[1. Call The Meeting To Order - Mayor Jeff Gore]
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WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS.
REGULAR SESSIONS TODAY IS JUNE 8TH, 2020.
WE'RE GETTING STARTED RIGHT AT 7:00 PM.
UH, WITH THAT THIS MEETING IS OFFICIALLY CALLED TO ORDER.
UH, NEXT UP IS OUR INVOCATION BY PASTOR RANDY GRIFFITH OF THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH AT 68, 75 OLD TROY PIKE.
AND HE WRITES PASTOR DIFFERENTLY.
GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN, YOU TOO, REGARDING HIS DISCIPLES, JESUS PRAYED FATHER.
THEY KNOW THAT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE GIVEN ME COMES FROM YOU FOR, I GAVE THEM THE WORDS YOU GAVE ME AND THEY ACCEPTED THEM.
THEY KNEW WITH CERTAINTY THAT I CAME FROM YOU AND THEY BELIEVED THAT YOU SENT ME.
GOD HAS ENTRUSTED EVERYTHING TO HIS SON.
AND IN TRUSTED US WITH TRUSTING JESUS, AUTHENTIC FAITH IS A GIFT FROM GOD AS HIS AUTHENTIC LOVE, FAITH AND LOVE COME FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE SPIRIT.
WITHIN A BELIEVER, THEY ARE THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT THEY'RE PRODUCED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND NOT BY HUMAN EFFORT OR ABILITY.
WHAT THE FATHER GIVES TO JESUS.
JESUS GIVES TO US CONSIDER JESUS FEEDING OF THE 5,000.
THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE AND TOO LITTLE RESOURCES.
THE PRAGMATIC DISCIPLES COULD SEE THE PROBLEM.
PRAGMATIC PEOPLE CAN SEE THE PROBLEM AND OFFER REASONABLE WORLDLY ANSWERS.
THE DISCIPLES WANTED TO DO WHAT ANY REASONABLE PERSON WOULD WANT TO DO.
GIVE THE PEOPLE DIRECTIONS TO TOWN, RECOMMEND SOME RESTAURANTS AND SEND THEM AWAY.
BUT JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, YOU GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO EAT.
AND JESUS GAVE TO THEM ALL WHAT THE FATHER GAVE TO HIM LIKE WAITERS.
THE DISCIPLES MERELY PASSED OUT WHAT THE FATHER GAVE TO JESUS AND JESUS GAVE TO THEM.
ALL OF THE PEOPLE WERE SATISFIED AND THERE WAS PLENTY LEFTOVER.
THIS IS MINISTRY AND GODLY SERVICE.
WHAT GOD, THE FATHER, FATHER HASN'T TRUSTED TO JESUS.
JESUS GIVES TO BELIEVERS THROUGH THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WITHIN THEM SO THAT THEY MAY GIVE TO OTHERS WHAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD HAS GIVEN THEM.
SO THAT ALL MAY BELIEVE AND BE SATISFIED WITH ETERNAL LIFE LIKE JESUS PRAYED.
THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE THAT THEY MAY KNOW YOU.
THE ONLY TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST, WHOM YOU'VE SENT TO KNOW GOD IS TO TRUST JESUS GOD.
THE FATHER HAS ENTRUSTED ALL THINGS TO HIS SON.
HAVE YOU ACCEPTED THE WORDS OF JESUS HAS GOD ENTRUSTED YOU WITH TRUSTING JESUS, KNOWING THIS WHOMEVER GOT AND TRUSTS.
WE'RE THANKFUL THAT YOU ARE ABOVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD EVERYTHING TOGETHER.
AND THAT YOU HAVE PUT EVERYTHING INTO THE HANDS OF YOUR SON.
AND WE'RE THANKFUL WITH HOW GENEROUS HE IS, WAS SHARING THAT WITH US.
AND SO WE LOOKED AT YOU RIGHT NOW AND ASK FOR YOUR WISDOM AND YOUR GRACE TO BE UPON ALL OF US AS WE MEET TONIGHT.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG AMERICA.
MR. LYONS, MR. HILL EAR, MR. REP HERE, MIRA GORE HERE.
[5. Approval Of Minutes]
OKAY.NEXT UP IS NUMBER FIVE, WHICH IS OUR APPROVAL OF MINUTES.
THERE ARE TWO SETS OF, WELL, THE ONES THAT HAVE CITY COUNCIL, REGULAR MEETING MINUTES FROM MAY 11TH, 2020.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES FROM MAY 14TH OF 2020.
THAT WAS THE MINUTES HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO EVERYONE.
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IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS CHANGES, CONCERNS, PLEASE LET US KNOW IF NOT THOSE MINUTES WILL STAND AS A PRINT.SEEING NO NEEDED CORRECTIONS, THOSE MINUTES WILL STAND AS APPROVED.
NEXT UP IS OUR NUMBER SIX FOR SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.
MR. ROGERS, ARE THERE ANY OF THE SEATING OR NOT NECESSARILY? THE MAN
[7. Citizens Comments]
NEXT UP IS NUMBER SEVEN.ARE THERE ANY CITIZENS COMMENTS THIS EVENING? UH, YES, I HAVE TWO.
UH, THE FIRST UP WOULD BE MRS. TONY GORE, PLEASE COME TO THE BATHROOM.
I WANTED TO COME TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION TO MR. SCHOMER FOR THE PRO, HOW THE PROTEST WAS HANDLED ON SATURDAY EVENING.
UM, I REALIZED THAT SOME MAY TRY TO DISCOUNT WHAT I SAY BECAUSE I'M THE WIFE OF THE MAYOR OR THAT I'M BIASED OR THAT THIS IS AN OVERABUNDANCE OF PRAISE, BUT THAT'S FINE.
CAUSE I'M GOING TO SAY IT ANYWAY.
SOME PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY AND EVEN SOME ON THE DIETS HAVE CRITICIZED MR. SCHOMER FOR NOT LIVING IN THE CITY AND HAVE EVEN STATED THAT THEIR END GOAL WAS TO HAVE HIM REMOVE THE CITY MANAGER.
HE HAS DEVOTED HIS WORKING CAREER TO THE CITY.
SO FOR SOME TO SAY THAT HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT HUBER HEIGHTS IS JUST NOT ACCURATE.
ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO SET UP RESIDENTS IN A CITY TO HAVE A LOVE FOR THAT CITY.
TAKE ME, FOR EXAMPLE, I'VE BEEN WITH THE HUBER HEIGHTS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR 21 YEARS AND HAVE NOT ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT I DON'T HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN THIS COMMUNITY AND A LOVE FOR THIS TOWN AND THE PEOPLE IN IT, ESPECIALLY FOR MY STUDENTS.
I HAVEN'T LIVED IN FAIRBORN FOR, SINCE I WAS 23 YEARS OLD, BUT THAT'S STILL MY HOMETOWN AND IT WILL STILL HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART.
AND I STILL CARE VERY DEEPLY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IN THAT TOWN.
LOOKING BACK AT LAST WEEK, MR. SCHUMER'S LOVE FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND THE COMMITMENT TO DO WHATEVER HE COULD TO PROTECT IT.
AND ITS CITIZENS WAS NEVER MORE EVIDENT.
HE WORKED TIRELESSLY TO PREPARE FOR, FOR SATURDAY WORKING WITH THE POLICE CHIEF AND OTHER SURROUNDING LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PEOPLE OF HUBER HEIGHTS AND THE OTHERS THAT JOINED THE PROTEST WOULD BE SAFE.
HIS PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS DEFINITELY AN ASSET IN HELPING TO COORDINATE AND PREPARE FOR THE PROTEST.
HE WALKED AROUND SPEAKING WITH MANY OF THE PROTESTERS, SOME WHO WEREN'T ALL, ALL THAT FAVORABLE TO CITY OFFICIALS AND POLICE.
AND HE HANDLED HIMSELF WITH DIGNITY AND GRACE.
HE MADE THE RIGHT DECISIONS AT THE RIGHT TIMES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE EVENT TO HELP KEEP THE PROTESTS SAFE FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED.
AND I PERSONALLY WOULDN'T HAVE WANTED TO HAVE ANYONE ELSE AT THE HELM.
THANK YOU, MR. SCHOMER FOR MAKING SURE THE PROTEST WAS SAFE FOR NOT ONLY MYSELF, HUBER, RESONANCE AND OTHERS FROM OUTSIDE OF OUR COMMUNITY, BUT ESPECIALLY FOR MY FORMER STUDENTS BOTH PAST AND PRESENT WHO WERE IN ATTENDANCE, EXERCISING THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO PROTEST FOR A CAUSE THEY BELIEVED IN MS. CRYSTAL GOLF.
UM, SO I'M SURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS ABLE TO SEE THE POST THAT WAS POSTED ON BEHALF OF THE CHAMBER REGARDING THE PROTEST THAT WAS HAPPENING ON SATURDAY.
UM, WHEN I FIRST SAW THE POST, I WAS THROWN OFF DISGUSTED AND FELT LIKE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO WERE WANTING TO STAND UP FOR WHAT THEY IN WAS BEING ATTACKED AND THE ASSUMPTIONS WERE PUT OUT THERE THAT IT WAS NOT GOING TO BE A POSITIVE EVENT.
UM, WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL PROTESTS IN OUR SURROUNDING AREA THAT HAVE HAD A VERY PEACEFUL PROTEST.
UH, BEAVER CREEK WAS THE EXCEPTION.
THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A MISHAP WHEN IT HAD FIRST HAPPENED, EVERYTHING CALMED DOWN AND IT WAS FINE.
UM, I THINK THAT BECAUSE OF WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WITH THEIR PROTEST WAS MAYBE BROUGHT TO LIGHT MORE.
SO, UM, IN THE STATEMENT THAT WAS RELEASED AND IT KIND OF PUT THE ASSUMPTION OUT THERE THAT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE AS PEACEFUL AS WHAT EVERYBODY HAD WANTED.
UM, NOW WITH THAT BEING SAID, I UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS NOT THE CITY WHO HAD RELEASED THAT STATEMENT.
I'M SORRY THAT IT WAS RELEASED ON BEHALF OF THE CHAMBER WHO REPRESENTS THE BUSINESSES IN HEBREW.
HOWEVER, A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT I KNOW THAT ARE NOT ONLY MY AGE, BUT MAYBE A LITTLE BIT YOUNGER WHO ARE JUST NOW STARTING TO FOLLOW SOME OF THE POLITICS THAT ARE GOING ON, DID NOT REALIZE
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THAT TO THEM.IT WAS LIKE THE CITY WAS SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF WHAT WAS TO COME.
AND, UM, THEY ALSO FELT LIKE IT WAS VERY BIASED IN, UM, THAT THE ASSUMPTION WAS PUT OUT THERE THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE SOMETHING NEGATIVE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE ACTUAL MOVEMENT ITSELF AND WHY THEY WERE OUT THERE.
UM, I WOULD HOPE THAT WE CAN MAYBE FIGURE OUT HOW, WHEN STATEMENTS LIKE THIS ARE RELEASED IN THE FUTURE, THAT THEY COULD BE BROUGHT TO MAYBE MR. SCHIRMER'S ATTENTION PRIOR TO BEING RELEASED, IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT AFFECTS OR REFLUX, I'M SORRY.
UM, THE CITY AS A WHOLE, UM, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, MARK PROBABLY COULD HAVE WORDED HIS STATEMENT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY, UM, AND WAS, AND WASN'T SO NEGATIVE WITH A LOT OF THE PINPOINTS THAT HE HAD BROUGHT UP IN THAT STATEMENT THAT WAS RELEASED.
SO I GUESS A COUPLE OF POINTS TO BE MADE HERE.
SO THE, FOR ANYBODY WHO ISN'T AWARE, THE, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATION AND THEY CAN MAKE STATEMENTS PUT OUT STATEMENTS.
THEY CAN, THEY CAN REPRESENT THEIR MEMBERS, UM, IN ANY WAY THAT THEY WOULD, UH, BUT THEY SEEM FIT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THEIR, OF THEIR MEMBERS.
UM, WHEN IN FACT, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR ME, IT WAS A CHAMBER MEMBER WHO ACTUALLY SENT THAT TO ME.
I WASN'T ABLE TO SEE IT FOR WHATEVER REASON WHEN IT WAS MADE.
IT WAS A CHAMBER MEMBER WHO SENT ME THAT STATEMENT AND ASKED KIND OF WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS GOING ON.
AND THEN I STARTED GETTING SCREENSHOTS FROM PEOPLE OF ALL THE DIFFERENT POSTS AND THINGS WERE BEING MADE ON THEIR, ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE.
AND, AND THAT'S THE AT TIME THEN I THOUGHT I NEEDED TO ADDRESS IT BECAUSE CLEARLY THERE WERE STATEMENTS MADE WHERE THERE WERE LOTS OF PEOPLE POSTING WHO DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT THE CITY AND THE CHAMBER ARE NOT TOGETHER, BUT THEY DON'T REPRESENT US.
WE DON'T REPRESENT THEM OR THEY DON'T SPEAK FOR US.
SO WE DON'T SPEAK FOR THEM SO THAT, YOU KNOW, SOCIAL MEDIA IS, AS WE ALL KNOW, FACEBOOK IS A WAY THAT WE ALL, UM, COMMUNICATE WITH SOME RESIDENTS MAYBE IN THE, IN THE QUICKEST FORM OR FASHION.
SO, UM, I MADE A STATEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THE CHAMBER WAS NOT THE CITY AND THE CITY WASN'T THE CHAMBER AND THEY DIDN'T SPEAK FOR US, REPRESENT US.
AND, YOU KNOW, I DID ADD THAT, YOU KNOW, PERSONALLY, I WAS, UM, I WAS OFFENDED BY THAT STATEMENT.
I THOUGHT IT WAS, UM, INSENSITIVE AND TONE DEAF TO SAY THE LEAST CONCERNING THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ARE ONGOING, UH, NOT ONLY IN OUR COMMUNITY, BUT IN THE NATION AS A, AS A WHOLE RIGHT NOW.
AND, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IF, IF THEY WANTED TO SEND THAT TYPE OF A MESSAGE TO BUSINESS OWNERS THAT MIGHT BE AFFECTED SPECIFICALLY BY WHERE THE PROTESTS WERE SCHEDULED TO HAPPEN, UM, MAYBE THAT WOULD BEEN OKAY, BUT THEN TO SHARE THAT TYPE OF POST TO BUSINESS OWNERS AND ON BUSINESS OWNERS, UH, LIKE, UH, ON A PUBLIC FORUM WHERE THE CITY WAS KINDA TIED INTO THAT NEGATIVITY, YOU KNOW, THE LINE NEEDED TO BE DRAWN FOR ME IN THAT.
AND THAT WAS IN, I THINK, I THINK I ADDRESSED THAT ON SOCIAL MEDIA AT THAT TIME.
AND IN SEVERAL ONE KNOWS, I SENT AN EMAIL TO MR. BRUNS, UH, ADDRESSING THE SITUATION, ACKNOWLEDGING THEY CAN REPRESENT THEIR MEMBERS, HOWEVER THEY WANT.
BUT I DID ASK THEM TO REMOVE THE POST AND, UH, ISSUE AN APOLOGY OF SOME SORT TO TRY TO CALM THE WATERS OF, OF THE THINGS THAT WERE BEING SAID, BECAUSE ON THEIR PUBLIC PAGE, IT WAS QUITE A BIT OF OUTRAGE.
AND THERE WERE SOME COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE THAT WERE, UM, INCITING VIOLENCE, EVEN MORE THE TERM LYNCHING, SOMEONE USED ON THEIR PUBLIC FACEBOOK PAGE.
AND THERE WAS NO RESPONSE FROM THE CHAMBER AT ALL.
THEY JUST KIND OF LEFT ALL THAT OPEN.
SO I'VE, HAVEN'T HEARD BACK FROM MR. BRUNS AND I HAVEN'T, AS FAR AS I KNOW, THE POST IS STILL UP ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE WITH ALL THOSE, WITH ALL THOSE COMMENTS.
SO, UH, THAT WOULD BE, THAT'S MY POSITION.
I WOULD ASK ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER, IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS TO MAKE, YOU CERTAINLY CAN AND FEEL WELCOME TO YES.
UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING TONIGHT AND, UH, THE SCORE.
I, I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOUR COMMENTS MORE.
UM, MAYOR, I BELIEVE I MIGHT'VE BEEN THE PERSON THAT SENT YOU, UH, A LETTER FROM THE ACCOUNT THAT, UH, THE CHAMBER STILL HAS ME LISTED ON, UH, AS A FORM BUSINESS WITH THE CHAMBER.
YOU ARE ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE, ALSO I WAS, I WAS TAKEN BACK BY THE LETTER AND THAT PROMPTED MY CALL TO YOU.
AND I WAS HOPING THAT, UH, UM, WE CAN TALK
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THROUGH YOU AND THE CITY MANAGER AND KEEP OUR THOUGHTS, UH, CONSISTENT.AND, UH, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT YOU SENDING A LETTER, AN EMAIL TO THE CHAMBER, AND YOU'RE SAYING TONIGHT, YOU DIDN'T GET ANY RESPONSES PRIOR TO THE MEETING.
LAST TIME I CHECKED, I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM MR. BROWNS OR I'VE HEARD FROM ANYBODY FROM THE CHAMBER.
YEAH, I WAS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE WORD RIOT, UH, WAS ON THE LETTER.
I KNOW THAT IT WAS VERY CONFUSING.
I HAD SEVERAL, EVEN FAMILY MEMBERS ASKED ME, UH, IF THAT WAS THE CITY OR THE CHAMBER.
AND, AND, AND I THINK THE CONFUSION LIED THERE AND WHO AUTHORED THE LETTER.
UM, AND I WOULD AGREE WITH YOUR COMMENTS THAT I THINK MESSAGES LIKE THAT SHOULDN'T BE CENTRALIZED.
AND, AND IF IT'S GOING TO INVOLVE THE CITY, THEY SHOULD GO THROUGH YOUR OFFICE AND THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE.
BUT YES, UH, UH, JUST TO STATE, SINCE YOU'VE TAKEN THE TIME TO COME TONIGHT, I, I WAS TAKEN BACK BY THE LETTER, UM, AND, AND DID DISCUSS WITH YOU MAYOR.
YEAH, I, THERE WERE SEVERAL PEOPLE.
I MEAN, SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE REACHED OUT TO ME THROUGH, UM, PRIVATE MESSAGE EMAIL THROUGH, UM, AT THE PROTEST ON SATURDAY, MY WIFE AND I ATTENDED A BABY SHOWER FOR ONE OF HER FORMER STUDENTS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
UH, THERE WAS A BUSINESS OWNER THERE THAT RECEIVED THAT.
UH, SO THERE WERE, UM, THE, THE COMMENT THAT I MADE ON SOCIAL MEDIA SEPARATING THE BUSINESSES AND THE CHAMBER, UM, FROM THE CITY I THOUGHT WAS NECESSARY.
AND, UH, IN A TIME LIKE THIS, I FELT IT WAS CERTAINLY OKAY.
AND PERTINENT FOR ME TO MAKE MY OWN PERSONAL FEELINGS ABOUT WHAT I FELT ABOUT, ABOUT THE STATEMENT.
I'LL, UH, I'LL ADDRESS THIS AS I, UH, I, WE HAD SPOKEN, UM, THAT DAY AND, UM, I PROVIDED YOU MY COMMENTS TO THAT AND, AND I DID AGREE THAT THEY APPROACH COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH SOFTER.
