Board of Trustees - Regular Meeting

got the Boy Scouts of America here. So you guys especially select one of your leaders there to to stand up, come here and lead us in the pledge of allegiance if you would. Good idea. You got us. Okay. Come out there. Yeah. Come on up. Come right here front and center. And then everyone please stand. We got the flag here in the right corner. So turn towards you. 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.

We are 452. We're going to tune into this uh meeting you guys so we can check. Try not to Oh, you're not a burden whatsoever. We love having you here and I I want I want to have you guys back at every meeting. Be great. All right. Um, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Union Township Board of Trustees meeting agenda for August 12th, uh, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. Mr. Campbell, let the record show all three trustees are present. Uh, Mr. Campbell, is there any correspondence from the fiscal officers tonight?

No, sir, I have none. Thank you. Okay, great. Um, proclamations and special presentations. We don't have a uh proclamation, special presentation on the agenda for right now, but um to the Boy Scouts, I'm going to offer that when we come to the public comment period. If uh again, if one of you'd like to come tell us a little bit about what you do, um going to put that invitation out to you right now. Um, sir, we do have proclamation special presentation next for Claremont County Solid Waste Plan 2025 update and Miss Hannah Lovers, the director Adams Claremont Solid Waste District, if you could join us for our special presentation. Thank you.

Sure. Thank you. So Hannah Lubers, I'm with the director with the Adams Claremont Solid Waste District. Every five years, we have to rewrite our solid waste plan. It's a 15-year plan. It's something that shows all the goals that we have. Those goals are dictated by Ohio EPA and our plan determines how we're going to meet those goals. So there's certain goals in there that we're required to meet like we have to divert 25% of the waste um that goes into the landfill. So that could look like recycling or composting or re reusing materials. We also have a number of educational goals that we have to meet as well. And you can see the plan at oeq.netplan. Next slide. So currently our existing programs just to give a quick overview of those is we operate 26 drop off recycling sites in Claremont County and then we have some in Adams County as well. We partner with Municipal Court Community Service for roadside litter pickup and we have other litter cleanup events as well. We have to manage a variety of special wastes including tires and so we work with service departments and um the townships and municipalities. They can bring any tires that they find along the roadways to a pile that we have and we can pay for removal of those. We also have residential cleanup events. We try to have one once a year. This year it's going to be September 12th and 13th at the fairgrounds from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. And we have a variety of educational programs as well. Slide. So some of the new programs that we're adding is we some of these are required by the new format that Ohio EPA has put out. So, we've added in some industrial programs. We have to have three. One of those is an internship, a summer internship. We cover 75% of that. Uh 12-week internship for pollution prevention at a local industry, and we've done two so far. Um we also have to expand our outreach and education

programs, including some of the work that we're doing in schools. And then we've chosen to offer um grant to hopefully expand organics or food waste diversion because that comprises 14 to 22% of the waste that goes into landfills. And that would start in 2027. And we're adding these new programs without a fee increase. And the way a solid waste district is funded is not through taxes. It's through a fee on the garbage that is generated. So haulers collect that fee. Next slide. The a new program that we're offering that I think folks might be interested in is our new offices. We're accepting household hazardous waste. So before if you had chemicals, paints, things like that, you had to go to environmental enterprises in Cincinnati and we would pay for that with a voucher. Now we're um accepting that at our location in Betavia and you just have to call or email us to schedule a time to bring that by because there's just two of us there in the office. So, we don't want, you know, if we're not in the office at a meeting or something, having stuff left at the doorstep. The next slide, please. Those are a list of the materials that generally we're accepting. So, batteries, electronic waste, household hazardous waste, which is like chemicals, um televisions, we're taking those, but we do charge 40 cents per pound for those because they're more difficult to get rid of. So, our timeline for our solid waste plan, uh, we're in the ratification period. So, we've gone through public hearing and had a 30-day public comment period. Right now, we're in the 90-day ratification period, and we're going around and getting resolutions from the townships, and we would ask for a resolution from Union Township approving the plan. Um, the deadline for that would be September 14th. Next slide. And that's all I have. I tried to keep it pretty brief. I know you have a busy agenda. Um, this is my contact information. And we also have a

website, acwd.org, if you're looking on how to get rid of something, recycle something, or any of the information I talked about tonight. You can go there and find that information or reach out to to me. Trusty Dills, do you have any questions? Council members, great job. Appreciate you very much. Thank you for explaining that. Thank you, Trusty Becker. I know you have to. Absolutely. All right. Good. Hey, thank you for coming this evening. This has been a nice overview kind of getting a feel for for what all your organization does. Uh you said some key words and maybe I'm going to jump out of my chair here. Roadside litter pickup. Yes, I know you're very that's that's something I specialize in. You've caught the bug.

What um tell tell me more about that. How often are you in Union Township? Where do you go? You got a crew? How many people? I want to know everything.

Okay. So, we fund uh municipal court and they take people that need community service out and there's like oh I think it's four supervisors that will take crews out. Um and you can make requests but they have a pretty they have it pretty nailed down over the years on where they can go. Now they'll hit these roads. They hit like 752 I think miles of roadways in 2024. Um, and they mostly do county roads and they'll do some township roads. ODOT, of course, does the roads that they're responsible for. Um, there are some areas I know like I live in Union Township, so I know there are a couple places I drive by and I've complained like, why don't you get that that area over by I think it's Office Max and I think there are some unsafe areas that they cannot get to. They can't have people walking along the roadway. So, um, yeah, they do all of the roads that they can get to safely at least once a year.

ODOT does this. So, for State Route 32, if it's ODOT, then the municipal court won't do that. Yeah. How can I get a So, the other So, the county roads, how how would I get a schedule of when they're going to be coming through Union Township and which roads they're going to do. I can get you the information for that. It's um the contact is Teresa. I'm blanking on her last name right now, but she's over at municipal court and and she keeps that schedule. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have, Chair.

Okay. Thank you. Um with the roadside litter pickup, it seems like you guys need to coordinate a schedule there and either relieve a supervisor or you can be the fifth supervisor and we take the whole team. man. And um and you said there's some roadway that they don't over by Office Max or it's hazardous. I don't I don't know if that's ever something we can quickly work with like I don't know our police department or something to like kind of close a traffic lane for few minutes to get some of the significant trash. Maybe that maybe that's something we could work and just work together on. You might know somebody that would be on the crew that could help.

Yeah, we try we um we've been trying to expand in Union Township. Um this year we hit up some some of the area around jungle gyms and so we could always use more volunteers as you know you can only make a certain you know dent in things and there's a lot of stuff out there so and we've been doing litter cleanup for as long as I've been here for 17 years and the numbers don't go down so people sometimes it's an accident but okay sometimes it's not

great I think uh also engagement with our community engagement manager the back of the room there would probably facilitate some some messaging to go out for volunteers or people engaged. Uh again, we've really worked on having a much more robust communication platform for the township and I think this would be a great way for uh residents to to be involved in their community and and service back to the community in that sense. Yes. And Union Township has been supportive. Um we started having our event in the spring litter cleanup event in Union Township for several years now. So, they have been helping out with that, but we're happy to do more as as you would like. And I can give you some garbage bags, too, if you are starting to run out of garbage bags.

Last question I had, I saw something on there about household hazardous waste. How do you handle that? And I asked also because I just recently spoke with a a locally based company that is working towards being able to handle hazardous waste in a American farmers first type of process that takes feed stock and transforms it to a sustain a solution that suspends hazardous waste and neutralizes it and makes it biodegradable. Interesting. Yeah. Um, I don't know anything or very much about how they process it, but we work with a company. Environmental Enterprises is where we take our material. So,

residents Yeah. Yeah. We have a vendor. Um, but, you know, we can always work with different vendors if there are new ones coming to the area, but right now residents can bring it to our offices by appointment. Okay. Yeah. It just seemed like it's a difficult thing to deal with. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Um Okay. Well, thank you very much. And I think that if uh also for your awareness that hazardous waste um impact is also something regulated by like Department of Transportation or or federally and our congressman Taylor for second district is on that committee as well. And so he he'd probably love to see your facility and hear hear more about how you deal with the hazardous waste too. Okay. So great. Well, thank you very much, Hannah.

Thank you. Thank you. All right, let's move forward with personnel actions. Then we'll have public comments. Uh personnel actions, fire department, if we could please welcome Blake Rocky up and Chief um Clemens, if you could please introduce.

Absolutely. Thank you, sir. U tonight, I'd like to introduce and recommend Mr. Blake Rocky for consideration for the position of full-time firefighter paramedic. Mr. Rocky is a 2012 high school graduate of Eastern Brown, completed his firefighter 1 and two and EMT basic through Southern Hills and earned his paramedic certification from Shaunie State University. Mr. Rocky comes to comes to us with several years of firefighter paramedic experience with the last four years being at Anderson Township. Blake has successfully completed all aspects of the hiring process, including a background, polygraph, and psychological evaluation. Blake has been extremely professional and responsive during this hiring process and will be a great addition to our team for many years. I would recommend a conditional offer of employment to Mr. Rocky as a full-time firefighter paramedic at a rate of pay consistent with step three of the collective bargaining agreement effective September 1st, 2025 at 7 a.m. pending successful completion of a physical examination.

All right. Thank you. Um gentlemen, do we have a motion uh to hire Blake Rocky for the position of firefighter medic step three in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement. Effective date September 1st, 2025 at 7 am successful completion of medical physical examination and I open the floor for comments uh following that motion. All right. So move second. All right. Let's open it for conversation. Blake, uh you got your family here? I do. Absolutely. Yeah. Please introduce them. Yeah. Who you got here?

So in the back row here, um we have my fiance Kylie. Um in the stroller in front of her, we have our beautiful daughter Meline. Um she's two months old, very new. Um, next uh my daughter, my fiance, we have my future um stepdad, Jeff. And next to him is my mother, Tammy. Um, next to Tammy is my future mother-in-law, um, Billy Walters, and her husband.

Um, next to Randy is one of my good friends, Chris. Um, in the row behind them in the gray shirt is my father, Darl. Um, and next to him is my stepmom, Jennifer. And behind my father is my uncle Joey. I love it. I love it. That's great. Good support team. The uh you'll you'll notice you got quite a few firefighters here and they're not here for really any reason other than just the fact that you're coming on board with us. So, absolutely. Uh they got your back. They're good people. The uh uh Anderson Township, uh that's where you're coming from, right? Yes. Uh just just real briefly, um

why the switch from Anderson to Union? There's a few reasons. Um, like I've been saying, it's more about Union Township, less about Anderson. You know, I was an Anderson or Union Township resident for about five years. I lived in the community um through some of the most formidable years of my life. Um, so this is throughout most of my adult life like home to me. So, you know, I have that connection to the area. Um, beyond that, um, I've had to use the fire department on a couple 911 calls. one being at the veterans park um and then another one um for someone I was with one time and I was really impressed by how they were with the people I had called for and how aggressive they were and they just got in and got the job done and I love that. Um then being on mutual aid runs with them um at Anderson Township, you know, I've always loved like I kind of just said how aggressive they were, how they got in there and got it done. And just with all those three things combined, um you know, I I've all I' this is where I'd love to be.

