City Council - Regular Meeting

all right if everyone could 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 I'd like to thank everyone for being here tonight. Michelle, could you call the roll, please?

Jay Dennis.

Here.

Kay Dennis. Here. Elliot. Here. Harold.

Here.

Hollenbaugh.

Here.

Musgrave.

Here.

Odirisio.

Here.

Okay. To start out this evening, we have a special recognition, and for that, I will throw it to Mayor Osbacher.

Thank you, Mr. President. Good evening, council. I am pleased this evening to introduce Alex Roth, who is with us today. Alex works for AMP and he is the manager of member relations. And he is here to make a very special presentation. So we're gonna give him the mic and let him make this presentation. Alex, thank you so much for being here today.

good evening members of council again my name is alex roff and with the member relations team at american municipal power for those who aren't familiar with camp we are the wholesale electric provider and provide other services to your electric department as well to the city of bowling green and to 135 other public power communities across nine states in the midwest we're very passionate about public power you'll hear us talk about it quite a bit but to celebrate one of your great students on scholarship. The scholarship, the Loughby Wright Scholarship, is one of two awards presented as part of our annual scholarship program. The scholarship is named in honor of Loughby Wright, who was a strong public power advocate and served on the board of trustees. I actually learned today that Mr. Wright started his career as a business manager for the city of Baltimore back in 1955. He later served on the board of trustees in the 80s. Since the program's inception, household received electricity from the city.

I want to take a moment to recognize the gravity of the achievement. Dozens of students were nominated for the scholarship. The Board of Trustees selected the recipients based on their scholastic records and personal achievements. I'm going to read Julia's resume here in a minute. It is quite impressive. And as well, the nominee took an exam to test their knowledge on public power. So we kind of quiz their knowledge on the public power industry and happy to say that Julia excelled on that on that exam. We are pleased that a strong municipal electric community like Bowling Green is home to one of this year's recipients. That student, Julia Barnett, is the daughter of Michael and Rachel. Julia is graduating from Bowling Green High School and plans to attend Washington University in St. Louis to study biomedical engineering. Good luck. Julia is also very involved in school and community activities. Just to read some of her resume, she was an active member in the Bowling Green Leadership Council, the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership Seminar, the Northern Lakes League Mental Health Conference, and she was the social media officer for the Bowling Green High School Spanish Club. heavily involved in the arts as president of the Bowling Green Choir, as part of the Madrigals, and as a piano student. She was captain of the varsity tennis team the past two years and a four-year varsity letter winner in track and field. She volunteered for many organizations within her community, including the Bowling Green Firefly Nights, Black Swamp Arts Festival, the Brown Bag Food Pantry, Second and Seven Reading Program, and as a youth tennis coach. Finally, Julia has gained exceptional experience as a BGSU science research lab volunteer and was selected to participate in the Purdue University Agriculture Science Research Center. Wow, really impressive, Julia. I read these resumes and I think, what was I doing in high school? She's really on her way to quite a bright and successful career. So reading from the AMP proclamation, on behalf of the AMP Board of Trustees, we find that Julia is a talented student with a promising future. Julia, congratulations on receiving an AMP scholarship and best of luck with your future at WashU.

Thank you again. Thanks. Julia, you don't want to give a speech? Yeah, you can tell us all what you think.

Alex, thank you very much for that presentation. I just want to add my congratulations to Julia and this award. Obviously, it's a very competitive award. And you have earned it. I mean, there's no question. And just that little bit of your resume that I heard Alex share, it's clear to me that you have achieved really great things during your time in high school, your academic achievements, athletics, community engagement. You're a well-rounded student. I have no doubt that you will be successful. And we appreciate all your contributions to this community and wish you well in your college career. So thank you very much. Good luck.

Okay, next we have a special presentation from the Wood County Park District.

Good evening, Council, Mayor. On behalf of the Wood County Parks District, we'd like to present the parks, the district, your city parks, with a check for $10,000 from a grant fund, local community parks grant program. I understand it's already been spent, which is fine.

We're very efficient.

paid anyway we really appreciate all the work that everybody does with the parks we're big supporters of the parks and when Dave Wester asked me why I wanted to serve on this board you know for the Wood County Parks I said it's time to get back to something that's given to us as a family and we're big into the Boy Scouts we've got two Eagles and we've got we're working on another one as a grandson so we're hoping we can continue to contribute in that way but we want to thank you for all the work you do To make this parks these parks a very favorable place and friendly place to be for this beautiful community.

