City Council - Regular Meeting

I'm here to listen. Okay, if you would please rise and join me in the 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. And I would like to thank everyone for being here this evening. Jody, could you call the role, please? Jay Dennis here. K. Dennis here. Elliot here. Harold, glad to be back. Holland here. Musgrave here. Odicio here.

Okay. Um, the minutes from our March 16th meeting were distributed for you to review. Are there any additions or corrections to those minutes? Hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Second. Properly moved and seconded. All in favor say I. I. Post. Same sign. Thank you, Jody. Do we have any correspondence? We do not. Okay. Is anyone signed up for lobby visitation this evening? No one this evening.

Okay. That brings us to the introduction of new legislation. Mr. President, Miss Dennis, I have two ordinance uh from the public utilities committee. uh an ordinance authorizing the utility director to sign an agreement with Bowling Green State University for exterior painting of the Carter Park Water Tower and declaring an emergency and an ordinance authorizing the development of a solar generation project and authorizing the utilities director to negotiate and enter into required agreements for the project. Okay. Uh Mr. President, Mr. Dennis

from the Transportation and Safety Committee. I have a resolution authorizing the municipal administrator to give consent, enter into contracts, and execute appropriate documents for Ohio Department of Transportation, ODOT, for project ID number one. Thank you. That brings us to official reports. Mr. Mayor,

thank you, Mr. President, and good evening, uh, councel. This evening, I wanted to comment and highlight a proclamation that was recently issued from my office. And this is a pro, uh, a proclamation designating April as fair housing month in the city of Bowling Green. The intent of this proclamation is to acknowledge the city's endorsement and commitment to the policy of fair and equal housing in the city. So, with your indulgence, I'd like to read um a little bit from this proclamation for accuracy sake, but I did want to emphasize a couple of sections of it because I really think it's important for us to um take advantage of any opportunity to highlight these requirements. Um, so the federal house federal fair housing act of 1968 and the fair housing amendments act also of 1968 state that discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing is illegal when based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexal status and disability. And whereas the principle of fair housing is not only required by law but is a basic human necessity. Whereas the city of Bowling Green defines discrimination as any act, policy or practice that regardless of intent has the effect of subjecting any person to differential treatment as a result of that person's actual or perceived race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, immigration status, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sex, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, creed, ancestry, disability, military status, veteran status, marital status, family status, physical characteristics, HVI, HIV status, source of income or genetic information. As you can see, this is a

widely protected right. Um, and this again goes on to reinforce the fact that the city of Bowling Green supports fair housing efforts to eliminate discrimination in housing by providing education and outreach to seekers of housing, rental property. um here in the city. So, I thought it was important to take just a minute to to um emphasize these protections and also the fact that the city is committed to providing education um to those that are are seeking housing or providing housing here in the city. Um concludes my report subject to any questions that you may have.

Does anyone have any questions for the mayor this evening? All right. Thank you very much, Municipal Administrator, Miss Treader.

The sunshine out your window reminds us that uh longer, brighter days, better days are heading our way. And several community organizations are beginning their planning for annual events. And so staff has been working with these community organizations to get their permits, to get their plans together. But another thing that city staff has been working on is planning for summer. And to that end, we have brought our parks and recreation director, Kristen Otuley, here uh to talk about summer plans and give information about our parks and recreation department. Kristen,

