City Council - Regular Meeting

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Ladies and gentlemen, where is my gavvel? There it is over here. Not in its normal spot. I'd like to welcome everybody to today's April 14th, 2026 City of Dayton regular city council meeting. Uh typically I would ask Tristan Klein to give us the roll call. However, she's off for city clerk training because we love when our employees train. So, she's down there doing that. So, filling in herstead would be Jared Barks. Jared, roll call, please. Member Horton, present. Member Ner here. Member Neman here. Member Kelly here. Member Jud here. Member Leven. City attorney Edmonson here. City Administrator Faucet here. Mayor Baker

here. Member Loveven gave us a a reason to not be here, so she's excused. Appreciate everybody else. Uh, next up will be a moment of silence and will be pledged allegiance to the flag. To the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible justice for all.

Thank you very much. Next up on the mayor's report, couple things. Uh both are kind of enjoyable. Uh first thing is we are entering into golf cart season. As we all know, golf carts are are legal and we enjoy seeing them around town as they go through Dayton. Uh however, you need to make sure that your golf cart is kept up to code. So, make sure you're speaking with city hall and you'd be happy to get you a new registration number for your cart and uh display that proudly. Second on my report will be on April 26. I had a young man named Alex who was uh here in Dayton. he's he's newly in Dayton and he reached out to me and he wanted to do a a litter cleanup type event which sounds like a pretty fun little event. So, I worked with him and also the Rotary uh Rotary International on uh building a day. Okay. So, that's going to be April 26th on uh walking around town with little grabbers and uh we'll pick up trash, we'll pick up cigarette butts or whatever. And uh we'll all meet at 10:30, I'm sorry, 9:45 for a 10 a.m. kickoff at uh the Liquor King over in uh on 6th Avenue and around 2:00 we'll stop for a pizza party. So, if you're available, please stop by. And if you have ideas like this, it's really cool that this guy brought this up to us and said, "Hey, let's do this in the community." We're open for those ideas. We want to promote them. And uh please please let us know what you're thinking. Uh those are the only two things I have on my mayor's report for this month, which brings us to the approval of minutes for March 10th, 2026. Do I have a motion to approve?

I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from March 10th, 2026. Member Kelly's made a motion to approve. Do I have a second? I'll second. Member Ner's made a second. All in favor? I I. Any nays? Any abstensions? The eyes have it. Next up will be our presentations. We have a couple of different folks tonight to present. First be Honk Housing Authority or Oper Opportunities of Northern Kentucky. How you doing, sir? Good. Great. Thank you.

Welcome. So, my name is David Hastings. I'm the director of Honk. Appreciate the opportunity to be with you all this evening. Want to tell you a little bit about our nonprofit. Uh we are a faith-based nonprofit organization. Um our goal is home ownership. So, we help folks get into home ownership who are otherwise struggling to do that on their own. We serve Campbell, Kenton, and Boone counties. We rehab houses, we build houses here in Northern Kentucky and we make them affordable with the help of volunteers and the generosity of folks in our wonderful community here. We have a a lease to own program so folks um have an opportunity to live in the house, get used to the payments and what it takes to take care of that particular house um before they buy it. So, uh we have a full-time housing counselor um who works with them for 12 to 18 months. That's our timeline. Goal is home ownership within 12 to 18 months. Um for home ownership, that's a relatively short timeline. So we need folks who are have some ability, some capacity um to make that work. Um but it works. Our program works. um our housing counselor works with each one of our folks um while they're living in the home and even leading up to the point where before they're getting into their home on getting them home ownership ready. Um so she works on improving credit um other and addressing any other barriers that might be in the way of getting to home ownership, walks them through the home buying process which can be daunting uh for a lot of folks. Uh we have now helped 119 um households in Northern Kentucky achieve home ownership and a lot of these folks are not only firsttime home buyers but many are the first generation in their family to own a home. Uh so we're very proud of that uh that we're

making the generational changes um that can help folks um move on to the next stage in their life. Um these uh the folks that we serve are our teachers. They're our public works employees. They're our electricians, our nurses, folks that keep our cities running. Uh we have a home currently available in Dayton. Um it's ready. Uh we need a we need a family for that, a household for that. Um house, great house.

Um and we want to do more in Dayton. Um we're hoping to build on some momentum. Uh we we are stretched a little thin being three countywide um as a nonprofit and when we're able to build and do more in certain areas then we can build on that. Um you know if we're doing one house here, one house there, it's a little bit more challenging but if we can do one, two, three, four, five in a neighborhood in a city, it starts to build on itself. Um so we're looking to do more of that in Dayton. Uh, as you all know, I'm preaching to the choir. Dayton's got a lot to offer. A wonderful, uh, down payment assistance program through the home consortium. Um, so a lot of reasons why people want to and should be wanting to to become a homeowner here in Dayton. To um, apply for our program. Um, I always encourage folks to go to our website, which is honkomes.org. Um, people can look at our eligibility guidelines right on there. You click on apply, you can see the eligibility stuff, fill out the application right online, comes immediately to us. Um, and we're pretty good at responding quickly. We'll often have some follow-up questions. Um, and we move forward from there. Um, but again, we want to do more in Dayton and we have an opportunity. So, I'm I'm one of my reasons for coming out tonight was just to share what we do. You know, we aren't here all of the time. Um, so, uh, I encourage all of you to reach back out to me. I've got some materials that I'm going to attempt to pass out here. Um, and then I'm going to tell you about a couple of other things, what else we're up to. Um, if I've got a couple more minutes.

Yep. Okay. I can pass them out for you. Awesome. This is our uh, just general brochure, basic information. um we often future clients um but it's a

a barebones overview of our program. We are also involved uh in a very unique car collection in Erlanger. Um it's collection 21. Um there's a it's an individual it's a privately owned collection over 250 vehicles um vintage antique cars, trucks 1903 up until the 1980s. Um 100% of the donations made at the front door support this work. Um the home ownership opportunities that we create. Uh it's $15 donation. Um we're open on Fridays and Saturdays at 10 in the morning. Let the last folks in at 3. Uh it's entirely staffed um there by volunteers. Um and the owner doesn't keep any of the uh donations that come in. He's got a little bit of overhead. Um, but he passes on everything um to to our organization to make home ownership affordable for folks in Northern Kentucky. Um, I've got a few brochures on that and Erin, I won't ask you to do this to

No, I doubt you.

Um, we also have uh a fundraising event coming up May 1st. Um, house to home is what work is the name of it. So, part of the work that we do is transforming houses into homes. Um, but it's really about the people that we're helping um to achieve home ownership. So, we'll have got live music. It's at Braxton Brewing on May 1st. That's a Friday from 6:00 to 9:00. Um, we'd love to have more representation from folks in Dayton. Um, there uh it's a ticketed event. Um, because it's a fundraiser. Um, tickets can be found on our website, honkomes.org. There's an event tab on there. Um, we'll also be raffling off. We've got a complete set of papies. um Papy Van Winkles bourbon. Uh so it's the six bottle set. Um so we're raffling that off that evening. You don't have to come to the event to participate in that raffle. Um but it's another opportunity to um support affordable home ownership here in Northern Kentucky. Um I've got a few flyers on that, but I can always you don't need to keep getting up and down. I can leave those with Jared um as I part. But does anybody have questions while you have me?