I love that. You you'll you'll notice that uh a lot of our guys here are here till they retire. So there's a reason for that. So it's awesome. Yeah. Appreciate you coming board. Absolutely. Go, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Becker. Hey, it's great. You brought a lot of family members with you and uh sounds like with a with a fiance and some future in-laws, you got a great future ahead of you. Absolutely. I'm excited. And uh I appreciate your interest here in Union Township and want to see you welcome aboard. Thank you. Thank you. Uh well, one, uh it's tremendous, uh do I call it a mustache? It's tremendous mustache they get to bring to the team here. Thank you. I'm sure that's what everyone's here to to admire.

Oh, that's great. Um uh and two, uh we don't have as many uh chicken joints as on uh 125. That's the one thing they don't eat. And so our good friends there in Anderson. It's it's always a good it's always a good fun comment there. But no, we're excited to have you have you on the team. So glad uh glad to have you joining. So with that, Mr. Campbell will take a roll call. Mr. Dills? Yes. Mr. Becker? Yes. Mr. Log? Yes. Motion carries. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Hey, congratulations. Welcome.

Absolutely. Welcome aboard, Blake. Thank you.

Blake, that being the only higher we go down, get the photo back here. All right, let's see. [Applause] 5 second

if you want. That'd be good. Thank you. You go. Yeah.

Okay. So, moving forward with public comment. I do have a few public comment cards here tonight. Um with topics for uh Union Commons, Rup Properties, Rup Properties, Rup Properties. Uh, I understand um you're here to speak on behalf of that. Uh, and it's really best that you speak during the public hearing portion because that's the legal requirement for the public hearing and being in record. So, thank you and appreciate filling out the public comment card, but uh, unless you would oppose me saying it now, I'd say you'd be best to to definitely share your comments during the public hearing portion of of that case. comments.

All right. Yeah. I'd like for a public hearing. I'd like to welcome Virginia Olri to the podium. And then Boy Scouts of America, you get you got someone that you're going to send. Okay. All right. All right. So, this is Virginia. And I don't need to swear you in for public comment. So the floor is yours. You have uh five minutes. Okay. Thank you. I've never done this and address my life. Say your name and address for the record still, please. Sorry. Um Virginia Ori. I live at 4254 Illium Avenue, apartment 6207, Cincinnati, Ohio 45245.

Thank you. Um, like I said, I've never done this before, so I'm not really sure, but um, moved into Union Commons in January, the end of January. Um, and I spoke earlier, we had so many problems over there. Just so many that the the senior building, a lot of the people that live in the senior building don't feel safe living there. We have people that are under 55 that there's like maybe two adults that are supposed to be living there and then they move in four more and it's usually a onebedroom. Um the drugs are just they're there. We found crack pipes. Some woman announced that she was prostitute. Um you know just different things like that. And we're trying to find a solution. the people here, the people that are sitting in the very back. We're all trying to find a solution on what we can do to make us safe and and we can we've tried to get phone numbers to call the people that built the building, but we're just hitting a brick wall. So, I don't I like I said, I don't know what to do. I I worked a night shift job and I would come home and I would hear voices, but I didn't know where the voices were. I carried Mace with me when I came home at night because I you just don't know. So, and like I said, there's there's been several times we've had to go to the office and say, "Oh, you know, there's like five people living in an apartment and they'll say, "Well, we'll we'll take care of we we got under control." I went to them a month ago and there's six people living in a onebedroom and they're still there. So, don't know what to do. So if there's any way we can get help to find numbers, we'd appreciate it.

I have a question, Mr. Chairman. Is this Union Commons? It's We're talking about the same area that's down where the swim club used to be on Icults. That's like a brand new building, right? Only been open since it's that kind of condition now with that kind these kind of problems. Oh, yeah. The police were there today. No, I think they arrested somebody out of there today. That's different. That's That's the union down there. Oh. Glasti. Okay. The old Glasti site. Yeah. The oldest. That's why I asked. I wasn't sure. I'm not from I'm from I'm not from this side of town. I'm from the other side of town. So, I don't know.

You got that information right now? I got it right. Um, go ahead, please. Okay. Ma'am, can you um provide me with your contact information? Mr. I'll write it down for you. Yep. You got it right here. You have it right here. Phone number and everything. Is there an email on there? Yeah, there is. Okay, perfect. Uh we will reach out to you with uh myself and the police department, police chief. Okay. And I've been to the police department several times. You might have to come back one more time and we'll have a meeting. I might We can host you here, too. Okay. Um but uh can I bring other people with me?

You may. You can bring as many as you want. Okay. And uh we'll uh we'll absolutely get get this under control because Yeah, we we will take care of this. I mean, and what's sad about it is they're the most defenseless people, the elderly. We flat out, we will we will intercede. Okay. I will work with the chief and we will we will take care of this. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Okay. I got a few questions on that, too, but I'll let you guys get some of the information on that. I don't know if that's part of that issue of the voucher or short-term housing. Okay. No, it's it's it's just it's it's it's a it's classified as an affordable product. It's it's not a section A product. It's they're actually their market rents are comparable to across the street. Okay. Uh same price per square foot. Okay. Interesting.

I think I've done the analysis. I think Mr. Becker had asked me to look at some lease rates or whatever a while back and their lease rates now are comparable, but there's a there's a threshold that you qualify. So what it does is that housing is available so it doesn't get snatched up by people that make six figures a year and bunk to a apartment uh so that it provides an opportunity for people and seniors that are in an income band necessarily that uh they can uh get access to that. Okay. But it's not a voucher program. It's not section 8. It's not government owned housing. It's basically there's a tax credit associated with that. So that more of the workforce workforce. Yeah. And then the senior housing is that one of the newer build.

Yeah. 90 million building. Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought. Okay. That's why it's it's a little bit of a throw off. Okay. Appreciate that. Um yeah. Do we have any other public comments? I'm going to um invite the Boy Scouts of America to um volunteer public comments. So, I get your address, your name and address. Um, and then

I'm Zach Smith. Uh, Zachary Smith, uh, 1350 Dear Ridge Estates, New Richmond, Ohio. Um, I'm going to speak on behalf of uh, the scouts here. Uh, we are a troop 452 out of um, Union Township or out of Dan Beir Council and we are here uh, to complete two different mayor badges. I don't know if the court is familiar with um the rankings of uh the merit badges or uh the ranks you have to go through to get eagle but in order to get eagle there are two badges you need uh since uh what is it citizenship and community and citizenship and society and and communications and for two of those requirements you are required to attend an in-person meeting on a committee meeting that addresses some sort of issue and uh just perform your listening skills And that's what we're here to do today and demonstrate that uh our troops able to do such a thing. Um I hope we haven't been too much of a burden, but that's that's our goal here today is to um get our requirement done and kind of get out of here.

That's great. I appreciate it. We got any questions? Trusty Dillsy, give me give me a 30 second elevator pitch. I did not do Boy Scouts as a kid and I was always interested but never did. So kind of give me like a 30 secondond elevator pitch of what you all do on a weekly weekly monthly basis.

Right on. So we meet every week on a Tuesday and our motto is the scout is prepared. So the idea is once you get out of the scouting program, once you get into the real world and you're actually dealing with everything, you're able to be prepared for whatever is coming at you, work, life, family, whatever it is. And we teach life skills, we teach uh survival skills, we teach whatever it is that's that's going to help you throughout your life. And on Tuesdays we meet and we'll knock out requirements that'll knock you higher up to get the eagle which is your end goal. And then we go out during the summer we do a lot of camp outs. It's once a month we'll go on a camp out and then we'll go on a weekl long trip out to summer camp. This last summer camp we actually went down to Georgia. Uh fantastic facility. It was it was awesome down there. I I assume everybody loved it down there. It it was pretty great. But we a lot of bonding, a lot of working on what you're going to do when you're out of the program.

Zach, can I ask you how old you are? I'm 17. Very well spoken, by the way. Very well spoken. Yeah, you got you got you got a gift. And thank you. Hey, where's I got I gotta call someone out. Sorry. Real quick. Where where is Miss Lynn's son at? Where where where where is he at? Right there. I tell you what, this this this township loves your mom. She is probably the best I said the best Union Township citizen leader in uh in this township. And I I said what I said. And uh uh I I promised I was going to meet you uh because I was at the um obviously we're at the police not out on uh Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever, Thursday and uh I told your mom I was going to meet you. So good to meet you, young man. 53. You're welcome. It's all you got, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you. Jesse Becker, anything? Uh yes. When I was a state representative, I attended a lot of Eagle events. Eagle Eagle Scout um whatever you call it. And I've always been impressed, you know, hearing stories and and the different projects that had to be complete completed. And uh, you know, the scout's just great for the community. Absolutely. Really appreciate. And something I'm surprised um, Trusty Dills didn't say was um, your hairstyle. I know he's working on that and and I need to work on that, too. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. That's all I have, Mr. Chairman. Awesome. All right. Hey, thank you. I um I'm gonna call someone out also. I'm gonna ask you a question though.

Yeah. No, so tell me who is John Baker to you guys as his leadership or what what's his Baker is the father of our the leader of our troop? Leader of your troop? Yeah. So the leader of our troop is Alex Baker right here. Okay. And um his father is now our new we had uh somebody step down from for personal reasons and uh family reasons. So his father stepped up to be our what's it called? A scout master. Okay.

The whole goal is that uh our patrol leader that or not our patrol leader, our um SPL looks over the whole troop, but then if we have any troubles or any anything we need to talk to somebody higher up, grown-ups or something like that, we we contact the scout master and they handle that and then get back to us on that. The whole idea is that it's supposed to be us orientating the whole thing. You know what I mean?

Okay. Well, I I'm just going to say very fitting. Uh I'm g share a comment or two here to the whole community crowd. So uh very fitting for John Baker to to step up because that's that's what a Marine does when there's a vacancy uh in leadership and they look around they don't see anyone else that that's they know that's their calling to step up. So John Baker and I served together in Iraq 20 years ago. I was a lowly private private first class and then Lance Corporal. He was a little higher rating, I think, corporal throughout the whole deployment. No way, dude. And uh that's crazy.

And uh and you mentioned a few things tonight about citizenship, community, society. Um you know, this is a welcome surprise. I didn't expect to see Baker here tonight, but let me tell you a little bit about uh Lima Company. We just finished our 20 year anniversary. We got to see a few folks.

Congratulations. and um Lima Company during ourund and um our seven-month deployment, 184 of us deployed. We handled uh over 350 enemy insurgents killed or captured in that seven-month window. And that story of courage was also a story of sacrifice as out of 184 Marines that served, there was 23 Marines killed and 37 Purple Hearts. And um Baker uh was I'd say one of the most critical central pieces to all of that running uh headquarters communications being being right there to keep kind of he would always have his finger on the pulse to know everything that was going on stuff we probably would have wanted to know that's going on. And so when you say you're here for that citizenship badge, that community badge, society badge, it it's no surprise that you've got, you know, a father father leader stepping up and into the ranks. And uh anyway, I just I applaud you for what you're doing and leading all these scouts, Baker. So, and thank you all for allowing me to share a little bit of the story of of Leman Company there and how great work like that's getting done in the community. So So thank you.

