City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. [clears throat] This is the Canal Winchester City Council work session for Monday, December 1st, 2025. Roll call, please. Miss A, present. Miss Amos, here. Mr. Bennett, here. Mr. Busker here. Mr. Mclofflin. Mr. Moore here. Mr. Shay present. Thank you. May I have a motion to excuse Mr. Mclofflin who by the way is a new dad. Second. Motion made by uh Mr. Sheay. Second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Sheay. I vote yes to excuse the father of Baker. [clears throat] Mr. Bennett. Yes. Mr. Busker. Yes. Mr. Moore. Yes. Miss Amit. Yes,

Miss Sus. Yes. Thank you. Also in attendance this evening, we have Mayor Stagger, city administrator Matt Paples, development director Lucas Hair, finance director Amanda Jackson, construction services supervisor, uh, Bill Sims, and our law director Thad Bogs. That takes us to the request for council action. The first item is resolution 25-053. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please? A resolution approving an amendment to the contract to create the Violet Township City of Canal Winchester joint economic development district and authorizing the inclusion of certain additional property within said district. Thank you, Mr. Her.

Thank you, Mrs. Amic. If you call back on November 3rd, we held a public hearing to discuss the expansion. This is the fourth amendment to the Jed to include additional property. Um this is for approximately 10 acres located on the south side of Basil Western Road that is proposed for an industrial development which will include four 24,000 [snorts] ft buildings and two 9600 ft² buildings. Um so this would allow them to be included within the Jed. The owner's petition to be included is in there. Um once we pass this the the township has passed their um resolution to include this on November 5th. So this would be the last step to include this property in the jet district.

Thank you, Mr. Hair. Questions from council. [snorts] Okay. Hearing none, the chair will uh move to move resolution 2553 to full counsel. Second. Motion made by Mrs. Zam, second by Mr. Busker. Roll call, please. Miss Sam, yes. Mr. Busker, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Sheay, yes. Miss Amos, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Thank you. The next item is resolution 250057. We have that um item in a postponed status. Uh is there anyone who is ready to speak to that or are we waiting for Will Cox to return?

Yeah, just a quick update. They were working with their design professionals on proposing um options for fencing. They didn't have those yet in time to include uh for tonight's packet. So, they'd hope to be back in two weeks to to have options for your review.

Okay. Thank you. So, resolution 25-057 will remain in postponed status at this time. The next item is resolution 25-062. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please? a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract for consulting services relating to construction inspection for the period from January 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2027. Thank you, Mr. Sims.

Thank you, Mr. Ne. Um, [clears throat] so this agreement is with the quality control inspection uh for construction project inspection services. uh they've been providing those services on and off for the last 20 years uh or so. Um and basically it's the same agreement that we've been carrying through um with a about 2 and a half% increase in rates. Um we're still priced well below many of the other firms that we use, but uh um so [clears throat] uh just would like to move forward with that and continue our relationship uh for some of our projects. Thank you, Mr. Sims. Questions? Okay. Hearing none. Is there a motion to move resolution 25-062 to full counsel?

So moved. Second. Motion made by Mr. Buskerk. Second by Mr. Moore. Roll call, please. Mr. Buskerk. Yes. Mr. Moore. Yes. Mr. Shay. Yes. Miss Aik. Yes. Miss Amos. Yes. Mr. Bennett. Yes. This guy is so Thank you. He's pretty unqualified. The next item is resolution 25-063. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please? A resolution approving the mayor's appointment of Deborah McDonald to serve a 4-year term as a member of the Planning and Zoning Commission expiring on December 31st, 2029. Thank you, Mr. Hair.

Thank you, Mr. Zik. Miss McDonald serves currently on the planning and zoning commission. Uh she has a significant amount of experience in local government operations um which are referenced in her um application there and we would like to have her continue to serve for an additional four-year term. Thank you. Questions? Okay. Hearing none. Um is there a motion to move resolution 2563 to full counsel? Some moved. Second. Motion made by Mrs. Aik, second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Miss Amos, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Mr. Busker, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Shay, yes. Miss A.

Yes. [clears throat] Thank you. The next item is resolution 25-064. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please? A resolution approving the mayor's appointment of Rick Deeds to serve a 4-year term as a member of the planning and zoning commission expiring on December 31st, 2029. Thank you. Questions from councel. Okay. Hearing none, is there a motion to move resolution 2564 to full counsel? So moved. Second. Uh I'm sorry, was that Mr. Moore? Yes. Okay. And second by Mr. Ben. Motion made by Mr. Moore. Second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Mr. Busker, yes. Mr. Shay,

yes. Miss Amit, yes. Miss Amos, yes. Thank you. The next item is resolution 25-065. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please? A resolution to accept the application for the annexation to the city of Canal Winchester of certain territory in Madison Township containing 111.2 to plus or minus acres and being located at 5593 Hayes Road.

Thank you very much, Mr. Hair. Thank you, Mrs. Amic. Uh, this resolution would allow us to accept this annexation for the 111.2 acres there. Uh, this is immediately west of Miller Farms along Hayes Road. Uh there's this property was subject to an agreement with the city for the zoning of Miller Farms that they would annex the property and that it would be used in the future for single family uh purposes only. And so the county commissioners, the Franklin County Commissioners uh reviewed this application on September 23rd and approved it at their meeting on that date. um more than 60 days has passed which is required in the revised code for us to consider the acceptance. Um so we're asking that we consider accepting this property for annexation to the city.

Thank you Mr. Hair. Questions from council. Okay. Hearing none. Is there a motion to move resolution 25-065 to full counsel? So moved. Second. Motion made by Mr. Buskerk. Second by Mr. [clears throat] Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Buskerk. Yes, Mr. Bennett. Yes, Mr. Moore. Yes, Mr. Sheay. Yes, Miss Aik. Yes, Miss Amos. Yes. Thank you. That takes us to old and new business. The first item is uh for new business, uh updates to the Opus project. Mr. Hair.

