City Council - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call this meeting to order. This is a duly notice regular meeting of the Hudson City Council held in accordance with the Sunshine Laws of the State of Ohio section one twenty one point two two and the City of Hudson Charter article three section 3.02 for Tuesday, 04/21/2026. It is 07:30PM. I'd like to take a quick moment and welcome everyone who is here tonight as well as those who may be watching remotely via the HCTV video feed. We'll close section one and move on to section two, which is the pledge of allegiance.

Will you please stand and join me? Thank you everyone. We'll move on to section three on our agenda tonight, which is the roll call. Missus Wheeler, will you please call the roll?

Doctor Bird?

Here.

Mister Brezovac? Here. Mister Ramo? Here. Doctor Getz? Here. Mister Sutton? Here. Doctor Weinstein? Here. Mister White?

Here. You, missus Wheeler. We do have a quorum tonight with all seven members of council present. We will close section three and move on to section four, approval of the minutes. Item a is number two six dash zero zero two six. This will include the 04/07/2026 council meeting minutes and the 04/14/2026 council workshop minutes. Do we have a motion from council to approve the minutes as provided? I move

we approve the minutes as provided.

Thank you, Councilor Brezovich. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you, Council President Byrd. Is there any discussion on the minutes as provided?

Seeing none, Mrs. Wheeler, will you please roll call a vote?

Doctor. Byrd? Yes. Mr. Brezovich? Yes. Mr. Ramo?

Yes.

Doctor. Goetz? Yes. Mr. Sutton? Yes. Doctor. Weinstein? Yes. Mr. White?

Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Wheeler. Approval of the minutes as provided passes by a vote of seven in favor to zero against. We will move on to section five tonight for proclamations.

We do have four of those this evening. We will start with item a, which is number 26Dash0027. This is a proclamation for a special recognition of Lemonade Day. Whereas Lemonade Day is a national initiative to educate youth on how to start, own, and operate a business, using a lemonade stand to teach fundamental lessons about life, preparation, self discipline, success, and giving back to their community. And whereas since 2011, the annual Lemonade Day program in Northeast Ohio has enabled thousands of children in our region to take advantage of this opportunity, to learn about entrepreneurship and acquire necessary basic business skills.

And whereas Seton Catholic School in the city of Hudson are again actively supporting student participation in the Lemonade Day program during the month of May. And whereas community involvement is encouraged and needed to support this program in Hudson, including student entrepreneurs, adults interested in supervising, businesses and investors who wish to partner with participants, and customers who wish to enjoy ice cold and refreshing lemonade. Now therefore, I, Jeffrey Al Anzvino, mayor of the city of Hudson, Ohio, do hereby proclaim May 2 and 05/03/2026 as Lemonade Day in Hudson, Ohio, and I urge our citizens to support this valuable program. In witness whereof, I have here onto set my hand and caused the seal of the city of Hudson to be affixed on this April 2026. Do we have any comments from counsel this evening on the proclamation?

Vice President Byrd? So I think

May 2, this Saturday, is the day council has their road tour. So we're gonna be zooming around the city, looking at the roads, and make sure you guys bring some some dollar bills or cash, and we'll be getting a

lot of lemonade. We already have that on our road tour schedule, believe. Correct, mister Sheridan? Yes. Thank you, council president Byrd. Any additional comments from council tonight? Councilor Weinstein?

I know I got to chat with you all. Really impressed with you kids. I love what you're doing with the lemonade day, and I loved hearing about, what you're giving back to and the charities you're giving back to this community. And I also love the lessons you learned for entrepreneurship, and that is important for our community as well. So thank you.

Thank you, councilor Weinstein. Any additional council comments? Seeing none, any council or staff comments? Okay. Thank you. I will add one quick thing before I present the proclamation. My challenge to council and all of the residents is to visit every lemonade stand that you can that is out there. And I don't want to brag, but I am three years running of visiting every single one. They're right in downtown in 1st And Main, so it's pretty easy to catch them all. Some of them are over in the Acme Plaza, but there'll be a map out there.

There'll be more information on all of the students. So please, if you're out that weekend, stop in and see the stands and the student entrepreneurs. And it's so much more than lemonade, just to add a little bit more detail. These students put a mini business plan together. They have games and raffles and prizes and things that you can do. So there's all this marketing effort on their name and how do they, what do they need to sell and what's their cost of their materials and everything. So they really look at a mini business plan. So it's much more than just a lemonade stand that you'd see on the roadside. So please, if you're out that weekend in early May, please stop in and visit as many of the stands that you can. Any other council comments?

Seeing none, I believe we have several students from Seton. If you will please come forward, it'd be my honor to present officially the proclamation to you.

Hi. My name is Lila, and I am here on the behalf of the fifth grade at Seton Catholic School. Each year, Seton's fifth graders participate in Lemonade Day, a nationwide program that teaches us how to become young entrepreneurs. To prepare, we work in small groups to create our businesses. We come up with a business name, choose our a charity to support and develop a business plan and work together to make our stand successful.

This year, we will be selling lemonade on Saturday, May. We've put a lot of effort into building, our business. For example, last week, we presented, to loan board where we pitched our business ideas and requested funding funding for our stands. We're excited to share that all of our loans were approved. Our next step to purchase the materials we need and get ready for a great weekend of selling lemonade.

