Telecommunications Committee - Regular Meeting

All right, good evening and welcome to the City of Green committee meetings for Tuesday, August 25th, 2026. I'd like to call these meetings to order. First item on our agenda is the approval of minutes. We have TMP 5456, approval of the August 11th, 2026 committee meeting minutes. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Adam Clark, please call the roll.

Mr. Neubauer? Yes. Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mr. Humphrey?

Yes.

Mr. Spate?

Yes.

Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Mager?

Yes.

And Mr. DeVitas is absent.

Thank you, ma'am. And we will get into the meetings of our committees. The first committee to meet this evening is the Finance Committee, chaired by Mr. Humphrey.

Thank you, Mr. President. All members are present, myself, Mr. Nijabower, and Mr. Spate. We have no items of business, although I do want to report that yesterday, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I attended and Mr. Noble attended on behalf of counsel and his committee the CIP meeting that is going to be available online for the capital improvement plan for this next year. That process has been ongoing, and this was kind of the culmination for all the directors to report on projects that they have requested. And so it was quite a lengthy meeting, but it was very, very well done. And so we were able to accomplish that yesterday. Any older new business to come before the committee? Then we will adjourn at 5.04. Excuse me.

Councilman, I just want to let you know that then we will also be posting the book we were referencing in that meeting on the finance department's website. So if the public didn't want to go out and just peruse the projects that we reviewed yesterday that are under consideration, that document, after I made the revisions yesterday, it will be posted to our website. So I just wanted to make that known.

Okay, excellent. Thank you. Mr. Noble.

In addition, so there's a process we're going through between Chris and I and the staff of ranking those projects right now. So that's what this process is. And so that ranking process will be occurring over the next two weeks-ish through September 2nd. Through September 2nd, the rankings will be due. And then... then in earnest we'll have an understanding of how we'll approach the capital program after those rankings in the coming year or so.

All right, thank you, Mr. Noble. Any other items? Okay, we'll adjourn at now 5.05.

Thank you, Mr. Humphrey. Our next committee to meet this evening is Environment and Parks, chaired by Mr. Neugebauer. Thank you, Mr. President.

It is 5.06 p.m. We have two of the three members present today, myself as Chair and Mr. Spate as Vice Chair. Clark DeVitas is not here today, but we have no items of legislation before us. Is there any old or new business that we should discuss this evening? Anything, Director Carr, from your staff?

Nothing that I can think of right now.

Okay. Hearing that we have no business, officially we will not meet. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Neugebauer. Our next committee to meet this evening is Public Safety, chaired by Mr. Humphrey and Mr. DeVitas' absence.

All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Myself and Mr. Neugebauer are here. We have two items on our agenda. The first item is TMP 5458, all class C&D retail liquor license permit renewals, October 1, 2026. This is for a liquor license permit. had the clerk go out and request of the sheriff any concerns that they would have regarding this liquor license permit renewal. And on this particular one, there was one concern noted by the sheriff, but it was somebody that had an open container outside of the business asleep in the vehicle. It wasn't necessarily an issue with the business itself. So From the sheriff's perspective, there was no reason that we would have any particular concern unless anybody else has any issues on it. So, Mr. Nijabaur, anything on that one?

No, I have no issues.

Okay, so are you good at the appropriate time, us not requesting a hearing?

Yes, I'll be fine, thank you.

All right, so at our meeting, I'll make a motion. not to request a hearing on TMP 5458. The second liquor license we have is TMP 5459, Ohio CVS Stores LLC, new C1 and C2 liquor licenses. This is for the CVS Pharmacy at 3761 Maslin Road. Again, the Sheriff's Department was requested for information. Any concerns that they had, there were no concerns reported back. I'm not aware of anything. Mr. Nujabar, are you good with us not requesting a hearing on this one?

Yes, thank you.

Okay, so at the appropriate time during our regular meeting, I'll make motions on this. Any old or new business to come before the committee? Then we will adjourn at 5.09.