hello. I turned on the mic, so I'm already doing well. Um, so I have uh kind of just a brief overview of all kinds of things. Uh, every time I come, I I would be remiss if I do not remind you of what our mission is. And I would say if you could tell me I'd give you a koozie as a prize, but I already gave you one. So, um, our mission is in enhancing quality of life through parks, programs, and facilities. So, and I'll give you kind of a little overview and and show you that that's exactly what we do every day. Um, so in some news, uh, the pickle ball nets are back up and, uh, the pickleball courts, the outdoor courts are already being used frequently by all age demographics. Um and so we um learned from our neighbors to the north to take down the windscreens and the nets during the wintertime uh to prevent damage. So um as soon as the very first day of sunshine and um 42 uh came uh the pickle ballers really wanted to get outside. So um we we do now have the nets up. Never fear. Um as Lori mentioned, summer hiring is underway. Uh we already have a lot a lot a lot of staff hired for the pool. They are just about done. We do have some other summer seasonal positions um as the pool will be opening in a little over a month, Memorial Day weekend, believe it or not. So, someday we'll have warm weather and it'll stay and it won't fluctuate back and forth. I promise. Um a project to update you on the Black Swamp Preserve. If you recall, we jointly own that with Wood County Park District. So, on our section of that, um there is a boardwalk that we have been meeting to replace, wanting to replace. Um, a bridge is going in there. That project is underway and we did receive some grant funds from Wood County Park District. I believe they'll be here in May to give us the check. They'll be coming. Um, but that project is underway and should be completed soon. Um, the wind that we have had recently, it's already been reported that

obviously the the parks had um some issues with that. I would be remiss if I didn't kind of have a little educational moment for people. When there's a high wind advisory, certain parks of ours are probably not a good place to be during that time. So, we'll be making sure that people understand that. You would think that they would. However, um I do want to thank our fellow departments, um the urban forestry and the electric divisions, especially at Winter Garden. We have utilized them quite a bit lately and we truly appreciate that. Uh, one of the, uh, gifts that I left you at your seat, not as fun as a koozie, um, is a flyer um, put together some educational material parks and recreation association um, about property taxes. And so I will just say that is good information that was put together by our state association and remind you that the parks and recreation department's budget um a significant part of that comes from our dedicated property tax levy and I will leave it at that. But if you have any questions certainly you can ask me about that. Um we will be uh updating our master plan. Um our current plan runs through the end of this year. Uh so I've mentioned this before, but survey and focus group uh meetings will be um starting this summer. So um watch for that. We'll keep you updated on that. Um we are continuing to work with the public works department um to uh come up with efficiencies between our two departments and sharing of resources and things. So I want to thank the public works department for that. Um as Lori indicated with summer, the summer brochure will probably be out next week. Uh we're in the final editing stages of that and all of those programs and camps and events and things are uh just about uh set up. Uh we are currently in the throws of finishing uh some I'll give you some numbers from some of our winter

programs, but um spring programs uh are currently underway andor starting soon. We had 150 kids in our most recent youth basketball programs, 167 in our current youth volleyball programs, 227 participants in our current youth soccer program, and 93 in our current flag football program. So those are spring programs um programming year round. Uh so uh I do want to report we had a kind of a a great partnership with BGSU and the Wood County District Public Library. You might have uh heard about this, but Robin Wall Kimmer, author of Braiding Sweetg Grass, uh was at the Veterans Building last Saturday uh to give she did something on campus and then came there and gave a talk and we had approximately 250 people from all over the region come to hear her and um some folks drove two to three hours to see her and were in our veterans building. Um staff spoke with folks from Akran and Cincinnati and again all over the area. Um, so wanted to report on that. Last week we did hold a spring break camp when the Bowling Green City Schools were on spring break. Our parents night out programs still prove very popular. Some upcoming programs and events. Our final brown bag music series, which is a partnership with BGSU College of Musical Arts, is this Friday, April 10th, at the Simpson Building. The Wayland Chamber Music Competition winners will be performing. Our annual adult egg scramble is coming up this Saturday, April 11th, at the community center. Well, inside, but mostly outside. Um, you must register by Thursday. Prizes have been donated by more than 20 area and regional businesses and include products, gift cards, gift certificates, instant lottery tickets, and cash. So this is for adults at night with flashlights