After lemonade day, we will repay our loans, donate 25% of our profit to charity we selected, and then split the remaining earns among our group members. Each of us will receive a paycheck, which we we can use to spend, save, or donate. Lemonade Day is valuable experience because it teaches us teamwork, responsibility, and how to run a business, all while helping others and having fun. Thank you for your time, and we hope you'll come out and support Lemonade Day.

Alright. Great job. Thank you. We'll move on in our section five for proclamations with our second proclamation tonight. It is item B number 26Dash0028, a special recognition of public service recognition week.

I'll read that in its entirety. Proclamation, special acknowledgment of public service recognition week. Whereas Americans are served every single day by public servants at the federal, state, county, and local levels who keep our communities and nation functioning, and whereas public servants demonstrate a commitment to excellence and are vital in delivering essential services that enhance the lives of citizens, including public safety, public works, administration, engineering, community development, finance, technology, and communications. And whereas these individuals often work behind the scenes contributing their expertise and skills in a wide variety of fields to ensure the smooth operation of government and the well-being of our society. And whereas public employees in the city of Hudson provide essential services with skill and professionalism to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of our community.

And whereas it is with grateful appreciation that the Hudson community especially thanks our local public servants for all they do. Now therefore, I, Jeffrey Al Anzvino, mayor of the city of Hudson, Ohio, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as public service recognition week in Hudson, Ohio, and I encourage all citizens to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of government employees at all levels. In witness whereof, I have here onto set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Hudson to be affixed on this April 2026. Are there any comments from council? Councilor Goetz.

I wanna say that Hudson has exceptional public servants and really thank you for all the service that you do for our city.

Thank you, Councilor Goetz. Any additional comment from council tonight? Vice President Byrd?

Yeah, I think that I every council member I've spoken with over the last several years have always been amazed when they begin their tenure and they start meeting the city staff and they learn, as as Jeff mentioned, about expertise and how hardworking they are. And this city is in such great shape because of the work that they do. I just hope, Tom, I just hope you're extra nice to them. Thank

you, Council President Byrd. Any additional comment from council tonight? Any comments from staff?

Yes, I can't be more proud to lead this group of staff that we have in all the departments and everything they do. And all the little things that go on behind the scenes that a lot of people in the public never see. And I just got one on Friday and I got another one today. And it's all just very good. We will begin recognizing some of our staff in the coming weeks. We'll be having a meet our staff at the library. And I believe the first one is on the fifth?

May 5.

Yeah. May 5. So we're looking forward to that. Again, just to kinda showcase our staff in different departments every couple of weeks, every month or so. So but thank you, mayor.

Thank you, mister Sheridan. I will add from my side that, it's easy for us as council or, the city administration to, you know, give kudos and accolades to the staff because we work with them often. But I will say, as I engage with the public, whether people are calling me and asking me for assistance or information or I'm out in an event, talking to the residents of this community, I constantly hear that from the residents who our staff has helped. And to me, that's the true testament of what the city of Hudson has with our staff and our public servants that do all that work. When the residents continually say, thank you.

Your staff is great. Somebody helped me out today or somebody is always quick to respond to me. That's that's a true testament. So don't take it from us. Take it from the residents that say this on a continual basis.

So, thank you. Margaret, I believe you are going to officially accept the proclamation. Be my honor if you please come forward. Tom probably covered it, so you're good. Thank you and congratulations again to our public servants and the city staff.

We'll move on to the third of four items on the agenda for proclamations tonight. And this is item c number 26Dash0029. I will read this in its entirety. It's a proclamation for Arbor Day two thousand and twenty six. Whereas in 1872, the Nebraska Board of Agriculture established a special day, Arbor Day, to be set aside for planting of trees.

And whereas Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world. And whereas trees in the urban forest are an important component of our community's infrastructure. And whereas trees in the urban forest extend the life of roadways and reduce storm water runoff as well as water pollution, therefore improving our community's landscape and water supply. And whereas trees in the urban forest reduce air conditioning and heating costs for residents and therefore make our community more environmentally conscious and efficient. And whereas trees in the urban forest make our neighborhoods more inviting, thereby attracting new homebuyers to our community and aiding community development efforts.

And whereas trees in the urban forest reduce human stress and its many negative effects and therefore are critical to our community's health. Now therefore I, Jeffrey L. Anzavino, mayor of Hudson, Ohio, do hereby proclaim 04/24/2026 as Arbor Day in Hudson, and I urge all citizens to support efforts to protect and nurture our trees and urban forest, not only for the beauty they provide, but also for the benefits they give our residents and community. In witness whereof, I have here onto set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Hudson to be affixed on this April 2026. Are there any comments from counsel tonight?

Any comments from staff or doctor Goetz?

Excuse me.

I I have the pleasure of living in the historic district, and we have incredible tree canopy, and I hope that we're gonna be able to save the trees over these next fifty to a hundred years.

Thank you, councilor Goetz. Additional comment from council tonight? Any comments from staff? I'll just add that I will not be able to take part in the ceremony, but I believe that is at the police station, mister Sheridan, at 10AM on Friday.

