City Council - Regular Meeting

will to be will be to excuse our councilman Lawson this evening. Is there a motion to excuse Mr. Lawson from the meeting? So so moved. Second. Thank you. I I I I All right, Carrie, if you would take the role, please. Here. Here. Here. Here. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance.

Algiance 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. All right. Good evening and welcome everyone to the March 17th meeting of the Ashlin City Council. Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone, to all of Ashlin. If you weren't at Saturday's festivities, a good time was had by all. So, yeah, we're uh giving the mayor about 30 seconds to uh make it up from his office. Good evening, Mr. Bidd. I beat the mayor.

You did? record. It is in the minutes.

For for our viewers at home,

for our viewers at home, we have Commissioner Denny Bidd with us this evening. I should say commissioner and candidate for comm county commissioner. So welcome Mr. Biddle and you're always welcome here. So how you guys do mayor. All right.

Oh my gosh. Feel free.

There we go. You fit right in. All All of you fit right in. So I was concerned.

Yes, we are. rare city of St. If you were here at city hall tonight earlier this evening there was a couple that brought all their dogs down trying to get them to stand here tonight. We decided we'd have a little fun at our council meeting. Since we can't be out and about, we've got it for the holiday. But we noticed one obvious thing was missing. And that is all the great in the room of any

can't have that. On behalf of the city of Ashland and all those people who elected you to be our finance director, I'd like to spread a little by giving you this wonderful hat that the heads of many people. Hey It's working for you, Larry.

Next time he'll make sure he wears something green. All right. All right. Down to business. Uh, first item on the agenda will be the approval of the minutes from the March 3rd meeting. If there are no additions, deletions, or corrections to those minutes, I'll ask for a motion to approve as submitted. So moved. Second. Thank you. Workman. I. Kyle. Hi. Miller. I. Woodward. I. Minutes will stand approved. First ordinance this evening will be an ordinance repealing chapter 229 of the codified ordinances of the city of Ashlin, Ohio. Move for non- reading in full. Second. Thank you. Workman. I. Kyle. I. Viller. I.

Woodward. I All right. And Mr. Finance Director, if you feel that in any way inhibits you from doing your job, feel free to remove it. We will forgive you. Oh. Oh, no. I uh this was given to me love and appreciation. Absolutely. And good luck. I will continue to wear this. It's good luck. That's

until I leave the building. Maybe uh the years ago the U state legislature uh uh enacted uh section 718 of the Ohio Revised Code and that uh sets up state law that cities must follow when they collect municipal income tax. Uh in doing that uh that or that code is amended from time to time and updated and better addresses uh current needs and situations and and the environment, the business and residential environments that it it controls. Uh a few years ago, there were some rather massive changes to that section. uh and in an effort to uh better answer or define what section 718 of the revised code uh says and how we can function in it. uh we had to uh create a essentially rewrite section 229 uh and another there was a another previous version as well 221 and some other sections that were initially enacted in 1971 when the income tax uh ordinance was approved by a previous city council in administration. In doing that, uh we did and this body did enact section 230 of the uh income

tax code to better reflect what 718 the flavor of what 718 was supposed to uh address. In doing that, uh, we now bring this to you because section 229 is no longer effective because it's because it's been replaced by 230. Uh a little example of that uh for is that uh the city must uh go and have a internet uh website so that our citizens can see what uh you know the tax code. They can read it. They can see the uh the online filing. uh and you can file and pay now online off of that website. Those are little examples of what uh this 718 revised 718 did along with a lot of other uh items such as uh laws carried forwards for businesses and things like that. Uh 230 is several pages long. It's not just uh one or two, it's over 30 pages long and it addresses a large amount of our current code. And in doing that, we ask that so that the two codes don't conflict with each other that 229 just be repealed.

Sure. Seems very necessary. All right. Any questions, comments, Mr. All right, with that, is there a motion to approve? Go ahead. So, we don't ha we don't have to approve the 230. You already have. Yes. We enacted 230 a few years ago. So, they were overlapping. They were overlapping. All we're doing is now catching this up. We had to get 230 in place first to comply with state laws and now to repeal this.