UM, IT COULD HAVE BEEN PREFACED.
AND THEN I ALSO HAD A CONVERSATION WITH MARK BRUNS AS WELL, AND THE SAME MESSAGE WAS GIVEN TO HIM AS WELL.
UM, NOW DURING THAT MESSAGE, I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT HE HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH BUSINESS OWNERS, UH, THE OWNER OF THAT SHOPPING CENTER AND OTHERS, UM, IN WHICH A LOT OF THESE THINGS WERE DISCUSSED.
AND MANY OF THOSE BUSINESSES, FROM WHAT HE TOLD ME HAD ASKED IF THEY COULD PUT SOMETHING OUT TO, TO THEM OF THAT NATURE, NOT MAYBE NOT THAT SPECIFICALLY.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT PIECE WAS DERIVED.
I DON'T KNOW IF THEY MADE IT UP OR IF IT WAS PULLED FROM SOMETHING ELSE.
I COULDN'T TELL YOU ON THAT ONE.
BUT, UM, WHAT I DO KNOW, I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANY MALINTENT INVOLVED IN THAT.
UM, MARK BRONZE IS A, UH, RETIRED POLICE DETECTIVE FROM HUBER HEIGHTS.
UH, I THINK IS A, AND, AND, AND I BELIEVE THAT, UM, MR. SCHUMER MAY AGREE THAT ONCE YOU'VE GOT THAT MENTALITY GOING, YOU KIND OF THINK TOWARDS POLICE ONCE YOU'VE BEEN THERE, YOU CAN TAKE THE GUY OUT OF THE POLICE FORCE, BUT NOT THE POLICE FORCE OUT OF THE GUY.
AND, AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT WAS, WAS SIMPLY JUST VERY DIRECT AND VERY BARE.
UM, AND I DON'T THINK IT WAS INTENTIONAL.
I THINK IT JUST MAYBE COME UP, IT CAME OUT THAT WAY AGAIN, I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANYTHING MEANT TO OFFEND.
UM, I KNOW THE PROTESTORS WEREN'T ADDRESSED AT ALL IN THAT STATEMENT, FROM WHAT I SAW, I DIDN'T SEE PROTESTERS ANYWHERE IN IT.
UM, AND IT WAS A WHOLE LOT OF IFS.
IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THIS SITUATION, IT WAS ABOUT PROTECTING PEOPLE AND NOT PROPERTY.
UM, THAT WAS THE BIG MESSAGE I GOT FROM IT OVERALL WAS THAT THEY WERE SAYING, LOOK, FOLKS, UH, THE BUSINESS CAN BE REBUILT.
YOUR EMPLOYEES AND YOURSELF CAN NOT BE.
SO, UM, I'M SORRY THAT IT DID STATE THAT IN WINERIES, IN AREA PROTESTS, THINGS TO KNOW ARE THE BUSINESS OWNER OR BUSINESS MANAGER.
AND HE WENT ON TO NOT ONLY COPYING THE SAFETY TIPS, BUT ALSO THE PICTURE OF THE ACTUAL STATEMENT THAT WAS RELEASED.
AND I KNOW THAT IT WAS NEVER IMPLIED THAT THERE WOULD BE A RIOT.
THERE WAS STATED AS, AS AN F THERE'S ALWAYS POSSIBILITIES.
AND I KNOW EVEN OUR OWN POLICE FORCE PREPARED FOR THAT POTENTIAL, CAUSE IT WOULD REALLY BE STUPID NOT TO PREPARE.
WE HAVE TO PREPARE FOR THINGS LIKE THAT, ESPECIALLY WHEN, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN TURBULENT TIMES AND THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED IN OTHER CITIES ACROSS OUR COUNTRY.
UM, AGAIN, THOSE ARE JUST MY THOUGHTS ON, I DON'T PERSONALLY, I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANY MALINTENT.
UM, I THINK, UM, IT WAS JUST SIMPLY MEANT TO BE A, UH, AN EDUCATIONAL PIECE TO, TO LET THOSE BUSINESSES KNOW THAT, HEY, HERE'S SOME STEPS YOU CAN TAKE AND PROTECT YOUR BILL OR PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE, NOT YOUR PROPERTY.
HE HAD MENTIONED ERRORS FINGER TO THEM
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AS PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE LIKE A MOM TYPE OF A MENTALITY.NOW YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PIECE OR THIS STATEMENT AT THE TOP.
I MUST NOT HAVE CAUGHT THE ONE YEAR.
IT'S THE, IT'S THE SECOND PINPOINT CRYSTAL, IF YOU WOULD JUST, JUST TO MAKE NO, NO, YOU CAN GO UP HERE.
JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE MIC ACTUALLY PICKED, PICKED YOU UP.
SO THE SECOND PINPOINT ON HIS STATEMENT STATES THAT PSYCHOLOGISTS USE A TERM CALLED MOB MENTALITY TEACHERS TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAPPENS DURING A RIOT.
AND THERE IS EVEN A WHOLE BUNCH, A WHOLE BRANCH OF STUDY FOR CROWD PSYCHOLOGY.
WHEN PEOPLE GET INTO GROUPS, THE GROUP MENTALITY SEEMS TO TAKE OVER FUELED ON BY THE MOM.
AGAIN, WAS THAT IN THE PIECE THAT WAS IN THE ACTUAL STATE, IT WAS IN THE STATEMENT.
IT WAS THE SECOND PINPOINT OF THAT STATEMENT.
WE ARE A VERY DIVERSE COMMUNITY AS, AS YOU KNOW.
YEAH, YEAH, WE'RE AT, CAN YOU SHOW ME, LET ME PUT THIS THE SECOND PINPOINT YOU COULDN'T EITHER, BUT I MEAN, WERE THERE MULTIPLE POSTS? ARE THESE, THE ONLY ONE I SAW WAS ONE THAT YOU HAD PUT UP? GOD, I NEVER SHARED ANYTHING.
I SHARED IT ALL I DID PERSONALLY.
I'M VERY SORRY THAT YOU TOOK IT THAT WAY.
AND AGAIN, I THINK THIS IS IN THE ACTUAL PIECE OF LITERATURE, NOT THEY HAD A PREFACING STATEMENT.
I'M WRITING ON THIS NOW, SO OKAY.
UM, I JUST, OH, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL END MY COMMENTS THERE.
CAUSE I HAVE MORE COMMENTS FOR LATER.
I THINK I WILL BE ADDRESSING THIS PARTICULAR TOPIC AS WELL.
TOWARDS THE END OF THE MEETING.
I JUST FEEL THAT WITH US BEING AS DIVERSE AS WE ARE, IT NEEDED TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE SENSITIVE TO WHAT IS GOING ON.
JUST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE CITIES LIKE CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, OR THEY, OR EVEN COLUMBUS THAT ARE A LOT BIGGER THAN HEBREW HEIGHTS DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT THAT INTENT IS HERE.
DO YOU BELIEVE THE CHAMBER BELIEVED THAT THERE WOULD BE WRITING OR WAS TRYING TO CREATE AN ISSUE BASED ON THE STATEMENT THAT WAS RELEASED? THE RESPONSE I PERSONALLY GOT FROM THE CHAMBER, I DON'T KNOW WHO ANSWERED IT BECAUSE IT WASN'T SIGNED.
I, I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT, UM, THEY THOUGHT THAT THE ILL INTENT WAS THERE AND IT CREATED A DIVIDE AMONGST PEOPLE.
THERE WERE SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO GO.
AND THEN WHEN THAT STATEMENT WAS ISSUED, THEY'RE LIKE, I DON'T, I'M NOT GOING, I DON'T WANT TO BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE VIOLENT.
IT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE VIOLENT.
I UNDERSTAND THAT THINGS CAN HAPPEN.
AND YOU KNOW, OUR POLICE FORCE, THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN PREPARED FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN, NOT AS THEIR JOB, BUT I DON'T FEEL THAT A STATEMENT LIKE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN RELEASED TO INSTILL FEAR AND ANYBODY WHO LIVES IN THE CITY OF HEBREW HEIGHTS WHO WAS GOING TO ATTEND THE, DO YOU BELIEVE THE INTENT WAS TO INSTILL FEAR? I DO.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT MR. BRUNS, NOR THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WOULD INTENTIONALLY TRY TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE LIKE THAT.
I JUST SIMPLY DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
WELL, I MEAN, IT'S FUNNY, WE DON'T AGREE ON IT.
UM, BUT I JUST, I, I HONESTLY FEEL THAT HE, YES, AND I, AND I'VE KNOWN MARK, YOU KNOW, JUST FROM MY PREVIOUS JOB AS WELL.
AND I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING THAT WOULD'VE CAME OUT OF HIS MOUTH EVER.
I FELT THAT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE SENSITIVE TO WHAT IS GOING ON, ESPECIALLY IN A COMMUNITY THAT IS AS DIVERSE AS WHAT WE ARE.
ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY OTHER? YES.
I BELIEVE IN THE AGE OF CONNECTIVITY THAT WE'RE IN, EVERYBODY'S CONNECTED.
AND WHEN SOMEONE REACHES OUT TO YOU AND SAY, YOU'VE OFFENDED PEOPLE AND ASKED TO TAKE DOWN THE MESSAGE OR GIVE AN APOLOGY THAT WAS NOT ACHIEVED AT THIS POINT.
I THINK MY, MY BIGGEST CONCERN AT THIS POINT IS, UM, IN, THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESPOND TO ME OR AGAIN, WHATEVER THERE IS, ARE AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY, BUT I WOULD SAY THE BIGGEST CONCERN THAT I HAVE IS THE, UM, QUITE FRANKLY, IS THE VIOLENCE THAT PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT OPENLY ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE THAT THEY DIDN'T ADDRESS.
NOBODY SAID, HEY, NO, WE SHOULDN'T BE TALKING ABOUT LYNCHING PEOPLE IN THEIR FRONT YARD.
NOBODY FROM THE CHAMBER SAID THAT THAT'S ON THEIR WEBPAGE, THAT'S ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE.
BUT SOMEBODY DID WHO READS THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE.
SOMEONE MADE THAT STATEMENT AND WE HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING FROM THE CHAMBER
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SAYING, HEY, THIS ISN'T RIGHT.WE SHOULDN'T BE TALKING ABOUT THIS.
THAT IS, THAT IS ON A BIGGER SCALE.
THEY CAN DEAL WITH THEIR MEMBERS.
AND THEY'RE ALLOWED TO SAY THINGS THAT THEY WANT TO SAY.
WE'RE ALL ABOUT TO SAY THINGS WE WANT TO SAY.
THERE'S CONSEQUENCES TO THE THINGS THAT WE SAY.
AND IN THE TIME PERIOD OF WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE TO BE EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TO WHAT WE SAY AND THE FACT THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT DON'T FIND WHAT WAS SAID OFFENSIVE, I THINK IS THE WHOLE REASON THAT THEY'RE PROTESTING TO BEGIN WITH.
THAT'S WHAT I THINK THE PROBLEM IS THAT WE DON'T GET THAT, BUT PEOPLE THINK THAT WASN'T OFFENSIVE WHEN THEY READ THOSE THINGS.
IF YOU'RE A BUSINESSMAN, DITCH YOUR JACKET, ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND BLEND IN WITH THE CROWD THAT'S OFFENSIVE.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY IT, BUT THERE'S CONSEQUENCES TO THAT.
ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS? YES, IT WAS MR. BIRCH.
UM, I HAVE TO SAY THAT I WAS, UH, OFFENDED AND DISAPPOINTED IN, IN THE CHAMBERS POST, UM, TO SEE A HEADACHE ON A PUBLICATION FROM THEM THAT STARTS OUT BY SAYING RIOTS SAFETY TIPS FOR BUSINESSES, SORT OF SETS AN EXPECTATION IN ITSELF.
UM, THE CHAMBER DID NOT CONVEY IN ANY OF WHAT I SAW POSTED THAT THEY HAD COORDINATED WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE POLICE DIVISION TO FIND OUT HOW THEY WERE PLANNING, UH, FOR THE DEMONSTRATION.
AND CONSEQUENTLY, NONE OF THAT WAS CONVEYED IN THEIR, UH, CORRESPONDENCE TO THEIR BUSINESSES.
AND AS A FORMER POLICE PERSON, I WOULD THINK THAT HE WOULD BE VERY SENSITIVE TO THE FACT THAT, UH, THE POLICE WOULD GO OUT AND TALK TO ALL THE BUSINESSES AND, AND GIVE THEM INSIGHT INTO HOW TO DEAL WITH VARIOUS SCENARIOS.
AND FOR HIS CORRESPONDENTS TO SIMPLY DISCUSS RIOTS, UH, TO ME, IS, IS INCENDIARY.
IT'S IT JUST, IT JUST RUBBED ME THE WRONG WAY.
THE RESULTS OF SUCH A DISCUSSION WOULD HAVE BEEN, UH, A BETTER AND A MORE POSITIVE MESSAGE FOR THEM TO SEND TO THEIR MEMBERS AND INSTEAD OF A MESSAGE THAT PROMOTED PEACE AND UNITY, IT CAME ACROSS AS PLANNING FOR A POTENTIAL RIOT.
AND IT, AND THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN GET AROUND THAT BECAUSE THERE WAS NO MENTION A PEACE IN UNITY OR AN ALTERNATE WAY OF DEALING WITH THE, UH, UH, AND DEALING WITH THE, UH, SITUATION AS IT WAS.
UM, AND FINALLY, I FEEL LIKE THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CANNOT SUCCESSFULLY AND PRODUCTIVELY REPRESENT THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS.
IF IT WON'T COMMUNICATE AND COORDINATE WITH CITY STAFF AND OUR PUBLIC SAFETY DIVISIONS, UH, WHEN, WHEN PLANNING FOR SUCH AN EVENT.
AND, UM, I FIND THAT VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTING.
THANK YOU, MR. VIRTUE, ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM ANYONE ELSE ON COUNCIL? SO REGARDING THIS MATTER OR BEST AMERICA, THIS IS MR. WILDE.
YOU EARLIER MENTIONED, UH, THE POSTS YOU'D ASKED FOR THE POST TO BE TAKEN DOWN.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT IS STILL ON THE CHAMBER WEBSITE.
UM, I HAVE A COPY OF IT, FEAR THAT IF YOU CAN STAY A LOT OF FRONT OF IT OFF.
BUT EVEN MORE DISTURBING THEN THE HEADLINE OF RIOTS SAFETY INFORMATION FOR BUSINESSES, WHICH I HEARD REFERRED TO AS TIPS OR HELPFUL TIPS, UH, BY SOME PEOPLE ON, ON FACEBOOK, EVEN MORE DISTURBING WAS THE LEAD OFF PARAGRAPH TO A DIRECTOR, BRONZES, A LADDER.
AND THAT WAS THAT IN LIGHT OF RECENT INCIDENTS.
AND, UH, IT WAS A DIRECT REFLECTION ON WHAT WE HAD COMING AS A CITY AT THIS PROTEST, WHICH IN MY OPINION, UH, WAS SUCCESSFUL, PEACEFUL,
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UM, PROTECTED, UH, OUTSTANDING JOB DONE BY ROBERTS, UH, AND THE REST OF STAFF AND THE POLICE.UH, BUT I WATCHED THE VIDEOS OVER AND OVER OF THE PROTEST ITSELF.
ONE OF THE BETTER I'VE SEEN THEN TO SEE WHAT WAS PUT OUT BY OUR CHAMBER, BASICALLY SAYING, UH, LOOK OUT HERE, COME THE RIOTERS, UH, TO ME WAS THE EQUIVALENT OF, UH, THE CITY HAVING A SECOND AMENDMENT RALLY AND SOMEONE PUTTING OUT STATEMENTS ABOUT S LOOKED OUT HERE, COME THE, UH, OPEN SHOOTERS.
IT WAS, IT WAS BEYOND MORTIFYING.
I REALLY THINK THAT IT HURT THE IMAGE OF THE PROTEST.
AND I THINK IT CAUSED DAMAGE TO THE BUSINESSES WHO WERE FRIGHTENED BY IT.
UM, THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS.
I CAN JUST TELL YOU THAT, UH, I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THE ACTIONS OF THE CHAMBER AND I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED.
AND, UH, THE FACT THAT NOT ONLY WAS THIS PUT OUT TO BUSINESSES, BUT IT WAS PUT OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, MEDIA PAGES ALL OVER HEBREW HIDES.
THANK YOU, MR. WEBB, ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS, MAYOR? YES.
UM, WHEN I ASSESS THE SITUATION, UM, WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND THE COUNTRY, UH, THE PROTEST WAS THERE TO SUPPORT, UM, GEORGE FLOYD AND THE POLICE BRUTALITY THAT IS IN SOME OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
IT WAS SET UP ORIGINALLY AS A COMPLETELY PRIESTVILLE PROTEST.
NOW WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT ELEMENTS ARE GOING TO COME IN AND STIR UP AND CAUSE ANY TROUBLE.
UH, IN TALKING TO OUR CITY MANAGER, ROB SCHOMER, UH, HE MADE SEVERAL STATEMENTS TO THE FACT THAT HE WAS THERE TO ACTUALLY PROTECT THE PROTESTORS FROM THAT ELEMENT.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MESSAGE, OUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND OUR CITY HAD PUT OUT ON A CITY LETTERHEAD, HUBER HEIGHTS, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND THEN PUT THAT KIND OF STATEMENT OUT WITHOUT ANY KIND OF BALANCE ABOUT THE PROTEST THAT HAD BEEN ADVERTISED.
ONE CAN LOOK AT THAT IN QUESTION, OBVIOUSLY, THE PEOPLE THAT RESPONDED TO THOSE QUOTES, MANY OF THEM, SEVERAL OF THEM, UH, WERE, UH, REALLY ANGRY OVER THAT.
AND RIGHTFULLY SO, BECAUSE IT'S THEIR IMPRESSION, IT'S THEIR OPINION.
THEY PUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN THE CHAMBER, I DON'T KNOW WHO SPECIFICALLY IT WAS.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE PRESIDENT, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE COMMENT, BUT THERE WAS A COMMENT, A REPLY FROM THE CHAMBER.
I BELIEVE IN YOU READ IT, IF YOU, UM, PLEASE ADD ANY STATEMENTS, BUT, UM, THE CHAMBER PUT OUT THE LETTER, IT WAS CAUSING PROBLEMS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
THEY HAD IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK ON THAT.
AND THEN WHAT WAS THE CHAIN? WHAT WAS ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT CHAMBERS MADE, IF YOU HAD ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE IN HUBER HEIGHTS? SO SOMEONE HAD SOMEONE HAD MADE A COMMENT.
UM, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW SPECIFICALLY WHAT THE COMMENT WAS, BUT THERE WAS A RESPONSE BACK FROM THE CHAMBER TO THIS INDIVIDUAL THAT SAID, UH, ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING RACIAL PROFILING CONTACT, ROB SHOMER, RACIAL PROFILING.
AND SO HERE, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT, UM, ALL OF THE ISSUES, THE CHAMBER MAKES A STATEMENT, UH, INFLAMES THE SITUATION BY SHEER RESPONSE BACK, AND THEN POINTS THE FINGER FOR RACIAL PROFILING THAT OUR CITY MANAGER MUST THEN, UM, ANSWER, OKAY.
AND THEN THEY POINTED ON THE CITY, THEY HAVE THE S OR HEAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FROM HUBER HEIGHTS.
