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          WE ARE NOW PUSHING SOUND. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. AND WELCOME TO THE 
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NEW ALBANY CITY COUNCIL MEETING FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER THIRD. I WOULD INVITE EVERYONE TO PLEASE STAND WITH COUNCIL AND RECITE OUR NATIONAL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. CLERK. MASON. THE ROLL, PLEASE, IF COUNCIL WILL TURN ON THEIR MICROPHONES. MAYOR. SPALDING. HERE COUNCIL MEMBER BRISK IS TRAVELING AND IS REQUESTED TO BE EXCUSED. COUNCIL MEMBER. DETRICK. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          FELLOWS. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. KITS HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. SHAW. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER WILTROUT IS OUT DUE TO A FAMILY EMERGENCY AND IS REQUESTED TO BE EXCUSED. ALL RIGHT, I WOULD MOVE THAT. WE EXCUSE THE ABSENCES OF COUNCIL MEMBERS. BRISK AND WILTROUT. SECOND. MAYOR SPALDING. YES COUNCIL MEMBER KITS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. FELLOWS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. DETRICK. YES. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. SHAW. YES. I HAVE FIVE YES VOTES TO EXCUSE. COUNCIL MEMBERS. BRISK AND 
          [4. ACTION ON MINUTES]
WILTROUT FROM TONIGHT'S MEETING. ACTION ON THE MINUTES PRIOR TO TONIGHT'S MEETING, A COPY OF THE PROPOSED MINUTES FROM OUR AUGUST 20TH MEETING WERE DISTRIBUTED TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS TO THE PROPOSED MINUTES? I RECEIVED TWO TYPO CORRECTIONS FROM STAFF. 
          THEY'RE NOT SUBSTANTIVE. IF COUNCIL OR ANYONE ELSE HAS ANY CHANGES. OKAY ALL RIGHT. IF 
          [5. ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS TO THE AGENDA]
THERE'S NO ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS, I WOULD MOVE FOR THEIR ADOPTION BY CONSENSUS. 
          ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS TO THE AGENDA, IS THERE ANY STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS OR COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS TO MAKE ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS TO THE AGENDA? I THINK COUNCIL WILL BE HAPPY TO HEAR THAT. BOTH CITY MANAGER STEFANOFF AND I ARE REQUESTING TO REMOVE THE EXECUTIVE SESSION AS NEITHER OF US NEED IT RIGHT NOW, SO YOU KNOW, WITH COUNCIL MEMBER WILTROUT AND BRISK BEING GONE, WE WERE GOING TO CONSIDER THE IDEA APPLICATIONS, BUT THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE PRESENT FOR THAT. SO WE'LL PUT IT OFF TO THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING. ALL RIGHT. 
          THEN I WOULD MOVE THAT. WE AMEND THE AGENDA FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING TO EXCLUDE THE EXECUTIVE SESSION UNDER ITEM 17. SECOND. THAT MAYOR SPALDING. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER CHARLES. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. DEREK. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. FELLOWS YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. KIS. YES. I HAVE FIVE YES VOTES TO AMEND THE AGENDA TO REMOVE THE EXECUTIVE SESSIONS. AND EVERYONE'S PROBABLY WONDERING WHY DO WE HAVE SUCH A STRONG POLICE PRESENCE AT TONIGHT'S MEETING, IT'S A GREAT 
          [6. HEARING OF VISITORS]
OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO, PAY SOME RECOGNITION AND TRIBUTE TO ONE OF OUR FINE OFFICERS WHO WHO DOES AN OUTSTANDING JOB AT EVERYTHING THAT HE DOES, BUT IN PARTICULAR, SOME OF THE WORK THAT HE'S DONE AROUND CHILD AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING. SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR FRIENDS FROM HOMELAND SECURITY TO COME UP AND GIVE A PRESENTATION. ACTUALLY OKAY. 
          GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS MATTHEW STENTS, AND I'M AN ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE WITH HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS. AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME SPEAK TO YOU TONIGHT ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR US, AS WELL AS YOU ALL IN THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY. SO HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS, WE SUBSCRIBE TO THE MANTRA OF WE WORK LOCAL AND WE THINK LOCAL, WE CAN'T DO WHAT WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS WITHOUT THE PARTNERSHIPS WITH OUR COMMUNITIES, EVERYTHING THAT WE INVESTIGATE, FROM CYBER CRIMES TO FINANCIAL CRIMES TO NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING, WE WORK LOCAL. WE THINK GLOBAL. AND THE RELATIONSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH THE NEW ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SPECIFICALLY WITH OUR TASK FORCE OFFICERS, IT'S THE GLUE THAT BINDS US TOGETHER. AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, YOU KNOW, TALK TO YOU ALL ABOUT THESE PARTNERSHIPS. YOU KNOW, WE LIKE TO DO IT ON A REGULAR BASIS. BUT EVEN THIS NIGHT IN PARTICULAR, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO RECOGNIZE OFFICER JAKE STEINBRUCK, WE HAVE TASK FORCE. WE COVER ALL OF MICHIGAN AND OHIO AND WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF TASK FORCE OFFICERS IN THE STATES. AND EVERY YEAR WE PICK ONE FROM MICHIGAN AND ONE FROM OHIO TO RECOGNIZE AS THE BEST OF THAT YEAR. AND THIS YEAR, UNANIMOUS WAS OFFICER JAKE STEINBRUCK, FOR HIS WORK SPECIFICALLY IN CRIMES, CYBER CRIMES, AND SPECIFICALLY CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN, THERE'S NO GREATER CALLING FOR US THAN WHEN WE INVESTIGATE THESE CRIMES. AND JAKE, EXEMPLIFIES THAT, THROUGH 
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HIS DILIGENT EFFORTS, THROUGH HIS ABILITY TO WORK LOCAL AND THINK GLOBAL AND BASICALLY HELPING US TO ENSURE THAT THE PEOPLE, IN NEW ALBANY, THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF OHIO AND THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY ARE PROTECTED. SO IT'S BECAUSE OF HIS WORK. IT'S BECAUSE OF HIS EXPERTISE. IT'S BECAUSE OF HIS PARTNERSHIP AND HIS COMMITMENT AND BEING THE GLUE THAT BINDS US ALL TOGETHER IS GREAT. AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS AWARD IS, IS SOMETHING SO OBVIOUSLY IN MICHIGAN AND OHIO, YOU KNOW, THE HOME OF THE AUTO INDUSTRY, AND IT'S THE PISTON THAT DRIVES THE ENGINE. AND WITHOUT THE PISTON, THE ENGINE DOESN'T WORK. SO IT'S FITTING THAT WHEN WE RECOGNIZE OUR TASK FORCE OFFICER OF THE YEAR FOR THE STATE OF OHIO, OFFICER JAKE STEINBRUCK, THAT IT'S THE PISTON BECAUSE IT'S THE PISTON THAT DRIVES THE ENGINE AND THAT KEEPS US GOING. SO WITH THIS, I'D LIKE TO PRESENT OFFICER JAKE STEINBRUCK. AS THE TASK FORCE OFFICER OF THE YEAR FROM THE NEW ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT. OFFICER. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO WE ARE VERY PROUD IN NEW ALBANY TO BE, LOOKED AT ACROSS OUR STATE AS BEING LEADERS IN A VARIETY OF CATEGORIES. AND SO IT'S NO SURPRISE TO SOME OF US THAT THIS DESIGNATION HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ONE OF OUR OWN POLICE OFFICERS. BUT, JAKE, LET ME LET ME ALSO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK YOUR FAMILY. THIS IS TOUGH WORK, AND I KNOW YOU'VE HAD TO TRAVEL A LONG DISTANCE AT TIMES TO DO THE JOB THAT YOU DO, CERTAINLY SOME VERY TOUGH SITUATIONS THAT NONE OF US WOULD WANT TO BE IN. BUT THANK YOU FOR DOING WHAT YOU DO FOR PROTECTING YOUNG PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE AN ADVOCATE, THAT DON'T HAVE A SHIELD IN BLUE, IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD TO PROTECT THEM. SO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR THIS DESIGNATION. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER COMMENTS REGARDING TONIGHT'S PRESENTATIO? GO AHEAD. I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU, JAKE, FOR REALLY OUTSTANDING EFFORT PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN AND CHILDREN ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AS SLOANE SAID, SOMEBODY WHO CAN'T TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. AND IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT YOU AND THE QUALITY OF WORK THAT YOU DO FOR US EVERY DAY, AS DO ALL THE OTHER OFFICERS IN THIS ROOM. AND DISPATCHERS. WE APPRECIATE YOU ALL VERY, VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CHIEF JONES, YOU'D LIKE TO SAY A THING OR TWO, AND THEN MAYBE WE CAN BRING ALL THE OFFICERS UP FOR JUST A QUICK GROUP PHOTO. YEAH, WELL, WE, WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT SURPRISED. WE'RE VERY PROUD OF JAKE, BUT NOT SURPRISED. YOU KNOW, WE. 
          WHEN WE HIRED HIM, IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT HE WAS A VERY TALENTED INDIVIDUAL. HE CAME TO US WITH SOME, WITH SOME SKILLS WHICH MANY OF US DON'T HAVE. AND AS FAR AS TECHNOLOGY AND, YOU KNOW, HE BASICALLY TOOK THAT, VOLUNTEERED TO GO TO AN ICAC INVESTIGATION COURSE. INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. AND IT REALLY KIND OF BLEW UP FROM THERE. AND HE'S BEEN A HE'S BEEN A REAL FORCE, IN NEW ALBANY AND OBVIOUSLY BEYOND IN REGARDS TO ICAC INVESTIGATIONS. AND WE COULDN'T BE PROUDER FOR HIS WOR. YEAH. THAT'S AWESOME. ALL RIGHT. WELL COME ON UP. LET'S GET A PICTURE WITH THAT GREAT TROPHY. AND THEN, HAVE YOUR WIFE AND KID HAVE YOUR WIFE AND KIDS COME IN, TOO, FOR A PICTURE. KIDS. THE KIDS ARE BUSY. YEAH THEY'RE DONE. BUSY. GIVE THEM SNACKS. 
          THAT'S A NICE RECOMMENDATION, MIKE. I WANT TO THANK MEGAN FOR SENDING ME THE PICTURE WITH THE PUPPY DOG IN IT. 
          THAT'S AWESOME. FAMILY PHOTO. ALL RIGHT, WELL, AS AS I ALWAYS LIKE TO SAY, IF THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO DO WITH THE REST OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL EVENING, YOU'RE FREE TO FREE TO GO. OR YOU CAN COME UP FOR A BIG TEAM PHOTO. CHIEF JONES, WANT TO DO THE, YOU KNOW, THE PYTHON 
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CEREMONY? JAKE, I THINK I KNOW THE ANSWER, BUT DO YOU WANT TO SAY A COUPLE WORDS? OH, YEAH, I HAVE IT HERE. YEAH, IT'S TOTALLY UP TO, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO SAY, OBVIOUSLY THANK YOU TO MY WIFE AND FOR HER PATIENCE. THANK YOU TO AGENCY. AND THEN, OBVIOUSLY, THANK YOU TO MY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND MY CITY FOR ALL THE SUPPORT, IT'S NOT JUST ME. IT SAYS NEW ALBANY ON HERE FOR A REASON. AND THAT'S BECAUSE EVERYBODY HERE SUPPORTS ME AND HELPS ME GET THE CASES DONE. SO THANK YOU EVERYONE. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. THANK YOU JAKE. SLIDE SLIDES. ALRIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. IT'S ALL DOWNHILL. I KNOW WE GOT CONFIRMATION. WE'RE GOOD. 
          WE COULD PUT IT UP. IT'S GOING. TO. DIFFERENT IT'S A DIFFERENT. YEAH ALL RIGHT. ALSO UNDER HEARING AND VISITORS, WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING SEPTEMBER AS HUNGER ACTION MONTH, WE HAVE SOME GREAT PARTNERS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT HELP WITH THE ISSUES OF FOOD INSECURITY. NOT ONLY FOR MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, BUT FOLKS THAT LIVE AROUND US, ALSO, THE STUDENTS THAT ATTEND OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT ARE FACING THESE ISSUES AS WELL. SO IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE THE GREAT WORK THAT OUR PARTNERS DO TO ADDRESS THOSE IMPORTANT ISSUES IMPACTING OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. WHEREAS HUNGER ACTION MONTH IS A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN THAT REMINDS US THAT THERE ARE THOSE WHO NEED THE HELP OF KIND SOULS WITH OPEN HANDS, AND THERE ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH RESOURCES IN THE WORLD FOR ALL OF US TO EAT. WHEREAS THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY PARTNERS WITH THE HEALTHY NEW ALBANY FOOD PANTRY AND IS COMMITTED TO HELPING THEM RAISE AWARENESS THAT FOOD INSECURITY EXISTS IN SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND IS ON THE RISE. WHEREAS THIS YEAR, THE HEALTHY NEW ALBANY FOOD PANTRY SUMMER MEALS PROGRAM PROVIDED 35% MORE MEALS TO 25% MORE STUDENTS IN NEED COMPARED TO THE SUMMER OF 2023. AND BY PARTNERING WITH THE GARDEN FOR ALL MORE PRODUCE WAS DISTRIBUTED TO FAMILIES THIS YEAR AS WELL. 
          WHEREAS FOR EVERY DOLLAR DONATED, THE HEALTHY NEW ALBANY FOOD PANTRY IS ABLE TO PURCHASE NEARLY $5 WORTH OF GROCERIES AND SUPPLIES FROM THE MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE, AND THE PANTRY ACCEPTS PERSONAL CARE ITEMS AND PAPER PRODUCTS, INCLUDING SHAMPOO, BODY LOTION AND PAPER TOWELS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. AND WHEREAS THE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF FOOD INSECURITY THROUGH FOOD DRIVES, PARTNERSHIPS, COLLECTIONS WITH THE SCHOOLS, AND SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT WHAT THEY CAN DO TO HELP OUR NEIGHBORS IN NEED. 
          WHEREAS YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN HUNGER ACTION MONTH BY EDUCATING OTHERS ABOUT HUNGER IN OUR COMMUNITY, STARTING A FUNDRAISE, VOLUNTEERING YOUR TIME AT THE LOCAL FOOD PANTRY AND BY DONATING TO NEIGHBORHOOD PANTRIES INCLUDING THE HEALTHY NEW ALBANY FOOD PANTRY. NOW, THEREFORE, I, SLOANE SPALDING, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY, COUNTIES OF FRANKLIN AND LICKING, STATE OF OHIO. ON BEHALF OF THE COUNCIL AND OUR RESIDENTS, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AS HUNGER ACTION MONTH IN THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY. THANK YOU AGAIN TO OUR PARTNERS. I THINK WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE FOOD PANTRY AND FROM THE GARDEN FOR ALL WITH US THIS EVENING. AND IF YOU'LL STEP UP AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF IN THE MICROPHONE FOR THE STREAMING AUDIENCE AND ALSO FOR THE MINUTES. YEAH. HI. MY NAME IS ANGIE O'HARA, AND I'M WITH THE FOOD PANTRY. YEP. HI. I'M SEAN DUFFY, CO-FOUNDER OF THE GARDEN FOR ALL, ALONG WITH MY WIFE, CATHERINE DUFFY, WE'RE IN OUR FIFTH GROWING SEASON. WE GROW ON THE GROUNDS AT ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH. WE'VE ALREADY GROWN 8,100 POUNDS OF FRESH, ORGANIC PRODUCE THIS SEASON, ALL SUPPORTED BY JUST AMAZING COMMUNITY AND A HUGE SET OF VOLUNTEERS. SO IT'S REALLY GREAT TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT NEW ALBANY AS WELL AS GAHANNA WITH FRESH PRODUCE. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. THANK YOU. AND THAT GARDEN IS BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU AND THANKS FOR ALL THE WORK, THE FOOD PANTRY. IT'S ALWAYS AMAZING TO GO AND VISIT AND SEE THE PEOPLE THAT YOU GET TO IMPACT EVERY DAY. THANK YOU, YOU CAN TELL THE FOLKS THAT ARE THERE REALLY RELYING ON THE PANTRY FOR GETTING THEM OVER THE HUMP OR JUST HELPING THEM BE SUSTAINABLE. SO THANK YOU FOR 
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EVERYTHING. YOU DO MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR RECOGNITION. 
          OKAY. WE'RE STILL UNDER HEARING OF VISITORS. SO IS THERE ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS AN ISSUE? NOT ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA. WE HAVE THREE VISITORS, AND I WROTE THEM IN ORDER THAT THEY SIGNED IN. ALL RIGHT. IT LOOKS LIKE GREG MANTOR. DID I GET THAT NAME RIGHT? GREG, YOU'RE UP FIRST. OH, GOOD EVENING, SIR. HOW ARE YOU? COME ON UP. IF YOU'LL GIVE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS GREG MANTOR, 6401 KITZMILLER ROAD. 
