City Council - Regular Meeting

Gentlemen, I would like to welcome everybody everybody to tonight's Dayton City Council meeting. The regular city council meeting for March 10th of 2026. It is 7:02 p.m. I apologize for any tardiness and I blame my attorney. Mhm. Traffic. Yes. Yes. Uh call to order. Roll call, please. Miss Klene. Member Kelly, here. Member Jud here. Member Leven, here. Member Horton, here. Member Ner here. Member Nean walking in. She's walking in. We'll come back. City Attorney Edmonson here. City administrator Faucet here. Member Nean here. Mayor Baker here.

Excellent. We have a full house. I appreciate that. Uh let's go ahead and do a moment of silence and a pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Uh the mayor's report for this month. First thing on the agenda, we have a birthday in the house and it's us. The city of Dayton, Kentucky yesterday turned 159 years old when Jamestown and Brooklyn merged uh at the corner of Berry Street. Am I correct, Joe? know you're very versed in that.

Barry was found, right? But that was the corner of Barry is where Jamestown and and Brooklyn were. Barry Avenue is the dividing line. Yeah. So they joined back in 1849. Uh 1849 is when that the governor on this date in 1849 is when the governor approved the merger. On the 12th of March was the first city council meeting in 1849. Excellent. So, uh, no, I'm sorry. 186 60. It was after the Civil War. We have 1849 on our logo, but that's actually the date that I believe Brooklyn was founded. Jamestown was founded, 1848.

I think Jamestown was first. Yeah, Jamestown 48, Brooklyn 49, and then after the Civil War is when you saw a lot Fort Thomas was established about the same time, Belleview, etc. But 18 67 was the combination of James Town and Brooklyn. So, doing my my math, that makes us 159. 159. Correct, sir.

Excellent. And in honor of that, we have free cupcakes over there for anyone who wants free cupcakes. Whether your math is good or not, it's over there. But, uh, yeah, happy birthday to us, you know. Uh second of all, uh speaking of Dayton, we have uh uh these really cool hats that were being offered by uh Dayton uh Athletics Association today. So you can pick some of these up. They're 30 bucks. Go ahead and get a hold of uh of uh Dayton High School and they will take care of that for you. That's all I really have on my mayor's report for the week. Uh next up is the approval of minutes. Do have a motion to approve approval of minutes of February 10th, 2026. I'll make that motion.

Member Neman's made a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Member Jud's made a second. Roll call, please. Member Jud. I. Member Levens. I. Member Horton. I. Member Ner. I. Member Nean. I. Member Kelly. Abstain. The eyes have it. Next up on the agenda are presentations. This This should be awesome. Uh, first is the Dayton Schools. Uh, superintendent, Mr. Wolf, could you please approach the stadium and or the podium and give us a state of the schools. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Good evening everyone. It's good to see you. this evening. Um, you know, this is my second time coming here and giving you say the schools. I know Superintendent Jay Brewer would would come. He came for many years as well. And, um, after I left here last year, one thing I thought after I left is that the reason I went into education uh, was for kids. I love being around kids, all ages of kids. And I thought my report would be a thousand times better. Instead of me telling you about our kids, I showed you our kids because we have some amazing leaders in our school. We offer some wonderful opportunities one besides being all about kids. I'm all about providing our kids with opportunities and experiences. And so I'm going to let them introduce themselves to you and they can tell you the opportunity and experiences that they have at Dayton schools and then I'll allow you to ask them any questions you would like because these are students that show up every day. They work hard. They're kind, wonderful human beings and they work through adversity um just like every grown adult does. These are kids you're not going to read about a lot of times on the Dayton Buzz or the Voices of Dayton page. You won't read about these kids because these kids, just like I said, are are just amazing kids that a lot of times we don't hear their their stories. And so I wanted you to to hear their stories. This is just a very brief sheet that I wanted to give you just with a few kind of updates and and statistics about Dayton schools. Um you can read through those. Um, I'm happy to answer any questions you have about those, but I'm going to start go ahead and start off and allow these wonderful Green Devil leaders to introduce themselves and tell you what they're involved in, and then we'll see what questions you may have at the end. All right, thank you guys. All right.

Hello.

My name is Haley McY. I'm a senior at Dayton High School. I take um two Gateway dual credit classes currently. I take sociology and entrepreneurship. I am I'm involved in two sports. Um I played soccer for two years. I was the captain this year. Um I played bowling for five years. And then I do the morning news for our school and I have been doing that for three years now and I love it. But I also do the weekly newsletter that comes out every week on Dayton's Facebook page. But let me go back to the news. Um, I love doing the news and I loved it so much that I want to pursue it in college. I chose Bura College, which is located in Bura, Kentucky as the college I want to go to. I will major in communications and minor in broadcast journalism. Um, and the last thing I want to say is Dayton is like a home away from home.

That's awesome. My wife, my wife is a a Berea College graduate. Uh, so if you ever want to talk to her about anything about how amazing that college is, she'd love to talk to you about it. Good job. Hi, my name is America Gonzalez. I'm a senior at Dayton. I've done the Young Scholars Academy for two years now. I did cheer for four years. Um, drug free club, National Honor Society, student council. I did soccer and band for a little bit. Um, I'll be graduating this May with 60 college credit hours and an associates degree.

And after graduation, I plan to attend ENKU, finish my um, my degree in human resource management. I have a fellowship with my professor, the center for economic excellence at ENKU. After a year of that, I'll get any internship I want in the tri-state area. Good job, America. Fantastic.

Hi there. My name is Kaylee Garcia Lopez. I am a junior at Dayton High School. Um, I am taking Campbell County's um ATC area technology center. I am currently taking fire science. I see that as my future and my career and my pathway. I also am taking National Honors Society. This is my second year which I'm very grateful for. I also see myself going to EKU um studying for paramedics and firefighting and also in the near future joining the army.

Thank you so much for your work. Good afternoon. My name is Kevin Vasquez Wilson. I am a junior at Day High School. I attend the program called Enweiler, which is the first year that D High School has has offered it to us. Uh there we learn a little bit about everything. We do end um plumbing, electricity, concrete work. Uh right now we're in carpentry where I got named shop foreman. So I'm the boss of everybody. get to yell, fire people, and um I'm a multisport athlete. I play football, play baseball, and then I run track and cross country where I got named captain boys run of the year for varsity and newcomer of the year for um cross country. Thing I like about Dayton was I came last year from a school in Ohio called Wther. But Dayton, I love Dayton because they're they're coming. They're like that's like home. They're welcoming. I think I thought when I came here I wasn't going to fit in, but fit in pretty good. I got my friend Ellias actually first person ever talked to me at day in high school and ever since then we've been like that like brothers. Thank you. My name is Kevin.

Well done, sir. Well done. Uh my name is Ellas Lopez. I'm a junior at Dane High School. Uh I'm attending the welding program at Gateway Community College. Uh right now we're learning how to stick weld.

Uh I'm also a four four sport athlete. I play uh baseball, football, basketball, and track. Um this year my football season was cut short to only seven games because of labor hair, but I was still uh ranked top 28 in uh AKY. And uh I came here my eighth grade year uh from Lloyd and I was really nervous. You know, I didn't know anybody up here, but getting here and getting to this great school, it made me feel like I was a part of the community from day one, and I haven't thought about leaving since then. Uh thank you.

Excellent, man. Thank you. Hi, my name is Brooke Dan and I'm a sophomore at Dayton High School. I play volleyball and I run track and I'm a part of the energy bus club. And next year, my junior year, I will be attending Camel County ATC for fire science. Excellent. We love fire science. The fire chief's writing these names down.

Yeah. Get get some resumes over there. Hi, my name is Brooklyn Tilllet. I'm a sophomore at Dayton High School and I'm a part of the basketball team, the volleyball team here, and I run track. And I'm also a part of the Energy Bus Club and the and National Honor Society. And next year I'm going to be a junior and I'm going to Gateway for my Excellent. Good work, Brooklyn. Hello, I am Gabriel Richardson from Dayton High School. I am a freshman. A little surprising I think but um I'm here because I participate in STLP which is Student Technology Leadership Program. We I come from I I've gone here all of my life. Dayton High School or Dayton K through nine, I guess, which would be I I

Sorry, I'm stuttering a bit. You're fine, man. Just been a minute since I've done something up here on like a stage or anything like that. Yeah, no worries, man. Just just just converse. We're all cool.