And I wouldn't expect anyone to remember when you did pass it because it's been it was more than two years ago. Yeah. So, thanks for refreshing my memory, Mr. Hatman. It's all about the hat. I do have a hard time taking Larry seriously. I know it is. It is a little difficult. You're not the only one. He's the cat in the hat. He's the cat in the hat. Forgive me, Larry. That's all right. Just joking. I deserve it. Not Well, if the folks at home could see those in the audience, we're my friends. If you saw everyone in the audience, there's a variety of hats sitting here tonight. We appreciate that.

So, if there's no further discussion, I'll ask for a motion to approve on the first reading. So, moved. Second. Thank you. Kyle, I. Miller. Hi. Woodward. I mean Workman. Sorry. I'll move to suspend the rules for three separate readings, three separate days. Second. Thank you. Miller. I. Woodward. Hi. Workman. Hi. Kyle. Hi. Is there a motion to approve the ordinance? So move. Second. Thank you. Woodward. I. Workman. I Kyle. Hi. Miller. Hi. Wordman. 16-26.

Thank you. Next, we have an ordinance establishing the appropriate zoning district for a certain area of the city of Ashlin, Ohio. Move for non-reading in full. Second. Thank you. Kyle, I Miller I Woodward I

All right. This particular ordinance deals with the portion of land that the city recently annexed out on Baney Road. This is right across from the Okay, I thought it was 67. I asked the assistant law director if he knew off the top of his head how many acres were involved in this particular annexation. The annexation has already been approved. So, it's part of the city. It's 67 acres along Bay Road. If someone's trying to figure out where it's located, this would be the land that would be directly across from where the condos are expected to be built. So, this is uh what on the northwest corner of the intersection of Baney Road and Smith Road. So, the northwest corner of Baney Road and Smith Road. And uh this is the land that of course the city annexed because the owner, current owner would like to pursue a housing development in that area. Tonight we need to decide what zoning designation we want to assign to this 67 acres and we are recommending we being the planning commission of the city of Ashland that we zone this RL2. This would allow for single family homes, duplexes/condominiums and possibly triplexes. And the reason why this designation was chosen was because we don't think that it's a good area to have apartment buildings and RL2 would match up with what's across the street on the uh south I'm sorry northeast corner of Baney and Smith Road. So that's what we're bringing to you tonight. Uh the planning commission like I said they met had a lengthy discussion. I think it actually stretched out over two meetings, but came to the conclusion based on what the property owner would like to do and what the city feels is best for that location. This is the recommendation.

How many acres we have? 67. 67. And like I said, it's already in the city. We've already accepted it into the city. The township worked with us on that, but now we have to decide how to zone that lane. seems appropriate, but they're anxious to get started as well. Right now, their project is on hold while they do a project cost analysis. Okay.

So, they're revisiting the cost of doing a project of this size and scope. And that's one of the things that is so important for people to realize when you talk about building a new housing subdivision or even new apartments like you see in the pump house corridor, those are very expensive projects. I think at one point the vision development team that are building the apartments on Fourth Street. I believe at least as of one point last year, they were thinking they would be putting more than $50 million into just building apartments on land that's right here in the city where all the utilities exist, where the streets are already in place. So, can you imagine the cost when you're talking about developing a 67 acre plot of land that will need streets and water and sewer and all that goes along with it? That's a lot of money. And so rightfully so, the developer is taking a look at the cost will be involved in the project.

Wouldn't RL1 be more suited to the properties that directly border that even though they're not in the city? RL1 would be single family, but the property owner would like to be able to do have that flexibility. Yes. And that's part of the discussion with the planning commission is we think that condominiums and duplexes would be fine because they're going to fit with the area, but we don't want to see multi-story apartment buildings. Sure. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Is there a motion to approve on the first reading? So moved. Second. Thank you. Miller. I.

Woodward. I. Workman. I. Kyle. I. I'll move to suspend the rules for three separate readings, three separate days. Second. Thank you. Woodward. I. Workman. I. Kyle. I. Miller. I. Motion to approve the ordinance. So moved. Second. Thank you. Workman. I. Kyle. I. Miller. I. Woodward. I. Ordinance 17-26. And incidentally, it might be worth noting, I'm sure that council member Kyle already knows this, but maybe some of you didn't notice it. that strip of homes that he's likely referring to on the east side of Bane Road, those are not in the city. No, they're not in the city.