Yeah. Arbor Day tree planting is Friday the twenty fourth at 10AM at the police station. And if it's, raining, just come into the lobby at the police station.

Yes. We've been to several of those in the past. The public is welcome to to come take part in the small ceremony there. Usually, we have shovels where somebody can actually help, plant the tree. So it's a a fun event, brief, just to honor the day and continue to plant trees here in Hudson, Ohio. Is there anyone here to officially accept the proclamation from the tree commission? If not, mister Sheridan, I will present this to you.

I

didn't know I was gonna get bestowed upon this honor tonight, but I did wear a green jacket so I look like a tree. But actually, I wore this in favor of my our friends at WRA, which actually did a great job on a tree, I have to say, over there lighting it up. But, a lot of people always say how charming the city of Hudson is, and doctor Weinstein and I went to the library today and talked to the Montessori School kids. And, you know, it wouldn't be as charming, though, if it wasn't for all the trees we have in our town and our parks. So thank you. I'll make sure that the tree commission gets this.

Thank you, mister Sheridan. We'll move on to our last proclamation on the agenda tonight, which is item d number two six dash zero zero three zero. I will read that in its entirety. Proclamation, special recognition of Western Reserve Academy's two hundredth anniversary. Whereas Western Reserve Academy was founded as the old Western Reserve College in 1826 by 12 original incorporators, including their principal founder, David Hudson.

And whereas since the nineteen thirties, the school has had the nickname of the pioneers, representing a spirit, an appetite, a light that burns inside all of us, and today with each member continuing to flourish and be guided by luxe veritas. And whereas for two centuries, Western Reserve Academy has upheld a tradition of academic excellence, character development, and community leadership, preparing generations of students to contribute meaningfully to society. And whereas Western Reserve Academy's historic campus, traditions, and values continue to enrich the city of Hudson, strengthening the cultural, educational, and civic life of our community. And whereas Western Reserve Academy's faculty, staff, students, alumni, and families have demonstrated an enduring commitment to scholarship, integrity, and service. And whereas this year's Founders' Weekend honors the establishment of Western Reserve Academy two hundred years ago, offering an opportunity to honor its remarkable legacy and celebrate its continued impact on future generations.

Now therefore, I, Jeffrey L. Anzvino, mayor of the city of Hudson, Ohio, do hereby recognize Western Reserve Academy's two hundredth anniversary in the city of Hudson, and I urge residents to recognize this observance. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Hudson to be affixed on this April 2026. Are there any comments from counsel tonight? Any comments from staff?

Yes, I just wanna congratulate WRA on their two hundredth anniversary, and I couldn't ask for a better partner in our community to work on projects with and collaboratively over all these years. So I wish him the best in the next two hundred years. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you, mister Sheridan. I will just add that I'm looking forward to this weekend coming up. There's several events that I'm honored to be a small part of to help honor this milestone for the Western Reserve Academy in their two hundredth anniversary. If there's no additional comments from counsel, Suzanne, it'd be my honor if you'd come forward to let me present the proclamation to you. Thank you.

Well, mister mayor and city council, it is truly an honor to be here with you tonight and to receive this proclamation. WRA is very excited about the partnership that we share with this incredible community, and we seek to be a good neighbor and good partner with, the citizens of Hudson as well as all the civic leaders. And so we look forward in our next two hundred years to being of service to Hudson and Northeast Ohio. And, again, I thank you and express gratitude from all of us at Western Reserve Academy for this recognition.

Thank you.

Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you, mister Andrew. Thank you and congratulations to everyone again on those four proclamations. We will close section five and move on to section six for public comments.

We'll pause just a moment and let some of the students and people exit the room. Continuing on with agenda section six, public comments. Counsel and myself value and respect comments from the public, aligned with the city of Hudson codified ordinance two two zero point zero three titled rules. Item g subtitled decorum. I'm kindly asking everyone in attendance to remain respectful of the process and display courtesy, professionalism, and order at all times.

Please mute your electronic devices if you have not already done so. And if you must leave the room prior to the completion of our meeting, please do so as quietly as possible. We'll give the students a break on that one. Also per ordinance 220.03 in sub item G, public comments are to be kept within five minutes. There is a device on the lectern that will turn green when your five minute starts.

It will turn yellow, orange at one minute, and then start blinking at twenty seconds, finally turning red at the end of that five minute time period. I will assist verbally to the speaker as well. Therefore, per the City Of Hudson Charter Article three Section 3.02, if there is any resident of the municipality here tonight who would like to speak to city council regarding any topic that's relevant to the City Of Hudson, kindly raise your hand, gain my attention, and as you are verbally called upon, please approach the lectern, state your name and address and counsel will hear your remarks. Is there anyone here tonight who would like to speak to counsel? Ma'am?

If you have handouts you'd wish, I'm assuming you would like to counsel have those, if you hand them to the clerk on the end there, she can distribute them. Okay. Well, I wanna give you your full five minutes.

Well, that's right.

You have a moment here to get these from the clerk.

It's a former school teacher in me. Know, it's like floor here. I need a carpenter to come here and

Thank you. Part of the charm.

Okay. If you'd please state your name and address, please.