I participate in esports as well, which is a club that has been, to my knowledge, newly renditioned in our school that has only came up in the past few years. I'm pretty sure only all we do is Rocket League. Anyway, SGLP is what we what I'm here for. So, I should explain that a little better. Student technology leadership program. And normally what we do is we take courses through WLCS which is an online class that WLCS is a call a university I think I believe all I'm learning presently is the intro to cyber security which is kind of basic but that's what we need to learn as a freshman to get into the fields of cyber security and all I know not all I I'm going to be I was suggested that I should probably go into data networking. Um I'll be frank uh I don't know much about data networking but I do have I'm a freshman you know I pushing it through.

So that's what I did when I was your age. Uh I did data networking. I started back then we had these things called dialup modems. You guys probably know what dial is, but uh it would call in my parents' basement where I ran a bulletin board system out of the basement and that was kind of pre- internet and uh then yeah, it turned out to a really good career for me, man. And uh it's a it's a great thing that you're doing. And if if you want to talk about it offline, uh you know, I'd love to meet with you and talk about it. I think what you're doing is great. Thank you. Um appreciate that. Um I guess I'll back off. Oh, you're great, man. Great job. Thanks, Gabriel.

So, that is uh not my present, their presentation. I just wanted you guys to see and hear from them. Any questions for myself? Any questions for these wonderful young men and young women? Very impressive. Impressive. Thank you. I do I do the announcing for football and basketball and we have the two senior nights a year

where the seniors are presented and a list of all of the clubs and activities and everything else that they're involved in. I ran out of breath with these kids. Uh the amazing part and to you kids, the number of programs that are available to you in Dayton is really amazing to somebody like me and I'm glad to see that you're all taking advantage of it. And when you com when you start in your career, done with your college or whatever, move back here, stay here, please. But very impressive and for the school district, too. Thank you. Would you guys mind if we got I had had them stand up here and get a picture? Oh, we'd love that. Is that all right? Yeah, let Yeah, do that.

Let's do that. All right, you guys. We're going to get a picture. You want to get away from these tables in the front? Yes, that works. Oh, all of this. What do we do? I don't want to move until Okay, here. I'll stand back here. I'm too short. Get in the front. Ready?

All right. We do this 12 times a year. I think that's the coolest one. It's uh very impressive, sir. Thank you guys for doing that.

What's up? Yeah, if y'all want to leave, you're welcome to leave. If you want to hang out and listen to city stuff, you're welcome to do that. I thought it was required that they had a cupcake. You guys are great. Thank you. Yeah. Go Devils. Thank you. Yeah. Eat a cupcake, man. Ladies,

I don't want to eat them. like I mean I do which is one but not not six. Next in the docket, you know, we are so very very lucky to have uh uh some some tenure employees here in our city and tonight we're going to recognize uh one of our friends who's been here for quite a long time, longer than I have been. Uh Mr. Tony Bowwin, Lieutenant Bowwin, we call him LT around city hall anymore. already LTC now. That's right. Lieutenant Colonel, I'm I'm old school. I call him LT, but uh Chief Halfill,

thank you very much. All right, I got a speech uh put together. It's kind of not too long, but uh this is 30 year 30 years in the making, so

I'll try to get through it here. So, good evening. Uh tonight we have the honor to recognize someone who has been who has dedicated three decades of service to the city and that will be LTC Lieutenant Colonel Tony Baldwin. 30 years ago he was sworn in by my father-in-law Bobby Kritten. Uh with his wife Kathy by his side the very next morning at 6:00 a.m. he stepped into the first shift as a patrolman. And although he already had a few years of part-time experience and Wilder and Bramley at the time uh under his belt, that day marked the true beginning of a remarkable career. If you know Tony, you know he had a front row seat to just about everything a growing community can offer. He's watched the city change, evolve, and thrive. Yet somehow keep that small t small town heart. and and through it all, he's been a constant present, steady, dependable, and fully committed. Over the years, Tony has worked with more people than most of us can count. Some taught him lessons he treasures, and others taught him lessons that he survived. And if you ask him, he'll tell you every year here is worth three years everywhere else. I think we we know exactly what we mean by that. I've had the privilege of working alongside Tony for many years, including those early night shifts when neither of us imagined I'd one day be chief and he'd be my lieutenant colonel. But even back then, Tony was a guy you wanted next to you, the partner you trusted, the leader you listened to, and a friend who always had your back. And today he continues to mentor the younger officers, many of whom are the same age as his own kids. He may joke about feeling like the

station parent, but the truth is he brings out the best in them. He keeps them grounded, keeps them laughing, and keeps them learning. Tony often gets asked when he's going to retire. And his answer is simple. He still loves coming to work. He still enjoys the job, the people, and the community. he served. He's achieved so much already, and he still has one more goal he hopes to accomplish before he decides it's time. But no matter when that day comes, one thing is certain. Tony will leave knowing he made a difference because he already has. Tony, thank you for 30 years of dedication, leadership, sacrifice, and heart. Thank you to Kathy and your family for sharing you with this city or for sharing him with the city and thank you for showing all of us what it truly means to serve. On behalf and on behalf of the Dayton Police Department, it is my honor to present you Tony Baldwin with this award in recognition of 30 years of outstanding service. Let me get a picture.

The handshake picture.

All right. Three decades. 90 years old. Yeah. Oh, you She

is excited for

few more years. 30 years. Another 30. Congratulations. Here's the 30 more. That's it. You only ran from You only ran away from him one time. Hey, Tony.

We love you, Tony. a picture with your family. Yeah. I was going to say, are you going to introduce the family? Who do we have over here? That's your names. This is actually my name. Hey, Tony. James Baldwin. This my oldest. This is Oh, that's my wife.

No more. Pretty cool. Yeah,

that that is. It was hefty. Very hefty. A hefty trophy. Yeah. Grab some grab some cupcakes, guys. Yeah, those are actually Tony Baldwin celebration cupcakes. Eat it so we don't That's why they're blue cups, right? only missed the home only the first 129 years. 59. He only missed the 129. He's got a good good fraction of that.

Yeah, a good chunk of that patrolling our streets. LTC Bowwin, uh you're you're you're you're truly a good friend and and a great service to our our city. So, thank you for your service. Thank you to your family for your service because I know uh I know it takes a lot to let you go every night for as many hours as they do. You guys are the best. When we first met, too, at the park. Oh, really? Yeah. What was I doing? And why did you not arrest me for Oh, yeah. We started talking. Thanks for not arresting me. I appreciate that. You guys have a great night. Take cupcakes.

Man, what what what a cool town. Uh starting off with with kids about to do great things and uh lieutenants who have done great things. We're we're really lucky. Uh, next on our docket for the evening, we're going to go ahead and open up the podium for public comments for anybody who wants to uh discuss anything on the agenda this evening with with city council. So, if you have a topic you want to discuss on our tonight's agenda uh and you want to take the podium, you're more than welcome to. I don't see anybody bum rushing the podium. So, we'll go ahead and uh consider that that is a closed which puts up the ordinances. The first ordinance on the night would be second reading of ordinance 2026-1. Miss K client, please.

An ordinance amending the city of Dayton, Kucky's annual budget for the fiscal year running from July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 and estimating revenues and resources and appropriating funds for the city to the full extent authorized by KRS82082 and interpretive case law.

This is a second reading of ordinance 2026-1. Mr. Faucet, anything to discuss? Yeah, we uh discussed this in the depth that Jer did last week. Um we decided we needed uh it's halfway through the budget season. So we wanted to update the budget to make it conform to some of the revenues we received and some of the expenses we had. So that's why we're updating the budget. Uh this time we have a July a June July to June budget period. So January was halfway and this is a second reading. So uh need a motion to accept. I'll move to accept. Member judge made a motion to accept. I have a second. I'll second.

Second by member Horton, which opens up the motion for comments. Any comments regarding second reading of ordinance 226-1? No comments, questions, concerns. Roll call, please. Miss Klein. Member Jud. I. Member Leven. I. Member Horton. I. Member Ner. Hi. Member Neman. Hi. Member Kelly. I. eyes have it. Uh, next and last on the ordinances is the second reading of ordinance 2026-2. Miss Klein, please.