So, the house that you have in Dayton that's available, is that the one at 7th and Dayton Avenue? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Did a great job on that.

Thank you. We're proud of that one. And and you know, I So, yeah, it it's available. Um we'd love to find the right fit um for that. And you know, uh, it's it is one of those things like once you start having one homeowner, two homeowners, you know, people start to know you. Honestly, a lot of people have found us over the years, word of mouth. I mean, it's unfortunate and that's one reason why I'm here that we are not well enough known in Northern You either know us or you don't. So, um, but a lot of our folks come word of mouth and if you know, we've we've done we have one other homeowner in Dayton. Um, we've, you know, so I I want to I want to grow that. We This is a perfect place for people to be um establishing roots. So, yes, it's that home at at um 6007th Avenue is the address.

Yeah. So, the home that So, the home that you have available, you have a list of people that

we have a waiting list. Um and for whatever reason, you know, the waiting list is an odd thing. So, um what we do at Honk is we approve people for our home ownership program. Usually folks aren't like, "Oh, I want that particular house." You know, it is they're buying into I want to be a homeowner. Let's see if we can get the timing. Because almost well, really everybody that's in our program, they're coming from a rental situation. So, they're in a lease. And so, a lot of it depends on the timing. Um, and we occasionally struggle if we finish a house, you know, in the winter and then, um, you know, there's less fewer people that are moving in the winter. But um that one is available for our lease to own program. So somebody would have an opportunity for you know a year, year and a half to live in it, get used to it. They pay utilities. We set the monthly payment to look like what their future mortgage will look like. So it's really like home ownership practice before they um before they have to commit to a long-term loan um for it. But um yeah, so the we do have a waiting list, but for whatever reason the folks on our waiting list and and again part of this comes down to the the details of when's their lease up when you know they want to stay in the same school system, you know, so it's um there's a lot of nuance to it, but um but honestly like we don't have someone right now. So this would be a fast one if you know of anybody.

So you're looking for somebody who qualifies. Yeah. Qualification. Um, the easiest thing to tell you is it's on our website. There's a few of them in this brochure. If you go to honkomes.org, click apply. The the the income guidelines that you're going to see in that brochure, that's the cap. And like that's a pretty generous cap. It's the same guidelines that the um that the down payment assistance through the Northern Kentucky Home Consortium. So any home buyers, we use that same criteria. We try to mirror that so it's seamless because a lot of our folks need those funds to be able to make it work. So that's the cap. I don't recall what the minimum is. Um it's um I should have done my should have relooked at at the details.

Yes, thank you. That that would be the annual for a household of one. Um so honestly most people calling us I don't usually need to even talk about the cap because most people calling us that need a home, you know, are are below that. Uh we're used to working with folks that are 60% of the area median income. for those that know those um stats. But um so you price the house like below market.

Yeah, we used to try before things got turned upside down to try not to undercut market values, but this is a different world. So yeah, it is it's well below market rate. Um it's a fully rehabbed house. Um, I wish I could remember how much the sales price and how much the lease to own price is, but um, you know, it people are going to come in with instant equity. I'll just say that, you know, my, uh, kids have had friends take advantages when they graduate from college. They're not working a job. They're not in their profession yet. So, they have a income that qualifies and then they get a job, but once they qualify, they're they're good, right? Yep.

Yep. that and that's a great um that I would think a lot of cities would want, you know, you want to retain folks and keep folks in the city. That's a great way to do it. We do see a wide range of, you know, we've got people from all age groups, all kinds, all household types. I often throw the word families out, but it's it's all households um including individuals. We have some individual homeowners as well. Um but thank you. Excellent, David. Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions for for uh David? Any extra? All right. Well, thank you for your service to the community, sir. This is very important. We love it. Thank you, mayor. Thanks, David.

Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have uh our green devils, the Dayton Independent Students. We have a project citizen, Mr. Wolf. How are you today, sir? I'm doing well. How are you doing? Well, good to see you. Good. I'm good to see you. Good to see you guys this evening.

I'm going to take about a second of your time, then I'm going to pass it over to these two wonderful uh young ladies. So, um this young lady right here is Miss Fugate. She's a teacher that's new to us this year, and she came and brought with her something that uh it's called Project Citizen. And so, it's new to the state of Kentucky. And um she has a class, a project citizen class. And what happened with that class is um while they get this ready is they all year were preparing to present something at the state competition. All right. And they're going to share what their what their um topic was. But they have interviewed many different people. They actually met with um Mr. Faucet. They met with Mr. Lucas.

They met with Mr. Horton. They met with Kelly Ripen from Channel 5. Good hands right there. Channel 5. They met with NKU's president. Chief, I think they met with the chief. Yes. They met with many, many different people. Um, and it's a class that has 11 young ladies. And this this young lady right here, who she's not going to brag on herself enough, but um she is a senior. She will be attending Berea College next year. She is excellent, wonderful young lady. Um, and it was a whole team effort. Um,

unfort not unfortunately, fortunately for her, but the other 10 were unable to attend. They have other events and activities tonight, but Haley will be here. But they, this group of young ladies and Miss Fugate won the state championship in the in the their competition. So, of all the schools that participated, they were the state champs. And so, I'm going to let them share a little bit with you. Um, and thank you guys for allowing us to be here tonight. Thank you, sir.

Just a brief introduction to what the class is. Hold on, let me get my note card. Our project system class had to come up with a public policy, which just means coming up with a solution to a problem in our community, um, which can be solved by the government. We competed against four other schools at the Kentucky Historical Society for who has the best policy, and we won first place. All right. As you can see, congrats. Gold, we So, we won state um and we will be going to nationals, which um is in California. That's pretty cool. Congratulations.

Um we first wanted to choose drug use and needle use, but after taking a walk around Dayton, our class discovered that litter and lighting was the main problem. That is why it is called lighting up the litter. as you can see. So, what class had people want to hear?

I'm sorry. The class had to identify a problem in the community that they thought could be solved through public policy. And as Haley stated, they chose it's it's a a dual litter but lighting uh with the thought that if there was more lighting and people could see where trash cans were perhaps they would utilize them. Um so the girls had divided they were divided into four groups. One group had to after the class voted on the problem, one group had to start researching that problem. Another group researched alternatives. The third group proposed the policy. Uh and the policy they chose to propose was to have kind of like at at Disney uh have lighting on the trash can. So, and and it could be solar lighting. So when the sun goes down, the trash can is well lit. Uh and then uh the fourth group came up with a plan of action. Um they had to uh develop a portfolio. Uh in the portfolio is all their research. They had an annotated bibliography of the research. Um I have a pen on. They made pins lighting up the litter and they made bumper stickers that say lighting up the litter. Um, and I will say I'm just I'm so proud of these girls and and I'm so proud of Haley. Haley stepped up. Um, the state coordinator talked to me after the competition and told me what pushed our girls over the top was their verbal

skills and uh, the way they analyzed and answered questions. Uh, because some of the other schools had also well researched and had annotated bibliographies and all that, but our girls were well spoken. So I I think that's amazing. If you guys would like to come up and look at the um our boards, you can. Yeah. Um it definitely tell us more information on what our policy is. What are the highlights? Like on the first one with the problem. The highlights the problem we were just talking about the problem. My group was so

Okay. Anna, can can you speak? Can you both speak there so people at home can hear? That's right. That's hard.