because the kids shouldn't just have all the fun, right? Uh community Earth Day, we are a partner with that is Sunday, April 19th from 2 to 4 at the Monasuri School of Bowling Green. And the very first pickle ball tournament will be held at the outdoor courts on May 30th. We are partnering with the current leadership BG class and a portion of the proceeds for the money that they raise will be going to our foundation um and to the uh pickle ball line item which will help to take care of those courts going forward. Uh since I am here I will report on some bike safety stuff. Um I serve as a city's leazison to that. You do have another uh prize at your seat. The bicycle spokesperson of the year nomination forms are out. The deadline is May 15th. So, spread the word on that. And just confirmed on Friday, uh we do have the right direction coming back uh to do the third grade assembly that we do with all the school kids um out of the community center to teach them about bike safety stuff. Our foundation uh was integral in bringing Winterfest back the end of February. So, you have a little momento at your seat. Um and the Winterfest committee along with the foundation is uh working on um kind of assessing what went well and what can be improved and looking to bring that back next year in February. Not necessarily the last weekend in February. It might be a little earlier. So, we'll keep you posted on that. Uh they just completed a fundraiser with Juke Mode um with Winter Garden T-shirts and sweatshirts. I received mine in the mail Saturday. They look amazing. um probably going to wear that tomorrow and um if you missed out on that, I don't think there's a way to get any more. Um but we hope to continue to do that every year. So that should be an opportunity. Um the foundation plans on

doing their annual fund uh and that should be sent out in May. And um this year, well at the end of last year, they did for the first time a calendar um that was uh for Winter Garden. That was a fundraiser. And for 2027, the calendar will be focused on Simpson Garden Park. So we will be getting information out about that um so that people are aware. they can go around take pictures all year this year and submit their picture and hopefully it'll be one of the 13 that get chosen for next year's calendar. Um, so all that being said, we are enhancing lives daily. Any questions for me?

Does anyone have any questions for Miss Hotley? All righty. Thank you. Uh, Lauri, you got anything else? No. Subject to your questions, that's my report. Anyone have any questions for Miss Tredder this evening? Okay. City attorney, Mr. Brown. Good evening. No report. Does anyone have any questions for Mr. Brown this evening? Public infrastructure director, Mr. Okonnell.

Good evening. Um, we are a uh Ohio EPA regulated storm water utility and uh with that comes um u known as an MS4. a municipal separate storm sewer system utility and we're required to submit an annual report um every year on uh by April 1st and so back in March um we did submit that report to the EPA um Rachel helps us Ciser is here today she helps us uh submit that report um she gathers up a lot of the information um that's going on all year long from a lot of our divisions in the water and sewer division the public public works division engineering and uh maybe a couple others I'm forgetting about Um, basically the the plan requires us to have six um six areas of of activities that we're working on. Um, covers everything from public education to getting into our own systems that we're we're doing at say the public public works facility or on our own sites. Um, but it's a report that uh again is due every year. It outlines what we did for the past year that met our plan um document documented plan. It also outlines what we're going to be doing um this year for the the balance of this year um for our our upcoming plan. Um so that that was submitted. Um it doesn't get a lot of a lot of press, a lot of publicity, but it is a lot of work and effort that goes into that report. Um and it's it's a permit requirement that we we have to get submitted and um again want to appreciate Rachel's help in getting us um um keeping us in compliance and getting that information submitted to the EPA uh in in a timely manner. Um, another another thing while I'm on uh the Rachel bandwagon here, uh, she helps us with the, uh, smart energy provider application. She's working on that right now. Um, those are due at the end of this month. Um, that's an American public power association um, recognition. Uh, we've we've submitted that uh, for the past couple of years and we've received that probably two or three times now. It's it's a multi-year application, so if you get it, that the designation is typically good for two or

three years, I believe. Um, so we didn't do it, you probably didn't hear about it last year because again, we already had had the designation from the past two years. Um, but our time time is up again uh to get that submitted. So, uh, that's one thing she's helping us to complete at this point in time. Um, and she has it done and we're going to be reviewing that this week to get it submitted before the uh, before the deadline, but hopefully we'll get some good responses back or good response back from APA and we'll be able to say we're another successful smart energy provider application. So, we'll let you know how that goes. But that's my report unless you have questions. Does anyone have any questions for Mr. Okonnell? We had a lot of rain. How did we fare?