An ordinance amending sections 110.06, 110.12, and 110.19 and adding a new 110.22 to chapter 110 of the city of Dayton, Kentucky code of ordinances. Again, I discussed this in detail last meeting, but a little review is that we are adding some language that clarifies exactly what uh businesses have to provide to us in terms of federal tax forms um when they are submitting uh their occupational tax payments each year. We also are clarifying and um beefing up our um procedures for suspending or revoking occupational licenses for failure to for people who fail to provide the license or the documentation that uh goes with that. That's the primary uh changes to the ordinance.

All right, we had a second reading. Do I have a motion to accept 2026-2? So moved. Member Ner's made the movement. Do I have a second? Second. Second by member Nean. The movements made. The second's been made. Do I have uh any comments, questions, concerns regarding ordinance 2026- number two? Yeah, I have a lot of them. Sorry. Okay. Um get to work, sir. So, uh I guess first one is has these changes been vetted at all with the people that'll be affected by it? So any any of our businesses been brought into the fold here for discussion on any changes?

The only people that will be affected by it are those who are not paying the occupational license tax. Everybody else is paying it. So this just addresses those folks who are um not paying pretty much. I mean we always said that you had to to bring in their forms for the federal tax forms, but we just made it even clearer. People were confused about which one was this. So we actually spelled out exactly what it is. So, um it's really no change. Uh and really I mean the only thing that changes is that if you are not paying it, we have the right to go and revoke your license and there's an appeal process uh if you want to challenge that. So,

okay. Um so, you touched on a couple of the questions already, so thanks for that already. Uh the other questions I had were regarding um like some guidelines, I guess. So, if I'm understanding some of the changes correctly, it's kind of shifting um to requiring city council to to fully vote on certain things to instead the the office of the city administrator to be able to make certain decisions. So, you all have to vote on all ordinances. That's the requirement uh under Kentucky law. So, I'm not sure if I understand your question. Yeah.

Yeah. So, sorry. I know this is an ordinance and this will have to be passed by us, but what I'm saying is once that passes, if I'm reading it correctly, it allows for the city administrator's office to make some um decisions without necessarily passing it through city council. And it's a lot of like administrative stuff. So, I'm not too worried about yeah, some of that stuff. But um like I guess my simple question is what standards will the city administrator use to to decide suspension versus warnings versus payment plans or anything else like that? Is there anything

it's all set forth in the ordinance itself. So if they're not paying uh their taxes that's a violation and they they their license can be revoked. We generally are pretty um we generally won't do this unless they've been not paying for three years. We have people that haven't paid been running businesses for 10 years, haven't paid anything. So, we've gotten to the point where they just ignore us. And so, it's not fair. We got all these businesses that are doing the right thing and paying their taxes, and we have a handful, not many, but a handful that are not. And it's just not fair. And some of the businesses don't generate a lot of income, but still, you have to play by the rules. So yes, um, initially we had we talked about this, Alex and I worked on this that we were allowing we we thought maybe we would appeal to you you all as as a body and we decided that doesn't make sense and we you all should not be involved in the day-to-day operation. So we decided to make the city manager the the first step in the appeal process. They can if they do not agree with my decision, then they can appeal that to the code enforcement board. And if they don't agree with that decision, then they can appeal it to the district court. So the idea was to give them due process. Now we got three shots of due process. They don't like my decision, they go to code enforcement. They don't like code enforcement, they go to actually they four, they could go to the district court. They don't like district court, they can go to circuit court. They don't like secret court, they go to court of appeals. And so they got plenty of due process. We didn't have the due process really before. We didn't. Our process just said it could be revoked. We didn't really have a lot of language about, you know, how if it is revoked, how do you do it? we wanted to make sure we were doing it um legally. So, that's one of the main changes. Go ahead.

Can I make a comment? Um, and Jay knows, and I'll leave the city out of it because I'm on the other side representing the property owner or the person whose license was stripped, but there was a certain city in Northern Kentucky that passed an ordinance about two years ago that said unilaterally without due process that they could revoke an occupational license from a business if they failed to pay their property taxes or any license for that matter without due process. and they basically the the city clerk just sends them a letter and says your occupational license is revoked. That's a problem. So Jay and I looked at it carefully to figure out how to make sure because everyone has there's extenduating circumstances in some cases um that a person could come and could appeal to the necessary parties and say, "Well, this is why I'm having a hard time filing my taxes. My building burnt to the ground. I have no paperwork." You know, something along those lines. or a party could could pass away and be and leave the other office in upheaval. So there's a lot of reasons we do it, but the fundamental core concept is giving a person the option before their business is shuttered, which candidly is a extreme remedy, the opportunity to avail themselves through due process. And when I discovered that other particular city, name remain anonymous, thought that they had the right to do that, it's disgusting because there was council members and a mayor and a city attorney that ratified it with no due process, which is completely against the law and and contrary to everything that we all know and love about the opportunity to avail yourself. So when we looked at this ordinance and putting you all in a position, you know, the elected bodies, that's could be a very difficult thing. So, and and we are dealing with it on a weekly if not every two- week basis of a business and an excuse why they're not paying when everybody else is. So, you know, we for other reasons we'll keep a couple of these parties anonymous as

well, people in the city of Dayton that are availing themselves of every remedy, law enforcement, fire, code enforcement remedies, but don't pay taxes. It's crazy. the the most extreme cases we have there are a couple couple rental property owners that do this and a couple business owners that do this that they're that are pretty good businesses. They don't provide any of the documentations. We have to audit this. You know, they're saying this is our this is what we made and we say, "Well, we need to see your federal tax returns because you swear under oath and burgjury uh subjury that this is correct." They don't provide it. So, what we found out with with those people is that they haven't never filed federal tax returns. But we're requiring them to file federal tax returns so we can document that in fact what they're what they're making is truly what they're saying. They come in and pay the the base fee and they okay that's it. Or they make up something. We said you can't do that. You got to give us documentation. So we actually have a couple businesses now that are working with an accountant and going back and doing tax returns for the past four or five years.

Okay, that cleared up a lot of my questions. So I had down to two small ones. Um, one is, uh, how do we plan on communicating this to the businesses once the ordinance is is passed, if it's passed? Well, we've talked about that. We, uh, have an, um, we have a letter going out. Talk about that. We have a postcard post postcard going out. Yeah, we do have a postcard going out to all of the businesses that are registered with the city telling them the deadlines, which were already established, um, and who it applies to, just as like anformational mailer. But then I think we were going to send an additional letter to to the ones that this would specifically correct. Yeah. But we certified

that has not been discussed. I say certified. Yeah. So there will be some communication going out uh in the next couple weeks. Okay. Um and then will there be any report outs back to council being that we are not part of this this process? It would be interest. I think it'd be nice for us to be at least a breast of when we are pulling the operations of a business in our area.

I hope we don't have to. I mean, this is mainly we're just uh the sort of the CL I can't remember the guy's name, but the sort of hut over their head that hopefully they'll do the right thing to um but um if we do I since I've been here, we haven't revoked anybody's license because I was concerned that I didn't see a real due process method to give them the rights they are entitled to. So yeah, but now I feel confident we can do it. And so um yeah, we can report to you, but I can tell you right now Angie's got a list of about 20 businesses that are have not complied and um we can share that with you, too. But uh I'm hopeful that they will comply once they realize that, okay, we've got we beefed this up and you know, we're we're not going to put up with it anymore.

Good deal. Yeah, I'm overall I'm I'm very happy with the way this is structured. I like the clarity of it. I like a lot of things. I just had a few Oh, no. That's few clarifying questions and one of those just was my last one there where I just wanted to make sure that although we're completely out of that process, it'd be nice to know. We'll be happy to report to see if there's anything that we can assist with or just be knowledgeable about it before things get out of hand. Yeah, I mean, I can I can give you a list of all the ones that are delinquent and have been for years. Um, and we're going to hit the ones that are the worst initially and then go down the line from there.