So thank you Thank you all.

It's a great partnership We work really well with which any practice and in fact this money was spent on a project and our jointly owned park So there's a plaque to present to you the check and then paperwork for next year All good always paperwork. Thank you Thank you

All right. Prior to this evening's meeting, the minutes from the last meeting were distributed for your perusal. Are there any additions or corrections to those minutes? Hearing none, do I have a motion to approve? Second. Properly moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Thank you. Michelle, do we have any correspondence?

Yes, I have two items tonight. Noting for the record, the financial budget summary report for the month of April was received to council prior to this evening's meeting. And also prior to this meeting, council received an extensive list of appointments and reappointments to city boards and commissions as requested by Mayor Osbacher. All are effective June 1st, 2026. And the mayor is happy to answer any questions that you have about those appointments.

Are there any questions or comments for the Mayor prior to a motion to approve? Mr. President, I move that we approve the request. Second. Properly moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Okay. I would like to thank all of these individuals for the sacrifice of their time that they make to serve the citizens of Bowling Green.

Mr. President, just to clarify, Jody said extensive list, not expensive list. Well, we don't pay them, so.

They are the best kind of employees. They volunteer. That brings us to lobby visitations. Do we have anyone signed up for lobby visitations?

I don't have anyone signed up. Is there anybody that? I was late. Okay.

Okay. If you could approach the podium, give your name and address for the record, please.

My name is Brandon Elliott. I'm at 2652 Stanford Drive. And I wanted to come up and talk to the council quickly. And I appreciate your time. I moved up here from Atlanta in the fall. I was recruited by an outfit called Falcon Forge out of Toledo. and john crisp who currently serves on the fulton county authority airport and he came out of retirement and basically got me to move up here in the middle of november which is crazy because i'm not from up here but i survived this winter and apparently set some records so um i came up here and joined him but basically what we do um and we hope maybe to meet with uh the administrator treanor and maybe the mayor um is talk about house bill 96 and the compliance portion of that for townships and cities. We're working with six or seven townships we're contracted with already out of the first 11 that we talked to in Lucas County. Basically what we do is we take everything that's in information silos that you would use to show how you comply with House Bill 96 and we pull it together into a dashboard for the city. for leadership so the council can see the mayor can see your safety director can see and we even include ems and that's what we do and i just wanted you to know who we are we'd love some time with your administrator maybe and with the mayor and all of our training is at a net zero cost to the city because we were tech credit approved. And we're one of the few people that have that. But I would only come say hi. We've been in Bowling Green before. I've been to BGSU's after hours events and stuff and probably saw a few of you there. But John Crisp is our founder. He's in the back. And he's great at also talking to you guys about AI spoofing if you ever want to hear what's going on with other townships and cities. It's pretty bad out here. But anyway, that's it, you guys. And I appreciate your time.

All right, thank you very much.

And is the administrator here? There you are, I didn't see a name tag, thank you.

And welcome to Bowling Green. Thank you. Anybody else? And that brings us to the introduction of new legislation. Michelle?

Okay, one moment please.

Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.

Okay. Mr. President, I have an ordinance authorizing the utilities director to enter into an electric rate stabilization agreement with American Municipal Power Incorporated.

Mr. President. Mr. Odorizio. From the Community Improvement Committee, I have a resolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Bowling Green, Ohio to apply for, accept, and administer funding under the Community Development Block Grant, CDBG, entitlement program, including the execution of agreements and adoption of required plans, policies, and procedures.

Okay. Does anyone... Let's see, official reports, Mr. Mayor.