Thank you, Mrs. Amik. Uh since our last meetings, um we worked with the uh the applicant there to um address some of the concerns that were presented by council. And so there were amendments to a few items in the agreement. Kind of the items that we had centered on were the interest rates being proposed in the tiff agreement and then um the amount of contribution to the community benefit agreement. So those were the amendments that were made um in the agreements. Um the community benefit portion of that agreement is reflected in both the development agreement and the CRA agreement. Um and what the applicant has proposed is that um they would increase that community benefit contribution to be 75 cents per square foot from 50 cents per square foot uh with 25 cents of that being paid um at the issuance of the building permit and then 50 cents of that being paid at occupancy of the building. And so that would be a contribution of $675,000 in total um once those buildings are fully occupied. Um the other questions in regards to the interest rates um those were it was proposed at a 6.5% interest rate uh we have changed that to now be um 6 and a half up to 6.5% with the actual rate determined at the time of bond issuance. So if it's less than that, we would pay whatever is proposed or whatever is being paid on the issuance of any bonds that are issued for that project. And so those were the two main changes. We also did quantify some costs. Um we had some further um engineering on the storm sewer. And so the storm sewer will now extend up the entire side of uh west side of Regger Road uh because there's no good outlet for the ditch along Bixby Road. And so we've included those costs as well, which added about $300,000 into

[clears throat] what was initially on there. Um, if you recall last at the last meeting, I didn't have a number on that uh because we still were uncertain on what the final solution would be. Um, so that uh that improvement is around $800,000 in total would be the the storm sewer improvements that would drain the public roadway expansions that are happening there. So, anytime you you are widening a road, you need to accommodate that storm water coming off those widened roads. And so, this would allow us to do that. Thank you, Mr. Hair. Questions for council.

I would just like to [clears throat] um thank the developer for reconsidering um the community benefit portion of that agreement. Um I know that it is something that there are um members who who've been on this project for quite a while who are very passionate about making sure we we try and deliver the best uh possible outcome we can. So thank you. We appreciate your due diligence on that. We understand the the market conditions have drastically shifted and um we just you know appreciate you coming in and being a great community partner. So I just wanted to say that. Um no other questions really. Anyone else? I echo the thank you. Um, that takes us to OTH25017 under old business pool residency and rates. Mrs. Jackson. Um, thank you, Mrs. Aik. So, in my report, u my written report in your council packet this evening, I gave you a little bit of additional information on what we are proposing for, um, next summer in terms of helping us track who exactly is in the pool and when. Um the change that we are looking to make is related specifically to daily admissions. Um and it will require individuals to basically pre-register and be verified before they will be permitted to buy a daily pass at the pool. This is this means you cannot wake up on a Saturday morning and decide to go to the swimming pool. So um it's going to be a little bit of a challenge this year to get the word out that this is how we're doing this. um still trying to finalize that exact process for those of us on the back end and how that's going to look. Um but that is the direction we are going. Each um individual who is verified will receive a tag um of some sort that they will then have to take with them to the pool that will allow the kids at the

pool to know that they are permitted to purchase a day pass. Um memberships will be the same. Now we internally have not any had any discussion about rates. Um so if that is something council wants to talk about we can do so. We've been concentrating on the process itself. So um with that if if anyone has any questions I'd be happy to answer them. Mr. Moore

Miss Jackson. Yes. I might be jumping ahead and asking questions before this is figured out, but with that tag per se where you can get into the pool or buy the day the day pass, will we then know when that is used and when they are there?

I Yes, that is the ultimate goal is for anybody who has that tag now their daily pass purchase will be associated to that tag. So, we will know who is in the pool. I will tell you this is not a way for us to be a 100% certain how many people are in the pool at any one given time. There's a lot of in and out especially with the kids wanting to go to Dairy Queen and things along those lines. That is a totally different discussion that we are having. Um but this would allow us to better track the individuals who are buying day passes and knowing their names and hopefully being able to hold um some who may have some behavioral issu issues a little more accountable.

Yeah. And I'm obviously that's that's the biggest point there is or the the whole reason why we're doing this. So thank you for putting so much effort and figuring out a solution that works for for you too cuz I know that's a lot of work on your end. Next year is going to be a little challenging. Um so hopefully our residents will understand why we're going through this process and will be patient with us for this first year.

So somebody who does wake up on a Saturday and say I want to go to the pool today. That's not happening. Right. Correct. So, the goal is for us to get the word out as early as possible in 2026 to allow people plenty of time to come in and get verified um so that they're not trying we're not trying to squeeze everybody who wants to visit the pool during the summer in, you know, a couple weeks before the pool opens. So, we also thought that might allow for um people to work around their own schedules. Mrs. Jackson, I'm sorry, I'm perhaps a little sleepy this evening. So, do I register once and then use that tag every time I want to go? Okay. Correct. So, this is a one-time process.

It'll be one time, but likely an annual thing for us to continue to verify um that you are who you are. But once I'm registered as a daily pass requesttor, what I do is I show my little red tag each time I want to go in and that's my verify any other discussion. If it's helpful, Miss Jackson, I'd be willing to volunteer some weekend hours to make uh time for residents if if if staff sees fit to train [laughter] uh people outside. I know Mr. I know as we trust issues, Mr. Peoples, I understand.

Well, and the person has to be trainable. [laughter] Um, as we finalize this process, one of the big things that we want to do similar to um, memberships is we'd like to try and c capture pictures specifically for like the teenage age range that perhaps would be more open to sharing their this pass. Um, so that is the kind of thing that we would look at doing. Correct. um on the weekends is trying to get people in here for pictures. So again, once we work that out, we'll let you know if we need to take you up on that offer. I'm just saying I'm make myself available. Appreciate that. If I can help.

That is such a great idea. [laughter] What other questions, Mr. Shay? Thank you, Miss Jackson. It's a great step forward from where we've been, and I know it's been a lot of headache for you. at the risk of bringing you more Advil. Um, are we doing are we verifying residency? Are we restricting to a certain geographic boundary? Are we keeping the pool wide open for God and all of the animals going on the ark? What are we doing? That is we we internally have not had a discussion about limiting that. So long as we know who is in the pool, that would be a council decision. If you would like us to go that direction,

I think it will be good. Um because I think from this new process we'll at least have data. We'll know who's coming. Will we will we know who's coming from when someone registers? We'll know if they're within the city limits or outside the city limits. Yes. So we'll have that data to be able to to know exactly well or do we already have that? I don't recall. We have that for memberships but not for daily basis. Okay. So we'll have some concrete data to know how big or little of an issue this this is. Mhm. Correct. Yes. Mr. Mr. Bennett,

would we be able to with this data and again I don't know if it's if the every will we be able to track every usage of their card? I guess like so every time if I come in as a rep card owner because I don't want to get a membership, but I'm there 20 times [clears throat] during the summer, would you know how many would you be able to track how many times I bought a daily pass? theoretically [clears throat] if it is done correctly at the pool. Yes. Yep. There's only so much controls you can put in place. I understand. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Miss Jackson, when they register, do they list whether they're part of the school district boundary or not?