          I'M HERE WITH JOYCE BROWNING, WHO ALSO LIVES THERE, I OBVIOUSLY PICKED THE WRONG EVENING TO COME HERE. WE'RE GIVING AWARDS OUT, AND WE'RE GIVING MORE AWARDS OUT. AND THEN I COME UP HERE WITH AN ISSUE. SO I HATE TO BE THE DEBBIE DOWNER, BUT THAT'S THE WAY IT TURNED OUT, I JUST FOUND OUT ON AUGUST 30TH. WELL, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO BUILD A HOUSE OVER ON KITZMILLER ROAD 601. KITZMILLER ROAD FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF OR TWO. NOW AND I KEEP RUNNING INTO ROADBLOCKS. ONE ROADBLOCK WAS AT FIRST THEY SAID IT WAS A MAJOR SUBDIVISION, AND I HAD TO DONATE 20% OF THE LAND PUT IN THE ROAD RIGHT OF WAY, PUT IN STREET LIGHTING, PUT IN BERMS, PUT IN CURBS, PUT IN A LEISURE TRAIL AND OTHER THINGS. A LOT OF THAT IS GONE. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT ARE LEFT. ONE IS THE TREES. BIG DEAL. ONE IS A LEISURE TRAIL, THE LEISURE TRAIL IS INTERESTING. I'M ALL. I'M ALL FOR LEISURE TRAILS, IN FACT, WHEN THIS COMMUNITY VERY FIRST STARTED, I WENT AROUND AND USED OUR HOUSE AND OTHER PLACES, PROMOTING BEN HALE AND OTHERS TO GET LEISURE TRAILS IN AND HAVE IT DONE RIGHT. SO IT'S NOT THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THEM. I TALKED TO A FEW OF MY NEIGHBORS THAT JUST BUILT NEW HOMES, AND THEY WERE REQUIRED TO PUT IN. 
          THEY COULDN'T PUT IN A NATURE TRAIL. THEY WERE REQUIRED TO GIVE MONEY IN LIEU OF. AND THEY ASKED, WELL, NOW WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT LIVE ON THIS ROAD? DO THEY HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE BEEN LIVING HERE? DO THEY HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE FOR A LEISURE TRAIL? AND THE ANSWER IS NO. THEY'VE ALREADY LIVED HERE. THEY THEY DIDN'T JUST PUT UP A NEW HOME. THEY JUST THEY ALREADY LIVED HERE. SO SINCE THEY'VE BEEN LIVING HERE ALL THESE YEARS AND THEY PAY IN TAXES, THEY DON'T HAVE TO. WELL, I'VE BEEN LIVING ON THAT ROAD NOW FOR 25 YEARS. 22 OR 3 OF THEM ACROSS THE STREET FROM WHERE I AM NOW, AND 2 OR 3 YEARS WHERE I, WHERE I CURRENTLY LIVE, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MADE SENSE TO ANYBODY OR NOT, BUT IT THIS GUY, MY NEIGHBOR WHO I HAVE NO REASON TO DISTRUST, SAID HE HAD TO BECAUSE HE JUST BOUGHT THE LAND, PUT UP A NEW HOUSE, BUT EVERYBODY ELSE THERE. BUT NOW I'VE BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR 20 SOME YEARS, SO I WONDER WHY, IF I'M GOING TO PUT UP A DIFFERENT HOME THAN WHAT'S THERE. AND IT'S THE LAND ISN'T CHANGING TITLE. 
          IT'S ALL ONE ONE LAND. AND I'M TRYING TO GET RID OF A NOT AS NICE HOUSE, PUT UP A BETTER HOUSE, GET RID OF AN UNSIGHTLY BARN, IMPROVE THE TAXES, NOT PUT ANY CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL. AND I KEEP GETTING SETBACKS, I'M TOLD NOW THAT AS FOR A LEISURE TRAIL, THERE'S TWO CHOICES. YOU CAN PUT ONE IN. OR YOU CAN GIVE US THE MONEY IN LIEU OF. BUT THEN I FIND OUT YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO PUT ONE IN BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO STIPULATIONS, APPARENTLY, IN THE CODE THAT, SAY, ONE OF THEM SAYS IF IT'S TOPOGRAPHICAL AND THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH THE TOPOGRAPHY, THEN YOU CAN'T PUT ONE IN. OR IF THERE ARE NONE ON THE ROAD ANYWHERE NEAR YOU WHERE YOU LIVE. AND IF THERE ARE NO PLANS FOR ONE IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WHICH THIS IS CERTAINLY THE CASE AND I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT BY THE CITY. AND I ALSO LOOKED AT THE PLANS IN THE CITY AND IT SAYS THERE'S NO PLANS FOR A TRAIL ON THAT ROAD, WHICH MEANS I HAVE A CHOICE OF EITHER PUTTING IT IN OR GIVING YOU THE MONEY, BUT I'M NOT ALLOWED TO PUT IT IN. SO THAT MEANS I HAVE TO GIVE YOU THE MONEY. BUT TO GIVE YOU THE MONEY, I HAVE TO APPLY FOR PERMISSION TO GIVE YOU THE MONEY TO ASK, TO BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU FOR MONEY, FOR A TRAIL THAT I CAN'T PUT IN. NOW IF YOU CAN MAKE SENSE OF THAT, I HOPE ONE OF YOU WILL DO THAT FOR ME. YOU SAY I HAVE TO GIVE YOU THE MONEY, BUT I HAVE TO APPLY TO DO IT. AND WHEN I APPLIED TO DO IT, I HAVE TO IT HAS TO GO THROUGH DIFFERENT STEPS AND PEOPLE HAVE TO APPROVE THIS AND THAT. AND THE OTHER THING, I'M HAVING I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU CAN PUT IT IN, BUT YOU CAN'T. YOU HAVE TO GIVE US MONEY, BUT YOU CAN'T GIVE US MONEY UNLESS YOU ASK TO GIVE US MONEY. AND LET ME SEE. WE BETTER GO THROUGH MY NOTES. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I DON'T MISS TOO MANY THINGS. SO I'M PAYING FOR SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EXIST AND WON'T EXIST. I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND THAT. IF YOU HAD A DAUGHTER THAT WAS IN SCHOOL AND GOING ON A FIELD TRIP, BUT SHE'S NOT ALLOWED TO GO, SHE'S NOT GOING ON THE FIELD TRIP. BUT THE REST OF THE CLASS IS. BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR HER TO GO AND SAY, WELL, WHY? AND 
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THEY GO, WELL, THE REST OF THEM ARE GOING, SO YOU GOT TO PAY. SO OKAY, I GET IT, THE FEE IN LIEU OF HAS TO BE THE FEE IN LIEU OF HAS TO BE APPROVED. WHAT I'M GETTING AT HERE, EVERY I HAVE TO REQUEST TO PAY A FEE AND THEN, I HAVE TO GO ASK FOR PERMISSION TO GIVE THE MONEY. I HAVE TO GET. I HAVE TO GET THREE QUOTES. ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS GOT THREE QUOTES. THE CITY PICKED THE MOST EXPENSIVE ONE. I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING. LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE AM I MISSING HERE? OH, I LIKE THIS. I HAVE FIVE ACRES I WAS GOING TO PUT UP A HOUSE AND TEAR DOWN THE OLD. WELL, IF YOU TEAR DOWN THE OLD HOUSE, YOU HAVE TO DO A LEISURE TRAIL FOR THE WHOLE FRONTAGE OF THE WHOLE PROPERTY. BUT IF YOU BUILD A HOME AND DON'T TEAR DOWN THE OTHER ONE AND DIVIDE IT AND SELL IT OFF, THEN YOU ONLY HAVE TO PUT IN A LEISURE TRAIL FOR THE NEW ONE WHERE YOU'RE BUILDING IT. NOW THERE'S ANOTHER ONE I DON'T I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND. I KEEP THE SAME PROPERTY. I PUT A DIFFERENT HOUSE ON IT, AND I HAVE TO DO A LEISURE TRAIL 430FT LONG. I DIVIDE THE LAND. I LEAVE THE ONE THERE THAT IS THERE, SELL IT OFF. I PUT IN A DIFFERENT HOUSE, STILL ON THE SAME LOT, STILL UNDER MY NAME. AND I HAVE TO DO A LEISURE TRAIL FOR JUST THAT PART OF IT. TO ME THAT'S A LITTLE CONVOLUTED IN HOW THAT WORKS OUT, LET ME SEE. WHAT ELSE HAVE I GOT HERE. OH, I CAN'T I'M NOT ALLOWED TO GET A PERMIT, ANY OF THE PERMITS TO BUILD UNTIL I HAVE PAID THE LEISURE TRAIL FEE THAT I HAVE TO APPLY TO ASK TO GIVE THE MONEY FOR. AND SO I CAN'T GET A PERMIT TO BUILD UNTIL I GIVE YOU THE MONEY. I HAVE TO ASK TO GIVE YOU THE MONEY. AND IF THE PERMITS DIDN'T COME THROUGH AFTER I'VE GIVEN YOU THE MONEY, THERE IS NO STIPULATION THAT SAYS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MONEY THAT I GAVE YOU. IF I GIVE YOU X AMOUNT OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND THEN THE PERMITS DON'T COME THROUGH, I HAD TO GIVE YOU THE MONEY BEFORE I CAN GET THE PERMIT. SO HE KEEPS THE MONEY. IF I CAN'T GET THE PERMIT FOR SOME REASON, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT REASON WOULD BE. BUT THAT'S THE WAY IT IS. OH. LET'S SEE, I'VE LIVED ON THE ROAD 25 YEARS. I EXPLAINED THAT ALREADY, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO. OH, HERE WAS A THOUGHT. I CAN'T IMAGINE THIS WOULD EVER FLY, BUT IT'S ALWAYS WORTH A TRY. AND THAT IS THERE ISN'T ONE ON THE ROAD. IF THERE IS EVER ONE ON THE ROAD, EVER. I WILL BE HAPPY TO PAY MY SHARE. TO PAY FOR IT WHEN IT'S THERE. AND IF IT ABUTS MY LAND AND I WILL PUT IN THE DEED THAT I HAVE TO DO IT, AND I WILL PUT IN THE DEED OF WHOEVER BUYS THE LAND THAT THEY HAVE TO DO THAT, THAT IF THERE EVER IS ONE, THERE WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO CONTRIBUTE OUR FAIR SHARE. TO ME THAT COMES DOWN TO I JUST KIND OF MAKES SENSE TO ME. I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S GOING TO FLY BECAUSE THERE'S CODES OR WHATEVER, SO I THINK WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET AT IS I'D LIKE TO SEE COMMON SENSE PREVAIL AND SAY, WHY DOES THIS GUY HAVE TO APPLY FOR A FEE TO GIVE US MONEY, AND HE HAS TO GIVE IT TO US BEFORE WE CAN GET A PERMIT? AND. ET CETERA. ET CETERA. I DON'T WANT TO BE TOO REDUNDANT. AND WHEN IT COMES TO WORKING WITH PEOPLE, THERE'S A PHRASE FROM MILITARY THAT MY DAD RAN AT ME ALL THE TIME IS AS RH AND RH HERE, AND I'M SURE YOU KNOW IT, IT'S RANK HAS ITS PRIVILEGES. RANK HAS ITS RESPONSIBILITIES. SO I HOPE THE PEOPLE THAT WORK AT NEW ALBANY WILL SAY, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A RESPONSIBILITY TO HAVE SOME GOOD SENSE AND WE'VE BEEN AT THIS FOR A YEAR AND A HALF. WE'RE GETTING OLD. WE'D LOVE TO JUST BUILD A HOUSE. SO I'D LIKE TO KNOW ANYTHING THAT I CAN DO TO TALK TO ANYBODY. ANY WAY TO EXPEDITE THIS SO THAT WE CAN JUST BUILD A HOUSE AND LIVE IN IT AND INCREASE THE TAXES. I'M GOING TO SHUT UP NOW. I'VE DONE MORE THAN ENOUGH TALKING, AND I'D LOVE TO HEAR ANYTHING YOU'VE GOT TO SAY. COULD I JUST ASK THE QUESTION OF ADMINISTRATION? THIS. THERE'S AN EXISTING HOUSE ON THE PROPERTY. YES. OKAY YOUR ONE OPTION OR CHOICE IS TO TEAR THAT DOWN AND PUT IN A NEW HOUSE. YES. YOU'RE NOT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF HOUSES ON THE LOTS. JUST ONE HOUSE, CORRECT. SO I UNDERSTAND WHEN THERE'S NEW BUILD ON EMPTY PROPERTY THAT WE HAVE THE LEISURE TRAIL, ISSUE THAT EXISTS WHEN SOMEBODY WANTS TO PUT A NEW HOUSE ON AN EXISTING PROPERTY, JUST REPLACING WHAT'S ALREADY THERE. IS THAT WHAT THE CODE SAYS? YES OKAY. I GOT A QUESTION, SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A STUDY ONGOING, IN THE 62 TRIANGLE CORRIDOR WE'RE CALLING IT, WHICH INCLUDES KITZMILLER AREA. AND I KNOW WE HAVE A POTENTIAL PROPOSED PARK IN 
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KITZMILLER ROAD DOWN THE STREET. I'M ASSUMING THAT IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT PARK, WOULD WE NOT PUT A TRAIL IN DOWN KITZMILLER TO GET TO THAT PARK? CORRECT YES. OKAY. SO I DO THINK THERE'S PROBABLY AT SOME POINT GOING TO BE AN ASK FOR A TRAIL DOWN KITZMILLER IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, AT LEAST CLARIFYING THAT I DO THINK THAT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE HAPPENING. I KNOW THAT DOESN'T ADDRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS, BUT JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, I DO THINK THAT IS GOING TO BE PART. NOW. I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT PLAYS INTO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. RIGHT NOW. I KNOW ABOUT THE PARK, AND IT HAS BEEN SCHEDULED FOR SOME PERIOD OF TIME AND, I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY IDEAS AS TO WHEN THAT WOULD BE DONE. AND, I JUST LOOKED AT THE PLAN THAT THE CITY HAS FOR, FOR PUTTING A TRAIL IN, NOT FOR THE PARK, JUST FOR THAT. AND IT SAID, WE HAVE IT SAID THERE'S NO PLANS FOR ONE. SO I UNDERSTAND THAT IF THERE IS A PARK, THEY WOULD PROBABLY WANT A TRAIL THERE. I GET THAT, AND THAT'S ANOTHER REASON I WOULD SAY, OKAY, IF THERE'S A TRAIL THERE AND THERE'S ONE ON THE ROAD, I'LL WRITE YOU A CHECK. YEAH SO YEAH, COUNCIL MEMBER SCHOLL IS CORRECT. I MEAN, WE DID, YOU KNOW, AND AS YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A PARK PLANNED FOR THAT AREA FOR A WHILE, WE WERE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE TAYLOR FARM PROPERTY. AND SO  PRIORITY OVERE KITZMILLER SITE, JUST BECAUSE OF THE TRANSACTION THAT IT WAS INVOLVED IN. BUT WE'D LIKE TO GET BACK TO KITZMILLER PARK, IN THE NEAR FUTURE, AND IF THERE IS A TRAIL JUST BASED ON THE HOMES ON THE, ON THE PROPERTY AND THE FACT THAT THE PARK IS ON THAT SIDE OF THE STREET, IT WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BE ON THE EAST SIDE. BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE COULD ASK STAFF TO WORK WITH YOU DIRECTLY TO, TO TALK ABOUT THAT. YOUR SUGGESTION THAT IF THERE IS A TRAIL CONNECTION ON KITZMILLER AND THERE'S A DEED RESTRICTION REQUIRING, THE HOMEOWNER TO CONSTRUCT A PATH THAT THAT BE PART OF THE DEED RESTRICTION, TO ALLOW FOR PERMITTING TO PROCEED, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE DONE THAT IN THE PAST. SO I'M KIND OF SPEAKING OUT OF TURN IF STAFF HAVE ALLOWED THAT FOR, FOR THAT TO HAPPEN IN THE PAST. BUT THIS IS SORT OF A UNIQUE SITUATION HOPEFULLY. YOU KNOW, WE'VE WORKED CAREFULLY WITH YOU AND A COUPLE OF OTHER LANDOWNERS REGARDING THESE UNIQUE LOTS AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BUILD A NEW HOUSE. SO THAT'S WE'VE MADE SOME PROGRESS IN YOUR QUEST TO DO TO DO THAT PROJECT. THIS IS PROBABLY JUST THE LAST POINT OF FRUSTRATION TO GET THE TO GET THE THING DONE. SO IF, IF WHAT YOU JUST SAID WOULD, WOULD COME TRUE, OKAY. I WOULD BE ELATED. I COULD GO AHEAD AND GET PERMITS. I COULD START BUILDING A HOUSE AFTER THIS YEAR AND A HALF OR TWO THAT'S GONE BY. AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO HAVE IT IN THE DEED. I WOULD I WOULD BE HAPPY WITH ALL OF THAT. OKAY. WELL, LET'S LET'S SEE IF WE CAN IF THAT'S A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. AND IF NOT, THEN WE'LL SEE YOU IN A MONTH. AND WE CAN WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT IN SOME WAY. WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT IN SOME MORE DETAIL. IS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL? NO YEAH. I GUESS I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT THE PROCESS, YOU KNOW, FROM MY OWN KNOWLEDGE, AND I'M ASSUMING THAT THE PERMIT WOULD HIS BUILDING PERMIT WOULD BE APPROVED. HE JUST WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO IT WOULDN'T BE ISSUED UNTIL HE PAID THE FEE IN LIEU. LIKE I'M SAYING, HE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE TO PAY THIS BEFORE YOU EVEN START THE PERMITTING PROCESS LIKE THAT. PERMIT IS SITTING HERE WAITING FOR YOU TO PULL IT, BUT YOU CAN'T PULL THE FINAL PERMIT UNTIL THE FEE IS PAID. AM I UNDERSTANDING THAT CORRECTLY? YEAH. WE COULD REVIEW THE PERMIT AND NOT ISSUE IT. RIGHT. BUT BEING THAT THE LEISURE TRAIL. EXCUSE ME, THE LEISURE TRAIL CONSTRUCTION IS A CODE REQUIREMENT THAT VARIANCE FROM THE CODE WOULD NEED APPROVED PRIOR TO US ISSUING A PERMIT THAT SHOWS THE LEISURE TRAIL NOT BEING CONSTRUCTED IN THE CODE REQUIRES THAT COUNCIL HAS TO APPROVE THE FEE IN LIEU, OTHERWISE THE TRAIL COULD BE CONSTRUCTED BASED ON MY RECOLLECTION OF THE CODE, I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND REVIEW THE CODE. IT'S BEEN SOME TIME SINCE I'VE LAST LOOKED AT IT, BUT MY RECOLLECTION IS THAT THE CODE LANGUAGE REQUIRES COUNCIL AUTHORIZATION TO DO THE FEE IN LIEU OF THE TRAIL RIGHT, AND THOSE COME UP PERIODICALLY, AND THE APPLICATION FOR YOU TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PAY THE FEE IN LIEU IS NOT JUST THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO PAY IT, BUT IS IT IS TO FOR US TO APPROVE THAT. THAT IS AN OPTION. 