SO THAT'S PUTTING IT SQUARELY ON US.
THERE'S NO QUESTION IN MY MIND, THAT'S EVIDENCE OF INTENTION.
THAT'S EVIDENCE OF INTENTION CAUSED THE PROBLEM AND YOU STICK OUR CITY MANAGER WITH IT, A CITY MANAGER WHO WAS OUT THERE EVERY MINUTE OF THAT DAY, PROTECTING THE PROTESTORS AND EVERYONE ELSE.
THEN YOU ADD TO IT THE LAST MAJOR ISSUE, WHICH IS YOUR PARTICULAR EMAIL.
YOU CONTACTED THE CHAMBER, ASKED THEM TO TAKE IT DOWN, ASK
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THEM TO APPARENTLY, YOU KNOW, APOLOGIZE OR ISSUE A STATEMENT.IT WASN'T DONE IT WASN'T DONE BEFORE THE PROTESTS.
IT HASN'T BEEN DONE AFTER THE PROTEST.
SOMEBODY MAY BE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL.
SOMEBODY MAY HAVE HAD A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
THIS WAS THE CHAMBER'S RESPONSIBILITY.
AND TO HEAR NOTHING FROM THEM, EXCEPT A FEW COMMENTS, THEY WERE ABLE TO COMMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
THERE'S NO QUESTION IN MY MIND THAT THIS WAS INTENTIONAL, INTENTIONAL TO INFLAME A SITUATION THAT ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, EVERYONE HAD A RIGHT TO THINK COULD END NEGATIVELY.
AND IF IT ISN'T FOR THE FINE ORGANIZATION OF THE PROTESTORS OVER A REAL SERIOUS RACIAL ISSUE, IF IT WASN'T FOR OUR FINE PUBLIC SERVICE WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE HAD STATE OFFICIALS THERE, THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL TROOPERS I TALKED TO BEFORE I LEFT, WE HAD OTHER MUNICIPALITIES IN THE REGION DATE VANDELIA, UM, RIVERSIDE.
AND THOSE ARE JUST THE ONES I ACTUALLY SAW AND COMMUNICATE WITH NOT TO MENTION OUR POLICE FORCE.
I'VE ALWAYS STATED IN THE PAST, SINCE I'VE BEEN ON CITY COUNCIL, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IS THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY.
WHAT DO I USE FOR THAT? JUST MY OPINION, BECAUSE I'M ELECTED IN HUBER HEIGHTS, WORK KALIYA CERTIFIED.
THAT IS THE GOLD STANDARD IN CERTIFICATION FOR OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND NOT ONLY OUR, THIS, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, KALIYA CERTIFIED, BUT ALSO OUR DISPATCH IS CLIA CERTIFIED.
I MEAN, IT IS ACE IS ACROSS THE BOARD.
THEY DID A FANTASTIC JOB UNDER ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES, ACCORDING TO WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS COUNTRY.
SO IF YOU'RE ASKING ME FOR MY COMMENT AND CRYSTAL, IF YOU'RE ASKING FOR THIS, I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW ABSOLUTELY.
THIS IS INTENTIONALLY INFLAMMATORY BY THE ACTIONS AND INACTIONS OF OUR CHAMBER, AND THAT REFLECTS ON THIS CITY THAT REFLECTS ON EVERYBODY SITTING ON THIS DICE.
THANK YOU, MR. LYONS, ANY OTHER COMMENTS TO BE MADE THIS EVENING? OKAY.
AND I THINK, I THINK THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT AS A CITY, WE SUPPORT BUSINESSES HERE JUST BY THE SHEER AMOUNT OF BUSINESSES THAT ARE OPENING THEIR OWN BUSINESS THAT COME HERE, THE LEGISLATION THAT WE PASSED TO HELP BUSINESSES REOPENED, EXTENDING THEIR SPACE SO THEY CAN HAVE MORE CUSTOMERS.
WE'VE BUILT BUSINESSES HERE WITH BUILDING AQUATIC CENTER, WITH BUILT, WE BUILT A MUSIC CENTER.
I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY QUESTION THAT WE SUPPORT BUSINESSES.
WE HIRED AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR COORDINATOR SPECIFICALLY FOR THE GROWTH OF BUSINESSES TO REACH OUT TO BUSINESSES AND TO TALK TO BUSINESSES ON A DAILY BASIS AND FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO WE SUPPORT BUSINESSES AND WE'VE SUPPORTED THE CHAMBER.
WE'RE A CO WE'RE A CUSTOMER OF THE CHAMBER.
THAT MEANS WE'RE ONE OF THEIR CUSTOMERS.
AND I THINK THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO REPRESENT US AS WELL.
I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE, AND YOU KNOW, I'M PREPARED.
I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION THIS EVENING, UH, THAT WE, UH, CANCEL OUR MEMBERSHIP TO THE CHAMBER.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO, UH, SUPPORT BUSINESSES JUST SOLELY THROUGH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CITY RIGHTS.
I THINK, UH, WE HAVE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT THAT CAN DO THAT.
AND I THINK THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT THE CITY SUPPORTS BUSINESSES.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO DO IT THROUGH AN ORGANIZATION THAT DOESN'T REPRESENT THE, UH, LEAST THE CORE BELIEFS THAT WHAT I BELIEVE AFTER WHAT'S SPOKEN THIS EVENING TO THE MAJORITY OF THIS COUNCIL AND TO THE MAJORITY OF THE COMMUNITY, THERE'S A MOTION.
IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
UH, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON CANCELING MEMBERSHIP TO THE, UH, TO THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS? YES.
MR. SHAWN, THANK YOU MR. MAYOR.
UM, THIS TYPE OF LEGISLATION IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, THE OPINION OF SEVERAL BUSINESS OWNERS THAT REACHED OUT TO ME IS THE EXACT REASON WHY ON ONE TO SAVE FIVE, I COULD BE WRONG.
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WHY FIVE BUSINESS OWNERS REACHED OUT TO ME AND, UH, UH, CONTINUED THEIR, UM, ASSERTION THAT THIS CITY AND YOURSELF IS NOT BUSINESS FRIENDLY.RICHARD, WOULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHO THOSE ARE BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO REACH OUT TO THEM PERSONALLY.
I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHO THOSE PEOPLE ARE, WHO FEEL THAT WAY.
SO AS THE MAYOR, I CAN REACH OUT TO THEM TO, TO CLARIFY THAT, UM, BECAUSE THAT IS THE FURTHEST THING FROM THE TRUTH FOR THING FROM THE TRUTH.
SO IF YOU COULD GIVE ME THEIR NAMES, I'D APPRECIATE THEN IN MY OPINION, WHY WOULD YOU ASK FOR SUCH A LUDICROUS ACT OF, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO, WE ARE, WE ARE, WE'RE THE CITY, WE CAN BE SUPPORTIVE OF BUSINESS.
WE DON'T NEED AN ORGANIZATION TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF BUSINESS.
WE CAN BE SUPPORTING THE BUSINESS THAT OUR ACTIONS AND LEGISLATION THAT WE HAVE PASSED PROVES THAT WE'RE SUPPORTIVE OF BUSINESS.
WHY, SO RICHARD, WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST, LET ME ASK YOU, WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST THAT WE DO, UH, THAT WE'RE NOT DOING TO BE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF BUSINESS? WELL, I, I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT AS THE, UM, AS THE MAYOR THAT YOU WOULD HAVE, UH, UH, MAYBE REACHED OUT TO THE CHAMBER, UM, AND ASKED THEM TO SHOW UP HERE TONIGHT, UH, TO SPEAK TO THAT, QUITE HONESTLY, I, I FIGURED THEY WOULDN'T BE, BUT I DO APOLOGIZE.
I, I WAS SPEAKING, UM, INSTEAD OF REACHING OUT TO THEM, WE DECIDED TO RAMROD THE CHAMBER, UH, AND BASH THE CRAP OUT OF THEM HERE TONIGHT, UH, WITH NO REPRESENTATION, NO REQUEST OF REPRESENTATION HERE TONIGHT.
AND NOW WE'RE REQUESTING THE ROOT REMOVE OUR MEMBERSHIP THAT WE I'M SORRY, TAKE THAT BACK.
THAT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS, NOT THIS COUNCIL DECIDE TO LOWER THE MEMBERSHIP TO THE CHAMBER AS A, AS IT WAS NOT DONE IN RECENT YEARS.
IN RECENT YEARS, THIS, THIS CITY GOVERNMENT USED TO SUPPORT ITS CHAMBER AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.
IN RECENT YEARS, THE MAYOR AND SEVERAL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WOULD ENTERTAIN EVENTS WITH THE CHAMBER.
AND THE PAST TWO YEARS, THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE.
THE PARTICIPATION OF THE CITY.
COUNCIL HAS DROPPED FROM THE CHAMBER.
NOW THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE CHAMBER ITSELF HAS CONTINUED TO GROW IT.
SO MR. MAYOR, I WOULD ASK YOU, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO PERSONALLY HELP THE CHAMBER, THE DAYTON CHAMBER, THE NORTHERN CHAMBER TO SUCCEED WITH OUR BUSINESS, UH, MEMBERS.
SO FIRST I'D LIKE YOU TO ANSWER MY QUESTION.
I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHO SPECIFICALLY DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT WE'RE BUSINESS FRIENDLY, UNLIKE HERSELF.
I'M NOT GOING TO PUT THOSE MEDICINES ON BLAST.
I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO REACH OUT TO YOU PERSONALLY AND TAKE THAT OFFLINE.
SO I'LL EXPECT YOU TO SEND ME A LIST PERSONALLY, OF WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT THIS CITY AS AN ORGANIZATION IS NOT FRIENDLY TO BUSINESSES AND I WILL REACH OUT TO THEM AND WE CAN GO TOGETHER.
YOU CAN COME WITH ME CAUSE I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HAVE THAT, TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION NOW.
SO ME PERSONALLY, I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING SPECIFICALLY ME TO REACH OUT TO THE CHAMBER.
UH, SO IF WE'RE GOING TO BE TRANSPARENT, LET'S BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT THIS.
SO I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYONE.
UM, SO ACTUALLY, YEAH, THE CHAMBER HAS BECOME A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION.
OUR, OUR CHAMBER IS A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, UH, BASED ON, UM, THEY SUPPORT SOME, BUT DON'T SUPPORT ALL.
UM, THERE WAS A RECENT ARTICLE THAT DAVID HAS RONNIE PUT OUT ON, UH, SOME WEB BLOG, I BELIEVE WHERE, UM, WE, MYSELF AND ANOTHER COUNCIL MEMBER WAS ACTUALLY, I THINK, ALMOST BEING ACCUSED OF BEING CORRUPT, BEING A CROOK THAT WAS PUT OUT PUBLICLY.
MR. SHAW, YOU COMMENTED, GAVE A WHOLE LIST OF QUESTIONS AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER, MELISSA MCGEE REPLIED TO ONE OF YOUR COMMENTS WITHIN, WITH AN IMMATURE MIKE DROP MEME ON, ON YOUR STATEMENT ON A PUBLIC BLOG.
SO I WOULD ASK AS A, AS A PAYING MEMBER OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, SHOULDN'T THAT RELATIONSHIP GO BOTH WAYS.
SHOULDN'T THERE BE SOME SUPPORT FROM THE CHAMBER TO THEIR MEMBERS THAT PAY THEIR DUES.
AND IN FACT, THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF MEMBERSHIP THAT WE PAID WAS DUE TO MR. SCHOMER.
HE'S THE ONE WHO INCREASED THE AMOUNT OF MONEY.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE A LEVEL OF MEMBERSHIP OF WHAT WE WERE WILLING TO PAY.
WHAT WAS THE AMOUNT THAT WE WERE PAYING ROB PRIOR IT, A PLATINUM LEVEL MEMBERSHIP OR SOMETHING.
MR. SCHOMER TRIED TO BE ON THE BOARD OF THE CHAMBER TO HELP.
AND THEY CHANGED THE BYLAWS TO KEEP HIM OFF OF IT.
SO I THINK WE'VE DONE A LOT TO REPRESENT THE CHAMBER.
WE HAD EMPLOYEES, HE USED TO GO TO THE CHAMBER MEETINGS.
ONE OF THEM CAME BACK IN TEARS BECAUSE OF WHAT WAS SAID ABOUT THE CITY AND HER SPECIFICALLY, WHILE SHE WAS SITTING AT THE MEETING.
THAT'S THE REASON THAT WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE
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FROM THE CITY GO TO SOME OF THOSE MEETINGS ANYMORE BECAUSE THERE'S NO RESPECT FOR US AND WHAT WE DO.AND CINDY ARE YOU COMMENTS AND CINDY ARE EMAILS ALL THE TIME FROM PEOPLE AT THE CHAMBER BACK TO US.
SO YES, RICHARD, I'M A LITTLE OFFENDED BY THE THINGS THAT THEY DO.
AND THEN TO SAY THAT I DON'T SUPPORT THEM.
WHEN I, WHEN I'M, WHEN WE'RE THE ONE IS THE TAXPAYERS WHO ARE PAYING MEMBERSHIP DUES TO THEM AND WE DON'T GET ANY RESPONSE OR ANY RESPECT BACK.
NOW I'LL MAKE IT, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN.
I DON'T BELIEVE FOR ONE MINUTE THAT THIS CITY, WITH ALL THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE AND THE EMPLOYEES THAT WE HAVE, AND THIS CITY COUNCIL WHO CAN PASS, WHO HAS THE ABILITY TO PASS LEGISLATION, I DON'T BELIEVE FOR ONE MINUTE THAT WE HAVE TO SUPPORT BUSINESSES THROUGH ONE SPECIFIC SINGLE ORGANIZATION.
WE CAN SUPPORT THEM BY OUR BIKE WHEN WE'RE SITTING HERE AND THE LEGISLATION WE PASS AND THE BUSINESSES THAT WE APPROVE AND THE ZONING THAT WE CHANGE IN THE ZONING THAT WE APPROVED TO ALLOW FOR THOSE BUSINESSES, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT THROUGH A SOLE ORGANIZATION.
AND NOW TO ME, THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE IS A STATEMENT WAS MADE AND PUT OUT BY THEM.
IT WAS TONE DEAF, AND IT WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
THEY DIDN'T MAKE A STATEMENT TO SAY, DON'T SAY THOSE THINGS OR PULL IT DOWN OR TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY AWAY FOR PEOPLE TO INCITE AND PROMOTE VIOLENCE.
NOW I WILL SAY, I HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH MARK BROWNS, TO MY KNOWLEDGE.
EVERY TIME I SEE HIM, WE GET ALONG.
I HAVE NO ISSUES WITH MARK BRONZE.
I DIDN'T ACTUALLY SEE MARK RUNS A SIGNATURE ON THAT LETTER, HAD HIS NAME ON IT AND MAYBE A DIGITAL SIGNATURE, BUT THE PERSON WHO, WHO SPREAD THAT MESSAGE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER.
MELISSA IS THE ONE WHO SHARED THAT MESSAGE ON FACEBOOK.
AND FOR THE RECORD, I WASN'T EVEN ABLE TO SEE IT.
I THINK I'M FROM THE, ON FACEBOOK, FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER.
WHEN I GO TO THE CHAMBER'S FACEBOOK PAGE, I STILL COULDN'T SEE IT.
I HAD MY WIFE CAN FRIENDS OF MINE CAN, THEY CAN SEE THAT STILL UP, BUT FOR SOME REASON, I'M NOT ABLE TO.
SO QUITE FRANKLY, I'M TIRED OF THE HYPOCRISY AND I'M TIRED OF BEING LABELED AS SOMEONE NOT FRIENDLY TO THE CHAMBER.
WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, OUR RELATIONSHIP BOTH GOES, GOES BOTH WAYS.
AND I STAND 100% BY ASKING FOR A MOTION TONIGHT, UH, TO END, UH, OUR MEMBERSHIP WITH THE CHAMBER.
I THINK WE CAN SUPPORT OUR BUSINESSES IN NUMEROUS DIFFERENT WAYS.
AND IF THERE'S ANYBODY LISTENING AND HERE'S THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, IF YOU'RE A BUSINESS COMMUNITY, WE SUPPORT YOU, YOU CONTACT US, YOU CONTACT ME, YOU LET US KNOW WHAT YOU NEED AND, AND WE'LL DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO HELP YOU.
I DON'T THINK IT HAS TO HAPPEN.
SO THROUGH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WHO IT'S CLEAR NOW, THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN THE CORE VALUES THAT I BELIEVE THE MAJORITY OF THIS COUNCIL BELIEVES IN.
AND THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY BELIEVES IN.
AND RICHARD, I'LL STILL EXPECT A LIST PERSONALLY, OF WHO BELIEVES THAT.
SO YOU AND I CAN GO VISIT THEM TOGETHER.
I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO MR. MARIN.
I GOT TO SAY, PERSONALLY, I WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR COMMENTS HERE TONIGHT.
UM, IT'S, UH, IT'S VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
UM, AND, UH, I THINK IT GOES TRUE TO WHAT MANY OF THOSE BUSINESSES AND CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS BELIEVE IN THE CITY.
UM, I WOULD HAVE HAD MORE RESPECT IF YOU JUST COME OUT AND SAID, YOU HATED THE CHAMBER FROM THE GET GO, BUT I DON'T, I DON'T HATE THE CHAMBER.
AND I MEAN, I THINK I WISH THE CHAMBER HAD AS MUCH RESPECT FOR THE CITY IS THE PEOPLE HERE HAVE FOR THE CHAMBER.
THAT'S WHAT I WISH AGAIN, MR. MAYOR, THAT, UH, THAT TELEPHONE WORKS BOTH WAYS.
YOU KNOW, RICHARD, YOU SAY THAT A LOT, BUT I, BUT I'M NEVER THE ONE THAT GETS THOSE CALLS.
YOU TALKED TO MARK BRONZE, BUT HE DIDN'T, HE DIDN'T RESPOND TO ME.
HE DIDN'T BOTHER TO SEND ME AN EMAIL AFTER I SENT HIM ONE.
BUT YOU TALKED TO HIM, HE KNOWS THE RELATIONSHIP.
IT'S A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AND THEY SUPPORT SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS AND THEY DON'T SUPPORT OTHER INDIVIDUALS CALLING, BUT THEN THEY, BUT THEN THEY EXPECT THIS TO HAPPEN.
I SENT HIM AN EMAIL LATE ON FRIDAY NIGHT.
IT WAS VERY CLEAR WHAT I ASKED HIM TO DO.
AND, UM, MY QUESTION WAS, DID YOU CALL HIM NO, RICHARD, I DIDN'T.
DID YOU SEND HIM A TEXT? I SAID, HEY, I, I DON'T HAVE HIS PHONE NUMBER.
I SENT HIM AN EMAIL AND I ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD TAKE THE POST DOWN, BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS INSENSITIVE OFFENSIVE.
AND IT WAS INCITING VIOLENCE TO OTHER PEOPLE.
AND I DIDN'T, AND I DIDN'T GET A RESPONSE.
AND AGAIN, I WANT TO BE CLEAR.
THAT'S NOT EVEN THE BIG ISSUE I HAVE.
THE BIG ISSUE I HAVE IS ON THEIR PUBLIC PAGE.
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COMMENTS.THERE ARE COMMENTS THAT ARE RACIALLY DIVISIVE, THEY ARE VIOLENT.
AND THEY TOOK NO STAND AGAINST THAT.