Okay. And I and I think this is somewhat related, so I'll bring this into the fold. I heard um Mayor Cleaves in Belleview talk about how they had some short-term rental businesses that were not not known about until they kind of audited their area to kind of look for for short-term rental uh businesses that existed in the area. Um, have we done any work in that regard? And is this related to that? I've actually worked with the um meet NKY which is the convention visitors bureau. They have a software that tracks all that and they provided information to us. We don't have as many as Belleview does but we knew of most of ours. Cassie does a pretty good job because we're doing the rental inspection program here. We have a better handle than some cities about that. But there are a few. The only thing we're waiting on, there's legislation right now in the general assembly that is basically seeking to tie the hands of cities of how they deal with short-term rentals. So, we're kind of waiting for that to and that will be done here in the next two months, March into April. Um, and we'll have a better idea whether we can even do anything to regulate that. I I actually started working on a regulation ordinance um in January and then I heard this bill got filed. said, "This is stupid to pass this and work on this and finish this until we know whether it's just a waste of time." So, I think we'll revisit this after the general assembly is over.

That officially wraps up my questions. Thank you. I'm glad you I'm happy to answer them. That's why I love having a council of six. Thank you, sir. And just to clarify case any none of the rates are changing. Okay. It's a four.

This is simply to clarify uh for example that apartment buildings with more than three units are uh included in this and clarifies the reporting that's required and then what recourse the city has to enforce it. And then also we you copied and pasted you you revised the old ordinance that we had in place for many years and under that it said the right of appeal if someone's license was suspended or whatever they could come before council and we'd have to vote on it. Well, we're the legislative branch. We make the rules. That's the executive branch. they enforce the rules and it also allows with this uh circuit court should they not agree with your decision. So there's a judicial part in there too. So it really covers it quite nicely as far as the process.

And the great thing is bringing the code enforcement board in is there's already statutory provisions about how you appeal that to the court system. So it's been proven and tested. So that's the best way to go. I had a question. How how does that play out in the beginning? like they haven't filed their taxes and now they're in a rears. Do you do you give them a warning?

Yeah, we Yes. So, we have given warnings. Um we give warnings all the time and and I mean we have people that I said haven't paid for five or six years. We warned them. We warned them and then now we're we're actually starting to take some to court both civily and criminally. And that seems to get their attention. So uh we have a couple who've taken criminal because they just ignored us and once they go to court the judges are siding with us saying you got to you got to pay this. So but we only do that after a number of warnings. Okay. How many? At least three. Okay. At least three that's three years generally. So I mean we we do

three warnings in one year and then usually we wait a couple years before we put the hammer down. So they generally get at least three warnings from Angie before we, you know, you know, realize that they're not going to pay it. So, so yeah, they get plenty of warnings. When you get your third warning from Angie, you know you got it. Trust me. Any other questions? All right. All right. Well, we have a we have a uh motion by member Neri and a second by member Neman. Uh no more questions, no more comments, no concerns. Miss uh Klein, roll call, please. Member Leven,

I. Member Horton. I. Member Ner. Hi. Member Neman. Hi. Member Kelly. I. Member Jed. I. The eyes have it. Moving right along the dock. Next up is order resolutions and we have none on the dock this evening which puts us up to the department director's monthly reports and as we like to do in the city of Dayton we do ladies first. So Miss Cassie with uh your code enforcement but I try to do that out of politeness so you could leave if you want to.

Okay. You have a copy of my report. Copy of the rental license report. Um, a couple things I want to say again that Dayton School is still looking for mentors. Um, Rotary Club. What? Want to talk about a Rotary Club? The Rotary Club. I went to the Rotary Club meeting. Um, they are interested. They love Dayton. They want to volunteer in Dayton. If anybody would like to join, um, shoot me an email. I'll get the information out. Um, they do good. They do good civic stuff.

They do great things. They really do. I'm trying to I'm meeting with them tomorrow to come up with a project. Um, I want to push the mentoring um side of it because I think a lot of these people have quite a bit of free time. Um, and we're going to brainstorm on a project.

Yes. So, if council has any ideas about what might be a project for a group of volunteers that you would like to see in Dayton, I know they talked about the the the the community garden. That's that's something usually folks like want to do on their own. Maybe it's a little a pride thing about their own little plot. But if if you can think of anything around the city where a group of volunteers could help with, you know, we've got a group of volunteers who want to help. It's a small group. Yeah. But it's a powerful group. I like them. But yeah, they do great things. So, um, we're going to throw a couple ideas around and see what we come up with. It's interesting. I love it. I love volunteerism. So,

when when is that meeting? Um, they have the meetings. They're on Thursdays. Thursdays here. Um, lunchtime. Usually it's 12:00 to 1. They do two a month. They do one at lunch and they do one after hours. Oh, okay. Well, I just went to the one at lunch last week, so I'm new to this. Um, but I'm meeting with that her Barbara tomorrow um to kind of brainstorm about some ideas for the next meeting. So, if you're interested, I'll give you the information about it. Sign her up.

It's really not a huge commitment. That's what kind of I think a lot of people like about it. It's, you know, you can come, you can go. If you don't want to come, you don't have to come. So, it's Yeah, I think that's what's nice about volunteering. So,

before Cassie sits down, I want to talk about um something happened today. So, Cassie is, you know, she's the mean old code enforcement lady. She's out there telling people to clean up their properties and and she's done an amazing job over the past four, five years she's been here doing that and you can see it in the city and the transformation is amazing. But she, you know, can be pretty tough because you got to be tough in that job and people ignore you. you got to, you know, cite them and, you know, take them to the code enforcement board if necessary. But what people don't realize, too, is that she sends notes to people that do a really nice job maintaining their property. And she sends them out and we ran to someone today who got one a couple years ago and she says, "I those still love that note you gave me. I have my refrigerator. I show it to everybody who comes to my house." And so, I just want to say, you know, she's not just the bad code enforcement lady. She's also recognizing people. I'm not mean all the time.

That are doing the right thing on their properties, too. So, I just want to say that. Well, thanks. Thank you. All right. Thanks. Jay's not just a bad city attorney or administrator. He's also an okay one. Just kidding, buddy. You know, he wears many hats. Uh, Mr. Lucas, you've had a busy uh busy month as always.

Why don't you tell us all about it? Okay, we've been doing a lot of potholes and some of them are repeat. So, we've done quite a few of them. We probably used about three tons of coal patch so far this winter. Um, also Third Street. I don't know if everybody knows about the trailer that was down there. We purchased a trailer here a couple years a couple about a year ago and we what happened? That's all just about put away. Rick, put it down.

It's all crushed up. And I got one load down there. And I think I got one more load before it's all gone. And then we'll clean the lot up and that problem will be gone. Was that trailer down there? I drove by there and I didn't even know where it came from. Was it? It was right beside the community. Right there. Like I have no memory of it. Okay. It was next to the old the old cat and cafe. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. where a community garden was at the right next door to the community garden. Yeah, the old the old one. I saw it there. And we do have water in that community garden. We do have a second. Yeah.

But I had water company turn it off, but it still works. All we have to do is call the water company and have it turn back on if we ever need water. And um two lights there. Okay. And let's see. Um Jay's got some news on coming up on his report. So I'll let him have that one. And probably not next week, maybe the week after, look at start turning the water on at Gillan Park. Um once again, it's going to be watering and the grass is turning green, Rick. Oh, I know. I already seen it. And um

Jared told me it was okay to put a garbage can down at Gillan Park for the uh pickle ball court. Sure. We have some nice green ones up there. They're metal. And we talked about putting a sidewalk from the uh main sidewalk into that into that gate. So that's a project we got. We'll move the garbage can in the middle. Yeah. Of that area right there. Okay. And

so I just also want to mention that we had some heavy rains here recently. I mean big downpours and uh we've invested a lot in storm water infrastructure in large part because of a cost sharing agreement with SD1. And so um we've not had any we've had any problems for a while. The big project we just finished last fall um and we still have to repave it is the project at um Walnut Fourth and Third that was causing some major issues and this bad last storm there were no major problems. We also had a low spout on Fourth Street that we put a drain in and it's not clicking there anymore. So,

but you also they also you know when big raintorms are coming they go out and they clean out all the storm drains all throughout the city. His team does. So, they do a good job. If you don't do you can have you can have plenty of storm drains that they're not right but if they're not cleaned out they're not we cleaned them quite a few right this year and so so knock on wood so far we've been or our improvements have seemed to be working well we also did one up in Riverpoint with the help of SD1 and that addressed the ice issue we had up there and uh this winter they didn't have the ice like they've had in the past so it's good and we're probably going to have to get the water company back out. A lot of these patches they're doing are sinking. They got one there on McKenna. It's really bad. They just did that last week.

