOULDN'T HAVE CAPTURED IN THE PAST.

UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE POLICE AND FIRE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF ALTERING SOME OF THEIR HIRING PRACTICES AND, AND THE THINGS THAT THEY DO.

UM, BUT I, I WANT, I WANNA HIGHLIGHT THAT, BUT I ALSO WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT OUR WEBSITE'S PROBABLY THE BEST PLACE TO FIND, UM, OUR CURRENT OPENINGS.

UM, BUT I BRING THESE TWO UP JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE ENDING HERE IN THE NEXT WEEK.

AGAIN, THE, THE BEST WAY TO GET TO THESE IS IS THROUGH OUR CITY WEBSITE.

UM, SO WE HAVE A POLICE OFFICER HIRING, AND WE DO HAVE A, UH, MAINTENANCE TECH FOR OUR PUBLIC WORKS.

UM, THERE'S SOME PART-TIME JOBS ON THERE AS WELL, BUT ANYTIME WE HAVE A POSTING, AGAIN, I, I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH WHAT SARAH DOES FOR ME.

SHE ALSO MAKES MY LIFE WAY EASIER.

AND SHE DOES WORK MORE THAN JUST MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

SHE HEARS FROM ME ON THE WEEKENDS QUITE OFTEN, .

SO, UH, SHE'S, SHE'S QUICK TO GET THESE OUT THERE AND POSTED.

BUT

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SO, UM, WE, WE HAVE SOME, UH, INTERESTING, UH, STATS FOR YOU.

I, ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS IS I LIKE TO BRING TO YOU, UM, BECAUSE AGAIN, ONE OF THE PRIORITIES THAT, THAT YOU GUYS OUTLINED, YOU KNOW, NANCY ESPECIALLY, UM, IS, IS HOW DO WE GET EXTRA FUNDING FOR SOME OF OUR PROJECTS? UM, AND FROM THE BEGINNING, STAFF HAS HEARD FROM ME, GRANTS, GRANTS, GRANTS TILL THEY'RE PROBABLY TIRED OF HEARING GRANTS, GRANTS, GRANTS .

AND, UH, WE, WE DO THE BEST WE CAN DO.

AND I WILL TELL YOU WE'VE GOT SOME OUTSTANDING STAFF MEMBERS DOING THAT.

UM, I JUST NOTIFIED THIS WEEK FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT THEY GOT A $3,500 GRANT, UH, FROM THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

UM, AND THAT'S GONNA HELP WITH SOME SPECIALIZED COMPUTER EQUIPMENT THAT'S GONNA ACTUALLY HELP US IN SOME OF OUR PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS, UM, UH, IN THE FUTURE TOO.

SO, YOU KNOW, WITH WITH VIDEO BECOMING A PART OF PUBLIC RECORDS, WE, WE'VE KIND OF GOTTA ADAPT AND DO SOME DIFFERENT THINGS.

UM, SO THIS IS GONNA HELP US WITH SOME OF THOSE VIDEO, UH, PUBLIC RE REQUESTS THAT WE GET AS WELL.

SO, UM, STAYING ON THE PUBLIC SAFETY FRONT, UM, UH, AGAIN, I THINK YOU GUYS KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT, UH, POLICE AND FIRE.

UM, I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR FUTURE POLICE.

UM, YOU KNOW, OUR PUBLIC SAFETY CADETS WORK HARD TIRELESSLY.

UH, YOU SEE 'EM AT EVENTS AND AGAIN, THEY WERE AT THE TREE LIGHTING, THEY WERE AT THE 4TH OF JULY.

THEY, THEY, THEY JUST WORKED TIRELESSLY, UM, FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

UH, THEY HAD THEIR ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER HERE A MONTH OR SO AGO.

AND I JUST, AGAIN, I WANTED TO SAY WHAT A GREAT JOB THEY DO.

I WANNA THANK THEM, BUT ALSO THEIR ADVISORS THROUGH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

SO, UM, I'VE, I'VE GIVEN YOU SOME STATS IN THE PAST.

WE TALKED ABOUT SOME FOR, UM, PUBLIC WORKS RECENTLY FOR POLICE.

UM, I, I, I'M GONNA TRY AND MAINTAIN THIS MONTHLY IF, IF WE CAN KEEP UP ON SOME OF THESE STATS.

BUT, UM, WE POSTED THIS JUST EARLIER THIS WEEK THAT, UH, FOR THE JANUARY EMERGENCY RESPONSES FOR FIRE.

UM, SO YOU CAN SEE ON THE, UH, RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN THERE IS JUST EMS CALLS.

WE TOOK 551 CALLS FOR SERVICE FIRE, 123 FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 674.

AND THE FIRE CHIEF LOVES WHEN HE POSTS THINGS, 'CAUSE I ALWAYS CALL HIM AND SAY, OKAY, WHERE ARE WE AT? WHERE DOES THAT COMPARE? YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE HISTORICALLY, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT? AND THIS WAS OUR THIRD HIGHEST START, UM, TO A YEAR SINCE 2021.

SO, UM, AGAIN, THIS, THESE NUMBERS ARE ABOUT AVERAGE, UM, 21.7 CALLS A DAY.

BUT AGAIN, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT STANDS AT THIRD HIGHEST RIGHT NOW, UM, SINCE 2021.

SO, AND THEN, UM, AGAIN, I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW AMAZING OUR PARKS AND REC DEPARTMENT ARE AND THE THINGS THAT THEY DO, UM, AS THEY BRING THINGS UP, I TRY AND BRING THEM IN FRONT OF YOU.

UH, WE DO HAVE AN EVENT COMING ON FEBRUARY 13TH, VALENTINE'S DAY.

UH, THE REGISTRATION IS ON OUR HH REC DESK.

UM, THERE IS A COST A ASSOCIATED WITH WHICH IS LISTED THERE, AND I THINK IF I'M RIGHT, I REMEMBER IT'S $40.

BUT, UH, THIS IS AN UPCOMING EVENT, UH, FOR ALL THE LADIES.

IT'LL BE, UH, AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FROM SIX TO 8:00 PM ON THE 13TH.

AND THEN LASTLY, AS YOU SAID, UM, I WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO SARAH.

UH, SHE'S ALWAYS TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO GET YOU AND I ENGAGED AND, AND OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.

UM, OUR NEXT CUPS AND CONVERSATION WILL HAPPEN ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, RIGHT HERE, UH, AT 10:00 AM SO I'LL TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS.

OH, SORRY.

TAX SEASON .

THAT'S RIGHT.

UH, EVERYONE WANTS TO FORGET THAT, BUT, UH, I WILL TELL YOU, UM, UH, AS I TALK TO THE TAX DEPARTMENT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ONLINE IS OBVIOUSLY THEIR PREFERRED METHOD AND, AND IT'S EASIEST FOR MOST OF OUR EMPLOYEES.

BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT IF YOU'VE GOT A NEED, UM, SCHEDULING, UM, THROUGH CALLING 9 3 7 2 3 7 2 9 7 6, UH, THEY'LL HAVE APPOINTMENTS, UH, OPEN MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

NOW, I'LL TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS, .

THANK YOU, JOHN.

ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR JOHN REGARDING ANYTHING IN HIS REPORT THIS EVENING? OKAY, SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE ON.

NEXT UP IS ITEM NUMBER 10, WHICH IS PENDING BUSINESS.

TONY, THERE'S NONE THIS EVENING, MAYOR.

UNDER ADMINISTRATION ITEM 11 B, A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND ENTER INTO A CONTRACT FOR FURNITURE FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT F AND E FOR THE PUBLIC WORKS FACILITY AND THE CITY HALL RENOVATION PROJECT AT THE FIRST STREET.

MOVES US ON TO ITEM NUMBER 11,

[ A Motion To Appoint Gwendolyn Fou To The Citizen Complaint Review Board For A Term Ending December 31, 2027.]

WHICH IS NEW BUSINESS.

AND ITEM 11 A WILL GET US STARTED.

ITEM 11 A, A MOTION TO APPOINT GWENDOLYN VAL TO THE CITIZEN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD FOR A TERM ENDING DECEMBER 31ST, 2027.

OKAY, TONY, YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? UH, JUST THAT AS WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, UH, SEVERAL COUNCIL WORK SESSIONS AGO, UH, THIS IS AN APPOINTMENT BRINGING US, UM, NEAR FULL ON THE CCRB SO THAT WE CAN START ORGANIZING THE BUSINESS OF THIS BOARD.

AND, UH, THE NECESSARY BA BACKGROUND CHECKS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED.

SO I WOULD RECOMMEND COUNCIL'S ACTION ON THIS APPOINTMENT THIS EVENING.

THAT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION.

IS THERE A MOTION, NANCY? MOTION TO APPOINT? OKAY.

SECOND, YOU HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND IS OUR DISCUSSION.

MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO AND NEXT UP IS ITEM 11 B

[ A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Negotiate And Enter Into A Contract For Furniture, Fixtures, And Equipment (FF&E) For The Public Works Facility And The City Hall Renovation Project. (first reading)]

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JOHN, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? UH, JUST A REMINDER, UH, AARON DID A GREAT JOB OF OUTLINING THIS LAST WEEK, BUT, UH, THIS IS, UM, BASICALLY WE'RE GETTING RIGHT NOW PRICING THAT WE GOT ON THIS BUILDING, UM, FOR OUR FUTURE PUBLIC WORKS AND OUR, UM, UH, CENTER OVER ON TAYLORSVILLE ROAD.

THAT PRICING IS LOCKED IN NOW AT THIS PRICE.

UH, WE ANTICIPATE IF WE WERE TO WAIT, WE'D SEE ABOUT A 5% INCREASE THIS YEAR AND PROBABLY A 5% INCREASE NEXT YEAR IN PRICING.

C, ITEM 11 CA RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH KE ROSE AT THE FIRST READ.

THANK YOU JOHN.

AND COUNCILLOR, UH, THE WORK SESSION RECOMMENDATION WAS TO ADOPT.

IS THERE A MOTION DON, MOVE TO ADOPT BRETT? I WILL.

SECOND WE HAVE A MOTION.

AND SECOND.

ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM? ATTORNEY MAYOR GORE? YES.

AND MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.

AND NEXT UP WE HAVE ITEM 11

[ A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Community Reinvestment Area And Development Agreement With K.E. Rose. (first reading)]

THANK YOU, TONY.

MAYOR, I NEED TO RECUSE MYSELF ON THIS.

I HAVE, UH, I DO BUSINESS WITH KATIE ROSE, SO, OKAY.

THANK YOU, SCOTT.

YEAH, SO IF YOU'LL, UH, I'LL COME GET YOUR WORD DONE.

TAKE OFF FOR A SECOND.

WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN WE'RE READY.

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK, .

WE'LL NEVER BRING IT BACK.

JOHN, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? UH, NO.

I, JASON NARON DID A GOOD JOB LAST WEEK OF EXPLAINING THIS IS A RECENTLY CONSTRUCTED 5,200 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING.

UM, THIS BUILDING'S LOCATED IN CRE DISTRICT NUMBER THREE AND IT MEETS ALL THE NECESSARY REQUIREMENTS.

RECOMMENDATION WAS ADOPTION.

IS THERE A MOTION, BRETT, MOTION TO ADOPT? RIGHT.

A SECOND.

WE HAVE A MOTION.

AND SECOND, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION, NANCY? YEAH, WE HAD A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS, UH, LEFT OVER FROM LAST WEEK, UM, ABOUT THE, UH, RECURRING CRA AWARDS AND, UM, THERE WAS A QUESTION FROM MR. CAMPBELL ABOUT POSSIBLY TIFFING THE AREA, UM, AND ALSO THE, UH, BENEFIT OF DOING THE CRA, THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT BASICALLY.

SO WE ARE GONNA MOVE FORWARD WITH THE TIFF, UH, EXPANDING THE TIFF IN THAT AREA.

UM, THE, WE ARE STILL, EXCUSE ME, UH, STILL WORKING OUT ON THE, THE ACTUAL, UM, ROI ON THE, THE PAYROLL, BUT WE WILL, WE WILL COME OUT AHEAD BASED ON THIS EXPANSION, UM, BY MOVING FORWARD WITH THE CRA VERSUS NOT MOVING FORWARD WITH THE CRA.