MY ISSUE WITH THE CHAMBER, WE COULD GO ON COMPLETELY FINE WITH THE CHAMBER, THE WAY IT'S BEEN.
THE REASON THAT THE REASON I'M ASKING FOR A MOTION, WHICH HAS BEEN MADE AND SECONDED, BY THE WAY, THE REASON I'M ASKING FOR THAT IS BECAUSE OF THEIR LACK KNOWLEDGE OF THE SITUATION.
THAT'S GOING ON TO TRY TO CALM THE WATERS OF THE RACIAL DIVIDE.
THAT'S CLEARLY HAPPENING IN THIS COUNTRY AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CITY PRIOR TO THE PROTEST.
AND NO ONE FROM THE CHAMBER HAS ACKNOWLEDGED IT.
AND AGAIN, I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT WAS EVEN MARK BRONZE BECAUSE I DIDN'T SEE HIM.
I DIDN'T SEE A WET SIGNATURE ON THAT PAPER.
AND I ALSO DIDN'T SEE HIM MAKE ANY POSTS ON FACEBOOK ABOUT IT.
I SAW THAT, UM, MS. MCGEE WAS THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY SHARED IT PUBLICLY, BUT AGAIN, I WASN'T ABLE TO SEE IT.
CAUSE I THINK SHE HAS THE BLOCKED FROM, FROM BEING ABLE TO SEE ANY INFORMATION THAT SHE POSTS.
SO MR. MAYOR, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE COMPLETELY FINE OF BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF THE CHAMBER HERE TONIGHT.
SPEAKING POOR ON THEM WITHOUT A PHONE CALL BEING MADE WITHOUT THEM ASKING HIM TO BE PRESENT AT CITY HALL.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE UNDER YOUR ADMINISTRATION AS MAYOR, WE'RE FINE WITH DOING THAT TO BUSINESSES, RESIDENTS AND INDIVIDUALS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO THAT WAS, THAT WAS A SIMPLE, YES, THERE'S THE, I DIDN'T INVITE HIM, BUT QUITE FRANKLY, THIS IS THE FIRST ACTUAL COUNCIL MEETING THAT I CAN REMEMBER.
AND MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY MONTHS WHERE MR. BRUNS ISN'T HERE.
AND I GOTTA BE HONEST WITH YOU.
I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS MEETING WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL MELISSA MCGEE, I BELIEVE HAD REACHED OUT TO TONY ROGERS TASKS.
THAT VERY QUESTION HO WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, HOLD ON.
I DIDN'T SPEAK TO HER AT THE WORK SESSION LAST WEEK.
DIDN'T WE SAY WE HAD A PUBLIC HEARING.
ISN'T THERE A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT THAT WOULD TELL ME IT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
I NOTICE INDICATED HOW WOULD YOU NOT KNOW THAT IT'S A PUBLIC MEETING IF WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING? WELL, BECAUSE AGAIN, MR. MAYOR, WE HAVE THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ARE NOT PRESIDENT CHAMBERS, BUT AGAIN, BACK TO MY PREVIOUS QUESTION, I JUST WANT TO VERIFY A MOMENT OR UNDER YOUR ADMINISTRATION WERE FINE.
YES, I, AGAIN, I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENT AND CAN YOU HEAR ME? OH YEAH.
ON JUST ONE SECOND, MR. HILL, I'LL GET BACK TO YOU.
MS. MS. AUTO HAS SOME COMMENTS.
I'LL JUST, I'LL JUST HIT WITH THE MEETING WITH THE PUBLIC.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TODAY UNTIL I WENT TO YOUR FACEBOOK AND DIDN'T SEE THE UPDATE CLOSE TO THE PUBLIC, WHICH WAS LAST WEEK.
SO I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL TODAY THAT IT WAS OPEN TO PUBLIC, BUT I'M JUST GONNA MAKE ONE QUESTION AND ONE STATEMENT AS A MEMBER, YOU'RE NOT A CUSTOMER OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
WHEN YOU PAY YOUR DUES, WHO'S THE POINT OF CONTACT WITH THE CITY? WHO DOES THE CORRESPONDENCE GO TO THAT? THE CHAMBER SENDS IT TO, THERE'S AN EMAIL WHO GETS THAT EMAIL, THE EMAIL FROM THE CHAMBER, UH, EMAILING UPDATES AND SO FORTH.
SO IT PROBABLY WENT OUT WEDNESDAY THE DAY BEFORE IT BLEW UP ON FACEBOOK.
CAUSE I'M A MEMBER OF THE CHAMBER.
I HAVE NO OPINION OF IT, BUT THERE WAS AN EMAIL SENT PRIOR TO IT BEING BLASTED ALL OVER FACEBOOK.
UM, AND THEN THERE WAS ONE MORE COMMENT.
I JUST, THERE WAS YOUR RECEIPT NOTICE BEFORE IT HIT THE FACEBOOK.
THE CITY HAD NOTICE OF THAT MEMO BEFORE I WENT TO FACEBOOK.
ALL THE MEMBERS GOT THAT EMAIL.
SO WHOEVER YOUR EMAIL POINT OF CONTACT IS WITH THE CHAMBER RECEIVED.
POINT, YOU SAID SOMETHING'S OFFENSIVE.
AND THERE HAS BEEN NO RESPONSE.
ARE THEY NOT RESPONDING TO EMAILS EITHER ADDRESSING THAT? OKAY, WELL I AM.
IT WAS EMAILED AT THE CITY IS A MEMBER.
THEN YOU WOULD HAVE RECEIVED EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
I CAN'T PULL IT UP ON MY PHONE.
IT'S WHOEVER'S EMAIL IS ATTACHED TO IT.
I BELIEVE THAT A EMAIL GOES OUT.
IF I RECALL, UH, THE DAY BEFORE THE EMAIL WENT OUT, UH, OUR PUBLIC AFFAIRS UNIT WHEN CONTACTED THE BUSINESSES FROM THE POLICE DIVISION AND TOOK MR. BRUNS ALONG WITH HIM AND PASSED INFORMATION
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OUT THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH RIOTS OR ANYTHING.IT WAS, UH, AWARENESS INFORMATION AND, AND, UM, UH, PLANNING SPECIFIC TYPE OF INFORMATION, UM, REGARDING, OR WHETHER OR NOT WE GOT AN EMAIL THE NEXT DAY.
WE REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW THE SENTIMENT OF THAT EMAIL WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN UNTIL SUCH TIME.
PEOPLE STARTED TO RESPOND TO IT.
SO WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN IN A POSITION TO SNAP TO, OR MAKE A JUDGMENT ON THIS EMAIL OR STATEMENT AND HOW IT WOULD AFFECT THOSE THAT READ IT.
AND IT WOULDN'T BE OUR PLACE AT THAT POINT IN TIME TO MAKE THAT JUDGMENT.
THE RESPONSE WAS IN THE CALLS TO US AND THE INFORMATION TO US WAS AFTER OTHER PEOPLE HAD READ IT.
SO THAT'S WHERE THE RESPONSE CAME IS BASED ON A RESPONSIBLE REACTION TO THE ISSUES OF CONCERNS BROUGHT TO US BY THE RESIDENTS.
SO I THINK THAT, ALTHOUGH I APPRECIATE THE SENTIMENT OF AN EMAIL GOING OUT, UM, IT'S REALLY NOT OUR POSITION TO, UH, UH, TO, TO REVIEW, EDIT AND MAKE JUDGMENT ON WHAT THE PUBLIC SENTIMENT OF THAT EMAIL'S GOING TO BE.
BUT, UM, AT THAT POINT IN TIME, I DON'T BELIEVE THERE WAS MUCH TIME.
I THINK THAT JUST ABOUT THE TIME THAT OTHER PEOPLE INCLUDING US WOULD HAVE READ IT BY THAT TIME, I BELIEVE THERE WAS ALREADY CONTACT MADE REGARDING SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT THE EMAIL HAD.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT POINT THAT IT APPEARED AS IF WE WERE BEING BLAMED BY MRS. AUTO'S COMMENTS THAT, AND SPECIFICALLY POINTING AND SAYING, YOU MEAN ME, UH, THAT, UM, WE GOT THE EMAIL AND WE SHOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT IS ACCURATE NOR WOULD HAVE BEEN APPROPRIATE, UM, BECAUSE THE REACTION WE WOULD'VE GOT THE EMAIL THE SAME TIME THAT THE PEOPLE THAT REACTED NEGATIVELY TO THE EMAIL WOULD'VE GOT IT.
SO I REALLY DON'T THINK THAT THAT HAS ANY BEARING.
SO I JUST WANTED TO CLEAR THAT UP.
I WOULD AGREE MY REACTION WAS BECAUSE THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THAT THE CHAMBER AND THE CITY WERE ONE AND SPEAKING AS ONE THROUGH THAT STATEMENT, AND I WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT WE WEREN'T ANY OF THE DISCUSSION.
SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY SOME THINGS WERE STATED, UM, BY RICHARD, WHEN, WHEN TONY SENT OUT THE EMAIL PUBLICLY TO ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, IT STATES IN THAT EMAIL THAT, UM, THAT THIS PUB WAS A PUBLIC MEETING.
AND THAT'S ACTUALLY WHY I'M VIRTUAL IS BECAUSE AS SOON AS I SAW THAT, I SENT HIM AN EMAIL AND SAID, I WILL NOT BE ATTENDING, UM, IN PERSON, IN REGARDS TO THE, THE TIMELINE OF THE EMAIL VERSUS THE FIVE, THE FACEBOOK POST FROM THE CHAMBER, THE EMAIL WAS SENT OUT AT SIX 45 IN THE MORNING ON WEDNESDAY.
AND THEN THE ACTUAL FACEBOOK POST WAS MADE THURSDAY AT NINE 51.
SO IT WAS NOT, IT WASN'T A DAY.
THERE WAS NO, THERE WAS REALLY REGARDING THE FACT THAT PROBABLY MOST PEOPLE WERE COMING INTO WORK BY EIGHT.
THERE WASN'T A LOT OF TIME BETWEEN THE TIME THAT THEY SAW THAT EMAIL AND THE FACEBOOK POST WAS MADE.
UM, AND I DO, I DO FEEL THAT THAT POST WAS, UM, VERY TONE DEAF AND, AND THE FACT THAT IT WAS MADE, AS SOON AS I SAW IT, I JUST, I WAS A GAS AND I'M, I, I DON'T KNOW HOW, I DIDN'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO REACT OTHER THAN JUST IN SHOCK.
UM, BUT YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY SOME OF THOSE TIMELINE THINGS AND THE FACT THAT, THAT IT WAS STATED THAT IT WAS A PUBLIC MEETING BACK WHEN THE ACTUAL NOTICE WAS SENT OUT BY TONY.
THANK YOU, MR. HILL AND DISCUSSION.
UM, I HAVE ONE, YES, MRS. BERJON.
UM, I THINK THAT THE KAMER HAS HAD THE FISHING TIME TO RESPOND, WHETHER THEY SHOWED UP IN PERSON OR WHETHER THEY USED TO EMAIL OR PHONE OR ANYTHING ELSE.
SO, UM, IT'S VERY TELLING THAT THEY HAVE NOT RESPONDED, BUT THE THING THAT REALLY BOTHERS ME AND THE REASON THAT I WAS SUPPORT, UH, THIS MOTION IS BECAUSE, UM, I DON'T KNOW.
I THINK EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS THAT, UM, THAT THE MAYOR AND, AND, UH, THE CITY MANAGER AND THE, UM, UH, CHIEF OF POLICE ALL WENT DOWN TO THE NAACP AND MET WITH DR.
FORWARD TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD, UH, THE BEST PROTEST, THE MOST PEACEFUL PROTEST, UM, THAT WE WOULD HAVE HERE IN TOWN.
UH, THEY DID REBEL VOTER REGISTRATION WITH IT.
UM, EVERYTHING WAS VERY POSITIVE AND THERE WAS NOTHING POSITIVE THAT WAS PUT IN THE, UH, CHAMBER MESSAGE, UH, ABOUT THEIR WISHES FOR, FOR A SUCCESSFUL OR A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION.
UM, BUT I'M LOOKING AT, UH, WE DID HAVE A VERY, UH, GOOD DEMONSTRATION AND IT WAS A GOOD FIRST STEP.
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BUT WITH THE ATTITUDE, THE PERCEPTION OF WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE CHAMBERS OF A POST, I'M VERY, VERY CONCERNED ABOUT WHETHER WE WILL BE ON THE SAME PAGE, MOVING FORWARD AS WE GO TO, UH, FIGHT THIS INEQUITY TO CHANGE THE INEQUITY THAT'S BEEN IDENTIFIED, UH, THROUGH THESE PROTEST.AND I'M SORRY, I'M NOT CONFIDENT.
I'M NOT CONFIDENT AT ALL THAT THE CHAMBER IS IN THE SAME CORNER WITH US.
THANK YOU, MS. BURCH, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION MR. ROGERS? HELLO, MS. BAKER? YES.
RECALL MR. CAMPBELL? YES, THIS IS BURJ.
AND THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TWO TO DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER OF SHOMER TO CANCEL MEMBERSHIP TO THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
MR. LYONS, UH, IF THE CHAMBER OR ANY DESIGNEE SHOULD FEEL NECESSARY TO COME TO OUR NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND SPEAK, WOULD THEY BE GRANTED TIME TO SPEAK? ABSOLUTELY.
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NEXT UP IS I'M NUMBER NINE, WHICH IS THE CITY MANAGER REPORT.MR. SCHOMER IF YOU WOULD PLEASE.
WELL, FOR THE RECORD, WE'LL GET UP AT A NUMBER EIGHT CITIZENS REGISTER TO SPEAK ON SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEMS. AND MR. ROGERS SAYS, UH, NOTIFY ME.
SO NEXT UP IS NUMBER NINE, UH, ITEM NUMBER NINE, WHICH IS THE CITY MANAGER REPORT.
UM, I WANT TO FIRST THANK MRS. GORE FOR THOSE HEARTFELT WORDS.
AND, UH, I, UH, HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT IT'S A, UH, IT'S AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO HAVE, UH, TO CONTINUE AND, UM, AND ALWAYS TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY WITHOUT A DOUBT.
HOWEVER, ON THAT AS MUCH APPRECIATION IS IT IS THAT HAS BEEN FLOAT OUR WAY.
UM, I WOULD BE REMISS TO SAY THAT 95% OF THE EFFORTS TO HAVE THE, UH, EVENT GO AS WELL AS IT DID, UH, LIGHT WITHIN THE ORGANIZER, A YOUNG LADY NAMED FAITH, UH, WHO WAS THERE FROM MINUTE ONE TO, UH, TO THE LAST MINUTE.
WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TOGETHER THAT DAY.
AND, UH, I WAS, UH, UH, I DON'T IMPRESS EASY.
UM, AND I WAS CERTAINLY IMPRESSED AND SHE MADE SURE TO, UH, KEEP EVERYBODY INFORMED AND SET THE TONE AND COMMUNICATE WITH EVERYBODY SHE COULD TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THERE WAS NO DISTRACTION FROM THE TRUE INTENT OF WHAT THEY WERE THERE TO GATHER, UH, TO SPEAK ON, TO GET THEIR VOICES HEARD.
UH, AND, UM, AS WE INDICATED FROM MINUTE ONE, OUR ROLE WAS TO PROTECT THEM AND MAKE SURE THAT THERE WERE NO TROUBLEMAKERS COMING IN, UH, TO, UH, TO PREVENT THEM FROM DOING THAT.
UM, AND, UH, IF IT WASN'T, I THINK FOR SOMEBODY THAT WAS AS COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE THAT THE SPIRIT AND INTENT OF THAT MESSAGE REMAINED PEACEFUL, UH, AND EFFECTIVE, UH, IT CERTAINLY WAS HER, OUR EFFORTS IN IT WERE MINIMAL, UH, TO BE, TO BE HONEST, UH, OTHER THAN SOME OF THE PLANNING AND PREPARATION AND FRANKLY, THAT'S OUR JOB.
UH, SO, UM, NOT TO TAKE AWAY FROM COMPLIMENTS, WHICH I GREATLY APPRECIATE, BUT, UH, IN NO WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, CAN I TAKE ANY CREDIT FOR THE RESULTS OF, IN MY OPINION, FOR, FOR HOW WELL IT WENT, UH, JUST TO RECAP OF, OF THE DAY AND THE EVENT, UM, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE CROWD SIZE, UH, SOME SAY 500, SOME SAY A THOUSAND, WE'LL SAY IT'S SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 500 AND A THOUSAND.
UH, WE, UH, WE DID MAKE A COUPLE OF OPERATIONAL CHANGES, UH, THAT WERE BENEFICIAL FOR THE, UM, UH, FOR, FOR THE, UH, FOR THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE ATTENDEES THERE, UH, THAT WERE, UH, VERY WELL RECEIVED AND RESPONDED.
AND, UM, I AM VERY, VERY PROUD OF OUR, UH, OF OUR POLICE CHIEF, UH, OF OUR POLICE FORCE AND SOME OF THE, SOME 13 AGENCIES, UH, FROM AROUND THE REGION THAT CAME AND ASSISTED US, UH, THERE OF COURSE HAVE BEEN QUESTIONS ABOUT, WELL, WHY WAS THAT MUCH, UM, YOU KNOW, POLICE PRESENCE NEEDED AND NECESSARY.
AND THAT IS BECAUSE, UH, QUITE FRANKLY, WE WERE DEDICATED AND VERY SERIOUS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE COULD PROTECT THOSE THAT ATTENDED.
UH, WE HAVE SEEN OTHER TIMES WHERE SOMEBODY COMING IN WITH ULTERIOR MOTIVES, UH, TO TAKE AWAY AND DETRACT FROM THE SERIOUSNESS AND, UH, THE HEARTFELT INTENT OF THAT PEACEFUL PROTEST, AS WELL AS PROTECTING OUR BUSINESS OWNERS, OUR PROPERTY AND THE GOOD PIECE IN GOOD ORDER OF OUR, OF OUR COMMUNITY.
AND, UM, AS A RESULT OF THAT, AND THAT PREPARATION, UH, WHEN ORDERLY, UH, AND, UH, AND THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NO ISSUES.
THERE WERE NO CONFRONTATIONS, THERE WERE NO ARRESTS, THERE WERE NO, UH, UH, ACTIONS NEEDED.
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UH, SOME MIGHT HAVE SEEN, UH, TOWARDS THE END ONCE, UH, FAITH HAD COLLECTIVELY RELEASED.AND, UH, THE, THE, UH, THE GROUP AND SAID THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE, UH, THE EVENT ITSELF, UH, HAD CONCLUDED, UH, THERE WAS A GATHERING OF FOLKS THAT, UH, KIND OF TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT ANGLE AND HADN'T GOTTEN OUT OF THE STREET WHEN WE NEEDED TO OPEN THE STREET BACK UP.
UH, THEY WERE ASKED TO GO BACK, THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF RESISTANCE TO THAT.
HOWEVER, OUR PLANS ALWAYS ARE TO JUST, UM, TO MERELY MAKE OUR PRESENCE KNOWN, GET TO THE POINT THAT THERE IS COMPLIANCE, UH, IN THE SAFETY FOR THEM AND THE COMMUNITY AT WHOLE, ONCE THAT COMPLIANCE WAS MET JOBS DONE.
SO IT WAS A MATTER OF, UH, ASKING AND REQUESTING SOME PEOPLE TO GET BACK UP ON THE SIDEWALK THAT WAS DONE.