I know. It's already sunk down. It's So, they're going to have to come back out and redo some of those. We have an ordinance that requires that. So, let me know. We'll I'll work with you on notifying them. Other than that, that's about it for me. If anybody's got any questions up on Dayton Pike, Jay, I talked to you about this the other day and I know we like you said, we've had some heavy rains, but there's a couple properties there on the east side of Dayton Pike that have a bunch of gravel that washes out on Dayton Pike, the real fine pea gravel. Cassie, you want to come and talk about that? Can't we we're working on it. It's Yeah, I noticed that when it rained and that property is um recently been transferred. So, right, I sent them a notice,

okay, that they have to It used to be worse, but they did concrete one driveway, but they didn't do the other one. And so, that all washed down this last storm. Big piece of plastic up there with gravel all over, right? Sent him a notice. He sent me a notice, too, on that. Well, and a couple of the other I sent him to clean it up. Well, I didn't know. It was dangerous. It Oh, very dangerous. And And it looked bad, too. And I know you've had to shovel it out of the street. Yes. Um but there's a couple of other properties on that side too that also have the same issue.

Um and I don't know if if in our codes or building codes or whatever. Uh we talked a while back about requiring a drain across the bottom of a driveway or That's for new construction though. So that they're grandfathered in. So yeah. But I mean, is there anything that we should do to make them put bigger gravel in there that doesn't wash away as easy or it's it's going to wash. They wouldn't be able to do that today. Our zoning code requires asphalt or concrete. So, that was probably done before we required that. Um, so it I mean it's more of a nuisance thing. We'd have we'd have to sign them under under our nuisance code or property management.

Rained hard. I mean, don't get me wrong, there are issues when it rains, but that was really bad. It's been going on for a long time with some of those properties. Nonetheless, I was just wondering if there's something we had to do as far as if you see it, you go up and down that road a lot more than I do. Shoot me a text and I'll run up there and check it out. Case talked about it. You were going to try to reach out to the property owner, right, about it and see if they will address it. Yeah. And with the uh repaving, I know it got put on hold last fall because the weather turned quick, but I imagine Eaton is going to start with the paving soon.

Mike Gigger is working on that. We we're talking to them that we want ours done first. They still have a couple streets left in Bellev. They started in Bellev, got I think three or four done and then couple left there and then they said they're going to come here. So, um yeah. So, Mike, I need to talk to Mike. He was supposed to reach out to eat and I haven't heard back from him. So we had a conversation about that. We wanted to do that first. So they should be opening up the factories here, the asphalt factories here pretty soon. This is the time they start operating. Our roads look a lot I mean if people complain about pop all the time, but we look a lot better than many of our adjoining cities. You ever notice when people drive towards uh Cincinnati on Route 8 that everyone dodges? It's like left and right.

Not calling anybody out, but I've seen that. Well, it's all the salt we use. That's what caused the heaven. And then I imagine as last thing as far as Dayton Pike, um that's not going to be repaved until the sidewalk.

Yeah. So, we're putting in curb we're putting in curbs and sidewalks and storm uh inlets there. So, it'd be stupid to repave it and and actually, you know, um water district put a new water line in there and they they were going to re just a strip. We said just give us that money and we'll put it towards repaving the whole street. So once the Dayton Pike sidewalk project's done, hopefully this season if if time allows and money allows, we'll we'll pave Dayton Pike after that. So okay, the whole plan was why waste the money and ripping it up doing construction then going back and repaving it. So it's going to be, you know, I know it's been a bad winter with the road, but we're hopeful that that will be done this year. Thank you.

If the timing works right with the sidewalk project. So we're getting close. We'll talk about that at the um strategic planning session. I have a question. Yeah. 10th Street steps the repair for the I was going to talk about that. That's one of the things. Oh my goodness. So um we met today with um Susan and uh she um and Rick and I met and actually Cassie is with us too. Um she's going to probably start on it next week.

Wow. So, um, what we're going to do, we're going to start at the lower level because that's in really pretty good shape and because we have to order the the the piping and, uh, we're going to we're going to order it and, um, Rick's going to cut it to size so we can save money. Instead of paying her to do that, we're going to do it and then she's going to weld it in place. So, um, she's initially going to work on the lower level while we're waiting for the supplies to come in. And she's going to she's been measuring each of the pieces that are missing, and she's going to give us that measurement, and once we get the pipe in, we'll cut it to size, bring it up there for her, and help her put it together. Fantastic. So, she's hoping to start that next week.

Great. Um, similar concern to me ner over there. Um, street cleaning. Do we do street cleaning on a regular basis? And if so, what is that cadence? Jared is been working with our street cleaner, so I'll direct it to him. The first and second Monday of the month. They have not been, so

perfect. Yeah, we're little frustrated with this as well. Any other questions for Mr. Lucas? Hey, good night. Fire cops. Fire cops. Let's go. Cops. Chief.

Okay. Uh, you have my report. I sent out a yearly report. Um, I like to go over that with you during our strategic planning session. So, we can go over that then if you have any questions with that. Um, I also sent you my multi-year uh goals, I guess. So, you also received that. Um, I did this came in late. This is from the social workers. Uh, they weren't able to get that in. So, I just went ahead and printed it off and gave it to you there. Um, and uh the new question on the block I guess is uh ebikes. I have been a have been a problem now that it's warmer out and uh kids are getting out their Christmas gifts and riding all over town. Um I put something on our Facebook page gave you uh some guidance with that on what the law is uh requiring uh you know electric scooters, ebikes, stuff like that. So, as of right now, uh, ebikes in Kentucky do not, uh, require driver's license, registration, or insurance. Uh, there's no statewide helmet law either. So, um, I think we had an incident where somebody got on Facebook because one of our officers stopped somebody and that was because they were stopped at a stop sign and this ebike blew past them.

Ran ran the stop sign. Ran the stop sign. They were tandem. There's two on it and they paced them at about 30 miles an hour. So he stopped them, let them know what the rules are, what the law is because ebikes fall under bicycle laws. Uh so you have to obey all traffic, bicycles have to obey all traffic laws. So you must stop at all intersections. Most of the time you don't see bikes, you know, when we have the big groups coming down Route 8 or uh down the avenue and stuff like that, sometimes they don't stop. It's okay. You know, sometimes it's okay. It is officer's discretion, but um and he didn't give him a ticket. He just gave them a warning.

He just gave them a warning. And then, of course, the parent got online and wanted to bash the police. So, I think that the parents need to before they send these kids out on these ebikes and electric scooters, they need to know what the law is and um pretty much tell them what the law is. It's not Yeah. And and actually I mean he may have could have saved that kid's life in the future. I mean so I mean you're going through a stop line going that fast and you could easily get t-boned by and bikes don't win that battle.

Yeah. We actually went down and talked to the Belleview uh group down there that has the ebike store and none of these bikes that these kids are on or any of theirs. These are the ones from like Teu or something like that and they're not regulated. they're from China or whatever and these go faster because they're supposed to be regulated at 28 miles an hour and these are going 30 to 35 miles an hour. Wow.

You know, so that's something uh I did get with um Officer Bindle. So to talk to the kids to try to educate the kids, what are some things we can do? Um we've had bike rodeos in the past um just and we've had a summer safety fair. Um we're going to try that again. it hasn't been very successful just with turnout with kids because they don't sometimes kids don't like to be told what to do or what the laws are. It's like they're going to do what they want to do and uh we we just want to try to get the education out there. Um so I did give this to officer Brendle, the school resource officer. They are going to do an announcement uh in the morning and try to read this and try to uh advise the kids what you know because there's a couple kids I know that leave school and they're tandem on ebikes and he's going to plan on stopping them and let them know hey you can't do that anymore. Uh and just I don't know if it's just the kids don't know which I think that's majority of it. The kids I don't think they know what the laws are. They think they're just on bikes and they don't know what traffic laws are because they're 10 12 14 years old. We have an amazing traffic garden down at Gillan to teach folks how what does a railroad crossing look like? What does a stop sign look like? So, I encourage them to use that.