No, we don't. The system that we have is not sophisticated enough to be able to separate a city resident from a school district resident. We explored this um when we first started talking about offering safety city um because that is open to school district residents. Thank you. Can only have one address file. So okay, what else?

I think this is a great first step. I think then from this we can again continue to narrow in on if there are additional steps that need to be taken. I think um you know from the city side having this um I think what Mr. Jackson said was we're now able to hold people who show up more accountable um and then thus reject you can now flag cards and say this person isn't allowed in anymore. Right. You can now so they they when they come to buy it there's now a digital record that says yeah we we rejected you and you're now not allowed back in. So,

yes. And for those that are um minors, it is going to require a parent ID. Yeah. Right. Right. And now we're That was the other change. We're now changing the age restriction as well. You We did talk about that. 15 16 20 I don't know what is it. 20. Um I don't know that. Yes, we are planning to do that. That is in the um rate ordinance. So, that is something that will have to come before council. Okay. still working on finalizing. We would um understood if if it is council's desire to change rates next year, we would do that all at the same time. Seems already like we got enough change.

Up to you. Well, if we wanted to separate out resident, non-resident before the date pass. Mhm. Because now we'll be able to tell, which is typical and you can give them a different color ticket. card. Card. Sorry to give him a ticket. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Jackson, for all your hard work on that and to my peers on council that contributed to that conversation. I appreciate that. Um, the last item on the I'm sorry, I went a little out of order. New business is the 2026 council calendar. Mrs. Jackson.

Yes, you should have each received a copy of that um for your review and comment. So, I think the only um the only date that council had previously mentioned potentially changing was that Monday, July 6th meeting, but I will turn it over to you for any any discussion. I move to change the July 6th meeting to the third third Monday in July. Does yes, Mr. Bennett. Are we actually motioning that or are we just discussing? saying I would like to Okay. All right. Um are we going to get this confused like last time? Maybe. I propose they have two meetings in July. That's okay. Thanks, Jill. Um go away. [laughter]

My question was going to be I guess would it be better suited for staff not coming off the holiday? Um does it impact staff's workflow at all to to make that meeting the later half of July as opposed to the early half of July? I know we do different contract approval schedules with that being like the first half of the year. I didn't know if that changes anything.

Um just from a my my personal perspective, it would change my tax budget timeline. Um because then I would need it approved by city council um at your June 15th meeting rather than that July 6th meeting because the 20th would be too late for me to get it into the county auditor. Um but from a putting together of council packets, uh one day is generally not a big deal for us. So Okay. Is the city office are are you guys open on the third? No big Okay. That's where Okay. Yeah. It's light.

I personally I don't I don't have a preference. We have someone who wants to move it to the 20th. I don't care. Mr. Moore zero cares. I'll show up when when it is. Okay. Mr. Sheay is move it to the 20th. Mrs. Amos, she don't care. Oh, yeah. I added another meeting a second ago. She tried to add [laughter] She tried to cancel the summer. You're just a staple, Jill. It just comes automatic. Do you have a preference? I do not have a preference as long as I show up on the right. I'll go with Jill.

Okay. So, the only one that um has a preference is Mr. Shay and he would like to move it from the 6th to the 20th. Okay. So, do we need to vote on that, Mr. Bogs? Or that's not something we need to vote on, is it? I would. Do we need to have change by itself? We don't need to have legislation. Just a motion to the 2026 schedule. Okay. So, the July meeting will be moved from Monday, July 6th to Monday, July 20th. Officially officially. Let's get that in the minute. [laughter] For those of you in the in the um gallery, we just had a little confusion last year. So,

yeah. Okay. Any other new business? Mr. Bennett,

uh council connect dates for 2026. Um Hannah had sent me an email and I wanted to verify um our if we wanted to continue to follow the same schedule we followed for 2025. Um the current schedule is for odd number months it would be on the third Wednesday and for evenumbered months it would be on the third Saturday. Um, so dates would look like they would be Wednesday, January 21st, Saturday, February 21st. Um, we can make that. Yeah. Um, Wednesday, March 18th, Saturday, April 18th. Wednesday, May 20th. Saturday, June 20th. Ah, sorry. Having a You need my fingers

contacted you. No, cuz I don't want your finger in my eye. Um, July 15th, August 15th, September 16th, November 17th, October 18th, and then December 19th. And again, I think we are cancelling December anyway. So, we remove because nobody wants Okay. So we are agreed to the current format with council connect dates aside from removing the December date. I think you we skipped July last year because it fell within the but if you're moving the council then it doesn't matter because it was in the vacation last time but if you're moving council that week then it wouldn't matter.

It would be it would would be the week after council meeting would be the week after. cancel July and oh you want to I don't think there's a reason to I think last time we didn't want it because it fell in the middle like during the vacation time but it by moving the meeting you're not interrupting the vacation it's the third the third uh Saturday the 15th oh yeah that's the Wednesday I think the Wednesday falls within Yes,

I don't have a preference of removing the July day. We can certainly keep it. Fine by me. If we keep July, your eyes freaking me out. I'm sorry. It's freaking me out. Do you need a moment of personal privilege? No. I'm gonna fight through it. Okay. [laughter] Okay. So, we'll we'll come back to the July date and see what is that what you're saying? Yeah, we'll keep the July and just remove the December. Okay. I can reply to Miss Woodruff and let her know we are agreed to these dates.

Okay. And then last year you sent around a signup sheet. Everybody picked their their dates that was their preference. Can we do that in I don't know maybe when our new members join meeting. Yeah, that would be great. And then I'll have Joe print that out for me. Did it work for everybody? I put it on your city outlook calendar of who was supposed to show up that day. We'll continue to do that. Okay, great. Okay. Any other new business? Motion to adjurnn. Okay. Hearing none. I'm sorry. Mrs. I'm not sure what's going on here.

Yeah, sure. As as part of the legislation for the the sheriff's contract, we did uh uh invite Chief Collins in to have a conversation uh answer any questions you guys may have. Well, hey, Chief Chief Collins. Wow. Chief Collins, do you have a presentation or anything or just open dialogue?

I do not. Open dialogue and I just wanted to say I love coming up here. I do uh you know I I what I try to make it up here once a year to see y'all and I really you know it's like coming home and I spent uh probably two of the best years of my career up here and really really enjoyed it. So yeah, I um just uh sheriff's office overview. Um your sheriff's office uh is extremely strong. Um you know, financially um you know, organizationally, uh the things we've done in the last 5 years, I think, have just uh we've leapt forward at an increased I mean an amazing rate. Um we've had uh you know amount of growth uh in individual units in whole divisions um that you know just you don't see other parts of the state. You really don't. Um and you know the cooperation the agreement we've had with the city for the last 20ome years has just been a pivotal part of all of it. It really has. Um, and we do look at it as just a key partnership in the agency that we have with you all. And, uh, you know, again, I I look forward to the future and all the things that we're going to do together, you know, as far as the city and the sheriff's office.