BUT WE DO WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH A TIFF ON THIS AREA.

UM, ALL RIGHT.

ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? YES, ANITA? HOW MANY TIMES DO WE DO TAX ABATEMENTS USUALLY FOR BUSINESS? I MEAN, THREE SEEMS LIKE A LOT .

WELL, THE, UM, SO EACH, EACH, UM, INVESTMENT IS KIND OF TAKEN ON ITS OWN, UM, FACE VALUE OR MERIT.

IN THIS CASE, KE ROSE HAS EXPANDED A NUMBER OF TIMES OVER THE YEARS AND, UM, HAS HAD A CRA AGREEMENT FOR AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE EXPANSIONS.

AND THEN, UM, THIS, THIS ONE OCCUR, UH, AS WELL.

WE HAVE DONE THIS FOR OTHER, UM, BUSINESSES AS WELL.

UM, PBS PLASTICS, THERE'S A TIFF AGREEMENT FOR THERE.

UH, AND WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH A, UH, WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE, ARE WE MOVING WITH CRA? YEAH, WE ARE, UH, MOVING FORWARD WITH CRA AGREEMENT WITH PBS PLASTICS AS WELL BECAUSE THEY BUILT AN EXPANSION, WHAT, TWO YEARS AGO? THEY'RE GETTING READY TO BUILD ANOTHER EXPANSION.

SO IT'S REALLY PREDICATED ON THE, THE TYPE AND AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT THAT THAT PARTICULAR BUSINESS IS MAKING.

AND IN THIS CASE, UH, WITH, UH, KE ROSE, THE, THE INVESTMENT IS SUBSTANTIAL.

MAYOR, ANYTHING ELSE? NO.

YES, NANCY, UM, AND I HAD RAISED A QUESTION LAST WEEK ON, UM, WHETHER THEY HAD RECEIVED AN EDGE GRANT EARLIER YOU DID, AND I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER FOR YOU AT THIS MEETING, I APOLOGIZE.

WE WILL GET THAT, THAT TO YOU.

THAT'S OKAY.

AND, AND JUST, SO, UM, WE DID NOT APPLY WHAT WE NEVER APPLIED FOR AN INCH GRANT.

UH, THERE WAS RECORDS, UH, THAT I PULLED UP AND I KNOW HOW THE PAPER WAY BACK YEAH.

YEARS AGO THERE WAS AN EDGE GRANT, RIGHT? RIGHT.

I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT FOR THIS.

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.

A PREVIOUS EDGE GRANT FOR A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS LONG TIME AGO.

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SO I GUESS LIKE I, WE ADDED, JUST FOR THE RECORD, MA'AM, WE ADDED 35 JOBS AS A RESULT OF THAT EDGE GRANT.

OH, I UNDERSTAND.

AND, AND THAT'S GREAT.

UM, BUT THAT WAS A PART OF WHAT MY QUESTION WAS LAST WEEK, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO ADD THREE JOBS WITH THIS, AND THE INVESTMENT WAS, UM, APPROXIMATELY A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

WHEREAS MOST OF OUR CRAS COVER BUSINESSES THAT PROVIDE A MUCH LARGER NUMBER OF FUTURE EMPLOYEES AND A LARGER, UM, FINANCIAL COMMITMENT.

YOU GET A HUNDRED THOUSAND, I'M SORRY, THE, THE, BECAUSE THE, THERE WAS LIKE THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THIS PROJECT.

IT WASN'T A HUNDRED THOUSAND.

A MILLION DOLLARS.

I'M SORRY, I DON'T HAVE THE PAPER IN FRONT OF ME.

SURE, SURE.

UM, SO I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE INVESTING THAT MONEY IN YOUR BUSINESS, AND THAT'S WONDERFUL.

BUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT IS THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES THAT, THAT WILL COME IN AND CONTRIBUTE TAXES TO THE CITY.

BUT WE, IF YOU AVERAGE IT OUT EACH PHASE, WE'VE DONE AN EXPANSION, WE'VE HIRED AN EXCESS OF 10 PEOPLE PER PHASE.

WELL, I UNDERSTAND, BUT YOU'VE PROJECTED YOU'RE GOING TO DO THREE FOR THIS PHASE IN THIS YEAR, IN THIS GIVEN YEAR.

THERE'S FIVE TOTAL, FIVE TOTAL AT THE END OF THREE YEARS.

RIGHT.

AND THEN IF YOU, AND YOU COULD KEEP IN MIND IT IS SPECULATION, BUT IF YOU EXTRAPOLATE OUT FIVE YEARS, 10 YEARS, AND YOU LOOK AT HISTORY AS ANY GUIDE, WE'RE AVERAGING ABOUT 10 JOBS FOR EVERY EXPANSION WE'VE DONE.

RIGHT.

I, I CAN'T PROMISE THAT WE GIVE A COMMITMENT FOR WHAT WE DO PROMISE, BUT WE'VE ALWAYS EXCEEDED THAT SIGNIFICANTLY.

AND, AND THE OTHER CONCERN THAT I RAISED WAS THAT WE PUT IN FOR THE CRA AFTER THE BUILDING WAS BUILT.

AND THAT'S NOT THE NORMAL WAY OF DOING THINGS.

WE PUT IT IN BEFORE THEY'RE BUILT.

AND I UNDERSTAND YOUR APPLICATION WENT IN LAST JULY, AND I ASKED WHY IT HADN'T BEEN ENACTED OR, YOU KNOW, AND NEVER REALLY GOT AN ANSWER ON THAT.

SO WHEN THE INITIAL APPLICATION CAME IN, WE HAD TO REVIEW THAT WITH, UH, OUR, UH, ED, UH, BOND COUNCIL, UH, TO REVIEW IT.

AND WE WANTED ALSO TO WORK WITH MONTGOMERY COUNTY TO ENSURE, UM, THAT BECAUSE THERE WAS, UH, DIFFERENT PHASES TO THIS PROJECT, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT IF WE ADDED ANOTHER CRA, IT WAS ALLOWABLE NOT ONLY BY OUR LEGAL, UH, DEPARTMENT, BUT ALSO THE COUNTY.

SO THERE WERE SOME TIMES AND MEETINGS THAT TOOK PLACE REGARDING THE ENTIRE PROJECT.

SO I ASSURE YOU, WE WERE WORKING AS SOON AS WE RECEIVED THE APPLICATION.

WE WORKED WITH MR. ROSE, ACTUALLY MET SEVERAL TIMES, UH, THROUGH THE, UH, PROCESS AS WELL, ALSO MET WITH THE COUNTY ALSO.

ANY, UM, ECONOMIC INCENTIVE IS REVIEWED BY THE TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL, WHICH WE ARE A PART OF.

UH, WE HAVE THOSE MEETINGS ONCE A YEAR AT MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

AND THAT'S WHEN WE REVIEW ALL CRAS, ALL TIFFS COUNTYWIDE AND ENTERPRISE ZONES AS WELL.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY ENTERPRISE ZONES HERE IN, UH, HUBER HEIGHTS.

AND THAT'S WHEN THE COMMITTEE DECIDES THE PROMISE THAT WAS MADE.

ARE THEY KEEPING THE PROMISE? SO FOR EXAMPLE, IN, IN THIS CASE, ADDING THE JOBS, THAT'S WHEN IT'S REVIEWED EVERY YEAR, UM, BY THE COUNTY, WHICH WE'RE A PART OF THAT MEETING.

THE, UH, OTHER THING WE DO INTERNALLY, WHICH IS REQUIRED BY LAW, IS EVERY YEAR WE HAVE A MEETING, IT'LL BE COMING UP HERE SHORTLY TO REVIEW ALL OUR ECONOMIC INCENTIVES IN PREPARATION FOR RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL.

AND WE HAVE TO, AS A PART OF A-C-I-C-R-A, EXCUSE ME, WE HAVE TO ALSO GO OUT AND VISIBLY INSPECT THE PRO, UH, PROPERTY TO MAKE SURE ONE, THE PROJECT HAS BEEN DONE AND COMPLETED, AND THAT THEY ARE CONTINUING WITH WHAT THEY PROMISED TO THE CITY.

MR. DAVIDSON HAS RECUSED HIMSELF.

I APPRECIATE THAT, ALEX.

UM, I, I'M, I'M NOT DISPUTING YOUR NEED FOR A CRA MR. ROSE.

I'M JUST, UH, WANTING TO DO MY DUE DILIGENCE AND BRING UP MY CONCERNS AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THAT WE JUST DON'T HAND THESE OUT WILLY-NILLY, BASICALLY.

UM, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY.

WE DO HAVE A MOTION.

AND SECOND, TONY, IF YOU WOULD CALL THE ROLE, PLEASE.

MR. AKENS? YES.

MR. LOONEY? YES.

MRS. KITCHEN? YES.

MR. DAVIDSON? I'M SORRY.

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SO LET THE RECORD SHOW THE MOTION PASSES SEVEN TO ZERO WITH MR. DAVIDSON AND RECUSAL.

NEXT UP WE HAVE ITEM 11 D.

LET GET SCOTT.

YEP.

JOHN, TOGETHER.

I COULD HAVE JUST YELLED REAL LOUD.

11 D IN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE IMPROVEMENT TO CERTAIN PARCELS IN THE CITY TO BE A PUBLIC PURPOSE AND EXEMPT FROM TAXATION, PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION AND POSITIVE SERVICE PAYMENTS, AND SPECIFYING THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THOSE SERVICE PAYMENTS MAY BE EXPENDED, AUTHORIZING COMPENSATION, PAYMENTS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AT THE FIRST TREAT.

11 D TONY,

[ An Ordinance Declaring The Improvement To Certain Parcels In The City To Be A Public Purpose And Exempt From Taxation; Providing For The Collection And Deposit Of Service Payments And Specifying The Purposes For Which Those Service Payments May Be Expended; Authorizing Compensation Payments, And Declaring An Emergency. (first reading)]

JOHN? UH, JUST A REMINDER, THIS WILL ALLOW US TO, UH, UTILIZE ADDITIONAL INCENTIVE DISTRICTS IN THIS REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT TO MAXIMIZE REV MAXIMIZE REVENUE, UH, TOTAL PROJECTED REVENUE IN THIS DISTRICTS $4,600,000.

AT THE WORK SESSION.

RECOMMENDATION WAS TO WAIVE THE SECOND READING AND ADOPT THIS ITEM THIS EVENING.

IS THERE A MOTION TO WAIVE ANITA? MOVE TO WAIVE.

IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY.

SECOND.

WE HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND TO WAIVE.

ANY DISCUSSION MR. LOONEY? UH, YES.

THIS MRS. KITCHEN? YES.

MOTION TO WAIVE CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.

NEXT MEETING TO MOTION FOR ADOPTION.

DON, MOVE TO ADOPT.

WE HAVE A SECOND, RIGHT? I'LL SECOND THAT WE HAVE A MOTION.

AND SECOND TO ADOPT ANY DISCUSSION.

AND THIS IS, UM, DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, CORRECT? ZOOM.

IT'S WHAT? YES.

DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

JUST MAKING SURE THAT IT'S EMERGENCY.

MAKING, UH, THE SECOND EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS WHAT THEY'RE VOTING ON HERE AS, AS AN EMERGENCY CLAUSE.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? TONY? OH, DON.

AND WHAT WAS THAT, UH, OPENING DATE FOR BUCKY'S MAYOR ? SIXTH.

APRIL THE SIXTH.

SIX EIGHT.

'CAUSE THE LAST TIME THAT MADE NATIONAL NEWS THE LAST TIME YOU SAID THAT.

SO YEAH.

ADAM 11 EA RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE AMOUNTS AND RATES IS DETERMINED BY THE BUDGET COMMISSION IN MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO, AUTHORIZING THE NECESSARY TAX LEVIES AND CERTIFYING THE AMOUNTS AND RATES TO THE MIAMI COUNTY AUDITOR AT THE FIRST READING.

TONY, MRS. KITCHEN? YES.

AND MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO FOR ADOPTION.