          AND IT'S NOT THAT YOU AND I DON'T KNOW, I MEAN, I DON'T I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE PROPERTY. 
          AND IF THERE ARE, IF STAFF IS TELLING THEM TO NOT BUILD THIS PATH RIGHT NOW, LIKE IF YOU PHYSICALLY SAID, I WANT TO PUT 400FT OF LEISURE PATH IN FRONT OF THIS BRAND NEW HOUSE, ARE WE SAYING NO? I MEAN, I'LL HAVE TO TALK TO OUR STAFF. YEAH. SO I, I GUESS I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT I'M 
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ONLY SPEAKING ACCORDING TO WHAT I WAS SENT IN AN EMAIL AND IT SAID THERE ARE TWO REASONS THAT YOU CANNOT. AND ONE OF THEM IS, IF THERE IS NONE IN THE AREA ON THE ROAD, NONE IN THE AREA, AND THERE ARE NO PLANS FOR ONE IN THE NEAR FUTURE, AND FOR THAT, FOR THOSE REASONS, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PUT ONE IN. YEAH. SO YOU HAVE TO GO MONEY. WELL, AND THAT'S WHY I GUESS WE'D HAVE TO DO SOME DUE DILIGENCE ON THIS SPECIFIC PROPERTY BECAUSE MY I WANT A LEISURE PATH IN FRONT OF EVERY PROPERTY AND ALONG ALL THE ROADS. AND TYPICALLY WHEN ONE COMES THEN OTHER PROPERTIES, WHETHER THEY ARE REQUIRED TO BY CODE OR NOT, WILL, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE TO TURN THEM IN. BUT IF THAT'S THE FIRST ONE ON THAT ROAD AND THERE'S NOTHING ADJACENT TO IT CURRENTLY, THEN HOPEFULLY AS THE PROPERTIES TURN OVER OR GET REMODELED, THEN THE, YOU KNOW, THE PATH GROWS, SO I GUESS THAT'S THE INTENTION OF THE CODE AS IT IS, NOW, IF THERE'S A SPECIFIC REASON THAT YOU CAN'T BUILD IT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOT EASEMENT OR TOPOGRAPHY, WHATEVER, THEN THAT'S A SPECIFIC CASE. BUT I GUESS THE, THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CODE IS WE WANT, YOU KNOW, AS PROPERTIES TURN OVER. I MEAN, IF YOU TEAR YOUR CURRENT HOUSE HAS KNOB AND TUBE ELECTRIC WHEN YOU REBUILD IT, WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU PUT KNOB INTO ELECTRIC BACK IN THE NEW HOUSE BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE CURRENT CODE. SO AS SOON AS THAT HOUSE GOES DOWN, IT'S A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME AND IT HAS TO BE BROUGHT TO CURRENT CODES. SO THAT WOULD BE THE LOGIC WHETHER YOU TEAR THE HOUSE DOWN OR IN THE NEW PROPERTY AND THEN BUILD THE NEW ONE. I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE CONVOLUTED THAT YOU'D HAVE TO PUT IT IN FRONT OF THE NEW HOME AND NOT THE EXISTING HOME, BUT THAT'S GRANDFATHERED IN VERSUS IT'S A NEW PROPERTY AND IT FALLS UNDER THE NEW REQUIREMENT. SO THE YOU KNOW, AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE RUNNING INTO. AND WE WORKED TO TRY TO EASE SOME OF YOUR OTHER PAIN. AND YOU HAVE, SO ESPECIALLY THE ONE ABOUT DONATING 20% OF MY LAND. EXACTLY YES. YOU KNOW, WE REALIZE THAT THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A LOOPHOLE IN THE CODE. AND WE HAVE DONE, YOU KNOW, A LOT TO RECTIFY THAT. YEAH, I JUST WANT YOU KNOW, WHERE THE PRINCIPLE OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE LEISURE PATH IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ALWAYS PERFECT, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE OLDER PROPERTIES GET THE LEISURE PATH IN FRONT OF. AND IF WE HAVE TO DO IT ONE PIECE AT A TIME, I UNDERSTAND THAT I'M HAPPY TO HAVE LEISURE TRAILS DONE IN FRONT OF THE PLACE WHEN IT'S TIME. YEAH AND THAT'S FINE WITH ME. AND LIKE I SAID, I'M HAPPY TO PUT IT IN THE DEED. I'LL PUT IT IN THE DEED TO WHOEVER OWNS THE PROPERTY AT THE TIME, I'M GAME FOR ALL OF THAT. YEAH I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH ANY OF THAT, I JUST I JUST WANT TO. I REALLY JUST WANT TO GET STARTED. I JUST WANT TO FINALLY GET HOMES OFF. 
          SO. SO EITHER SOLUTION, EITHER A PAYMENT IN LIEU OF PAY, A PAYMENT IN LIEU OF CONSTRUCTING THE LEISURE TRAIL, OR A DEED RESTRICTION WOULD STILL NEED TO HAVE COUNCIL APPROVAL, SO LET'S TALK TO STAFF AND SEE IF WHICH OF THOSE OPTIONS ARE VIABLE. AND THEN WE'LL TAKE THIS UP AT AN UPCOMING MEETING AND DECIDE HOW WE WANT TO APPROACH IT. BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU GREG. ALL RIGHT. NEXT ON OUR SPEAKERS LIST IS JASON. JASON. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR SPALDING. AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. I AM SORT OF OPPOSITE OF THE LAST PRESENTATION. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME DEVELOPMENT, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A WORKSHOP COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER THAT COUNCIL, SOME OF YOU OR ALL OF YOU WILL BE PART OF. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A LOT OF ADVOCATES FOR TSALI STREET, SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO HAVE A COUPLE MINUTES OF YOUR TIME TO POINT OUT SOME THINGS I'VE OBSERVED. I'M NOT ASKING FOR ANY CONCLUSIONS OR ANSWERS, JUST THAT WHEN YOU DO MEET, MAYBE YOU COULD CONSIDER SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I POINT OUT, SO THANK YOU AGAIN. AND THANK YOU, JENNIFER, FOR, HELPING ME GET THIS. I HAVE A SLIDE MADE, BUT I DIDN'T TRANSLATE. TRANSMIT IT PROPERLY. I DON'T THINK SO. WHAT YOU'RE SEEING, IF YOU WILL, IS, WELL, BEFORE I START, I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT I WAS VERY. I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR A LONG TIME. I'VE BEEN A BUSINESS OWNER ON TSALI STREET FOR 23 YEARS THIS WEEK, AND, I DO NOT WANT TO DO ANYTHING TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION I'M NOT VERY APPRECIATIVE OF NEW ALBANY, I'VE RAISED MY FAMILY HERE. I'VE HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS HERE. JUST FEEL LIKE IT'S TIME TO TAKE A LOOK AT TSALI AND BRING IT UP TO THE STANDARD THAT THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY HAS. SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS THE PROJECT THAT I'M ALSO A COMMITTEE MEMBER ON, THE ONE 6162 TRIANGLE. WE NEED A BETTER NAME FOR THAT. OKAY. IS THIS A POINTER? IT IS. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S IF IT'S NOT 
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WHAT YOU'RE SEEING RUNNING FROM THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN TO THE TO THE TOP CENTER IS STATE ROUTE 62. THANKS HOW'D YOU DO THAT? OKAY, THIS RIGHT HERE IS STATE ROUTE 62. YOU'RE ALL AWARE OF THE HUGE IMPROVEMENTS WE'VE MADE WITH THE. I DON'T THINK THIS SLIDE SHOWS IT, BUT. AND DON'T WORRY, I ONLY HAVE ONE SLIDE. THE THERE IS EVEN A GREEN PATH. NOW FOR BIKING. YOU CAN SEE THE PAINT JUST STANDS OUT. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WHAT YOU CANNOT MAYBE SEE IS THE TREES. 
          THE WHITE FENCES. MOST IMPORTANTLY OF THIS ENTIRE THING IS STREET LIGHTING, ALL OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE. IF YOU GO TO THIS INTERSECTION, WHICH IS SMITH'S MILL, AND ALSO 62, THESE FOUR, CLOVER LEAFS, IF YOU WILL, YOU CAN'T SEE THE ONE WHERE THE DUNKIN DONUTS IS RIGHT NOW. THERE'S ALSO THIS SLIDE DOESN'T SHOW CHIPOTLE, BUT IT'S THERE AND BEEN BUILT, ALL OF THESE AREAS HAVE WIDER STREETS. THEY HAVE CURBS. THEY HAVE DRAINAGE. THEY HAVE STREET LIGHTING. THEY HAVE LEISURE TRAILS OR SIDEWALKS, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THEM. AND THAT COMPLETES THIS IS SURROUNDED BY, GROWTH. OR I HAVE IT DOWN IN MY NOTES, BUT EVERY OTHER SECTION OF AROUND TSALI HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP TO THE NEW ALBANY, STRATEGIC PLAN, EXCEPT TSALI. SO YOU CAN SEE HERE THIS IS SMITH'S MILL, THIS IS FOREST DRIVE. THERE'S A ROAD NOW, THAT'S NOT REPRESENTED ON THIS SLIDE BECAUSE THIS WAS OFF OF THE AUDITOR SKY VIEW, BUT THIS IS CALLED ALSO FOREST. AND THEN RIGHT HERE THEY CALL IT VIA TESORI. THIS WAS A PLOT OF LAND THAT WAS PURCHASED TEN YEARS AGO. THEY'RE ON THEIR SECOND PAVING OF THE LEISURE TRAIL RIGHT IN FRONT OF THAT PROPERTY. 
          BUT NOTHING'S EVER BEEN DONE. SO TSALI IS LEFT WITHOUT ANY OF THAT, THERE ARE, LET ME SEE. 16 BUILDINGS, 25 BUSINESSES. WE ALL CONTRIBUTE. NOT REALLY JUST TO PROPERTY TAXES, BUT TO CITY INCOME TAX. THE EMPLOYERS AND THE EMPLOYEES CONTRIBUTE TO THE CITY. AND THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE'RE WALKING ON THE STREET. THIS RIGHT HERE HAS BEEN OCCUPIED BY NEW ALBANY CROSSFIT FOR, I DON'T KNOW, AT LEAST TEN YEARS I'VE BEEN HERE 23 AND THE ENTIRE TIME. THIS IS WILLOW WOOD PET RESORT. AND THEY ALSO HAVE SEPARATED AND HAVE A VETERINARIAN CLINIC THERE. WHAT I'M GETTING AT IS THERE'S A LOT MORE THAN YOU WOULD IMAGINE. FOOT TRAFFIC ON THE STREET WITH PEOPLE WALKING DOGS WITH CROSSFITTERS, AND IF YOU KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT, THEY RUN ON THE STREET AND THEY LIKE, HAUL A SANDBAG. THEY TOWED A TRACTOR TIRE. I SENT A PICTURE. THIS IS NOT KIDDING. ON THE WAY TO THE MEETING TONIGHT, IF JENNIFER CAN QUEUE IT UP. THIS IS A GUY CARRYING A MEDICINE BALL. AND THAT'S THE HOOD OF MY RED TRUCK. AND I'M IN THE OPPOSITE LANE, SO I DON'T HIT HIM. WHEN YOU GET TO THE FALL AND THE WINTER, IT'S DARK AT 5:00. THESE PEOPLE GO TO WORK AND THEN THEY COME AND THEY WORK OUT AND THEY'RE RUNNING UP AND DOWN. ZALI WITH NO LIGHTING, NO SIDEWALK, NO PROTECTION. THE STREET AGAIN IS ALREADY MORE NARROW THAN THE SURROUNDING, YOU KNOW, SERVICE ROADS THAT. SO I JUST THINK THAT IT'S TIME TO CONSIDER IT. I DID TALK TO OUR CITY MANAGER, JOE STEFANOFF. THE STREET HAS BEEN AROUND OVER 25 YEARS. THERE HAS BEEN ONE TIME WHERE IT'S BEEN CAPPED OR, YOU KNOW, REGROUND AND REDONE. JOE EXPLAINED THAT THEY ACTUALLY DID THINK ABOUT DOING A MAJOR IMPROVEMENT TO IT AT THE TIME, BUT ZALI DID NOT CONNECT BACK TO THE HOSPITAL AND BACK TO FORREST DRIVE. AT THE TIME. SO IF YOU UNDERWENT A HUGE PROJECT LIKE THAT, YOU WOULD BE HAVING A LOT OF BUSINESSES ON A ON A DEAD END STREET, HAVING TO NEGOTIATE DOWN THE STREET THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION AND BACK OUT, BUT IT'S BEEN CONNECTED NOW FOR ALMOST TEN YEARS, AND I'M NOT AN EXPERT ON LOGISTICS OF THE PROJECT, BUT YOU COULD TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN ONE EXIT, STILL UTILIZE THE OTHER, AND THEN FINISH THE REST OF THE PROJECT, I'VE TALKED TO MULTIPLE BUSINESSES AND I DID WRITE THEM DOWN. CROSSFIT, WILLOW WOOD ANIMAL HOSPITAL, PET RESORT, HALE CONSTRUCTION, ESOTERIC TROVE, STATE FARM IS ME, NEW ALBANY SECURITY, BEST PLUMBING, RALPH FALLON BUILDERS, AND THEN THE AG PRO, WHICH IS THE JOHN DEERE DEALERSHIP. MOST OF THE PEOPLE I TALKED TO ARE IN FAVOR OF THIS. THE ONES THAT WEREN'T THEY DIDN'T SAY THEY WEREN'T IN FAVOR. THEY JUST DIDN'T HAVE AN OPINION. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY OWN THE BUILDING OR NOT, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE, ONE LAST TIME. THIS IS LIKE 21ST CENTURY HERE. AND THEN 21ST CENTURY HERE. AND CHARLIE'S JUST LIKE THIS ROAD. BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY MORE BUILDINGS AND MORE BUSINESSES CONTRIBUTING TO THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE CITY HERE THAN THERE ARE IN SOME OF THESE OTHER AREAS. SO, RESPECTFULLY, I WOULD LIKE THE CONSIDERATION OF THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE ON THE COMMITTEE OR THE WORKSHOP TO JUST CONSIDER, SPENDING MONEY ON 