Karen Eisenhart. It's Karen with an I. I live at 150 Sunset Drive, Hudson, and I moved here in 1993. I used to have Bricker's ice cream and Cakes by Karen. If you've ever heard of either one of them, if you haven't, don't worry about it. I'm here tonight because I moved in here and we don't have an ice rink. Indoor, I'm talking about. And I skated since I was a little kid, and I thought Hudson really needs one. I raised four kids here. I've got six grandkids.

Only three live here, but still. And I just thought, gosh, that would be so perfect for this town. So I talked to my friend Russ that I've known since elementary school, and he's been in hockey forever. And I was an ice dancer, and I just thought, I'm still skating now, but not ice dancing. I thought, let's do something. And he said, well, Kieran, I've already done this and that, and I know this and that. So I said, alright. Let's put something together, and can you talk to city council? Let's get some motion with people here and see if there could be things. So I'm gonna introduce my friend Russ Dice.

There's an introduction inside there, you know, about him. He's gonna talk about that. But if you would focus on what says since we only have that five minute bit.

I'm trying to talk very fast. My name is Russ Dykes, grew up in Cleveland Heights. I just moved back from Palm Beach, Florida. I lived there twenty seven years. Grew up skinny in a pond in Cleveland, okay? And then 1969, they built a rink. I was one the first kids to end up playing Division I College hockey at Ohio State University where I got a degree in accounting. It wasn't for my parents, ice hockey, and Culver Military School. I have no idea where I'd be today. In 1983, I started an aircraft sales and leasing company.

I sell corporate, military, and commercial aircraft all over the world, and we support the United States government and Blackhawk helicopters. I got conned into coaching by John Malloy who now runs the Gilmore program. He's at Heights. And I started coaching those guys, and I was realizing that there's no kids going from high school to division one college hockey. There there is no way that there's no bridge from high school to college hockey.

So I developed developed a program called team Ohio, where I took the top 20 kids in the state, put them on a travel team. We go to Canada every week from July 1 to November 1. We play internationally, and then we bring them back for high school because it's important for kids to play high school hockey. It's the most fun I ever had, and I played at every level, was heights playing a high tie. It was great. It was the most fun. You're playing in front of your family, your friends. You're going to church, people seeing you in church, slapping you on your back. You know, it's the most fun thing you ever could do. So my big thing was travel and high school hockey. So long story short, I've had this this program for thirty years. We put over 350 kids in college, 70 in NHL. Okay? I've probably coached over 3,000 kids. I'm a master I have my master's degree in coaching from USA hockey.

So I took my jet company down to Palm Beach. And if you look at this thing real quick here that I put together for y'all, it's a program that we put together. It was public private foundation to build a sportsplex for Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Okay? So if you look in the last two pages of the opening of this this book, the sportsplex wasn't just about hockey.

It was about servicing underprivileged kids, kids like playing basketball, soccer, basketball, and we have if you open these two last pages on the left hand side, you'll have these two pages. And have to we're do seventies. Then And I know it's a huge building, the and they could probably handle there's a 220,000 square feet facility that supports all different types of community events. We have multi sport gyms. We have party rooms.

If you're a hockey mom, you should drop your kid off at a rink. And instead of leaving to go home, you can stay there and work out. You have yoga work rooms. You have workout facilities. You have concession stands. You have showers, the whole bit. So we actually were given 17 acres in Palm Beach Gardens to put this deal together. Now we're doing quite well. It was a $43,000,000 project. We're doing quite well getting the money together until COVID came.

COVID totally wiped out the whole program because we we couldn't hit our our financial bars to keep the property 17 acres. So we adjusted gears and made a, we're building, it should be complete in three months, a $50,000,000 touring facility. And the city gave us the property and we built built the facility. So we had donors give us $50,000,000 to do this. Okay? So I know it can be done. We've done it. And if we have a private public partnership, I can't make money in hockey. It's against my feng shui because hockey I said hockey, my parents would call it, would save my life. I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for them.

Okay? Because mental discipline, mental toughness, and focus, and direction you need to be a hockey player. It's a different level. You know what I mean? So what I wanna do is there's a introduction of who I am, give you a 30,000 foot look of who I am, where I came from. Go

ahead. Sorry. The five minutes are up, but per our roles, I'm allowed to give an additional two minutes since we had a nice introduction for you.

Try to talk fast. Sorry.

Okay. We'll continue then.

I won't take that long, but what I'd like to do is if you could take a look at this. I just moved back here from Palm Beach. I live in Aurora now. Okay? And I think there's a lot of people that I coach live in your city. A lot of families that I coach who live in the city. A lot of people came from Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, who played in the Cleveland Eastside Cleveland area, and they moved over here. So if you my position is I don't see why kids should have to pay 40 to $60,000 to play high school hockey at a prep level. Okay? But if you had a good high school program and a good foundation, good support, you can build that from the ground up and keep the people here.

I don't want to see kids going to Culver where I want kids don't need to go to Culver Military School, Northwood, and all these other schools or even Gilmore, St. Ignatius. It should be a pay for their family in the town, and that's one way to do it under this type of scenario. And if you do a sportsplex in a place like the Terex Building, you could have all these different facilities and opportunities under one roof. That's it. That's what I got for you. And if you have questions, I'm available.