Thank you, Mr. Humphrey. Our next committee to meet this evening is Planning, Community, and Economic Development, chaired by Mr. Noble.

Thank you, Mr. President. Myself and Mr. Humphrey are present today. Mr. DeVese is not here, obviously. We do have a couple items of legislation. They're both on third reading. They're TIF-related legislation, the first of which is 2026-20, in ordinance declaring a portion of improvements to a certain parcel of real property owned by Arlington Ridge Marketplace LLC doing business as Chick-fil-A being a public purpose exempting 100% of the value of the improvements from real property taxation for 30 years and declaring an emergency. Again, this is a standard TIF that we normally do in the in the city here. The approximate improvement value is around $3 million, again, for 30 years. Mr. Rethy, is there anything you'd like to add?

No, you covered it. It's standard. We'll let council know kind of the vote name, but I think you're looking at the first week of October.

Thank you. Does anybody on committee have anything? Anybody on council? Okay. Then I'll make a motion to adopt this during our regularly scheduled council meeting. Our next item is 2026-21, an ordinance declaring a portion of improvements to a certain parcel of real property owned by Bull Run Ventures, LLC, doing business as Brenneman Group to be a public purpose, exempting 100% of the value of the improvements from real property taxation for 30 years and declaring an emergency. This is another TIF for 30 years, approximate value of $1 million, although Mr. Wheatley said it'll probably be more than that when it's all said and done.

It's growing as it continues. That's what they start out as, and it's probably pushing to.

And again, this is just adjacent here to the cab. I can never remember the name of that street.

It's on Town Crossing, and it's part of the Town Park Boulevard. Thank you.

Okay. Does anybody on committee have any comments on this?

The only thing I'm going to comment on is this is the greatest LLC name I've seen, Bull Run Ventures, by a financial advisor. I thought that was quite good.

Okay, anybody else?

Mr. Noble? Yes.

I see here, just for our discussion, Mr. Wheaty, that the improvements related to this infrastructure can go to infrastructure that includes the Boulevard and Madison Road Corridor. So that's big in the wake of the Oak Clinic presentation received last time.

I don't disagree with you.

Yeah, okay. That's good to see, thank you. Okay.

Thank you, Mr. Maeger. Anybody else? Mr. Neugebauer?

I just want to point out that the legislation, even though it says it exempts 100 percent of the value from real property taxation, it actually diverts the taxes to the city instead of the normal route through the county. Sometimes there is a misperception that they don't pay tax. They pay their full tax as their neighbors do.

And might as well just add on that the schools will get, per their compensation agreement, the amount agreed upon. And that's for both of these. And you're correct. They will still continue to pay state calls and pilots payment in lieu of taxes, but it's based on the tax value of that property.

Okay. And just to note here, for each of these, the previous one for Chick-fil-A is associated with the Arlington Road TIF, right, to be used on the Arlington Road side of town. And this one is associated with the Town Park Boulevard at Madison Road TIF. And there's a laundry list of things, as Mr. Mager and others, in this broad area that it can be used for. Okay. So with that, This is also on third reading, and so during our regular council meeting, I'll make a motion to adopt 2026-21. That concludes our items of legislation. We already mentioned the capital improvement plan, Mr. Humphrey's committee that is ongoing, so we're preparing our budget for next year. Does anybody else have any other older new business questions?

Okay, hearing none, we'll adjourn at 5.13. Thank you, Mr. Noble. Our next committee to meet this evening is Rules and Personnel, which I chair. Myself, Mr. Mager, and Mr. Brandenburg are all present. We have no legislation to discuss this evening. Is there any order new business to come before the committee? All right, and hearing none, we will not meet. Our next committee to meet is Transportation, Connectivity, and Stormwater, chaired by Mr. Mager. Thank you, Mr. President. All members are present. However, there are no items of legislation before us.

Mr. Pickett, is there any construction updates worth noting in committee?