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CHARLIE. AND I WOULD THINK OF ALL THESE THINGS. THE MOST IMPORTANT WOULD BE A SAFETY STANDPOINT. PEOPLE WALKING UP AND DOWN THE STREET, A COUPLE OTHER THINGS THAT I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT WHEN I LOOK OUT MY FRONT WINDOW AT AT WORK, JOE HAD MENTIONED JOE STEFANOV HAS MENTIONED THAT THE CAPPING THAT WAS DONE IN HIS MIND, MAYBE AROUND 10 TO 15 YEARS AGO, HAS NOT HELD UP AS GOOD AS WHAT HE WOULD HAVE ANTICIPATED. AND I'VE HAD SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE THERE ARE NO GUTTERS OR NO GUTTERS, BECAUSE THERE ARE NO CURBS WITH STORM DRAINS. WHEN IT RAINS, WHICH IT HASN'T IN A MONTH. THERE ARE LIKE PUDDLES UP AND DOWN FOR A FEW DAYS AFTER THE RAIN IS OVER. THAT IS MAKING THE POTHOLES BIGGER. AND THEN WHEN YOU TAKE A ROAD THAT'S ALREADY NARROW AND YOU HAVE LARGE TRUCKS THAT DELIVER CARS TO ESOTERIC EQUIPMENT, TO JOHN DEERE, SOME EVEN USE THE HOSPITAL AS A THOROUGHFARE THROUGH THERE, DRIVING ON THE EDGE OF THE ROAD. IT'S BREAKING DOWN THE BASE AND IT'S JUST CRUMBLING MORE AND THEN YOU KNOW HOW IT WORKS IN THE WINTER. THE WATER HAS NOWHERE TO DRAIN. SO THEN IT FREEZES AND THEN IT THAWS AND THEN IT FREEZES. AND I SUSPECT THAT HAS SOME OF THE WEAR AND TEAR ON ZALI ON WHAT WE SEE. AGAIN, I THINK THE TIMING OF IT IS GOOD BECAUSE THE STREET NOW IS SURROUNDED BY UPDATES, AND WE COULD POSSIBLY EXECUTE A CONSTRUCTION PLAN BETTER NOW THAT IT HAS TWO COMINGS AND GOINGS, AND THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE'RE IN NEW ALBANY AND IT DOES NOT HAVE THE ESTHETIC THAT THE REST OF THE SURROUNDING AREAS HAVE. SO, ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? FINE. BUT I DON'T WANT TO TAKE UP MORE OF YOUR TIME. I JUST WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO CONSIDER THIS WHEN YOU'RE ON THE WORKSHOP NEXT MONTH. THANK YOU. THANKS THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND I WILL SAY I'M JUST GOING TO ADD TO YOUR COMMENT. I WAS ACTUALLY AT WILLOWWOOD TODAY AT 230, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WIDE ARE THEY LIKE 28FT WIDE. DO YOU KNOW WHAT WHAT THE WIDTH OF THE STREET IS. IT'S I THINK IT'S LESS THAN THAT. IT MIGHT BE. MIKE, CAN YOU HELP ME OUT? IT MIGHT BE ABOUT 22FT. YEAH. IT'S NARROW. OKAY. I HAVE AN F-150 AND TWO OF US CAN BARELY PASS EACH OTHER. ACTUALLY, AS I'M SITTING THERE, A SEMI IS DRIVING DOWN, THEY HAD A DELIVERY FOR WILLOW AND ONE OF THE RECEPTIONISTS, LIKE, WOW, SHE GOES, I CAN'T BELIEVE A SEMI IS GOING DOWN THIS STREET. THEY WEREN'T SURE WHERE IT WAS GOING TO, BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY COMING TO THEM AND I LOOKED. THERE IS JUST NOT A LOT OF ROOM OUT THERE. AND THIS MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO CONSIDER AT OUR CAPITAL BUDGET PLANNING DAY COMING UP. MAYBE SOME OPTIONS JUST TO SEE, SINCE WE ARE DOING THE 62 TRIANGLE, WHICH I KNOW YOU'RE PART OF. YEAH, IT MIGHT BE IT MIGHT BE TIME TO TAKE A LOOK AND SEE WHAT WHAT ARE SOME OPTIONS? MAYBE FOR THAT AREA. SO JASON, APPRECIATE THAT. WE HAVE, LIMITED SPACE TO WORK WITH WITH THE BUSINESSES ALREADY ESTABLISHED, IF WE DO A STREET WIDENING AND THE LEISURE TRAIL, WHAT'S A FAIR AMOUNT OF GROUND? SO OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE TO WORK VERY COOPERATIVELY WITH THE CITY AND THE LANDOWNERS TO MAKE THOSE EASEMENTS WORK. IF YOU WERE GOING TO HAVE A LEISURE TRAIL, AND AGAIN, I'M GOING TO I'M NOT AN ENGINEER AND HOURS MIGHT DISAGREE WITH ME, IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO PUT A LEISURE TRAIL ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD IF YOU HAD TO PICK ONE, I WOULD TAKE IT ON MY SIDE. OKAY. A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THAT THEY WANT LEISURE TRAILS, BUT THEN THEY DON'T WANT IT IN THEIR FRONT YARD. BUT AS A BUSINESS, IT'S JUST LESS GRASS TO CUT. I, I WOULD SAY THAT THIS PROJECT WOULD INCREASE MY PROPERTY VALUE. I'D BE HAPPY. AND I'VE CONSIDERED THAT I WOULD PROBABLY BE GIVING UP SOME OF MY LAND TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT, BUT OKAY, YOU'D ALSO BE MAKING IT LOOK MORE LIKE NEW ALBANY. AND IN THE LONG RUN, HIGHER PROPERTY VALUE, MAYBE HIGHER RENT, ALL OF THAT. SO BUT, ONE OF SIX ON THE I GUESS WE CALL THAT NORTHEAST SIDE OF THE STREET. I HAVE TALKED TO SEVERAL AND THE OTHER THING THAT I DIDN'T BRING UP IS A LOT OF US DO HAVE SOME PRIDE IN OWNERSHIP. I'VE DONE THINGS TO MY BUILDING TROVE, DID A LOT TO THEIRS. MY NEIGHBORS DONE THAT. RALPH FALLON HAS A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF THE STREET, IT'S NOT JUST, I KNOW PARTS OF NEW ALBANY YOU'RE WAITING FOR EXPANSION TO JUST DO IT ALL AT ONCE. THAT MAKES ECONOMIC SENSE, BUT THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THAT'S GOING TO EXPAND ON ZORELLI. THERE'S NO MORE ROOM TO BUILD AND, I JUST AGAIN, I THINK IT'S A GOOD TIME TO RECONSIDER IT. YEAH. THANK YOU. I'D ECHO WHAT MATT SAID. I'VE BEEN DOWN THAT ROAD A FEW TIMES. TOO ESOTERIC AND OTHER THINGS, AND YOU GET TRAFFIC GOING BOTH WAYS. IT'S TIGHT AND I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE IT WITH A SEMI ON THERE AND A CAR, IT'S PRETTY TIGHT, LET ALONE WALKERS WITH MEDICINE BALLS. YEAH. WELL, THANKS. THANK YOU. AND YOU, YOU'RE CERTAINLY AREN'T ALONE. WE'VE, WE'VE HEARD FROM OTHER, PROPERTY AND BUSINESS OWNERS BACK THERE ABOUT THE NEED TO EXAMINE DOING SOME UPDATES. SO TO THE EXTENT WE HAVE RESOURCES, WE'D CERTAINLY 
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LOVE TO ENTERTAIN MAKING IMPROVEMENTS. ALL RIGHT, AND OUR LAST SPEAKER, UNDER HEARING OF VISITORS IS MICHAEL SWANSON. MICHAEL MR. SWANSON, IF YOU'LL GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD. OKAY MY NAME IS MIKE SWANSON. I LIVE AT SEVEN, SEVEN, FIVE EIGHT WEST CROSS DRIVE IN ALBANY, WHAT IS THIS? MAIN REASON WE'RE HERE TONIGHT IS, I'M HAVING DIFFICULTY TRYING TO DISCERN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY AND NEW ALBANY. MASTER COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION AND I'M HOPING THE CITY COUNCIL CAN ENLIGHTEN ME IN THIS REGARD. SO THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION IS LIKE A HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION UNAFFILIATED WITH THE CITY. WE DON'T LITERALLY HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER THEM, WE HOPE TO MAINTAIN COMMON STANDARDS SO THAT HOMEOWNERS AND BUSINESS OWNERS CAN HAVE A, YOU KNOW, SENSE OF DIRECTION FROM BOTH OF THOSE IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS, BUT YEAH, ONE DOES NOT CONTROL THE OTHER. LET ME ASK A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT QUESTION. SO THE NEW ALBANY MASTERS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ON THEIR WEBSITE STATES THAT THEY HAVE 130 COMMON ACRES WHICH ARE ROUTINELY CARED FOR 23 MILES OF FOUR RAIL, HORSE RANCH FENCE, WHICH WHAT THAT'S FOR, I HAVE NO IDEA. THERE'S NO HORSES HERE, 13 MILES OF LEISURE TRAILS, SEVEN PLAYGROUNDS, THREE PONDS, TWO BARNS, ONE BASKETBALL COURT, 90 SIGNS, 45 ACCESS GATES, 2545 ACCESS GATES, COMMON TREE AREAS, GOOSE CONTROL, IRRIGATION, DOG POTS, TRASH CANS AND COMMON LIGHTING AREA. SO MY NEXT QUESTION IS, HOW MANY OF THESE ARE OWNED BY THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY? SO I'M GOING TO GUESS THAT INFORMATION IS NOT 100% UP TO DATE, SOME OF THOSE ITEMS. YEAH, SOME OF THOSE HAVE PROBABLY REVERTED TO THE CITY'S OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY, SOME LEISURE TRAVEL RESPONSIBILITIES. SOME OF THOSE PARKS, BUT, YEAH, I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS. AND MR. RUBY IS HERE TODAY. HE CAN PROBABLY HELP US OUT A LITTLE BIT, HAS A LITTLE FAMILIARITY WITH SOME OF IT, BUT GENERALLY SOME OF THESE PROPERTIES THAT ARE MAINTAINED BY THE HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION UNDER SOME DEED REQUIREMENTS, I BELIEVE, WOULD REVERT TO THE CITY OVER TIME. AND WE HAVE TAKEN POSSESSION OF SOME OF THOSE, SOME OF THE POCKET PARKS THAT WE'VE UPDATED AGAIN, CAME INTO THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CITY. AND SO WE'VE TAKEN SOME OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS OVER THE YEARS. MR. SWANSON, IF YOU COULD TALK INTO THE MICROPHONE, I'M HAVING TROUBLE HEARING YOU WELL, SO MUCH. I'LL TURN IT DOWN. SO IT'S NOT QUITE SO HOT. IS THAT BETTER? SO NONE OF THESE SO-CALLED HORSE FENCES OR LEISURE TRAILS ARE ON CITY PROPERTY. SOME ARE, AND SOME ARE NOT. YEAH OKAY. AND THIS 130 COMMON ACRES IS ANY OF THAT CITY PROPERTY, I'M, I'M GOING TO GUESS BASED ON THOSE FIGURES THAT SOME OF THAT HAS REVERTED TO THE CITY'S CONTROL AND SOME OF THESE PLAYGROUNDS AND PONDS AND BASKETBALL COURTS, ETC. SO MY REAL QUESTION IS, IF THESE ARE CITY PROPERTY, WHY IS THE CITY MAINTAINING THAT AND PAYING FOR IT BY WAY OF THE CITY TAX BASE, WHATEVER. YEAH. WELL CERTAINLY WHEN WE TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT, WE DO PAY FOR IT, THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION IS NOT, NOT WRITING US A CHECK TO DO THAT. MAINTENANCE, THAT'S ONCE WE TAKE OWNERSHIP, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND UPKEEP SO THAT THE REMAINDER REMAINS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, SO THE PART THAT WE TAKE OWNERSHIP OF, WE MAINTAIN THE REMAINDER STILL REMAINS THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION. AND THAT'S WHERE THEY. EXACTLY, EXACTLY. TOM. RUBY I'M ACTUALLY THE PRESIDENT OF THE NEW ALBANY COUNTRY CLUB. 
          HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, SO. WELL AND MR. RUBY FEELS THAT MY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES, OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED. CORRECT. THAT, SO WHAT WHAT KIND OF THE GENERIC WAY WE HANDLE THIS IS WHEN WE BUILD A NEW SUBDIVISION, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S PARKLAND DEDICATION THAT IS REQUIRED IN OPEN SPACE, DEDICATION THAT'S REQUIRED. TYPICALLY WE AS A HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION WILL MAINTAIN THAT GROUND FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, 20 YEARS AFTER WHICH TIME IT REVERTS TO THE CITY. SO YOU'VE NOTICED THAT MANY OF THE PLAYGROUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN UPGRADED RECENTLY IN THE COMMUNITY, THAT'S ALL BEEN DONE BY THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY, NOT BY THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION. SO OVER TIME, THOSE PARKS AND OPEN SPACES. AND I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. A LOT OF THOSE NUMBERS THAT YOU QUOTED THAT ARE ON THE WEB PAGE ARE WOEFULLY OUT OF DATE. BUT THEY THOSE PROPERTIES THEN REVERT TO THE CITY. THEY THEN OWN THEM. OKAY, OKAY. I'M JUST GOING TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. SO IT'S JUST KIND OF NEBULOUS HERE. THE THIS IS ALL OF THESE 
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THINGS ARE VERY NEBULOUS. FOR EXAMPLE, IF I GO TO THE FRANKLIN COUNTY RECORDER'S OFFICE AND IF I, THERE'S ALMOST NO DAYLIGHT BETWEEN NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION AND NEW ALBANY COMPANY, YOU KNOW, ALMOST EVERY POSTING THEY HAVE BOTH, YOU KNOW, SO THERE'S ALL THESE KIND OF THINGS MIXED TOGETHER. AND IT'S REALLY KIND OF CONFUSING TO ME. IT IS. I'M HAPPY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL AFTER THIS MEETING. AS LONG AS YOUR ANSWERS, YOUR QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED. THE NEW ALBANY COMPANY, THE ASSOCIATION IS COMPRISED OF, I THINK THERE ARE SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE ARE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY. THERE ARE ALSO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NEW ALBANY COMPANY, ONLY THE DEVELOPER, ONLY THREE ARRESTED. WELL, THERE ARE FOUR. THERE ARE FOUR NEW ALBANY COMPANY RESIDENTS AND THREE NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS. FOR EXAMPLE, I'M A MEMBER, I'M A RESIDENT AND AN EMPLOYEE OF THE COMPANY. OKAY, OKAY. ANYWAY, IT'S QUITE CONFUSING TO SOMEONE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY ARE THEY GETTING THESE BILLS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES, LIKE NEW ALBANY HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION, YOU KNOW, NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY. AND SO I PAY TWO HOA FEES. I I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY I SHOULD BE PAYING TWO, BUT, I'M JUST TRYING TO UNRAVEL ALL OF THIS MESS, SO. 