I will tell you guys, they came up with a survey that they put on a Google classroom. They had uh teachers and staff at Dayton uh take the survey as well as students at Dayton. So, some of what you see will be um the result of surveys. Um but each board is one of the groups. So, you've got the problem, you've got the alternatives, you've got the proposed policy. Um and I think our bumper sticker is on the proposed policy and the plan of action. Um and they looked at all kinds of things. They they looked at things that the city of Lello had done. Um then like I say even like Disney all over um they researched uh cost and um whether or not it it was something that could be implemented. They they did a very thorough job. I'm very proud of them.

That's awesome. And I I will one more thing I will say um they get to compete on a national level um in California in July. Um Project Citizen is a national um it's through the center for civic education nationally. Statewide it's through the McConnell Center. Um Kentucky was one of six states nationwide that entered the pilot program. Um so it's it's a it's a pretty big deal. Uh the McConnell Center has recognized them as well.

I would tell you that since you all brought this to our attention, the city's been talking to Duke Energy about building some new lighting in the different areas of the city. And so we've got some proposals this week actually on it. And so you've already made a difference in that regard. So we're looking at Dayton Pikes along um Berry Street and some additional lighting on Manhattan Boulevard where the trails are. So we also are talking to our manufacturer of of garbage cans about how we can light them up, too. So um we're still in discussions about that, but those are great ideas. We wouldn't probably done that without you guys coming forward.

That's awesome. Thank you. Thank you for telling us. This is great, Haley. Thank you so much for for for the whole team.

We're proud that you brought the gold home to Dayton. That's really really cool. Uh I hope to see you guys on the 26th when we work on the litter issue. It's a Sunday. Sunday. Yes. 9 basically 10 to 2. And lastly, we're I'm a Berea family. So, uh, good for you. If you ever want to to to chat with anybody, my wife is a Bura grad and she'd love to talk to you and give you the lay of the land. Go Mountaineers. Ben, what was that date? What was the date?

Oh, uh, the date, I'm sorry, is I believe it's the 26. April 26th, uh, 9:45 to 2:30. Uh uh six and and uh thanks. Okay. Thanks.

I would just like to say one more thing. I so appreciate all the help that you guys gave us. I mean coming and speaking and meeting with these girls informally. Um, and it was one of the things that put them over the top is they told the judges, "We started looking at this issue and then we realized it wasn't an issue and meeting with people from Dayton City helped us get there."

So, thank you. Can we thank you for um putting this on too because it bringing this to our city and bringing this to our attention was great and offering the girls the resources to have like the president of ENKU to speak and come to Dayton and come to the classroom that's intangible things and appreciate you for facilitating that. Thank you Devils. You guys are the best.

We really really have a great relationship with the the schools. They're the best. Next up on the uh docket, it's actually not on the docket, uh but I believe we have a couple folks here in the audience that uh they might be on the ballot and it's election season. We have a primary coming up here in May. Uh then of course the general election in November. Uh so if anybody in the crowd is uh on the ballot for the upcoming election and you'd like to introduce yourself, uh the floor is yours.

Right. Uh thank you. Um, my name is Andy Shavel and I'm running for Campbell County Judge Executive in the Republican primary on May 19th. Um, pardon me. I'm currently the mayor of Alexandria. I'm in my second term as mayor of Alexandria. I previously served three terms on Alexandria City Council. Prior to that, I was a volunteer firefighter and nationally registered emergency medical technician. I have a bachelor's degree in police administration. Um I am for my day job I work as a corporate transportation manager for Darling Ingredients in Cold Spring. I've done transportation and logistics has been like my life the last 25 plus years. So um you know I'm Campbell County resident. I have um responded to 911 calls. I've seen the pressure that's under our um emergency responders. As mayor, I've dealt with the budgets for our police departments as well as learning how the police departments work in college and I understand roads and traffic like nobody else does. So, I think that's a pretty good um resume, you know, for a judge executive. I just wanted to stop down tonight and just, you know, tell you thank you for what you do. As I said, I was on council and mayor, so I I appreciate what you do and let you know I know where Dayton is. I know that you guys are here. You know, my sister works for the school system. Um my actually Gil Lynn the the park right down there. He's my great uncle.

Oh really? Okay. Yeah. That's awesome.

His his wife and my grandma were sisters. Um so I understand the history of Dayton, Kentucky. Um also a part-time resident of Dayton, Kentucky. We have a boat that's currently on bricks in uh at um Riverside Marina. And Buzz and Debbie are two of the hardest working people I've ever met. You know, Buzz puts boats in 9:00 am to 900 pm every day. I think they are a great symbol of what Dayton is. Hardworking, good people. Um, and then during the summer, we keep it at Manhattan Harbor and I'm here every weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. My wife's here a lot, but she doesn't stay on the boat as much as I do. Kids come down. We spend our money in Dayton. We go to the restaurants here. We walk on the flood wall. Um, so if elected judge executive, I will be a very good partner with the city of Dayton. You know, I think it's important that the county and the cities work together. You you know that firsthand. Um in Alexandria during my eight years, we have maintained balanced budgets every single year. We've had clean audits every single year. We've completely redone our playgrounds, added pickle ball courts, and we're building a brand new state-of-the-art city building. Um it's going to have a city building, community center, and a police department. It's not going to be the Taj Mahal. It's going to be very functional, but it will it will serve the residents of Alexandria for the next 75 or more years. So, I'd like to take my experiences at the city level and bring them to the county level. So, I I want to make one thing very clear tonight. Um May 19th is the primary for this position. There are no Democrats running. There are no independents running for this position. So, whoever wins the primary on May 19th will be the next judge executive. That's a Republican primary. It's a closed primary system in Kentucky. I didn't make those rules, but um you know, if you're a Republican, we'd appreciate if you get out there and and give us your support. So, I appreciate you giving me just a couple minutes of your time tonight. I'd be happy to answer any of your questions or I'll be here after the

meeting. Does anybody have questions for mayor? Could you say that last part again? Are you you're running unopposed? No, no, I'm running there. My opponent is also a Republican. Gotcha. That's it. So, whoever wins this will effectively be the Campbell County judge exe. Okay. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. No, it's probably me, but whatever. Good. I'm glad to repeat that because it's important. Anything else? Any other questions from the mayor? All right. Thank you all. Thank you, sir. Thank you for addressing our council. Anybody else? Mr. Owens, how you doing tonight, sir?