Thank you. We appreciate uh the safety that uh you and and uh Sergeant Strong and all of his deputies bring to our community. Um, I think we all feel very safe in Canal Winchester. We thank you for everything that you do, all the special events and all of that. We very much appreciate it.

Chief Collins, um, I'm not sure if you got my note, but as you talk about organizational strength, um, there's a certain member of our organization we feel very strongly about and feel very passionate about trying to keep him intact. I know um you're probably well aware we have um rotated through sergeants in the past um and um through no fault of any of their own, right? Um I think we just want to make sure that we feel like um we're not really a training ground for for the next post. Um that uh you know that our position is is thought of as sort of a career destination potentially. Um, and um, you know, and again, I don't want to limit this individual's potential growth opportunities, but as long as they desire to be here, I think we would love to see Sergeant Strong um, continue in his role. And I'm not asking you to get No, I'm going to ask you to sort of give me Sergeant Strong for five years. Like, as long as he's here, can I have him?

I mean, yeah, we'll take five plus years. Well, I'm miss Amos. Um, I'm We send you We send you our best and brightest. We really do. I mean, and now granted, I'm not saying that has always been the case because after all, I was here for a year and a half. So, [laughter] but no, I we we send you our best and brightest. Um I I would love I would love to tell you that he's yours until he retires, but that wouldn't be fair of me to do that. I mean, even though sitting here tonight, he might say, "Yeah, this is where I want to retire from." I I can't

career limit him. But I will tell you, I have no plans of moving him at this point. It would be um the only reason I could see moving TJ from here would be for a promotional opportunity or something of that level. I mean, so I you know, again, I put you on the spot. I want to ask a follow-up question. I'm saying no. Yeah. Famous followup question. Yeah. And also in fact it is a put you on the spot. Um he's fine. He's a um

Yep. How do promotional opportunities work? I sort of I guess within Fairfield County Sheriff's Office. So your your your point is right. Um he would he would only potentially change post if you know career progression was going to happen. If he if if promotion were in line. Um, do in the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office, do promotions happen without consent? So, um, I in my world, I just got a new job role responsibility like two weeks ago. Didn't ask for it, but it's the way the world works. Um, regulations.

With the new legislation that's changed, does that affect you guys? Because the new legislation says you can't use the old system, right? Not a bit. We're we're not we're not governed under civil service stuff. answer.

So, so basically um okay, we have we have two types of promotions. Okay, the ones that fall within our contractual guidelines that's for the ranks of sergeant, lieutenant. How those are uh done is through testing, competitive testing and process. Um the testing is just one piece of it. Um we like to think that um through testing, interview, prior knowledge and our overall battery, we select the right people for these jobs. So that's that's those. We also have fidiciary um appointments,

right? which are generally captain and hire. And those are um directly appointed by the sheriff. And those, you know, those are again directly appointed by the sheriff for generally uh above division level command. So in our organization, sergeants are in charge of either shifts or specialties. In TJ's case, this would be a specialty. This he's a station chief. So he, you know, you know, basically his job is to be respondent to your needs, period.

Um, we have lieutenants. Lieutenants are divisional level. So we have, you all remember Kelly Walker? Kelly is our patrol commander. She is uh in charge of the entire division. We have a captain right now that is an operations captain. So he is in charge of all the operations of the sheriff's office. So So now I got a follow-up question. Yes, sir.

How long until Canal Winchester becomes potentially like more of like a division post for a lieutenant as opposed to a sergeant's post? um you know like cuz again part of our future plan um has potential increase for staffing. Right. Right. And so I guess is there a point in time at which Canal Winchester becomes more of like a lieutenants division post as opposed to a sergeant's um responsibility level? I at this point I don't see that. Okay. Okay. Um I think um what do I need to do to make it so? He's trying to get he's trying to get his permission.

No, I'm trying to make sure. No, that's not my my question is like what has to happen in the future for Canal Winchester to be sort of one of those uh I guess what would have to happen for Canal Winchester to be more of like a a lieutenants division? Are you asking like is there a staffing number? Is that Yes. Is there a staff? uh there's really not staffing number and and I could go into a you know complete wormhole on history and our ranks our rank structure is is a little different than other places because

you know in the early 2000s um we were a little topheavy and when Sheriff Failen again came in uh basically those ranks were decimated and gutted um for fiscal reasons. Um, so we had sergeants that were at divisional level and we had uh divisional level that were at staff level and it just really um you can it's really easy to get rid of supervision and rank. It's really hard to get it back from a budgetary um aspect. Um so the last 5 years has been us trying to recover that. Now, we what I could see at some point would be uh a corporal rank, which is a lower than sergeant. And I think once we would hit a certain number of people per shift, we would probably want to put a corporal per shift out of the station.

So, that's basically like an assistant manager. Yeah. I it it's a street level supervisor and it's it's a non-subject to test. It's um you know it's our the first rank uh development rank on our chain. It's not a contractual testing position. It's an appointed um but the corporals right now we have one corporal per shift for the entire operation. That corporal is based out of uh Violet so they're real close. They can get over and they spend a lot of time over here. But, um, we're, uh, you know, we're a little down the road on that, I think.

You know, it's something I mean, we're, you know, I I'm I'm working with Kelly Walker, with TJ, and we're always looking at the numbers here. And, you know, [snorts] Kelly loves us, too. That's right. She does. So, she loved us so much she left us.

I know. We're at DJ. one of the statements that that you you were sort of making um or one of the things I kind of heard was or and correct me because maybe I misheard it was it that you know when you sort of again this happens everywhere you sort of flatten out your organization right maybe too many too many higher ranks so sort of I think what I heard is you sort of flatten you flattened it out a little bit right not as many sergeants and lieutenants um and and Yeah. Yeah. In the early 2000s, it wasn't flattened out a little bit. It was probably 75% of the supervision was eliminated. Well, that's the sheriff that came in. Right.