Yeah. So, we're going to we're going to try that's going to be one thing we're going to try to do is try to get a little education out to them, especially we're getting towards the summer. Um, and it's not just us. It's it's Newport, it's Belleview, it's Port Thomas, it's all the cities. Um, unless you want to contact your state rep and try to get something in the books going, uh, to regulate ebikes. Uh, we don't have anything in the books, I don't think, right now, uh, going through the legislature. Right now, they're meeting. But, uh, you know, if that's something you want to do or try to tackle,

I suggest you reach out to your local rep and maybe try to get some type of uh, regulations on these out of control. Do you talk to the kids at at the school about this or does anyone Yes. Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Um, we're going to have the school resource officer uh do an announcement uh and try to read off what I've given you. But the laws are that if you're on an ebike, you have to obey traffic laws. I don't think these kids know that

that the bike if you're on a bike, it's considered a ebike, but I mean it is a bicycle. You have to obey all traffic laws. You have to stay to the right side of the shoulder. You know, all those things that I don't think they know about. So, we want to try to educate them quickly, uh, to try to try to get a, you know, ahead of this right now to at least with at least that they slow down before they hit an intersection, not just blow by. And I think what before I came down here, Tim Hall had one, I think a girl blew through uh, sixth and main, almost got hit. Um, and he was complaining about it and somebody forwarded the the post I put out about what the safety is uh, for the kids. So, this girl almost got hit on a on her ebike just oblivious going through intersections. Almost got struck by a vehicle. Luckily, that person was paying attention. So, I just don't want a tragedy to happen before something, you know, before we start noticing this stuff. So, we're trying to get ahead of it. We're trying to do what we maybe, you know, kids and laws. I I don't know how you were. uh laws were for grown-ups when I was a kid.

And man, I see these kids flying around town. I've had two instances already where I don't know how I didn't hit them or they didn't hit me and with two people on it. It's not just the ebikes is these electric scooters also, which I think are even more dangerous. No helmets, no nothing. I mean, they're carefree. They don't know what the the possible uh implications are. I think along with emphasizing what the laws are, you know, they're just going to say, "Well, I'll never get caught." What the consequences are, uh, I mean, we had, um, a gentleman who used to live here in Dayton whose son was severely injured last year in a scooter accident. Um, I don't want to have that on my conscience,

right? So, I think if you play it a little bit almost like a scared straight type thing like you do for homecoming dances when you show them a wreck car also emphasize, you know, it can kill them. Yeah,

that's what we're going to try to do with this. Uh we're looking out to what what things are out there. Like we already reached out to the ebike company uh in Belleview just to see if there's any classes maybe we can put on for these kids. Um, we've done, like I said, with regular bikes, we've done safe with what we call safety rodeos where we give them helmets because these kids need to have helmets on their heads, you know. Um, but we just had low turnout. We end up, we still have boxes of helmets that the kids didn't want them, you know, because you don't look cool when you have a helmet on your head, you know, sometimes. Um, so we got to get past that.

Well, maybe you could also combine with the fire department. I know that uh with these lithium batteries on these bikes and scooters that they're causing all kinds of fires all over the place. So maybe that is can be part of the public safety on these things because they're getting cheaper. Like you said, summer's coming. We're going to see more and more of a problem. Well, the summer safety fair that we had to get these kids prepared for the summer, such as call 911, water safety, you know, and stuff like that, that was more gravitated towards the elementary kids. This is something that we need to do the high school,

right? We need to change venues to the high school because this is more impactful to the high school kids. They need to know, you know, what could happen, you know, uh if if they were to get hit by a car. I mean, they could die. I mean, it's a low speed at 30 something miles an hour, but right, the other car is going about the same speed. So, it's not a it's not a good equal point there. So, uh if we can get ahead of it, it's just it like I said, it's just it's starting to come out with the warm weather. So, we're just trying to get ahead of it right now. So, we we're planning stuff in the works to to try to get ahead of it and try to try to teach the kids. Well, thanks for reacting on Facebook and putting those rules out there because everybody was Nobody know really. Nobody Everybody was a lawyer on that thread. Yeah,

they sure were. Oh my god. So, and like I said, there's no law on the books in Kentucky for ebikes. There's just there's no regulations right now. So, but we have an ordinance that says they have to follow they have to follow certain Yeah. the bicycles, they have to follow certain things that we've put in place as a city as far as riding on sidewalks and uh certain areas of parks and and things like that. I know Sergeant Park, I think, you know, we've had some issues with that, but um most of the state laws focus on mopeds and scooters scooters that are gasoline powered. They're not really have been

caught up to the electric age. So, I think this summer is going to be a little crazy where I think you'll see some legislature probably probably next year. I don't know as far as the country goes how many states have certain laws on the ebikes. I know there are California, the bigger the bigger uh states do have it because they're they're a problem. Uh they have certain classes. There's three classes of of ebikes. Uh so um hopefully we can maybe get some some little regulations on these things getting a little out of control. Do these uh regulations for bicycles also apply to like bikes with training wheels or tricycles or stuff in that realm?

Bicycles or bicycles? So, no matter if they have training wheels or they're considered a two-wheel pedal bicycle or like I said a the what they consider an ebike with some type of electric source or battery source at all. All the laws just fall under the bicycle. Yeah. I I guess my bigger question is does this count for smaller bicycleish type things? Do we really want little kids on the roads? Yeah, not really. We don't see that. We really don't see those kids. The only time we see kids like that are up on the flood wall or in parking lots. So, that hasn't really been an issue.

Like I said, just the ebikes and like I said, that's that's the new thing and everybody has to have one. It's warm and kids are getting them out and deal. And then uh just one comment or suggestion. Uh I I sat in the park board uh meeting not too long ago and I think they're doing some type of bike event, bike repair event or something like that. That could be a good opportunity to promote that as well. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments for questions for Mr. Hatfield? Thank you, Chief. Have a good night, sir. Thank you. Last but certainly not least, Chief Schaefer.

Good evening, Chief. I just want to say sorry. Know this kids want to be cops. No, but adding on to what he said, uh, you know, the ebike things are more of a police issue, but unfortunately, you know, I'm open to suggestions. I'm open to work with you. Um, the reality of it is there's going to be a travesty this summer. Just know that everybody's trying to avoid it, but it's that's what's going to take things. That's not what it's going to take, but that's what's going to happen.

And your team's going to have to respond to that. Yes. And it's I mean you see him and you know bikes are always an issue but and like I said other than us just seeing and knowing it's going to happen. He's got to deal with they're they're faster. They're hauling more kids. They're not wearing helmets. The you know and you know how teenagers are it's to them it's a motorcycle and it's just it's going to be a bad thing. So anything we do anything we do any education we get out there. But unfortunately, I'm don't think this is real preventable. But so sorry to be a bummer on that one. But what else you got there, Chief?

Yeah. So everybody has my report. Um February we made 157 runs, 39 fire runs, and 118 EMS. Uh we did have some good training. Uh some solar panels, solar panel fire training. Those are popping up more. So that was that was really good. Uh like I said, uh Duke came in, they did their natural gas training. That was awesome. We do have Duke Electric coming in in March or April. Toward the end of March or April, I'll give you guys if you want to send anybody be same thing. It'll be three days. Same thing. That's actually a really good class, too. Uh so training 410 hours year to date. So everybody's steaming up on that. Uh getting our inspections out and going again. Our audit was completed. So I guess final. We'll get it to your city auditors. Um we did have a crew, firefighter Nance, firefighter MT Nance and firefighter medicillo won the St. Elizabeth crew of the quarter. So that was pretty neat. So St. and Elizabeth came to the fireboard meeting. Recognize them for that. And then the other thing I want to make you guys aware of on April 11th coming up at 2 p.m. We're going to do the fire department wants to do a showcase basically for council and city staff. Come down. We'll get everybody in some gear, go through some different scenarios. We got there's a house in Belleview that we're using for training. So you guys will put on gear, break down doors, go close some water, cut on a car.