Thanks, thank you, Mr. President. Good evening again, council. Just a very couple quick things. First of all, I appreciate your consideration and support of that extensive list of board and commission appointments. I also am grateful for those citizens that volunteer their time to serve on those many boards and commissions. You know, like I do, that those boards and commissions are extremely important to executing the work of the city on behalf of our citizens. So we're grateful that our citizens are willing to serve in those capacities. The work that they do is important, and we're very thankful that they're continually willing to do that. It's kind of a thankless job, sometimes gets a little contentious, but they sure do make our job a lot easier. So again, thanks to everyone for their willingness to serve. Excuse me, I'm sorry that Wendy stepped out because I would have liked for her to hear me share my appreciation to the Wood County Parks Board on the grant award that we received today. That's a significant amount of money that will have a very positive impact on our park system. you know like I do that we consider our park system one of our most significant community assets. It contributes greatly to the quality of life in this community and we don't take for granted the support of our citizens who have historically supported our parks and we're hoping that they will continue to do so, but certainly the support of the Wood County Parks Board has been appreciated over the years. Again, we don't take that for granted. We go through the grants application process every year and we're always grateful when we are the recipient of one of their awards. So I did wanna share my appreciation with that group. That completes my report. Subject to any questions that you may have.

Does anyone have any questions for the mayor this evening? Okay. Municipal Administrator, Ms. Tretter.

Good evening. This evening I have Matt Snow here from our Community Development Department, our director. Of course they make a significant impact in our communities and our lives and we've asked Matt to provide counsel with an update of the activities of his department.

Matt. Thank you, Lori. Good evening, Council. I have a printed report that you all should have, but I'll provide just a brief summary of it. My report highlights important updates to the Community Development Department since January 1st of this year. Start out with the Community Development Block Grant, or CDBG program. These are funds received from HUD to support low and moderate income residents. Because we have a summer deadline to spend most of these funds, most of our activities in the spring are focused on CDBGA. We were awarded $276,000 for 2026 program year. How these funds are used is through our annual action plan, which is on the city's website. That is available for public comment and review through June 8th. Beyond planning, we are actively utilizing some of our funding, including the business revolving loan fund, where we have issued $140,000 through that program. It's 0% interest loans to local businesses to directly support job creation within the city. We have a program to assist unhoused individuals. This is a partnership between the city and Salvation Army where we provide an allocated budget of $6,000 to assist with local hotel stays. Salvation Army actually covers the cost of all administrative staffing, so it is a very beneficial partnership to the community. And we've distributed thirty five hundred dollars through that program and assisted 15 individuals. Not only do they get the hotel stay, but they also get some support from social workers and referral resources. A major piece of the CDBG program is our home repair programs. This provides assistance for health and safety related issues like failing roofs or heating systems that income eligible homeowners couldn't afford on their own. We currently have completed eight repair projects and nine are under contract. They average around $10,000 per project this year. Over 80% of our applicants are elderly. We have one applicant this year that's all the way up to 97 years old. Some of our success stories is we've assisted with some emergencies during the winter for furnace replacements during cold weather. We're fixing a collapsed sewer line and we've completed multiple major roof replacements through that program. Turning over to public transportation, the BG Transit system is mainly supported by the 5311 Rural Transit Program, which is a federal grant that helps maintain the local public transit. BG Transit was awarded $432,000 for this upcoming program year. Some of our success through that is we do expect to provide 25,000 rides through that program year with about 40% of our riders being elderly or disabled who also receive half off the fare. I wanted to touch on a few other programs that are not federally funded, one being the microgrants. The microgrant program supports projects aligned with our community action plan, also known as the CAP. We had a record response this year receiving 15 applications requesting over $58,000. We awarded the available $15,000 to six local projects focused on neighborhood improvements, food access, community engagement, and sustainability. Next is our residential CRA program, which encourages neighborhood reinvestment and development by offering a 10 year 50% tax abatement on qualifying improvements. We've seen strong interest from residents and developers, and we've processed 55 applications through that program since its launch in 2024. I wanted to touch on the local home repair program. This is the city initiative utilizing $100,000 in general funds. Because of its flexibility and income eligibility up to 350% of the federal poverty level, we're able to assist residents who may not qualify through the CDBG program. However, we are prioritizing the federal HUD deadlines with the CDBG program, but these local projects should kick off here within the next month or two, and they'll be completed by the end of the year. Before I wrap up, I just wanted to share a quick update on the food assistance grants that council awarded last November. As a reminder, we were able to fully fund all six applicants through that program. Those funds will assist over 3,200 individuals with food assistance through local pantries and nonprofit community partners. The majority of the funds were quickly distributed and used to purchase and distribute food early in the program with about 90% distributed by the end of March. But we'll have final numbers by the end of the year. Thank you for your time tonight. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Does anyone have any questions or comments for Matt?