Uh wet. Um are you referring to the wastewater plant or uh wastewater?

Yeah. So we did I mean that kind of rain events we we were going to have a CFO event. Um but that's not uncommon for you know that large of a amount of rain. Um, I think the one day I heard we were we had over three inches of rain, but then we have more that same day plus the next day. So, I think all in all we probably had I'm guessing we had more than 5 inches of rain total over that time period. Um, I didn't see the the Cso page web page uh to document what the total uh cso discharge was, but um the plant ran as as we we expected to. Um, just to cover that real quick, we we do uh try to treat as much as much combined sewer uh waste water as we can and we do that by increasing the pumping capacity at the PRER pump station to 30 million gallons a day and so we pump as much as we can as quick as we can to the plant for treatment. Um we do change the the treatment process at the wastewater plant also gets put into um um I forget the exact term of it but but they pass water through at the 30 million gallon per day uh mark so we can um still meet permit requirements but treat again treat as much as that storm storm water or combined sewer water as possible. Um there's also a 5 million gallon holding tank at the Pommer intersection and so we fill that up. Um and then whatever we can't treat or hold in that holding basin um that's that then gets discharged to um the PO road ditch as a combined sewer um overflow. Um, our permit does require us to be uh to have four or less per year based on an average rain event. And I would say that that rainstorm, the ones we had for the past couple days are likely to not be average. And so those should not count against our four or less. We typically don't have CSO events unless we get, you know, rain events that are above one and a half inches, 2 in of rain. That's when we typically will see a C cso event occur. Um, and again, those those don't don't normally count against our four or

less per year in our permit. Um, but the plant ran as it was expected to be expected to. Um, we treated as much water as we could and we store stored as much as we could. Okay. Thank you. That brings us to council committee reports. Mr. President, Miss Elliot, the Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development Committee held the required public hearing for ordinance 9344 this evening. Okay, Mr. President, Mr. Dennis,

the Transportation and Safety Committee met this evening as well uh for the purpose of selecting our representative to the sidewalk commission. We also had a uh review and discussion of council's 2026 goals. Um, we will be scheduling a another meeting in the weeks ahead to uh dive a little bit deeper into that, specifically the Main Street pedestrian and bike study, uh, avenues for street repair funding, uh, and possible collaboration with the bicycle safety committee on the, uh, main street study. also discussed the transportation master plan uh which is going to be coming due in another couple of years. So I'd encourage everybody to review that and hopefully we can maybe update that in the next two or three years.

Okay. Any other council committee reports? Uh, I would just like to provide a reminder that the finance committee of city council will be meeting on April 20th at 6:30 uh for our quarterly review of uh the city's finances. So, that'll be here in council chambers uh on April 20th at 6:30.

Uh, Mr. President, if I could just add one more. Um, was not on my agenda, but uh, Debbie Thompson did attend the meeting tonight and provided us with a list of sidewalk ramps. Um, some discussion about BG Song's uh, walk audit, which looked at 63 different intersections. So, um, Mick Murray uh, public works director is going to be given that information as well, and I'd encourage all the city council to take a look. Okay. Thank you, Debbie. Any other council committee reports? Hearing none, that brings us to the reading of legislation. Jody,

legislation for first reading. Excuse me. Resolution 3905 for first reading. Resolution authorizing the municipal administrator to give consent, enter into contracts, and execute appropriate documents for the Ohio Department of Transportation ODOT for project ID number 114710. Ordinance 9347 for first reading. ordinance authorizing the utility utilities director to sign an agreement with Bowling Green State University for exterior painting of the Carter Park water tower and declaring an emergency. Mr. President,

Miss Dennis, I move that we suspend the rules for ordinance 9347 and give it its second reading. Seconded. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Okay. Jody K. Dennis, yes. Elliot, yes. Harold, yes. Holland, yes. Musgrave, yes. Odicio, yes. Jay Dennis, yes. All right. The rules are suspended for ordinance 9347. Mr. President, it has to be read. Jody just has to read. Sorry.