Doing well. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, council members, city officials. My name is Brandt Owens. I'm a lifelong county Campbell County resident. currently live in Newport, grew up in Belleview. Uh the River Cities are my home. Um I'm running for county commissioner as a Democrat. I do not have a primary. I will be on the ballot on November 3rd against the incumbent. Uh I'm running because I think that the county government should be doing more not only for the river cities, but for the county as a whole. Uh it's been a long time of unanimous votes. uh lack of transparency, lack of accountability, and I feel like that there's a county commissioner that represents a river city, that person should be showing up and working with the river cities to make sure that they and the entire county as a whole prosper. We're running on uh strong cities, smart suburbs, and rural conservation. Campbell County is not one community. It's a mixture of three different types of communities. Each have their own needs, but by working together, we can address those needs and strengthen each other. So, come November 3rd, I would appreciate your vote, um, your support. If you want to learn more about me, you can go to brand oowens.com. That's my first name, browens.com. My contact information is there. More than happy to have a cup of coffee with anybody that wants to learn more about me. Uh, or shoot me an email, give me a text. But I do appreciate the time tonight. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And, uh, I'll let you get back to your meeting. Thank you.

Anybody have any questions for Mr. Owens? Are you up in a primary? There is no Democratic primary. So, okay. It's just me against the incumbent Republican until uh November 3rd. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Mr. Owens. Thank you. Any other candidates out there? Donna. All right. She's she's yielding the floor and that's okay. All right. Well, I I really J.

Oh, yeah. Mr. FY. Well, that's a different city, different county. same state. Uh I really appreciate uh you guys showing up tonight and uh and addressing our council. Uh it's important to for us to get to know our representatives and uh we only have one meeting left until the primary many before the the general. So if anybody else is out there and they want to address council, floor is open. Uh you guys are welcome to stick around for what I'm sure is going to be an exciting meeting. Uh you're welcome to leave your choice. Next up on the docket is open to public comments regarding any legislative items on tonight's agenda. So if you have anything you want to comment on the ordinances uh that are coming up on tonight's agenda, the floor is yours. Uh if not, there is a spot at the end of the meeting for general comments. Does anybody want to address about tonight's agenda? I don't see anybody bumrushing the stage, so we're go ahead and move that along. Uh, first up on the dock, it's going to be the first reading ordinance 2026-3. Mr. Barks,

an ordinance amending sections 158.01 through 158.12 of chapter 158 of the city of Dayton, Kentucky code of ordinances relating to reasonable accommodations in residential neighborhoods.

So, a couple years ago, we passed this ordinance to deal with sober living facilities and other similar type facilities. We'd had some issues with one um so we felt we needed to put some regulations in place trying to regulate it. There are a lot of complications with this because you have uh Americans with disabilities issues and things like that. So this ordinance was passed to reflect all that. Um and so we had it in place for a couple years but then legislature uh came in and enacted their own state law now that requires these types of organizations to be registered and certified through the state. So, um, the Camp County Planning and Zoning Commission told me or, um, Cindy Mintor told me that there might be another person interested in coming into the city to do one of these facilities. So I felt we needed to update our ordinance to reflect the new state law and to you know state law controls over city laws to make sure that it's clear that these are our rules but if they conflict with the city with the state laws that the state laws would control and that that the second the city's ordinance would be secondary to those laws. But uh so that's what this is all about. So we're just trying to beef this up. Uh and also to make sure they understand there's a state law which requires certification. In the past that wasn't required. So, you had a lot of people doing this these facilities that weren't really qualified and that's helps. That's what we pushed in the legislature to try to get some of that certification language approved which was done. So, we're just adding that to our ordinance and and cleaning up a few other things. This is first reading. Won't need to vote on it until the next meeting.

Excellent. Again, this is the first reading. So you guys have 30 days, 31 days, I'm not sure what month it is to ponder how many questions you may have. Next up is another first reading. It's ordinance 2026-4. Mr. Barks, please. an ordinance amending chapter 95 of the city of Dayton, Kentucky code of ordinances to prohibit the use of certain motorized vehicles in Jamestown Pike Park and Riverfront Commons except for authorized low-speed electric bikes, scooters, and skateboards.

As you may remember, a couple months ago, we enacted an ordinance changing um the ordinance to to restrict the type of um motorized vehicles going to be used in Sergeant Park. So we had the new trails there and we had people riding motorbikes and things on there which were inappropriate with people using regular bikes or you know walking the trails. So we wanted to make sure that we prohibited and limited the types of vehicles that could be used on those trails. So now though, we are in the process of finishing up Riverfront Commons Trail and also um we're looking at doing a new trail in Jamestown Pike um park. And so we thought, well, why don't we add those two as well to this? Uh and the other thing came up was about electric bikes. And I have electric bikes, so I'm a little biased here, but do you allow them on the trails? Well, Riverfront Commons was designed for bikes and walkers and that's why it's such a wide trail. So, you can have, you know, and it and but you can't let some electric bikes are too fast. So, what I did was some research and I looked at what does the national parks require and they allow low-speed electric bikes in their parks. So, I thought why don't we just adopt the same standard here? You can't use you know gasoline powered bikes and also there's some limitations on the um what to say the wattage cannot exceed 750 watts. So it's basically class one, class 2 and class 3 ebikes which is described in federal uh statute 15 USC 2085. Those are the same standards we're going to have on our trails to allow those bikes, but not anything that are high speed or above those speeds. So, that's what we're trying to do. And um I know that um South Bank Partners is wants to allow electric bikes on the trails. There's a lot of people now that using electric bikes, a lot of folks that are older like me that um those hills aren't as easy to get up as they used to be.

So, u they're very helpful. But you got to be careful even if you're using electric bikes and you have to be slow down and be cognizant of the people on the trails. So that's why we're doing it. Again, first reading. Thank you, sir. I have a question. So for a low-speed bike, how fast does it go? I think it's generally under 30 miles an hour. So under 30. Yeah, I think that that's pretty low speed. 25 miles per hour throughout the city.

25 max. But you got to you got to be pumping pretty hard and have it in full on. You got five different gears, one through five on most electric bikes. The fifth one is the one that makes it the pedal assist the easiest. So if you got that on and you're pumping really hard, you might get to 25 miles an hour, but you got to be working pretty hard or you're going down a hill, you could What's that? What's that, right? But you're not going to go 25 unless you're really strong. So, and going downhill usually. So, that's the max. 25 got the max. So, it's um but that's the the highest level. The others that only go about 10 miles an hour and you know somewhere in between.

So, they're called electric scooters, right? The ones we've been talking about the kids are they're called ebikes. Okay. Ebike. Electric scooters are another thing and they're allowed on the trail too, but they're generally not as fast there. There are some that are getting faster and you have to watch make sure they don't get too fast. But you have to be cognizant of other people on the trail and share the trail. Okay. So, so okay. Um, most of the trails in Jamestown Park and in Sergeant Park are generally for mountain bikes and you'll see those there, but I don't see a lot of electric bikes going up there. You might be some people that do it, but they're not really designed for that type of trail trail travel.