Okay.

I'll have to note that the front porch pot challenge is not what I thought it was. Thank you for the explanation. Lori, do you have anything else?

I couldn't follow up on that, sir. That completes my report. Thank you, Matt. Very much appreciated. Any questions for me, though, this evening?

Does anyone have any questions or comments for Lori this evening? Okay. City Attorney, Mr. Brown. Good evening, Council. No report. Does anyone have any questions for Mr. Brown this evening? Okay. And I see Brian is not here. So we'll have no questions for him this evening. Brings us to council committee reports. Are there any council committee reports this evening? Hearing none. Brings us to the reading of legislation. Michelle, if you could lead us in the reading of legislation.

Legislation for first reading. Resolution 3907 for first reading. Resolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Bowling Green, Ohio to apply for, accept and administer funding under the Community Development Block Grant, CDBG Entitlement Program, including the execution of agreements and adoption of required plans, policies and procedures. Ordinance. 9358 for first reading, ordinance authorizing the utilities director to enter into an electric rate stabilization agreement with American Municipal Power Incorporated. Legislation for second reading. Ordinance 9356 for second reading. Ordinance creating section 35.42 of the codified ordinances of the City of Bowling Green, Ohio related to the deposit of public monies. Ordinance 9357 for second reading. Ordinance granting an easement to Columbia Gas of Ohio Incorporated for the Evergreen Terrace gas service upgrade project and declaring an emergency.

Mr. President. Mr. Dennis. I move to suspend the rules and give Ordinance 9357 its second and third readings. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Michelle.

Kay Dennis. Yes. Elliot. Yes. Harold. Yes. Hollenbaugh. Yes. Musgrave.

Yes.

Odirisio. Yes. Jay Dennis.

Yes. Okay, the rules are suspended for Ordinance 9357. Mr. President.

Just read it. Sorry.

Ordinance 9357 for third reading. Ordinance granting an easement to Columbia Gas of Ohio for the Evergreen Terrace gas service upgrade project and declaring an emergency.

Mr. President. Mr. Dennis. I move to adopt the Emergency Clause for Ordinance 9357. Second. Properly moved and seconded.

Michelle.

Elliot. Yes. Harold. Yes. Hollenbaugh. Yes. Musgrave.

Yes.

Odorizio.

Yes.

Jay Dennis. Yes. Kay Dennis. Yes.

All right, the Emergency Clause is adopted for Ordinance 9357. Mr. President. Mr. Dennis. I move to adopt Ordinance 9357. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Michelle.

Harold.

Yes.

Hollenbaugh. Yes. Musgrave. Yes. Odorizio.

Yes.

J. Dennis. Yes. K. Dennis. Yes. Elliott. Yes.

All right. Ordinance 9357 is adopted.

legislation for third reading ordinance 9351 for third reading ordinance amending and adopting chapter 33 of the codified ordinances of the City of Bowling Green Ohio regarding employment policies.

I move to adopt ordinance 9351. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Michelle.

Halimba.

Yes.

Musgrave.

Yes.

Odorizio.

Yes.

Jay Dennis. Yes. Kay Dennis. Yes. Elliot. Yes. Harold.

Yes. Ordinance 9351 is adopted.

Ordinance 9353 for third reading. Ordinance creating section 124 of the codified ordinances of the City of Bowling Green concerning short-term rentals.

Mr. President.

Ms. Elliott.

I have a series of amendments for ordinance 9353. I think we have to

Do we have to move to pass it before discussion?

Second, we don't know if we pass it, it can't be amended.

OK, well, I think we have to. Don't we have to move and put it on the table? OK, thank you.

OK, go ahead.

OK, so in 124.02 C. I would like to remove C for purposes of this section, any bed and breakfast in as defined in section 150.50 shall be included in this requirement. And these were sent out last Thursday by Mr. Brown to council.

I'm not playing on my phone. I have to look it up on my phone because I left it at home.

I can share. Okay.

So by way of explanation, under Chapter 121, the rental dwelling registration, we specifically exempt bed and breakfast in from that. So one of them needs to be removed. So I would like to remove it from the short-term rental.