Thank you both. Yep. Is there any additional public comment tonight? Is there in the back? You just state your name and address.

Yeah. Hi. My name is Sean Tobin. I'm at 127 Boston Hills Road. And I came this evening to support this idea of excuse me, an arena, sports complex. I think Hudson desperately needs it. My son plays hockey, and we have to drive a half hour to the nearest rink. We play out of Center Ice Sports, which is down in Akron Canton. Kent is twenty, twenty five minutes, but getting through campus at 05:00 is tough too, so everything is basically half hour. And he plays on a team with another family from Hudson.

So really, you know, this is, this is, it's a great sport, teaches a lot of great leadership skills, teamwork, things like that. And I think it's something that this town is missing. You know, we have a lot of other things, but to have to drive at least that thirty minutes to get to Strongsville, get to Chagrin Falls, get to Akron Canton, get

to Kent,

Rocky River, Gilmore. You know, it just would it would be a nice addition to our town. And even our high school team has to drive to Kent for their home ice over there too. So we'd get stuff from Stowe. And even if you look at the Joanne Fabrics area, right, that's close to the Stowe border too, it's it wouldn't congest the city too much with the main arteries in and out of there too. So hockey is a great sport. I grew up in Canada. It's in my blood. So I just wanna make sure that thank you for bringing this to the city council's attention. And, you know, I just want to make sure that I feel there's a lot of support for this. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Additional public comment tonight, sir?

Good evening, counsel. My name is Brandon Grody. I live down in 4024 Deacon Court, Hudson. I've lived here for thirteen years. Many of you probably don't know me because for thirteen years, I basically have lived my life at the Kent State Ice Arena.

About nine years ago, I got so passionate growing the game and raising three kids, two of which are currently on Hudson's high school team and one is currently with Tri County High Hockey Association, that I joined the board. And I've been leading that association now for approximately nine seasons. We now have over a 175 kids playing hockey, of which the majority are actually from Hudson. And you don't see us spend our money here in Hudson because we're in Kent, because we're in Shaker, because we're in all these other communities. We could help grow the financial background of the restaurants here, the other establishments in the area if we spent more time here.

But those of us that love hockey can't because there's no infrastructure with it. And we'd love to support our community even more. We love Hudson. We love being here. It's a great community. But our passion's in ice hockey, and we need your help. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Is there any additional public comment tonight? Tracy?

Hi, I'm Tracy Corpus. I live at 7200 Valley View Road. And I thought there would be a ton of people here because is it the third reading of the Clinton Crossing development? But I guess there isn't. So I'm just gonna say that I'm in support as it always was meant to be developed to support Main Street as well as 1st And Main.

I think that the new plan should realize more people are obviously working from home as compared to years ago and previous plans. One question I had is if Citi could ask the developer to approach Hynens for a larger Hynens as in earlier plans because not only do customers appreciate more space, but much of Hynan's storage is in the back of their parking lot in trailers. So the other thing that I thought, I know that you guys had some sort of a food hall type thing, is if that could possibly I know that the Hynens was gonna go somewhere back, but the food hall type thing, could that be where Hynens is? So those things could swap. The other thing that I wanna say is to keep people happy, I think that the residential development has to be very quaint.

And I think that the type of housing that you could put back there to keep everyone happy is to have young and old people living together. I guess I shouldn't have worded that way, but so people maybe without children on both ends of the spectrum in living in the same type of housing together. This book that I brought in I just was thinking about it, and that's why I came is called Pocket Neighborhoods. And it was written also by a woman named Sarah Suzanka, who is the author of The Not So Big House. And if you want, I can just pass it around.

Just even on the front page or the front of the book, there's down at the very lower part underneath the title is an example of homes that I think this town would be very happy to see. They look a lot like what George Roth did at the Hudson Community Living, which I think looks outstanding from seeing it. And other than that, good luck with the plan, and thank you.

Thank you, Tracy. Is there any additional public comment tonight?

Mister Revita? Anthony Revita, 1746 Edgar Drive. I also like to do a shout out to the staff. I've had nothing but great things that during my building my fence, they were very knowledgeable, very attentive, and very very smart. I came here a year ago, April 8, there was a almost a setup of what was going to happen at that time.

I basically put a leadership for the city, actually, more for mister, Sheridan and mister Pitchford. This was from the air force, and it says undermining the rule of law. Compliant compliance becomes insufficient. Orders are based on rules, and rules are not optional. Carefully crafted narratives are dishonorable and invite hypocrisy.

Power that's secure doesn't silence its own citizens. Real leaders leadership requires scrutiny. Weak leaders leadership abandons restraint and seeks immediate re retaliation. Let truth be the justice and the fine final arbiter. On April, the city council president stated, but it did become personal when it pulled public records and started looking at my home construction.

You claim it's because it's your driveway, because you want to learn more about the layout of my home, which has me greatly concerned given the way that you've acted on a consistent basis and the fact that you seem beside yourself in terms of mental stability. That was the president Foster of the council. Now, he knew at 02:00 that day that I I sought some record of his permit for his driveway. He found out that I I I went and there was no permit. I didn't ask for anything else.