Just the upcoming restriction on Bettler Road on August 31st. It'll be closed eastbound, only open to westbound traffic.

And I'm assuming those have been posted. I think I've seen something in our newsletter, the website, Valerie, with respect to that detour already. I think I've seen it. Okay, we're getting shaking yes. Okay, and with that, we will adjourn at 514.

All right, Mr. Pickett, quick question. How long will that closure take or be in place?

It's probably going, well, it's going to be over a month anyways. We haven't really broadcast a completion or when it opens again yet till we get into the work, but yeah, it's going to be a while. Okay, thank you.

Anybody else? Mr. Bagger? Chernobyl. Mr. Pickett, so I'm assuming that when this happens, that signal phase that's out there right now will go to a two-phase phase Operation?

Likely, yeah, it'll improve.

Okay, so I sent a message to Mr. Sciocca that I thought it was confusing without an arrow. People southbound don't really know that they're protected. But it sounds like in a matter of days, we'll be moving on from that. Okay, thank you. Anybody else?

Okay, with that, we'll adjourn at 5.15.

Thank you, Mr. Mager. Our next committee to meet is Intergovernmental and Utilities, chaired by Mr. Brandenburg.

Thank you, Mr. President. All members are present. We have one item of legislation to discuss that we will meet. The item is 2026-19, an ordinance authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with Aqua Ohio Inc. Aqua Ohio operates as a regulated utility in the City of Green under the Public Utility Commission of Ohio. Rates are set in green through negotiations directly with AquaOhio and approved by ordinance renewal. Mayor Yergin and Planning and Development Director Wayne Wiese negotiated the terms with AquaOhio. This legislation establishes the water rates and service charges for green residents for the next five years, from 2027 to 2031. And as required by charter, we held a public hearing on August 11th. At the public hearing, we heard from Mr. Sean Smith from Occoquo, Ohio, delivered a presentation, addressed questions from council and the public. The proposed increase is an annual increase of 5.5 percent to 5.75 percent, which is higher than the previous five-year term, but lower than the last time AquaOhio made some major improvements. Over the next five years, there are major improvements planned for system redundancies and water purification that will help all customers in the City of Green. Aqua Ohio is also going to invest $1.5 million, a minimum of $1.5 million of new water access throughout the city. So, Mr. Wiese, is there anything to add to this?

No, you covered it pretty well.

Thank you. Okay, so I don't have any additional questions or comments on this one. Anybody on committee? Anyone on council? Okay. So this item is on third reading. So at a regular meeting, I'll make the motion to bring it to a vote. So 2026-19 was the only item of legislation we had this evening. Any items of old or new business? Hearing none, we are adjourned at 517.

Thank you, Mr. Brandenburg. That concludes our committee meetings this evening. However, we do have a request for an executive session for pending litigation. So at this time, I would like to make a motion to enter into executive session for pending litigation, and I would like to invite the Mayor, the Clerk of Council, Law Director, Fire Chief, Planning Director, City Engineer, Finance Director, and all of City Council.

We have a room big enough?

Can I get a second? Second. Awesome. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Clerk, please call the roll.

Mr. Spate.

Yes.

Mr. Humphrey.

Yes.

Mr. Neugebauer. Yes. Mr. Noble.

Yes.

Mr. Brandenburg. Yes. Mr. Mager.

Yes.

And Mr. DeVitas is absent. Okay, motion carries.

Thank you very much. We will be in executive session, and then we will return when we're done. Thank you.

Chapter one, section one.

All right, welcome back from our executive session. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adjourn executive session. I will second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mr. Spate.

Yes.

Mr. Neugebauer.

Yes.

Mr. Noble.

Yes.

Mr. Humphrey.

Yes.

Mr. Brandenburg.

Yes.

And Mr. Mager.

Yes.

Okay, motion carries.

All right, well, that concludes our committee meetings for this evening. We will see you back here at 7 p.m. for our regular council meeting. We are adjourned.