Okay. And again, we were um we were we were topheavy at the time. Um we weren't that topheavy. I guess my question was, are you try did I hear you say you're trying to claw some of that back? We have. Yes, we've actually we've regained a lot of that ground. um we are are in a pretty good position right now where we by all the charts we have adequate supervision across the board. I think in some ca in some areas we're we're a little ahead of the game. Okay. I mean when you you know I'm just saying you know if you if you're you know if you're looking to grow that as an opportunity boy you know that's when you contract when you contract out your services that seems like an opportunity

regardless whether it's contracted out or not it has to be responsible has to be Mr. Shay, you have a question. I do. Uh, thank you. This year we're adding or next year we're adding an additional detective. Yes. And I can tell you about him if you'd like. Well, tell me about him, but more so help us understand the benefit that it's going to help our community. Okay. Realize that. I think that's more important. But we'd love to hear about him. I hope he's a great guy. I'm sure he is cuz everybody is good people.

Absolutely is. And so um and I'll and I'll go a little sideways on this. So one of the things that um you know we looked at that we're uh down at the county kind of bearing kind of the brunt on are the special victim's cases. So anytime we would have a special victim's case come in, it would get assigned to one of the detectives at Lancaster. Um, that's a detective that doesn't work up here, that doesn't necessarily have a whole lot of local knowledge. So, the guy you're getting, uh, Detective Jamie Shell has probably

Yeah, he's he's got 25 in or 23.

Yeah, 27 in. Good guy. Um he's also a trained special victim's detective. So he will handle every one of the special victims cases in Canal Winchester. He'll also carry a supplemental general case load also to assist Detective Jenkins. So that keeps all of your investigative work and product within the city by detectives that know the city. Um, those of you that haven't talked to Detective Jenkins, outstanding individual, he knows the city. He knows what's going on up here. That helps solve crime. Um, by having Detective Shell up here, you've also got that trained special victims investigator that really kind of pushes things, you know, to an area that granted, you know, the citizens that deal with these guys are and may not recognize. I mean, let's face it, they're dealing with these detectives at probably a the worst point in their lives, or at least a really, really negative aspect, but it's the level of service they get from someone that is in the community, knows what's going on, and works with his guys every day. So, it's a really good combined amount of knowledge that really, really goes to work for the citizens. Thank you, Chief.

No, not a problem. Anything [clears throat] else regarding the contract or questions for Chief Collins? Just happy to have you guys for another five years. Hey, so are we. It's four years. Four, sorry, four years. We batted that back and forth for a while. So, yeah, I'm glad we finally got an answer on that. Yeah. Okay. Thank you again. Thank you, Sergeant Strong. We appreciate um everything you do for our community. Mhm. Okay. Is there any other new business? Okay. Hearing none, is there a motion to adjurnn? Second. Motion made by Mr. Moore, second by Mr. Buskerk. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Busker, yes. Mr. Shay, yes. Miss Abeck, yes.

Miss Amos, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Thank you. Council for uh the city of Canal Winchester will begin at 7 p.m. Ice cream.

That was a fun morning though. Good. Action. Uh, good evening everyone. This is a call to order for the Canal Winchester City Council December 1st, 2025. um meeting. Leading us in the pledge of allegiance tonight will be Miss A. Thank you, Mr. Bennett. I pledge 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. Roll call. Miss A present.

Miss Amos here. Mr. Bennett present. Mr. Busker here. Mr. Mclofflin. Mr. Moore here. Mr. Sheay uh present. And I move to excuse Mr. Mclofflin. Second. Give it to Rick. Okay. Motion made by Mr. Sheay to excuse Mr. Mclofflin. Uh second by Mr. Moore. Any discussion? Welcome baby Baker. Yes, we are pretty sure Mr. Mr. Mclofflin is watching online as well. So, um, roll call. Mr. Sheay, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Miss Hay, yes. Miss Amos, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Mr. Busker, yes.

Thank you. We'll move to the approval of minutes. First, we have minutes 25-047. This is the November 17th uh work session meeting minutes. Do we have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Um motion made by Mr. Buskerk, second by the chair. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Busker? Yes. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Moore? Yes. Mr. Sheay? Yes. Miss Amy? Yes. Miss Amos? Yes. Thank you. Um, next we have minutes 25-048. This is the November 17th city council meeting minutes. Um, do a motion to approve these meeting minutes as well. So, second. Motion B by Mr. Moore, second by Miss Aik. Any discussion on these? Hearing none. Roll call.

Mr. More. Yes. Miss A. Yes. Miss Amos. Yes. Mr. Bennett. Yes. Mr. Busker. Yes. Mr. Shay. Yes. Thank you. Um, we will move to public comment. Um, I do not believe there is anyone in the uh space for public comment this evening. So, we'll move right on to reports of city staff and officials. Um, we'll start with the mayor's report. Mayor Steer.

Thank you, Mr. Bennett. I do not have anything specific tonight. I can take questions. I only want to hope that you all had a good Thanksgiving and I'm very thankful for the outcome of um Saturday in Ann Arbor. Other than that, I I have nothing for city council today. Thank you, Mayor. Any questions for Mayor Steer? No, but please pass along the thanks. The city is coming to life and it's amazing. We've heard a lot of that. Thank you for that and we will let um the guys know about that. They've been working hard on that. So, thank you. Looks great. Okay. Move to city administrative report. Mr. Peoples.

Thank you, Mr. Bennett. Um, a couple items from my written report. Uh, first of all, I did have uh I forgot to update the uh months in the um um water um plant uh values. There was not in July. That was October. Thank you, Mr. Bennett, for noticing that. I think that's two months in a row. I love that. So updated the uh the numbers and not the month. So apologize for that. Um the uh one uh one update on the Ashbrook Village drainage issue. We did hear from the property owner uh adjacent to that. Uh he is willing to uh provide an easement for that. So we are getting started on that right away. Um I'm going to let the um u the residents out there know that it is uh um definitely if we can make it all happen. Um that's a a nice uh first step though.

Sounds great. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Peoples? Mr. Sh. Uh Mr. Peoples, in your report you managed that the draft for the strategic planning would be getting a submission by the end of November. Any updates? Yes. Uh we got a a meeting with uh with Hannah uh to review um some comments on that. Um, I don't know if that's the final draft or or not, but I'll we'll have that on the have an update on the next uh council meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Move to Fairfield County Sheriff's Report. Sergeant Strong.

Thank you, Mr. Bennett. I do not have anything, but I will be happy to answer any questions. Okay. Any questions from council? I think I gave them all to just make sure. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Um we'll move to law director report. Mr. Bogs. Thank you, Mr. Bennett. Um I do not have a written report this evening, but we do have a request for an executive session uh at the end of this evening's meeting to consider the purchase of property for public purposes. And I will provide you the language for that motion. Hence for happy to answer any questions you have.