          OKAY. WELL, THAT PARTIALLY ANSWERS MY QUESTION AGAIN. IT'S VERY IT'S VERY NEBULOUS. IF YOU TRY AND SORT THIS OUT ON THE INTERNET AT LEAST, LIKE YOU GO TO THE FRANKLIN COUNTY RECORDER'S OFFICE AND LIKE I SAY, THERE'S NO DAYLIGHT BETWEEN THE ALBANY COMPANY AND NEW ALBANY MASTER COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION. BASICALLY, IT RUNS ON PAPER. THE OTHER IS ON THE PAPER. IT'S JUST THE WAY IT THE WAY IT APPEARS. AND I JUST WANT THERE IS A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY AND THE NEW ALBANY COMPANY ARE TWO COMPLETELY SEPARATE ENTITIES. I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT THEY'RE PRETTY, YOU KNOW, PRETTY, INTERTWINED. SO. OKAY I'LL LEAVE THAT ALONE. THAT ACTUALLY JUST THAT ACTUALLY, THERE THERE IS SHOULD BE NO CONFUSION BETWEEN WHAT IS THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY AND THE NEW ALBANY COMPANY. I UNDERSTAND THE CONFUSION BETWEEN THE ASSOCIATION HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION AND THE NEW ALBANY COMPANY. THAT AND AGAIN, I'M HAPPY TO EXPLAIN THAT TO YOU IN MORE DETAIL. BUT AS FAR AS WHAT THE NEW ALBANY COMPANY'S ROLE AND THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY, THOSE ARE TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. AND SEPARATE ENTITIES. OKAY, I UNDERSTAND. OKAY, I HAVE ONE OTHER POINT I'D JUST LIKE TO MAKE, IF YOU DON'T MIND, JUST TAKE A MOMENT, I BROUGHT THIS IN BECAUSE, I JUST KIND OF. I I'M A MARINE CORPS AND VIETNAM VETERAN. I SPENT TWO YEARS IN VIETNAM, AND, FORTUNATELY, I CAME HOME ALIVE, YOU KNOW, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN'T. THERE ARE MANY, MANY PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN WHAT WE NOW KNOW IS A HIGHLY IMMORAL WAR. AND THEN THE I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL SEE THIS, BUT I'M ALL FOR THE MEMORIAL. BUT I REALLY TAKE OFFENSE AT THIS PICTURE. I THINK THIS IS OFFENSIVE TO BOTH THE PEOPLE WHO DIED IN VIETNAM. SO NOT JUST AMERICANS, BUT VIETNAMESE AS WELL, AND THE HIGHLY IMMORAL WAR THAT WE GOT INVOLVED IN. SO I REALLY I REALLY TAKE OFFENSE AT THIS TYPE OF PICTURE SHOWING THESE GUYS DRINKING BEER, SMOKING AND PLAYING CARDS AND HAVING A GOOD TIME. IT WASN'T THAT WAY. SO THIS IS NOT, THE THIS IS NOT WHAT THE MEMORIAL SHOULD BE, YOU KNOW, A MEMORIAL SHOULD BE TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES AND, AND, AND SERVED AT THAT TIME. IT'S NOT THE SORT OF PICTURE, YOU KNOW, I JUST FIND THIS VERY OFFENSIVE. I DIDN'T THIS IS NOT THE VIETNAM I SPENT TWO YEARS IN. SO. AND I THINK THAT'S AN EVENT THAT'S BEING SPONSORED BY THE NEW ALBANY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, SO THAT IS NOT A CITY SPONSORED EVENT. IT IS THE NEW ALBANY WEBSITE. I MEAN, THIS PICTURE WAS IN WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MEMORIAL IS ON THE ALBANY. THAT'S SEPARATE FROM THE NEW ALBANY MEMORIAL. I THINK THAT IS AN EVENT THAT'S GOING ON AT THE ELY HOUSE THAT'S, BEING PUT ON BY THE NEW ALBANY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. OKAY AND IF YOU YOU MIGHT WANT TO REACH OUT TO THEM IF YOU HAVE AN ISSUE WITH HOW THEY'RE PROMOTING THE EVENT, YEAH. BUT YEAH, THAT IS SEPARAT. I JUST PERSONALLY FIND IT OFFENSIVE. OKAY. SO THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY. HEY, MIKE, CAN I CAN I SEE THAT REAL QUICK? I'M LIKE, MY EYES AREN'T THAT GOOD. DOWN THE STREET. AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S SPECIFICALLY SUPPOSED TO BE A MEMORIAL, BUT MORE OF THE EXPERIENCE. AND I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU TAKE AN ISSUE WITH HOW IT'S BEING PORTRAYED, BUT YOU MIGHT WANT TO REACH OUT TO THE HISTORICAL 
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SOCIETY. SO I, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IF YOU'RE OKAY TO GO TO THE EVENT AND TALK TO DENNIS CASEY, WHO'S THE PRESIDENT OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ALBANY. YEAH, HE IS, HE'S ALL ABOUT HISTORY. OKAY. AND I IF THERE'S ANYONE IN NEW ALBANY THAT'S GOING TO BE OPEN MINDED TO YOUR CONCERNS, IT'S GOING TO BE DENNIS, BECAUSE HE CARES DEEPLY ABOUT THESE ISSUES. OKAY? AND IF HE OFFERS TO TAKE YOU TO HIS HOUSE TO SHOW YOU ALL OF THE VARIOUS, MILITARY EQUIPMENT AND HISTORY THAT HE HAS, YOU SHOULD GO. YOU SHOULD TAKE HIM UP ON IT BECAUSE HE HAS A LOT OF REALLY NEAT STUFF. YEAH, BUT HE HE WANTS TO MAKE IT GENUINE. SO AGAIN, AS A VETERAN, SOMEONE WHO WAS THERE FOR TWO YEARS, YOU HAVE A SHARED EXPERIENCE THAT YOU'D LIKE HIM TO HEAR. YEAH, I WOULD TALK TO DENNIS. HE OWNS THE EAGLES PIZZA RIGHT DOWN THE STREET HERE AND HE'S BE HE'D BE SUPER OPEN MINDED TO TALKING TO YOU I GUARANTEE YOU OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE THAT ARE HEARING OF VISITORS THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS COUNCIL REGARDING A MATTER? NOT 
          [7. BOARD/COMMISSION REPORTS]
ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA THAT TAKES US TO BOARD AND COMMISSION REPORTS, COMMISSION OR. EXCUSE ME, COUNCIL MEMBER WILTROUT IS NOT HERE. I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S A PLANNING COMMISSION REPORT. IF SO, WE CAN TRY TO COVER THAT AT OUR NEXT MEETING, PARKS AND TRAILS ADVISORY BOARD, NO MEETING. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD, COUNCIL MEMBER BRISK IS ALSO ABSENT, SO WE'LL COVER THAT AT OUR NEXT MEETING, BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS. WE DID HAVE A MEETING. THERE WERE TWO ITEMS ON THE AGENDA. ONE WAS A VARIANCE FOR THE SIZE OF A SIGNAGE, OR DSV, LOCATED ON BRISCOE PARKWAY, I'M NOT REALLY SURE HOW MANY OF THESE WE'VE RECEIVED, BUT IT'S ENOUGH THAT, STAFF HAS NOW DECIDED TO LOOK AT A CITY CODE AMENDMENT WORKSHOP ON THE SIGNAGE OF BUILDINGS OUT THERE. 
          WHAT HAPPENS IS, I MEAN, YOU COULD HAVE A 200,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING, AND OUR SIGNAGE IS STILL SAYS IT HAS TO BE 75FT MAXIMUM ON THE SIGNS. RIGHT. AND THE BUILDING IS SO BIG. AND SO WE'VE BEEN APPROVING THESE VARIANCES AS THEY COME. IT MAKES SENSE, YOU KNOW, BY THE ENTRANCES, THE WHOLE THING. AND, RIGHT NOW THEY'RE LOOKING AT DOING AN UPDATE, AND THEY'VE GOT SOME VARIOUS THINGS THAT THEY'RE CONSIDERING, THAT'S A LONG WAY OF SAYING THEY APPROVED THE VARIANCE, BUT ALSO UNDER OTHER BUSINESS DURING THAT MEETING, THEY HAD A FIRST SHOT AT MAYBE POTENTIALLY WHAT THE CODE UPDATES COULD LOOK LIKE. AND SO MORE TO COME ON THAT, REALLY, REALLY GOOD DISCUSSION. AND THAT'S THE WAY IT SHOULD WORK, RIGHT? WE KIND OF GROW INTO SOME OF THESE THINGS. IT'S ALWAYS GOOD FOR SOME UPDATES. THE SECOND VARIANCE, WAS TO ALLOW A DETACHED GARAGE TO BE 1920FT■!S, WHERE CODE PERMITS 1600 FEET. REALLY, THIS PASSED AS WELL. 
          THERE WAS THREE, CONDITIONS FOR APPROVAL, ONE HAD TO DO WITH THE GABLE SIDING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WAS ENTIRELY REPLACED WITH BRICK, SUBJECT TO STAFF APPROVAL, THE ALL THE EAVES DORMERS RAKES TRIM MUST MATCH THE EXISTING GARAGE THAT IS ATTACHED TO THE HOUSE, AND THE PROPORTIONS OF THE WINDOWS SHOULD MATCH THE EXISTING GARAGE AS ATTACHED TO THE HOUSE, SUBJECT TO STAFF APPROVAL, THIS WAS JUST ANOTHER SITUATION WHERE THE HOUSE OVER AT NINE NEW ALBANY FARMS. IS VERY SUBSTANTIAL, VERY BIG, LOT, SO IT REALLY MADE SENSE WITH THOSE CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL TO APPROVE, WHICH THEY DID DO. AND THAT'S IT. ALL RIGHT. ANY QUESTIONS ON THE UPDATE? THANK YOU, MR. SHULL. ANY UPDATE FROM THE SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD? NO MEETING, IDEA IMPLEMENTATION PANEL WILL COVER NEXT MONTH. CEMETERY RESTORATION ADVISORY BOARD MEETING. I DID RUN INTO ONE OF YOUR BOARD MEMBERS WHO WAS VERY COMPLIMENTARY OF STAFF, SHE RECENTLY JOINED AND IS REALLY ENJOYING THE EXPERIENCE. GOOD 
          [8. CORRESPONDENCE/COMMUNICATIONS]
GOD, NO MEETING OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS COMMISSION. HAS ANYONE RECEIVED ANY CORRESPONDENCE OR COMMUNICATIONS SINCE OUR LAST MEETING THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON? I DID RECEIVE SOME COMMUNICATION REGARDING THE BRIDGE AREA AT AT ROSE RUN PARK, I HAD A COUPLE OF FOLKS FROM MY COMMUNITY, GROUP TEXT ME REGARDING THE FACT THAT THERE ARE NO WASTE CANS OR TRASH RECEPTACLES ON THE BRIDGE OR ANYWHERE NEAR THE BRIDGE AT ROSE RUN PARK. SO I DID WALK DOWN THERE, LAST WEEK BECAUSE I THOUGHT THERE WERE OR SOMETHING AT LEAST NEARBY. AND I DID WALK ACROSS THE BRIDGE. AND WHAT I DID SEE, WHAT THERE WAS TRASH ON THE BRIDGE, CUPS AND OTHER, OTHER THINGS. PAPER, ON THE BRIDGE. AND THERE WERE NOT ANY TRASH, TRASH RECEPTACLES FROM ANYWHERE NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THAT BRIDGE. ALL THE WAY TO THE LIBRARY. SO IF YOU'RE ON THAT BRIDGE AND WHERE A LOT OF STUDENTS ARE PASSING THROUGH THE BRIDGE, THERE'S NOWHERE TO 
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DISPOSE OF TRASH, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE MANY TRASH CANS IN THE PARK, THERE AREN'T ANY IN THAT AREA. SO I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY SINCE I WALKED ACROSS THE BRIDGE, SAW FIRSTHAND THAT THERE WAS TRASH THERE AND THERE WAS NOWHERE TO PUT IT. SO I DID AFTER WE SPOKE ABOUT THAT, I DID TAKE A DRIVE AROUND THERE. I DID SEE THERE ARE SOME TRASH CANS TUCKED AWAY BY THE BIKE RACKS. AS YOU WORK YOUR WAY BACK ON THE, BEHIND THE HEIGHT CENTER PARKING LOT SIDE. 
          THERE'S SOME BACK THERE, BUT WE CAN LOOK AT, ADDING SOME AND MAKING THEM MORE OBVIOUS. I THINK JUST BECAUSE OF THE STUDENTS WALKING ACROSS THERE, THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC AND THERE'S REALLY NO PLACE THAT THEY CAN VISUALLY SEE, TO THROW TRASH AWAY. IF I COULD JUST CHIME IN, OUR TEAM GOES THROUGH THERE TWICE A DAY, SO WE'RE IN THERE EVERY MORNING AND EVERY AFTERNOON. SO AS FAR AS THE TRASH GOES, IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS VERY, VERY ACTIVE ON OUR RADAR. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE A LOT OF PRIDE IN. AND KEEPING THE KEEPING ROSE PARK CLEAN. SO, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, EVERY TIME WE GO OUT, THERE'S MORE TRASH THERE. SO I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT CERTAINLY IT'S IN OUR, IT'S IN THE CROSSHAIRS. AND WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO. THE PARK IS ALWAYS VERY CLEAN. IT'S JUST, I THINK THAT ONE AREA, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE SIT THERE AND STUDENTS ARE PASSING THROUGH AND THINGS GET LEFT BEHIND, AND THERE'S NO PLACE RIGHT ON THAT BRIDGE OR AT EITHER END OF THE BRIDGE TO THROW ANYTHING AWAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MR. FELLOWS, WE'LL TAKE THAT TO SECOND READING OF ORDINANCES AND 
          [9. SECOND READING OF ORDINANCES AND PUBLIC HEARING]
PUBLIC HEARING ORDINANCE. OH 27 2024, AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY BY AMENDING THE ZONING MAP TO REZONE 11.44 PLUS OR MINUS ACRES OF LAND LOCATED AT 7800 WALTON PARKWAY FOR AN AREA TO BE KNOWN AS THE 7800 WALTON PARKWAY ZONING DISTRICT, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE COMMERCIAL VEHICLE GROUP. ZONING DISTRICT FROM ITS CURRENT ZONING OF LIMITED OFFICE CAMPUS DISTRICT, LLC TO A LIMITED GENERAL EMPLOYMENT, LG IS REQUESTED BY THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY. THANK YOU. MAYOR. THE CITY STAFF REQUEST THAT THE ORDINANCE BE TABLED UNTIL OCTOBER 1ST, 2024. FOR MORE RESEARCH. ALL RIGHT. ANY QUESTIONS ON THE REQUEST FROM STAFF. AND I MOVE THAT WE TABLE ORDINANCE. OH 27 2024 UNTIL OUR MEETING IN OCTOBER. 
          SECOND. MAYOR SPALDING. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. SHAW. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. DETRICK YES. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. FELLOWS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. KISS YES. I HAVE FIVE YES VOTES TO TABLE ORDINANCE. I GOT TOO FAR. OH 27 2024 TO THE OCTOBER 1ST COUNCIL MEETING. INTRODUCTION. THE FIRST 
          [11. RESOLUTIONS AND PUBLIC HEARING]
READING OF ORDINANCES. WE HAVE NONE ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA. RESOLUTIONS AND PUBLIC HEARING. 
          RESOLUTION R 39 2024 A RESOLUTION AFFIRMING THE RECOMMENDATION THAT THE NEW ALBANY TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY. THANK YOU. MAYOR. ON JULY 24TH, 2024, THE FRANKLIN COUNTY TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL MET TO REVIEW COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA ANNUAL REPORTS. THE TOTAL OF 15 AGREEMENTS WERE RECOMMENDED FOR CONTINUANCE AND APPROVAL. WITH THAT BEING SAID, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF NOTABLE ITEMS, AND SO I'LL RUN THROUGH THOSE JUST VERY BRIEFLY HERE. THE CRA AGREEMENT FOR BUILDINGS ONE AND TWO WAS REVOKED DUE TO THE SALE OF PROPERTIES TO CORNERSTONE ACADEMY SCHOOL. THAT'S NOT A USE THAT WAS ORIGINALLY CONTEMPLATED IN THE CRA, SECOND 31 REAL ESTATE LLC DID NOT MEET ITS BENCHMARK DUE TO A LARGE TENANT MOVING OUT OF THE FACILITY. THE OWNERS IN THE CITY ARE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY TO DETERMINE AN ACCURATE PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES. KNOWN AS A PILOT, TO BRING THEM INTO COMPLIANCE, PER THE AGREEMENT. AND THIRD, AND FINALLY, LAST YEAR, THE OHIO POWER COMPANY DATA CENTER AGREEMENT WAS RECOMMENDED FOR EXCUSE ME, CONDITIONAL CONTINUATION AND APPROVAL. THE TURK HAS INSTRUCTED CITY STAFF AND THE COMPANY TO MEET QUARTERLY TO ENSURE TIMELY AND ACCURATE REPORT FINDINGS. THOSE QUARTERLY MEETINGS WERE BENEFICIAL FOR BOTH THE CITY STAFF AND FOR THE COMPANY, AND DUE TO THE POSITIVE OUTCOME OF THOSE QUARTERLY MEETINGS, THE TURK RECOMMENDED THE CONTINUATION AND APPROVAL OF THE AGREEMENT WITH THE CONDITION THAT CITY STAFF AND THE COMPANY CONTINUE TO MEET QUARTERLY TO REVIEW THE COMPANY'S PROGRESS, THE FRANKLIN COUNTY TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL REPORT HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. MAILBOXES THE RESOLUTION MAY BE ADOPTED THIS EVENING. AND OF COURSE, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. WELL, LET ME AGAIN JUST, PASS ALONG THE COMPLIMENT FROM FRANKLIN COUNTY AUDITOR MICHAEL STINZIANO TO OUR STAFF FOR RUNNING, YOU KNOW, A REALLY NICE PROGRAM AND PUTTING ON A GOOD REPORT. OBVIOUSLY, HE RUNS THE MEETING, BUT HE'S GOT TO GET ALL THE INFORMATION FROM US. AND AS YOU CAN SEE FROM ALEX'S PRESENTATION, HE'S DONE A HECK OF A JOB. MARSHALING THIS THING OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. WE HAD A COUPLE BUMPS IN THE ROAD, AND, THIS ONE WENT SUPER SMOOTH, AND IT WAS CLEAR THAT HE DID A LOT OF WORK. LEADING UP TO THAT DAY. AND I JUST APPRECIATE ALEX'S EFFORTS ALONG THE WAY. SO THANK YOU, WITH THAT, I WOULD MOVE TO THE ADOPTION OR. EXCUSE ME. LET'S OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. WOULD ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC LIKE TO SPEAK REGARDING RESOLUTION, 39 2024 HEARING NO PUBLIC COMMENT. I WILL CLOSE THE 
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PUBLIC HEARING AND MOVE FOR THE ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION R 39 2024 SECOND. MAYOR SPALDING. YES. 