Awesome. Excellent. All right, any further public comments tonight? All right, we'll close public comments. We'll move on with department reports. Fire and emergency medical services, Chief Austin Clemens. Thank you, Mr. Lo. Um before I get into my report, just a couple comments. Just want to uh thank all the the men and women of the fire department that showed up tonight to to support the new hire. Um they do that, you know, anytime we bring somebody on. I just want to acknowledge that. and then to the scouts that are here. A lot of the a lot of the skills that you're learning through this program are skills that a lot of the men and women of the fire department learned growing up. So when you're starting to talk about careers, consider the fire servicees be a good uh good opportunity for you. So good luck to all of you. So with that, um in the month of July, the fire department handled 166 fire and service calls, 560 EMS details. We transported 537 patients or I'm sorry, we made patient contact with 537 and transported 432. We completed 760 hours of training, were involved in 12 public education details, hosted ride time for a total of 72 hours, completed one life safety inspection and 10 inspections with the Claremont County Building Department. And that concludes my report. Thank you, Chief Trusty Dills. Chief, good job. Um, I appreciate you guys on police out. They do a fine job. The, uh, downpour for a minute and I thought the whole night was going to get ruined. Uh, but, uh, you guys did a good job. So, appreciate being a part of that. So, well done,

Trusty Becker. Yes. Uh, Chief, couple of things. So, Trusty, uh, Dills and I attended the Quint pushing. So, so I guess I got three three things for you on that topic. Tell tell the public why the fire truck had to be pushed into the bay and where did the name Quint come from? What's the history behind it? And what are the five things a Quint fire truck does?

Sure. So, the the pushin ceremony that we held that you attended, uh, Mr. Becker already kind of knows a little bit of the history. So, prior to um you know the the apparatus that you see today, the fire department was operated with horses. So, horses would pull the equipment to the scene, when they would get back from a fire, the horses were not able to back the equipment into the stalls. So, the horses were unhooked and the crews would have to push that equipment into the bays. Um over time, that's kind of evolved into a tradition. Um, and it's evolved in which we kind of took on with this new truck that we just took ownership of. Um, where we didn't actually push it, but we put it in reverse and, uh, we acted like we we kind of pushed it into the bay, signifying that the truck is now in service. So, um, more ceremonial at this point than anything. Um, and to answer the question regarding the Quinn itself, um, there's no real cool story on the the the word Quint. Um it was just essentially um it it it does five things like you said they just use the you know the it's got five characteristics to it. So in order to be qualified as a quint the apparatus has to have an aerial device. So ours has a 75 ft ladder on top of it. Uh it has to have a pump to pump the water out. It has to have a water tank which ours has 500 gallons of water on it. Um also has to have fire hose and it has to have ground ladders which ours has as well. So those five things make up a quint.

Okay. That's not an acronym for anything. It's just it unfortunately it's not an acronym. There's no just that's just what it is. Fair enough. Okay. Thank you, Chief. Absolutely. That's all chair. Have you been at the top of the 75T ladder? I have I have not. Um my position now I don't foresee myself ever needing to get up there, but I can promise you if I have to, I can do it. All right. I was on top of prove it. Have you done it? That was it was in the bag, but or you're on top of it. on top of the truck. Can we get Mr. Becker on top of the quint and just maybe extend that ladder? 70 ft in the air. Not happening.

Thank you, Chief. Uh, all right. Moving forward, police department Chief Anthony Ree.

Thank you, Mr. Logan. the month of July, the communications center handled 40 4,959 calls for service, police, and fire and EMS and 5,435 total calls. Our records section processed 460 juvenile and adult and adult court related documents for court. Uh, our records clerks processed 114 115 court notices requiring an officer's appearance in court, handled six rule 16s for the prosecutor's office, issued one vendor permit, handled 177 records requests, and redacted 10 body camera videos. In the area of public affairs, officers conducted several citizen ridealongs and our officers participated in a community event, Fourth of July parade back at Shaylor Crossing. We also had our crime prevention trailer to St. Thomas Moore Festival which our CPA alumni were were good enough to host for us uh during the festival event. In the area of operations, patrol division took 304 incident reports, 105 crash reports, made 493 traffic stops, issued 170 citations, 329 written warnings, made 72 criminal arrests, 81 traffic arrests, and served 55 warrants. Our honor guard participated in one event during the month of July was the 7th annual back the heroes rumble car show at West Claremont High School where they presented the colors. Uh the month of July totaled 176 hours of training for our police department employees and we currently have two open positions for the position of police officer within the department. Um in closing I just want to thank uh the department heads, Mr. Taylor, Mr. or Chief Offford uh for all the help that they always give the police department with the police night out. Um as well as our uh citizen alumni volunteers, Miss Bear is here tonight, Mel Dit um they give us so much help. We couldn't put that event on without all these people. So uh on behalf of the police department, we greatly appreciate

it. That concludes my report. Thanks, Chief Trusty Dills. Chief, uh, great great police night out and, uh, especially with us mixing it up with the playground not being done and switching where we normally set everything up at, but, uh, your officers did a fine job and and, uh, the dunk booth was really funny. I love that. And, uh, but just just a good job. Good night. So, well done, Jesse Becker.

Yeah. So, uh, Chief, uh, you know, first off, uh, dittos what, uh, Trusty Dills just said also what I'd like you to do is explain to the public three different ways, and maybe it's more than three. I only know three. Three different ways that people can report something to the police. So there's something called a police report, something called an incident report, which I guess is two different things. And then online there's a form to to file a tip to report a tip. Right. So h how would the public do each of those or which one would they select and how how to

go ahead? Well, the most common that we take obviously are criminal offense reports. Uh, in order to have a criminal offense, we have to have an offense, we have to have a suspect, and we have to have intent, which is something a lot of people forget about. There's got to be an intent to commit that offense. Uh, we don't do those online. We require either a personal appearance at the police department. We come to your house. Um, there's obviously a lot of question and answer. We need them to sign the report. We need a witness state or a victim statement from them. So, that's a majority of the reports we take. We also take what's called an incident report. That would be a report that does not involve a criminal offense. Excuse me. Let's say your property's damaged um from a storm or something like that. You need to insert a report for for insurance purposes. Um found property. We get a lot of people that might find a narcotic or syringe out on a playground or something like that. They may call and report that to the police department so we can come out and pick it up. We would take a found property report. So those are incident reports that don't involve a criminal offense. Uh the the crime tip we do allow on obviously on on online and that's just somebody that suspects criminal activity may be occurring. In other words, maybe drug abuse or drug trafficking uh intelligence and then they would report that. We would pass it on either to our line officers or a drug unit, something of that nature to investigate. Those are pretty much the three ways you can report to the police department.

Okay. But a police so a criminal police report and or an incident report can't be filed online. And that has to be in person. Correct. Okay. But you had a a crime tip can be done online. Correct. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. That's all I have. Chair.

Okay. Thanks, Chief. Uh any updates or traction on trying to look at like a pilot project uh for one or two officers to see what the artificial intelligence over the axon camera to help do the auto reports or transcribe them and put them into reports. Uh any traction on that? Yes, we our Axon contract is actually coming due. Uh we pay that once a year for over the course of five years. So that would require new equipment. Um I believe we are in the third year of the body cameras. We would have to obviously request a couple of different sets of body cameras for officers that have those capabilities. Uh Lieutenant Hines is going to reach out and we're going to look into that.

Okay. All right. I know Axon obviously that's our service provider right now. Um again I know that there's uh different vendors in the space. Axon obviously has been kind of a brand name leading and we have the system uh the incumbent status with them. That's always positive from the inertia of change. But it's always a good valid uh method to do the market research and get an idea as to what else is out there that's competitive. Um, and like I said, flock safety is one that stands out to me and maybe they they provide it in a different manner. Uh, but anyway, I think it's it's really interesting. Uh, and again, if we can get and use technology to at least, you know, if it's not today and right now, it's something that is coming in three, four, five years that can free up our police force and fire, you know, whoever it may apply to. uh but free up our police force specifically to be the policing activities that they're doing that they're already doing wonderful and great. But if we can take that administrative burden off of their job with the initial draft of their report based off of what's being captured around them, that's uh to me I think would be rather um valuable for saving time, saving money, providing a better service to the community. So I'm going to be continue to kind of follow that space and be interested in it. But you know it's not going to be just a police thing. Uh when I talk about that space and use of technology, it's all the way over through our kind of you know even financial management side in the future too. The stuff that can start to take um back office activities and automate them uh through auditable transparent type of um workflows. uh with it's called aenic AI and so it's going to be interesting

over the next few years. So thank you chief. So moving forward service department Mr. Taylor.

Thank you Mr. Lo. In the cemetery division from July 1st through the 31st 15 barrels were performed generating $8,500. 14 resident graves were purchased generating 9,800. one non-resident grave for $1,700 and four colarium niches were purchased generating $8,000. The total amount generated for the period was $30,658. In the parks division, landscape area maintenance uh continues on all township properties. And in the roads division, the road department uh repaired 55 hot potholes on a total of eight township streets. and uh staff from the road department completed a total of 29 work orders and 381 feet of ditching was also completed on multiple township roads uh in the right of way throughout the township. And uh that concludes my report.

Trusty Dills,

Mr. Taylor, uh fine job with police that out. You guys get you're basically behind the scenes. You get zero credit. It's all police and fire and their show. and yet you all are proud of the ones that put everything on as far as prepping, keeping it going, and then uh the cleanup afterwards. So, please let your let your guys know that we love and appreciate them very much. Um bummer that the uh playground wasn't opened. I had uh I actually had a couple residents reach out to me not very happy with me because I promised them that it was going to be open for police night out. And uh unfortunately, I cannot control God and weather and I cannot control um our uh our sub crews that we use to build. Uh so what what's the update on the playground and Lord willing when we'll be done?

Lord willing um the latest update that we have gotten and I've been on the phone with them. Sure.

Pretty much every day. Um the anticipation is to have all the concrete done this week and then potentially to have the turf finished next week and then meaning all the concrete meaning all the concrete approaches. Uh they poured some concrete today and then they'll start turf installation uh next week. That is the and then we'll have to clear out some dirt and you know there'll be a little bit of landscaping that we'll have to do uh to get that you know but basically the when we get all of the concrete done the turf will be done. Uh if there's some ancillary items the playground set will still be ready to be played on. Um, I really looked at it at Police Night Out and it it is absolutely stellar. Like it's it's going to be it is it's it's the Taj Mahal playground in this area. So well done. So appreciate it, sir. Thank you.