AND NEXT IS ITEM 11 E

[ A Resolution Accepting The Amounts And Rates As Determined By The Budget Commission Of Miami County, Ohio, Authorizing The Necessary Tax Levies, And Certifying The Amounts And Rates To The Miami County Auditor. (first reading)]

JOHN? UH, YEAH, THIS IS FROM MIAMI COUNTY.

JIM DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF KIND OF EXPLAINING, UM, THEIR REDUCTION, BUT THEN WHAT THAT MEANS TO US.

SO, UM, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS.

F ITEM 11 FA RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXTEND THE AGREEMENT WITH THE RAZZI FIREWORKS COMPANY, INCORPORATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING A MUNICIPAL FIREWORKS DISPLAY AND CELEBRATION OF THE 4TH OF JULY NATIONAL HOLIDAY FOR THE YEARS OF 2027 THROUGH 2030, AND A DRONE SHOW FOR THE YEARS OF 2026 THROUGH 2029 AT THE FIRST READING.

THANK YOU, JOHN.

UH, FIRST THE RECOMMENDATION WAS ADOPTION.

IS THERE A MOTION, SCOTT, MOVE TO ADOPT.

IS THERE A SECOND? UNMUTE.

SECOND.

WE HAVE A MOTION.

AND SECOND, IS THERE A DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS FOR JOHN? OKAY.

AND THE MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.

AND NEXT WE MOVE TO ITEM 11

[ A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Extend The Agreement With The Rozzi Fireworks Company, Inc. For The Purpose Of Providing A Municipal Fireworks Display In Celebration Of The Fourth Of July National Holiday For The Years Of 2027 Through 2030 And A Drone Show For The Years Of 2026 Through 2029. (first reading)]

JOHN? YEAH, JUST A REMINDER, THE CHIEF DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF EXPLAINING THIS, BUT, UH, THIS LOCKS US IN, UM, WITH THE INCREASE THAT RAZZY GAVE US.

UH, WE'RE, WE'RE WITH A, UM, AS THEY CALL HIM A SHOOTER THAT WE REALLY TRUST, UM, WHO'S DONE A REALLY GREAT JOB FOR US IN THE PAST.

UH, I THINK THAT COMFORT LEVEL WITH, WITH THE FIRE DIVISION AND WITH HIM IS IMPORTANT.

UM, THE OTHER ADDITION TO THIS IS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER AND, AND RUN THE, UH, DRONE SHOW FOR OUR DECEMBER, UM, CELEBRATION AS WELL.

SO IT'LL BE A 15 MINUTE DRONE SHOW AS WELL FROM RAZZY IN THE END.

SO, COOL.

RECOMMENDATION WAS ADOPTION.

IS THERE A MOTION? BRIAN MOVED TO THAT? IS THERE A SECOND? DON? I WILL SECOND.

WE DO HAVE A MOTION.

AND SECOND, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THE ROSY CONTRACT? JUST ONE.

YES.

FRED? THANK.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

JUST ONE QUESTION, JOHN.

UM, YES SIR.

DOES THIS PRECLUDE US FROM SOLICITING, UH, SPONSORS FOR THE, UH, THE EVENT THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR? IT DOES NOT.

IN FACT, WE TRIED, IF YOU, IF YOU RECALL, WE TRIED LAST YEAR.

UM, WE HAD A, WE THOUGHT WE HAD A, A VENDOR.

UM, SO WE WILL, WE WILL SEEK SOME, SOME SPONSORSHIPS AS WELL FOR OUR SHOWS.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION? TONY? MR. DAVIDSON? YES.

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QUESTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO AND NEXT IS

[ A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Solicit, Advertise, And Receive Bids From Qualified Firms For The 2026 Sidewalk Program And The Concrete Portion Of The 2026 Street Improvement Program. (first reading)]

ITEM 11 G.

ITEM 11 GA RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SOLICIT, ADVERTISE, AND RECEIVE BIDS FROM QUALIFIED FIRMS FOR THE 2026 SIDEWALK PROGRAM AND THE CONCRETE PORTION OF THE 2026 STREET IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AT THE FIRST STREET.

JOHN, ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? NO, SIR.

JUST REMEMBER THIS.

RUSS DID A GREAT JOB OF EXPLAINING THIS IS THE 2026 SIDEWALK PROGRAM.

H, ITEM 11 H UH, RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SOLICIT, ADVERTISE, AND RECEIVE BIDS FROM QUALIFIED FIRMS FOR THE 2026 STREET IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION THAT THE WORK SESSION WAS ADOPTION.

IS THERE A MOTION? SCOTT MOVED.

IS THERE DISCUSSION? JOHNNY? MS. BAKER? YES.

AND THE MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.

NEXT IS ITEM 11

[ A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Solicit, Advertise, And Receive Bids From Qualified Firms For The 2026 Street Improvement Program, Non-Concrete Work. (first reading)]

NON CONCRETE WORK.

AT THE FIRST READING, JOHN, AGAIN, RUST.

DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB.

THIS IS OUR 2026 STREET PROGRAM.

PROJECTED COST NOT TO EXCEED 1.9 MILLION.

ONCE AGAIN, RECOMMENDATION WAS ADOPTION.

IS THERE A MOTION? DON? MOVE TO A DON.

AND SECOND, IS THERE A DISCUSSION ON THIS PIECE OF IT? OKAY.

MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.

AND NEXT WE HAVE ITEM 11.

[ A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Solicit, Advertise, And Receive Bids From Qualified Firms For The Construction Of The 2026 Rehabilitation Of Sewer Lines Project. (first reading)]

AYE.

ITEM 11, AYE.

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SOLICIT, ADVERTISED AND RECEIVE BIDS FROM QUALIFIED FIRMS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE 2026 REHABILITATION OF SEWER LINES PROJECT AT THE FIRST READING.

JOHN? UH, NO SIR.

JUST AGAIN, RUSS OUTLINED THIS PROJECT.

JUST REMEMBER, THIS WILL COME FROM THE SEWER FUND AT NOT AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED 500,000.

THANK YOU, SIR.

RECOMMENDATION THAT THE WORK SECTION WAS ADOPTION.

IS THERE A MOTION? NANCY? MOVE TO ADOPT.

CITIZENS COMMENTS FOR GENERAL.

SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION.

AND SECOND, IS THERE DISCUSSION ON SEWER LINE? TONY? MAYOR GORE? YES.

MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.

NEXT ITEM 12.

[12. Citizens Comments - General]

WE HAVE TWO THIS EVENING.

THE FIRST WOULD BE MR. JAMES, JACK J LEITZ.

PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM.

I I RECOGNIZE MY NAME REAL QUICKLY.

TACTICAL COMBAT MEDICAL SPECIALISTS, AND CIVILIAN POPULATIONS.

UM, I HAVE SOME COPIES OF WHAT I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT TONIGHT.

YOU CAN, AND I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU HERE IN A SECOND.

NOT A PUBLIC SPEAKER BY NATURE, SO I'LL DO MY BEST.

IN OTHER WORDS, I'LL READ.

UM, MY NAME IS JAMES P LOVITZ.

UH, I, I'M A RESIDENT OF HUBER HEIGHTS SINCE 1991 AFTER I'VE RETIRED FROM THE AIR FORCE.

HENCE THE REASON I SALUTED INSTEAD OF THIS BECAUSE WE'RE ALLOWED TO DO, BECAUSE WE'RE VETERANS, UM, UH, HONORABLE HUBER HEIGHTS, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.

UH, THE TOPIC THAT I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT IS A NEW PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE BUILT HERE IN HUBER HEIGHTS.

AND I LEARNED ABOUT THIS FROM THE DAYTON BUSINESS JOURNAL, UH, THE QUOTE THAT I TOOK FROM THAT JOURNAL.

IN A RECENT SUBMISSION TO THE DAYTON DEVELOPMENT COALITION, THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS REQUESTED 1.5 MILLION IN FUNDING TO SUPPORT THE CONSTRUCTION OF A $7.6 MILLION PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER.

THE PROJECT PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A REGIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER TO SUPPORT FIRE, POLICE AND EMERGENCY TRAINING NEEDS.

I'M GONNA READ THIS VERBATIM.

REGIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTERS VARY WIDELY IN COST, RANGING FROM APPROXIMATELY 10 MILLION TO OVER A HUNDRED MILLION FOR CONSTRUCTION, DEPENDING ON SIZE AND SPECIALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE BURN TOWERS AND DRIVING TRACKS.

LARGE SCALE STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES OFTEN EXCEED 50, 80 MILLION.

AND MY QUESTION, WHY IS THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS A SUBURB AND BEDROOM COMMUNITY OF DAYTON, OHIO PROPOSING TO BUILD A REGIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER WHEN THERE ALREADY EXISTS? THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MEDICAL READINESS IN CMR, ALSO KNOWN AS CALAMITY BILL, A SELF-SUSTAINING ALL HAZARD ACTUAL CONDITIONS TRAINING ENVIRONMENT FOR FIRST RESPONDERS SUCH AS LAW ENFORCEMENT, FIRE, AND EMS FIRST RECEIVERS, SUCH AS PHYSICIANS, NURSES, MID-LEVEL PROVIDERS, HOSPITAL STAFF, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, SPECIAL OPERATIONS,

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MCMR MAINTAINS EXISTING CLASSROOM AND OFFICE FACILITIES ON APPROXIMATELY 52 ACRES IN FAIRBORN, OHIO, USING UNIQUE PROPS IN REALISTIC SIMULATED SETTINGS TO DUPLICATE THE FULL RANGE OF HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS SEEN IN BOTH MANMADE AND NATURAL DISASTERS.

IT IS ONLY 7.3 MILES AND 13 MINUTES DRIVING TIME FROM HUBER HEIGHTS.

EVEN IF THE DAYTON DEVELOPMENT COALITION GRANTS FUNDING OF 1.5 MILLION THAT LEAVES 6.1 MILLION STILL IS NEEDED, IS ALL WE KNOW THESE DAYS.

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS RARELY COME IN AND UNDER OR AT THEIR BUDGETED COST.

REGARDLESS THAT 6.1 MILLION HAS TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE AND THAT SOMEWHERE IS FROM THE WALLETS OF ALREADY STRAPPED TAXPAYERS WHO ARE LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK.

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH, WHETHER IT'S FROM THESE TAXPAYERS HERE OR FROM THE COUNTY AS A WHOLE.

IT'S COMING FROM TAXPAYERS, WHETHER INTENDED OR NOT.

THIS BOONDOGGLE HAS A LOOK OF A VANITY PROJECT.

AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE I'VE LIVED HERE SINCE 91 AND I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVEN'T HEARD OF CALAMITY BILL.

UM, AND NOT A NECESSITY WHEN THERE'S ALREADY AN EXISTING PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING FACILITY IN THE ADJOINING COMMUNITY OF FAIRBORN.

THERE COULD BE A COLLABORATION BETWEEN HUBER HEIGHTS, FAIRBORN, AND WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY, WHICH I UNDERSTAND IS OVERALL RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS PLACE.

SHOULD CALAMITY BILL NEED MODIFICATIONS TO MEET ANY UNUSUAL NEEDS OF HYPE OF HUBER HEIGHTS? HUBER HEIGHTS, CITY LEADERS NEED TO BE BETTER STEWARDS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS, NOT SQUANDERING OUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS ON UNNECESSARY DUPLICATIVE FACILITIES IN A TIME OF DWINDLING FINANCIAL RESOURCES.

WORTH WHAT? 38 TRILLION IN DEBT IN THIS COUNTRY? DO WE NEED TO MAKE MORE DEBT, UH, TAXPAYERS LOOK TO OUR CIVIC LEADERS TO BE SMARTER WITH OUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS, NOT MAKE THE TAXPAYER WORK HARDER FOR THOSE DOLLARS.

UH, I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE HONORABLE DANIEL KIRKPATRICK, BY THE WAY, THIS WAS PURELY BY ACCIDENT.

I'D ALREADY THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.

UH, I WAS AT PHYSICAL THERAPY WITH MY WIFE.

HE HAPPENED TO BE THERE TOO, AND I KNOW HIM FROM YEARS BACK.

ANYWAY, NICE GENTLEMAN.