Why didn't we do that between work session and now um in retrospect we could have done it at the end of the work session. So my mistake let's keep that in the keep that in the quiver for next the next four years. Okay. Yeah. [clears throat] Okay. Any other questions for Mr. Fox? Hearing none. We will move to fi finance director report Miss Jackson. Uh thank you Mr. Bennett. Uh two things I wanted to mention this evening. One in my written report I had pointed out that you will be receiving new laptops

um for the beginning of the year. We would like to do that at your next meeting. We'll collect your old ones. We'll get you your new ones. [clears throat] Mr. Brown will be here. Um so I'm going to send out an email to all of you um to kind of let you know exactly what's going on. there's some differences in the fact that you will have a laptop now versus a Chromebook. So, um Mr. Brown wants to go over all that with you, how to access your email, um things along those lines. So, look for an email from me tomorrow with some more um detail. We'd like to try and do you kind of in two groups, if you will, so that um he can show you how to how to use those. Um and then second thing, today was deadline for the bed tax grant. Um, I got by far the majority of them today, so I have not gone through them yet, but uh, typically we have a couple members of council who volunteer to go through those applications. So, if anyone would like to volunteer, once I get them all together, I can send them out um, and hopefully we can get something uh, legislation wise on for your next meeting. So, I know if anyone wants to take the time to review them and make their suggestions,

I believe historically it had been Mr. Mr. Shay and Mr. Buzz Kirk, but if other members of council would like an opportunity, I mean, I'm happy to help as long as it's down to Well, I said I'd do it, but I think he was raising his hand to volunteer actually first and then first he raised his hand and then I said something and he and then he was like, "Get rid of him." He was like, "Yeah, that's fine. I don't have to." Um, would I mean aside from I'm willing to not do it this year. Okay. Take a break. [laughter] Great. Share the love. All right. Mr. Moore is on. And if Mr. Shay's not going to do it, I I'd defer and let us Perfect. Um then uh Rick and I will do it. Okay.

Okay. Mrs. Jackson at a 50,000 foot level. Could you please for the record the purpose of the bed tax grants?

So the purpose has sort of morphed over the years. Um, but ultimately it was put together to bring people into town and it was supposed to because it is funded with bed tax money which is collected from the hotels that we have here in town. Um, and it is supposed to be for organizations that want to put on an event to bring people into our community. Um the goal of the original grant was that we just help start the event that we are not an every year funding source for the event. Um but this is council's program. So ultimately it is council's decision as to how they want to run it, what applications they want to fund and which they don't. So okay, thank you.

And I think Mr. people's actually made a suggestion of modifying the is it the rules or if there's an ordinance specifically related to that about what for uh I don't know that it was ever that there's any type of legislation on it and if it is it's there are guidelines application that outline what the uh applicants can be used for yeah we have we have guidelines and all of that that were put together I just don't know that they that there was a piece of legislation that formerly adopted that program. Um there is an ordinance on the books that sets aside money for the program every year. Um but the guidelines have been sort of Oh yeah, they

fluid if you will. Fluid's a great word. [clears throat] Okay. Well, if there are um if you do uh look into that and there are is a specific ordinance or anything specific around what we have historically framed that conversation as I know Mr. Peoples maybe was wanting to make sure that we are doing our due diligence and if that is uh needing an update to comply with how we are currently operating. I think that was a concern I'd heard from Mr. Peoples. So

yes, we also get a lot of applications from some community partners that we give other money to. So that was something internally we had wanted to bring up to city council about maybe reframing the grant program to uh so we don't have m organizations getting lots of money from multiple different pots of money from us. So that's a discussion for another time. Agree. Thank you, Miss Jackson. Okay. Um, any other questions for Miss Jackson?

Um, do we need Mr. We need a motion? Do I need to make a motion to excuse Miss Amos from the rest of the meeting? Uh, yes, that would be appropriate. And then we can mark the time that she's out as well. Thank you. Um, I would like to make an ordinance or a motion to excuse Miss Amos. So moved. Second. Yeah. So [laughter] motion made by Miss A. Did you make I'm sorry. Did you motion made by Miss A, second by Mr. Moore. Uh, roll call. Mr. Aik. Yes. Mr. Moore. Yes. Mr. Sh. Yes. Fine. Mr. Bennett. Yes.

Mr. Busker.

Yes. Thank you. um mark that at 7:20 or 7 712. Thank you. Um All right. Any other questions for Miss Jackson before we move to development director? All right, we'll move to development director report. Mr. Hair, just a couple items to highlight from my written report. You can probably see it on the ground as well, but Kroger has begun construction on DY Road out there and they've got uh equipment moving and earth moving on that site. Culver's is now working on their site as well on Gender Road. I know many of you have asked questions about that, what the lay was. They're under construction there now. And then uh DSV, who was formerly DB Shanker, has begun operations on Robinet Way and their new space. Uh they leased 221,000 square ft. Uh will add approximately 100 new jobs with their expansion from their existing building on Robinet Way. And so those those buildings the the canal point expansion are fully leased now um and all operational. But happy to answer any of the questions you have about those or any other projects in the city.

Mr. Hair, was that a merger or a buyout or a It was an acquisition. So DS DB Shanker was acquired by DSV. Okay. Thank you. Um one more question. Um, this is unrelated to your report, but the Oldtown improvement grants that come from the CWIC, when is the next due date for that? Do you recall off the top of your head? We have uh the CWIC determined that they would like to take a break from doing those? Uh, we didn't feel like we were getting the the quality applications we were doing and seeing if we might repurpose that money um for another purpose, but went through three rounds.

Um, we're nearing completion of all the projects. I think we have two that are not completed yet. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. Um that will with no other questions for Mr. Hair, we'll move on to resolutions. Our first resolution this evening is resolution 25-053. Miss Pierce, will you please read that resolution? A resolution approving a approving an amendment to the contract to create the Violet Township City of Canal Winchester joint economic development district and authorizing the inclusion of certain additional property within said district. Thank you. The sponsor for that this evening is Miss Ach.

Thank you. I move to adopt resolution 25-053. Second. Motion made by Miss Amik, second by Mr. Buzzkerk. Any discussion? Roll call. Miss A. Yes. Mr. Busker, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Shay, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Thank you. Uh, next is resolution 25-058.

Miss Pierce, could you please read that resolution as well? A resolution to authorize the mayor to enter into a development agreement with Opus Development Company LLC relative to property generally located at the intersections of Bixby Road, Regger Road, and US Route 33. Thank you. Um, chair is the sponsor. I'll move to adopt resolution 25-058. Second.