Thanks, Justin Becker. Yeah. So along those lines, um, what about the splash pad over at Clapper Park? So they're in tent over there. So they got the prep work done for the final feed. Well, the the splash pad itself is actually functional right now. Uh but the additional concrete is not done. So they are working on that right now. Um they're they're usually I get an update from Mr. Campbell when he's walking at Clever in the morning. Also, um so they are working on the additional concrete as we speak. Any any estimate of when will be

water's flowing up in the P? I'm thinking while it's 90 degrees. That's probably important to the public. Yes. Now, uh I'm optimistic that we're going to be done in the next two weeks. Two weeks. Yes. Great. That's me being extremely optimistic, but I it it's not from lack of effort. It'll probably be 90 degrees in two weeks also.

Yes. Uh, I will say and with the splash pad and I don't know about any of the others in the surrounding community, um, when we turned it on, uh, the pressure was so high it was shooting out into the grass. So, we had to turn it down just a little bit. So, we won't be we won't have a lack of pressure. So, I've I've heard in some other communities where they've not had enough pressure. So, okay, that brings a concern. We can talk about it offline, but that brings a concern to mind when I was a state representative where a child got injured because of too much pressure. Yeah, this won't be that's actually my bigger concern.

Yeah, this won't be from this will be they've reduced it down. It's regulated. It is. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Taylor. All right. That's all I have. Chairman.

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Mr. Taylor, thank you so much. Uh, I thought that the whole setup for police night out, thanks to to your park service crew for for everything around that as well. Uh, I actually I don't know. I really like the layout out on the parking lot like that. I don't know how that went for overall operations, but I really liked that. Uh, I think it felt, you know, close with the community and then also uh where uh where the police um in the demonstration K9 was and all that. I just I thought it was really great. It's a great big turnout. Um to me, you know, wonderful things going on in Union Township and uh you know, thanks for for your team's effort and support with that as well.

Thank you, sir. Uh Mr. Wright, Township Administrator, I'm sorry, planning zoning. Mr. McCormack, jumping ahead. Thank you.

Thanks. For the month of July, in terms of zoning inspections, we had 47 inspections, 11 complaints, two of which were unfounded, seven warning citations, two 15-day non-compliance issu letters issued, 18 cases resolved. We had 526 illegal signs removed. We had a couple different people that were posting the same signs all over the township, but even the zoning inspector had to pick up some signs. Uh so that that figure is higher. Um six miscellaneous issues, 16 violations for the monthly total, 37 reinspections of violations, and three nuisances filed. In terms of the permit activity, we had one commercial permit, six changes of use, two signs, one temporary sale permit, four single family homes, one multif family dwelling permit for 59 units, which was the provisioned living site. U more of those duplex or quad living units. Um, seven additions, four decks, three accessory permits, 19 pools, uh, fences for 48 permits for the month, and a total revenue for zoning permitting of $17,227, and $150 going towards the fire department permit review. Um, we also I just wanted to highlight a couple things. If anyone's been out to the Mount Carmel area, McDonald's is really coming together fast. Um, Wawa is well underway. Both of those are anticipated to be finished by the fall. Um, I have been going through the Mount Carmel area for the grant that the township is offering and we have a couple applications in hand and we expect several others. Um, we have some interesting projects that are going to be coming in. Um, perhaps one or two for overlay cases.

Um, and then the Cove Pro project, if you remember that, is going to be starting here any time the next week or two. There the site were already started. The Dollar General property closed and they'll be moving forward with that. And uh, the only other thing I was going to mention was that um, the mural that we part in part funded is um, nearly complete over at Jungle Gyms. If you want to take a look at that or I can send you a picture. So, with that, that concludes my report. Um, if you have any questions for me, I'd be happy to answer them. Thank you, Mr. McCormack. Trusty Dills. Mr. Good job updates. I got nothing. Thank you, Trusty Becker.

Yeah, I just want to point out the uh the the my most favorite numbers on this report is a line item called illegal signs removed. You know, it's in the hundreds uh every month. Um month of July, 526. That's a that's a record uh year to date. And uh that's that's something uh I I appreciate and I know the public appreciates. I even get phone calls uh or not phone calls. People do reach out to me. Um you know, telling me about the signs in their neighborhoods. So, you know, I I I've gone to get them myself, which which I don't mind doing, but uh you know, point being is uh is a great service comm to the community. That's all I have. Chairman,

thank you. Now, Mr. Right. Township administrator.

Thank you. Luke, uh, you got a whole bunch of project updates tonight, so I'll spare you the repeat on that, but uh, needless to say, the weather and the pace at which private party contractors work leaves a little bit to be desired. Mr. Taylor is much more optimistic than I am, but we I'm going to make sure that it is my mission that I make us a priority so that they make us a priority on all these projects. Um the uh lighting on the trail has started. Uh so we got some uh light balls and actually good news this week. Contractor may be on the civic center earlier than we started to get some surface pavement and stuff in. So we'll time all that accordingly with Duke Energy just through our standard construction coordination. New retention schedule that was adopted has been approved. Just got to update the policy document, get it out to all the uh departments, just some recordeping stuff. Um, uh, we've requested release for the carbon reduction grant. Mark continues to deal with ODOT and OKI on that. I feel like we're playing a game of who's on first. Uh, but he continues to push that forward diligently with the hope that somebody will authorize that funding. Um, with regards to mobilization on the service garage, we are working on those improvements. Uh, so they're working on contract documents right now, wrapping that up. Chief Clemens continues to explore a regional training tower, capital grant, and uh, educational partnerships that are required with various jointificational and, you know, secondary schools. um just because uh I think that's going to require an educational component to get some consideration through the uh port authority review process. So, he's doing a good job garnering that that support.

Another update, we're on track to file an OPWC application in conjunction with the county for Elmont and Vermona and Old 74 drainage and roadway improvements. So, because we haven't had an OPWC project in a while, we'll be the lead sponsor. that makes us fairly competitive in that and they'll be a funding partner. So, all that work is ongoing. And then, uh, just a couple other items to note. The BCA will hear four cases in September. And, uh, we'll have, uh, uh, some, uh, TIFF and RID extensions before the board in September as well. And thank you to all of our departments here at the township for another stellar police night out. You know, every time we hold an event, I am just incredibly impressed at the job that our people do and I am very privileged to have the opportunity to work on work alongside each and every one of these people here. So, that concludes my report.

Thank you, Mr. Wright. Trusty Dills. Mr. Wright, good report. Appreciate you very much. And hopefully it's okay if I do this, but uh sometimes we get u special folks in our audience and our elected county auditor, Miss Freley, is here. And so it's important uh that we have a stellar relationship with our auditor and uh so just appreciate you Mr. Wright for doing that and um but no uh all good good report good update. Thank you sir. Appreciate it. Trusty Becker. That's all I have. Yeah. Uh Trusty Dills likewise. I wrote wrote uh county auditor's name down right here. Um

I No, no, no. I not noticed she was sitting there and uh she she missed the spotlight earlier. I would have called her up for a special presentation or or something earlier in the night. So, all right. Well, listen.

Well, that the auditor's office has has been great at uh working on tools to bring transparency and and communication through uh how you can actually drill down into tiff districts and take a look at that and and know where your tax dollars go. And I know Mr. Becker's dug deep into that in the past, too. And for the scouts benefits, uh they'll hear all this as well. What is it? Out of$1 if you live in Union Township, about what was it? 80 cents on the dollar, 82 cents on the dollar goes to the school district and 18 cents goes to uh your county services and remember three to five cents go. I don't remember the number.

That's what it was. About five cents to township, 13 cents to county and the rest of the schools. Anyway, thanks for the information. The auditor's office gets to us online. Um, Mr. Wright, uh, I am I'm good. Uh, thank you so much for your report. Uh, with that, I think we'll move forward with public hearings. Um, Mr. McCormack, you want to introduce Union Township Overlay case number 319, Oscar?

Yes. Thank you. Case number 3-190. In this case, the owner applicant is requesting a modification of approved overlay case on property address 43853 partial number reference here on the slide. Um this is a 4 acre parcel in which the applicants proposing the construction of two 20 two 20,400T buildings that would accommodate multiple tenants

both office and warehouse and um as a part of the application request the applicant would be receiving uh relief on the rear setback and sidewalks. Uh here is the site in this particular slide. It's on the northwest portion of Winding Creek um near the olive stone br olive branch stone lake road inter intersection area. Affected property is zone business and um business is located primarily around the property except to the west where the property is zoned R1. slide here shows the site and the generally um the comprehensive plan identifies this area as a vacant underdeveloped otherwise agriculture use property um southern portion of the corridor zone as a mix of B1 business state residential and M1 in terms of the background the project in July of 17 the current owner required acquired the property in May of 19 the owner applicant received a plan from the board of trust approval for a plan for an overlay for the um establishment of 39 34,900 ft of office, commercial distribution, warehouse space um that o that overlay plan from 2019 has not been advanced. Therefore, the applicant is seeking to amend and update the plants in in accordance with the township's current procedures. Uh which brings us to um article 13 section 1311, the procedures that we're operating now for major amendments. Uh this is the proposed plan overlay. Um you see the two buildings here in the slide. Circulation patterns around the the property. Um conscious effort to conserve some existing vegetation here in the southern southwestern corner of the property. Uh this is the oblique imagery in terms of what's there. More of a 3D view. Uh this

is the actual plan view, the more up-to-date plan. This is an example of the inter interior building layout. U this is the proposed these are the proposed elevations and this is the proposed rendering which will change a little bit when we get to the staff recommendations and also the uh this is the landscaping plan which would change a little bit when we get to the staff recommendations. Uh here are some pictures of the site looking northwest from the adjacent property where the the glass business is. Looking north along their property line looking northwest from the adjacent property there. Looking northwest, you'll see the road there to the right. And this is looking west from Mining Creek with the site on the left. This is looking at the site from Mining Creek. And again, looking at the site from Mining Creek as you pass through the site. And this is looking from across the street from the recycling area towards the site. In terms of the staff review and analysis, um staff believes that the proposal is generally consistent with the recommendations of the adopted landings plan and the overlay re uh regulations uh areas prime for industrial development. Again, an applicant is requesting 20 foot relief from the 100 foot setback on the rear property line that adjoins an R1 residential area and um sidewalk relief. Um in terms of the staff recommendations, um we need to address concerns of other departments and agencies. um modify the proposed building design so that traditional building materials and or architectural design features are incorporated to enhance the visible corners of the structure. Um finding that the the building be moved or impervious service be reduced to increase the buffer guard to the rear. um updated landscaping plan, signage plan to be submitted, lighting plan to be submitted, and some other um more

less significant um site plan requirements to be addressed. Um all could be addressed by staff. Uh we only re we did not receive any written comments. We did have a couple of people come in and talk with the staff and um no phone calls otherwise that I'm aware of. And that concludes my report. All right. Thank you, Mr. McCormack. Uh, Trusty Dills, you have any questions for Mr. McCormack on the presentation?