What? So that be real. Really? It'll be April 11th at 2 p.m. And then April 11th, 2 p.m. Take is it what? What day is that? Saturday. Saturday. Oh, you have to take off work. Sweet. But so there we'll meet So we're starting to work out the details. We'll meet at the firehouse. We'll probably break up into teams and that way it's not taken all day. Kind of alternate around and I'll send something out so that way we can get a head count. We'll do some kind of meal afterwards and sure I got something else going on the day. Damn. See what

I'm sure like. Oh, you can't do that this day. They were doing this like dang it. So there any questions? I'll get back to the lithium battery thing. Um cuz I'm I saw an article the other day where New York City has had like multiple deaths and especially in these apartment buildings where these scooters and ebikes are getting recharged indoors and catching fire. Um okay. So maybe as far as far as the scooter ebike uh safety program, you can also point that out too that you know don't be charging them inside overnight unattended.

Yeah. And you know the big thing even more so than charging them overnight is people just really the big thing that they don't realize people just plug them into any charger that fits. Yeah. And that's you know that's horrible. I think part of it too is they've been you know the technolog is there but it's kind of now you're starting to see the technology fail a little bit. Things are getting older. Um, I have said through some training. That's I guess I'm gloom and doom tonight, but there's some videos of people in elevators and people getting with their scooter and once the door closed it ignites and yeah, it's I mean it's it's dangerous, but there's things we can do and you know definitely I'll get with Chief Hatfield and we'll, you know, work together and

any anything we can do to help them and vice versa and try to come up with something. Thank you. Sweet. Fort Thomas's spring break is not that week.

That means uh I will I will see you there, sir. Uh also that that week though is also the day that they're doing uh some of your team is working on adopt a uh adopt a dog over on 6th Avenue. So uh they'll be having that pop up over uh outside uh body of our tattoo. So uh as a dog adopter, I highly encourage people to adopt a dog. That's great. Most times uh that concludes the department director's monthly reports and means Mr. Faucet, your monthly report, sir.

Well, I already talked about the steps. I was going to talk about that, but Beth was already ahead of me on that one. So, that's underway. Um, I also want to report that the Riverfront Commons phase two and three, the entire trail along the river has now been completed and it comes up behind Manhattan on the river apartments and it stops right there at Manhattan Boulevard and they're currently now and I think they poured today too um finishing up the trail along Manhattan Boulevard which will end down at Mary Engles. The only issue we have left is there are fire hydrants in the middle of the trail that the water districts got to come and move. So they are they are basically finishing the trail around those fire hydrants and then once they're moved they will finish the trails up there on Manhattan Boulevard. But the trail is complete from phase one which is at the outfall um what is that street? McKenna McKini outfall there. It's gone all the way along the river up past the other outfall and then up behind the apartments into the river. So hopefully I know whoever wants to have a a grand opening ceremony here uh when it's done, but we got probably a few more weeks. They have until May one to get done, but they're way ahead of schedule. So um hopefully we'll have a big celebration when it's finished and then we can concentrate on the upper trail. That's really all I have um tonight. Mayor.

Yep. Any questions for uh Mr. Faucet on his report? No, I did see where the uh kiosk got replaced. Yeah, it should have been uh we've had the stuff in the fire department. The the the equipment's been there for about well, one piece was there for about three weeks and the other one came in and once that came in, we were able to get it fixed. So, it took took some time, but it's finished. Yeah. I think he got done yesterday.

I appreciate the help from Roi IQ on that one and uh we got nice stuff. We really do. Uh let's take care of our stuff, not do stupid stuff. So, appreciate everyone's help on that. Now, is the time for anybody from the audience who like to address city council, city staff, the podium is yours for anything you want to talk about. Hey, how's it going? Name and address, please.

Yeah. Christian Neighborhouse from uh 439 Manhattan Boulevard. I wanted to circle back to a couple things um from previous meetings. You uh Jay had mentioned uh the possibility of a grant for um rehabilitation of the levy trail going back. I'm curious to know the status on that and specifically uh whether or not that trail or if you anticipate any part of that project or maybe the uh river project that's finishing up to have better access from Manhattan Boulevard up to the trail either with additional steps or how that's going to tie in because at this point they're kind of separate. So I'm curious about that.

Okay. So OKI approved the grant. So we received notice of that u last fall. And so this year starting in July this calendar fiscal year we will be designing the improvements. So it's a two-year process and that designing will go through and then uh next year we will build it. So it's happening in the next two years. And so part of that plan is that at the end the trail now you know you go and you stop you have to turn around and come back. that trail will now go down and connect to the lower trail. So you will have a connection down there um near Mary Engles. So you can make basically do a loop on the trail by way of stairs. It will be a ramp, an ADA accessible ramp.

Okay. And so um and then we also have a grant to design an ADA accessible ramp from Barry Street down to the river trail. So, we'll have ADA accessibility there getting down from Berry Street and from the upper trail. And we'll also have ADA accessibility going down to u the lower trail at the eastern end of the um project. Barry being right

Barry right here. So you'll go across and you'll go directly across where Berry Street would would have used to go and there'll be a ramp that goes down heading towards the west. It'll be ad accessible. So you if you want to right now the only way you can get to the lower ramp is either down by the marina on the western side or the marina on the eastern side. And so now you'll be able to get to the ramp I mean get to the trail in the middle of the of the of the project. But that still leaves the far western part of the trail uh around. Yeah. And right now there's a break. You come out into a parking lot, right? So

you can go up of and search, you know, circle around. I don't think a lot of people do that. And I know when my wife did it, she got bit by a dog. Yeah. So it's not a real inviting way. And I'm here to to kind of uh you know put forward the idea that you know some of the planning for the uh the rehabilitation of the levy trail include a way to make it a real loop. It's a loop, you know, with what you're describing, but it's kind of a broken loop.

Right. Well, that's the problem we have there is and that's the plan is that that parking lot where the um Queen City Marina is is going to be developed by Brendan Sullivan's group. So, we don't know where that trail is going to be exactly at this point. Um and Belleview just purchased a the lot next to the parking lot and they're going to connect they're going to expand their park that's already there, the existing park. They bought that parcel. They're going to they're going to send their trail through there. And so we've we've been talking to Brenda Sman. You know, it's it's the last project he's gonna do. It's their major project and we think they want the trail to go along the river. So, um, but we're not sure exactly. He's got to tell us where in this development he wants that trail. So, once that trail is there, we'll know where it is and then we need to find a way to connect, you know, do we do we take it upallon? you try to connect it by the Gateway Apartments. I don't know. That's something we have to figure out.

Is he under any any time constraint to to divulge what he's going to do? Not that I'm aware of. But he owns that. He owns the the parking lot at this point. He owns the parking lot, the marina, and uh a couple other lots. I think the next development they're going to probably the last development he'll do is that one. It's the probably most expensive one, right? I think he'll develop the other lots up high. And then the idea I think that he wants to put a parking garage underneath there and build on top of it. That gets expensive. So we'll see. We'll see how that works out. So Okay. All right. Okay. So that's kind of that's kind of the problem is we don't know exactly where that trail is going to be. So we can't really do anything until we have a better idea. But hopefully we have some design plans we can work off of and work around that.

All right. Well, thank you for that update. Um, also in a in a previous meeting, uh, I remember hearing you mention, I don't know if it was a firm initiative or if it was just a desire to coordinate with Belleview and Newport and solicit the state to have them take a look at the traffic flow at Route 8. Um, and I don't know if there's been any progress on that or develop on that or if that was just, you know, stating uh, you know, a desire for the way you see forward. But I'm here to tell you as a resident, you know, and a citizen, it remains, uh, a prime topic uh, on people's minds. It remains a a prime aggravation. Um, understanding that uh, there's, you know, only so much that that can be done. I've heard people say wild things that most of which I think are not true. There's a lot of rumors that are that are out and around about what is going to be done. Some people apparently think that it's already a done deal that there's there's going to be a major, you know, redo of the traffic patterns and they're just waiting for funding. I hadn't heard that.