Ordinance 9347 for second reading. Ordinance authorizing the utilities director to sign an agreement with Bowling Green State University for exterior painting of the Carter Park water tower and declaring an Mr. President. Mr. Harold, I have a question for the administration that is uh will we be able to see um what the Bowling Green State University design is going to look like?

Um yeah, we will get a copy of of that um and we can share that with you um once they've submitted it to us. I I haven't received it just yet, so but I'd be happy to give it to you when when I when I receive that. Excellent. Thank you. If I could add just the pursuant to the contract, the city retains all the power to approve the design as well. By city, you mean the administration? Yes. All right, Jody. Where was I? Uh, we're doing 9348.

Okay, gotcha. I thought we were doing the original. Ordinance 9348 for first reading. Ordinance authorizing the development of a solar generation project and authorizing the utilities director to negotiate and enter into required agreements for the project. Mr. President, Mr. Harold,

thank you. Uh in the legislative packet it said this legislation will allow the project to move forward while final engineering permitting and contractual details continue to be refined. Uh will we as council have any uh uh future say in what those designs end up being or does this legislation take us out of the picture? Yeah, I would say it would take you out of the out of the equation, but um it doesn't mean we wouldn't be able to share details of the project as as they go forward. Uh some of it is is when we say the design of it is more into the sizing of you know how many panels will be on one site versus the other. Um and they're just it's information that you we can't get completed until the the solar developer completes their work to actually design the field layout to know where things are going to go, where how it fits on the property. Um so that's what I mean by the the design of the system. Um uh with that comes pricing for the the uh the what is the cost of the energy going to be. Um a lot of that can't be determined until you know what the exact size is going to be and what their costs are going to be going into it. And so we won't have the information until um but that that's not not very unlike other uh power supply contracts that we've entered into before where um the exact pricing for the the asset or for the generation facility isn't isn't fixed or known um upfront at this point in time. Um, this is this is a little bit little bit different than a uh say if we're going to purchase a a PPA or a power purchase agreement from a developer that already had say a wind project that was already developed and built and they were trying to sell a you know maybe a multi-year contract to us for just the energy. They would know what those costs were. We'd have that um that number up front. Um so we don't have that yet because the project hasn't

been designed, hasn't been built, and those final numbers haven't have been not been put together yet. So again, we can be more than happy to keep you updated on as the project develops where we end up with things, but um this would give authorization. I mean, that was the intent of was to give authorization to sign those those agreements um going forward.

Okay. Yeah, I figured that you didn't have the the numbers because you haven't done the study. So I'm just wondering if at some point because this is something the community is interested in at some point when the design and the the best plan for going forward will it come back to council for andor the board of public utilities for uh going forward or is this whatever whatever has come up with in the future that's what it is without further uh input from council or the ward. Um I mean it says to to authorize signing contracts. So our intent was to say this was going to be give us the ability to do that

um going forward without coming back and asking for permission to do um another another signature or another you know ordinance. Yeah. And I can understand that because uh what contractor would want to know go forward if there was possibility that after they did all that work it wouldn't be approved. Would it be possible to uh uh keep council and the board of course as you usually do uh appraised of the status and you come up with? Yeah, that's no problem. Very good. Thank you. That solar field was supposed to provide enough energy to power 2,000 homes

approximately. I mean that was a rough calculation, rough estimate um that uh when when Jan asked us that night. Um, we ran some quick numbers on our our phone. Um, you don't have the exact numbers because the the total size of the facility has not been fully determined yet. So, based off of some rough numbers we had in our in our minds, um, based off of what we expect the energy production to be, based off of what average homeowners typically use, um, that's kind of where that number comes from. So, don't take that to the bank, but it's a rough approximation. Could be more than 2,000. It could be. Yeah. And of course, once it's designed, you'll have a better idea. Yes, sir.