I do. Um, Mr. McCormack, you said the surrounding is all commercial business except the uh the west. Is that correct? Yep. This here. You're looking at the slide being obviously Southwest. I guess southwest. So, yes. All right. I see. West and southwest. All these are So, all all four of those is all residential, correct? Yes. And then across the streets, opposite 32 is to the right. What's to the right? Or all all of this is um business around it. There's a small PD area, I think, associated with maybe the Winding Creek property. Okay.

For the recycling center. Uh and our zoning says 100 foot back. the request of 20 foot variance. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. And I can ask the the uh the applicant when they come up, but do we know the tenants yet or no? Uh I don't know that they have identified tenants yet. Um that would be a question for the applicant. Okay, that's all I got. Thank you, sir. Trusty Becker, any questions? Yeah. So in terms of the setback, so the applicant is requesting 80 feet when it's required, 100 feet. Is that correct? Yes.

Okay. Um was is there another um another side that's uh that they're requesting or is just the one? It's it's just the rear um setback. The rear setback is the only one residential zone property. So I was looking for because I thought I saw the 80 ft earlier and and I'm not finding it right now. Okay. Just want to make sure I remember that correctly. It's proposed to be 80 feet and it's a 100 foot requirement. Okay. All right. That's all I have. Thank you.

Okay. Um gentlemen, this is a public hearing. Uh so we'll open it to the public. I'll swear in the applicant uh any proponents, any opponents, and have the applicant have an opportunity. uh once we've had an opportunity to hear from the public on it. We'll close the public hearing, open it for board comments. Uh so at that at this time, is the applicant here? Please come on up and I'll square you in. Got to open it and we'll Yeah. Sorry. And gentlemen will uh have a motion to open the case. Public hearing 319- Oscar for the public hearing. So moved. Second. Roll call. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Dills. Yes. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo,

yes. We'll open the public com the public hearing at 7:05 p.m. and I swear you do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So, I hope you got it. Yes. And can you state your name and record for the record or name and address for the record, please?

Uh, yes. Thank you. Michael Chandler, um, 602 Laya Avenue, Milford, Ohio, 45150. Um, I'm with Vox and Vox. I'm the civil engineer on the project. I'm also joined by the project owner, Mr. L. Rup, and the project architect, Mark Breedmire with KBI Incorporated. Um, I'd like to first thank Township staff for discussing and working with us through the process for this proposed development. Mr. Rup and the design team greatly appreciate the time Mark, Blake, and Corey have given to us to meet with us, discuss our objectives, provide honest feedback on the direction of the project, and a thorough staff report that was prepared. Um, this is a 4acre development on the south side of Winding Creek and proposes two identical buildings totaling almost 41,000 square ft of floor area. Each building will provide builder suit opportunities for prospective tenants with both office and warehousing space within each unit. This appears to be a highly desirable product for tenants and business owners in the area in terms of both use and variety of available rental space opportunities. The buildings and units would have vehicular parking and overhead garage doors allowing access into the units. The drive aisles and parking spaces around the buildings and between would allow for full semi uh truck circulation through the site as well as maneuverability for smaller double uh axle trucks and trailers. The site also provides 28 30 foot parking stalls around the site for large vehicular parking and additional rental opportunities. Another desirable and sought-after uh need within the township. The western which is also the rear property line would be lined with green giant arborite to provide a natural visible screening at the parking lot and the proposed buildings for adjoining property owners. Giant green or provide are often used for screening purposes and are considered to be fast growing evergreens. The site would be designed to have a regional detention basin in the northern portion of the parcel to manage and control storm water runoff. other util

utilities including water, sanitary, sewer, and electric are available near the site and will be constructed onto the property to serve the tenants in each building. We're confident as a design team that we would work with township staff to address the administrative issues listed in the staff report. Um, and I'm happy to answer any questions related to the site before I turn it over to the project architect. Gentlemen, do you have any questions for Um, what was your first time again? Sorry. Michael. Michael. Yes. I do. Uh, what I might do is have your You said the architect that you said. Yes.

Uh, you're with Vox. You're the You're the You're with the GC, right? Then we have the architect still. Is that right? We're the civil engineer, so we designed the site. Um, the landscaping plan has been put together by our office. Project architect can address any questions related to the building. Okay. probably uh after we hear opponents, it's okay. I'll probably call you one or all three of you all back up. That's fine. So, we can talk about the site. But uh no, I think I understand it and I don't have any questions. Trusty Becker. Yeah. So, tell me tell me again what um what kind of business activity you planning for these two buildings?

Um it's really it it's it's build a suit. So, it'll be um two identical buildings with the ability to subdivide them inter uh internally. There can be office and warehouse space for each unit um for a variety of uses. Um I think to answer your question, Mr. Dills, there aren't any um tenants lined up yet. Um but we have heard that there is interest in the area for a variety of rental spaces. Am I wrong? I thought this was a glass company as well. No, that's to the south. No. Oh, that's one to the south. Okay. Got it. Okay. All right. Got it. Okay. Okay. That's all I have. Thank you. Can I answer a little bit of that? Let me swear you in, Nate. You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. So, I hope you got it. I do.

And can you please give your name and address for the record, please? Uh, Lyall Rup. You want my business address or the home? Uh, it don't matter. It don't matter. It doesn't really matter. 128 lane in Battavia, Ohio, 45103. Okay. Give you a touch of background on this. Uh many of you you see Rup family, you don't understand our parent business. Uh I've been working with Corey for 22 years. Yeah. Back when you had the building on

Yeah. But even further back with our shaved ice dance, if you're familiar with Snowy, uh that's our core company. We are in the shaved ice business. Uh in fact, we donated about $1,200 worth of shaved ice at the Union Police Night Out. And as we grew that business, I started out of my garage and as we grew that, the number one thing I had difficulty finding was warehouse space. If you're a small business looking for a,000,500, 2500, 5,000, there's nothing on the east side of Cincinnati. You can find a 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, but you can't find a small business place to operate. And so we bought this uh our old warehouse is now where the new crossover is on Bach Buckston. We were eminent domains from that. I bought this land with the intent of building a new warehouse to operate from. We found the property on Heman, ended up rehabilitating that building and then we've had this 4 acres and that was still my goal was to be able to create something that would give back into the community to create an opportunity to bring small business in and facilitate that. One of the things as an example that we're looking at doing, one of the fastest growing segments of the food industry is food trucks. As we all know, the number one problem if you're to talk to your health department for the Claremont County Health Department is having a place for them to do proper food preparation. We're looking at that probably about 5,000 of that would be dedicated exclusively to a food truck commissary where we would be able to provide now a very sanitary facility. which is why on the the west side of the property, we wanted those extended parking places that those food trucks would have a place that they could leave instead of parking in people's homes or in their own driveways that would be able to leave them at the facility as well. And that was part of the reason why we were looking for that 20 foot relief is that it would give us a little

more oops, sorry, a little more room to allow the food trucks to park. So, do you anticipate the the business activity will be during business hours, you know, 8 to 5? I guess my concern is that you're going to have trucks in there, you know, night and day and a lot of noise.

Most of it would be, I'd say, probably 10:00 a.m. to it's going to be midnight. I run my shaved ice business. It's very common. I'm pulling in at midnight, 1:00 in the morning, but you're nowhere near as far as we are off from that um the barrier with the residential properties is that we that's why we would one of the things we wanted to do is not just put up a fence in the traditional that we were if you do we have a uh landscape where we're showing all the trees we wanted to put in and that type of stuff. Yeah, that was right. That's right here. But it is not modified from where that corner was.

Yeah. But one of the things we wanted to do was build a barrier there that would give better separation and do it in a natural way rather than just simply putting up, you know, at 100 ft. All I have to do is a fence. I'm not interested in that. I like my neighbors. I've I've gotten to know them. I've talked with them a number of times. We want to do what's going to be beneficial to everybody, not just a sound. So a sound barrier with a natural barrier is always the best way of doing that. And so we want to plant trees that entire length to enhance that. All right. Thank you. That's all I have here. Okay. I'm gonna call him back up after hear the opponent. That's right. Yeah. You want the architect? Um that's up to you all. I I but I will I'll definitely have follow-up questions.

Sure. Sure. Yeah. First, I'll address the boy scouts. Oh, sorry. Swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So, help your God. I do. and name and address for the record, please.

Mark Breedmire, KBA architects, 29 High Street, Milford, Ohio. Uh, to the scouts, I was a two-year ASM, an 8-year scout master, and I'm currently an Eagle Scout coordinator for Troop 29. My son's an Eagle Scout, so keep at it. Okay. Um, Mr. McCormack, could you bring up the rendering? You wouldn't mind? Um, Mr. up. Uh his preference in terms of exterior materials would be to wrap the entire building with a stone base as shown on this rendering. Um rather than start to incorporate more stone on the front. Uh he feels it it gives a better look. It would also protect the building on four sides rather than just the front. Um it's also in line with what has been permitted at the recycling center that's across the street. So, as we work with the um staff to come up with the aesthetic um that would be our preference is not to introduce any more stone on the building on the front of the building and that's all I have to report. I'll come back up when requested.

Mr. Chairman, do you have any comments? No, all right. Um, thank you. Thank you. At this time, uh, we welcome any proponents of the case up. And for opponent, Jason Freley, 1268, Champions Crossing, Betavia, Ohio. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? So, have you got I do.

All right. Thank you. Uh, can you bring up the site map? Um, it shows the property lines and everything. Yeah, right there. That'll work. So, I'm probably going to be the yelling proper because I am well, I'm the trustee of both those to the southwest, whatever you call it. Um, those properties right there. I originally had about two three acres of trees and now it's in 2017 they got demolished and now have a scraggly. Um I'm not opposed to what he's trying to do. In fact, I support his efforts. Uh he is right that that's that warehouse sizing is a dire need. Um I'm just I'm looking for alternatives. those parking spaces are going to be an issue somehow someway. And then also, I'm a realist. I was in commercial construction for 20 plus years. You bring in a contractor, they love cutting trees. They just they just love it. They're going to over like leave the existing, you know, is what I'd ask. You know, don't even touch them, you know, get away from them. But just cuz like that building uh I guess be true south that's hitting the corner of my property and they wiped out 45 foot trees and put sixfooters in. It does not make sense to me, you know. So I'm not totally opposed to the project, but I would request that we definitely put heads together and figure out uh an alternative of some sort or some way. Um I as as bearing barrier uh I understand the gentleman uh wants to be a good neighbor and I I think he does. I think he runs a good business but just before we just run haphazard and you know make sure all the contractors and job realize you know this is kind of I mean this

this project really only affects me for the most part. You know I have the most property there and everything else. So, um, you know, I'd like to also talk about the lighting. You know, have directional lighting towards Winding Creek, not back. Don't just put the 360s up. We all like to put the 360 lighting all the way up. Just go from the back lot forward so it doesn't shine backwards. Stuff like that. And I'm always open for discussions with the builder or whatever. Uh, totally not opposed to that. But I'm I'm just I'm just going to put it this way. I'm nervous of what's going to happen there. So any question for me?