So, those are still in the township, but you can see that right behind it in the city is RL2. And so, as the city moves west, the thought was be consistent. Very good. All right. Next, we have an ordinance authorizing and directing the mayor, director of public service to advertise for bids and to enter into a contract for the 20126 street resurfacing project in the city of Ashlin, Ohio together with all incidentals and pertinances necessary there too and declaring an emergency. Move for non-reading in full. Second. Thank you. Miller I. Woodward I. Workman. I Kyle I.

All right. This is something we do each year. We try to do it as early in the year as possible, but this is advertised for bids for a contractor to conduct our summer paving program. So, this is all the street resurfacing that our voters have said they wanted and have stepped forward to fund the project. This year, the finance director is estimating that we will have available to spend on new pavement approximately $2.5 million. And while we don't have a finalized list of all the streets and alleys that will be completed with that money, we are working on it. We're actually in a situation now where we are will be going back to some of the streets that we did 10 years ago.

So we've already come through a decade and there are places that have need attention that may have got resurfaced years ago. Now, one of my first comments to our engineering staff was, "But we got to make sure every street that hasn't been touched is touched." And they assure me that that will be the case. But, uh, this year, again, we do not have a finalized list of those streets, but as we work to look at which streets need it, we're hoping to put pavement down on at least 85 streets around the city. And we are going to make a concerted effort to address alleys. Alleys are something we've tried so hard to do on our own, but in so many instances, we just can't get to all of them or we don't have the right size equipment. But we're shooting to do 30 plus alleys this summer. So obviously that can be impacted by the bid, whatever that figure is when it comes in, but that's our goal. At least 85 streets to be resurfaced and more than 30 alleys to be touched.

Some of those are in real bad shape. Yes. Yes. So, I know you mentioned that the winter was pretty hard on the streets that we had already paved. Is this to repair any of those? It could be. It could be. But there are some of those streets that were done a decade ago that maybe the pavement didn't hold up on or the foundation and base was in bad condition and it needs address and sections need cut out. So, that's where it could we could revisit some of those streets as well. How did the streets hold up that we have the is it reclamite? Is that right? You know what? I haven't actually specifically looked at those streets, so I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Smith is great except for where it's had to be tore up to fix something. Yes.

But it uh the asphalt's holding up very well. That was a that was a big part of our winter

fixing broken utility lines underneath the pavement. And a lot of the biggest messes or quote potholes that people would have experienced came not from big chunks of asphalt coming out because of the age or the condition of the pavement because we had to cut into them. And of course it takes time to fill them and then the fill settles and it becomes a big pothole of sorts even if it was made by our staff. And then of course now that the weather will break we'll go back through and try to repair those. Unfortunately, there were a lot of those big self-made craters in our streets as we fixed the utility lines. Is Vesper Court considered an alley?

I don't know. Okay. It's You just may want to put it on your list. Okay. Okay. Vesper Court is uh I had the opportunity to drive on that road a couple times. Okay. And u it may need All right. an evaluation. Yeah, we'll we'll take a look. This is just the first step. Absolutely. This is so we can start process. We'll get a list eventually of all the streets being considered, I'm sure. Yes. Any other discussion? All right. With that, is there a motion? Did we do that? On the first reading. Okay. Uh motion to approve on the first reading. So moved. Second. Second.

Thank you, Woodward. I Workman I Kyle I Miller I I'll move to suspend the rules for three separate readings three separate days. Second. Thank you Workman. I Kyle I Miller I Woodward I motion to approve the ordinance. So moved. Second. Thank you. Kyle I Miller I. Woodward I. Workman I. Ordinance 18-26.

All right. Moving right to resolutions. We have none this evening. No public hearing items. No old business or new business unless council has something to bring forward. Hearing none, we'll move right to council comments. And Mrs. Woodward, would you like to go first? Well, I'm just thankful to live in a city that we can be festive. So, I have had many comments through Facebook and through phone calls of, "Wow, Ashley's just wonderful. somebody new that I work with has moved here and she has already just seen the culture. Yes. And how she appreciates it. So that's wonderful. I'm just glad that we live here.