          COUNCILMEMBER. KISS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. CHARLES. YES. COUNCIL. MEMBER. FELLOWS. YES. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. DIRT. YES. I HAVE FIVE YES VOTES TO ADOPT. RESOLUTION 39 2024, BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT RESOLUTION, I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT, HOW SMART WE WERE AS A COUNCIL TO APPOINT, COLLEEN BRISCOE TO THE TURK, YOU KNOW, SHE JUST SHE'S SO SHE REMEMBERS SO MUCH ABOUT HOW THIS STUFF WORKS, AND IT'S COMFORTING TO LEAN ON SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN THROUGH THIS BEFORE, AGAIN, A GREAT PROBLEM SOLVER. AND WE'RE LUCKY TO STILL HAVE HER HELPING US OUT, RESOLUTION R 40 2024. A RESOLUTION AFFIRMING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE NEW ALBANY TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL FOR LICKING COUNTY. ALEX THANK YOU, MAYOR. ON JULY 29TH, 2024, AT THE LICKING COUNTY TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL, KNOWN AS THE TURK, MEANT TO REVIEW THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA ANNUAL REPORTS. ALL 24 OF THE AGREEMENTS WERE RECOMMENDED FOR CONTINUANCE AND APPROVAL. ONE NOTABLE ITEM IN THIS REPORT WAS THAT EVEN THOUGH THE AEP OHIO TRANSMISSION COMPANY EXPERIENCED A SHORTFALL OF $103,282 OUT OF ITS $58 MILLION ANNUAL PAYROLL BENCHMARK. COLLECTIVELY, THE AEP ENTITIES ON THE NEW ALBANY CAMPUS EXPERIENCED A SIGNIFICANT PAYROLL SURPLUS OF 4,000,937 $920. DUE TO THAT SURPLUS, THE TURK RECOMMENDED CONTINUATION AND APPROVAL OF THE AGREEMENT WITH THE CONDITION THAT, AS WAS STATED BEFORE, CITY STAFF AND THE COMPANY CONTINUE TO MEET QUARTERLY TO REVIEW THE COMPANY'S PROGRESS. SIMILAR TO THE OHIO POWER DATA CENTER, THIS CONDITION IS A CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S TURK RECOMMENDATION AND APPROVAL OF THE AGREEMENT. THE LICKING COUNTY TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL REPORT HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. MAILBOXES. THE RESOLUTION MAY BE ADOPTED THIS EVENING, AND OF COURSE, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. I SIT ON THE COMMITTEE AND I WOULD ECHO WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT FRANKLIN COUNTY IN TERMS OF THE PREPARATION AND THE DETAIL AND INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO THE COMMITTEE. IT MADE IT A VERY EASY PROCESS. AGAIN, ALL OF THEM WERE APPROVED, AND I THINK NOTED ON THESE. AND LOOKING AT SOME OF THE FRANKLIN COUNTY ONES, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BENEFIT BECAUSE SEVERAL ARE COMING UP IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO, THE ABATEMENTS GO AWAY. AND I THINK THAT'S FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF THE CITY. SO IT'S A BONUS. ALL RIGHT. I HAVE TWO COMMENTS, I'M GLAD TO SEE THE PROGRESS WITH AEP. I KNOW THAT WAS A BONE OF DISCUSSION AT OUR LAST YEAR'S MEETING, I'M GLAD THAT COMMUNICATION IS MUCH BETTER. 
          THEY'VE GOT A SYSTEM IN PLACE, AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE EVERYTHING OUT. AND THEN FINALLY, JUST THANK YOU TO JENNIFER AND JOE TODAY, MORE JENNIFER, CHRYSLER FOR, REALLY ANSWERING A LOT OF MY QUESTIONS I HAD WITH WITH THE TURK AND ONCE ONCE SHE DID THAT, I MEAN, THE REPORTS JUST OUTSTANDING. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. OKAY, WE'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. WOULD ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC LIKE TO SPEAK REGARDING RESOLUTION R 40 2024 HEARING? NO PUBLIC COMMENT. WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND I WOULD MOVE FOR THE ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION R 40 2024 SECOND. HENRY SPALDING. YES COUNCIL MEMBER. FELLOWS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. DETRICK. 
          YES COUNCIL MEMBER. KIST. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. SHAW. YES. I HAVE FIVE YES. VOTES TO ADOPT. 
          [12. COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS]
RESOLUTION R 40 2024. ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS. I UNDERSTAND WE HAD A MEETING OF OUR COMMUNITY GRANT SUBCOMMITTE, WE DID, ACTUALLY, WE MET ON AUGUST 23RD, MEMBERS, COUNCIL MEMBER FELLOWS AND, COUNCIL MEMBER BRISK, WE HAD TWO FOLD. THE FIRST WAS, OF COURSE, TO DO OUR, OUR MEETING TO, ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING, WE HAD DECIDED TO I WILL REMAIN AS CHAIR, MEMBER BRISK WAS ELECTED VICE CHAIR AND COUNCIL MEMBER. FELLOWS WAS ELECTED SECRETARY, IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU HAVE KIND OF THE WRITE UP THAT WE HAD DONE IN THE PAST, THAT'LL BE INCLUDED INTO THE MINUTES. SO KIND OF HAVE SOME BACKGROUND ON TO WHAT WAS REQUESTED, OUR THOUGHT PROCESS AS IT RELATES TO THE CRITERIA AND ELIGIBILITY AND THEN WHAT OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE. AND SO, REALLY WHAT I THOUGHT I WOULD DO IS KIND OF JUST GO THROUGH THEM, AS I'VE DONE SIMILAR IN THE PAST. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK, BOTH MYSELF AND, COUNCIL MEMBER FELLOWS WILL DO OUR BEST TO ANSWER THEM. SO IF WE JUST JUMP DOWN. A LOT OF THESE ARE REPETITION. SO, JUST IN GENERAL, WE HAD A SLIGHT INCREASE IN OUR BUDGET THIS YEAR, WE HAD ABOUT $101,000, $100,000 TO AWARD IN GRANTS, WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE EXCEL 
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SPREADSHEET. AND THE VERY FIRST COLUMN, NEXT TO THAT, YOU'LL SEE AT THE BOTTOM, 144,000 WAS REQUESTED. AND SO, WE DID HAVE TO DO SOME TRIMMING, AS WE DISCUSSED SOME OF THE APPLICATIONS HERE, BUT WE CAN GO THROUGH THEM JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. SO THE FIRST ONE WAS, FOUNDER'S DAY, THEY MET ALL ELIGIBILITY AND GRANT CRITERIA. NEXT YEAR, THE EVENT'S GOING TO BE ON MAY 17TH, 2025. AND AGAIN, ALL THESE REQUESTS, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME. NOW THAT WE'VE GONE TO OUR NEW CALENDAR IN FULL. AND SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO, PROJECT OUT AND GIVE THEM A BUDGET PRIOR TO THE YEAR STARTING, WHICH WAS SOMETHING THAT WE TRIED TO DO. AND, IT'S NOW HAPPENING HERE, BUT IN ANY EVENT, IT'S GOING TO BE ON MAY 17TH, 2025. THEY ESTIMATE ABOUT 8000 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE, CITY SERVICES RENDERED, OR $10,289. THEY'RE REQUESTING $10,000. AND AS WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, WE'RE RECOMMENDING THE 10,000. AND AGAIN, THAT'S THE MAX THAT WE DO HERE FROM A GRANT PERSPECTIVE, THE NEXT ONE IS HEALTHY NEW ALBANY FARMERS MARKET. AND STOP ME AGAIN IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. BUT, THE FARMERS MARKET, THEY WERE REQUESTING $5,000, THEY'VE MET ALL THE ELIGIBILITY AND GRANT CRITERIA. THE MARKET'S IN ITS 15TH SEASON. 
          THEY HOST BOTH SUMMER AND WINTER MARKETS. OUTDOOR MARKETS RUN EVERY THURSDAY THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER MONTHS. AND THEN INDOOR, STARTS AND FALLS ON SATURDAY MORNINGS IN THE FALL AND THE WINTER, THEY TYPICALLY GET ABOUT 1500 PEOPLE FOR THE OUTDOOR EVENTS. AND INDOOR ABOUT 800 PER MARKET. AGAIN, THEY REQUESTED 5000. WE'RE RECOMMENDING 5000. THE HEALTHY NEW ALBANY WALKING CLASSIC, IS, OF COURSE, COMING UP HERE SOON. SO SOME OF THE ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION THAT WE HAD WAS BASED ON A PREVIOUS YEAR, BECAUSE IT HASN'T QUITE HAPPENED YET THIS YEAR. BUT, THE WALKING CLASSIC IS IN ITS 20TH YEAR, BRINGS ABOUT 1500 PARTICIPANTS, 1000 VOLUNTEERS AND SPECTATORS FROM BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF NEW ALBANY. AND THEY COME FROM ABOUT 175 DIFFERENT ZIP CODES AND 15 STATES, IN 2020, FOR THE CITY EVENT SERVICES RENDERED, ACTUALLY, THAT PROBABLY SHOULD BE 23, BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T HAD IT YET. BUT IN 23, SERVICES RENDERED WERE $13,129.06. THE REQUESTING 10,000. AND THAT'S WHAT WE RECOMMEND IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 10,000 IN CITY COSTS AND SERVICES. AGAIN, SAME AS PREVIOUS YEAR. THE NEW ALBANY DANCE FESTIVAL. THEY ALSO MET, ELIGIBILITY AND GRANT CRITERIA. THIS IS THE NEW VISION DANCE COMPANY, OR I SHOULD SAY NEW VISION DANCE COMPANY CREATED THE NEW ALBANY DANCE FESTIVAL, THE NEW ALBANY VISION DANCE COMPANY WAS FOUNDED IN SEATTLE IN 2006, AND IN 2013, HERE IN NEW ALBANY THIS YEAR THE FESTIVAL TOOK PLACE JULY 26TH THROUGH THE 28TH. IT WAS THEIR FIRST TIME THAT THEY WENT TO A THREE DAY EVENT. I KNOW WE ALSO HAD, THAT THEY HAD MENTIONED THAT WORKED OUT WELL, BUT WE HAD A EVENT IN THE AMPHITHEATER, THE DAY BEFOR, SO IT ALMOST TURNED IT INTO A FOUR DAY EVENT, WHICH THEY LIKED. BUT TOTAL ATTENDANCE FOR THE THREE DAY EVENT INCLUDED PARTICIPANTS IN CROWD, WAS 2588 AND HAD AN EXACT NUMBER. THEY ARE REQUESTING $10,000, WE ACTUALLY HAVE RECOMMENDING, $1,500. WHICH IS SIMILAR TO LAST YEAR, BUT A SLIGHT DECREASE, THERE. WAS AN EVENT HELD IN THAT AMPHITHEATER. IT'S AN AMPHITHEATER. AND ALSO THE AND THEN IF NEEDED, DEPENDING UPON WHETHER, HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HISTORICAL SOCIETY APPLICATION MET ELIGIBILITY AND GRANT CRITERIA. IT'S REALLY THE ONLY LOCAL INSTITUTION TRYING TO PRESERVE THE PAST FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. I DISLIKE THAT SAYING, ONE PIECE OF HISTORY AT A TIME. THE REQUEST FOR FUNDING FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO AND MAINTENANCE OF HISTORIC PROPERTY, THE REQUESTING 10,000. WE RECOMMEND 10,000. AND THEY DO A REALLY NICE JOB WHEN THEY SUBMIT THEIR APPLICATION. THEY ACTUALLY SHOW US WHERE THEY SPENT THE MONEY IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR. AND IT REALLY DOES ALIGN TO WHAT THEIR GOALS ARE FROM IMPROVING THAT PROPERTY, SO AS IN THE PAST, WE'RE ALSO RECOMMENDING, FOR 10,000, THE SYMPHONY THEY HAVE, LIKE THEY'VE DONE IN THE PAST, WE HAVE ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE EVENTS THAT THE SYMPHONY HAS SUBMITTED FOR, ONE OF WHICH IS SORT OF NEW, BUT FIRST I'LL START WITH THE SYMPHONY SERIES, THEY DID 
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MEET ELIGIBILITY GRANT CRITERIA. THEY WILL PERFORM SIX MAIN CONCERTS IN BOTH THE HENSON AND MCCOY. THERE WILL BE THE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS. THERE'S ORGANIZATION MADE UP OF ABOUT 175 PLUS MUSICIANS, NEXT YEAR, THE SYMPHONY WILL PRESENT A SIX CONCERT SEASON AND A FOUR CONCERT TOUR IN SOUTHERN FRANCE. SO THEY'RE PLANNING ON DOING SIX CONCERTS HERE IN NEW ALBANY. AND THEN FOUR IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, EACH SEASON, APPROXIMATELY 10,000 PEOPLE ATTEND. THEY REQUESTED $12,000, HOWEVER, WE'RE RECOMMENDING 5000, WHICH IS EXACTLY THE SAME. THAT WE DID LAST YEAR, WE HAD THE COURSE APPLICATION FROM NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY. IT ALSO MET OUR ELIGIBILITY AND GRANT CRITERIA. NEXT YEAR, THE CHORUS WILL PARTICIPATE IN SEVEN PERFORMANCES AT THE MCCOY AND HENSON. THEY ALSO WILL EMBARK ON THAT FOUR CONCERT TOUR IN SOUTHERN FRANCE WITH THE ORCHESTRA. THE CHORUS IS AN ENSEMBLE OF APPROXIMATELY 90 SINGERS RANGING IN AGE FROM 12 TO 76, AND, DEPENDING UPON THE CONCERT, THEY'LL GET BETWEEN ANYWHERE 6 TO 600 TO 1000 PEOPLE PER EVENT, WHICH INCLUDES AUDIENCE AND PARTICIPANTS. THEY ARE REQUESTING $5,000. WE'RE RECOMMENDING 2000, WHICH AGAIN, IS THE EXACT SAME AS LAST YEAR. 
          THE SENSORY FRIENDLY SERIES THAT NEW ALBANY PUTS ON, REALLY? I'VE HEARD PRETTY VERY POSITIVE THINGS ABOUT THE SENSORY SERIES THAT THEY DO, IT ALSO MET ELIGIBILITY AND GRANT CRITERIA, THE SERIES IS PERFORMED BY THE NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, OFTEN JOINED BY THE CHORUS. NEXT YEAR, THE SYMPHONY WILL PRESENT THREE FREE, SENSORY FRIENDLY CONCERTS. THE SERIES CONSISTENTLY SELLS OUT AT 800 PARTICIPANTS ANNUALLY. THE REQUESTING $6,000. WE'RE RECOMMENDING 5000 AGAIN, SAME AS LAST YEAR, ALL RIGHT. WE GOT THE NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY. 
          INDEPENDENCE DAY FIVE-K. THIS IS, APPLICATION MET ELIGIBILITY GRANT CRITERIA. THE RACE TYPICALLY TAKES PLACE ON JULY 4TH, BUT IF I'M LOOKING INTO 2025, I BELIEVE IT'S GOING TO TAKE PLACE ON JULY 3RD. SO I THINK BASED ON WHERE THE FOURTH FALLS, I'M MAKING THAT ASSUMPTION. JOE, YOU CAN CHECK ME ON THAT ONE, IT ATTRACTS OVER 1200 PARTICIPANTS THIS YEAR. IN CITY SERVICES RENDERED, THEY HAD JUST OVER $4,000. THEY REQUESTED 5000. WE'RE RECOMMENDING 2500 NOT TO EXCEED CITY COSTS. AND SERVICES, WHICH IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS WE DID LAST YEAR, AND THEN FINALLY, THE NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY. INDEPENDENCE DAY CONCERT. THIS ONE IS THE NEW ONE, THE SYMPHONY INDEPENDENCE DAY CONCERT APPLICATION MET ELIGIBILITY GRANT CRITERIA. THE EVENT WILL REPLACE THE ROSE RUN FESTIVAL, IN 2025. THE NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY WILL PRESENT A PATRIOTIC CONCERT AT THE HENSON AMPHITHEATER. THE PERFORMANCE WILL BE AN HOUR, 45 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION, AND INCLUDE AN 85 PIECE ORCHESTRA AND A 95 PIECE CHORUS. ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE FOR THE JULY 3RD CONCERT IS 750. INSIDE THE GATE, WHICH I BELIEVE IS THE MAX I, I THINK IT IS, WE'LL HAVE WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE IT A TICKETED EVENT. YEAH. MORE. YEAH, I WOULD ASSUME IT IS. 
          YEAH. PLUS WHATEVER THE OVERFLOW IS GOING TO BE ON THE LAWN, WHICH I ATTENDED. QUITE A FEW OF THOSE FREE CONCERTS IN THE LAWN WAS QUITE EFFECTIVELY USED BY QUITE A FEW PEOPLE, THEY REQUESTED 10,000. WE'RE RECOMMENDING 8000. AND AGAIN, THAT'S EXACTLY THE SAME THAT WE RECOMMENDED LAST YEAR FOR THEM, FOR THE ROSE RUN FEST, FOR THE ROSE RUN EVENT. YEAH, YEAH. SO REALLY, FOR THE SYMPHONY, NO CHANGES AT ALL IN OUR FUNDING FROM LAST YEAR TO NEXT YEAR FROM THIS YEAR TO NEXT YEAR, FROM A RECOMMENDATION PERSPECTIVE, PARK AND REC HAD THREE, EVENTS THAT THEY ARE REQUESTING MONEY TO. WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH. ONE IS NEW. FIRST ONE IS THE SUMMER MOVIE SERIES, THE APPLICATION MET ELIGIBILITY GRANT CRITERIA. THE SUMMER MOVIE SERIES TOOK PLACE OVER A COURSE OF THREE MONTHS. THEY HAD ONE IN JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST THIS YEAR. THE FIRST TWO MOVIES, LUCA AND TROLLS BAND TOGETHER WERE HOSTED IN NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS AT THE PRESERVE IN WINDSOR, RESPECTIVELY, AND THE FINAL EVENT, BARBIE MOVIE, WAS AT BILHEIMER PARK, ATTENDANCE FOR ALL OF THE EVENTS WAS ABOUT, EXCUSE ME, $1,500, 1500 PEOPLE. 