Uh quick quick question as well. So, uh as far as wheelchairs are electric wheelchairs, do they fall into this category at all? No, I I think that they're allowed I mean ADA requires us to allow those anyway, but they won't reach any speeds that are talked about here. They're I I want one of those. Yeah, I want a chair that hit about 30. they're permitted and and I guess my second question was uh in these parks or is is there plans to have um wheelchair access to these these different areas as well?

So we so the the trail on the river is completely um wheelchair accessible ADA accessible from both Manhattan I mean um of Allen and also off of Manhattan behind the apartments. We are also have plans to do an ADA accessible ramp in the middle of that trail off of Berry Street right here which would go down. So there's currently a ramp that goes up that FC1 put in to service the outfall sewer outfall there. It's not ADA accessible and once the trails done completely we're we're going to put some ballards there and the signage that says it's not ADA appropriate. So um but there is accessibility on both ends and and hopefully one day soon there will be one in the middle as well.

Thank you. Great questions. Again, this is the first reading, so you have uh 30 or 31 days to to have more questions. Next up, uh I do not believe we have any orders or resolutions tonight on the docket. So, that's going to take us directly to our department director's monthly reports. So, Miss Patterson, ladies first, if you'd like to uh give us your report. It's that time of year. Grass is growing. Paint's chipping. Grass is growing. Paint is chipping. Um, you have a copy of my report. And I just wanted to go over a couple things. First, we are having our spring cleanup. Um, the 23rd through the 25th.

26th. Uh, 26th. Is it? Yeah, we're doing so 23rd is start of it. 26 culmination. Okay. In writing um of April. Yes.

Okay. Yes. Um, there will be dumpsters at the public works building, 9007th Avenue. We ask no paint, liquids, tires, or hazardous materials. There is a camera there, so we will kind of keep an eye on that. Um, I'd also like to say that grass is growing. Um, I would like to remind people that you're responsible from the curb in. So, while you're cutting your grass, please pull the weeds in your sidewalks. Um, if there's litter in the in the gutter, we ask that you pick that up. Um, I mean, just in front of your house, you know, it makes it so much easier on everybody else. Also, um, a reminder, it seems like there's been quite a bit of cloth items sitting out, mattresses, sofas, things like that. We do sell the covers in our office

for cheap for $3. I was told today they're 18 at Lowe's. So, and mentioned that Rumpy won't pick it up unless they're covered.

They will not they will not pick it up unless it's covered. Anything with cloth they will not pick up. If you do have a large pickup and things are wrapped, I'd advise to call Rumkey and just let them know. Um they do do special pickups. Some trucks have, you know, or a oneman show and they'll have another truck come and meet them and the two of them will lift things and put it in the um in the truck. So, just a couple things to remind people that we all work together. It makes life easier. Do you have any questions? Anybody?

Do we still years ago we had a project or a deal with Sherwin Williams? I think we're dating because I think a lot of people are going to be starting to paint their properties. What is that uh deal with Sherwin Williams? I forget the exact code word. Uh it's Dayton. What is it? Dayton. Dayton. I can't believe I forgot that code word. So, the code word is Dayton. And if you go to Sheron Williams, I always go to the one in Southgate uh uh right next to the subway, I believe, or witch doctor. And uh yeah, you get I think 10 or 15% off a gallon of paint in Sherman Williams. I don't think I don't know if I'm allowed to promote one, but that's that's fine paint, sir. Mhm. Thank you. Sure.

All right, that's it. Thank you. I have a question. Yes. Can you make a recommendation on all the uh cans of paint, old toxic whatever in the garages, mine included? Like where you go to What's your question, Beth? No. Really? No. Where to get rid of old paint? Really, no one will take it. What? Really, no one's going to take it in liquid form. You have to put sawdust or they um cat litter. Cat litter. Cat litter. Um some sort of hardeners that you can put in there from Lowe's or Home Depot. There's stuff from the last owner that we just stare at like rose. I don't know. I had that problem. They won't take it while it's liquid. What What does everybody do? Sneak and pour it into the

Not at all. Not at all. Uh no. What I do is I I use cat litter. I go to the dollar. Uh other things you can't use cat litter. It's not going to solidify like like toxic. Oh no, that I don't know that. So you don't know of any facility they get. Okay. Now Camel County does a collection. I don't know if paint's all lab where they take electronics and things like they don't accept paint. Okay. Okay. Yeah, you're right. I I know I leave it out and get it solid, but like these other weird things Yeah. that I don't know where to Okay. Yep. All right. Thank you. On fire. lights fire. That's nice.

Thank you, Miss Patterson. Since we're on the topic of of spring cleaning, why don't we go ahead and ask Mr. Lucas for his report because he is a spring cleaner of Dayton. Well, as usual, we've been busy, but um we um we've been taking down we took down the trees on Dayton Pike that Duke would not take down for us. Oh, you got that down? Yep. Took it down today. Good. power line. Yep. Nobody lost her electric or anything like that. Her leg. I'm worried about that.

But no, we got that down today. Uh we mulched everything in the city except for the city building. We're waiting for Jared to make up what he wants to do up there before he do any mulching up there. Uh we mulch the trees on 6th Avenue and Main Street. uh malt skilland park all the trees and around all the other you know areas and we cut the flood wall for the first time last week and it's already ready to go for this weekend probably. Uh we cut back Dayton Pike today and signs on the walking trail so it lets people know if the walking trail is closed or not. Uh that's just temporary until the construction's gone. And um couple things about Gilen Park. We did put had uh more lights put in as I was showing Jay.

Yeah, the shelters lit up a lot lot better now. Uh we'll have the um motion detector on the bathrooms when they come in. New lights with a flag pole and we have to put two new lights under the shelter and that'll complete that area. And then we have three lights out on a small softball field. Have a chance to talk to you. What about the light that was way in the wind blowing in the wind? Is there any issue with that? What's that? The light pole by the baseball field. I mean, it's it's been doing that for years. I mean, they have to swing or they I mean, it's not doing that. I mean, Joe was down there and the mayor, but that

Yeah, you they don't swing it. That's when trouble, right? Yeah. I told you. Snap or whatever. But that was curious. I didn't hear what happened with that. So, you looked at it and everything. No. Yeah. Joe was down there and so was the mayor. And um but no, we uh we've been busy. And

um my opinion on Gil Park um I was down there last weekend. They had a triple header in baseball, high school baseball. So, they were there around 1:00 all the way to 9 9:30. Uh they had two high school baseball games and then um a junior baseball game. There was a lot of people down there, a lot of scooters flying around. They're going underneath the shelter. There's I mean there was all kinds of people having birthday parties and I mean they were going pretty fast on the basketball court. There was people playing basketball and yeah, it was Yeah,

it may uh are a bit of a problem. I understand. Right. And well, we just watched them come down the Berry Street there just a little bit ago and they were flying. I don't know what you do about the scooters at the park, but yeah, I don't know if you want to do something like no motorized vehicles in park or it's a newer issue. You know, it's what's that? It's a newer issue. We're not 100% sure how to do it yet, right? I I mean, I'm just knowing what I've seen. And I mean, it may be fine, it may not. I mean, I'm just letting you know you guys know. And that's about it. Any questions for Mr. Lucas?