That's it. I agree with that. Okay. Um, but I also wanted to remind everybody with all the branches coming down over the last couple of weeks because of the wind, you can uh put smaller branches and I think they identify smaller as one inch or less uh out on the curb, call the city arborist and they will pick it up on Friday and and mulch it there and or shred it there and and uh clean it up. So, it's a good service to have. Uh, and just wanted to remind everybody that matter any time of the year. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Not just

And it's a small fee, but it is not much at all. And they add it to your they add it to your weekly or monthly bill. So, it's like $15. Yeah. It's not It's not much. Something like that. But to get rid of that stuff is well worth it. Mr. time. I would just like to I'm gonna help Larry out and just remind everybody you have less than 30 days to file your city income tax. Just thanks. Just a reminder. Hey, I need the reminder, too. So, tax act tax act doesn't do that automatically. So, I have to hat man will be after you. Hat man will be after you. Nope. No, that's good. Okay. All right.

Happy St. Patty's Day. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I just want to reiterate it was uh quite a party Saturday. Mayor, good. I'll always say the mayor knows how to throw a party. And uh as I was at the bridge on Broad Street looking east at all the people. Yeah, it was uh it's wonderful. It looked much like Christmas uh for the size crowd we had down there. And and I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did uh to take part in that. So, thank you, mayor, for putting that out.

Appreciate those kind comments and thank you to all the folks here at the city that helped. One of the groups that we certainly have to thank are the city street crew members because I don't know if you realize it, but all day long they dealt with the effects of the wind. Yeah.

And then they stayed late because so many signs or traffic signals were blown down. So, they stayed late into the evening to fix those. And then the wind didn't die down until late at night. So they came back in at 2:00 a.m. and put up all the f all the decorations downtown so that they'd be ready for the St. Patrick's Day celebration. So God bless all of them and we're certainly going to reward them for their efforts. But we appreciate it so much and I do appreciate your comments, Mrs. Woodward, because yes, it's wonderful that our people enjoy these gatherings like St. Patrick's Day and Christmas and all the many things we do balloonfest all throughout the year. But it is interesting because I have received several calls from folks from other communities that just wanted to call to tell me they said it's incredible that you guys do these things in your community and they say we don't see this done anywhere. Where where do you guys come up with this? And we have a wonderful crew here in this community and a wonderful group of people. You say that the mayor likes to throw a good party. Well, clearly Asheners like to attend one. So, that's a great thing. That is a wonderful thing. But I'll tell you, we are so appreciative of everyone's support of our St. Patrick's Day celebration. And uh thank you for coming out and enjoying it with us. It's just a good way to get together. We always say we're striving to be safe, affordable, and fun. And I appreciate the fact that all of our community leaders, because we had schoolboard members, we had county commissioners, we had council members, they were all dressed up leading the parade. And that's just a wonderful thing. So, but there's a lot of wonderful things going on. First and foremost, I want to just comment one more time on the pump house district. Folks, I hope you understand we are living through a transformation.

I mean, we this is we're history in the making.

Today, we went the crew and I went down to take a look at some of the progress there at the actual pump house building. And as we turn down Cottage Street, what do we see? The start of another major construction project. The county commissioners and the new county administration building. All of the construction fences going up around the old junior high school property. And we even had to stop and pull over and just watch because it truly is incredible that you have that such a significant project getting ready to start. Then just across the street down the way, you have a new hotel being built. Upwards of $20 million being invested in that corridor. And then next to it, the first of what is going to ultimately, I believe, be seven different apartment buildings that are one building would be incredible. And I already referenced that that's expected, I believe, to be around a $50 million investment. You have looking to your southeast the location of where we're about to build our public transit headquarters. That's a $2.5 million building being paid for by federal monies and state monies. You take a look the other direction and you see where hopefully there will be two lots that will be developed into restaurants that will be there in the pup pump house corridor. It truly is amazing that we are getting to see grow out of that vacant spot these new buildings. And you have to admit, we all made the comment that as we sat there on Fourth Street next to those apartment buildings in between the pump house, they're four or five stories high. There is no place else in our city that you can go to experience that urban feel like you can in what is just the beginning of the pump house district. and add to it that this July 4th we're going to install our freedom park and our freedom memorial our freedom monument at that location. It's quite an

exciting time to be here. So when I see people taking pictures of it or putting it on their social media, I think to myself, you know what, one day soon people are going to look back and show the pictures of what it looked like before when there was nothing and yet we all get to live through it. So, that might have been a long speech, but I'll tell you what, it's pretty exciting to see. Across the street from city hall, you might have noticed there's no longer a 20 211 Claremont Avenue.