          SORRY THEY'RE REQUESTING 10,000, AND WE'RE RECOMMENDING 10,000, WHICH IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS LAST YEAR. AND, THEY WERE VERY WELL ATTENDED. THEY HAD SOME GOOD WEATHER FOR IT THIS YEAR. 
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ALRIGHTY. MOVING ON. ALRIGHTY THE NEXT ONE, SUMMERSLAM. PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT, THIS IS ITS FIRST YEAR, THAT THEY HAD THE PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT. IT DID MEET THE ELIGIBILITY GRANT CRITERIA, TOOK PLACE ON JULY 20TH AND 21ST. NEXT YEAR, THEY PLAN ON EXPANDING THE TOURNAMENT TO THREE DAYS, WITH A POSSIBLE ADDITION OF A SECOND TOURNAMENT. THEY HAD ABOUT 300 PARTICIPANTS AND MAYBE 50 TO 100 NON PARTICIPANTS. THEY'RE REQUESTING 10,000, AT THIS TIME, THE COMMITTEE HAD RECOMMENDED NOTHING, RIGHT NOW I KNOW THERE'S, WELL, WE RECOMMENDED ZERO FOR THIS EVENT, FOR THE NEXT EVENT, THOUGH, WHICH IS TRUNK OR TREAT. THAT EVENT IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE ON OCTOBER 19TH, BE HELD AT BILHEIMER, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR 2500 TO 3000 PARTICIPANTS. EXPECTING OVER 70 TRUCKS, AND MOST OF THEM ARE ALL NEW ALBANY OWNED, BY RESIDENTS OR BUSINESSES. THEY'RE REQUESTING TEN AND WE'RE FUNDING TEN RECOMMENDING THAT IS A 2000 INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR. AND SO WE'RE FUNDING BASICALLY 20,000 VERSUS 18. I KNOW THEY HAVE THREE EVENTS THIS YEAR VERSUS TWO. SO HOWEVER THEY THEY DO THEIR FUNDING, THEY CAN DO IT. 
          BUT SO THAT'S THE RECOMMENDATION WE HAVE ON THE TWO. AND I WILL TELL YOU, I KNOW, I KNOW MANY OF YOU WERE AT LAST YEAR'S. THE WEATHER WAS NOT THE GREATEST. BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT PLACE WAS PACKED. IT WAS IT WAS CRAZY. I MEAN, I KNOW YOU BOTH WERE THERE IN TERMS OF UGLY WEATHER. 
          YEAH. AND IT WAS AMAZING HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE THERE. YEAH, IF IT WAS GOOD WEATHER, YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW CROWDED IT WOULD BE. SO IT'S, WELL, IT'S WELL REGARDED IN THE COMMUNITY. YEAH SO BETWEEN THE MOVIES AND, AND THE TRUNK OR TREAT, YOU KNOW, TWO REALLY NICE EVENTS AND YOU KNOW SUMMERSLAM IS IT'S GOT OFF TO ITS INAUGURAL ONE AND I'M SURE IT'LL GROW TO SOMETHING EVEN BIGGER PROBABLY NEXT YEAR. AND WE CAN CONSIDER IT AGAIN WHEN IT COMES BACK. ANY QUESTIONS SO FAR? GOOD I'LL KEEP ROLLING ON. GOT A COUPLE MORE PELOTONIA, THIS ONE'S PROBABLY PRETTY EASY, BUT IT DID MEET ELIGIBILITY GRANT CRITERIA, THE RIDE WEEKEND WILL BE AUGUST ONE THROUGH THREE NEXT YEAR. FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WRITING UTILIZING THE MARKET SQUARE ROADS RUN NEW ALBANY SCHOOL AREA AS A START AND FINISH VENUE IN BOTH DAYS, AND THIS IS NOT A TYPO, BUT IN 2023, PELOTONIA PARTICIPANTS RAISED OVER 25 MILLION FOR CANCER RESEARCH. 
          JUST DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS IN YET FOR 2024, BRINGING THE 15 YEAR TOTAL TO 283 MILLION RAISED. ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE OVER THE COURSE OF THE WEEKEND IS OVER 8000 INDIVIDUALS, I DO KNOW THAT OUR CITY SERVICES RENDERED THIS YEAR WERE $16,936.28, THEY'RE REQUESTING 10,000. WERE RECOMMENDING 10,000 IN FUNDING NOT TO EXCEED CITY COST AND SERVICES. SO SAME AS IN PREVIOUS YEARS. AND JUST A NOTE, IT'S PELOTONIA. I KNOW I SAY PELOTONIA I JUST THE WAY I SAY IT, I T'S BECAUSE SLOAN GOT SLOAN GOT CORRECTED DURING OUR. HEY JOE SAID ABOUT US. YEAH YEAH. SO YEAH I THINK I HAVE A I'M ACTUALLY FOLLOWING WHAT SLOAN SAYS. IT CAN DEFINITELY GO EITHER WAY, BUT THE OFFICIAL PRONUNCIATION IS PELOTONIA. OKAY WELL, I'M JUST EXCITED. POTATO, POTATO. I'M JUST EXCITED THAT THEY'RE HERE. DEPENDS ON YOUR ACCENT. I GUESS IT'S ONE OF THE BEST EVENTS THAT WE HAVE, I THINK, IN THIS COMMUNITY, FROM BOTH PARTICIPANTS AND, YOU KNOW, HERE AND ELSEWHERE. SO, CASEY, WE SHOULD GET A TEAM TOGETHER NEXT YEAR. YEAH, I THINK SOMEBODY'S ALREADY WORKING ON JERSEYS FOR US. OH, BOY. PROJECT HERO HONOR RIDE. LET'S STICK WITH THE THEME HERE A LITTLE BIT, THE HONOR RIDE APPLICATION MET ELIGIBILITY GRANT CRITERIA ON A RIDE 2024 TOOK PLACE ON MAY 25TH. THE RIDE HAS RAISED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR INJURED VETERANS AND FIRST RESPONDERS. THE NUMBER OF ESTIMATED PARTICIPANTS THIS YEAR WAS 400 TO 425, IN 2024, CITY SERVICES RENDERED WERE JUST OVER 7000. THEY'RE REQUESTING 6000, AND WE'RE RECOMMENDING 6000 NOT TO EXCEED COST OF SERVICE. AND I THINK THAT WAS JUST ONE THAT'S JUST A THOUSAND MORE THAN LAST YEAR. BUT WE ALSO HAD THEIR TAKE UP IN COST OF CITY SERVICES. SO THAT WAS WAS GOOD. AND THEN WE HAVE THE NEW ALBANY CHARITY. THANKS FOR GIVING FOR MY FOUR 
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MILER. MILLER FOR MILLER. I'M JUST KIDDING. THE NEW ALBANY CHARITY RUN APPLICATION MET ELIGIBILITY GRANT CRITERIA. THE THANKS FOR GIVING FOUR MILER HAPPENS EVERY YEAR ON THANKSGIVING DAY IN DOWNTOWN NEW ALBANY. LAST YEAR, THE RACE DREW 3200 PARTICIPANTS FROM 32 DIFFERENT STATES. THE EVENT GOAL IS TO PROMOTE WELLNESS, GIVING AND FAMILY ON THANKSGIVING DAY IN 2023, CITY EVENT SERVICES RENDERED WERE $9,545.35. THEY ARE REQUESTING 5000. WE ARE RECOMMENDING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 5000 IN CITY COSTS AND SERVICES, WHICH IS THE SAME AS WE HAD DONE LAST YEAR. AND OF COURSE, THOSE ARE 2023 NUMBERS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT QUITE TO THANKSGIVING YET THIS YEAR. AND THEN FINALLY, OUR LAST ONE WE RECEIVED WAS FROM SECOND SOUL IN WHITE CASTLE FIVE MILER, SO THEY DID NOT MEET ELIGIBILITY AND GRANT CRITERIA, AND ON THEIR REQUEST, THEY JUST REQUESTED FULL AVAILABLE AND SO REALLY, BASED ON THE FACT THEY DIDN'T MEET OUR ELIGIBILITY AND GRANT CRITERIA THIS YEAR, WE'RE JUST RECOMMENDING FUNDING OF $0. ONCE YOU ADD EVERYTHING UP, IT COMES TO EXACTLY $100,000. AND WE STAYED WITHIN BUDGET THIS YEAR, AND SO FOR THE FIRST MOTION, IF THERE'S NO QUESTIONS, I'LL TAKE THEM NOW, BUT I'LL GO AHEAD AND YOU CAN SEE THEIONS RIGHT THERE ON THE SHEET. ANYTHING FOR CHIPPER? I THANKS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK. NO I MEAN INCREDIBLY WELL DONE. THANKS. THANKS ALL RIGHT. SO THEN I WILL GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION. TO AWARD THE FOLLOWING GRANTS. FOUNDER'S DAY, 10,000 FARMERS MARKET, 5000 HEALTHY NEW ALBANY WALKING CLASSIC AND AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 10,000. IN CITY. COST OF SERVICE. DANCE FESTIVAL 1500. HISTORICAL SOCIETY 10,000. NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY SERIES 5000. NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY CHORUS 2000. NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY SENSORY FRIENDLY SERIES 5000. NEW ALBANY SYMPHON, INDEPENDENCE DAY FIVE K AND AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 2500. IN CITY COSTS AND SERVICES AND NEW ALBANY SYMPHONY, INDEPENDENCE DAY CONCERT, 8000 PARK DISTRICT SUMMER MOVIE SERIES 10,000. PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION TRUNK OR TREAT 10,000. PELOTONIA AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 10,000. IN CITY COSTS AND SERVICES. PROJECT HERO HONOR RIDE OHIO AND AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 6000, IN CITY COSTS AND SERVICES. THANKS FOR GIVING CHARITY RUN AND AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 5000 IN CITY COST AND SERVICES. SECOND. I HEARD TWO SECONDS RIGHT THERE. WHOEVE. COUNCIL MEMBER. SHAW. YES. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. FELLOWES. YES COUNCIL MEMBER. KIST ABSTAIN. COUNCIL MEMBER. DERRICK. YES MAYOR. SPALDING. YES. I HAVE FOUR YES VOTES AND ONE ABSTENTION ON THE MOTION REGARDING THE GRANTS. MOTION PASSES. OKAY. AND THEN, WE'RE GOING TO RECOMMEND THE SAME. I JUST NEED A SEPARATE MOTION. AGAIN, I KNOW THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAD TALKED ABOUT, THE NEW ALBANY FOOD PANTRY TO REALLY CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THEM THROUGH AN ALTERNATE COMMUNITY SUPPORT ACCOUNT THAT WOULD BE MOST APPROPRIATE FOR THEM, I'M RECOMMENDING 3000. WE'VE KIND OF DONE THAT NOW FOR THE LAST 2 OR 3 YEARS, I'M OPEN REALLY, IF YOU WANT TO GO A LITTLE BIT HIGHER IN THAT OR NOT, OR IF WE WANT TO GO AHEAD AND CONTINUE WHAT WE'RE DOING IN NEXT YEAR, MAYBE ENTERTAIN SOMETHING DIFFERENT, BY ALL MEANS WE CAN. BUT BEFORE I MAKE THE MOTION, I THOUGHT I'D JUST OPEN THAT UP FOR DISCUSSION. I WOULD ENTERTAIN DOING A LITTLE BIT HIGHER. I THINK THE DEMAND COST OF FOOD THAT THEY'VE EXPERIENCED THE LAST FEW YEARS, THEY DO AN INCREDIBLE JOB FOR KIDS IN THE SCHOOLS, FOR THE FAMILIES THAT NEED IT. IF IT'S 4 OR 5, I'M I'M VERY IN FAVOR OF SUPPORTING THAT. I THINK IT'S A GREAT SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY. AND WHAT MONEY DO WE HAVE AVAILABLE FOR THAT? I'M GONNA KICK THAT OVER TO BETHANY TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION BEFORE I JUST BEFORE I WIGGINS TO MOVE THAT UP TO 4 OR 5 I GUESS IS THE QUESTION, IS THERE ROOM TO MOVE IT UP TO 5000. AND SO IT I'M GOING TO SAY THAT THE CAPACITY TO UTILIZE, IF 
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WE'RE UTILIZING HOTEL MONEY, WE WOULD HAVE AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE CAN INCLUDE THAT WE HAVEN'T PREVIOUSLY INCLUDED IN THE PAST IN THE BUDGET. OKAY. THAT'S ALL I NEED TO KNOW. OKAY OKAY. MIKE, DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO FOR A CERTAIN NUMBER OR. WELL, I BEFORE I ENTER A NUMBER, I GUESS I'D LIKE TO HEAR A LITTLE MORE IF I'D BE COMFORTABLE WITH FIVE. 
          IF PEOPLE ARE COMFORTABLE WITH FOUR, I DON'T WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO A NUMBER THAT SOMEBODY ISN'T COMFORTABLE WITH, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE FIVE FOR THE FOOD PANTRY. BUT I THINK WHAT YOU STATED IS, YEAH, APPROPRIATE HIGHER DEMAND. YEAH OKAY. I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE A $5,000 CONTRIBUTION TO THE HEALTHY, NEW HEALTHY NEW ALBANY FOOD PANTRY DUE TO THE INCREASED FOOD COSTS AND SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE TO THE CITY. AND I DIDN'T SEE THAT AT THE BOTTOM, SORRY. USING AN ALTERNATE COMMUNITY SUPPORT ACCOUNT THAT WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THIS TYPE OF REQUEST. SECOND. IS THERE A MOTION IT WAS, IT WAS. MIKE. I WAS JUST AMENDING MIKE'S. WELL, I'M NOT AMENDING. MIKE WANTS TO REDO IT. I CAN THAT LOOKS CONCERNED BECAUSE THEN WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO AMENDMENTS AND I CAN PUT IT AS A COMMENT ON THE RECORD. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. 
          I'M NOT EVEN SURE THAT IT IS A DIFFERENT ACCOUNT AT THIS POINT. IT'S ACTUALLY THIS $5. GOTCHA. 
          ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. SO ON THE MOTION FOR $5,000 IN GRANT TO THE FOOD PANTRY, COUNCIL MEMBER DEREK. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER FELLOWS. YES. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. KISS YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. SHELL. YES. MAYOR. SPALDING YES. I HAVE FIVE YES VOTES ON THE $5,000 GRANT TO THE FOOD PANTRY. AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. THANK YOU MATT. NICE JOB BUDDY. YEAH. THANK YOU. TO 
          [13. REPORTS OF REPRESENTATIVES]
THE SUBCOMMITTEE AND THEIR WORK, THAT TAKES US ON TO REPORTS OF REPRESENTATIVES. JOE, ANY UPDATE FROM MORPC? I DO, I HAVE MY NOTES FROM OUR LAST MEETING. THE MORPC OR THE STATE AUDITOR'S REPRESENTATIVE ANNOUNCED THAT MORSI RECEIVED THE AUDITOR'S AWARD WITH DISTINCTION, THEY'VE HAD CLEAN AUDITS FOR YEARS. AND NOT ONLY HAVE THEY HAD CLEAN AUDITS, WITH THE OUTSOURCED AUDITOR REPRESENTING THE STATE OF OHIO THIS YEAR, THEY TRANSITIONED BACK TO BEING AUDITED BY THE STATE. AND SOMETIMES WHEN YOU CHANGE AUDITORS AND THERE'S A KIND OF A, A NEW WORKING RELATIONSHIP, THINGS CAN BE A LITTLE BIT MORE, CHALLENGING, FOR, FOR THE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE AUDIT TO BE, TO UNDERSTAND THE EXPECTATIONS. BUT THEY PERFORMED EXCEPTIONALLY WELL, THEIR LEVEL OF COLLABORATION WAS COMMENDED BY THE AUDITOR'S REPRESENTATIVE IN, AT THE MEETING. SO THEY WERE THEY WERE, AND THIS IS THEY HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF PERFORMING AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL, WITHIN THAT ORGANIZATION, THEY ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT THE 2024 ANNUAL SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFITS SURVEY WOULD BE RELEASED IN SEPTEMBER. SO THAT WILL BE COMING OUT VERY SHORTLY, ALSO, THE OHIO EPA HAS DESIGNATED MORPC AS THE 208 AREA WIDE AGENCY FOR CENTRAL OHIO. WHAT THAT MEANS IS 208 BOUNDARY IS BASICALLY THE. THAT'S HOW YOU DEFINE THE WATER AND SEWER BOUNDARIES, THAT CAN BE SERVICED BY A PARTICULAR ENTITY. SO IN OUR CASE, OUR 208 BOUNDARIES ARE SERVED BY THE CITY OF COLUMBUS FOR WATER AND SEWER, TO OUR EAST ON THE EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, SOUTH OF JUG AND I THINK DOWN TO MORSE ROAD, ROUGHLY, THAT 208 AREA IS SERVED BY SOUTHWEST LICKING. SO THERE ARE VARIOUS 208 AREAS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF OHIO. CENTRAL OHIO IS THE ONLY, AREA OF THE STATE THAT DIDN'T HAVE A DESIGNATED AREA WIDE AGENCY. SO MORPC HAS AGREED TO PARTICIPATE IN IN THAT PROCESS, THEY FORMED A COMMITTEE TO BASICALLY SET UP THE RULES AND PROCESSES FOR APPEALS OF 208 DISPUTES. THEY'VE ASKED ME TO SERVE ON THAT COMMITTEE. SO I'VE BEEN I'VE BEEN PARTICIPATING IN THAT, THEY'VE HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS. I EXPECT THAT THERE'LL BE SOME SOME, FINAL WORK PRODUCT RELEASED BY THE END OF THE YEAR, THEY ALSO KICKED OFF A PASSENGER RAIL COMMITTEE IN JULY, THEY HAVE ALSO, GONE LIVE WITH THEIR MID-OHIO OPEN DATA WEBSITE. IT'S BASICALLY A REGIONAL DATA SUPPORT TOOL FOR MEMBER ENTITIES, THAT'S AVAILABLE TO ANY, ANY COMMUNITY, THAT WOULD LIKE TO, TO UTILIZE THEIR DATA 
          [01:35:01]
TO SUPPLEMENT THEIR OWN RESOURCES. THEY ARE ALSO LEADING A GROUP OF REGIONAL COUNCILS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS REGARDING STRATEGIES CONCERNING THE HOUSING SHORTAGE, LET'S SEE, THEY HAVE RECEIVED THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT DESIGNATION FROM CONGRESS. BASICALLY, IT'S A DISTINCTION, THEY THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE NOT DOING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS PUTTING THINGS IN PLACE FROM A PLANNING PERSPECTIVE IN SUPPORT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. SO THEY'RE WORKING WITH LOCAL, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND THE STATE AGENCIES AND REGIONAL AGENCIES TO SUPPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, FINALLY, THERE WAS A REMINDER ABOUT THE SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABILITY, WHICH WILL OCCUR ON OCTOBER 29TH FROM 8 A.M. 