Trusty Dilly. Mr. F. Thanks for coming in. So if if they're able to preserve all the existing vegetation, all the trees, you also talked about putting up some kind of fence as well. Are you Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm open to all that. Um Okay.

I I would just like to know. Okay, if this doesn't happen, what's the consequences? Cuz that lower corner, there are supposed to be consequences and it never came. So, um, you know, I'm I'm a little gunshy as far as, you know, like I said, I've been a commercial contractor for 20 plus years. Everyone promised the world and as you guys realize, you're still two weeks out on finishing one. you know, just um I just I need to know that this is a very serious subject, you know, not just a whoops, you know, we cut down too much or stuff like that. Is that So, I'm looking at the pond to the right of that. Is that a house right there? What is that? Uh yeah. So, right there.

Yeah. So, that's that's a a van or something. That's the pond. My house is forward there. And then we also Oh, that lot up there is lower. Uh, I do think the site I don't think you're gonna have water retention issues. It's got good, you know, you got the creek down there. Um, you know, stuff like that. I would suggest I don't know. That's up to you guys. If we can put more of the parking spots closer that direction, not so much in the back. I don't know. I'm just spitballing here. But, um, because those are probably going to be deeper parking lots. You're talking probably 40footers, I would say, if you're wanting trucks and stuff like that. Um, but I'm just very concerned about that border.

Um, um, Mr. Right, question. What if we demand that they leave all vegetation up as is and don't touch it? What happens if they do touch it after we say don't do that? Well, I can't accelerate the laws of physics and nature, make the trees grow faster, but we can make them put stuff back.

And I mean, that's the only problem. But you know what we rely upon is, you know, we come to an agreement on a no clearing zone and we would request that they stake it before they engage in excavation activities. And I'll, you know, Mark can go out there and look at it and verify it. Um, you know, there's fines. I mean, there's fines. There's zoning violations, revocation of plans and permits, stop work orders. There's a whole lot of things we can do, but I mean, again, I can't make a tree grow back more quickly. Uh, one of the things, if I remember from the original plan, they deleted a whole bunch of parking spots off of that southwestern corner.

Correct. I I like that a lot.

Yeah. Which was the intent of that, quite frankly, was to limit the clearing, grading, and excavating activities to the minimum extent practicable. In a perfect world, I would shove the whole site forward 15 feet, delete the frontage access drive, you know, but uh you know, they also wouldn't need it and want it for circulation. I think that front access drive we looked at as 24 25 ft wide. I think you could design it in such a way that you come in the main drive and then it's one way one way either way, right? Nobody on earth's going to follow that. But even at 16 feet wide, you can fit a truck in a trailer or a food truck or whatever. The reality is the bulk of the site, the service activities on the site, the semi-truck deliveries are not a problem because it's not as Oing Creek is a very busy road.

Um, so I mean, we have severen them. They stop them at Old 74. They stop at Mount Carmel. When you got a load you got to drop, they're going to stop and it doesn't really matter. And there's not a whole lot we could do except get them on in a hurry, right, Chief? So, you know, I think the site lays out well for a flex use like this, you know, commercial industrial flex space. I think there's some things that we could do with site plan that probably end up, you know, saving the applicant money from a site development standpoint if they would be willing to work with us to just get us something on that setback. add, you know, I I don't know if Mr. McCormack indicated this in his plan in his plan review, but basically putting a designated no clearing zone on the back really the back corner from about where the where the adjacent neighbor's garage is. And I think they could probably delete three or three to six more parking spots back there. There's a lot of parking on that site. Anybody knows anything about Flex users?

No. You know, there's not a ton of parking. I don't want to underpark the site. I think they could also pick up some parking over by the detention basin. I don't think that's huge deal. And again, whether they stay in the strike lines or not is, you know, it's not something we're going to enforce, but um I just I think you could designate a no clearing zone along that back corner. just stay away from it and we just stake it and review it as part of our pre-development walk to make sure whoever you hire as your sub or your GC is very clear that there are significant financial and zoning compliance repercussions you know I mean he could lose his permit he could get revoked we could take court action in junction the whole nine yards so there is it's not about cost to us right and I certainly can't make trees grow But,

you know, do do you want a fence there at all or no? Yeah, I'd like as much barrier as possible. I mean, I pretty much like this. I mean, I I like his his intent of trying to be a good barrier. I just like to refine it and just see what we can do. What color fence? And what type? Camouflage. I'm not a decorator. Okay. So, you're indifferent there. Yeah, I'm okay. Fair enough. Okay. I think those are all reasonable requests and uh Okay. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Becker.

Uh yeah, just u couple things. So on the staff report, it's um just asked Mr. Wright about this. He pointed out item number six on the recommended uh changes as regarding the lighting that uh the lighting will be inward or downward directed and shielded dark sky compliant and of sufficient intensity to illuminate without projecting onto adjoining residential property. Sounds like it's one of your concerns. It was that was fine.

And uh you know regarding you know regarding the trees, hey I get it. You know, I I I bought a lot out in the woods 35 years ago and and I was adamant with the builder. Take down the minimum number of trees you have to take down. Unfortunately, there was a few I had to take down 5 10 years later, but you know, it's a that's the price of living out in the woods. Yeah, I'm I'm a real at heart. I know, like I said, I was in construction for over 20 years, but sometimes on sites, you got to be extra diligent on certain nofly zones, and that's all that's my main request. that's taken seriously. Well, it sounds like all the parties here are uh Yeah, I've not met the the general yet, but I'd be willing to work with anybody.

Great. That's all, Chair. Okay. Um I'm just make a couple comments here and yeah, thank you for your feedback. Um and Mr. Wright, I think you were spot on. Uh at least those are a couple significant questions that I initially had from sitting over here drawing on the site plan. the I think yeah, you can bring the applicant up, but I was just going to share a couple comments. Um, so thank you for clearing that up. As far as um the insurance and

yeah, as we talked about that lower corner, we were more than willing to accommodate to try to help with that. Just so you know, when we cleared this originally for the original design, we intentionally the trees and everything you see along that site in in answer to the concerns with that, I left that intentionally. That was part of the design. The only area where the trees have been thin is I have a neighbor that's to my uh right side, if you're facing the road, that took out about 30 of my trees that he wasn't supposed to do. And I still don't know why, but we've had our little war zone in regards to that. But against the property line, especially against the residential, our intent is to leave those trees. The only thing we want to do is enhance that with additional. Now, obviously, I can't say I'm never going to cut a tree down because if it dies, I got to take it down from a safety precaution. You know, we have to do proper arbor treatments in the things that we're doing, but our intent is to enhance what's there, not to take away from it. I'm not wanting to put up a fence and wipe everything out. that doesn't benefit any of us.

Yeah. So, couple questions. Um, if I can ask you. Yeah. Yeah. Fire one. So, I I was looking at the site plan layout as well, too. Um, I don't know if it's doable. It sounds like you're obviously the engineer and everyone else have to look at it, but the owner the Right. I know he's the owner.

So, it's his ultimate call if he wants to have Yeah. So, um, the eastern corner there of the property on Winding Creek, I don't know if it's doable to be able to have that be the entrance. Move the buildings forward closer to Winding Creek Road 15t or so. Gives more of that set back towards the rear setback that's 80. It would at least get it to 95. Maybe we could get rid of the landscaping requirement on the front that's probably five feet. I don't know if that's something you're asking for, but I see a proposed landscaping for township staff. Um, that could get some more space uh and essentially have the turn in uh right there by your by your neighbor and that would be the ingress and egress all the way around through the site. So, that was kind of a question that was going on my mind as I'm drawing it out up here.

Take Can I take please? Yeah. Um, so we looked at multiple layouts for the site and and multiple locations for access onto the site, arrangements of the buildings and whatnot. Um, and I think, uh, to your question, your suggestion, moving the entrance toward that eastern corner, um, it could become a safety issue in terms of looking either way from the site when you're pulling onto the site or off the site. the grade change going to the right drops off moving it down the hill allows you to see in both directions for safe maneuverability on and off the site. Okay. Um

I don't know if that's an being ODOT piece on that, but I just I don't see Wing Creek being um you're at the end of the street there. So, it's I just don't see that being too much of an issue. And then in in terms of setback off the back off the rear property line, um the 10 ft of relief that we're looking for with the enhanced buffer yard that we're proposing, um I do think that we'd be able to squeeze with this similar layout uh and configuration of the buildings and the drive aisles. Maybe squeeze another four to five feet to get it to 19 or 20 feet to where we're talking about five or six feet or a leaf instead of 10.

Okay. I don't know if I'm sold on on the entrance there being in the center versus down on the corner yet still, but um let's continue the conversation and that was Jason came up as a proponent. So uh I want to ask if there's um any opponents tonight. Thank you. Any opponents? Anyone that's against the the only point I'd make about he does raise valid point about Winding Creek that southeastern corner. So you've got you've got the glass company building and you've got their parking field. Okay. And then Winding Creek actually does descend toward 32. It actually goes down. I believe it's down in elevation and it drops pretty significantly down in elevation. So So keep in mind you're going to have embankment work. And and if Mark could pull up a Google photo, Street View photo, it's one of my favorite things to pull up because it just gives you a lay of the land as it's built out there currently. And um you can see I mean that could be challenging um for that. I I think if they're able to shift the buildings up, the central access point actually makes a lot of sense.

Keep it in the center. It's fine. They can move them up a little bit. I think it makes a lot of sense. I was going to say it's 24 ft. It's further away from their house, too, because their the house the primary residential to the south is more in line with the southeastern corner of the house, whereas it's more rural and forested the further north you go on the site. So the centralized access point might actually make more sense from avoiding I mean I know the residential is more than 300ish feet from the structure. But I still think that you kind of see the topo here. Kind of see the lay of the land here. I believe that's WT nickel. So it goes down quite a bit. If Mark if you head back up you see the there's a pretty significant grade change there.

Okay. And WT nickel is an active business. So that's the site. You can see there's some significant topography there. Um, spin around the other way, Mark. Go back down toward Olive Branch toward the Glass Company. So, you can see the site's not flat. And then you see there's the Winding Creek uh transfer. And keep going, Mark. That glass company. That's the glass company right there. See? And then spin around. Show him what that topo. That's basically what I was saying. Turning in right there. No, it'd be right. Actually, we're past it. past that. Yeah. Up. So, you've got See, there's some topo. So, there is some topo there.

So, look to the Yeah, thank you. Yeah, there's there's some topo there. Okay. So, it could be a challenge. I actually like the center the two things the center stack does. It actually gives a semitr or FedEx trucks and stuff a place to pull in and load, guys to pull in and load and unload. It actually serves a serves a pretty centralized loading and unloading location. It's like that's fair. My only that my only thought of of the uh entrance was based off of moving those buildings forward. So if you're saying you can keep the central entrance and move the buildings forward. That's what 24 24 feet across and uh and then the landscape plan in the front's probably another couple feet. So

yeah, I thought that Mark, what's their setback right now from the front of the building to the rightway line on the plan? It's about 45. So right now the front setback's at 45 ft. So we could, you know, shift probably to a minimum 40 foot setback, you know, in that or by the board give us relief to be able to move the setback to adjust the front yard set back to increase the backyard setback. Yes. I mean I I that would be just give us the flexibility to work it out with them and um you know to put a put a project into productive use here in the township.