Mister Foster then brought a narrative to the city, the city council, mister mister Sheridan, that basically I was looking at the out the the blueprints of his home, which was a total lie. He told the city this. Mister Sheridan then had hit at that point pulled the city this.

And then one last thing. Correction and a statement that was made tonight. The driveway in front of mister Foster's property on Walters Road was due to a sinkhole within the right of way. The city does not hold permits for our own work. So there's they're not gonna find a permit for that. It's our own work in our right order. We do not hold permits for any of that work. That's the city people working on it or our contractors. It was not mister Foster's. So that was conducted through the engineering department, I believe we had an inspector out there the entire time. So that's all I had.

Now that's the city manager explaining mister Foster's his project, which mister Sheridan lied eight times in thirty nine seconds to the city. Those both those comments initiated a emergency executive meeting. Out of the emergency executive meeting, mister Sutton came out of the that meeting and said, we're gonna file a civil case against you. Now, basically, here's a citizen coming in. One of the workers from the city of Hudson actually let me a left me a note and told me that this job was done without a permit.

That's how I followed it. After that point, there was a memo that was sent out through the city that said, we want a timestamp of everybody every employee's, personal phone that went to my address or my phone number. So basically, the guy who addressed this and basically took you know, wanted to show that the city council president wasn't following the rules, he was gonna be punished.

You have thirty seconds, mister Ravida.

Yeah. Can I have that two minutes?

I'm gonna hold you to the five minutes, sir.

Anyway, after the first month, that was me with the police behind me. This this whole situation, mister Pittsford has now for this particular case, $50,000 he spent of the city's money. To me, I don't understand where this is going because this was a $12,000 fence that got approved by mister, Sheridan's, staff. So, basically, we're in we're in a quandary right now because they won't they won't tell the truth. Mister Pittsford won't tell the truth.

This this has to be done by the city council or somebody that actually recognizes what the city's paperwork says because the paper the paperwork says I passed it.

Thank you very Your time is up. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Is there any additional public comment tonight before we close section six? Seeing no additional public comment, we will close section six and move on to section seven, which is correspondence and council comments. If any council member has correspondence that has not already been generally distributed and or council comments, we will hear those now. Please gain my attention and allow me to verbally recognize you and assign you the floor. Does council have any comments tonight? Mister White.

Mayor, I just wanted to highlight the strong turnout from the community at the spring recycling and shredding event on Saturday. Thanks to city staff, the EAC, and the tree commission for running a very successful event. Also, I wanna thank city staff for their support in the down with the down power line last week on Walters Road. Again, the extra barriers and and stuff up was very helpful for the public safety. And then finally, go Cavs.

Thank you, councilor White. Additional council comment tonight? Councilor Durema?

Thanks, mayor. At the BCBA meeting last Thursday on April 16, Bob Dyer was sworn in, and now we have a complete board of five total members. Just echo what, councilman White was referring to over the weekend. In addition, the renewable Hudson and Go Green go partnered up with for a micro plug in series for three days. My family and friends went and enjoyed picking up trash in downtown. That's all. Thank you.

Thank you, Councilor Dramo. Councilor Goetz, believe you had a comment. Yes.

Tonight, the cemetery board met. The fall tour will be of O'Brien, and it will be September 26 from four to 6PM. O'Brien has had phase one, completed of, headstones, and they're hoping that all the remaining ones will be completed by the September tour. And last fall, we had a scavenger hunt where we give names and you go look for them, and it was a lot of fun, and we may think of having some rewards if we can get some of the kids there to do that. Since O'Brien doesn't have good parking, we're looking into having people park at City Hall and have some kind of van to take people to O'Brien.

But the cemetery board is still working on that. The back area of Markley St. Mary's has been engineered, and we're looking at making an expansion there. And we're hoping that that will begin soon. Between that, which would be 500 more plots, and the columbarium, which is set to be built this spring, which will accommodate 100 cremains, that will increase our capacity.

The cemetery itself is generating good funds already. In just the first three or four months of the year, we've made over $50,000 So we're on pace for what we made last year. There is one opening on the cemetery board now, so we're hoping to get that out look at joining. Thank you.

Thank you, councilor Gantz. Any additional comments? Councilor Brezevic?

Thank you, mayor. Yesterday, I attended the park board. We were able to welcome our two new members, Brian Canterbury and Megan Higgins, to complete our board, full of seven. Mister Costco gave a presentation on, stormwater mitigation for Darrow Road Park, as a part of the Tinker's Creek water study. It's will the first phase will include just a small kind of detention, I believe was the proper terminology, pond.

And then, a part two would be a wider encompassing area of the park, but that will allow them to expand the size of some culverts downstream. That will be coming to us in May. May 28 is an open house for the Middleton Park improvements. All resident input is welcome, and it should include the results from the Brandywine Watershed Study at that point in time. We had an inventory taken of AEDs at the parks.

Middleton And Colony Parks are currently without AEDs. Middleton obviously will be addressed as a part of the Middleton project next year, hoping to have Colony Park addressed this year. Additionally, the board feels a second AED is needed at Oak Grove with its expansion of our new playground. And finally, on the new playground, the Oak Grove Playground did officially get a name last night, and it will be known as the Dream Playground. That is all.