AND, UH, AS SOON AS THAT WAS DONE, THEN EVERYBODY PACKED UP AND LEFT AND THEY HUNG OUT ON THE SIDEWALK.
WE WERE WITH THEM UNTIL ABOUT 11 O'CLOCK AND, UM, HAD GOOD CONVERSATIONS, HAD, UH, HAD GOOD EXCHANGES.
AND, UM, AND TO MRS. GORE POINT GORE'S PORN EARLIER, UH, WE DID DO A LOT OF TIME ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UH, INTERACTING IN, IN, IN SEEING MANY OF THE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE YOUTH OF THE COMMUNITY, WHICH, UH, IT WAS, WAS REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITIES.
A COUPLE OF YOUNG MEN THAT I HAD OCCASION TO, UH, TO SPEAK DIRECTLY WITH, UH, FOR, FOR A LITTLE BIT OF AN EXTENDED AMOUNT OF TIME.
UM, IT WAS A, UH, IT WAS A, A MUTUAL SHARING OF, OF, UH, UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER'S OPINIONS AND WHERE, UH, WHERE THEY CAME FROM, WHERE I CAME FROM.
AND, UH, AS I LEFT WITH THEM, I SAID, YOU KNOW, I LEARNED SOMETHING AND, UH, I APPRECIATE THE PERCEPTION THAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT SPECIFICALLY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND, UH, THEY HAD A PERCEPTION OF ALL POLICE OFFICERS.
AND OF COURSE THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE BAD.
UH, THERE'S SOME OF EVERYBODY THAT'S BAD, UH, WITH MY BACKGROUND, I DON'T NECESSARILY BELIEVE THAT ALL ARE BAD.
OF COURSE, I FEEL LIKE I WAS AN OKAY ONE.
UM, AND, UH, SO, UH, I GOT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY MEANT BY THAT, AND, AND, AND THAT WAS GOOD, AND HOPEFULLY THEY GOT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEANT IN SOME OF MY OPINIONS.
SO, UM, THE, THE MAIN THING IS, IS THAT, UM, ALTHOUGH, UH, DARE I SAY, I, I CERTAINLY HOPE THAT WE AREN'T A HOTSPOT FOR, FOR WEEKLY OR, OR, OR DAILY OR MONTHLY GATHERINGS, UH, BECAUSE IT, IT CERTAINLY COULD BE EXHAUSTIVE ON, ON, UH, ON EVERYBODY.
UH, BUT I WILL SAY THAT IF YOU WERE GOING TO WRITE ONE UP AND, UH, AND PLAN TO HAVE ONE, WE HAD A GOOD COMMUNITY PARTNER AND THE ORGANIZER, UH, LOCAL RESIDENT HERE COMMITTED TO THE COMMUNITY.
UH, HER FAMILY WAS WITH HER THAT DAY.
UH, OF COURSE OBVIOUSLY, UM, I THINK IT REACHED A LITTLE BIT FURTHER THAN WHAT SHE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT IT WOULD.
AND ONCE PEOPLE GOT TO UNDERSTAND, AND, UM, WE CERTAINLY HAVE SOME GREAT RELATIONSHIPS WITH PARTNERSHIPS WITH, UM, MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND MY HATS OFF TO, UH, TO AGAIN, FAITH FOR, UH, FOR MAKING SURE THAT HER OBJECTIVES WERE MET.
AND IT CERTAINLY WAS A PROUD DAY FOR HER AND IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
SO, UM, SO, UH, SO THAT'S, THAT'S ALL WE'VE GOT FOR THAT.
THERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL, AND OF COURSE, AS MANY RESOURCES THAT WERE PROVIDED TO US, UH, WE STILL WILL TRAVEL AND GO TO ANY OTHER COMMUNITY TO ASSIST THEM IN MAKING SURE THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THEIR RESIDENTS AND, AND GATHERINGS OF INDIVIDUALS TO EXPRESS THEIR RIGHTS AS WELL.
I WANT TO TALK REAL QUICK, ALSO AN UPDATE ON THE AQUATIC CENTER.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, CERTAINLY FOUND OURSELVES TO BE IN THE MIDST OF A PRETTY GOOD SEASON ALREADY IF WE WANT TO COMPARE IT TO LAST YEAR, UH, LAST YEAR WITH NO RESTRICTIONS AND NO, UH, OTHER, UH, TYPE OF, UM, UH, ATTENDANCE, UH, MONITORING.
UH, AT THIS TIME WE WERE AT ABOUT 3058 PEOPLE THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH THE DOORS THIS YEAR, WE'RE AT 4,824.
UH, THAT WAS AS OF THIS FIRST SEVEN DAYS OF BEING OPEN.
UH, WE HAD LAST YEAR, UH, 333 TOTAL MEMBERSHIP SOLD FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR.
OF COURSE WE EXPECTED IT TO BE WAY DOWN.
UH, WE ARE, UH, OVER THAT NUMBER.
IN FACT, 113 OF THEM HAVE BEEN SOLD SINCE WE'VE OPENED.
SO, UM, IT IS REALLY A WELL RECEIVED THING.
IT'S HOT AND THERE'S PEOPLE THAT HAVE TO STAND IN LINES.
AND THERE WERE SOME TEMPERS THAT WERE FLARING UP ON SATURDAY.
UH, WE MADE A JUDGMENT CALL TO JUST CLOSE DOWN THOSE THAT WEREN'T IN AT THE TIME WE WERE GETTING CLOSE TO THE TIME THAT THE PROTEST WAS GOING TO START.
UH, SO I THINK THAT THERE MIGHT'VE BEEN SOME CHATTER ABOUT, UM, UH, THIS AND THAT, BUT THAT WAS A JUDGMENT CALL, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAD THE RESOURCES TO TAKE CARE OF, UH, THE LARGER GATHERING OF FOLKS, UH, ALL THE WHILE MAKING SURE THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO RUN BACK AND FORTH.
UM, YMCAS HAS BEEN GREAT IN MAKING THE ADJUSTMENTS, UH, AND IT REALLY IS GREAT TO SEE, UM, THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGING THAT FACILITY, GETTING OUT, UH, ENJOYING THE SUMMER FUND, AS WELL AS, UH, UH, VISITORS TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE NUMBERS SHOW THAT, UH, EVEN WITH SOME RESTRICTED ALLOWANCES OF ATTENDANCE, UH, WE'RE ALREADY BEATING LAST YEAR AS A TENNIS NUMBERS.
THAT'S NOT THE GOAL, UH, BUT IT CERTAINLY IS A REFLECTION THAT EVERYBODY FEELS IT'S A GOOD QUALITY, SAFE ENVIRONMENT TO GO.
AND, UH, AND I THINK THAT SHOULD ALSO BE A MOMENT OF PRIDE FOR THIS
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COMMUNITY.UH, OTHER THAN THAT, THAT'S ALL I HAD FOR THIS EVENING.
I KNOW THAT WE GAVE SOME UPDATES ON THE CURRENT PROJECTS THAT WERE GOING ON TO LESS WORK SESSION, OF COURSE, IN THE LAST, UH, SIX DAYS, NOTHING SIGNIFICANT HAS CHANGED WITH THOSE.
AND WITH THAT, I WILL THAT'S BACK, PROBABLY THERE WERE SO ON, ON SATURDAY, I THINK THEY WERE PROBABLY TO REAL CRITICAL DECISIONS THAT I LOOKING BACK THAT I CAN SEE THAT WERE MADE THAT I THINK REALLY HELPED JUST KEEP EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING CALM AND PEOPLE HAVE ADD, HAVE ASKED ABOUT WHY WE MOVED THE CONES INTO THE STREETS AND LOT OF THEM ON THE STREET.
SO, AND I THINK THE DECISION TO DO THAT I THINK WAS, WAS THE FIRST CRITICAL.
IF I LOOK AT A KEY MOMENT WAS THE FIRST CRITICAL DECISION MADE ON SATURDAY WAS MOVING THOSE CONES, ALIGNING THEM IN THE STREET.
SO I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO KIND OF, FROM AN OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT, IF YOU, IF YOU'D KIND OF ADDRESS WHY WE MADE THAT CHANGE.
CAUSE I MEAN, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I MEAN, IT IT'S AN EVENT, SO DECISIONS ARE MADE ON THE FLY AND WE HAD TALKED ABOUT HOW WE WEREN'T GOING TO, UM, LET THEM IMPEDE ANY TRAFFIC.
SO I JUST WANT YOU TO ADDRESS THAT REAL QUICK.
AND THEN THE SECOND, I THINK PROBABLY WHAT I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE MOST, THE WHOLE WHOLE DAY WAS IN THE END WHEN THERE WAS SOME OF THAT FACE TO FACE RESISTANCE ABOUT MOVING BACK ON THE SIDEWALK, KIND OF WHEN, WHEN THE EVENT WAS OVER.
AND I WOULD SAY CALMER HEADS PREVAILED, WHICH AGAIN, I THINK IS WHAT A LOT OF THESE PROTESTS ARE ABOUT THAT WE DON'T LET OUR ANGER AND OUR ADRENALINE GET THE BEST OF US WHEN IT, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO LAW ENFORCEMENT, UM, THE DECISION TO ACTUALLY HAVE THE POLICE THEN LEAVE THERE AT THE END, I THINK, MINIMIZE THAT CONFRONTATION.
SO IF YOU, THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT.
SO IF YOU WOULD JUST ADDRESS IT, CAUSE I REALLY DO THINK THOSE WERE THE TWO CRITICAL DECISIONS THAT WERE MADE THAT REALLY MADE EVERYTHING GO SMOOTH.
AND THAT WAS A LOT OF IN THE BEGINNING THAT SET THE TONE AND THEN AT THE END KIND OF PUT THE BOOKEND ON IT.
SO IF YOU WOULD PLEASE, OH, SURE.
UM, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S, YOU KNOW, A DEEP, VERY DETAILED PLAN THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE.
UH, THE POLICE DIVISION STARTED WORKING ON A TUESDAY AND I WORKED ON ALL THROUGH THROUGH THE WEEKEND.
UH, YOU KNOW, YOU ALWAYS HAVE A PLAN, BUT YOU ALWAYS HAVE CONTINGENCIES.
YOU ALWAYS HAVE FLEXIBILITIES BUILT IN, UH, QUITE FRANKLY, THE RESULT OF THOSE, UM, UH, IF YOU CALL THEM DECISIONS OR CHANGES KIND OF, UH, WITHIN, UH, WERE A RESULT OF KEEPING TRUE TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THE MISSION OF THE EVENT.
AND THAT WAS TO MAKE SURE TO PROTECT THE SAFETY OF THE ATTENDEES.
SO THE FIRST DECISION OF EXTENDING OUT INTO THE ROADWAY, UH, WAS SIMPLY THAT IT WAS GETTING TO BE TOO CROWDED.
UH, THERE ARE CLIFFS AND ROCKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, THAT DROP OFF THE BACKSIDE OF THAT ENTIRE AREA.
AND, UM, WE SAW MANY PEOPLE GETTING CLOSE, UH, AND, UH, UH, THAT WAS ONE AND AS MORE PEOPLE CAME, UH, WE REALIZED THAT PEOPLE WERE GOING TO START TO GATHER ON OTHER SIDES OF THE STREET COLLECTIVELY AS A GROUP, RATHER THAN HAVING POCKETS FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE PROTEST ITSELF AND THE SAFETY GET THEM ALL ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET.
SO WE PROVIDED THEM ADDITIONAL SPACE TO DO THAT.
ON TOP OF THAT, UH, DECISION TO KEEP TRAFFIC FLOWING WAS A THEY'RE THERE TO HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD IF THEY'RE JUST TALKING TO THEMSELVES, THEIR VOICES AREN'T BEING HEARD.
SO GETTING THE REACTION BACK FROM THE PASSERBUYS, UH, THAT IS REACHING OUT AND EXTENDING THEIR MESSAGE, WHICH IS IMPORTANT TO THEM.
AND WE WANTED TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THEIR ABILITY TO EXPRESS THOSE RIGHTS AND HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD.
SO CUTTING TRAFFIC ALL FALL TOGETHER, UH, AS OPPOSED TO ALLOWING THE TRAFFIC TO CONTINUE TO DRIVE BY AND BE INVOLVED, ALLOWED THEM TO ENGAGE AND GET HORN HONKS AND, AND ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO PASS OUR MESSAGE ON VERY, VERY KEY AND VERY IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE TO, TO KEEP, UH, TO KEEP TRUE TO THAT.
UH, AND AT THE END, WHEN OFFICERS DID HAVE TO APPROACH THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO GET THEM BACK OUT OF THE STREET BECAUSE THE STREET NEEDED OPEN.
AND AS SOON AS THEY WERE ON THE SIDEWALK AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS SAFE, THEIR JOBS DONE, THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO AT THAT POINT.
UH THERE'S YOU KNOW, NO, NO NEED TO, UH, DEFORCE DISPERSAL.
THERE'S JUST, YOU GET, GET EVERYBODY GATHERED.
AND BACK UP OFF THE STREET, A JOB WAS DONE.
THE OFFICER'S A, YOU KNOW, TO YOUR POINT, IT WAS JUST BUSINESS JUST TO GET THE OBJECTIVE DONE.
AND ONCE COMPLIANCE WAS MET AND THEY WERE BACK UP ON THE SIDEWALK, EVERYBODY WAS CALM AND IN GOOD, NO, NO REASON TO STAND THERE AND GET IN THEIR WAY.
I APPRECIATE YOU CLARIFYING THAT.
UM, I THINK THAT, AGAIN, LOOKING BACK ON SATURDAY, I THINK THAT THERE WAS JUST TWO DECISIONS THAT WERE MADE THAT COULD HAVE WENT WRONG, COULD HAVE WENT THE OTHER WAY.
UM, BUT AGAIN, I THINK CALMER HEADS PREVAILED AND, AND, AND ENDED UP KEEPING EVERYBODY SAFE.
AND, AND WHAT I BELIEVE WAS A TREMENDOUSLY SUCCESSFUL EVENT.
IT'D BE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THIS REGION FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF MY CAREER.
AND STILL OBVIOUSLY CONNECTED.
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SOME OF THE FINEST IN NOT ONLY THE STATE, BUT THE REGION, BUT THE COUNTRY.UM, MR. LYONS MENTIONED ACCREDITATION CLIA.
I'M A TEAM LEAD ASSESSOR FOR CLIA.
UM, SO I ASSESS OTHER AGENCIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE COMPLIANCE TO THOSE PROFESSIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT STANDARDS.
I'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR SOME 15 YEARS.
AND, UH, AND I CAN SAY MEASURED UP TO SOME OF THE INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND, UH, COMMUNITY YARD POLICING, AND, UM, THE VERY PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IN OUR REGION.
UM, WE, WE DO STAND OUT AND, UH, AND I THINK BECAUSE OF THAT, THEY'RE WELL PREPARED.
THEY'RE WELL TRAINED AND THEY UNDERSTAND, HEY, THIS IS, THIS IS A, A JOB TO DO.
JOB HAS MET, AND IT'S, IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON.
THE GOAL IS PROTECTION AND SAFETY.
SO HATS OFF TO EVERYBODY THAT WAS INVOLVED.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM MR. SCHOMER? ANYTHING THAT HE ADDRESSED IN HIS CITY MANAGER UPDATE? I HAVE, I HAVE A COMMENT, MR. BIRCH, UM, ROB, YOU'LL GET NO ARGUMENT ABOUT, UH, HOW FINE YOUR FOREST IS.
OUR POLICE DIVISION IS, OR A FIRE DIVISION.
AND I JUST ASKED THAT ON BEHALF OF OUR COUNCIL, YOU ADVISE STAFF, UH, WHAT AN EXEMPLARY JOB THEY DID AND THAT WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
THANK YOU, MR. BURCH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS MAYOR? YES.
QUICK QUESTION, ROB, UH, AT OUR LAST MEETING, UM, RICHARD SHAW STATED THAT HE'D SEND YOU INFORMATION REGARDING THE BARN PROJECT.
UH, WHY HAVEN'T YOU SENT THAT OUT TO COUNCIL, UH, AS YOU STATED IN OUR WORK SESSION, YOU WOULD, UH, I'M, I'M JUST SIMPLY STILL AWAITING THAT INFORMATION FROM, UH, FROM MR. SHAW.
UM, THEN MR. SHAW, HAVE WE GOTTEN ANY FUNDS FOR THE BARN PROJECT? WHAT'S THAT, UH, DOLLAR AMOUNT TODAY? YES.
UM, YES, I FOLLOWED UP WITH THE CITY MANAGER.
I BELIEVE WE HAD A DISCUSSION EARLIER THIS EVENING, UM, DUE TO, UH, SOME, UH, EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES THIS PAST WEEK WITH SOME EVENTS GOING ON.
UM, MATTER OF FACT, I'M BACKED UP ON SOME EMAILS RIGHT NOW.
I DID TELL MR. SCHOMER THAT I HAD REACHED OUT TO ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS, UH, HE WAS GOING TO HAVE SOME, UH, UH, SOME INFORMATION, UH, TOMORROW WE ALSO TOUCHED BASE ON A FEW OTHER, UH, PERSONAL TOPICS, UH, THAT'S GOING ON WITHIN MY WARD.
UM, SO YEAH, WE'RE IN COMMUNICATION AND, UH, WE'LL GET THAT OUT.
UH, RIGHT NOW THE DOLLAR AMOUNT IS A, IS ZERO.
I BELIEVE I WAS TASKED TO GO OUT AND ASK FOR THE INFORMATION.
I, I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS A TASK AND I'M GOING TO BE REWARDED IF WE RECEIVED ANYTHING.
UM, BUT AS I STATED AT THE LAST WORK SESSION, I CAN'T GUARANTEE ANYTHING.
UM, BUT, UM, WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF GOOD OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, WHAT I'M GOING TO BE SENDING OVER TO THE CITY MANAGER IS WORKING WITH ONE OF OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES HERE.
UM, I BELIEVE ACTUALLY TWO OF THEM, UH, AND ONE OF THEM IS A, UM, A NATIONAL VENDOR, UM, THAT HAS SHOWN SOME INTEREST.
I EXPRESSED TO MR. SCHOMER SOME PERSONAL, UH, UH, BEEN MADE, UH, THROUGH A SENATOR PORTMAN'S OFFICE.
UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, UH, GIVING ME THAT IDEA.
I'M ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO A GOOD FRIEND OF MR. SCHUMER'S AND, UH, WE'VE BEEN IN CONTACT, HAD SEVERAL PHONE CALLS, UH, THROUGH JOBS, OHIO IN DAYTON DEVELOPMENT COALITION.
SO YEAH, COMMUNICATION IS STILL MOVING FORWARD AND I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE YOU ASKING EVERY MEETING.
I'M JUST, IT'S JUST THAT AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING, YOU SAID YOU HAD THE EAR OF PEOPLE IN DC CONGRESS AND THE FEDERAL BUDGETS COMING UP.
THEY'RE PROBABLY WORKING ON IT.
UM, YOU KNOW, ROLLING UP THEIR SLEEVES, GETTING THE WORK DONE BECAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STARTS THEIR BUDGET OCTOBER 1ST.
SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET A LINE ITEM IN THERE FOR THE FUNDING OF THE BARN, THEN THAT'S WHY I CERTAINLY ASKED FOR YOU TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
SO NO MONEY NOW, HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET SOME SHORTLY.