BY THE WAY, WE GOT A GREAT MAYOR TOO, BY THE WAY.

UM, ANYWAY, UH, I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH HONORABLE DANIEL KIRKPATRICK, MAYOR OF FAIRBORNE OHIO, WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE CREATION OF CALAMITY BILL IN FAIRBORN, OHIO FROM ITS INCEPTION IN 2005.

THAT'S OVER 20 YEARS AGO.

MAYOR KIRKPATRICK WOULD'VE BEEN HERE THIS EVENING, IF NOT FOR A PRIOR COMMITMENT.

HE HAS ASSURED ME THAT THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS WOULD BE VERY WELCOME IN JOINING THEM IN THEIR TRAINING AT CALAMITY BILL.

AND THE REST OF IT IS MY CONTACT INFORMATION.

DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? I'D WELCOME THEM.

TO, TO START REQUESTING MONEY.

SO I'LL ADDRESS, UM, SOME OF THIS, AND THEN I'LL KIND OF HAND THIS OVER TO OVER TO JOHN.

I THINK THE, I WOULD JUST SAY FOR, FOR MY, FOR MY OWN SELF AND PROBABLY, UM, THE REST OF COUNCIL, THE ARTICLE THAT WAS IN THE DAYTON BUSINESS JOURNAL KIND OF CAUGHT US ALL OFF GUARD.

UH, CERTAINLY DID ME, BECAUSE THE ONLY REASON THAT THAT INFORMATION EVEN MADE THE DAYTON BUSINESS JOURNAL WAS BECAUSE OF THE GRANT APPLICATION, WHICH IS CALLED THE PDA GRANT.

SO THAT GRANT APPLICATION WAS FILLED OUT LAST FALL, I BELIEVE, OR LAST END OF LAST SUMMER GOING INTO FALL.

UH, SO IN OCTOBER.

AND SO THERE WAS A, A LIST OF THINGS THAT, UH, OUR STAFF HAD PUT ON THAT PDAC GRANT KIND OF A WISHLIST.

SO THIS FACILITY, UM, THE ONE A HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO THE FACILITY, WE ARE THINKING ABOUT FROM A LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE, UM, OF WHAT THE CITY IS GONNA NEED AS WE GROW AND AS OUR POLICE FORCE GROWS, AS OUR, AS OUR, UH, EMS SERVICE, OUR FIRE GROWS, WHAT THAT MIGHT, WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE.

THIS COUNCIL HAS REALLY HAD NO DISCUSSIONS AROUND ALL THE DETAILS THAT YOU HAVE HERE THAT WAS IN THAT PARTICULAR ARTICLE.

SO FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE, I CAN'T ANSWER ANY OF THOSE OTHER, THE DETAILED QUESTIONS BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH A PREMATURE CONVERSATION BASED ON, UM, LITERALLY JUST A GRANT APPLICATION MM-HMM .

THAT COUNCIL HAS NOT REALLY HAD ANY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT COLLECTIVELY AS A WHOLE.

SO THIS IS KIND OF LIKE PRE-STEP ONE BY FOUR OR FIVE STEPS AS TO WHERE BUILDING THE ACTUAL FACILITY WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, STEP Z.

MM-HMM .

SO WE'RE NOWHERE EVEN CLOSE TO TALKING ABOUT ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE FACILITY WHEN THIS WAS JUST ONE THING THAT WENT ON A WISHLIST TO FILL OUT THE PDAC GRANT THAT WAS REQUIRED, UH, BY THE DAYTON DEVELOPMENT COALITION

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AND IN THAT PARTICULAR GRANT, THERE WAS ALL KINDS OF THINGS WE REQUESTED MONEY FOR.

UM, THE ROSE MUSIC CENTER WAS, WAS ONE THING.

SO I, THIS, I, I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE THIS EVENING AND, UM, FULLY UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS.

UM, YOU KNOW, I, I WILL HATE TO SAY THAT, BUT I ADMIT I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT CALAMITY.

VI I'D NEVER HEARD OF THAT.

DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WAS THIS CLOSE.

SO I APPRECIATE THE OLD CEMENT PLANT.

THAT'S, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GO TO FAIRBORNE OFTEN EVERY NOW AND THEN.

BUT THERE'S AN OLD CEMENT PLANT THERE, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE, UH, IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM BY SEA.

UH, THEY GAVE IT TO THEM AND THEY TURNED IT INTO SOMETHING THAT'S PRETTY REMARKABLE.

I MEAN, THAT, AND THAT'S, IT'S WORTH IT IF YOU TOOK A TOUR OF IT, IN FACT.

WELL, NOW THAT I KNOW ABOUT IT, I CERTAINLY WILL.

I MEAN, IN FACT, I MEAN, I KNOW THE MAYOR WELCOME IT IF YOU DID.

SO I THINK, UM, AGAIN, I JUST WANNA SAY AGAIN, I, I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE AND I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THIS TO OUR, OUR ATTENTION, BUT I THINK IT, IT, THE ARTICLE LITTLE EARLY, I KNOW WHEN, WHEN THE ARTICLE CAME OUT AND I SAW IT , OUR SURE, OUR CITY MANAGER REMEMBERS MY TEXT MESSAGE QUITE WELL.

LIKE, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ? WHAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SO PREMATURE.

AND HOW DID, I WASN'T EVEN SURE AT THAT TIME HOW THE DAYTON BUSINESS JOURNAL EVEN KNEW ABOUT IT.

AND THAT'S WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT THAT 1.5 MILLION WAS ON THE GRANT APPLICATION THAT WAS SUBMITTED LAST FALL.

SO, UM, SO AGAIN, I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS.

I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE.

ASK YOU MORE QUESTIONS.

SURE, YEAH.

IF YOU ABSOLUTE, UM, WHAT WERE THE PLANS FOR THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS OF MONEY THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, WHERE WOULD IT COME FROM? SO THOUGH I WOULD HAVE TO, OTHER THAN THE GRANT MONEY, WE HADN'T EVEN, HADN'T EVEN AT THAT POINT, I MEANT, WELL, I THINK IT'S GOOD THAT WE'RE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION.

YOU SAY IT'S WAY TOO EARLY, BUT IT'S BAD TO BE WAY TOO LATE.

SO WHAT I WILL TELL YOU IS, AND I WAS AFRAID THAT I WOULD BE TOO LATE.

HONESTLY, I THOUGHT THIS THING WAS PRETTY MUCH OUT THE WINDOW.

NOT, NOT, NOT EVEN CLOSE.

WHAT I WILL TELL YOU IS THAT, UM, AND I'LL SAY, YOU KNOW, IS THIS CITY OVER THE, OVER A PERIOD OF A PERIOD OF HISTORY HAS BEEN, HAS MADE SOME VERY GOOD DECISIONS REGARDING, UM, WHAT OUR, WHAT OUR SPENDS ARE AND MM-HMM .

IN TERMS OF OUR PROJECTS THAT WE TAKE ON.

AND I CAN SAY, AND OUR, OUR FINANCE DIRECTORS AREN'T HERE TONIGHT, BUT OUR ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, WHO IS OVER OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT WILL TELL YOU THAT EVEN UPON THE LAST, UM, PRESENTATION FROM OUR, UH, KINDA FROM OUR CITY'S FINANCIAL MANAGER, OUR FINANCIAL PLANNER, UH, SO TO SPEAK, MR. ANDY BROSSARD, HE HAS EVEN SHOWN THAT THERE IS NOT A SINGLE PENNY OF DEBT SERVICE THAT THIS CITY HAS TAKEN ON, THAT WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE A REVENUE STREAM ATTACHED TO, TO PAY FOR WHAT THE DEBT SERVICE WOULD BE.

THE BEST WAY TO EXPLAIN THAT IS FOR EVERY PROJECT WE DO, WE HAVE A RICH UNCLE WHO'S LEFT US AN ANNUITY, WHO'S PAYING THE MORTGAGE PAYMENT ON ALL THE PROJECTS THAT WE DO.

THAT'S JUST, THAT'S THE, THE SIMPLEST LAYMAN'S TERMS TO, TO SAY THAT MM-HMM .

AND WE DO THAT THROUGH LOTS OF DIFFERENT TIFF REVENUE WITH DIFFERENT PROJECTS THAT WE DO THAT GENERATE REVENUE.

WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING AT, FROM A CITY PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT PROJECTS THAT WE DO ARE GONNA GENERATE MONEY AND GENERATE REVENUE.

AND WE'VE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH LATELY WHERE THERE ARE BUSINESSES AND DEVELOPERS WHO, WHO WANT TO COME TO HEBREW HEIGHTS, WHO WANT TO BUILD HERE, WHERE THEY ARE OPEN TO OPENING THEIR CHECKBOOK AND GIVING US A PORTION OF THEIR MONEY.

MM-HMM .

UH, A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF THAT WAS, UH, IT WAS A, A PROJECT, A HOUSING PROJECT THAT IS, THAT IS NOW UNDERWAY WHERE THE INITIAL PHASE FROM, UH, SOME TAX INCREMENT FINANCING REVENUE THEY HAD PROPOSED, UM, YOU KNOW, IT WAS GONNA BE ABOUT SEVEN $50,000 OF, OF REVENUE TO THE CITY.

AND FOR US WE'RE LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT'S JUST, I MEAN, IT'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY.

AND WE'RE IN A NEGOTIATING SENSE TO DO THINGS LIKE THAT WHEN SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUILD HERE BAD ENOUGH AND THEY'RE, AND THEY'RE WILLING TO DO THAT.

WE LOOK AT THAT REVENUE AND SAID, NOPE, IT'S NOT ENOUGH.

AND WE TURNED, UH, REVENUE THAT WOULD'VE ONLY BEEN ABOUT SEVEN $50,000 TO THE CITY OUTTA THAT PROJECT INTO, WHAT WAS IT, AARON? IT WAS, I'M THINKING SOMEWHERE AROUND SIX AND A HALF, $7 MILLION WHEN IT WAS ALL SAID AND DONE.

SO WE HAVE SOME LEVERAGE.

WE'VE, WE'VE BUILT A GOOD ENOUGH REPUTATION HERE WITH DIFFERENT BUILDERS AND BUSINESSES WHO WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY THAT WE HAVE LEVERAGE WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT TYPE OF MONEY THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE, WHAT KIND OF REVENUE WE'RE GONNA SEE OUTSIDE OF EMPLOYEE TAXES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

OR BUSINESS PROFIT TAXES.

THESE ARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS THAT DEAL WITH, UM, WITH THEIR PROPERTY TAX REVENUE.

AND THROUGHOUT ALL THOSE PROJECTS, WE'VE ALSO MADE THE SCHOOLS WHOLE, WE MAKE SURE THAT THE SCHOOLS RECEIVE THEIR MONEY THAT THEY WOULD OUT OF THOSE PROJECTS.

SINCE I'VE BEEN THE MAYOR, WE HAVEN'T DONE ANY TIFFS THAT HAVE TAKEN MONEY OUT OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.

SO WE DO HAVE A VERY GOOD HISTORY OF MAKING SURE THAT ANY PROJECT THAT WE DECIDE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH, WE HAVE A VERY KNOWN AND DEDICATED INCOME STREAM THAT OUTSIDE OF CITY TAXPAYERS IS GONNA PAY OFF THAT DEBT SERVICE.

AND, AND WE'VE DONE THAT, UH, FOR THE LAST 15,

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20 YEARS.

WE HAVE ANOTHER COUNCILMAN, UH, MS. BLANKENSHIP THAT WAS HERE 16 YEARS PRIOR TO ME COMING ON COUNCIL, AND SHE COULD TELL YOU THE SAME THING.

SO, ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, FROM A DEBT PERSPECTIVE, THIS CITY IS CARRYING A LOT OF DEBT, WE HAVE GUARANTEED INCOME REVENUE STREAMS THAT WE'RE ABLE TO WRITE THOSE ANNUAL CHECKS FOR THAT PAID THAT DEBT SERVICE.

JUST AS IF I'D KIND OF SAID IN THE BEGINNING THAT WE HAD RICH UNCLE WHO LEFT US AN ANNUITY FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT'S PAYING THE MORTGAGE PAYMENT.