Um and that the location for that is that over by where the windmills are. No. Um the windmill property was not available to us going forward because it's owned by the the county. Um and they need the property back to expand the landfill. Okay.

So, um the the wind project is looking to be um taken down in 2026. um probably later in the second half of 2026. Um they were all retired officially in 2025. So they haven't they haven't turned u three of them haven't turned since 2025. Um but the uh um the county uh was not going to renew a lease for us um on that property. Um again, mostly because they need they need the property back. Um both the northern sites and the the two at the south end. um they need that both uh space spaces or areas for landfill expansion like the the cell to the north is going to where the the northern two are at um they'll be in the cell for the expansion and I believe the uh the mass we saw the two at the south end um by route six um that field is actually actually a uh like I think it's designated to be a borrow pit for um some work they need to do to move dirt into the landfill for layering or you know whatever their their um construction construction practices are. So, they've they've asked us and per per our contract with them uh back from the early 2000s to completely remove everything. Um that includes the concrete foundations that are, you know, potentially 30 ft deep. Um that includes any conduit or cabling or or or circuits that are buried on the property. Um but all that all that uh uh cost was included in our um our budgets for the project. And we um the the members in the project there was there's total of 10 of us. Um we had set aside money for the uh removal of the the assets or for the for the wind turbines. And so that's already been covered. We have the funds available we believe to to cover that cost fully. And uh any remaining proceeds would be returned back to the uh the the members of the project or the owners. Um we're about a 50% owner.

whatever money is left over from the contract to remove them will be uh sent back to the members um to us and the other nine nine AMP members. Um so again that that work will go on later this year again probably the second half of 2026 and um our hope is that the the solar project could be into construction by that time as well. Also, while one's being taken down, the other would be, you know, under construction and hopefully the solar field would be online u by the first half of 2027 was would be our would be our hope. Do you know how much power do the windmill did provide?

Uh those were 1.8 megawws each. So I think the total was like 7.2 megawws. But um the capacity factor was similar to what you would find with solar today about 20 25% capacity factor. Um but they produce energy at very different times. You know typically the wind in the summertime is is down. Uh you don't get a lot of wind energy in the summertime at that location especially. Um and so in the fall and the winter is when you tally have you know in spring is when you have the larger wind events and they would produce more power during those those times of the year. So I would say for for our uh customer load profile um the solar um is a better fit for when we need energy and when customers are wanting to use energy um in the summertime typically because of air conditioning load. So um I think the solar is a is a better is a better fit. Um, wind is very difficult to develop in Ohio at this point in time just because of the rules from the state of Ohio. Um, solar is also becoming difficult to develop just because of again rules from the state of Ohio. Um, but we think we've got some partners and and some land available that will let us move forward with with the project. Um, um, yes, and there are places that uh that do sell wind contracts. when developers already have, you know, assets built today that you can go buy a wind contract. And we did that with our water plant and our wastewater plant. Um maybe was a year or so ago. So we do have a portion of our energy for the the water plant, the wastewater plant that comes from from a wind contract, a PPA. Again, that was a fixed uh that was a known price because that project was was already developed and we weren't buying the asset. We weren't an owner, just buying the the energy output from those from those um those facilities. Thank you, Brian. And another advantage uh is that uh I've heard the story where

there was a university student that was wondering why we had wind windmills because there greens already quite windy. So, we won't have that confusion. That will be no longer a confusion anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Mr. President, Mr. Odicio, um Brian, I'm sorry I missed this earlier. Approximately how many megawws is the solar field?