IF THIS COUNCIL WANTS TO PUT A LETTER OF SUPPORT OUT TO SENATOR PORTMAN AND CONGRESSMAN TURNER, I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO MAKE THAT OFFICIAL PRESENTATION ON BEHALF OF THE CITY FOR A LINE ITEM IN THE FEDERAL BUDGET AS MR. LINSON SEATED AGAIN, IT'S JUST THE PRESENTATION AND THE REQUEST.
UM, I MEAN, UH, ALL ALL, I'LL ASK EVERYBODY COMING AND GOING TO SUPPORT THE PROJECTS AND, AND THINGS GOING ON HERE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
AND IT'S NOT A GUARANTEE, IT'S A REQUEST.
UM, BUT, UH, YEAH, I I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO PUT THAT OUT.
UH, I CAN WORK WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND WE CAN GET THAT DRAFTED UP.
I HAVE NO, I MEAN, I HAVE NO PROBLEM SIGNING THAT IF THAT'S, I'D LOVE IT AS WELL.
ANY OBJECTIONS TO THAT? OKAY, ROB, IF WE COULD WORK TOGETHER TO GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT, DRAFTED, UH, A LETTER THAT WE COULD ALL SIGN OR SOMETHING.
SO RICHARD COULD GET THE HAND THAT OFF AS PART OF PRESENTATION.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR MR. SCHOMER
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REGARDING THE CITY MANAGER UPDATE? OKAY.NEXT UP IS THE NUMBER 10, WHICH IS BUSINESS.
THERE IS NONE THE SUIT PENDING BUSINESS THIS EVENING,
[ A Motion To Reappoint Cindy Davidson To The Arts And Beautification Commission To A Term Expiring June 30, 2023.]
WHICH BRINGS US ON TO NUMBER 11, WHICH IS OUR NEW BUSINESS ITEM, 11 EIGHT, MR. ROGERS, ITEM 11, A MOTION TO REAPPOINT CINDY DAVIDSON TO THE ARTS AND BEAUTIFICATION COMMISSION TO A TERM EXPIRING JUNE 30TH, 2023.MR. ROGERS, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? I DO NOT.
THIS IS JUST A STANDARD EVERY APPOINTMENT AND THE WORK SESSION RECOMMENDATION WAS TO APPROVE, UM, THAT MOTION THIS EVENING.
IS THERE ALWAYS MR. CAMPBELL MOTION TO REAPPOINT THE MOTION TO REAPPOINT? IS THERE A SECOND, MR. LYONS? SECOND WE THE SECOND, ANY DISCUSSION MR. ROGERS? MR. CAMPBELL? YES.
AND MOTION CARRIES EIGHT ZERO.
[ A Motion To Appoint Sheila Ballard To The Property Maintenance Review Board To A Term Expiring December 31, 2021.]
NEXT UP WE HAVE ITEM NUMBER 11, B ITEM 11, BE A MOTION TO APPOINT SHEILA BALLARD TO THE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE REVIEW BOARD TO A TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 31ST, 2021.ANY OTHER COMMENTS? THIS IS JUST A VACANCY, UH, THAT WE HAD ON THE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE REVIEW BOARD, UH, FOR AN UNEXPIRED TERM.
AND THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO A POINT THIS EVENING.
IS THERE A MOTION? LET'S TRY TO MOVE TO A POINT AND MOVED TO A PLACE FOR A SECOND.
SECOND, I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ANY DISCUSSION MR. ROGERS? MRS. BERG? YES.
[ A Motion To Appoint Tom Istvan To The Military And Veterans Commission To A Term Expiring December 31, 2021.]
UP IS ITEM 11, C ITEM 11, SEE EMOTION TO A POINT.TOM IS FAN TO THE MILITARY AND VETERANS COMMISSION TO A TERM FIRING DECEMBER 31ST, 2021.
ANY OTHER FURTHER COMMENTS? I DO NOT.
AND THE WORK SESSION RECOMMENDATION WAS APPROVAL THIS EVENING.
IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED TO TORONTO.
I MOVED, MOVED TO A POINT SECOND, MISTER LINES, SECOND COALITION.
ANY DISCUSSION FOR MR. HISPAN? YES.
SO LOOKING OVER THE APPLICATION, I'M EXCITED THAT, UH, UM, THE EXPERTISE AND, UH, UH, BEING A MEDIC AS WELL, I THINK WILL PROVIDE SOME DIFFERENT INSIGHTS.
UH, I PERSONALLY CANNOT WAIT TO HAVE A FURTHER CONVERSATION, UH, UM, UH, WITH HIM, UH, BUT I THINK IT WILL BE A HUGE ASSET TO OUR MILITARY COMMISSION.
THANK YOU, MR. SHAW, FOR THOSE COMMENTS.
AND THAT MOTION ALSO CARRIES A ZERO.
I HAVE LOTS OF INTERESTING STORIES.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR SOMETHING I'D LOVE TO TOUCH BASE,
[ A Public Hearing Scheduled For June 8, 2020 By The Huber Heights City Council For Zoning Case 20-13. The Applicant Is The City of Huber Heights. The Applicant Is Requesting Approval Of A Major Change To A Basic And Detailed Development Plan For The Barn Project.]
NEXT STUFF.WE HAVE ITEM 11, D ITEM 11, D A PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 8TH, 2020 BY THE YOU BRIGHT CITY COUNCIL FOR ZONING CASE TWO ZERO DASH ONE THREE.
THE APPLICANT IS THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING APPROVAL OF A MAJOR CHANGE TO A BASIC AND DETAILED DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE BARN PROJECT.
SO THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW IN SESSION AND, UH, I'M CALLING ON CITY STAFF TO MAKE THEIR INITIAL PRESENTATION.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE MR.
AND GOOD EVENING, UH, WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU IS A CASE THAT CAME BEFORE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR A MAJOR CHANGE TO THE BASIC AND DETAILED DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
THE SITE IS THE PROPERTY THAT WE PURCHASED, UH, LOCATED AT, UH, 83 OH THREE BRANDT PIKE.
AND AS THE OLD LEHMAN FARM, THERE IS AN EXISTING BARN ON THE SITE THAT WE'D LIKE TO UTILIZE FOR PUBLIC GATHERING SPACE.
UH, THAT IS THE REASON FOR THE MAJOR CHANGE AS THIS IS A ZONED CURRENTLY PLANNED EMPLOYMENT PARK.
AND THAT IS A, UH, PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USE WITHIN THAT.
UH, BUT THE PROCESS IS GO TO PLANNING COMMISSION FOR RECOMMENDATION, AND THEN CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL.
UH, PLANNING COMMISSION DID RECOMMEND APPROVAL MOVING FORWARD, UH, WITH THIS PROJECT.
UM, THE PROJECT ITSELF, UM, IS TO UTILIZE THAT SPACE, UH, TO ADD SOME GRAVEL PARKING IN THE AREA AND, UH, KIND OF, UH, UM, UPGRADE THE INSIDE OF THE BARN AND ADD SOME HANDICAPPED SPACES AND UTILIZE FOOD TRUCKS, UH, SOME, UH, UH, SELL OF, UH, BEER AND OTHER BEVERAGES AND UTILIZE NONPROFITS TO RUN.
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EVENTS WILL BE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS, UH, FROM, UH, FROM FIVE TO 10.THEN ALSO THE ABILITY TO HAVE THESE ON OTHER NIGHTS.
FOR EXAMPLE, IF THERE'S A CONCERT AT THE ROSE, SOMETHING BEFOREHAND, UH, BEFORE THOSE CONCERTS TO UTILIZE THIS SPACE, UM, THE SITE ITSELF, UH, DOES HAVE ACCESS OFF OF EXECUTIVE BOULEVARD FROM TWO LOCATIONS.
THERE IS, UH, THE DRIVEWAY, UM, THAT'S, UH, FOR THE EXISTING HOUSE, UM, THAT HAS BEEN TORN DOWN.
AND THEN THE NEW, UH, LAYMEN LANE THAT, UH, HAS BEEN, UH, CONSTRUCTED THAT GOES BACK TO THE APARTMENT COMPLEX TO THE NORTH, THE SPACE ITSELF, UH, WE'LL HAVE, UH, FENCING SOME, EITHER SNOW FENCE OR ROPING OFF OF WHAT AREA THAT WILL BE UTILIZED AS PART OF A LIQUOR PERMIT.
THOSE LIQUOR PERMITS WILL BE OBTAINED BY THE NONPROFITS.
THAT'S, WE'LL BE RUNNING THIS.
SO THERE'LL BE A CONTRACT WITH THE CITY, WITH THE NONPROFITS, SO THAT THEY CAN HOLD THE EVENTS AND THEY'LL BE ABLE TO MAKE A LITTLE MONEY, UM, AS WELL FROM SOME OF THOSE SALES.
UH, SO THE INTERIOR OF THE BARN, UH, WILL BE UPGRADED A LITTLE BIT.
UH, SOME OF THE FLOORING IN THERE NEEDS TO BE REDONE.
UH, THERE'S SOME OLD WOOD FLOOR THERE THAT'S IN BAD REPAIR.
SO THAT'S A PART OF THE, THE UPGRADES TO THE BARN ITSELF.
UM, THIS, UH, UH, THE UTILITIES AT THE SITES WE WILL BE BRINGING IN MOBILE RESTROOMS. UH, THERE IS NOT SANITARY SEWER OR WATER LINE TO THE SITE.
WE SEE THIS AS A TEMPORARY FUNCTION.
UM, MR. CHUCK KOSKI BROUGHT THIS FORWARD AS AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DRIVER, THAT THIS IS FOR MARKETING, THAT THIS, UH, THAT PLACEMAKING BRINGS PEOPLE TO THE SITE AND HELPS, UH, SHOW THE AREA OFF, UH, FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS.
SO, UM, BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
UM, BACK UP ONE SLIDE, PLEASE.
EVERY TIME I SEE THIS, I'M CURIOUS THAT ROADWAY ON THE RIGHT.
IS THAT TEMPORARY? IS THAT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION? YEAH, THAT IS A PERMANENT ROADWAY.
UM, LAYMAN LANE THAT, UH, IS, UH, A PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVED.
I THINK IT WAS THE LAST OR THE ONE BEFORE THAT MEETING TO DEDICATE THAT AS A PUBLIC ROAD AND IT'S CONSTRUCTED.
AND IT'S, THERE'S, UH, ASPHALT PAVEMENTS DOWN.
THE CURBS ARE IN, IT'S ALREADY ASKED.
THE FIRST LAYER OF ASPHALT IN THE SECOND LAYER WILL COME AFTER CONSTRUCTION'S DONE OF THE APARTMENTS.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM MR. MCCLOSKEY? YES, MRS. BAKER.
SO HOW WILL THE WATER BE BROUGHT IN FOR DRINKING WATER? EXTINGUISHING FIRE BROKE OUT.
UM, SAME AS ANY OF OUR OTHER, UM, FARM TYPE SITES.
IF SOMETHING LIKE THIS, THERE ARE FIRE HYDRANTS OUT AT THE STREETS ON EXECUTIVE, UM, AND THERE ARE IN THE APARTMENT COMPLEX, BUT THEY CAN BRING IN A TANKER TRUCK IF NEEDED, UM, FOR THIS TYPE OF SITE.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? OKAY.
I WOULD CALL ON THE LAW DIRECTOR TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS OR PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
IF YOU HAVE ANY JERRY, I HAVE NOTHING WOULD CALL IN ANY OTHER PRESENTERS TO SEE IF PEOPLE HIKES, MAKE ANY COMMENTS OR PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
NOW, WAS THERE ANYONE AT PRISON? YES.
UM, I DID WANT TO GO ON TO STATE ON THE PREVIOUS DIALOGUE BETWEEN MYSELF AND MR. LYONS.
UM, MANY OF THE REGIONAL, UM, UH, ENTITIES THAT I'VE REACHED OUT TO STATE, FEDERAL NATIONAL, UM, VERY EXCITED TO SEE THIS TAKE PLACE.
UM, THERE'S STILL BEEN A LOT OF CHATTER ON A BUSINESS INCUBATOR TYPE, UH, CREATION.
I TOLD THEM THAT THOSE DISCUSSIONS ARE MOVING FORWARD, BUT, UH, I TOLD THEM, AND SCOTT, PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
NOTHING SAYING THAT A NONPROFIT ENTITY CANNOT RENT THIS OUT AND HAVE A BUSINESS SEMINAR THERE.
NOW THE, THE REQUEST FOR THE USE IS TO ALLOW FOR THE GATHERING SPACE.
SO THAT IS AN OPTION WITHIN THAT ZONE.
AND THAT WAS A, THAT WAS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I KNOW WHEN I REACHED OUT TO DAYTON DEVELOPMENT COALITION, UH, SOME OF OUR, UH, FEDERAL AND STATE PARTNERS, OUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE, PHIL PLUMBER, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, I TOLD THEM THAT THAT COULD BE A VERY WELL, YOU KNOW, A GOOD USE FOR THAT, UH, THAT THERE WERE GOING TO BE A, YOU KNOW, AMENITIES THERE FOR SUCH A GATHERING OF WHATEVER.
SO I WANTED TO HAVE A BOOK CLUB THERE, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
UM, BUT, UH, UM, SPEAKING WITH A LOT OF THE, UH, AREA ENTITIES, UM, THIS IS GOING TO BE A, UH, INTERESTING, UH, SPOT, UH, FOR PLACEMAKING.
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UM, AND I'M GLAD SOME OF THE SUPPORT, UH, NATIONWIDE HAS, UH, BROUGHT THIS FINALLY TO HUBER HEIGHTS.THANK YOU FOR THOSE COMMENTS, MR. SHAWL, ANYONE ELSE? ANY OTHER CITY REPRESENTATIVES? OKAY.
ARE THERE ANYONE PRESENT WHO WISHES TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF THE APPROVAL? IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT WHO WISHES TO SPEAK AGAINST THE APPROVAL? ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE, HE WRITES CITY COUNCIL THAT WANTS TO PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS ZONING ISSUE? ONE LAST TIME, IS THERE ANYONE PRESENT WHO WISHES TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF, OR AGAINST THE ZONING CASE? YES.
MR. SCHIRMER, I JUST THINK FOR THE RECORD OF THE PUBLIC HEARING, UH, I JUST WANTED TO REFER THAT AT THE WORK SESSION, THERE WERE A SERIES OF QUESTIONS PRESENTED, UH, ASKED BY A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC AND NEIGHBORING PROPERTY.
THOSE QUESTIONS ON RECORD WERE READ AND ANSWERED.
UH, AND I DON'T KNOW IF SCOTT'S HAD ANY FOLLOWUP WITH, UH, I IMAGINE THOSE QUESTIONS WERE VERY WELL ANSWERED.
UH, BUT JUST AS A MATTER OF PUTTING ON THE RECORD, THERE WAS PREVIOUS COMMENTS.
YOU ANSWERED THEM, BUT IT HAS, OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWUP AND THANKS FOR THE REMINDER UP BETTER.
THERE HAVE BEEN NO OTHER QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS.
SO BARGAIN ANY FURTHER COMMENTS, THE PUBLIC HEARING BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR PLANNING COMMISSION CASES, AC 20 DASH 13 IS HEREBY CLOSED.
[ An Ordinance To Approve A Major Change To The Basic And Detailed Development Plan For The Property Located At 8303 Brandt Pike And Further Identified As Parcel Number P70-03910-0005 On The Montgomery County Auditor’s Tax Map And Accepting The Recommendation Of The Planning Commission (Zoning Case 20-13). (first reading)]
THE NEXT STEP WE HAVE ITEM 11 E UNDER ADMINISTRATION.ITEM 11 E AN ORDINANCE TO APPROVE A MAJOR CHANGE TO THE BASIC, A DETAILED DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 83 ZERO THREE BRAND PIPE AND FURTHER IDENTIFIED AS PERSONAL NUMBER P SEVEN ZERO DASH ZERO THREE NINE ONE ZERO DASH ZERO ZERO ZERO FIVE ON THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY AUDITOR'S TAX MAP AND ACCEPTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND ZONING CASE TWO ZERO DASH ONE THREE AT THE FIRST READING MR. SCHIRMER FOR MR.
YEAH, THIS IS A, THIS IS MERELY THE ORDINANCE THAT, UH, WILL ALLOW FOR THE ACTUAL CHANGE THAT MR. FALKOWSKI JUST SPOKE ABOUT.
THAT WAS RECOMMENDED THROUGH THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
WE DO ASK THAT THE SECOND READING IS WAIVED, UH, SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE AND HOPEFULLY GET THIS PROJECT UNDERWAY BEFORE COLD AND BAD WEATHER HIT US THIS SEASON, I GUESS.
AND THAT WAS THE WORK SESSION RECOMMENDATION WAS TO WAIVE THE SECOND READING.
IS THERE A MOTION TO WAIVE MR. CAMPBELL? SO MOVED THERE A SECOND.
MRS. BURCH, ANY DISCUSSION ON WAIVING? THE SECOND READING MR. ROGERS, MR. LYONS.
AND MOTION TO WAVE CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.
THE NEXT WOULD HAVE A MOTION FOR ADOPTION MADIGAN, MRS. BIRCH MOTIONS, MR. SHAWL, SECOND MOTION AND A SECOND.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THE ADOPTION, MR. ROGERS, MR. HILL, MR. HILL, I THINK HE'S TRYING HE'S NODDING.
IS THAT GOOD? IS THAT OKAY, JERRY? IT WAS NODDING.
HE'S ASKED US WELL, WE'LL GIVE HIM, GIVE HIM ONE SECOND AND HE'S ASKED US TO HOLD ON.
AND MOTION TO ADOPT ALSO CARRIES EIGHT ZERO.
[ An Ordinance Authorizing Transfers Between Various Funds Of The City Of Huber Heights, Ohio And Amending Ordinance No. 2019-O-2403 By Making Supplemental Appropriations For Expenses Of The City Of Huber Heights, Ohio For The Period Beginning January 1, 2020 And Ending December 31, 2020. (first reading)]
HAVE ITEM 11, G 11 F I'M SORRY, 11 F 11 AND A HALF WROTE OVER 11 G SON OR LF.I HAVE AN APP, AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS BETWEEN VARIOUS FUNDS OF THE CITY OF YOUR RIGHTS, OHIO AND AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER TWO ZERO ONE NINE.
THAT SHOWED AS TWO, FOUR ZERO THREE, BY MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR EXPENSES
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OF THE CITY OF NEW BRIGHTS, OHIO FOR THE PERIOD PERIOD, BEGINNING JANUARY 1ST, 2020, AND ENDING DECEMBER 31ST, 2020 AT THE FIRST STREET.MR. BELL PROVIDED THE, UH, UH, THE INFORMATION IN THE PACKET, AS WELL AS THE DESCRIPTION, THE WORK SESSION, UH, JUST BRIEFING OVER THE SUPPLEMENTAL INCLUDES TRANSFER FROM GAS TAX TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND FOR THE CITY'S SHARE OF ODAT RESURFACING PROJECT THAT IS UPCOMING IN THE AGENDA, UH, UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS, UH, OR POTENTIAL AND EMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS AND $10,000 61,000 FOR PLUMBING AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AT THE ROSE MUSIC CENTER, UH, THAT WERE, UH, PLANNED FOR, UH, AND A LITTLE BIT ALTERED, UH, DEPENDING, UH, BASED ON, UH, THE CONDITION FOR THIS YEAR, 44,000, UH, 900 TRANSFER FROM FEMA FUND TO FIRE FUND FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF OVERTIME REGARDING A DEPLOYMENT FOR HURRICANE FLORENCE LAST YEAR, AND 110,000 FOR CAPITALIZED INTEREST EXPENSE FOR THE WDA WATER SOFTENING CONSTRUCTION LOAN, UH, MATCHED BY THOSE LOAN PROCEEDS, UH, FROM THE WATER FUND.