SO THIS WOULD BE NO DIFFERENT.

I CAN'T IMAGINE MYSELF, I WOULDN'T SUPPORT A PROJECT LIKE THIS OR THIS MAGNITUDE IF WE COULDN'T IDENTIFY A REVENUE STREAM THAT WAS GONNA PAY THE DEBT.

AND I WOULD ASSUME THAT MOST OF THIS COUNCIL WOULD, WOULD BE IN THE EXACT SAME SITUATION OR VOTE IN THE SAME WAY THAT I WOULD.

SO WHEN THAT TIME COMES, WE WOULD LOOK AT WHERE CAN THAT MONEY COME FROM? BUT IT WOULDN'T BE AT THE TAXPAYER EXPENSE.

AND AGAIN, WE'RE SO FAR IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS WHERE, UH, IT, THIS ARTICLE TOOK ALL OF US BY SURPRISE.

BUT AGAIN, THAT DOESN'T STOP ME FROM BEING THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE HERE AND BRINGING IT TO OUR, TO OUR ATTENTION.

TWO THINGS I WANNA SAY TO YES, AND THIS WILL BE IT.

UH, THE OLD SAYING, JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN DO IT, SHOULD YOU, AND I'M NOT IN THERE WHERE YOU, EVEN THOUGH THE TAXPAYERS MAY NOT BE OUT, THAT MONEY COMES FROM SOMEWHERE.

MM-HMM .

IT'S NOT FREE MONEY.

WE AS A COUNTRY NEED TO BE MORE RESPONSIBLE.

IT'S THE OTHER GUY PAYING THIS, NOT US.

IF WE'VE GOT A FACILITY DOWN THE ROAD AND THEY'RE WILLING TO, PROBABLY THE MORE, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT MORE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, CUTTING THAT PIE UP.

THAT MEANS THAT YOU GUYS ARE GONNA PAY LESS.

I'D LIKE YOU TO KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN IT COMES TIME TO THINKING ABOUT WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA VOTE FOR THIS OR NOT.

WE NEED TO BE MORE RESPONSIBLE.

I'M NOT THE MOST CONSERVATIVE PERSON, BUT JUST 'CAUSE THAT'S TRUE DOESN'T MEAN THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT WE NEED TO START BEING CONSCIOUS OF THE COST OF THINGS.

NOT JUST BECAUSE WE CAN DO IT.

THAT'S WHERE I'M GONNA LEAD IT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

REAL QUICK, I I JUST HAVE A QUESTION.

DID, I MEAN, 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW, I JUST, AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT I WAS IN THE DARK ABOUT VILLE UP HERE? DOES ANYBODY ELSE KNOW THAT FACILITY? WHAT, ? YEAH.

ANITA.

I WAS GONNA SAY ONE, THANK YOU FOR SHARING ME ABOUT CALAMITY V 'CAUSE I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT THIS.

I APPRECIATE YOU SAYING THAT.

I HAD NO CLUE.

UM, SECOND IS, THIS HAS BEEN SO NOT DISCUSSED.

WHEN I READ YOUR THING, WHEN YOU HANDED IT OUT, I HAD NO CLUE WHAT THIS REALLY WAS.

SO WE REALLY HAVE NOT DUG INTO ANY OF THIS.

AND YEAH, I HAD NO IDEA THAT A GRANT WAS PROPOSED FOR THIS.

SO, SO YEAH, IT'S VERY MUCH I CAN GUARANTEE IT HASN'T BEEN DISCUSSED.

WELL, I HOPE YOU'LL THINK ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS.

YES, MA'AM.

YES.

UM, I DO KNOW ABOUT CALAMITY BILL.

IN FACT, UM, I DID MY MASTER'S THESIS ON PORTLAND CEMENT, WHICH IS WHERE CMAX AND WHERE I'M FROM, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

WE HAVE A COSMOS DEAL RIGHT OUTSIDE THAT WAS PORTLAND CEMENT.

SO MAYBE SOME OF THE YOUNGER FOLKS HERE DON'T .

OH, THANK YOU NANCY.

I APPRECIATE THAT THEY'RE RECOGNIZE IT .

BUT SOME OF US DO AND I ASSURE YOU THAT, UM, WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL FOR DUPLICATION OF, OF EFFORT THAT WE WOULDN'T WANT TO DO THAT.

SO WE HAVE TO FIND OUT WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE, WHAT THE BASIC PREMISE IS BEHIND IT, AND HOPEFULLY IN TIME THOSE THINGS WILL COME OUT.

AND AS WE'RE DISCUSSING IT ON COUNCIL, YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME IN AND PARTICIPATE IN IN THE DISCUSSION.

UM, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY, I JUST THINK THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE A DUAL, WHAT DO THEY CALL IT? A DUAL PURPOSE.

IN OTHER WORDS, YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE FIGURING OUT WHAT IT'S GONNA COST YOU TO DO THIS THING AND FIGURE, YOU KNOW, ON, ON HUBER HEIGHTS ALONE AND FIGURE IT OUT HOW MUCH IT'S GONNA COST YOU THE OTHER WAY.

YOU KNOW, ASK THEM THE QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO, TO SEE IF THIS, YOU KNOW, WHICH WAY IS BETTER.

THAT'S ALL I ASK YOU TO DO.

JOHN.

I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.

WHEN, UM, WHEN WE MADE THE APPLICATION FOR THE GRANT, WERE THERE ANY OTHER COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT WAS, THAT WANTED TO GET IN? YEAH, SO WE'VE REACHED OUT TO WHAT DISCUSSIONS TOOK PLACE THERE.

YES, SIR.

SO WE'VE, WE'VE ALREADY REACHED OUT TO BUTLER TOWNSHIP IN VANDALIA.

UM, I KNOW THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO REACH OUT TO A COUPLE OTHER OF OUR PARTNERS.

WE, WE'VE, WE'VE THOUGHT ABOUT RIVERSIDE, BUT RIVERSIDE'S IN PRETTY CLOSE PROXIMITY TO DAYTON'S FIRE TRAINING CENTER.

SO, UM, UH, JUST, UH, NOT TO, I MEAN, I DON'T, I'M NOT HERE TO, TO ARGUE OUR POINT, OR EVEN, I MEAN, WE'RE, WE'RE DEFINITELY IN OUR INFANCY ON, ON DECIDING THIS, BUT A, A FEW CASE IN 0.1, WE'RE REQUIRED TO DO, UM, YEARLY TWICE, UH, LIVE BURN TRAINING.

UH, RIGHT NOW, THE ONLY FACILITY IN THE AREA FOR THAT IS THE CITY OF DAYTON'S, UH, BURN TOWER.

UM, THERE'S A COST ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.

THERE'S A COST ASSOCIATED WITH HAVING PEOPLE ON OVERTIME TO SEND THEM DOWN TO THAT.

AND THEN I'VE GOT A APPARATUS THAT'S OUTTA SERVICE, YOU KNOW, 10, 12 MILES AWAY TOO FOR THE, FOR THE DURATION OF THOSE TRAININGS.

SO I, I DON'T DISAGREE THAT CALAMITY BILL HAS A PLACE, BUT IT, IT, IT, THAT'S, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO DUPLICATE

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WHAT CALAMITY HAS.

YES, SIR.

UM, JUST WANT TO REEMPHASIZE.

IT SOUND FROM MIKE TALKING TO THE MAYOR OF FAIRBORNE.

THEY'RE WILLING TO LISTEN TO YOU ABOUT THEIR NEEDS.

AND I BET A TOWER IS A LOT CHEAPER FOR YOU TO DO THERE THAN IT IS TO BUILD THE, THE REST OF IT OUT.

WE NEED MORE.

THE TOWER'S A SMALL PROJECT.

I MEAN, UH, I KNOW YOU TALK ABOUT COST, BUT I MEAN, WE REALLY, TRULY NEED A DRIVING PAD AS WELL.

UM, POLICE AND FIRE CURRENTLY NOW LEAVE THE CITY TO DO TRAINING ON, ON ANY, I MEAN, WE'VE GOT A A HUNDRED FOOT AERIAL TRUCK NOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOTTA DO TRAINING WITH ALL NEW HIRES, UH, WITH A TILLER TRUCK.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO THE DAYTON AIRPORT TO THE BACKSIDE.

UM, THAT'S ABOUT TO GO AWAY BECAUSE THE DAYTON AIRPORT JUST GOT A $78 MILLION GRANT TO REVAMP THE ENTIRE BACKSIDE OF THAT.

AND THEY'RE GONNA SELL ALL OF THAT.

SO, UM, WE, WE ARE, I I, I AGREE WITH YOU.

UH, I DON'T WANNA DUPLICATE ANYTHING THAT'S NOT AROUND HERE.

THE ISSUE I RUN INTO IS, IS APPARATUS AND PEOPLE OUTTA SERVICE FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME FOR TRAINING 7.3 MILES.

IT'S STILL OUTTA SERVICE.

7.8 MILES.

I, I, AGAIN, I TRAINING HERE, LEMME ASK YOU THAT.

AGAIN.

I, I KNOW YOU DON'T WANNA ARGUE.

I'M NOT GONNA ARGUE WITH YOU.

I'M WHY, IF YOU'RE GONNA HAVE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE IT OUTTA SERVICE, WHETHER IT'S HERE OR AT 7.3, NO, IT'S NOT.

IF IT IF'S IN THE CITY, IT'S IN SERVICE TRAINING.

IT'S IF THEY'RE IN MY JURISDICTION, THEY'RE IN SERVICE, TAKE READY TO TAKE CALLS EIGHT MILES AWAY, 12, 15 MINUTE TRAVEL TIME.

I THINK, I MEAN, EARLIER WE TALKED ABOUT THE ACTIONS OF SOMEBODY AND THE, AND THE SIZE OF FIRE AND THE SIZE IT GETS.

IF I'VE GOT PEOPLE OUTTA SERVICE.

AND THE LONGER I GET RESPONSE TIMES, AGAIN, I'M NOT, I'M NOT ARGUING WITH YOU.

IT'S A BIG NUMBER.

I WOULD NEVER PROPOSE TO, TO BUILD SOMETHING OF THAT MAGNITUDE IF I DIDN'T THINK WE COULD AFFORD IT.

UM, AND YOU'RE RIGHT.

I, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.

I AM PRETTY CONSERVATIVE.

I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD BUILD IT JUST BECAUSE WE CAN BUILD IT.

UM, BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE SOME COMMUNITY PARTNERS INVOLVED IN THIS AS WELL.

UM, YEAH, I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT.

THANK YOU JOHN.

SCOTT? YEAH, JOHN, YOU COULD PROBABLY ANSWER THIS BEING A PAST FIREFIGHTER MYSELF, IF THEY ARE AT TRAINING, THEY COULD DROP THE HOSES RIGHT THERE.

GO WITH THE APPARATUS IN YOUR JURISDICTION IS A LOT DIFFERENT THAN BEING CAUGHT.

YOU COULD LEAVE ALL THE HOSES AND EVERYTHING, RIGHT? THERE'S, RIGHT.

YEAH, FOR SURE.

YEAH, THAT WOULD BE ANSWERING THAT QUESTION ALSO.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MAYOR.

THANK YOU, SCOTT.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ANY OTHER COURT? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? OKAY.

AND CERTAINLY KEEP, KEEP UP TO DATE.

STAY UP TO DATE AND WE'LL WELCOME YOU BACK, UM, TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER.

WHEN AND IF IT COMES BACK UP.

SO THANK YOU.

ANY CITY OFFICIAL REPORTS AND COMMENTS? YES, SCOTT.

UH, LAST UP WE HAVE MR. JEFF MORFORD.

HMM, JEFF MORFORD, MIAMI COUNTY, BETHEL TOWNSHIP.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM DEFINITION OFF THE INTERNET, OPPRESSION.

OPPRESSION IS MALICIOUS OR UNJUST TREATMENT OF OR EXERCISE OF POWER OVER A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS, OFTEN IN THE FORM OF GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY.

OPPRESSION IS SYSTEMATIC AND UNJUST MISTREATMENT OF ONE SOCIAL GROUP BY A MORE POWERFUL ONE.