Are we discussing or are we waiting for a second?

Is that, you just want to do that one first or all of your, all of yours?

No, I'll just, I think we should do one at a time. One at a time.

Second. Properly moved and seconded. Discussion?

So the effect of this would be to exempt bed and breakfast from the hotel motel tax, correct?

So based on my reading, this was just applying the registration and inspection requirement to the bed and breakfast ends, since it was for the purpose of this section and this requirement.

Mr. President. Mr. Oduricio. I'm curious why we would want to exempt bed and breakfasts.

Bed and breakfast are currently required to be owner occupied so I thought it made sense to not need the inspection.

Thank you. Any other discussion? Okay. Michelle, you could call.

Musgrave?

Yes.

Odorizio? Yes. J. Dennis? Yes. K. Dennis? Yes. Elliot? Yes. Harold? Yes. Hollenbaugh?

Yes. Okay.

Mr. President? Yep. In the same Section 124.02 , well, I would like to make the current CD and add due at the time of registration. to the first sentence about the annual $150 registration fee for each short-term rental units would be comma due at the time of registration.

Second. Properly moved and seconded. Discussion? Would you repeat that again, Caitlin?

Yes, but I can read the entire thing. So it'd be in addition to the registration and inspection requirements.

Yeah, yeah.

Do you want me to keep going?

Any other discussion? Okay. Michelle?

Odorizio? Yes. J. Dennis? Yes. K. Dennis? Yes. Elliot? Yes. Harold? Yes. Hollenbaugh?

Yes.

Musgrave?

Yes. Okay. Next.

So then down in 124.04, short-term rental operator requirements. I would like to change operator in the title to owner. That's the language that's used throughout the section. And then remove that last phrase and the maximum number of motor vehicles permitted at the short-term rental. We have not included any... limits or requirements on number of motor vehicles anywhere else in the legislation.

Mr. President.

I'll second that. Okay.

And just as a friendly question in that there's an addition of the word and in the sentence before.

Yes, correct. So then I would have to replace that one before the maximum occupancy permitted.

Okay all right so discussion on this.

I would agree with removing the wording that Ms. Elliott has asked to remove but I would like to propose that we add instead finish the sentence with and the total number of available off-street parking spaces available at the short-term rental that part of the sentence and then the short term rental owner shall require guests to utilize all off street parking available before utilizing on street parking.

OK. So we have two things going on here. One, we have a motion to remove the requirement for maximum number of motor vehicles, but then subsequently we also have interest in changing the language from simply striking that to adding this additional verbiage about utilizing off-street parking prior to on-street parking. So discussion on these?

Mr. President, can I request that we separate these two issues?

Okay, so let's vote on the first one first.

I have a question about the change of owner and operator. So, my understanding is that we require, are we requiring an operator to be, live within so many miles of the city?

I believe we are.

My understanding is that the change from owner to operator is because owner is a defined term and operator is not. Working with the city attorney. That's correct.

That's exactly what we discussed.

Grammatical change.

Does that affect our requirement to have an operator living within 15 miles of the city?

I would say kind of. The whole chapter makes it clear that short-term rentals would have to register pursuant to the rental registration chapter in general, which does require a local agent.

Okay, so it won't change that portion of the law? No. Okay, thank you.

So short-term rentals will be required to have a local agent? Yes. Okay.

So are we able to bifurcate this like that?

I would say why don't we vote I would say why don't we vote on the first motion first on the first motion first and then we'll have Ms. Dennis and then we'll have Ms. Dennis make a second motion. make a second motion. And that was already And that was already seconded, correct? seconded, correct?

Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay.

I call the question. I call the question. Okay. Michelle?

Okay. Michelle? J. Dennis?

J. Dennis?

Yes. Yes. J. Dennis? Yes. K. Dennis? Yes. K. Dennis? Yes. Elliot? Elliot? Yes. Yes. Harold? Harold? Yes. Yes. Hallenbaugh? Yes. Hallenbaugh?

Yes.

Musgrave? Musgrave? Yes.

Yes. Okay.

Mr. President.

Ms. Dennis.

I would like to make a motion to change the wording in 124.04 in the last sentence to read that the owners are also required to include the total number of available off-street parking spaces available at the short-term rental. The short-term rental owners shall require guests to utilize all off-street parking available before utilizing on-street parking.