Uh, yeah. I believe you you have a vacancy now in your department, correct? No. No. Has that been already been filled? What was the question? No. About a vacancy. He would he was we were just waiting for him to be able to leave. We had already hired to replace him. So, we actually had one extra. Okay. He's talking about Jordan. Jordan uh Jordan met a nice lovely young lady and moved to Florida. And he told us that probably what a year ago. Yeah. So, I mean, how how much can you appreciate an employee says, "Hey, I'm moving and it's going to be a year." So, it gave us a lot of time to to do proper interviews. Uh I wrote I wrote him a letter recommendation because why why wouldn't you? He's a great great man and uh we wish him the best. Yep.

With the upcoming paving go that we were talking about earlier, I know what didn't get paved in the fall is going to be getting paved here soon, right? Um one of the one of the bad blocks that I saw that wasn't on the list, the alley between 6th and 7th in the 600 block from the public parking lot. uh where the mural is. That alley back there going over towards Dayton Avenue really needs to be patched up at least if not totally um I mean what alley is it? Cuz we've never It's not It's It's a McAdam alley. It's not a stone alley.

Since I've been here, we've never paved or anything on an alley. Now, if it's concrete, we have patched the I believe it's McAdam. It's asphalt and especially at the intersection with Dayton Avenue, it's it's some big potholes there just because we got so many people coming to our restaurants and parking in that parking lot. Yeah, it's when we get the when we get the hot stuff, maybe we should put some in there to fix some. Cool. I'll get with you and you can tell me exactly where it's at. We'll talk to we'll talk to Eaton when they're doing our project to see if we get some. Okay. Thank you. Question. Uh, how's the railing coming on the steps? I can I can address that. Oh boy. Okay.

So, um Susan, we had we require insurance to do the work. Of course, she's using heavy equipment that also is very uh hot. Uh she took a while, but she finally got it uh about a week ago and she's already ordered. She went and got the piping that they're going to use um last week. So, I'm thinking she's going to start anytime. Great. So, we are moving forward, but the hold up was insurance. Okay. So, uh, it took about three weeks, but she got it and we're good to go. Great. Thanks. Any other questions for Rick? Thank you, sir. Yep. Uh, first responders tonight. Let's go ahead and uh start with fire first. Chief Schaefer.

Evening. So everybody has a copy of my report. Uh for March we made 143 responses out of those 45 fire runs, 98 EMS runs. Uh we trained in fire behavior, pre-planning, pump ops, especially with weather breaking. You'll see us out in the trucks getting, you know, getting people pumping those. Uh we did have to change our strategy a little bit instead of just throwing it over flood walls. So luckily we realized that before we got complaints on it but uh so yeah so we are aware of that. Uh we trained on uh OB and GYN emergencies, airway trauma and pharmarmacology. So year to date everybody's got almost 600 hours of training which is incredible. Uh no classes, no CPR classes this month. We do have a couple scheduled already for April. Uh we inspected 12 businesses and apartments which keeping on pace for new goal we have. Uh some other things going on. Anybody gets a chance go to fdbd.org and check it out. We got a new website that's up and running. So that that looks good. We're still playing around with it, make some tweaks, but it looks a lot better than the one we got back in 2005.

I saw you had some distinguished trainees recently. from city councils. Is that right? Yes. So, we uh guys did a great job of putting this together, but so Saturday we had a showcase with city councils and fire board came down and they learned what it's like to be a firefighter a little bit. They learn what it was like. It's exhausting. I like fun but exhausting. I like how member Loveven's her Facebook post was, I learned what I don't want to be when I grow up, a fireman. in case you realize how hard your guys' job is.

No, it it was a great day. Um, you know, the guys really appreciated everybody turning out to see what they did, too. So, it was it was real I think it was I think it was a good deal all around. Uh, that 210, our ladder truck, it's in the paint booth. Been in the paint booth for a couple weeks. So, we should hoping to get that back Memorial Day for the parade. Don't know if we can or not. Uh, I think it's realistic goal. And then aside from that, the other thing was, you know, our response to the tanker incident on 471. That was a once in a rear once in a career type event. But, you know, for for something for something with that many agencies and that unexpected to come together and go off the way the way it did, it's just, you know, it's a testament to mutual aid and us working together and training together other departments. And so, that's all I got. Any questions? That was quite impressive. The uh the 471 fire I I'm knocking on wood because that just that that highway is cursed.

I 471 is straight up cursed. It will catch fire at any moment. But uh that was an amazing response by your team and yeah and thanks for your uh your your weekend uh course with with our city council. That that's awesome, man. No, it was great. We uh we we enjoyed it. So, thank you all. Any questions? All right, Chief Halfill, you're the last of the first responders. I wish we could do something like the fire department, but uh let's go shoot guns.

Yeah, shoot guns, high-speed pursuits, uh foot chases. I guess we can do that. But I mean, the only thing comparable to that is we do have a citizens academy that we put on every year. Uh I asked you to I think Campbell County uh joins in with the whole uh area to possibly join that. Uh it's a very good experience. You learn about evidence, detectives, squat. You actually do get to go out on the range and shoot. Uh so it's it's pretty nice experience with that. So I'll let you guys know when that is. Please do.

Uh you have my monthly report. Uh as Rick said about the scooters, um we're we're taking care of it. uh like the out of state plates uh one plate at a time, one scooter at a time. Uh Rick just called me. What was that? Uh Monday. He's like, "Hey, I saw you had a guy stopped in Gil Gillin Park." He was a 15-year-old boy decided to run through four intersections, almost caused an accident, and scooter was confiscated, and he was taken home to his parents. So, I mean, we are taking care of it. We we've done the education thing with the school, letting the school know what the rules are, rule of the road, uh so it's in their hands to what they want to do with it, and our guys will take care of it when when we see it or observe it. We'll uh we'll try to take care of it. So,

it's a bad problem right now.