Thank you, Councilor Brezovic. Additional comments from council tonight? Council President Byrd?

So building on the storm water comments from Kyle. So this Thursday, April 23 at 05:30PM, there's gonna be a public open house for the Tinkers Creek Watershed, and we're gonna hear results of that storm water study that's been going on for several months. That's gonna be in the Hudson High School Auditorium. Again, Thursday at 05:30PM. And then secondly, I I reached out to our city solicitor and he verified that under Robert's rules, we are not allowed to sing happy birthday to you, mayor.

But deep down inside, we all wish you a very special birthday. And I think this one maybe starts to allow you to kind of get into some of the

Oh, don't say it.

Senior facilities that are, you know, mature adults or something like that. But, you know, yeah. But you got you got plenty more years left. So congratulations.

Thank you, council president Byrd. Additional comment from the two council members who have not spoken yet? Thank you again, President Byrd. I just wanted to add two quick things. If you did not have the opportunity to watch the Hudson High School Drama Club's production of Legally Blonde this past weekend, you did miss out.

It was an amazing show. And I just wanted to say congratulations again to that entire club, the advisors, the directors, the the pit crew, and everybody else that took part in that. We do have some extremely talented youth here in our city, and that was a wonderful production and show. And second thing real quick, I was notified last night and again early this morning that there were several Hudson Middle School athletes who broke school records in track and field. So I will soon, possibly this Friday, be going to the middle school to present each one of them with a special recognition certificate that I created a few years ago for things just like this.

So congratulations to those students, and thank you again, Council President Byrd. Are there any additional comments from council tonight? Seeing none, we will close section seven and move on to section eight, report of the city manager. Mister Sheridan, I'll assign you the floor if you have anything to update council with.

Thank you, mayor. Again, I will mimic what president Byrd said. Happy birthday to you, mayor. It looks like everybody took all the items I had, so, I don't need to repeat all that. But I did wanna introduce everybody to Margaret Tussey. She's been in the assistant finance director's position for about a year, and, she's filling in for Jeff tonight. So I wanted all of you to meet her, and we made her get the proclamation tonight. So thank you, mayor.

Next time she'll have to speak and say something at the lectern now. Thank you, mister Sheridan. Are there any comments or questions for mister Sheridan from counsel tonight? Seeing none, we will close section in section eight and move on to section nine for appointments. Council president Byrd, do we have any appointments tonight?

We have no appointments tonight, mayor.

And council president Byrd, for the residents of Hudson, do we have a list of what is still open? I know councilor Goetz mentioned something on

the cemetery board. We do have multiple openings still on HCTV advisory committee. Believe that's two. Yes, to get to five, it would be two.

Okay. Mrs. Wheeler, is there any additional openings? A

Not at this time.

Okay. Alright. Any additional comments, Council President Byrd? No. Thank you. We will close section nine and move on to section 10 for the consent agenda. Council members, if there are any items on the consent agenda that you wish to have considered separately, please allow me to read the item, gain my attention, and state your wishes. Item A on consent is number 201, A motion to acknowledge the timely receipt of the March 2026 monthly financial report. Item b on consent is number 26 dash six five. An ordinance adopting the city's federal funds and grant policies.

Item c on consent is number two six dash six six, An ordinance amending ordinance number two five dash one six five, making appropriations for the current expenses and other expenditures of the city of Hudson during the fiscal year ending 12/31/2026 by making additional and or amended appropriations. Item D on consent is number 207. A resolution affirming the application submitted by the city manager to the state of Ohio's biennial capital budget. Item e on consent is number two six dash six eight. A resolution affirming the application submitted by the city manager to the Ohio Department of Public Safety for a priority one and supplemental grant.

The last item on consent is item f, number two six dash six nine. This is a resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into a contract with Vetro Incorporated for fiber mapping software and declaring an emergency. Those are the items on consent tonight. Therefore, do we have a motion to suspend the rules to allow passage of the items on the consent agenda? I move to suspend the rules. Thank you, counselor Brezovich. Do we have a second?

Second.

Thank you, counselor Goetz. Missus Wheeler, will you please roll call a vote?

Mister Brezovich? Yes. Mister Ramo? Yes. Doctor Getz? Yes. Mister Sutton? Doctor. Weinstein? Yes. Mr. White? Yes. Doctor. Byrd?

Yes. Thank you Mrs. Wheeler. The rules are so suspended by a vote of seven in favor to zero against. Does counsel wish to enter a motion to approve the consent agenda?

I move to approve the consent agenda.

Thank you, Councilor Goetz. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you, Councilor Brezovic. Are there any comments? Seeing none, Mrs. Wheeler, will you please roll call a vote.

Ms. Ramo? Yes. Doctor. Getz? Yes. Mr. Sutton? Yes. Doctor. Weinstein? Yes. Mr. White? Yes. Doctor. Bird? Yes. Mr. Brezevek?

Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Wheeler. The consent agenda has been approved by vote of seven in favor to zero against. We'll close section 10 and move on to section 11 for legislation. Item A is number 26 dash 51. This is an ordinance amending codified ordinances chapter one four four six, street banners. This is a third reading tonight and actionable. Does council wish to enter a motion to pass legislation item two six dash five one?