Second. Properly moved and seconded. Discussion?

So the effect of this would essentially be requiring owners to add into their rules and regulations that yes, need to use off street parking before on street parking, right?

Yes, that's correct.

So the violation then would be to not have this included in the rules and regulations. We would not have any way to enforce whether this was actually occurring to me for it would be the enforcement I mean does that makes it my understanding this correctly can you restate it we we would be requiring with this amendment for the owner to list in their rules and regulations that they distribute to guess that the guests are to use off street parking before on street parking that sounds like the amendment that's being made to me

So the only way practically that we would be able to enforce this is if it was brought to our attention that they were not including this language in their rules. Correct.

And in that case the owner not the guest would be the one that is in violation.

Correct.

So the owner would be in violation.

The owner is being required to tell their guests to park off the street first.

In this way, we've already had complaints, at least I've received two complaints related to off street parking. And I think it just makes sense to ask the owners to require that their guests use off street parking first and then after that use on street parking. It's just a courtesy and it shows respect for our community members.

Could I just comment on that real quick? I mean theoretically what you're saying though is that they're required to notify say the guests that that is a requirement, but it doesn't seem like it would actually be enforceable both on the owner's hand nor the city's hand. I mean if we're talking about people who would theoretically be legally parked otherwise, correct? I mean we do have parking rules. You can't say park on the grass or on the neighbor's property, those kind of things.

So the offense though would be the failure to notify.

Exactly. Yeah. But just to be clear, should someone say leave a driveway empty and be parked legally in the street? We're not saying that there would be any type of wrongdoing on any party's behalf made by this. Correct. Correct. Correct. OK.

The only place that this is at all enforceable is if we see in their rules to guess they do not include this language.

Right.

Well. And also if the owner of the property starts getting complaints from neighbors that the guests are not adhering to this, presumably there would be some penalty within the terms and conditions of the rental that would allow the owner to tack on additional fees for not adhering to the rules.

That's true.

So the owners almost enforce it on our behalf in that case, right?

Maybe, but I guess that would be, that'd be up to the owners. That'd be between the owner and the user.

I think given the choice between collecting an extra $30 and winning favor with the neighbor and not doing that.

But I guess my question would be, why would they be encouraged to fine someone something for that if they have properly notified the guests, right? They've told them, hey, look, you gotta use the driveway before you use the street. Other than that, as long as they've done that, there's no encouragement for the owners to fine them or find that there's been any mistake made.

Well, if the neighbors complain, I think most STRs want to get along with the neighbors and the residences where they're operating their STR.

I think STRs also rely on reviews from their guests. And I think if I was fined for parking legally in the street by a STR, I would be disinclined to give them a positive review.

Well, I think we're getting a little far afield at possible iterations of this. I think that basically what we're saying is do we want to change this language to put a requirement on the short-term rental owners to notify their guests at the time of renting that they should park off street when possible?

Do we require any other businesses or types of property to require their guests to park off street?

In fact, we just eliminated mandatory minimum parking requirements within the last couple of years.

I mean, this is just a unique situation where if we are already experiencing problems with parking, people complaining about parking in yellow areas from the STRs over on the Grove and Wallace, and it's disrupting their garbage pickup and things of that sort. So I just feel like this, encourages good neighborliness um asking the str owners to make this request it yes it's difficult in terms of enforcement but i think i've stated strs and there are some unusual requirements sometimes and i don't have any problem with abiding by those rules and regulations that help keep the neighborhoods the neighbors and the neighborhoods content

All right. Is there any further discussion before I call the question? All right. So in essence what this would do would be to remove the recently added and and put the and back at the end along with this language about notifying the renters.

I thought the motion was to include the last part.

Right. But we added an and that has to move. Moving an and. Right. So that it's grammatically correct. That's why I pointed that out.

Okay.

Anything else? All right. Michelle?

Kay Dennis? Yes. Elliot? No. Harold?

Yes.

Hollenbaugh?

Yes.

Musgrave?

No.

Odoricio? Yes. J. Dennis?

Yes.

Okay. So next.

Mr. President.

Ms. Elliott.

I also would like to add two sections which would be 124.06 records and 124.07 returns and payments and these are taken directly from chapter 101 on the hotel motel tax to make sure that that information about keeping records and how to file your returns are included. Second.