A double-decker. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. So, I can't update you on that. Um, in fact, I've been meeting with Frank Warlock, the city administrator Belleview, and we've reached out to KTC and asked them to do a study of the traffic issues um particularly um the traffic there by um the liquor store um Riviera and Kentucky, which I think is really the bottleneck. Yeah. So, you're I know you're relatively new to Dayton, but and I wasn't here when this happened. There was a full-blown traffic study done by KYTC. I don't know what was it 10 years ago when 2013 2013

16 years ago or 13 years ago um and they made recommendations uh and it was that parking should be taken off of one of the one side of in Belleview and I think the idea was to do during rush hour two lanes going one way and then switching into lanes going back pushed against that so um and so I think

those are things at the city's discretion even though it's a state road that's, you know, the state can make the decision, but they're generally not going to do it if the city disagrees with it. But they were pretty the businesses are pretty adamant that they didn't want to lose that parking. And so that kind of shot that plan down. So this study that we're asking for is not going to be a revisiting that one. It's going to say, okay, let's look at what we have now. What can we do to improve the traffic flow at this point? And at some point in the future, you may want to do another study and revisit that. the right. My understanding is in talking to Bellev, they still do not want to take parking off of uh Fairfield Avenue. So, has there been any commitment by the state to do another study or anything?

They're Yes, they're talking about doing it. Not the full study like they did before, but they're going to look at the interchanges and I mean the intersections and other traffic flows to see if they can make improvements to improve the the flow of traffic. No dates or any particular dates that they've committed to?

No, it's just we just actually talked to them last week. So, it's it's in the early stages and KYTC, they do a lot of good things, but they're not the fastest in getting things done. They have a very long process and bureaucracy they have to go through. So, but I'm hopeful they can speed us up a little bit because it's not a full-blown study. A full-blown study would have taken many months, may maybe a year. So, we're trying to get something done immediately, and I'd love to see them revisit a full study, but I'm afraid they're going to tell Belleview the same thing that they said last time. And so far, I don't think Bellev wants to do that from what I understand.

Well, the 2013 study was done by Cardinal Engineering under contract with the initial developer of Manhattan Harbor development, the whole riverfront development. and had projections in there for x number of homes or residences, how the traffic flow would be. Uh, but that was done not by the state. It was done by a private contractor contracted by the developer. Well, I thought the state was before my time. I thought the state had done one, too. Yeah, I put I put a copy of it in your I saw I saw I thought that was done by the developer, but I thought the state maybe did one as well, but the state did not do a not that I'm aware of. I I stand corrected then. I thought that was the state.

They should be. Sorry. allergies, but they should be checking the same attributes that the state would check. So, they're going to check your, you know, you'll get a, you know, a letter grade of, you know, your intersections and stuff, you know, and then it can be a different letter grades at different times of the day. Yeah. You know, that that stoplight at Riviera was hit by a car, a truck or something, and it was out of service for a while and when it came back, it never quite was as good as it was before. I'm sure we also have more traffic now because of the development, but I think they need to really look at that and see if they can get it closer to what it was before that traffic light was was damaged. That was a bad time.

Yeah, real bad. So, yeah. So, they are looking at it now and so hopefully they can come up find some, you know, some solutions. It won't be the panacea that we would like, you know, make it flow better like they was proposed, but it'll maybe help a little bit. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Christian. Have a good night.

Just put a roundabout there. Be a great place for roundabout. But two of them take some properties. One at 471 and one at River. Well, property would be catch and cut or whatever they want to call it. That's all property. Yeah. Anyh who, that's a Frank Waro question. Frank, we're coming. And Newport, that's right there on the border. That's true. Any other audience, comments, questions, concerns for city administration, staff, council, public, internet. All right. Uh, go ahead and close that. Uh, do we have any new business for the evening?

Oh, I do. Sorry again for my voice here. Um this uh on the uh 21st will be the annual Dayton Eagles 1285 chili cookoff. It starts at 2:00. Rick is helping us with getting some judges together for it. But yes, if you think you got the best chili in in Dayton, come on. Bringing bring it on down. What was that date again? The 21st. Okay. Of March. Yep. March 21st. part it too. Excellent. 21st. Come and try my chili and decide why I'm the winner. Actually, I'm not that good at chili though.

Um I I would like to also uh have a couple things here. One is um I'd like to add a standing agenda item for committee updates if at all possible. Um and I'd like what's that? I asked Miss Klein to put down the agenda. Noting.

Look at that action on the moment. I like it. Um, and the other thing is I'd like to give committee updates. So, um, one of them is that the finance committee currently only has one citizen member. So, I'd like to source, uh, and advertise for more citizen members of the finance committee. Um, I don't know what the status is so far on the marketing group, if they've met yet or or what the plan is there, but um, if we can try and get a little more encouragement for the finance committee because our one citizen member will become a city council member um, at the end of the year. So, uh, we definitely need to recruit more for the finance group. Um, and then, uh, on the sports side of things, uh, we have added another member, Tara. Thank you for joining. Um she's going to help lead some of the the running groups that we're going to get started here in the city of Dayton. Uh one of them already exists. Uh they meet at Elliot Coffee on Wednesday mornings at 6:15 a.m. So if anybody's a runner, uh or if you just want to do a jog or a walk, I'm sure they'll welcome you as well. U but they meet at Elliot Coffee at 6:15 a.m. on Wednesdays. Um I know um at the uh park board meeting there was discussion about uh potential disc golf courses being put in somewhere around the city. And then um also uh we had heard from Dayton school um students not too long ago about interest in sand volleyball. Um so those are all things that I think we should keep in mind coming into the budget season um for consideration. Thank you very much. Any other new business for council?

Believe it or not, I do really. I know yours, sir.

I know it's strange, but an answer to your um comment on the committees. Uh the first meeting of the communications and marketing committee is tomorrow night at 700 p.m. right here. Um the activities board, the civic activities board is meeting here at 6:00. We'll be meeting here at 7. And it'll be pretty much an open format to plan how we're going to move forward with this. Jared's going to give a report on um the tools currently in place and some statistics there. So, tomorrow night at 7 is the first committee meeting.

Perfect. And uh has any other council member um shown interest in joining just as a an audience member for that? Um as far as I know you can any citizen can attend one of these meetings. They just uh there's a limitation with the open records with more than uh more than three committee member three council members being but yeah absolutely you can come as as a an attendee not a committee member and that and that's my concern. I'm interested in showing up, but I don't I want to make sure that we don't have four council members there. Right. You're not taking any action. So, it's all recommendations. Okay.

Um after the last committee, like we can go like I don't have to participate. Like if I go is just and there's four of us as long as I'm not actively doing anything. You can sit back and watch, observe, whatever it may. Yeah. Yeah. Come on down. It's It should be fun to get some of these ideas out there. And um do we have a post on Facebook? Uh you've already made an agenda which is pretty basic at this point. Yeah, the agenda has been posted in the the post will be on Facebook tonight. Great. Thank you. And it has been posted on the city calendar, too.

That's all, sir. All right. Thank you, Commissioner. We do. That was on my update, but thanks for bringing it up. It's going to be on the 28th. We're going to have the Easter egg hunt down at Gillland Park. So, bring the kids, find some eggs. Uh, you know, always a couple golden eggs out there. We're also going to do the golden egg hunt, Jared. Uh, throughout the season. Uh, so you'll you'll see some stuff up out on our website about uh in social media, I'm sure, about golden eggs hidden out throughout the city. So come out, find yourself a couple bucks, maybe some uh Dayton dollars uh to spend at many of our fine restaurants. So the 28th on the Easter egg hunt and throughout the season for the gold egg hunt.

What time is that? Uh 2:00 2. So like last time we had the strategic planning session, we'll have to take a break because that's the same day as strategic planning session. So uh we'll take a break the session and come back and finish up. Just one of the many duties of city council. I was going to say, how long is that break? Cuz I know he reached out to me today for volunteering like they need a little bit of help. How long you need? So the event starts at 2. So are do we get like an hour off to 10:9 and then come back or how's that working? That's what we did last time. Okay. So about an hour.

I mean, you can always have as much time as you need for the kids. We're never going to say, "Well, she's too much late." Just let us know whatever you need and uh we'll make it happen. Any other new business? All right. Uh we do actually have a reason for executive session this evening pursuant to KRS61.8101 Charlie. Miss Klein, discussions of proposed or pending litigation against or on behalf of the public agency. Right. All right. I need a motion to accept uh or motion to go into executive session. I'll make the motion. Ladies first. I'll second. All right. Motion's been made. Second's been made. All in favor? I

I All right. Seen you and your wife.

Yeah, sure.