Move to pass 20 six-fifty one.

Thank you, Council President Byrd. Do we have a second?

I second it.

Thank you, Councilor Gatz. Is there any discussion from council on legislation 20 six-fifty one and the motion on the floor to pass this item. Seeing no comment or discussion, Mrs. Wheeler, will you please roll call a vote on the passage of Legislation 20 six-fifty one.

Doctor. Goetz? Yes. Mr. Sutton? Doctor. Weinstein? Yes. Mr. White? Yes. Doctor. Bird? Yes. Mr. Brezovag?

Yes.

Mr. Ramo? Yes.

Thank you, Mrs. Wheeler. Legislation two six dash 51 passes by a vote of seven in favor to zero against. We'll move on to item b on legislation, which is number two six dash five three, a resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into a professional services contract with RDL Architects for the downtown development concept site plan and declaring an emergency. This is also a third reading tonight and actionable. Does council wish to enter a motion to pass legislation two six dash five three?

I move we pass two six five three.

Thank you, Councilor Goetz. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you, Councilor Bresovic. Is there any council comment or discussion on the passage of legislation 26 Dash53. Councilor Weinstein?

I'd just like to say that I know we had some comments today about, the downtown phase 2 Clinton Crossing area, and I look forward to having RDL architects, work with more, engagement with our community, which is part of this plan so that we can have a plan that is community driven, and, reflects what Hudsonites want for that area.

Thank you, Councilor Weinstein. Any additional comment from Council tonight? Seeing none, Mrs. Wheeler, will you please roll call a vote on the passage of legislation two six dash five three?

Mr. Sutton? Yes. Doctor. Weinstein? Yes. Mr. White? Yes. Doctor. Bird? Yes. Mr. Brezovich? Yes. Mr. Ramo? Yes. Doctor. Goetz? Yes.

Thank you, Mrs. Wheeler. Legislation two six dash 53 passes by a vote of seven in favor to zero against. We'll move on to item c on legislation, which is number two six dash six four. This is a second reading tonight. An ordinance amending the codified ordinances to allow the corrections or correction of the scrivener's heirs by the clerk. Again, this is a second reading tonight. Moving on to item d on legislation is number two six dash seven zero. An ordinance to repeal chapter two two six of the codified ordinances relating to campaign finance limits and regulations. This is a first reading tonight.

Moving on to item e, number two six dash seven one. This is an ordinance amending sections two two zero point zero three, two two zero point zero three one, and two two zero point zero six of the codified ordinances to allow the introduction of ordinances and resolutions on regular and special city council agendas after consideration at a workshop. This is also a first of three readings tonight. Counselor Goetz, do you have point of order or a point of information or clarification?

Yes, was wondering if the solicitor would explain a little bit more about this.

Well taken, Mr. Pitchford. Is there something that you can help explain for a point of clarification on legislation item two six dash seven one?

Yes. So the current, there are several drafts here, in front of you this evening. The idea behind this ordinance is to change the current model where legislation requires at least four city council members to advance to a regular council meeting. The support at a workshop and we are working on further amendments to establish a rule that items that are placed on a workshop agenda shall automatically move forward to a regular or special agenda unless city council members direct otherwise during the workshop. And then if two members, in that instance if someone objects, if two members go ahead and support the legislation, it will continue to the agenda.

But that version will be coming to workshop next week. But the idea here is that we're simply abolishing the four person requirement at the workshop and we'll be lowering it to two members.

Thank you, Mr. Pitchford. Councilor Brezovic, do you have another point of clarification or information?

I think information, I suppose clarification. You said that would be returning to us at a workshop, mister Pitchford?

This will come back, right? This will just be considered the first reading. At next week's workshop, there will be a revised draft that captures the language that talks about automatically moving forward. That is the current practice. That's how legislation moves forward. Create the The administration creates the agenda with the help from council president and the mayor, and council reviews it, and then that's the basis for a regular city council agenda. However, if you read the rules, it doesn't specifically say that. So we're gonna be adding the language that says it automatically moves forward, essentially unless a city council member objects.

And that'll be amendment. So this still counts as its first reading and

Okay. I understand. It'll come back for a second and third reading perhaps, but certainly at the second reading, you'll have that updated version.

Understood. Thank you.

And just to clarify, there's not a motion on the floor, so we don't want to get into too much discussion on legislation 20 one. I did allow the point of clarification or information. Thank you for that clarification, mister Pitchford. Seeing such, we will move on to item f on legislation, which is two six dash seven two. This is an ordinance amending part two of the codified ordinances of the city of Hudson to create chapter two one six public records.

This is also a first of three readings this evening. Moving on to the last item on legislation is item g number two six dash seven three, a resolution authorizing the city manager to adopt and implement a policy on accepting funds from nonprofit organizations for public projects. And this is a first of three readings tonight. That does conclude our legislative agenda. We will close section 11 and move on to section 12 for adjournment. As there is no further public business covered by this regular city council meeting tonight, do we have a motion from council to adjourn?

I move to adjourn.

Thank you, councilor Brezovich. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you, council president Byrd. All in favor of adjourning, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Seeing none, this regular city council meeting is so adjourned at 08:35PM. Thank you.