Uh that particular building, of course, the city owned and the chamber occupied most recently. Uh the building was in dire need of repairs. We got an estimate to make I think in order to stabilize the roof or replace the roof was going to be somewhere between 55 and 60,000. It had plumbing issues for so long. The chamber was constantly calling us about that. And it often smelled unpleasant in there because of that. And we just decided that you know what? While we have grant money to get rid of it, we'll get rid of it. And already it's amazing the comments we're getting. People are saying, "Boy, you don't miss that building at all. It totally opened up the area." And the building looks so dated that now we'll be ready to see what comes next. In the short term, it will be a parking lot, but uh we'll see what happens because we know there are other entities that have inquired about that lot and we'll just see if something makes sense.

The other part of that is though, we may not want to part with it because it is perfectly located across from city hall. And of course, once we would sell it, we'd never get it back. So, it may make sense to hold on to it. So, we're not too worried and we're not going to rush. But in the meantime, it definitely made for more parking for downtown and it looks so much better uh over there. Incidentally, the grant will also pay for some landscaping. So, around the flag pole and stuff, we'll make sure it's more attractive once it's all cleaned up. And speaking of cleaning up, spring cleanup starts April 6th. April 6th, spring cleanup will start. If you'd like to uh take a look at the map of when we'll be in your neighborhood, you can do so by visiting our Facebook page or our website. And we want to remind everyone that when you see your neighborhood shown on this map, you need to make sure your items are out by Monday of the week shown in your for your neighborhood. Uh too often they're getting calls, well, I missed you. I missed you. I missed you. And we just can't go back for every individual house that had a reason to not be able to get their stuff back out on Monday of the week. So try to get your stuff out before Monday of the week shown for your quadrant of the city. Also, if you need to get it out early, uh the rules say that you can set it out up to a week before you're given uh designated Monday. So, you should have plenty of time to get your stuff out and the crews will do their best to pick it up as quickly as possible. So, those are all the items that I have tonight. I appreciate you listening. Who do we have to thank for this? Uh,

yeah, that's right. Beverage. Well, you know, we thought we needed a toast here tonight at our uh at our St. Patrick's Day gayla. I would ask Amanda, maybe you should zoom in on that just so everyone knows that this is uh is what it says it is. Ginger ale. Yeah, ginger ale and a green pot. And of course, we brought some for the audience as well, so maybe afterwards uh we can have our toast to St. Patrick. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Mayor. With that, we'll open it up to comments and questions from our audience. If someone would like to address council, please step up to the podium. Not everyone needs to run up there at once. All right.

So, we have a big groundbreaking this week. Uh, County Commissioner Denny Bidd is in the audience and I believe it's Friday, right? I you know I've been in I've been I'm Denny Biddle County Commissioner of Ashland the great county of Ashland. Yes. No I was in Columbus all day so I apologize I'm not quite with it. Yeah we have a groundb break groundbreaking on our brand new office building as you've already stated. It's a $6 million project. Um so that'll be Friday at 1 p.m. So we invite the public to come. We think it's a historical event. Yes.

Uh we have tried for the last 30 to 40 years. Um I know the board has and some of the elected officials that's in the courthouse are just elated that they can get out and have their own building. Uh really the big goal was to make sure, you know, with with all the crime that goes on now, you know, we thought it was super important for us to put what I call airport security in the courthouse. And so with all the other people in the courthouse, it's not really a safe environment even though you have to go through airport security. So our goal is to get everybody out of there so it's 100% courthouse. So that project supposed to be completed March 1st of 2027 and then we'll start a remodel of that courthouse because obviously we have some changes. Uh it's not really designed for what it's being used for. So that project will hopefully start right after that to get that remodeled. The only conflict I have on that is that uh the title department will still have to be there temporarily. Um we haven't found a new home for that yet. Uh the goal we've been working on for the last year is trying to get the uh title and BMV in the same building. So we're not taking so our constituents are not going all the way across town to get their license and then their title. And I don't know if anybody's had the experience I have. you go out there to get your license, you don't have what you need. So then you go back to the title department to get what they So it really makes it kind of a pain in in the butt to be honest with you. Sorry about the language, but that's what it is. Um so yeah, that's exciting to start and we'll invite everybody there. We're going to have some nice cookies um there because after lunch, but we we hope for a big crowd. Uh but yeah, every again this Friday 100 pm at the old middle school building. Any questions on on any of that?