Yeah, that that's that's part of my thought. Um, so to to go on that, Mr. Rates, you're saying basically allow us to to have a variance on the setback from the rightway, have the buildings closer to give more of a buffer zone in the rear. Is that what?

Yeah. Basically, if you could shift the site forward a little bit without costing them a lot of money on their excavation and embankment work, um, you know, to where we could get from 80 ft to say 90 ft, and that pushes us from a 45 ft to a 38 foot or something like that. I I think a reduction in front yard setback would be preferred versus a reduction in So, I mean, you got to get what you can get, but assuming the applicant make that work. So, I think I see them over there. Do you guys have any feedback on that?

I think we're trying to make it work here.

Yeah, I appreciate the feedback, Cory. And and we're trying to make it work, too, right? And um it's difficult to design a site here just in theory um because as if it was a flat piece of land it'd be much easier but with all the topography that we just looked at on street view and if you looked at a plan like this before and you see all the contour lines you see there's a lot of vertical relief across the site which creates a challenge um both in terms of cost um and functionality of the site. So, um I think by reducing the islands between the the buildings as uh well, not as they are because we would push them forward a couple feet. We would shrink the islands between the curb and the building lines. We can get that five or six or four or five extra feet to where the rear yard is instead of a 15t buffer to 19 or 20. Um, I think if we go any further forward and the drive aisles come with them, the ability to move maneuver onto the site and make that 180 degree turn becomes very difficult and almost unsafe.

Where's the 180°ree turn you're talking about? So if a if a car were to be coming plan view left on Winding Creek toward the site and then make a 180 degree turn onto the site and come back that way geometry issue. Yeah.

The curb radius gets too tight to make that turn with the apron and the drive. I think the site is what it is. We just sort of got to manage it the best we can and ensure that no clearing zones and the lighting is safe and downward directed dark sky compliant. I mean that will have an appreciable positive impact, you know, on the edge in the no clearing zone. We can put a fence up, you know, vinyl, you know, nice vinyl fence or something and then the buffering where it's out of the no clearing zone and then just try to modify that front. Ju just modify the front. work with staff to modify the front to increase the setback to the extent practical. It sounds like about 90 feet would be.

And I do want to touch on two of those those those issues or topics that were brought up tonight um in terms of clearing trees that are on the property line or near the property line, potentially over the property line. Standard construction practice would be that property line would be staked before a contractor goes out there. Um so there should be no excuse to take down a tree that is not yours. Um if it's on Mr. direct property and he desires to take it down, he has every right to do that. But like Cory said, if a tree gets taken down, there's nothing we can do about it other than um Well, that's why we put on the plan. We put it on the plan that it's a no clearing zone and Yeah. So, I I I want to just make sure we're on the same page. If we put a no clearing zone, it is his property, but he agreed to a clearing unless it's a safety. We all get that.

But no clearing means no clearing. Um that's the whole point of us putting that in there. So, are we on the same page here? Because no clearing means no clearing. I understand. No, I understand it's his property. If he agrees to this, we you know, I I misunderstood where the no clearing zone would be. I thought we were talking about the corner that we we've already designated and removed parking spaces that we were showing. That is the corner that we're saying is no clearing zone. So, we are talking about the same area. Yes. Correct. No. Yeah. Right. Those trees, right? That would be the no clearing zone. I I thought you meant the entirety of the the property line between residential and the development. I am that well they can't do they can't do that because they've only got a what's the buffer right now if we can get I mean

there's going to be grading and embankment work because the site sits I believe the site sits lower than the properties up above it on Shaylor. So in order to retain that they're going to have to at least grade that to a 3:1 slope or do some kind of modest retaining wall feature. So the proposed retaining wall 4 foot max height. Yes. that holds the dirt up from the adjacent properties coming down onto the site. So this site is higher than Winding Creek. That site above it is higher than that. So if you think about it, the sites off of Shayer overlook this property. This property overlooks Winding Creek and kind of the valley down there.

And basically that retention basin, all of that, all that's going to be Yeah. But it's all going to be if there's any trees growing there right now, that's going to be Yeah. The county will require that mitigated. All that's going to be cleared basically to bring in dirt to make the create the basin. Yep. They'll probably have to I don't know if they're going to balance the site or if they're going to export. Right. Right now it's close to a balance. They're close to balance. They're going to take this they're going to take some of the dirt. Yeah. Off the pad, do the contours. But I imagine there'll be some significant excavation because that's not a that's a pretty irregular area down there, isn't it?

Uh I mean we're utilizing the low end of the site for retention. the water's already going there. We would just dam off the low part which which is typical um site design practice. We would manage manage and control the storm. They'll balance the dirt on the site. So they'll have minimal import or export. Okay. Do you have followup questions on this no clearing zone? Mr. Freley again. Yeah. And Mr. Becker, do you have any other questions while Michael was up here? Okay. Thanks, Michael. Thank you,

Mr. Freley. Uh could you come and join us again? It's just these. Yeah. Is that just Yeah. All right. Thoughts? Uh well, if I write the the no clearing zone just basically along my property line, right? Is that what we're understanding or we're just saying that lower corner? Get some clear. The way I'm hearing that it was just described is just the souththeast corner. Um, and I think both of us were understanding earlier that the zone was the whole

property line property line. I didn't think it was just the south corner. Okay. Mr. We go back to the the property, but look but looking at the gradient, you can understand that it's it's the topography that they're trying to work with. So tell tell me what's fair reasonable. You know I just basically I just want to keep the trees that I got there. I mean I don't need um because that's basic you know you're going to have a 10 foot fence and a what is it? What's the ceiling height? 35 ft building. I mean 30 something

um something like that. So basically I'm a view of a beautiful metal building in my backyard with trees. What you're saying is that elevation above you below you? It's pretty level. Level. It's pretty level. So I just want the trees. Yeah, I'll keep it that simple. I just want the trees. There's really so

the way I'm understanding it is all the tightly packed topography lines there to the west of the property the the basin. I mean I'm sure that's as I'm looking at the overhead that's that is wooded right now. But is that are those big trees? Are they Yeah, they're 40 40 to be clear. If we're talking about the same area basically where the only trees that are any value are right here. Mark, can you pull up the aerial photograph so everybody can see with the parcel lines so everybody can see

the trees that are of issue that that are and turn the contours off or whatever. There's a clump of trees at the southeastern corner of the property that have substantially greater value than probably some bush honey suckle and some other things. Is that a correct statement? Yeah. Yeah. That Yeah. Right there. You see that? Right where the area where they deleted parking spots and put that larger radius and all that in. I'm trying to see how it up, but I'm I'm like, you know, I own both those partial lines, right? So, let's keep following that up. That partial line. Keep going, Mark.

Right there. up that corner. Keep going there. That's those my areas of concern. Keeping that and the significant portion of the northern partial, Mr. Pley, is that yours? No. That this one to this way? Yeah. Where you got that pointed right now to the glass company? That's my property. Okay. So, that parcel is mostly wooded, correct? Yeah. On your property. Yeah. So really, you're just talking about the the the area that's cleared and the viewshed between the commercial property and your cleared property. Correct. Say that one more time. You're talking about not you're more worried about I would I'm guessing you're more worried about the trees from the cleared portion of your property. Yes.

That view shed as opposed to the wooded part of the property which is essentially you own more woods than they do. Is that correct? Um, yeah. How far up are you going there with that statement? Like, yeah, I'm those trees existing now. If if I had my perfect world, I'm going to keep everyone I could. Well, yeah. You have a wooded lot next to a cleared lot, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And the detention basin is basically in the area of where his wooded lot is. Mark, can you pull that forward or up, down, whatever? Go north. Yeah. Yeah. So the detention basin clearing area an impact the retention per does not impact me as much right because you have that fully wooded lot there.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So really the area at issue is if you zoom Mark go south now is so there's the most significant trees are in that corner uh to about where that that barn cabana shed I don't know what is it a building. It's yeah building party shed right. So, and I'm not sure because they don't have an Alta on his property where that is in relation to their site plan, but my suspicion is it's probably their access drive is probably somewhere around where that in line where that pond is. I'm just guessing right now. Is that correct, Mark? You think?

I think it's further up. I think about right there. But can you overlay that and then show us the overlay again? Show us how that lays out. Okay. So the access drive is basically in line with the pond. So that gives you an idea from there. So again, if we deleted, three, four, five, six, seven more parking spots that gets him all the way over to the building. Okay. Okay.

Then what? Well, I mean, I'd say at that point they're going to have to do some grading and clearing work and then you get a planted buffer and because it looks like they're showing retaining, they're showing a little bit of clearing and grading because the site drops uh slightly, you know, looks like it's at 840 or 834 on the downhill side. It looks like they're at, you know, 834 on the uphill side. So, they've gonna have some embankment work. Looks like they're cutting the site slightly.

Yeah, I I'll put it this way. I'm not comfortable at this moment um of losing trees anywhere with some sort of um about cutting those lots. That's what I just said. Yeah, that one. No, you about how much farther down? That's the 830. Yeah. Yeah, that's 835. Then I'd say is go down to that 835 line potentially. That's what I'm looking at. Or Yeah, that's 835 right there. That's your existing grade.

Okay. What's the distance between the pavement or the parking to my property line? What's I'm sorry. What's the distance from the pavement to the property line? Currently. Currently the pavement. I see a 15 yard buffer. 15 foot buffer yard and that's partly Go ahead. That's right. Yes. It's 15 foot. Okay. It's 15 ft from the edge of the pavement to the property line.

Question for everyone. Two very prominent businessmen here. Do you want us to make a decision on this tonight or would you all three like to make a motion to table this? Let me hold on one second. Would you like us to make a motion to table this? You all you all get with our administrator and uh and and um our zoning inspector and and and come back next month with you two making a fair and reasonable compromise together or do you want us to make a decision tonight? What do you recommend?

Jo's call. So yes, sir. We also take a recess for a few minutes and talk.

Okay. We'd like to work with the township and try to find an equitable solution. So I just want to ask one question just out of interest. If I'm not asking for the 80 foot set back instead of the 100, how much control do I have over that acreage, that back wall? Well, if you're by right, that's right. If if they pursue a by- development, they can literally strip every stitch of vegetation off of that site and clear and grade to the property lines. As long as they're in setbacks, it's literally a punch list code review and we have no control over it.