Uh we're looking at around 10 megawatts, 10 to 10 to 12 right now. Um uh depends. There's two sites and um one is looking at maybe between 8 and 10 and the other one might be around 2 to 4. So it kind of depends on you know what can be fully developed at at the two different sites. Excellent. Thank you. Okay. Uh Jody

legislation for second reading resolution 93904 resolution authorizing the city attorney to petition the board of county commissioners of Wood County, Ohio to change township lines. Ordinance 9346 for second reading. Ordinance amending and adopting chapter 155 of the codified ordinances of the city of Bowling Great, Ohio regarding community reinvestment areas. Mr. President, I have Mr. Dennis.

I have a few questions about this legislation. Just so I'm understanding that the tax abatements correctly, we are not reducing taxes for any existing parcels. Correct? We are deferring the increase in payments until a later date. I don't know if that's the I mean the the payments are being deferred. Correct. Is the period 10 years? Yes. Correct.

Okay. So for and we've it's broken down by remodels, new constructions, etc. We are essentially agreeing if we accept an application to hold off on increasing that property owner's taxes. Is it up to 10 years or is it a flat 10? It's 10 years. Okay. Um so I guess as I'm reading this legislation, I notice that there is an owner occupancy requirement here. Uh which I think is great. um homeowners should have access to this and well I guess has this been successful and I'm assuming since you're asking us to you know tweak it not eliminate it we have had some success here is that

yes we have had success with this I think we have between and Katie feel free to hop on the microphone here uh between 40 and 50 in the program so far that's correct and just to clarify it's um only a 50% abatement. So, we're I think you had mentioned, you know, we're not in putting any of the increase in property tax on the books, but it's actually we are putting 50% of that on the books, just not the other 50. I like that even better. Um, and then again, to be clear, should it be for a remodel, it would only be for the increased value, right? So,

correct. Okay. The increase in the assessed value. Okay. Um, so as I'm reading through this legislation, we've got an owner occupancy requirement, which I I think is fine, and I'm not going to propose to amend this legislation tonight. I guess as I'm reading through this, what I'm wondering is whether it would not make sense, and if this doesn't make sense, please let me know and I won't spend the next two weeks asking people about it. Um, whether it would make sense to eliminate that owner occupancy requirement and open it up to any any property that would otherwise meet the criteria. My reasoning for that, I think, would be that a lot of the complaints that I hear about property conditions involve investment property, uh, rental units that need updated. And I am wondering if this has proven to be an incentive for homeowners whether we should not be using it to incentivize the improvement of rental properties. The owners of those properties also happen to have I would say in most cases more income that they could invest into improvements. So, I think it would make a lot of sense to eliminate the owner occupancy credit and make this available to all property owners if we were serious about improving housing conditions in those neighborhoods.

Again, I don't have an amendment tonight, but subject to feedback from other members of council and the administration, I would intend to make that amendment at our next meeting.

I'll I'll I'll weigh in. Uh, Councilman Um I can see some um logic in your point of view on that. Um from my perspective, if our goal by developing this incentive is to create incentives for property owners to improve the condition of their properties so as to support our neighborhood revitalization efforts, improve our neighborhoods, improve the condition of housing in Bowling Green. Um, I think that removing that um uh or broadening it, making it available to um all property owners is consistent with and and would benefit us in achieving that goal.

So, I think that um if that were to happen that there is some logic to that and I personally could support that that modification.

Okay. Okay, Jody, there is no legislation for third reading. Ordinance 9344 comes off the table automatically. Mr. President, Miss Elliot, I move to adopt ordinance 9344. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Jody Elliott, yes. Harold, yes. Holland, yes. Musgrave, yes. Odicio, yes. Jay Dennis, yes. K. Dennis, yes.

All right. Ordinance 9344 is adopted. Is there any other business to come before council this evening? Hearing none. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Second. Properly moved and seconded. All in favor say I. I. I. Both. Same sign. All right. We are journ. Thank you very much.