IT IS A COMPLEX SYSTEM OF POWER, BELIEFS, AND ACTIONS THAT RESULT IN THE SUBJUGATION AND CONTROL OF A GROUP, RESTRICTING THEIR ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND FREEDOM.

OPPRESSION CAN MANIFEST THROUGH CRUEL AND UNJUST EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY LEADING TO THE STATE OF SUFFERING, EXPLOITATION, AND POWERLESSNESS FOR A TARGETED GROUP.

EXAMPLES OF HISTORIC OPPRESSION, SLAVERY, SLAVERY, HOLOCAUST, WOMEN NOT BEING ABLE TO VOTE, FORCED ASSIMILATION, APARTHEID, JIM CROW LAWS AND COLONIALISM.

AND BY THE WAY, ALL THESE EXAMPLES OF OPPRESSION WERE LEGAL.

THESE EXAMPLES WERE, AND CONTINUE TO BE ETHICALLY AND MORALLY WRONG.

JUST AS CURRENT TYPE TWO EXP EXPEDITED ANNEXATIONS ARE LEGAL.

THEY'RE MORALLY AND ETHICALLY WRONG.

CURRENT TYPE TWO EXPEDITED ANNEXATIONS ARE A PRIME EXAMPLE OF OPPRESSION.

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT CAN TAKE AWAY THE ABILITY FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO CONTROL WHAT IS GOOD FOR THEIR CITIZENS, THAT'S CALLED OPPRESSION.

JUST AS YOU HAVE CONTINUED TO CUT MY FIVE MINUTE PUBLIC COMMENT, TIME TO 60 SECONDS MOTION MORE FOR THAT 60 SECONDS IS UP NOW.

ANOTHER PRIME EXAMPLE, THANK YOU.

OF OPPRESSION.

OKAY, NEXT UP IS ITEM 13.

[13. City Official Reports And Comments]

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

UH, JUST TWOFOLD RIGHT HERE.

UM, I'VE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF EMAILS AND ALSO FACEBOOK POSTS ABOUT THE WATER, UH, RATES INCREASING.

UH, I THOUGHT YOU DID A GREAT FACEBOOK POST THE OTHER DAY, SO IF YOU WON, YOU CAN REINSTATE THAT ONLINE RIGHT NOW.

THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

AND ALSO, UM, A ES DOES HAVE OHIO PARTNERS WITH THE SALVATION ARMY TO PROVIDE FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING DISCONNECT FOR A ES WATER BILLS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

THEY COULD APPLY FOR GRANTS OR, UH, RELIEF ON THAT.

SO, BUT CAN YOU TALK SOME MORE ABOUT YOUR FACEBOOK POST? I THOUGHT THAT WAS A GREAT

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POST.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

NO, THANK YOU, SCOTT.

I APPRECIATE IT.

UM, SO YEAH, THERE WAS A, A QUITE LENGTHY DETAILED, UH, POSTS REGARDING THE WATER RATE INCREASES THAT, UM, I HAD DISCUSSED ON FACEBOOK OVER THE WEEKEND.

AND I THINK, UH, AT THE END I'VE KIND OF MADE A, A FINAL SUMMATION OF KIND OF WHAT THE SITUATION WAS AND WHAT THE NEED FOR THOSE INCREASES WERE.

SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF MAYBE WHAT I WOULD TOUCH ON HERE.

AND THAT WAS SINCE, UH, JANUARY THE FIRST OF 2018.

AND I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA GO BY MEMORY HERE.

UH, WE HAD, WE HAVE SPENT IN WATER PROJECTS $49,235,000 SINCE JANUARY 1ST, 2018 ON WATER PROJECTS.

ABOUT 13 MILLION OF THAT WAS, UM, VOTER APPROVED WATER SOFTENING SYSTEM.

WE HAD ISSUES WITH, UH, WATER PRESSURE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF TOWN.

SO WE SPENT ABOUT TWO AND A HALF TO $3 MILLION ON BOOSTER PUMPS.

UM, UP THERE ACTUALLY YOU CAN SEE THEM, UM, IF YOU PULL INTO WHERE IT WAS A HOME TOWN OR THE HOME GOOD, NOT HOME GOODS, BUT, UM, THE HOME STORE DOWN ALONG THE WAY, LIKE YOU'RE HEADING TOWARDS, UH, CAMPING WORLD OFF TO THE LEFT HAND SIDE, THAT'S WHERE THOSE BIG BOOSTER PUMPS, THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE AT.

YOU CAN SEE THEM AS YOU'RE HEADING DOWN 70, OR IF YOU PULL ON THE SIDE ROAD AND GO TO THE CAMPING WORLD, YOU CAN SEE THOSE BOOSTER STATIONS THERE.

SO THOSE CAME ONLINE.

THAT WAS ABOUT ANOTHER TWO AND A HALF, $3 MILLION.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'VE SPENT, UH, 10 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS REPLACING WATER MAINS.

SO NOT JUST REPAIRING THEM, BUT ACTUALLY REPLACING THEM.

'CAUSE WE'VE KNOWN, UM, NOW WE DID A, A SEVERE WATER RATE STUDY AND THAT THAT KIND OF SHOWED WHERE WE WERE REALLY VULNERABLE TO, UM, PIPES THAT DIDN'T HAVE QUITE THE EPA GUIDELINES AND CONTROLS IN THE SEVENTIES THAT WERE BUILT, WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH KIND OF THE MIDDLE PART OF THE CITY, WHICH, UH, WAS, UH, ANITA'S WARD.

AND SO SHE WAS CATCHING ALL KINDS OF FIRE AND, AND HEAT REGARDING, YOU KNOW, WATERLINE, UH, WATER MAIN BREAKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO WE'VE, WE'VE INVESTED ANOTHER $10 MILLION IN, IN, IN REPAIRING, OR NOT REPAIRING, BUT REPLACING WATER MEANS.

AND WE'VE SEEN THOSE NUMBERS GO DOWN.

SO I THINK IT WAS 157 BREAKS AT ITS PEAK IN 2022 DOWN TO ABOUT 126.

AND NOW WE'RE BACK DOWN TO ONLY, I THINK WE HAD 39 BREAKS LAST YEAR.

SO THOSE REPLACEMENTS, THOSE WATER MAINS ARE WORKING AND, YOU KNOW, BUT, BUT IT, IT IS EXPENSIVE.

WE'VE ALSO GOT, UM, IN PROCESS PLANNED PROJECTS FOR WATER AROUND $19.2 MILLION.

SO WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO ABOUT 68, 60 $9 MILLION OF MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT ON OUR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG WITH PLANNED PROJECTS TO BE SPENT.

AND, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR OUR, OUR ACTUAL WATER FUND, UH, WE WERE LOOKING ABOUT A $1.5 MILLION LOSS, OR I THINK IT WAS A $1.315 MILLION LOSS IN THE WATER FUND LAST YEAR.

I KNOW MORE ABOUT WATER MONEY AND FINANCING AND, AND OUR WATER DEPARTMENT NOW AFTER MY MEETING ON FRIDAY WITH EVERYBODY THAN I EVER THOUGHT I NEEDED TO KNOW.

BUT, UM, BUT IT WAS, IT WAS GREAT INFORMATION.

AND, YOU KNOW, LOOK, WE HAVE AS, AS COUNCIL MEMBERS UP HERE, THIS ISN'T ANY OF OUR FULL-TIME JOBS.

WE, WE PAY EXPERTS, WE PAY, UH, STAFF MEMBERS WHO ARE EXPERTS IN ENGINEERING.

AND WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH OUR WATER DEPARTMENT WHO ARE EXPERTS AT GETTING WATER OUT OF THE GROUND AND MAKING SURE THAT THE SERVICES ARE, ARE CONTINUED AND, UH, AND DO THOSE REPAIRS.

WE HAVE AN ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT THAT OVERSEES THE CONTRACTS AND THE BIDS OF THESE COMPANIES WHO COME AND DO THIS WORK FOR US.

SO WE GET RECOMMENDATIONS FROM OUR STAFF ON THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN.

AND, AND IF THEY MAKE SENSE TO US, THEN, THEN WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TO VOTE ON THOSE THINGS.

AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE PROJECTS THAT ARE, THAT ARE UPCOMING, YES, THIS, THIS MAKES SENSE, ALL OF US LIVE HERE, I'M NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE, THE RATE INCREASES 'CAUSE I HAVE TO PAY THEM TOO.

BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS THEY'RE, THEY'RE NECESSARY AND WE'VE REACHED A POINT WHERE IT'S JUST, IT WOULD, AS MUCH AS WE DON'T LIKE THOSE INCREASES, IT WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE OF US TO PASS THAT PROBLEM OR KICK THAT CAN OF INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR AND WATER INFRAS REPAIR TO FURTHER COUNCILS THAT ARE GONNA COME AFTER US.

SO THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE.

OUR CURRENT FUND, WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR WATER, THE CITY HAS ABOUT 33, 34, I BELIEVE, DIFFERENT OPERATING FUNDS AND THE WATER FUND AND THE SEWER FUND ARE TWO OF THOSE.

A WATER FUND AT THE BEGINNING OF 2026 HAD FOUR POINT.

AND IF I'M INCORRECT ABOUT ANYTHING, I, AGAIN, I'M GOING MY MEMORY, 4.975 MILLION IN THE WATER FUND AND 5.2 MILLION IN THE SEWER FUND.

SO AS WE HEAR A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS THAT HAPPEN, YOU'LL HEAR, UM, NOT NECESSARILY HERE AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS 'CAUSE THIS IS WHERE ALL THE, THE, THE REAL BUSINESS OF THE CITY HAPPENS.

BUT IF YOU LISTEN TO THE WORK SESSIONS WHERE WE HAVE OUR STAFF HERE AND OUR, OUR

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ENGINEERS HERE AND OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE, UM, ALL THOSE PROJECTS HAVE ESTIMATES ON, ON WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THEM DONE.

AND, UM, KIND OF MY, I APOLOGIZE, I LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT THERE, BUT I KNOW WE ARE, UM, OH, BETWEEN THE DIFF YES, BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT FUNDS.

SO THERE UM, HAD BEEN SOME RUMORS THAT WE HAD LIKE $30 MILLION IN THE WATER FUND.

I KNOW WHEN I BECAME THE MAYOR IN 2018, ALL THE TOTAL OF ALL 34, 35 FUNDS HAD ROUGH, ROUGHLY IF WE LOOKED AT JUST CASH LIQUIDITY ON HAND, WE HAD ABOUT, UH, ROUGHLY $56 MILLION IN ALL THOSE FUNDS.

SO THERE WAS NO WAY THAT THE WATER FUND ALONE, JUST, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE DIFFERENT 35 DIFFERENT FUNDS HAD $30 MILLION IN IT.

WE DID HAVE LOAN PROCEEDS COME INTO THOSE FUNDS THAT THEN WE HAD TO WRITE CHECKS FOR, TO PAY BILLS TO CONTRACTORS TO DO THE WORK THAT THAT, THAT THOSE LOAN PROCEEDS WERE FROM.

SO IN ANY BUSINESS, IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THE BALANCE SHEET, THE BALANCE SHEET IS JUST KIND OF A SNAPSHOT OF MONEY THAT'S AVAILABLE AT ANY GIVEN TIME.

SO IF SOMEBODY LOOKED AT THAT SNAPSHOT AFTER THOSE LOAN PROCEEDS CAME IN, THEY MIGHT'VE SEEN, UM, A MUCH BIGGER FUN AMOUNT VERSUS WHAT WOULD'VE BEEN THERE A MONTH LATER WHEN ALL THOSE CHECKS WERE WRITTEN TO PAY FOR THE WORK THAT WAS ACTUALLY DONE.

SO WE DO KNOW THAT, UM, THAT OUR INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS REPAIRED AND NEEDS FIXED AND, AND WE'VE GOT TO BITE TO BULLET AND DO THE THINGS THAT, THAT IT'S GONNA TAKE TO DO THAT.

UM, I'VE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE REACH OUT TO ME ABOUT WATER DISCOLORATION AND HARDNESS OF THE WATER.

AND THE WATER IS NOT AS SOFT AS IT SHOULD BE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THAT IS TRUE.