Motion made by the chair, second by Mr. Sheay. Discussion, Mr. hair. Um could you do me a favor? Um for those that maybe didn't tune in um to the work session meeting, could you just run through the uh updates um for all the agreements or just all the agreements? Yeah. Just hit the highlights on all of the updates for all the agreements that we're about to walk through.

Yeah. So the development agreement, the change with that agreement was an increased amount contributed to the community benefit agreement uh which is a payment that the developer is making to the city um of 75 cents now per square foot. Uh 25 cents being paid at the um issuance of building permit and then 50 cents being paid for each square foot that's occupied with the issuance issuance of an occupancy certificate. Um that same change was incorporated into the CRA agreement which is resolution 2560. And then the TIF agreement there was some questions brought up regarding the interest rate. It was previously proposed at 6 12%. Um the likely rate of any borrowing would be a little less than that in the environment we're in in a declining interest rate environment. And so the change that was made there is the interest rate will be an amount up to 6 and a.5% but the actual rate will be determined at the issuance of a bond for that project for those public infrastructure improvements. And so it would match the the rate of the bond. And then also in the tiff agreement, there was not a designated amount of funding uh an up to amount that we would reimburse for the public infrastructure improvements associated with storm water. Mhm.

And so, um, because there was still some final engineering that was being figured out on that improvement, we have figured out those improvements now, and we've added about a $300,000 additional storm sewer line that'll run down um the west side of of Reggga Road, which initially was thought we would be able to do that with an open road ditch, but we can't get the grades to work to drain Bixby Road. So, that was included as well. So now it's an amount up to $830,000 um in proposed storm sewer improvements. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Hair, for rolling us through all that. Um any other discussion? Roll call. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Shay? Yes. Miss A? Yes.

Mr. Busker? Yes. Mr. Mort? Yes.

Thank you. We'll move to resolution 25-059. Um, Miss Pierce, can you read this as well? A resolution declaring the improvement declaring the improvement of certain real property located in the city of Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio to be a public purpose declaring such property to be exempt from real property taxation designating specific public infrastructure improvements that once made will directly benefit the parcels for which improvement is declared to be a public purpose. requiring annual service payments in lie of taxes, establishing a m municipal public improvement tax increment equivalent fund, authorizing the execution of a tax increment financing agreement, and providing related authorizations pursuant to Ohio Revised Code sections 5709 40B, 5709.42, 5709.43, 5709.832, 832 and 5709.85.

Thank you. Um, the chair is a sponsor and we'll move to adopt resolution 25-059. Do I have a second? Second. Motion made by the chair, second by uh Mr. Moore. Roll call, please. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Moore? Yes. Mr. Sheay? Yes. Miss A? Yes. Mr. Wker? Yes. Thank you. Next is resolution 25-060. Miss Pierce, can you read this uh resolution as well?

A resolution authorizing the city of Canal Winchester to enter into a community reinvestment area agreements with Opus Development Company LLC pursuant to section 3735.671 of the Ohio Revised Code. Thank you. U sponsor, I have a motion to adopt resolution 25- 060. Do I have a second? Second. Motion made by the chair, second by Mr. Buzzkerk. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Busker? Yes. Mr. Moore? Yes. Mr. Shay? Yes. Miss A? Yes.

Oh, yeah. That's it. Okay. Uh, thank you. Um, next we have resolution 25- 062. Miss Pierce, could you read that resolution as well? A resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract for con consulting services relating to construction inspection for the period from January 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2027. Thank you. Uh, Mr. Buskerk was the sponsor. I move to adopt resolution 25-062. Second. Okay. Motion made by Mr. Buskerk. Second by Mr. Moore. Discussion. Roll call. Mr. Busford. Yes. Mr. Moore.

Yes. Mr. Shagg. Yes. Miss Aik. Yes. Mr. Bent. Yes. Thank you. Next is resolution 25-063. Miss Pierce, you're up again. Can you read that resolution as well? A resolution approving the mayor's appointment of Deborah McDonald to serve a 4-year term as a member of the planning and zoning commission expiring on December 31st, 2029. Thank you. I'll motion to adopt resolution 25-063. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Motion made by the chair, second by Mr. Sheay. Roll call. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Sheay? Yes. Miss Sam? Yes. Mr. Busford?

Yes. Mr. Moore? Yes. Thank you. Next is resolution 20 resolution uh 25-064. Miss Pierce, can you read that one as well? A resolution approving the mayor's appointment of Rick Deeds to serve a 4-year term as a member of the planning and zoning commission expiring on December 31st, 2009. Thank you, Mr. Moore as the sponsor. Motion to adopt resolution 25-064. Second. Motion made by Mr. Moore, second by Mr. Buzzkerk. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Busker, yes. Mr. Sheay, yes. Miss, yes. Mr. Bennett,

yes. Thank you. And our last resolution this evening, resolution 25-065. Miss Pierce, can you read that one as well? A resolution to accept the application for the annexation to the city of Canal Winchester of certain territory in Madison Township containing 111.2 2 plus or minus acres and being located at 5593 Hayes Road. Thank you. The sponsor for this is Mr. Bosker. I move to adopt resolution 25-065. Second motion made by Mr. Busker. Second by Mr. Moore. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Busker? Yes. Mr. Moore? Yes. Mr. Sheay? Yes. Miss Aik? Yes.

Mr. Bennett? Yes. Thank you. Uh we'll move on to ordinances. Um, first up will be the ordinance on for third reading this evening. First, we have ordinance 25-027. Back to you, Miss Pierce. An ordinance to authorize the mayor to enter into an agreement with the Fairfield County Sheriff for police protection. Thank you. The sponsor is Mr. Moore. Motion to adopt ordinance 25-027. Second. Motion made by Mr. Moore, second by Miss Aik. Discussion. Roll call. Mr. Moore. Yes. Miss Seamick? Yes. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Busker? Yes. Mr. Shay?

Yes. Thank you. Um, next we have ordinance 25-028. Miss Pierce, can you read this ordinance as well? An ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract with the Fairfield County Commissioners and Fairfield County Sheriff's Department for housing of prisoners. Thank you. Um, the sponsor is Mr. Pusker. I move to adopt ordinance 25-028. Chair will second. Uh motion made by uh Mr. Posker, second by Mr. Bennett. Discussion. Roll call. Mr. Busker. Yes. Mr. Bennett. Yes. Mr. Moore. Yes. Mr. Sheay. Yes. Miss Hay. Yes.