It is a bad problem, but like we said, like with the out of state plates, it's we one scooter at a time, one ebike at a time, and message will get out there. So, we we're trying our best with with what we got. So, um April 3rd, we did a uh prom safety with the school. Uh we did a a thing with um what was it? The Kentucky Highway showed up. Uh social services did a did a um I guess a booth uh to talk to people. We had a booth. uh Kentucky Heist um highway had a rollover machine where you put a dummy in there and they roll the machine over uh to show what it's like to have a seat belt on and not have a seat belt on, how you kind of end up in a in a vehicle. Uh they had the drunk goggles and drive around in a little on a bike on the basketball courts to see how how that was. So it turned out really good. We were we were glad to to help out with that event. Kids got to play in the police cars, honk the horn, you know, turn the lights on. So, uh, something similar to that is going to be April 26th, we're going to, uh, assist Alexandria and County with the Heroes Day. Uh, April 26 from 1 P to 4P. So, that'll be K9 demonstrations. We're going to think Cooper is going to be out there. Uh, we're going to have a vehicle out there just to show show off our our nice new vehicles. Um, I think they're doing a scavenger hunt. The social workers will have a booth out there. Um I think they're having a helicopter landing. Air care is going to be out there. It's a event. I think it's growing every year. Uh it's kind of like a the touch a truck whether we call it touch a truck on steroids. So uh this will be our first year uh helping out with or partaking in the the hero's day. So we're looking forward to that on the 26th.

That is all I have for my report. Anybody has any questions reference any of the monthly numbers or the parking questions? Any scooter questions for the chief? I have a question. Um, when where is touch a truck? So, it is called Heroes Day. It's kind of like a touch a truck is kind of how it is, but we call it on steroids because they have a lot more uh departments that partake in it. So, it's going to be at the Camel County Middle School. Okay.

Uh, April 26 from 1p to 4p. I think I forgot to mention where it was at. So, it is at the Camel County Middle School in Alexandria. So, we should have probably about three officers out there helping out with that. Any other questions? What did not to pound this into at the ground, but with these scooters? You said that you, you know, attacking it one at a time. I understand that. What charges are these mostly minors? I mean, what legal

usually? Yeah, the legal ramifications are are a little bit more difficult. Uh, we kind of let the parents be the judge jury and, you know, whether we take them, you know, because usually we'll take them home and if they decide to keep the ebikes away from them, stuff like that, we're pretty limited on what we can do. Uh, when it comes, they are required to follow traffic rules, right? Yeah. You're supposed to just like a regular bike. Like I said before, any bike laws is how the ebikes fall under and the scooters. So So you could cite them for running a stop sign. We could. Yeah. Okay. I mean, we we'll try other means possible. Understood.

Technically, they don't have a driver's license and um we'll try to go the parent route first, but if it's a continuing problem and like we said, the the way they're getting around it is the bikes from Teimu or wherever where you get them from China are not regulated under under the US. So, they go a lot faster than 28 miles an hour. They go 30 35 miles an hour. So that's that's kind of what we're seeing is a lot of the bikes that people got during Christmas are coming from and the state the state doesn't have any helmet requirement, do they?

Uh just your bike typical bike safety laws that that there is. So no, I mean there's really nothing that I think this will be something maybe next session. It's uh becoming an issue with us and Fort Thomas and Belleview and Newport and all the other cities that this is going to be probably something that's going to be regulated probably next year. Okay. Uh because we're seeing a lot of uh a lot of problems out of this this issue. So, understood. So, right now our hands are tied with kind of what we can do under we just have to enforce the fall under the bike laws, regular bicycle laws. Gotcha. Just trying our best. How would you sight a minor?

Uh, you can sight them through uh the court designated worker just like we do for any other theft or uh anything that they get involved with as a juvenile as a juvenile crime, we'll go through the court designated worker and we will give them a a state citation. Um, but if it's an innocent thing, you know, that they didn't know or just, you know, Yep. it we have discretion's on our side. So, sometimes the parent route is sometimes the worst route to go. Uh, growing up, we know how it was to get in trouble by the parents. So, uh, but if the parents don't do anything about it, then we'll let the judge be the parent and let them decide how they want to.

Thank you. I'd personally rather deal with the cops than my parents. I agree. I agree. Thanks, Chief. Any other comments for Chief? Yeah. Good evening, sir. Thank you for your work. Thank you. That closes the department director's monthly reports and brings us right along to Mr. Faucett's city administrative report. Mr. Faucet,

just a couple things. Uh we had the Dayton High School folks here today, but this morning I was down in Covington at the meet building, not meeting NKY, but the one NKY building, which is where they have all the different meets there. U educated NKY there. They they have adopted the fourth grade class at Lincoln. Three of those groups have um educated NKY Catalague Fund and the Horizon Community Foundation and they came down and gave him a tour of that whole facility, but then they also um gave them um they went through this process with the kids where they decided they wanted to give money to um a certain organization. So they went through and they narrowed it down from six to four to three and then finally they picked one and they picked Go Pantry which provides um food to kids on those days when they're not in school. They get food at school but on the weekends they don't get that. So Go Pantry delivers this food there. So the kids got a check from their sponsoring organizations of a thousand dollars and they're giving it to um the Go Pantry. So that was really cool. Those kids were excited. They they brought the whole fourth grade class down there on the school bus and I got to see the whole whole facility which is really beautiful and cool. But uh they were to present it. They did a great job. So I just want to shout out to the fourth grade class. They did a great job. Um the other thing is um kind of sad news and you may have read that Tuba um is going to go out of business here in a couple months. Uh I saw Drew Raph today, the owner of Tuba, who's done an amazing job with that restaurant. It brings people from all over. I'm talking about Indiana, Ohio in Kentucky to the restaurant. But uh he said it was mainly they got three young kids. You know, he's got a full-time um business which is a commercial bakery during the week and then on Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, they're they open a restaurant up and they just don't have time and they kind of want to, you know, pull back a little bit. And I understand it as a kid, as a guy who had three young

kids when I was a young lawyer, I can appreciate that. And uh you don't get that time back. So, they're going to stay in Dayton, which is great, and hopefully the kids get older and move on to college or whatever, and consider doing it again. So, I said, "Keep that in mind, Drew. Don't don't don't give up on that because we'd love to have you back." So, um it's sad. I think they're going to be open for what, two more months or until uh the end of June.

End of June. Three more months, basically. So, go there while you can. The food is fabulous. Um it's a shame. We we love it and they've really put us on the map in a lot of a lot of people's eyes coming there. they were the an early uh food foodie stop in in Dayton. So um so good luck to them and and thank you for your for your time. We do have another um bar restaurant coming in probably in July um in the old um what was the old um Barb's Cozy Cottage. Yeah, Barb's and then it was Unataza before that. So that that is going to be uh so we got one going but we got a new one coming in. So, um, that's kind of how things work sometimes in this business, the restaurant business. As you know, you worked in one. Not an easy business.

So, um, anyway, I just wanted to say that, uh, thank Drew and Val for your time and and your commitment to our city and the fact you're staying here, too. That's all. I have a question. Yeah. What's the new restaurant? What's the name of it? The new restaurant. I always get it wrong. I don't know that he wants us to publicly say it. Okay. Yet, that's fair. Okay. But it's a it will be kind of a bar and uh bar and kitchen is what? So there will be food and drinks there. Okay. So small plates, tapas, I think. So yeah, that's the concept. Any questions for administrator Fosters this evening?