WE, WE OWN UP TO THAT AND WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF FIXING IT.

THE FILTER MEDIA AT THE WATER PLANT, UM, YOU KNOW, ANYBODY WHO'S BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH KNOWS WE SIT ON A MASSIVE, ONE OF THE LARGEST AQUIFERS, UH, IN THE COUNTRY.

GETTING WATER OUTTA THE GROUND IS NOT AN ISSUE.

RUNNING OUTTA WATER IS NOT A PROBLEM.

THE PROBLEM IS IT HAS TO GO THROUGH LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF LIMESTONE TO GET TO THE SURFACE, WHICH CAUSES ALL THE CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM IN THE WATER.

SO WE HAVE TO REALLY, REALLY WORK AT FILTERING ALL THOSE THINGS OUT.

SO THE FILTER MEDIA AND THE PLANT WAS WORKING ON ALL THE IRON DEPOSITS IN THE WATER, WHICH DAMAGED THE FILTER MEDIA FASTER THAN WHAT WE HAD ANTICIPATED, WHICH MEANS THE FILTER MEDIA WAS ABLE, WAS WORKING MORE ON THE IRON DEPOSIT THAN IT WAS THE CALCIUM AND THE MAGNESIUM DEPOSITS, WHICH LED THE WATER HARDENING TO, TO INCREASE.

SO THE FILTER MEDIA HAS BEEN REPLACED, AND THAT WAS ABOUT $750,000.

WE HAVE NEW MEMBRANES THAT ARE GONNA BE IN INSTALLED IN APRIL.

THAT JOB WILL BE FINISHED IN APRIL FOR ABOUT A MILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS.

AND ONCE THAT'S DONE, WE WILL SEE THE, SOME OF THE DISCOLORATION GO AWAY BECAUSE THE IRON DEPOSITS ARE GONNA BE MINIMIZED AND THE WATER SOFTENING IS GONNA GET BACK DOWN TO WHERE IT WAS.

WHEN THAT SYSTEM FIRST WENT ONLINE TO MY RECOGNITION, OR TO MY RECOLLECTION, WE NEVER EVER SAID THAT WE WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE SOFT WATER BECAUSE THAT IS JUST SITTING ON TOP OF ALL THE, UM, THE LIMESTONE THAT WE DO.

SOFT WATER IS JUST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET IN HEBREW HEIGHTS.

WE WILL HAVE MUCH SOFTER WATER THAN WHAT IT WAS PREVIOUS, BUT IT WOULD NEVER REACH THE, IT'S THE EIGHT, I BELIEVE, 80 MILLIGRAMS OF THE, UM, CCO, WHATEVER IT'S WHATEVER IT'S CALLED.

IN THE, IN THE WATER TO CLASSIFY AS SOFT WATER.

AND I THINK WE ARE PROBABLY IN THE 1 75, 180 RANGE NOW.

AND ONCE THE MEMBRANES GET INSTALLED IN APRIL, WE EXPECT THAT TO BE BACK DOWN ON THE 1 21 30 RANGE, UH, BASED ON MY CONVERSATION WITH OUR GENERAL MANAGER OF VEIA.

SO THAT IS GOING TO GET BETTER AND WE'RE GONNA SEE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OR A SIGNIFICANT, UH, INCREASE IN THE SOFTNESS OF OUR WATER.

BUT IT'S, IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE, AND, AND WAS NEVER MENTIONED, IT WOULD BE CLASSIFIED AS SOFT WATER.

'CAUSE WE JUST KNEW IT COULDN'T BASED ON ALL THE LIMESTONE AND THE CALCIUM MAGNESIUM DEPOSITS THAT ARE, THAT ARE IN OUR WATER, BUT IT IS GETTING BETTER.

SO THOSE ARE KIND OF THE, UM, KIND OF THINGS GOING INTO THE REASON THAT THESE, UH, INCREASES NEED TO BE, NEED TO BE MADE.

THE OLD ARE SEWER LINES, THE OLD CLAY TILES IN THE SEWER LINES, THOSE ARE OLD AND THEY START TO COLLAPSE AND THEN YOU END UP WITH SEWAGE BACKUPS.

SO WE DO A SEWER LINING PROJECT THAT WE STARTED, YOU KNOW, FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO.

WE SPEND OVER A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR, UH, RELINING.

WE TAKE CAMERAS AND WE LOOK AND WE DETERMINE WHICH ONE OF THOSE PIPES ARE THE WORST.

AND WE HAVE MONEY ALLOCATED TO SPEND TO, TO FIX THOSE PIPES, TO LINE THOSE.

WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT.

NOW, AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS, I THINK WE'RE PROBABLY UPWARDS OF SIX AND A HALF TO $7 MILLION AND, AND REDOING THOSE.

SO WE SPEND A LOT OF MONEY DOING THOSE THINGS.

SO IT'S JUST GONNA, IT'S GONNA REQUIRE THE INCREASE IN THE RATES TO,

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TO TAKE CARE OF THAT.

UH, THE LAST THING I'LL SAY IS THAT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT RUNNING OUTTA WATER OR WATER CAPACITY, WHEN, UH, I WAS ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHED AT THE AMOUNT OF WATER THAT, UH, I WAS TOLD, WE ACTUALLY PULL OUTTA THE GROUND EACH YEAR AND WE ARE GETTING BETTER, WE'RE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT.

SO EVEN WITH THE GROWTH THAT WE'VE GOT WITH THE MORE RESIDENTIAL, THE MORE BUSINESSES, THE MORE MULTIFAMILY APARTMENTS, THINGS LIKE THAT THAT ARE COMING HERE, WE'RE ACTUALLY HAVING TO PULL LESS WATER OUTTA THE GROUND EVERY YEAR.

FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

FIVE YEARS AGO WE PULLED ONE 1.9 BILLION GALLONS OF WATER OUTTA THE GROUND AND THAT WAS LIKE 1,970 MILLION, THEN IT WENT TO 1,000,000,900 60 MILLION.

SO IT'S, IT'S SEVERAL MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER LESS.

SO THAT'S NOT A LOT.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT 1.9 BILLION, IT'S STILL 1.9 BILLION.

THAT'S STILL A LOT OF WATER, BUT IT IS LESS.

SO WE'RE GETTING BETTER, WE'RE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT, EVEN WITH GROWTH, WE'RE ACTUALLY HAVING TO USE LESS WATER.

AND THE LAST THING IS WE HAVE, UH, A TYPICAL DAY IN HUBER HEIGHTS.

IN THE WINTER MONTHS, WE WILL, THIS CITY USES ROUGHLY THREE AND A HALF MILLION GALLONS OF WATER A DAY.

UH, DURING HOT SUMMER MONTHS WHEN WATER USAGE IS UP, WE USE ABOUT 5 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER.

OUR CURRENT CAPACITY IS ACTUALLY 5.8 MILLION.

WE, WE ARE APPROVED BY THE EPA TO, TO APPROVE, TO PULL 5.8 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER OUTTA THE GROUND EVERY DAY.

AND ONCE THESE, UM, IMPROVEMENTS ARE FINISHED IN APRIL, UH, OUR EPA CERTIFICATION WILL GET UP TO ABOUT SEVEN AND A HALF MILLION GALLONS.

AND WE, ON A, ON OUR WORST DAY, WE USE 5 MILLION GALLONS.

SO WE HAVE PLENTY OF WATER CAPACITY AND WE'RE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT AT USING IT.

SO THE, THE REASON FOR THESE RATES IS TO MAKE SURE WE ARE MAINTAINING THE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE HAVE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE PREPARED TO MAKE SURE OUR RESIDENTS ALWAYS HAVE THE BEST WATER SERVICE, UM, THAT THEY CAN MOVING FORWARD.

THE WATER'S NOT WHAT'S EXPENSIVE, IT'S THE DELIVERY SYSTEM AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT DELIVERY SYSTEM IS TOP NOTCH.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.

THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THAT, MAYOR.

THANK YOU SCOTT.

THAT'S ALL I ADD.

ANYTHING ELSE? YES, ANITA.

I WANTED TO ADD TO THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE THE $6 MILLION EVERY 18 MONTHS OF REPLACING WATER LINES ON TOP OF THAT.

AND I MEAN THAT, THAT'S A MAJOR PART OF EVERYTHING TO DELIVER THIS.

AND WHEN I RAN, I TOLD THE CITIZENS THAT I WOULD GET THEIR WATER FIXED, BUT IT WASN'T GONNA BE CHEAP.

SO ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS PART OF THAT WHOLE INCREASE.

AND LOOKING AT OUR OPTIONS THAT WE HAD, ONE OF 'EM WAS PUTTING THAT COST ONTO PEOPLE AS THEIR STREETS WERE GETTING DONE.

AND WE OPTED NOT TO DO THAT BECAUSE WE'RE A CITY, EVERYBODY, REGARDLESS IF YOU'RE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, WE'RE ALL ONE CITY AND WE ALL SHOULD WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM BECAUSE, I MEAN, JUST BECAUSE MY WARD HAD THAT PROBLEM DOESN'T MEAN THAT WARD SIX NOT GONNA HAVE A PROBLEM AT SOME POINT THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS AS A CITY.

SO THIS WAS THE WAY TO TAKE CARE OF WHAT NEEDED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF.

THE CITY WAS TO JUST INCREASE THE RATES.

AND DO I LIKE THAT? NO, BUT WAS THIS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO FIX WHAT NEEDED TO BE FIXED? YES, IT DOES.

AND NEW CONSTRUCTION IS ACTUALLY GOOD FOR US.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT, FROM A WATER PERSPECTIVE, BECAUSE THE DEVELOPERS AND THE BUILDERS, THEY PAY FOR ALL OF THAT UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE AND IT'S ALL NEW.

THEY DON'T PUT, THEY DON'T PUT OLD PIPE IN THE GROUND, THEY DON'T PUT USED PIPE IN THE GROUND.

THEY PUT NEW PIPE IN THE GROUND, THEY PUT THE NEWEST TESTED MOST EPA EFFICIENT PIPES IN THE GROUND.

THE MINUTE THAT THEY COME ONLINE, THOSE RESIDENTS, THOSE BUSINESS CUSTOMERS, THE MINUTE THAT THEY COME ONLINE, THEY TAP INTO OUR WATER, THEY BECOME PAYING CUSTOMERS, THEY BECOME PAYING MEMBERS TO THE REVENUE GENERATED BY THE WATER DEPARTMENT AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THOSE PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENTS, NEW CONSTRUCTION WON'T NEED MAINTAINED FOR 30, 40, 50 YEARS.

SO THEY ARE, THEY ARE HELPING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.

THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT HURTING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE BECAUSE THEY ARE, THEY BECOME IMMEDIATE WATER CUSTOMERS AND THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE DOESN'T NEED REPAIRED FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

LEAD TO HUBER HEIGHTS ARE JUST ABYSMAL.

UH, SO I, I'LL ALLOW SOME QUESTIONS, BUT IF YOU WOULD JUST MAKE SURE YOU COME TO THE PODIUM TO, TO SPEAK, WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY CAN HEAR YOU.

OBVIOUSLY MOST OF YOU PROBABLY KNOW ME, ERIC ROSE.

UM, I OWN KE ROSE, BUT THIS IS UNRELATED TO THE BUSINESS ABOUT LIFELONG RESIDENT OF HEBREW HEIGHTS.

BEEN HERE SINCE I WAS, UH, SEVEN YEARS OLD AND I WAS ALWAYS INVOLVED IN THE CITY AND ACTIVITIES AND THINGS AS I WAS GROWING UP AND THROUGH COLLEGE AND AFTERWARDS AND SO FORTH.

AND I'VE ALWAYS WATCHED THE CITY GROW AND YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB WITH THE CITY.

UM, AND THE GROWTH AND MANAGING IT, I THINK, UH, YOU GUYS CAN BE PROUD OF THAT.

UH, NO COMPLAINTS.