Thank you. Um [clears throat] next we'll move to ordinance 25-029. M. Pierce, can you read this ordinance? an ordinance to make appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures of the city of Canal Winchester, state of Ohio during the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026 and to authorize approved enter fund transfers. Thank you. Uh the chair will motion to adopt ordinance 25-029. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Miss Ach. Um any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Bennett. Yes. Miss A. Yes, Mr. Busker. Yes, Mr. Moore. Yes, Mr. Shet.

Yes. Thank you. Uh, next we have ordinance 25-030. Miss Pierce, again, back to you. An ordinance amending section 1197.17, obstruction of rightaway of the codified ordinances of the city of Canow Winchester, Ohio. Thank you. Um, the chair will motion to adopt ordinance 25-0. Actually, Mr. Sheay, would you like to motion to adopt uh ordinance 25-030? In honor of Baker Wyatt, I would like to move to adopt ordinance 25- 030. Second.

Motion B. Uh, Mr. Shay, second by Mr. Buskerk. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Shay, yes. Mr. Busker, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Miss Aik, no. Mr. Bennett. Yes. Okay. Uh, we have nothing on for second reading. We have nothing on for first reading this evening. Um, feels like we're missing a meeting. Council reports. I think we have a meeting December 15th if I'm not mistaken.

Okay, I'll be here. Um, so we'll have a city council and work session Monday, December 15th, um, at 6 PM with council on the same evening beginning at 7. Then we'll move into 2026 real fast. Uh we'll have an organizational meeting Monday, January 5th at 6 PM. Um and then um after that we will have um meetings uh the rest of the meeting in January will be Tuesday, January 20th with work session at 6:00 and full counsel at 7. And then in February, we'll have our first meeting of the month, February 2nd, with work session at 6 and full counsel at 7. Um we did uh cancel the December council connect um for Saturday, December 20th. So that will not take place. We can um if we I don't know if we need to issue an update on that, Mr. Peoples, um or just remove it from the city calendar. Um obviously it's still on our agenda, so I just wanted to make sure it is removed or shown as canceled someplace. That would be great. Thank you. Um we'll move to um council reports for CW human services. Mr. Shay,

good evening. Uh adopt the family is upcoming. We appreciate everybody's participation and donations to that. And then there will also be the reindeer games sponsored by Destination Canal Winchester on the 13th I believe. Thank you. Thank you CWIC Miss A. Thank you Mr. Bennett. I have nothing new to report this evening. Okay, thank you. Um, that will take us to the CWJRD, Miss Amos and Mr. Moore.

We are pretty much in our slow season getting ready for a little bit of changeover with board positions. Um, we'll have a new council rep, a new school board rep, uh, starting in January. And we are also conducting interviews this week um for the applications that were the narrowed down applications for the community um at large board member position. Other than that, everything's running just smooth and uh we'll we'll update who the new board uh community board member is next next meeting. Okay, sounds great. Thank you. Um destination Winchester, Mr. Busker.

Um as Mr. Shay said the reindeer games are coming up and you can visit Destination Canal Winchester or the app to register for that event. And we do have a new executive director um that will be starting on December 15th uh Lacy Craner. So um please take time to welcome her to Destination Canal Winchester and I look forward to seeing what she has in store for us over the next year. Okay. and I'll make sure I invite her to council to introduce herself as well. That'd be great. Do you know did she already download the app?

Yes. And um speaking of the app, um the developer of the app, the company has also said, "Hey, you guys are doing a great job there in Canal Winchester. Um we're willing to give you $500 for every city around you that you can get to download the app as well." So if another city um takes advantage of the app, we can receive some discounts from them for that. You mean like Growthport or Pickerington or any of those and they mention that they were directed to them by the city of Canal Winchester, then we would get a benefit from that. Right. That's great.

Um I was forwarded the uh the update for the CW Chamber of Commerce this evening. So I will provide that on behalf of Mr. Mclofflin. Um they would like to remind that the bruise and blankets event is Thursday from 5 to 8:00 p.m. at Sweet Harmony. Um where we'll be making blankets for the adopt a family program offered through human services. The goal is to make 100 blankets. Um and as of this morning, they were at 70 blanket kits. Um registrations. This is a fun event for [clears throat] co-workers, friends, and family. Uh each ticket is $15 and includes the kit to make a blanket. Um, you can sign up just to donate a blanket and then uh that will be made on your behalf. You can register at canal winchester.com says winchester.com. We'll go with that.

Okay, perfect. [clears throat] Um, also applications are being accepted for the chamers's board of directors position through December 8th. Um there are four three-year terms that begin in January. Um they have received many applications so far but would appreciate um community's excitement and interest. So if you're interested, please contact the chamber office about requirements and how to apply or you can visit the website under the contact us section. Um and finally u my report for um the sustainability commission. Yep. So there uh will not be uh I think I may have shared this at the last meeting. We will not have quorum for our December meeting. So that will have to be cancelled. Um we will have a meeting in January. Um city staff will be presenting um some sunshine law public meeting um elements to make sure that uh we are in compliance. And so for those um who have volunteered um we received four applications for our um vacant uh position as well. I received those from Miss Woodruff uh I believe today. So we will um discuss those um upcoming. And then um [clears throat] I know that I as a part of a a small group um met to discuss sort of how to organize events um that the group would like to potentially organize in the future because I think there were sort of a uh we needed a little bit of a guide on how to steer the ship for you know uh event planning. Um so there was a small group that kind of worked up a one sheeter um how to outline uh proposed events um which we can share with the which individuals could share with the board. So board members who want to make an event uh would then maybe write up a one page or present

that back. Um obviously would have to be consulted on with the city because if we're adding events um obviously the city would probably play a role in the event itself. So, um I think we just want to make sure that there's a sort of a process for this stuff. So, um that's some of the stuff that's happening in the sustainability commission. Um any other old or new business this evening? [clears throat] Mr. Bennett, I don't I don't know if you said this or not, but for the Bruce and blankets, the fact that there's 70 or 30 blankets short, I just wanted to remind everybody that it requires no skill. If you know how to use scissors, you can make one of these blankets to keep a child warm this winter.

I'll be there. Excellent.

Okay. Uh, any other old or new business? Hearing none, I will make a motion to enter into executive session under section 121.22 22 G2 to consider the purchase of property for public purposes. Have a second. Second motion made by the chair, second by Mr. Moore. Discussion. Roll call. Mr. Bennett. Yes. Mr. Moore. Yes. Mr. Sheay. Yes. Miss. Yes. Mr. Busker. Yes. Thank you. Uh, time into executive session 734. I don't know if I needed to say that. I did.

Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Moore. Yes. Mr. Shay. Yes. Miss A? Yes. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Bus? Yes. Thank you. Time out. 7:45.