No, but I will make a quick comment just so you know if you want to pass on to the other two county commissioners as well. I don't believe that I can be there at one. And I would love to be there, but I don't believe I will be able to get back in time. So, if you see me missing, it's not because I oppose the project. I'm very excited about it. And I will tell you that when I was a county commissioner, which was back in 2000, so that's 26 years ago, that was the constant discussion around the courthouse and county office building about the need for a new building. So that has been going on, as you stated, for more than 30 years and finally becomes a reality. And I quite honestly think it's most impressive that you're able to build it without any tax levy. That's correct.

Simply from savings, you're able to build that building. We've had saving that for several years now and our budget has from from day one has been about 6 million. And I I want everybody to understand that, you know, some people think that we just started this project. We've been working on this project. Uh first thing we looked at was a new courthouse. You know, we spent almost a year laying out and looking at a new courthouse and there's property behind the sheriff's office because that we own property behind there that would fit nice back there. But once we did all that and started getting the numbers in, you know, a courthouse would cost you twice as much to put up as an office building,

it was back then it was about $18,000 square foot and they were talking like $13 million. So I thought, well, we're not going to get $13 million for a while. So that kind of, you know, made our direction look a little different. And then so we went back to uh the last year and a half, almost two years, laying out this building. Uh, I've always believed it takes it truly takes longer to lay it out and get it engineered it does to build it. If you're going to do it right, it'll take you twice as long to get it figured out than it will to build. And that's about where we're going to be at. It takes about two years. And I appreciate uh any comments or any suggestions everybody has. It's been a long haul to get there. Lots of design changes. We will have the picture of it posted on site and uh so I think people's going to be impressed with it.

Oh, it's a beautiful building and the location is wonderful because you can easily move among the courthouse, the county administration building. This new building, job and family services, you can do it all easily on foot and it's only a block or two away to any of those areas. Yes. All our county offices now are what almost like little campus, you know, from our office, prosecutor's office to the court to that. It's all nice centrally located in the city of Ashlin which makes it way easier to navigate and we certainly appreciate that it's staying downtown. Yeah. Yes. Denny, how many square feet is it? It's about 13,000. It is twotory. Good size.

Yeah. When when you look at when you look from I call it 250 going north. It looks like a single story because as you remember it has a big drop off. So, we're going to put the building back against there and the parking will be on the east side. It'll be two stories. You walk into the first level and then second level will take you up to the 250 street. Yeah, it's it's pretty cool. We're pretty happy with it. And it's also just so people know is, you know, this board has continued to look at what I call infrastructure. For us, it's all buildings. We do not want a water department or a sewer department

like you guys have to deal with. We don't want that. Um so uh our plans on all these buildings have been 50 to 70 year plans you know and and so that's why if you look what we've done in the past with the dog shelter health department was a huge one you know it never had a home and now we have that beautiful building on Claremont for the health department completely remodeled and now this new office building redoing the courthouse you know we we closed recycling down so that that's our maintenance garage and when we did that that actually upped our tonnage with this county and the city uh for recycling. So, it worked out really well. So, this project will put us in the next 50 to 70 years infrastructure and we will be done and ready to go for the next

council and next commissioners. Good. Great. Very good. Well, congratulations. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for being here, Mr. Biddle, and and uh the good work that you and the other commissioners do. Thank you for taking part in our festivities by wearing the hat along with Mr. Paxton. He was in his Saturday. Yes. Yeah. So, it was a good time. But

it was a good time. I appreciate being invited to that because it's, you know, Matt, you're you're correct and and city council is correct. this city which obviously rolls over to the county but you're a big part of the county obviously that you know he has got to be the childished mayor in the state of Ohio he loves parties and I said that there I said this guy loves little kids loves parties he just keeps this community young which is really cool especially for us old guys been around for a few years it's so fun to see all the kids in the activities and you know thanks to the council So, and to the mayor, uh, it's a great place to live. Well, thank thank you. Yeah. All right. Well,

you can lead with that line. The commissioner said the mayor is the most childish mayor in the state of Ohio. I That's good. And you know what? I don't mind that either. So, thank you. All right. Is there anyone else that would like to make a comment? All right. hearing. None. Is there a motion to adjurnn? So move. Second. Thank you. I I I All right, we are ajourned. Thank you all for coming. It's yours.