THAT IS THE TOTALITY OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL.
WE ASKED THAT THE SECOND READING BE WAIVED SO THAT, UH, THE PURCHASES CAN BE, UH, CAN BE PROCESSED, UH, PRIMARILY IWDA AND AS WELL, GETTING ON BOARD WITH THE PLUMBING EXPENSES AND THE IMPROVEMENTS TO ROADS ME CENTER.
THANK YOU, MR. SCHIRMER, IS THERE A MOTION TO WEIGH THE SECOND READING AND MR. BAKER, MRS. BAKER SECONDS.
ANY DISCUSSION ON WAIVING? THE SECOND READING, MR. ROGERS, MR. REB, MR. REP, UH, OH, SAY YES.
SHE SAID, OH, I THOUGHT SHE SAID HERE, MR. ANA.
AND MOTION WAVE CARRIES EIGHT ZERO.
AND NEXT, IS THERE A MOTION FOR ADOPTION, MR. LINEMAN? IS THERE A SECOND? WHAT'S YOUR SHOT? SECOND.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THE ADOPTION, MR. ROGERS, MR. SHAW? YES.
AND THE MOTION FOR ADOPTION CARRIES ALSO A
[ A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Apply For And Accept Grant Funds From The Bureau Of Justice Assistance Bulletproof Vest Partnership For The Purpose Of Purchasing Replacement Protective Body Armor. (first reading)]
ZERO.NEXT IS ITEM 11, G ITEM 11, G A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO APPLY FOR AN ACCEPT GRANT FUNDS FROM THE OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE, BULLETPROOF VEST PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASING REPLACEMENT, PROTECTIVE BODY ARMOR AT THE FIRST READING.
CERTAINLY IF I COULD SPEAK OUT OF TURN JUST FOR A SECOND, I, A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT, ALTHOUGH MR. WEBB WAS CARRYING ON THE TRADITION OF BEING LIVE AND ON LOCATION SOMEWHERE IN HUBER HEIGHTS THAT HAS SUDDENLY DISAPPEARED.
BUT, UH, UM, ANYWAYS, UH, THIS IS THE, UM, THE, UH, ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING BGA GRANTS THAT ARE STILL AVAILABLE TO US.
UH, EACH YEAR WE UTILIZE THE AVAILABILITY OF THESE FUNDS, UH, TO HAVE A ROTATION OF REPLACEMENT OF BULLETPROOF VESTS FOR REGULAR ON-DUTY PERSONNEL USE AND, UM, THE, UM, THE MATCHES 50%.
UH, BUT OF COURSE WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE PURCHASE.
AND THEN THEY REIMBURSE 50% OF THAT.
SO TO REQUEST IS AUTHORIZING THE USE OF THOSE FUNDS, UH, AND APPROPRIATING $8,061.
OF COURSE, 50% OF THAT WILL BE RETURNED.
IS THERE A MOTION TO ADOPT? THAT WAS THE WORK SESSION RECOMMENDATION.
IS THERE A SECOND? CHOLINES SECOND MOTION.
ANY DISCUSSION, SIR? ROGER MS. BAKER.
AND A MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.
[ A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Memorandum Of Understanding With The Huber Heights City Schools And To Continue The School Resource Officer Program. (first reading)]
NEXT UP IS ITEM 11 H ITEM 11 H RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE HUBER HEIGHTS CITY SCHOOLS AND TO CONTINUE THE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER PROGRAM AT THE FIRST READING.I WAS TRYING TO THINK, I BELIEVE THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SCHOOLS REGARDING SRO IS, GOES BACK TO 2002.
AND I HAVE TO CHECK THAT I BELIEVE THAT'S WHEN WE GOT OUR FIRST GRANT TO TAKE THIS PROGRAM ON LUCKILY THE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN THE SCHOOLS THAT SUSTAINED OUR PRESENCE WITHIN THE SCHOOLS, AND HOPEFULLY IT'S HAD GREAT IMPACT, UH, THROUGHOUT THE TIME THAT IT'S BEEN IN SERVICE.
THIS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING CONTINUES THAT PROGRAM UNDER THE SAME PROVISIONS IN TERMS THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE PREVIOUS TERM, UH, AND, UM, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND, UH, THE POLICE CHIEF
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SAT DOWN AND WALKED THROUGH AND MADE SURE, BUT WE'VE PRETTY MUCH HAD IT PERFECTED AND REFINED OVER SEVERAL RENEWALS OF THIS AGREEMENT.AND WE'RE HOPEFUL FOR THE NEXT ONE.
SO WE ASKED RESOLUTIONS CONSIDERED THIS EVENING FOR ADOPTION.
IS THERE A MOTION, MR. CAMPBELL? IS THERE A SECOND, MS. RADO SECOND BUT MOTION.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION MR. SHAW? THANK YOU.
I MEANT TO BRING THIS UP AT THE WORK SESSION, AND IF I COULD DIRECT THIS TO OUR CLERK OF COUNCIL, UH, TONY, UM, ALMOST A YEAR AGO, IF NOT LONGER, UH, YOU WERE ASKED BY THIS COUNCIL TO SCHEDULE A MEETING WITH THE HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL BOARD.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE THAT MEETING STANDS? UH, THE LAST WE LEFT IT AT, AS WE, I HAD MADE CONTACT, I BELIEVE, AND, UM, THE EARLY PART OF THIS YEAR, MOST RECENTLY AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO, UH, ARRANGE THOSE MEETINGS.
AND, UM, I WAS TOLD BY, UM, UH, THE TREASURER THAT, UM, AT THIS POINT, UH, MR. ROSAURA, UH, PREFER NOT TO HAVE A MEETING UNTIL SUMMERTIME.
UM, AND THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE HAD LEFT THINGS AT THAT POINT.
DO WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? I'M ALMOST, UH, I BELIEVE IT'S ALMOST EIGHT, NINE MONTHS AGO.
UH, WHEN THOSE DISCUSSIONS TOOK PLACE, UH, LIKE LAST JULY LAST AUGUST.
UM, I THINK THERE WERE SOME ISSUES WITH JUST THE TRANSITION TO THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT AND, AND, UM, SOME THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT, UM, I DON'T HAVE A DIRECT RECOLLECTION OF ANYTHING SPECIFIC FROM THAT PERIOD OF TIME, BECAUSE I KNOW, I THINK IT WAS MARCH OR APRIL LAST YEAR.
UM, I HAD REQUESTED THAT THIS, UH, THIS, THIS, UH, COUNSEL MEET WITH HIM, AND THEN I WAS TOLD, YOU KNOW, LET'S, LET'S WAIT UNTIL HE GETS HIS FEET UNDERNEATH HIM, WHICH WAS UNDERSTANDABLE.
UM, I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION WE WERE GOING TO HAVE THAT IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER.
UM, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN THEN A NEW BOARD GOT ELECTED.
UM, AND WE STILL HAVE, I MEAN, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT WAS STILL ON OUR RADAR.
YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT SOME OF THE, UH, CORRESPONDENCE THAT WE HAD BACK AND FORTH TO CREATE A RECORD RECREATE, UH, SOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS THAT TOOK PLACE AT THAT TIME.
SOME OF THOSE WERE DONE PUBLICLY.
I KNOW, UM, WHAT THOSE COUNCIL AND, UH, WORK SESSIONS THAT DISCUSSED THOSE ISSUES.
UM, BUT THE MOST RECENT CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE THE, UM, MR.
THE REASON I BRING IT UP ON THIS TOPIC IS I THINK THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, DISCUSS WITH SOME OF THE NEWER, UM, UH, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE SUPERINTENDENT AS WELL.
UM, I KNOW THE LAST TIME WE HAD MET WITH THEM, THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION, SOME UNDERSTANDING, UM, THAT, UM, WE HAD TO KIND OF GET THROUGH, UM, AND, UH, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER TOPICS.
SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET THAT SCHEDULED HERE SOON.
SO ARE WE READY TO CALL THE ROLL? NOW WE ARE READY TO ROLL DISCUSSION ITEM 11, EIGHT, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? OKAY.
[ A Final Resolution For ODOT To Resurface Brandt Pike (State Route 201) Between I.R.70 And Grusenmeyer Way. (first reading)]
AND NEXT UP IS ITEM 11, ITEM 11.HI, A FINAL RESOLUTION FOR ODOD TO RESURFACE BRANDT PIKE, STATE ROUTE TWO OH ONE BETWEEN
THIS CAME UP ON, OH, DOT'S LIST OF ROADWAYS AND OUR OPPORTUNITY TO GET IT DONE PER THEIR SCHEDULE IS TO PROVIDE OUR PRELIMINARY SHARE, WHICH IS ESTIMATED TO BE JUST A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, WHICH THE SUPPLEMENTAL, JUST SO WE ASKED THE LEGISLATION RESOLUTION BE CONSIDERED THIS EVENING FOR ADOPTION SO WE CAN PASS IT ON TO ODETTE AND CONTINUE THAT SCHEDULE.
AND THE WORK SESSION RECOMMENDATION WAS ADOPTION THIS EVENING.
IS THERE A MOTION? LET'S TRY IT A SECOND.
MR. LYONS SECOND, HAVE A MOTION.
ANY DISCUSSION MR. ROGERS? MRS. BERG? YES.
AND MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.
[12. City Official Reports and Comments]
NEXT UP WAS I NUMBER 12, WHICH IS CITY OFFICIAL REPORTS AND COMMENTS.UH, THERE MAY BE SOME THIS EVENING.
UH, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT, UM, I THINK WHAT HAPPENED, UH, IN OUR COMMUNITY ON SATURDAY WITH THE PROTEST WAS IT WAS PRETTY HISTORIC FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
I THINK, UH, IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS A GREAT EVENT.
I COULDN'T AGREE WITH ROB MORE ABOUT THE ORGANIZER.
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HER FAMILY WAS THERE.AND I THINK IN THE END, JUST BEING A PEACEFUL PROTEST, I WOULD JUST SAY TO ANYBODY WHO WAS THERE, WHO WAS PROTESTING THE FACT THAT IT WAS DONE PEACEFULLY, I BELIEVE MADE YOUR VOICE EVEN LOUDER.
I THINK WE'RE ALL LISTENING AND KNOW THAT THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT AND TO DO BETTER.
I'VE HAD LOTS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY, UH, OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND, OH, I WILL, I BELIEVE SHE'S WATCHING IT.
I'LL, I'LL USE HER NAME, HER AND HER HUSBAND, UH, YOLANDA AND ERIC PHILLIPS.
WE HAD, WE HAD A MEETING AND WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT WAS THE DIVERSITY IN THIS COMMUNITY.
AND THEY DID MAKE A VERY VALID POINT THAT KNOWING THAT WE'RE DIVERSE, ISN'T ENOUGH.
WE, WE, WE ARE AWARE THAT WE'RE IN A DIVERSE COMMUNITY.
WE CAN LOOK AROUND AND KNOW WE'RE A DIVERSE COMMUNITY.
WE CAN GO INTO THE GROCERY STORE AND KNOW THAT WE'RE A DIVERSE COMMUNITY, BUT THAT ISN'T ENOUGH.
THE TERM THAT, THAT THE ERIC USED WAS SILOS.
IF WE ALL STAY IN OUR SILOS AND WE DON'T ENGAGE ONE ANOTHER, WE DON'T COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WE DON'T MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER.
AND IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW DIVERSE WE ARE.
WE WILL JUST HAVE POCKETS OF INDIVIDUAL DIVERSITY IN THE COMMUNITY THAT DOESN'T DO ANYBODY ANY GOOD.
THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF COMMUNITY THAT WE ALL WANT TO BE A PART OF OR THAT WE WANT TO LIVE IN.
SO I WILL BE HAVING MORE COMMUNICATION AND MORE MEETINGS WITH MR AND MRS. PHILLIPS, ALONG WITH SOME OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, UM, TO TRY TO DEVELOP A SPECIAL COMMITTEE, WHETHER IT BE A COMMITTEE, A TASK FORCE OF SOME SORT TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO IN ACTIVITIES, WE CAN DO THINGS WE CAN PROMOTE AS A CITY THAT WILL HELP BREAK SOME OF THOSE SILOS AND REALLY, UM, ENGAGE ONE ANOTHER, REGARDLESS OF YOUR RACE, YOUR, I THINK BACKGROUND, YOUR CULTURAL BACKGROUND, IF WE CAN WORK ON BREAKING THOSE BARRIERS TO WHERE WE REALLY UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER AND UNDERSTAND THE EXPERIENCES THAT EACH OF US HAVE, THEN I THINK, I THINK WE'LL BE A BETTER COMMUNITY FOR IT.
SO WE WILL CONTINUE THOSE DISCUSSIONS AND WE WILL BE FORMING SOME TYPE OF A COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS THOSE, THOSE ISSUES AND SAY, WE CAN MOVE FORWARD.
UM, SECONDLY, I'D LIKE TO SAY THERE, SO THERE IS A, UM, UN SPACE FORCE THAT HAS BEEN ORGANIZED BY THE PRESENCE OF NEW, UH, NEW BRANCH OF OUR MILITARY.
AND THERE IS AN ACTIVE, I GUESS, I'M MOVEMENT TO BRING THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE HERE TO THE DAYTON REGION.
SO, UH, I'VE SIGNED ON TO A LETTER, UH, WITH THE DDC OF, WITH LOTS OF OTHER MAYORS IN THE, IN THE AREA, IN THE REGION, UH, TO THE, UH, SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE AND A VERY STRONG PLEA OF WHY THE DAYTON AREA WOULD BE THE PERFECT PLACE FOR THE HEADQUARTERS OF SPACE FORCE TO BE.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE TO GET INTO ALL THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT AND ALL THE THINGS, THE WRIGHT BROTHERS HERE, WE ALL, WE ALL KNOW THAT, BUT, UH, SO THERE IS, THERE IS AN ACTIVE MOVEMENT FOR THAT TO HAPPEN AND TRY TO BRING THAT TO THE DAYTON AREA.
AND, UH, WE HAVE SIGNED ON TO THAT LETTER WITH THE DDC TO THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE, SO THAT THOSE ARE THE COMMENTS THAT I HAVE.
AND, UH, THANK YOU EVERYONE, UH, WHO SHOWED UP AND MADE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
THANKS TO ROB, THANKS TO THE POLICE, THANKS TO THE FIRE.
UH, I ALSO WOULD HAVE TO THANK ALL OF THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES WHO SENT RESOURCES HERE, UH, TO HELP US ENSURE THAT WE HAD A PEACEFUL EVENT ON SATURDAY.
AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE END, I COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD TO REPRESENT, UH, HEBREW HEIGHTS.
I HEARD MR. LYON SAY HE BELIEVED IT WAS OUR, UH, OPPORTUNITY FOR IT TO BE OUR FINEST HOUR.
AND I DO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS SO THANK YOU.
ANYONE ELSE? YES, MR. ROTTEN, I WILL BE VERY BRIEF.
UM, BUT I, I DID WANT TO SPEAK TO SATURDAY NIGHTS EVENT.
UM, I HAD MADE PUBLIC MY COMMENTS THAT, UH, MY BELIEFS AND HOPES, UH, THAT, UH, IT WOULD BE VERY PEACEFUL AND IT WOULD BE VERY CALM.
I HAD FULL FAITH IN OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR PEOPLE, UM, AND IT WAS, IT WAS A, IT WAS A GOOD EVENT ON BOTH SIDES ON ALL SIDES.
UM, FROM EVERYONE, I, YOU KNOW, I CAUGHT A COUPLE SMALL MINOR TYPE, YOU KNOW, THINGS, BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT, I MEAN, IT WAS, IT WAS VERY PEACEFUL.
UM, I THINK EVERYTHING WENT WELL AND I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR COMMUNITY FOR THAT, OUR RESIDENTS, OUR POLICE FORCE, AND EVERYONE
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INVOLVED FOR THAT.UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE SEEN THINGS NOT GO SO WELL IN OTHER PLACES.
AND, AND, AND WE WERE A GREAT EXAMPLE AND I KNEW WE WOULD BE, UM, MOVING FORWARD.
I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, UH, I'M URGING FOLKS TO GET TO KNOW PEOPLE, UM, AND UNDERSTAND THAT WE, I BELIEVE WE HAVE TO STOP GROUPING PEOPLE, PERIOD.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE CREATE GROUPS IN OUR SOCIETIES AND THEN WE PUT THOSE GROUPS AGAINST EACH OTHER, OFTENTIMES, UM, NOT EVERYTHING'S A FOOTBALL GAME OR A HOCKEY GAME.
UM, WE HAVE TO STOP DOING THAT.
WE HAVE TO GET OUT AND MEET INDIVIDUALS, GET TO KNOW INDIVIDUALS, UNDERSTAND WHO THEY ARE, WHERE THEY COME FROM.
UM, EVERYONE, EVERYONE IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
NO PEOPLE, TWO PEOPLE ARE THE SAME.
AND THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GOING TO GET TO UNDERSTAND OUR COMMUNITY AND THOSE IN IT IS, IS I AGREE WITH THE MAYOR VERY MUCH IS TO GET OUT AND BE ACTIVE AND ACTIVELY MEET THOSE PEOPLE.
I TRY TO DO THAT AS MUCH AS I CAN.
I URGE OTHERS TO DO SO AS WELL.
UM, OUR DIVERSITY HAS SHOWN THROUGH THROUGH MANY OF OUR BUSINESSES.
HONESTLY, WE JUST HAD AN OPENING OF A NEW BUSINESS, UM, THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD CHECK OUT.
UH, I DON'T WANT TO BUTCHER THE NAME LA MO WELL, HE KIND OF SHOW A KINDA, UM, NICE STORE.
WE ALSO HAVE A NICE, UH, THE FOOD BIZARRE DOWN ON TROY, UM, AS A, UH, ANOTHER STORE THAT HAS GARY'S ETHNIC FOODS.
UM, WE GOT PLENTY OF THAT IN OUR COMMUNITY.
GET OUT AND GET TO KNOW FOLKS, STOP LOOKING AT PEOPLE AS GROUPS, UM, AND START LOOKING AT PEOPLE'S INDIVIDUALS, UM, GET TO KNOW FOLKS INDIVIDUALLY.
UM, JUST BECAUSE YOU'VE MET SOMEONE THAT MAY HAVE LOOKED LIKE, SOUNDED LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE ELSE, YOU KNOW, DOESN'T MEAN THAT'S THE SAME PERSON.
THEY'RE NOT GIVE EVERYBODY AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW YOU HOW WONDERFUL THEY CAN BE.
UH, IF IN THE END YOU DON'T AGREE.
JUST DON'T BE DISAGREEABLE ABOUT IT.
I WOULD LOVE TO SIGN UP WITH A SPACE FORCE AND BACK YOU WITH THAT RECOMMENDATION YOU MADE FOR THE CITY.
AND ALSO WE ALL COULD ALL LIKE MS. YODA SAID, WE ALL CAN WALK TOGETHER.
THANK YOU FOR THOSE COMMENTS AS BIGGER.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS THIS EVENING? YES.
UH, I'M NOT GOING TO BE SHORT.