Thank you for your report, sir. Next up on the docket is audience comments. So, anybody from the audience is welcome to address city council administration about anything you want. You want to talk about the Reds? Let's talk about the Reds. They're not doing too bad. And uh just state your name and uh your address. And you're welcome to have the podium. Nobody wants to talk about the Reds. All right. Any new business for this evening? any council committee updates any um I don't know council committees are here.

Yeah. So I'll give an update on a couple of them here. So uh the finance committee had their first meeting right before uh this meeting. Uh that was our first meeting as a group. Uh we're going to be meeting the uh first the first city council meeting of each quarter. Uh will be the finance committee meeting. So all open to the public whenever you want to. Uh we are seeking at least one more member for that as well, one more citizen member. Um ideally two since one of our citizen members will become a city council member next year. Um so if you are interested in joining the finance committee uh please do not hesitate to reach out. Um and then uh from the sports and recreation committee side of things um we now have a second running group in the city. So, there's already a running group that has been that's been around for a little while now that meets at 6:15 a.m. at Elliot Coffee on Wednesday mornings. Um, and now we have a second group that runs in the evenings. Our first meetup was last night. Um, and we meet at Elsenor Pig at 6 p.m. and we do a little night run. Uh, there's three options available. Uh, you can do a one and a half mile loop, a three- mile loop, or we can kick it up a notch and you can run up Oallon

if you really want to. Um, so if you're if you're interested, I've done that. It's a bad idea. I've done it as well. Yeah. If you really steep if you really want to do some hill training, you can get some I only had one and that was the Have you ever done the falance stall? I have. Yeah. Yeah. I won't do that again. Yeah. That's a fun one. No, it ain't. Um, but then afterwards we we stick around and uh share a basket of chips and salsa and some drinks and uh socialize a little bit. So I welcome all to come uh of all skill sets. Uh we have walking available as well. Uh bring your dog if you want to walk your dog as well. So it's a real casual event. Um Terrace, anything to share on the the pickle ball side? Are we still doing open session on Wednesdays?

Yes, it's just open play on Wednesdays. Okay. So any questions from those two committees? Awesome. Thank you. I do have a question. Wait, what what was where did this walking thing come from? I really didn't hear about it before now. Walking group. Yeah, so it's a fairly new endeavor as of a couple weeks ago. U I started a Facebook a group for trying to um get all the the Dayton running, walking, hiking groups together in one spot so people kind of know where to go for it. Okay.

So, uh join that group uh and and spread the word that way. Um but yeah, that's a kind of a quick and easy win for the sports and recreation committee because doesn't require any equipment. Um so just get out there and run within your and your gear. Um so again, we have a morning run available right now that meets at Elliot and we have an evening run available, but we hopefully will start getting a little hike going sometime on the weekend as well. So on Facebook, we look up you Dayton Running Walking Group. Okay. We can promote that through the city too, can't we? We got a cool AI generated logo and everything. So easy to do.

All right. Do not believe we have a reason for executive session this evening. Sir, we want we have something from the marketing and communications committee. All right. You can do it, please. No, go ahead. I don't have my notes.

Okay. Uh we we held our second meeting on April the 8th and uh with Miss Neman, Yakoba Wells, Allison Tleski, and Hannah Han. These ladies are amazing as far as the connections and and the marketing awareness that they have. Um there's a realtor checklist um Alice's Allison is making. uh bringing up real estate listings, you always see something about the city and we've going through some of the different MLS listings. Some of them aren't too favorable towards Dayton. So, we're trying to get into that database, feed them some content uh with more information, more positive information about our city. Uh there's also Brand Cincy, which is a marketing hub in Cincinnati. Um Allison has connections with them. So, it's really been uh encouraging to see some of the suggestions that they have and we'll be working with Jared on uh getting more of this information out through the city. Um and Haley, who was here before, has expressed interest in giving the teenagers viewpoint. So, she's going to be at our next meeting, which will be May the 13th, right here at 6 o'clock.

Excellent. Well, I love seeing the kids get involved because as I get further and further away from that age group, it's interesting to see see their vision. No, Beth. I just thought it was interesting. Um Allison uses that Cincy or brand Cincy Club all the time at work and for um people who are being relocated here and it talks about the amenities in Newport and all the different communities and Dayton's empty. So, she's writing a whole thing. So, great. Yeah, great. You always hear, and this kind of annoys me when I read the MLS's, is uh up and coming Dayton. It's like,

you ain't paying attention. You ain't been paying attention for a decade because we ain't up and coming. Uh we we had to go to a art show thing over the weekend and someone we said, "Oh, you know, we we're from Dayton." And she said, "Oh, that's coming up." And I said, "Why?" And she said, "I don't know. I it just it's cracked. They all say it now. I don't know. It's it's the message has finally somehow come over. It used to be up and coming, Ohio and now it's Oh, that's coming up. So, something's working. Yeah. We're the envy of the river cities. Exactly. That's what they should say. You're not up and coming. Wow. You guys are the envy of the river cities. Yes, we are, ma'am.

And sir, I have on other new business uh with the parade coming up.

Oh, yeah. We're only going to have one more council meeting before the parade. Uh but if anyone wants to get into the parade as a group or a a business or something like that, um that information is all I believe on our website as far as how to register and apply and everything. Uh because the bigger the better as far as the parade. And also that morning, um there's going to be a 5K run in conjunction with the Memorial Day, uh events, and that'll be on Manhattan Harbor, Manhattan Boulevard, and then probably on the new pathway.

Sweet. Um I believe it's an outside company that does this professionally with races and timing and everything else, but that's also going to be that morning. Um, parade starts at 10:30, I believe. But yeah, if if anybody wants to be in the parade, there's sign up form is on the city website. Are this is always a contentious question. Are people running for office allowed to have a spot? Yes, sir. Right behind the horses. All right, Donna. So, your spots reserve right behind the horse. All right. Good. All right. We we welcome anybody and everybody. It's it's it's Dayton's finest hour and uh and can't wait for it. Thank you, sir.

Uh speaking of the Memorial Day parade, all of you are about to get an email asking for your shirt size. Um the Memorial Day parade committee is going to have a special America 250 shirt. Um so just look out for that email. It's probably going to be a tight timeline as far as getting it back. So as soon as you get it, if you could get that back to me, that'd be great. Thank you, Mr. Barks. Yeah, and that shirt's kind of cool. They opened that design competition up to the both school districts. So the design on them is one design is from a Belleview kid and the other design is from a Dayton kid which is kind of cool.

Excellent. Any other committee updates? All right. Uh I do not believe we have a reason for executive session. Do I have a motion for adjournment? So moved. Member Ner has made a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Member Deman's made a second. All in favor? I. Any nays? Any abstensions? Have a great month, Dayton. We'll see you next month.

Hey, Graham. Come here. I want to do this. I follow you on social med. Hey, how's it going? King City where he lives in the building where containers gateway apartments across the street. He lives across the street next door. Okay, it's the tin family and they're about fiveies.

Let's take Let's take a look at this real quick. I got my computer up. Spread the word. It's a countywide race, unfortunately. All right, so you're right here.

All righty. Okay. So, I look out onto this piece of land.