So I could literally put my curb right up to that, put a fence up if I go to the 100 foot. So if I'm willing to say I'm going to go 20 ft less. Well, I mean, I have freedom to do whatever I want. Now, I don't have the zoning code in front of me. I mean, I'm not going to say that that there is not some provision on a buffer yard. We do have some provisions on uh screening and buffering. I think in article five there's a there's some provisions in that again I don't have it memorized some

but I will tell you a by-ight development we have significantly less control than we have with a permissive process like the overlay and ultimately the overlays and the PDS and other plan zoning districts you generally end up with a better project than you do with byite projects period full up. That's which is exactly what we're trying to do. I'm trying to be accommodating. I'm trying to be helpful and my neighbor's happy. Last thing I want to do is have the guy behind me. At

at some point there has to be a discussion about what is commercially reasonable and allows for the development of the property to occur. And I think there might be a couple other parking spots that can be deleted, but I don't know what else can be done that that doesn't impact, you know, significantly impact the the uh the site. So, I mean, because I've already you've already taken eight parking places from me to start with

to save the trees over the 120 something feet in the corner, which are the most significant trees on the property. So anyway, I'm willing to work with the township to find a solution that reasonable.

Any further questions? Well, my my question was, do we want to table this and let you all work it out or do you want us to make a decision tonight? I'll work it out. Okay. Sounds like we want to table it. Okay. Okay. Make a motion for Yeah. So, do we have that motion to table? Yeah, I'll entertain a motion to table the zoning case, overlay case. Do we need to go ahead and close the public hearing portion first? Uh, entertain a motion to close the public hearing. So, moved. Second, gentlemen. Uh, roll call. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Jills. Yes. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes.

Public hearing closed at 7:51 p.m. And now motion to table. Yeah, I'll I'll make the motion to table overlay case 3-19-0 as an Oscar. Second. Roll call. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Dills. Yes. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Log. Yes. Motion carries. And Mr. Wright, will you make sure both parties obviously in contact with each other? Yes, sir. Set that up. Thank you, sir.

Yes, sir. All right, gentlemen. That is it for public hearings tonight. Old business. Seeing none, you have any? Move forward. New business. Item alpha is the consent agenda. We entertain a motion uh for the consent agenda to be approving item one, approval of minutes, which is one alpha July 8th, 2025 regular meeting minutes. Bravo July 8th, 2025 zoning meeting minutes. Item two, approval of payments as prepared by Mr. Campbell, fiscal officer. Item three, approval of monthly financial reports prepared by Mr. Campbell, the fiscal officer. Do we have that motion for approval of the consent agenda?

So moved. Second. Roll call. Mr. Dills. Yes. Mr. Becker? Yes. Mr. Log? Yes. Motion carries. Item Bravo. Motion agenda. Gentlemen, do we have a motion to approve the purchase orders? So move. Second. Mr. Wright, can you present those purchase orders?

Certainly. Let me find my tab up here. Okay. This first part shorter is for the CIC to fund uh building improvements for Bach Bucks and service garage and the tenant uh building that we own at $3919 in the amount of 30 $345,547. Second purchase order is to Brick of Graden LLP for miscellaneous fees. Legal fees, this is just a blanket for $100,000. Uh, Pittney Bose's global financial for retail postage meter for $30,000. Fire department purchase order for Duke Energy for gas and electric service $20,000. Purchase order to flock group for traffic cameras. This is year two of our agreement and these are for the non dispensary oriented cameras. Those are paid for of separate funds. That's for the police department in the amount of 47,000. Uh, next one is for the police to Wex Bank for estimated fuel usage.

Chief, you might want to see if everyone's walking out. All right. There's a gentleman that showed up shoving a camera in people's faces and it's causing a bit of a Would you like me to pause, sir? Yeah. Sorry. Just wanted to make sure everyone's safe. I think the businessmen were trying to have a nice polite discussion and they're being res restrained from doing so. All right. Would you like me to continue? Yeah, please.

Uh I left off with the Wax Bank purchase order for the police department. That's estimated fuel usage in the amount of $26,000. Purchase order to DWA uh recreation uh for sidewalk improvements. This is just ancillary sidewalks. So, we got the playground in. We know where we're going to do where we're going to put the walkways to get everybody to and from the site. That's the amount of $45,000 uh for the service department. Office furniture source for Bach Bucks and Road Furniture in the amount of 54,04023 and Rumpky of Ohio for fall junk days in the amount of $30,000.

Thank you, Mr. Right. Gentlemen, do you have any questions over the purchase orders? Thanks, sir. Mr. Becker. All right. Uh, roll call. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Gills. Yes. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Motion carries. Item Charlie, legislation agenda. Gentlemen, entertain a motion for item one, resolution 2025-40, the resolution approving the solid waste plan for the Adams Claremont solid waste district. Do we have that motion? So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Dills. Yes, Mr. Becker. Yes, Mr. Lo. Yes. Motion carries.

Item two, resolution 2025-41, resolution authorizing OPWC round 40 application Elmont Drive and Old State Route 74 improvement project. Gentlemen will entertain the motion to approve uh 2025-41. Do you have that motion? So moved. Second. Roll call. Mr. Dills? Yes. Mr. Becker? Yes. Mr. Lo? Yes. Motion carries. Item three, resolution 2025-42. Nuisance abatement resolution. Gentlemen, do we have that motion to approve the nuisance abatement resolution? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Dills. Yes. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Log. Yes. Motion carries.

Gentlemen, comments from the board members. Summertime concerts went well. Uh, I feel like uh, Police Night Out was a big hit and yeah, our parks are just about up and ready and good to go. So, no, all good. That's all I got, sir. Mr. Becker.

Um, yeah. So, something I guess I want to kind of give a heads up to the public and, uh, this is something I guess I really hadn't thought of until recently. It's something I've been guilty of and I think all of us we can all improve. And, uh, this has to do with trash talk. When we are throwing out trash, anything that's loose that can be like blown by the wind just to put it in garbage bags, tie it up, you know, with a zip tie or, you know, tie a knot in a bag or something because um otherwise loose trash tends to get caught by the wind and uh you know that is happening and u that's something where I have changed u I guess my own uh methodology ology of taking the trash out. I make sure everything's in the in sealed bags now or you know anything that's uh that's loose and could get blown. So I just want to kind of give that heads up to to the public on that. So let's uh you know all laws can probably do a better job controlling litter in Union Township. Something else in the event that anybody sees you know whether it's Rumpky or Republic or anybody else for that matter that's uh being sloppy and leaving trash behind. Um, you know, if you get get that on, uh, if you get any photos, get it on video, that's all the better. But, um, you know, filing would be an incident report. Would that right, Chief Race? An incident report with the police. That way, they can kind of track these things and if there's a pattern of some sort as opposed to something isolated, then we can work with those offenders to uh, improve their operations. That's all I have, Chairman.

All right. Uh, thank you, Mr. Becker. Well, with that, um, yeah, I'll say police night out just to echo again. I mean, just shows how vibrant the community is. Um, and just from a method of, uh, discussion on, we'll say, governance, local governance, being responsive to the people, being transparent, accountable, communicating, um, and policy moving forward. uh both of your terms were uh going to be what coming up and no one um is challenging in that field race. Is that correct? So therefore I can basically say you will move forward with uh representing Union Township for another four years and you will move forward representing Union Township for another four years. Is that correct to say?

That's the plan.

It's the plan. Um and I think like that just gives um obviously the sentiment in the community also that generally um above and beyond that the community is feeling that their voice is heard and that this board and the people in front of you sitting here the directors the staff that carry everything out day-to-day operations for the township uh are delivering phenomenal value to the people of Union Township. Uh we t talked about the tax base earlier. Maybe five cents on every dollar goes to, you know, funding the township. And anyway, great credit upon the service that you gentlemen are able to do. Look forward to uh your service for another four years for Union Township, your service to for another four years to Union Township as well. And um just uh how how great that is to have that positive feedback and actual facts that no one even challenged you. and uh look forward to those next four years. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Upcoming events. Union Township Zoning Commission meeting scheduled for Wednesday, August 27th, 2025, 7 p.m. has been cancelled since no cases were received. Union Township Board of Zoning Appeals will meet on September 4th, 2025 at 7 p.m. to review four separate cases. Union Township supporter trustes next regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 at 6 pm. Summer concert series has concluded. The farmers market continues. The farmers market is held on Fridays from 400 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the Civic Center campus through September 5th. A wide range of products including beef, poultry, produce, sauces, honey, baked goods, milk, eggs, plants, and more are available. Union Township Pickle Ball Slam Tournament will take place this year on Saturday, August 16th, 2025 with games commencing at 8 a.m. Mark your calendar for Union Township movie night at Veterans Memorial Park on Saturday, September 6, 2025. Check out social

media to vote for the movie that will be featuring that evening. The movie will begin at dusk. Union Township Fireworks Celebration will take place this year on Saturday, September 13th, 2025. This community event includes a toucher truck and a block party. Bring your family and friends for our annual fireworks show presented by Rozy's FA famous Famous Fireworks. Mount Mariah Cemetery will host the annual lantern lighting event on Saturday, September 20th, 2025 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 p.m. Union Township is honoring our nation's veterans and active military with a multi-day military tribute event this October at Veterans Memorial Park. This event features the traveling Vietnam War and cost of freedom tribute that will be on display Thursday, October 9th through Sunday, October 12th. Learn more about the military tribute event at www.utclaremont.gov. Mark your calendars and join us for the second annual sip and shop at the Union Township Civic Center on Saturday, October 18th, 2025 from 12:00 p.m. to 4 p.m. And again, like to uh thank the scouts for joining us tonight. Uh you're always welcome back, especially to intro us again with the pledge of allegiance or give us any updates on your scouting activities and what you may be doing. Uh there's always opportunities to connect with Mr. Taylor for Eagle Scout projects and projects in the community. Uh so we appreciate you being here tonight and thanks to your scout leader, uh John Baker. Executive session, gentlemen. At this time, uh, entertain a motion entered into executive session pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 121.22 Golf as follows. Preparing for conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions of public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment pursuant to our revised code section 121.22 22 Golf 4 and item two to consider confidential information related to the marketing plan, specific business strategy, production techniques, trade secrets, personal financial statements of an applicant for economic development

assistance or to negotiations with other political subdivisions respecting requests for economic development assistance provided that both of the following conditions apply. Alpha. The information is directly related to a request for economic development assistance that is to be provided or administered under any provision of the chapter 7157251724 or 1728 or sections 701.073 to 3735.67 to 3735.07 to 5709.40 to 5709.43 5709.61 to 5709.69 69 5709.73 to 5709.75 or 5709.77 to 5709.81 81 of the higher revised code or that involves public infrastructure improvements or the extension of utility services that are directly related to an economic development project and bravo. Unanimous quorum of the public body determines by a roll call vote that the executive session is necessary to protect the interest of the applicant or the possible investment or expenditure of public funds to be made in connection with the economic development project pursuant to Ohio advised code section 121.22 golf 8. Do we have that motion gentlemen? So move.

Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Dills. Yes. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. We're into executive session at 8:04 p.m.

on mics on mics on. Yep. All right, gentlemen. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to exit executive session with no action taken. So moved. Second. No discussion. Roll call. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Dills. Yes. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. We're out of executive session at 9:24 p.m. Gentlemen, at this time I entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Roll call on. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Dles. Yes. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Log. Yes. We're adjourned at 9:24 p.m. Thank you.