MY COMPLAINT IS SOMETHING THAT'S OUT OF YOUR CONTROL.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A METHOD OUT THERE, BUT SOME OF THE ROADS OUTSIDE OF HUBER HEIGHTS THAT

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SCOTT CAN PROBABLY ATTEST TO THE ONE ON CHAMBERSBURG BETWEEN, I WAS GONNA SAY SOME NOT TOO FAR FROM YOU, , CHAMBERSBURG ROAD THERE BETWEEN RIPRAP AND ENDICOTT FOR EXAMPLE.

AND HERE THE CITY'S GONNA SPEND THIS MONEY FOR THE NEXT PHASE ON CHAMBERSBURG, WHICH IS GREAT.

I HAVE NO COMPLAINTS ABOUT THAT.

I THINK IT'S A NECESSARY, YOU KNOW, IT'S A NECESSARY EVIL IF YOU WILL.

I MEAN, I DON'T LIKE TO SEE SOME GROWTH, BUT THAT KIND OF GROWTH IS NEEDED SO WE CAN GET PEOPLE THROUGH THE CITY, BUT IT'S GONNA END RIGHT THERE AT THE END OF THAT, UH, INTERSECTION AT ENDICOTT.

AND THEN WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? YOU GOT A LOUSY ROAD THAT HAD THAT THE CITY'S JUST DAYTON'S JUST FILLING POTHOLES AND IT NEEDS PAVED.

UM, I MEAN IT, AND I'VE SPOKE WITH PEOPLE AT THE CITY AND SINCE WE HAVE A COMMISSIONER HERE, MAYBE SHE CAN, IT'S NOT HER RESPONSIBILITY , BUT I THOUGHT THE OPPORTUNITY I COULDN'T PASS UP.

CAROL, CAN YOU, CAN YOU TWIST SOME ARMS FOR US, , THAT IS KIND OF WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M KIND OF ENCOURAGING IS WHEN YOU HAVE A PROJECT LIKE THAT, DAYTON DOESN'T WANT TO INVEST IN REPAVING A SECTION OF ROAD THAT HAS NO BUSINESS AND NO RESIDENCE ON IT.

AND THE ONLY RESIDENTS THAT ARE COMPLAINING ARE IN HEBREW HEIGHTS AND THEY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT PEOPLE IN HUBER HEIGHTS, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN HUBER HEIGHTS HAVE TO TRAVEL THAT ROAD TO GET TO WORK.

SO I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY HAVE NO PRIORITY TO FIX THAT ROAD.

SO WHAT KINDA LEVERAGE CAN YOU COME UP WITH TO GET DAYTON TO DO IT? I GUESS THAT'S WHAT WE HAD TO PUT OUR MINDS TOGETHER AND FIGURE OUT HOW CAN WE GET THEM TO, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T PAY TO FIX THEIR ROAD, I DON'T THINK, BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO TO, AND THAT'S PART OF THEIR CITY.

KIDDING.

SO, UH, AARON'S A PRETTY BIG GUY, , SO, UH, AND AARON IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS CITY WORKINGS OF DAYTON.

I THINK YOU PROBABLY SAW SOME RELATIONSHIPS DOWN THERE AND I THINK, UM, THAT'S, THAT IS A CONVERSATION THAT, THAT WE HAVE HAD.

ONE OF THE THINGS, UM, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT LATELY, ONE OF THE A A FUTURE PROJECT IS ACTUALLY CONNECTING THAT FUTURE BIKE PATH ALL THE WAY DOWN TO, UH, THE TRAIL THERE ALONG, UM, RIP RAP ROAD AND PART OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS AROUND ALL OF THAT, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT THE HOW BIMAL, , THAT SECTION OF ROAD IS.

UH, I WOULD JUST, UM, UH, PUT OFF TO OUR STAFF TO MAYBE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE COULD DO OR IS THERE A PARTNERSHIP? IS THERE SOMETHING WE COULD DO TO, TO TRY TO GET THAT SECTION OF ROAD FIXED? BECAUSE IT, IT, IT, IT IS BOTHERSOME TO ME BECAUSE PEOPLE DO REACH OUT TO ME AND ASK ME ABOUT IT AND I, UM, I HATE HAVING TO SAY, WELL THAT, I MEAN THAT'S NOT HUBER HEIGHTS JUST BECAUSE IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, I PASSING ONTO SOMEBODY ELSE BUT IT, BUT IT ISN'T, AND YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SURE WHAT ALL UM, WHAT WE COULD DO TO FORCE THEM TO, TO TAKE CARE OF PROPERTY.

WE DO A LOT OF BUSINESS WITH DAYTON 'CAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE DO VEHICLE UPFITTING AND WE BUILD BUILD VEHICLES FOR HUBER HEIGHTS AS WELL AS DAYTON.

AND I KNOW A LOT OF THE PEOPLE, THE PERSONNEL THERE AT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND I'VE REACHED OUT TO THEM BEFORE ON MY WAY TO LUNCH AFTER GETTING, YOU KNOW, SHOWERED WITH WHATEVER I'M HOLDING IN MY HAND 'CAUSE THE POTHOLES.

SO I'LL CALL THE CERTAIN SUPERVISORS THAT ARE ON THE, AND I SEE THAT THEY HAVE A POTHOLE CREW OUT.

I'LL CALL HIM AND I SAY, HEY, YOU GOT A CREW WORKING DOWN OVER HERE, HOW ABOUT SENDING 'EM ON CHAMBERSBURG WHEN I COME BACK FROM LUNCH? THEY'RE THERE, THEY'RE DOING IT.

SO THEY'RE BEING REACTIVE.

THEY ACTUALLY ARE TRYING, BUT I ASK THEM, WHY CAN'T YOU REPAVE THE ROAD? THEY'RE LIKE, OH, THAT'S WAY BEYOND THEIR PAY GRADE.

YOU KNOW, THAT GOES UP TO COMMISSION LEVEL AND IT'S ALWAYS PASSED FROM WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD, IT'S BEEN IN MULTIPLE TIMES WITH THE, I DUNNO WHAT THE WORD IS THAT YOU GUYS USED, BUT IT CONSIDERATION TO BE PAVED AND IT ALWAYS COMES BACK.

WELL THERE'S NOBODY ON THAT ROAD, SO NO, THERE'S NO CONSTITUENTS OF DAYTON ON THAT ROAD.

SO IT KEEPS GETTING, YOU KNOW, KICKED OUT.

WELL I THINK, YOU KNOW, ALL OF US PROBABLY KNOW ONE OR TWO PEOPLE ON THE, UH, DAYTON CITY COMMISSION.

UM, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WITH WITH MAYBE CAROLYN'S HELP AND MAYBE SOME OTHER BRINGING YOU INTO THAT, MAYBE SOME OF THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS, I KNOW THAT'S, UH, THAT'S, IT'S CROSSING LINES THERE.

BUT, UM, I THINK ALL OF US KNOW THAT IT IS AN ISSUE.

BUT, UH, MAYBE IT'S TIME THAT ALL OF US START TO, TO KIND OF, UM, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE HAVE WITH SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN DAYTON THAT WE KNOW, UM, TO TRY TO GET SOME OF THESE THAT THAT ISSUE TAKEN CARE OF.

'CAUSE IT IS A PROBLEM AND IT'S BEEN A PROBLEM FOR A LONG TIME.

AND I I AGREE.

I MEAN YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU ALMOST TRY TO FIND ANOTHER WAY TO GET DOWN AROUND THERE.

THOSE, THOSE, IT, IT'S PRETTY BAD.

SOME OF THOSE IT FEELS LIKE YOU COULD DRIVE A CAR IN.

YES SIR.

COME BACK TO THE PUDDING PLEASE.

OH YEAH.

I'M NOT SOUR GRAPES ABOUT EVERYTHING.

A BIG CELEBRATE WHERE WE'RE WAITING FOR THE OUTCOME OF THE REFERENDUM TO BUY THE WATER COMPANY.

UM, I'VE LIVED HERE SINCE 91.

UM, WHEN WE BOUGHT THE WATER COMPANY, I REMEMBER GOING TO THAT PLACE, UH, LET'S SEE HERE, GET MY DIRECTIONS AROUND HERE.

JUST UP THE ROAD WHERE WE HAD

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AND I CHEERED THAT.

AND IT'S BEEN A GOOD IDEA 'CAUSE I GOT TIRED OF TURNING AROUND OHIO SUBURBAN, BOUGHT THE WATER COMPANY UP.

MY RATES WENT.

I GOT TIRED OF THAT.

AND I THINK YOU'VE DONE VERY WELL AND YOU'VE BEEN GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR CITY.

UM, I LIVED NORTH OF I 70.

UM, I REMEMBER CALLING THE GUY OUT TO CHECK MY WATER PRESSURE WHEN I FIRST MOVED HERE.

I SAID, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY WATER PRESSURE.

AND THE GUY SAID HE, YOU KNOW, MEASURED IT AT THE FAUCET AND HE SAID, IT'S DOING THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO DO IT NOW.

THEN I FIND OUT THAT IT'S NOT TRUE.

'CAUSE YOU ALL ADDED OUR PUMPS TO GIVE IT.

WE LOVE IT UP THERE NOW.

THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH FOR THAT.

UM, YOU'VE DONE, AND AGAIN, ROSE MUSIC CENTER, I MEAN PAT YOURSELVES ON THE BACK.

YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU'VE DONE SOME GOOD THINGS.

SO, UM, WHAT ELSE DID I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT MAYBE? BUT ANYWAY, UM, I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE DONE, SO JUST SO YOU KNOW THAT.

OKAY, WELL THANK YOU.

WE APPRECIATE THAT.

YEP.

IRONICALLY, I WAS ON THE WATER ADVISORY COMMITTEE WHEN HUBER HEIGHTS WAS CONSIDERING PURCHASING.

WE MADE THE RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL TO PURCHASE OH, TO PURCHASE THE WATER COMPANY.

YEP.

I WAS ON THAT ADVISORY COUNCIL.

YES, PAT, IF YOU'D LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T BY WITH THAT SAME .

PAT LOKI AND I'VE BEEN A, UH, RESIDENT OF THIS AREA SINCE 1971 AND I HAVE TO YOU BE BEAT I HAVE TO SAY TO YOU, SIR, THESE, THEY ARE REMARKABLE.

YES, I'M VICE PRESIDENT OF HUBER HEIGHTS SENIOR CENTER.

I NEVER GET MY WAY ALL, ALL THE TIME, BUT I'LL ASK THEM, AT LEAST THEY GIVE ME THE REASON WHY I CAN'T DO WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO.

AND I'M, I'M VERY PLEASED WHAT THEY DO FOR US.

UM, AND ALSO THE CITY MANAGER, HE'S BEEN ON THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, HE WAS UP HIGH UP THERE AND HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT AS FAR AS THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT THEY HAVE TO GET TO AN AREA.

I THINK IT'S, AND PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IS IT WITHIN FOUR MINUTES THAT YOU HAVE TO GET TO, TO THE RESPONSE TIME GENERALLY IS WHAT THE GENERAL RULE IS? WELL, I MEAN IT'S, IT'S OBVIOUSLY DEPENDING ON STATION STATION ASSIGNMENT AND LOCATION OF THE POPULATION, BUT YEAH, WE, WE TRY AND AVERAGE TO GET THERE UNDER FIVE MINUTES.

SO IT DOES MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE, THE TIMING.

AND I HAVE TWO AND THAT ARE FIRST RESPONDERS, SO I KNOW JUST A LITTLE BIT, BUT HE KNOWS A LOT.

AND WHEN HE SAYS THAT THERE ARE THINGS THAT THEY NEED OR THAT THEY'LL LOOK INTO, HE'S DEAD SERIOUS OF THAT SAME WAY WITH THE, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.

UM, I REALLY THINK THAT THEY'RE REALLY GLAD THAT, AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU CAME TO EXPRESS YOUR FEELING, BUT IF YOU GIVE HIM A CHANCE, HE'LL GET BACK WITH YOU.

THEY'LL DO THINGS.

I HAVE NO PROBLEMS. YEAH.

I JUST HAD TO PUT MY TWO, SO WE'RE GOOD.

NO, IT'S, IT'S GOOD.

THANK YOU PAT.

ANYTHING ELSE FROM ANYONE ON COUNCIL? OKAY, IT IS NOW 7 42 AND THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.

THANK YOU EVERYONE.