THIS IS ACTUALLY A WAS SENT TO ME BY A RESIDENT WHO ASKED THAT I SHARED AT OUR NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
UH, THIS RESIDENT, UH, IS DOWN IN LEXINGTON IN PLACE, UM, IN THE EMAIL THAT I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO FORWARD TO ALL OF COUNCIL AS WELL AS CITY ADMINISTRATION.
UM, IT SEEMS THAT A LARGE GROUP OF RESIDENTS ARE CONCERNED THAT RYAN HOLMES IS NOW FINISHED WITH A SECTION SIX.
AND, UM, ACCORDING TO THEM, RYAN HOLMES IS REFUSING TO FINISH THE ROAD WORK.
UM, THAT TROUBLES ME A BIT, CAUSE I KNOW WE HAD THAT DISCUSSION, YOU KNOW, WHEN THAT GROUP OF RESIDENTS CAME TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, UM, THAT RYAN HOLMES IS GOING TO FINISH THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE ROAD WORK.
UH, BUT ACCORDING TO THIS RESIDENT AND HIS EMAIL, UM, THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
UM, AT AC THIS EMAIL EVEN GOES INTO SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES, SOME OF THE LIPS IN THE ROAD, SOME OF THE DANGEROUS, UM, ITEMS THAT'S GOING ON DOWN THERE.
UM, BUT AT THE END OF THE EMAIL AND EVERYBODY WILL SEE THAT WHEN I SEND THAT OUT, UH, IT SAYS IT BRING THIS UP AT THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
ARE YOU ABLE TO SPEAK ON THAT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
I ACTUALLY, IRONICALLY, UM, THAT WAS ON MY LIST OF, UH, I DIDN'T GET TO IT LAST WEEK, BUT UH, GOT TO IT THIS WEEK ON MY LIST OF PLACES TO GO VISIT, UH, THAT WE, WE ROUTINELY DO.
UM, IT'S VERY COMMON IN A DEVELOPMENT THAT UNTIL IT IS BUILT OUT THAT THEY PUT THE FINAL LAYERS OF ASPHALT ON BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT GETS TORN UP WITH THE BULLDOZERS OR, OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
SO YES, THERE ARE SOME LIPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, I I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT PARTICULAR AREAS THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE IN MY TRAVELS TODAY, AND AGAIN, I MAY NOT BE GOING DOWN THE SAME ROAD THAT THEY WERE.
I MAINLY WENT DOWN THE MAIN ROAD OFF OF FISH BURGER AND THEN THROUGH, UH, I FOUND IT TO ACTUALLY BE VERY, VERY, VERY MUCH OKAY FOR, UH, BUT THERE WASN'T A LOT OF HOMES BEING CONSTRUCTED ON THAT AREA.
SO THEY COULD VERY WELL BE TALKING ABOUT AN AREA WHERE THERE ARE SOME HOMES CONSTRUCTED, BUT YES, THE ROADWAY IS NOT FINISHED NOR WILL IT BE FINISHED WITH THAT FINAL ASPHALT TIL ONE OF TWO THINGS OCCURS.
THEY HAVE THE AMOUNT OF BUILD OUT THAT THEY NEED ON THAT ROADWAY AND UNTIL THE CITY, UH, UH, IS READY TO ACCEPT THE DEDICATION OF IT.
SO WE WILL NOT ACCEPT DEDICATION OF THAT ROADWAY UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT IT IS UP TO THE STANDARDS, UH, AND DESIGNS BASED ON OUR ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS.
I WILL, UH, I WILL GATHER THAT RESPONSE.
UM, AND I WILL SEND THAT DIRECTLY BACK TO THIS RESIDENT.
UM, I'LL SEND THIS OUT TO ALL OF COUNCIL FOR REVIEW AS WELL.
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NEXT ITEM, UM, IS I'VE HAD ACTUALLY SEVERAL RESIDENTS CONTACT ME ABOUT SOME OF THE, UH, UH, SIDES OF THE ROADWAYS ALONG FISHBURG AND CHAMBERSBURG, A LOT OF, UH, LINE OF SIGHT ISSUES BECAUSE OF, UH, TALL GRASS, UH, THINGS OF THAT NATURE, UM, IS THAT I UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, COVERT OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT IS BEING REVIEWED OR, UM, WHAT, UM, WHAT CAN WE TELL RESIDENTS, JUST NOT IN THAT AREA ALSO OVER IN BELL FOUNTAIN, SILVER OTHER AREAS WHERE GRASS HAS REALLY GROWN BECAUSE WE'VE HAD GREAT RAIN OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS.UM, SO WHAT KIND OF, UM, WHAT KIND OF RESPONSE CAN WE GIVE THOSE RESIDENTS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING THAT? SURE.
YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, IT'S A HECK OF A GROWING SEASON AND, UH, AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE, THE MAIN ISSUE, DITCHES AND ROADWAYS.
UH, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME AREAS THAT THE CITY TAKES CARE OF, UH, BUT THE AREAS LIKELY THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IT REALLY IS UP TO THAT PROPERTY OWNER TO DO.
AND AS WE SEE AREAS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN DONE, UH, WE MAINLY REQUIRE IT FOR TWO REASONS, UM, UH, APPEARANCE, UH, BUT ALSO FOR AN ENGINEERING SIDE OF MAKING SURE THAT THE DIS WHALES, UH, ARE, UH, ALLOW FLOW OF WATER AND THINGS LIKE THAT IT GO THROUGH.
SO IF THERE'S PARTICULAR AREAS OF CONCERN, LET US KNOW WE CAN ADDRESS IT IN ONE OR TWO WAYS ENGINEERING, UH, AND, OR, UH, THROUGH ZONING.
UH, BUT MANY OF THOSE AREAS, IF PROPERTY OWNERS ARE NOT DOING IT, THEN WE DO HAVE THE CAPABILITY AND WE HAVE, UH, ON TIMES WHERE WE NEED TO GO OUT AND CLEAR OUT SOME OF THOSE AREAS, IF IT IS A SPECIFIC LIGHT OF LINE OF SIGHT ISSUE, UM, YOU KNOW, LET US KNOW THE SPECIFIC LOCATIONS AND, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE ADDRESSED IN PRIORITY.
UH, THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO RESIDENT ISSUES I HAD.
I DID WANT TO SPEAK ON, UM, UH, AGAIN, AS COUNCILMAN OTTO HAD BROUGHT UP, UM, WE DO HAVE A, UH, A NEW GROCERY STORE, UM, IN TOWN.
UM, MAN, THEY'VE BEEN WORKING A WHILE TO GET THAT UP AND GOING SO GLAD TO SEE THAT IT'S GOING GLAD TO SEE THE HUBER CENTER IS MOVING FORWARD.
UNDERSTAND SPEAKING WITH THE FOLKS DOWN THERE THAT, UH, SIGNAGE IS COMING SOON.
UH, SO EXCITED THAT THAT'S FINALLY A MOVING FORWARD.
I FEEL LIKE WE PASSED THAT, UH, QUITE A WHILE BACK.
I'M SO GLAD TO SEE THAT IT'S MOVING FORWARD.
UM, BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE MARKETING DEPARTMENT, UH, WITH RAISING CANES.
I'M EXCITED FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO IN THERE AND DO A PROMOTIONAL VIDEO WITH THEM VERY SOON, UH, TO HIGHLIGHT THE NEW RAISING CANES AT THE FORMER PNC PROPERTY, UM, AT OLD TROY AND MERRILY WAY, UH, OLD TROY AND WAYNE TOWN.
I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE THAT MOVING FORWARD.
UM, ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MAY BE SOME, A MOVEMENT ON THE, UH, TGI FRIDAY'S PROPERTY.
I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE THAT, UM, THAT, UH, DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, UM, UH, MOVING FORWARD, UM, AS WELL AS SOME FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH BROAD REACH RETAIL PARTNERS ON THE OLD, UH, UH, SWAN LAKE, UM, UH, LOCATION THERE.
UM, IN ADDITION, I DID WANT TO TOUCH BASE ON, UM, SATURDAYS, UH, A PROTEST.
UM, I WAS THERE, UM, I DID SPEAK WITH SOME BUSINESSES UP TO THE POINT THAT I HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR CITY MANAGER, UM, AND IT WAS, UH, UNDERSTANDABLE, UM, THAT, UH, THE CITY ADMINISTRATION, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WOULD TAKE OVER CONVERSATIONS FROM THERE AS I DO HAVE A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR, UH, OWNER OF NORTH PARK, UH, CENTER.
UM, THERE WERE SOME SERIOUS CONCERNS WITH THAT OWNER AND A LOT OF THE INTERNAL BUSINESSES, UH, WHICH IS WHY A COMMUNICATION WAS REACHED OUT TO THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, UM, AND, UM, OUR POLICE DIVISION FOR SEVERAL MEETINGS THAT TOOK PLACE AND THE REQUESTED INFORMATION, UM, THE, UM, JL MANAGEMENT GROUP, UM, HAS SEVERAL PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND HAS SEEN, UH, SOME OF THE SOCIAL UNREST THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE.
UH, SO THEY WANTED TO BE AS PREPARED AS POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE, UH, TIPS AND FACTS, UM, AND ASSISTANCE, UM, OF WHATEVER COULD BE DONE.
I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF THE BUSINESSES IN THE AREA MADE A CONSCIENTIOUS CHOICE TO BOARD UP AND CLEAR OUT THEIR INVENTORY AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
UM, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THAT WAS A REQUEST OF THE CHAMBER WHERE THE CITY, HOWEVER, I REQUESTED THAT PARTICULAR BUSINESS, UM, EITHER WAY SHAPE OR FORM AND, AND, UH, MR. SCHIRMER, YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
I DON'T BELIEVE WE EXPERIENCED ANY PROPERTY DAMAGE, UM, OR ANY LOSS OF, UM, UH, ISSUES OF THAT NATURE, TRAFFIC LIGHTS, CITY INFRASTRUCTURE.
THERE WASN'T EVEN ANY LITTER LEFT ON THE GROUND, CORRECT? YES.
UM, A MATTER OF FACT, THEY HAD THAT, UH, UH, TETRA STUFF COMPILED PRETTY HIGH IN THE RTA TRASH CANS.
UM, AT LEAST THEY WERE IN THE PROPER RECEPTACLE.
WE'LL, WE'LL GIVE EVERYBODY CREDIT FOR THAT.
UM, BUT AGAIN, IT WAS A VERY, A VERY PEACEFUL PROTEST.
UM, UH, SOME GOOD CONVERSATIONS TOOK PLACE, UM, INCLUDED THE, UH, GENTLEMAN IN THE VERY INTERESTING COSTUME THAT WAS WALKING AROUND.
UM, I LIKE TO HEAR EVERYBODY'S OPINIONS, UM, BUT, UH, UM, IT WAS A GOOD SITE.
I WALKED AWAY FROM THE, UM, STEAK AND SHAKE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO A AAA AUTO ENTIRE.
UH, IT WAS, UH, QUITE A BIT, UM, I THINK
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I ENDED UP LEAVING AROUND MAYBE EIGHT, EIGHT, 15, UM, GOT A NOTICE FROM A COUPLE OF INDIVIDUALS THAT, UH, ABOUT 50 OR SO, UH, UM, INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE STILL LEFT AND MADE THEIR WAY CLOSE TO 70.I HAD TRAVELED BACK UP TO THE LOCATION.
UM, AND BY THAT TIME, UM, THERE HAD, THERE WAS ABOUT TWO OR THREE, A HUBER HEIGHTS, UH, UM, ALL POLICE OFFICERS ON SCENE.
UM, ABOUT 15 MINUTES AFTER THAT THEY ALL DISPERSED, UM, OUTSIDE OF SOME CONVERSATIONS ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
UM, A LOT OF MY COLLEAGUES FROM THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES, UM, FIRST TIER SUBURBS, UH, REALLY COME INTO THIS CITY AND THE EFFORTS THAT WAS DONE, UM, I BELIEVE THE COMMENTS, UH, TO OUR CITY MANAGER AS I WAS LEAVING THE PROTEST WAS GOOD JOB.
UM, AS IT WAS, UM, SPEAKING WITH A LOT OF THE OFFICERS FROM RIVERSIDE, TROY, UH, WEST MILTON, UM, SOME OF THEM, I KNOW SOME OF THEM, I DIDN'T, UM, I THANK THEM FOR, UH, FOR BEING THERE, UH, PROTECTING OUR RESIDENTS, OUR PROTESTORS AND OUR BUSINESS OWNERS.
UM, I THINK THAT REALLY SHOWS THE MUTUAL AID AND RESPECT THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THIS COMMUNITY AND THE PREPARATION THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE.
UM, OVERALL, LIKE I SAID, I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT IT.
UM, I WAS IN PERSONAL CONTACT, UM, LEADING UP TO SOME DISCUSSIONS FROM THE CITY MANAGER, WITH OUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE, UM, UH, EVEN REACHING OUT TO OUR CONGRESSMAN'S OFFICE.
I REACHED OUT TO A STAFF MEMBER OF SENATOR DEPARTMENT'S OFFICE.
UM, AND, UH, AND AGAIN, YOU ARE CORRECT MR. MAYOR, I BELIEVE AT TASK FORCE, UH, TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE, YOU KNOW, TAKE THE ITEMS THAT WE'VE HEARD ON THIS WEEK ON THE SATURDAY AND OVER THE PAST WEEK AND HOW WE PUT THEM INTO ACTION.
UH, EARLIER TODAY, THE NAACP OR THE DAYTON CHAPTER PUT OUT A LIST OF DEMANDS.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW WE ARE GOING AS A CITY TO, UH, UM, ENACT THOSE DEMANDS.
UM, A FEW OF THOSE DEMANDS ARE THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR, UM, INPUT REQUESTED, UH, TO SEVERAL CITY BUDGETS, UM, AND IT EVEN HAD A PRESENTATION ON CONVERSATIONS WITH POLICE CHIEF.
UM, SO I'LL BE INTERESTED TO SEE HOW THOSE ITEMS, UH, MOVE FORWARD.
UM, I BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY DOES HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HEARD AND, UH, I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT TO BE HEARD.
UM, LIKE MR. OTTO, I HAD STATED, UH, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY NEED TO HEAR EVERYBODY.
AND I THINK MAKING SURE THAT THIS CITY HALL IS OPEN, UM, UNDERSTANDING WITH THE CURRENT PANDEMIC AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO OUR RESIDENTS AND THOSE WHO WANT TO BE HEARD, UM, FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS AT ANY TIME, UH, UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE DOORS ARE OPEN AT ANY TIME.
UM, IF A RESIDENT WALKS IN AND WE ARE NOT HERE, UM, I BELIEVE IT'S BEEN COMMON PRACTICE THAT OUR CLERK OF COUNCIL AND DEPUTY CLERK HAS BEEN ABLE TO CONTACT A COUNCIL MEMBER OR MAYOR.
AND SOMEBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO ARRIVE HERE OR SET A MEETING DATE WITH THAT INDIVIDUAL.
UM, I WILL SAY THIS WHETHER A MANY OF US ON THIS DYESS AGREE OR DISAGREE, UM, UH, IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS, I WILL SAY THAT EVERYBODY ON THIS DIOCESE IS APPROACHABLE.
UM, AND WE'LL HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH ANYBODY AT ANY TIME ON ANY SUBJECT, WHETHER WE AGREE OR DISAGREE.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU CANNOT FIND VERY OFTEN THROUGHOUT THIS COUNTRY.
UM, WHETHER YOU'RE REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT, LIBERTARIAN, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
UM, I MEAN THE OLD SAYING IS THAT POTHOLE IS NOT A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN.
THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE FACING IN THIS COUNTRY ARE NOT DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN THEY'RE PEOPLE ISSUES, THEY'RE HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES, AND WE HAVE TO LISTEN AND WE HAVE TO DO A BETTER JOB, AND WE ARE VOICING THIS COMMUNITY AND THIS REGION AND MR. MAYOR, I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORTS PUTTING THAT TASKFORCE TOGETHER AND BEING HEARD THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
I'M NOT SURE WHY, BUT PHILLIPS CAME OUT OF ALPHA AND YOLANDA AND ERIC'S LAST NAME IS ACTUALLY STEVENS.
SO I DO APOLOGIZE FOR FRICKING YOUR, YOUR LAST NAME WRONG.
UM, YEAH, THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE I WANTED TO FOLLOW UP WITH, BUT I, YEAH, I KNOW.
OH, WELL, THE, UM, I DO WANT TO ADDRESS THE, UH, THE EIGHT POINT PLAN THAT THE NAACP PUT OUT TODAY KIND OF AS A, UH, A PLAN OF DEMAND, SO TO SPEAK.
AND ROB AND I HAD DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT EARLIER, BEING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE A VERY GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH DR FORWARD AND THE DAYTON UNIT NAACP, KNOWING THAT THEY PUT THAT PLAN OUT, KNOWING THAT WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM.
WE'RE CERTAINLY GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT PLAN, ADDRESS THAT WITH THEM AND FIND OUT WHAT WE CAN DO AND WHAT ITEMS IN THAT LIST THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY ADDRESS AND IMPLEMENT IN THE CITY.
SO, UH, WE'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION.
WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT AND, UH, CERTAINLY THOSE, THOSE ITEMS WILL HAPPEN THROUGH PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND, UH, IN A, IN A PUBLIC
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MEETING.AND WE'LL CERTAINLY BE WILLING TO DISCUSS ALL THOSE ITEMS AND SEE WHAT WE CAN IMPLEMENT, WHAT MAKES SENSE FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
BUT WE'RE CERTAINLY GOING TO BE OPEN TO THAT AND LOOKING AT THAT, UM, ABSOLUTELY.
ANY OTHER OFFICIAL REPORTS OR COMMENTS BEFORE WE ADJOURN? YES, MR. SCHUMER, IT JUST CAME TO ME.
UM, I FORGOT IN MY UPDATE, AS YOU KNOW, UH, THERE WAS A, UM, AN EFFORT TO HELP PROVIDE, UM, ASSISTANCE TO WHAT'S CALLED PROJECT AIM AIRMEN IN NEED OF MASKS.
AND THERE WERE SOME, UH, NEARLY 1600 MADE THERE'S ABOUT 15 A MONTH.
I THINK THERE'S ABOUT 30 SEAMSTRESSES IN THE AREA, OR SEEMSTERS MAYBE I SHOULDN'T, UH, SHOULDN'T ASSUME, UM, IN, IN THE AREA AND TODAY THERE WAS ABOUT ANOTHER A HUNDRED THAT WERE DONATED SO THAT, UH, THAT PROJECT CONTINUES.
WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO HAVE A DROPBOX HERE, UH, BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING REGULAR DONATIONS FOR THAT AND, UH, OUR OWN MILITARY AND VETERANS COMMISSION, UH, AND, UH, ACTUALLY MRS. BERG, IF SHE'S ONLINE, SHE'S BEEN COORDINATING WITH, UH, WITH COLONEL JOHNSON AND THEY'VE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING THOSE OUT AND DISTRIBUTED.
SO, UM, BUT SHE HAD ALL THE SUPPORT AND, UM, FOR THAT AND ANOTHER GOOD MARK ON THE COMMUNITY.
THANK YOU, MRS. BIRCH FOR THAT.
AND THANK YOU, COLONEL JOHNSON.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR OFFICIAL REPORTS BEFORE WE ADJOURN THIS EVENING? OKAY.
IT'S NINE OH SEVEN AND THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.