          UNTIL 4:30 P.M. THERE'LL BE MORE INFORMATION COMING OUT ABOUT THAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. ALL RIGHT. THANKS FOR THE REPORT. ANY UPDATE FROM THE JOINT PARKS? NO REPORT, NEW ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THEY HAD A MEETING ON THE 26TH, THEY PROVIDED A TRANSPORTATION UPDATE, THE HIGHLIGHT WAS THEY ARE CURRENTLY ALMOST CAUGHT UP ON BUS DRIVERS. NOW, THERE ARE ONLY THREE BUS DRIVERS SHORT. SO IF ANYBODY'S LOOKING TO PICK UP A SIDE GIG, THEY WILL PAY FOR YOUR TRAINING, WHICH I'VE HEARD IS QUITE EXTENSIVE AND RIGOROUS. THEY DID A CAMPUS MASTER PLAN UPDATE, THEY HIGHLIGHTED, THEY HAD A MEETING WITH NICO IN THE CITY REGARDING THE LAND DONATIO, SITE LAYOUT, UTILITIES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION CENTER AT 605 AND NEW ALBANY ROAD EAST, THEY DISCUSSED SWICKARD WOODS BOULEVARD IMPROVEMENTS AND THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS THERE. AND THEY DID HIGHLIGHT, FRANKLIN COUNTY. BOE HAS ISSUED, THE NUMBER FOR THE ISSUE THAT'S GOING TO BE ON THE BALLOT NOVEMBER 5TH. AND THE SCHOOL LEVY IS GOING TO BE ISSUE 40. SO KEEP YOUR EYE OUT FOR SIGNS FOR ISSUE 40, SUPPORTING THAT, EVERETT GALLAGHER WAS NAMED THE LEVY CHAIR. SO HE'LL BE SPEARHEADING, THERE WAS A LONG DISCUSSION ON THE NET COST, AND, I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO THE WEEDS BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT A HALF HOUR OF DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU LIVE AND YOUR YOUR ASSESSMENT COULD BE DIFFERENT THAN YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOU KNOW, WHETHER THE 1.45 MILL IS ROLLING OFF WHERE YOU LIVE OR IF IT'S A DIFFERENT NUMBER, BUT YOU CAN GET ON, THE, THE DISTRICT WEBSITE AND THEY HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN GO AND LOOK UP WHAT YOU'RE SPECIFICALLY PAYING AND THEN HOW THE, THE LEVY WILL AFFECT YOUR SPECIFIC PROPERTY. BUT DON'T THINK JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY THAT LIVES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS A CERTAIN ASSESSMENT, IT REALLY IS ALMOST DOOR TO DOOR, HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR YOUR PROPERTY. SO THE VAST MAJORITY, IT'S EITHER GOING TO BE A NET FLAT OR POTENTIALLY EVEN A LITTLE BIT DECREASE. BUT SOME FOLKS THAT DON'T FALL INTO THE CURRENT ASSESSMENT, THIS WILL BE AN INCREASE ON THEIR TAXES. SO THEY ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO SPECIFICALLY LOOK UP YOUR PROPERTY TO SEE HOW IT WOULD POTENTIALLY AFFECT YOUR TAXES IF THE LEVY IS APPROVED, THEY TOUCHED ON THE STATE OF OHIO 20 2324 LOCAL REPORT CARD. THE PRELIMINARY RESULTS CAME OUT. AND THERE'S GOOD NEWS. THE DISTRICT RECEIVED A FIVE STAR OVERALL RATING AGAIN, AND THEY RECEIVED FIVE STAR RATINGS IN ALL THE CATEGORIES THAT COMPILE THAT. SO, GOOD NEWS FROM THE, QUANTITATIVE SIDE FOR THE DISTRICT. THAT'S IT FROM LOCAL SCHOOLS. A LOT GOING ON. HOW'S THE CROSS COUNTRY TEAM GOING? YOU KNOW, IT WAS A LITTLE HOT LAST WEEK, SO WE HAD A MEET GET CANCELED, SO WE'LL BE BACK AT IT THIS WEEKEND WITH THE ALMA MATER OF ONE. MRS. SPAULDING WILL BE AT WATKINS RUNNING AROUND IN THE IN THE WOODS OUT THERE. YEAH. MCGOWAN CLASSIC. THE MCGOWAN CLASSIC WITH NO RAIN. JEN'S MAIDEN NAME CORRECT? YEAH. IS THAT, HER UNCLE WAS THE LONG TIME ATHLETIC DIRECTOR AT WATKINS CENTER. YOUR DAD TAUGHT THERE, TOO? YEAH ALL RIGHT, ANY UPDATE FROM THE TOWNSHIP? YES. THERE WAS A MEETING ON THE 21ST, ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT THEY HAD A PRESENTATION, DISCUSSION AND VOTED ON IS THAT, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL BE JOINING NASTY. THE NORTH AREA STRIKE TEAM, WHICH ESSENTIALLY, IS A GROUP OF 11 DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL OHIO. AND THEY PROVIDE FIRE INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES. AND THEY ALSO DO A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT IN TERMS OF RESPONSE FOR CHEMICAL TERRORIST AND HAZMAT ISSUES. SO BY JOINING NASTY, IT PROVIDES OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH ADDITIONAL SERVICES THAT WOULD COME FROM TRAINED OFFICERS AND ALL OF THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, AND THEY, BOARD VOTED TO JOIN 
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THE ORGANIZATION. AND THEY ALSO PROVIDE TRAINING TO OUR OFFICERS TO ENHANCE OUR ABILITIES IN THOSE AREAS. SO IT'S NOW A NASTY FIRE DEPARTMENT. SO GOOD. I THINK IT'S A GREAT THING FOR US TO BE A PART OF THAT, THEY DID HAVE A PRESENTATION FROM THE SCOUTS IN TERMS OF THE WREATH PROGRAM FOR VETERANS THAT HAS GONE UNDERWAY FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. LAST YEAR, THERE WERE 563 WREATHS PLACED IN THE CEMETERY HERE. AND THAT WREATH PROGRAM TAKES PLACE IN 4000 LOCATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IT WAS JUST A PRESENTATION, NO FORMAL REQUEST. I THINK THEY'LL BE COMING TO THE TOWNSHIP AND PROBABLY TO US WHERE WE'VE SHARED THAT COST GOING FORWARD, PAUL REPORTED THEIR REVENUE FOR THE SEASON. IS UP OVER $500,000 OVER LAST YEAR. SO THEY'VE DONE A GREAT YEAR. PASSES ARE UP 30% DAILY, IS UP 20%, AND INCREDIBLY HOT WEATHER. DID A LOT TO IMPROVE THAT. YEAH. THE ANNUAL FIRE DEPARTMENT OPEN HOUSE WILL BE SEPTEMBER 29TH. THAT'S SUNDA, AND THAT WAS IT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. MIKE, REPORT TO CITY OFFICIALS, JUST A REMINDER, WE 
          [14. REPORTS OF CITY OFFICIALS]
HAVE THE NEW ALBANY CHAMBER COMMUNITY UPDATE ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH AT THE ESTATE AT NEW ALBANY. AT 1130. MR. WILL COORDINATE WITH THE CLERK ON WHO MIGHT WANT TO ATTEND. IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED. OKAY. GOT ALL THOSE HOURS? I THINK MR. EBBING AND I WILL BE GIVING AN UPDATE. 
          I'M GOING TO GIVE HIS AND HE'S GOING TO GIVE MINE. IT'S GONNA BE GREAT, AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE. 
          ANY UPDATES? THE CLERK REMINDER CAPITAL PROJECTS WORKSHOP. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH. SO NO COUNCIL MEETING, BUT ALL DAY COUNCIL MEETING, WE'LL BE PROVIDING LUNCH FROM ELLIOT'S. 
          COME GET SOME SANDWICHES AND PIZZAS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. OUR THEME IS CONSTITUTION DAY, AS THAT HAPPENS TO BE THE SAME THING. SO CELEBRATING GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, AND THAT WILL AS ALWAYS BE LOTS OF COFFEE, CAFFEINATED BEVERAGES TO KEEP US GOING. AND THAT'S IT. FROM THE CLERK. ALL RIGHT. ANY UPDATE FROM THE FINANCE DIRECTOR? THE ONLY UPDATE I HAVE IS THAT WE DID COST OUR BANDS, BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES LAST TUESDAY HAD A PRETTY FAVORABLE OUTCOME. 
          WE'LL CLOSE ON NINE OVER 11. SO I'LL UPDATE YOU ON THE NUMBERS THEN. APPRECIATE IT. ANY UPDATE FROM THE CITY MANAGER? SO ONE QUICK ITEM I EXPECTED TO HAVE A RECOMMENDATION FOR YOU REGARDING THE CONSULTANTS TO PERFORM THE ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS, WE HAD A THIS IS MY FIRST DAY BACK FROM VACATION. I HAD A REALLY GOOD MEETING WITH ADRIAN AND LINDSEY, AND WE'RE THINKING ABOUT A KIND OF A CREATIVE APPROACH TO THIS. SO MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW IF YOU CAN HOLD OFF UNTIL THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING. I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE A GOOD PATH FORWARD FOR YOU. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. 
          GREAT AND ANYTHING FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY? NOTHING. TONIGHT, ALL RIGHT, CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, 
          [16. POLL FOR COUNCIL COMMENT]
MR. SMITH. NOTHING. SEE YOU SIR, PULL FOR COUNCIL COMMENT. ANY ADDITIONAL COUNCIL COMMENT? OH, WE DID HAVE JUST. I'M WAITING FOR A PICTURE BECAUSE I KNEW THAT. I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE UP THERE. THAT CHILD MELTS MY HEART THERE. YOU GO, MIKE, WHAT WAS THE FINAL COUNT ON THE HOT DOGS? WE HAD A COUPLE EXTRA, SO I, I CAN'T, I WOULD SAY WE, WE MIGHT HAVE HAD 50 TO 75 EXTRA. 
          SO. SO YOU WERE IN THE 950 RANGE. YEAH. YEAH. BUT OUR CRAZY AMAZING. THEY BOUGHT A THOUSAND AND ALMOST USED THEM ALL. YEAH. AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE A LITTLE THICKER THIS YEAR THROUGH IT. SO IT KIND OF THREW OFF THE TIMING A LITTLE BIT. BUT REVIEWS WERE REVIEWS WERE FAVORABLE ON YELP AND, BUT OUR TENANTS WAS ABOUT 1700 THIS YEAR. IT FELT QUITE BUSY THERE FOR, FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. I THINK. AGAIN, THE, THE SENSORY FRIENDLY HOUR IN THE BEGINNING WAS WAS WELL RECEIVED. AND YOU CAN SEE WHERE PEOPLE ARE ARRIVING EARLY, YOU KNOW, TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT. 
          SO, THAT'S BEEN A GREAT ADDITION FROM LAST YEAR. WE'RE GOING TO KEEP GOING WITH SO. WELL, ONCE AGAIN, YOU GUYS DID A PHENOMENAL JOB. REALLY, EVERYTHING LOOKED LIKE IT RAN VERY SMOOTHLY, THE KIDS WERE ALL EXCITED. REALLY. I MEAN, IT WAS JUST A NICE EVENT, AS USUAL. THEY DID A GREAT JOB. 
          YEAH, I APPRECIATE THAT. ANGIE AND BRIDGET AND LILY, THEY THEY HANDLE IT. SO I KIND OF SHOWED UP. SO ALL CREDITS TO THEM, BUT VERY WELL DONE. AGREED A LOT OF SMILING, A LOT OF SMILING FACES. 
          I SAW THE PICTURES, THAT WERE ONLINE THAT WE ALSO HAVE. AND A GREAT JOB. I KNOW SAM WAS OUT 
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THERE TAKING SOME PICTURES. HE DID A GREAT JOB AS WELL. EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THOSE PICTURES. IT'LL JUST BE SO CUTE. I KNOW I COULDN'T PICKING FOR WAS MEAN. THERE'S SO MANY CUTE KIDS. YEAH. SPEAKING OF WHICH ONE, I GOT A QUESTION THEN. ARE WE? DO WE HAVE OUR LOOKING AT YOU GUYS OUT THERE? PUBLIC SERVICE. DO WE HAVE THAT HAZARDOUS WASTE DAY COMING UP AGAIN. IS THAT A DO WE DO THAT IN THE FALL OR IS IT TWICE A YEAR? AS OF NOW IT'S JUST ANNUA. 
          WE GOT IT BECAUSE I HAD SOMEONE ASK ME THAT OKAY. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT DOING A ONE, BUT THERE IS A YEAR ROUND DROP OFF NOW THAT SWACO OFFERS, SO THEY CAN TAKE IT DOWN BY THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          YEAH, I'VE BEEN DOWN THERE A COUPLE TIMES. YEAH. SO THAT IS A YEAR ROUND THING THAT FOLKS CAN TAKE IT OFF AND DROP STUFF OFF FOR FREE. DRIVE UP AND THEY COME OUT TO YOUR CAR AND TAKE IT. 
          OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANKS ALL RIGHT. APPRECIATE THAT, UNDER OTHER BUSINESS, WE HAD BOARD AND 
          [18. OTHER BUSINESS]
COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS. I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY TONIGHT EITHE, THE CITY MANAGER DID ASK ME TO, PROPOSE A MOTION, SO I WILL DO SO UNDER OTHER BUSINESS, I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CITY MANAGER'S LETTER ANNOUNCING HIS DESIRE TO RETIRE, EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 31ST, 2024, AND SUBSEQUENTLY BE REHIRED FOR A DEFINED TERM TO HELP FACILITATE AN ORDERLY SUCCESSION PLAN FOR THE CITY MANAGER'S POSITION. SECOND, THIS MOVE. THANK YOU. WE'RE NOT GOING TO DISCUSS THIS. 
          I THINK I THINK WE SHOULD JUST MAKE HIM STAY AROUND. I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD SOLUTION. 
          LATER ON, WE'RE I GUESS WE'RE NOT. WE'RE KIBBITZING. ON THAT MOTION, MAYOR SPALDING. YES, COUNCILMEMBER SCHULTZ. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. DEREK. YES COUNCIL MEMBER. FELLERS. YES. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. KITS YES. I HAVE FIVE YES VOTES ON THE MOTION TO ACCEPT THE LETTER AND EXCUSE THE WORDING FOR THAT MOTION. CAN SHARE IT. THAT WOULD BE GREAT. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANY OTHER BUSINESS FOR COUNCIL'S CONSIDERATION. AND I MOVE THAT WE ADJOURN SECOND. AND WE ARE ADJOURNING AT 8:20 P.M. NOT BAD
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