Properly moved and seconded. Discussion? Okay. Michelle.

Elliot. Yes. Harold. Yes. Hollombaugh. Yes. Musgrave. Yes. Odirisio. Yes. J. Dennis.

Yes.

K. Dennis. Yes.

Okay. All right. So it looks like also here you have a series of number corrections.

Yes. So then all of the sections starting with transfer of short-term rental registration prohibited would need to be renumbered.

Okay. Hunter, do we need to make a motion if you're going to read?

We typically handle that as like a grammatical change typically at the end depending on what gets added in or removed.

So the only way that we need to do this if we wanted to actually skip something and...

Yes, that would be my suggestion, yeah.

...numbers in or something? Sure. Okay.

Okay. Anything else?

Mr. President? Yes. These are probably put under the category of friendly amendments. I have 12 of them. I'm just kidding. I have two. One is if you take a look at section 124.09, discrimination prohibited, It currently reads, a short-term rental operator shall not discriminate as prohibited by Chapter 39, unlawful discrimination of the codified ordinances of the City of Bowling Green. Probably more applicable would be the Chapter 153, fair housing. So just simply change the wording to include the addition of Chapter 153, fair housing. So it would read, a short-term rental operator shall not discriminate as prohibited by Chapter 39, unlawful discrimination and Chapter 153, fair housing of the codified ordinances of the City of Bowling Green. Second.

Properly moved and seconded. Discussion? I have one question, Hunter. Yes, sir. Does this change do anything other than strengthen the anti-discrimination?

Probably not. Bill and I already discussed this at length, and I think it's an appropriate addition.

Okay.

Anyone else?

Michelle?

Harold? Yes. Hollenbaugh? Yes. Musgrave?

Yes.

Odirisio? Yes. J. Dennis? Yes. K. Dennis? Yes. Elliott?

Yes.

Mr. President, in Section 124.11 , it talks about for a third offense, an administrative penalty of $500, and I move that we change that to for a third or subsequent offense, an administrative penalty of $500, just to clarify that what happens if there's a fourth?

Okay, I'll second. Discussion?

If I could just clarify on that as well. I think that's an extremely appropriate amendment to make. I would just note that it's currently the language of our rental registration section as well. So we should probably fix that as well.

I agree. I thought about that, Hunter, and of course we discussed it. I think maybe as a rewrite of maybe some of that section instead of folding it in here.

Yeah, oh yeah, that's what I was saying, yes. But I do think this is a really good catch, and thank you for seeing it. Sure, thank you. So we'll put a sticky note on that.

Any other discussion? Michelle?

Hollenbaugh?

Yes.

Musgrave? Yes. Odorizio? Yes. J. Dennis? Yes. K. Dennis? Yes. Elliott? Yes. Harold?

Yes. Okay. Anything else? No one has anything else they'd like to add? Okay.

Mr. President?

Ms. Elliott?

I move to adopt Ordinance 9354 as amended.

Second. Properly moved and seconded. 9353.

9353, yeah. Thank you. 9353. Okay.

So, Michelle, we are about to have a reading on adopting Ordinance 9353 as amended most recently.

Do I need to read it again?

Nope. Okay. She doesn't have to read it.

Musgrave?

Yes.

Odorizio? Yes. J. Dennis?

Yes.

K. Dennis? Yes. Elliott? Yes. Harold?

Yes.

Hollenbaugh?

Yes. Ordinance 9353 is adopted as amended.

Ordinance 9354 for third reading. Ordinance amending and adopting certain sections of chapter 150 of the codified ordinances of the City of Bowling Green, Ohio regarding zoning code.

Mr. President.

Ms. Elliott.

I move to table ordinance 9354 until June 1st when the required public hearing will be held.

Second. Properly moved and seconded. Michelle.

Odrisio.

Yes.

Jay Dennis? Yes. Kay Dennis? Yes. Elliot? Yes. Harold? Yes. Hollenbaugh?

Yes.

Musgrave?

Yes. All right. Ordinance 9354 is tabled until our June 1st meeting. Is there any other business to come before council this evening? Hearing none, do I have a motion to adjourn? Second. Properly moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. We are adjourned.