City Council - Regular Meeting

Good to go.

It is Tuesday, August 4th, 2026, and we are going to call this council meeting to order at 641 p.m. Teresa, could you call roll?

Mayor Tiffany Hollis.

Here.

Ryan Green. Here. Don Barnard.

Here.

Matthew Huggins.

Here.

Kyle Cook. Here. Jeff Barr.

Present.

Nicole Shook.

Here. And tonight's invocation, if everyone would stand, will be given by Councilman Barr. Thank you.

Let's bow our head. Dear Lord, thank you for bringing us together on this beautiful summer evening. Please forgive us of our transgressions. May we thank you again and again for the blessings you bestow upon us each and every day, both known and unknown. Help us to liberate, be thoughtful in our... conversation amongst one another and amongst our community. We thank you for this opportunity to serve and understanding it is at your will and your pleasure. In Christ's name we pray, amen. Amen.

And now pledge allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

The first item on the agenda is approval of the agenda. Would anyone like to make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda.

I'll second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Next is action on minutes for the July 16th, 2026 meeting. Would anyone like to make a motion?

I'll make a motion to accept the minutes as written from the July 16th, 2026 meeting. I'll second.

All in favor? Everyone was present. Yes.

Next, we have citizen comments on matters not on the agenda. Do we have any speaker slips?

I didn't, but I didn't put them out.

Okay.

Are there any other comments? Items not on the agenda?

Moving on. We have a presentation from Jacobs Engineering for the Hannah's Park Improvements Water Feature and Amphitheater. This is Mike.

Hello, everybody. My name is Mike John Giordano. I'm the project manager with Jacobs for the water treatment plant project. Also engaged with your wastewater project that we talked about not too long ago. I was planning on hooking up to here, but that's okay.

I can get you hooked up.

It's right there. It's okay. I learned last time. Just bring it up.

All I have to do is turn the TVs on if you want to put it up.

Get away from my computer for a little bit. So what's being passed around is a slide deck and really it's just to get a conversation going. And so what we wanted to talk about today is one, introduce ourselves and how we came about to putting together the information in front of you. And really, the city has gone about this once before. There was a concept developed. That concept was just a little bit too high in the costs. And the city is working with grant money on this. So we're trying to right-size a project with the grant money that's allocated to the city right now. We're working with some council members to determine the T's and C's, the terms and conditions, with those grants and how to actually finish a project like this, how to realize a project like this, okay? So advertise, construct, and then ribbon cutting, right? So I just want to reiterate, this is a grant-funded project. It's a joint effort between... You all within the city, the residents, the leadership here, but also the water treatment plant team. And that's the engineer and the CMAR and Bowen as well. They're also putting forward some effort here. Our team, the water team, this is no cost to the city on what we've done to date and what we plan on doing in the future on this. As long as it's right-sized. I'm just kind of caveating a little bit. And breaking the ice, maybe. But what I want to talk about here, and I think some council members will pick up on this, is really just a development for consideration, or excuse me, a concept for consideration, is what myself and Megan behind me have done to date. We really do feel this is an ability to promote local business and facilitate community gathering. through that continue to implement the city's architectural themes some some movement that you guys have taken amongst yourselves and you'll see that reflected in some of the imagery here and then also just try to not only keep residents here throughout the day, but also attract visitors here through the day. And so at the Hannah's Memorial Park, Len Lee Hannah's Memorial Park, this is a formal name, but at Hannah's Memorial Park, I'll often spend mornings there ahead of some of our water plant projects this summer and just queue up some hotspot, and answer some emails ahead of a busy day in front of me. I mean, it is a nice space, and there is some land there to further develop it and to attract some people as well. On the paperwork in front of you, one of the first slides there, the project origin slide is...

Hang on one second, Mike. How hard is it to get them connected just so everybody can see the slides? Is that okay?

Is that okay? Am I doing it? I don't mind if you don't mind. No, we'll wait.

That way everybody out here can see.

We have a good crowd tonight, so we want to make sure they're on the same page. Okay, next one.

And show them why you're at work. Your hand-drawn sketches aren't in here, though.

That's how the concept really starts, right? Yeah.

Yeah, Mike and his team have been great on everything with us so far. So it was the creativity.

I appreciate that. Just the images at the bottom were actually the go-bys, as we say, the inspiration that we pull. Those are city examples, two from the school, and one is the opera house. And that's the brick theme that we're trying to carry through. You'll notice there's a little bit of black in there as well. Black iron is being introduced to this concept, this project. So really the theme, other than the concrete, because we have to do concrete, is going to be brick with the black iron intermixed in there. You can see some kind of rendering for, actually let me progress if I may.

i'll go back to that other side so i think we all know where we're talking with hannah's memorial park i think the only thing that i would touch on is that the the piece of um the walking path obviously is you know the park is where the walking path will be but we're going to use the swings to tie in the downtown or uptown opera house area to tie it in all together so it really will connect visually our Main Street area with foot traffic, you know, to create that flow visually from Main Street all the way through the walking path to the school's new athletic facilities.

So if I were able to zoom in here, it's a field, right? And so the access is through the drive over here in the park here. So what we're trying to do is provide some accessibility from Maple Street to 62. And what that does is it connects you to the athletic complex up here and that construction and the activity that's going on there. And then it'll take you to the opera house and to the rest of the main street. And so that's really the intent is people will hang out here through the day.

And I think another exciting piece of that is that we... It's going to be multi-purpose. It does tie in and create that walkable community that we're going for. But it also, there are not sidewalks on Villa Street, Williams. And with the amount of kids that will be crossing town from the high school and middle school to use the athletic facilities, this will now create a safe walking path for them to get to the athletic facilities. So it really does kill a lot of birds with one stone. And as we also do the 6237 improvements and move that light in the crosswalk, it will provide a much safer space for the kids to get across town. Sorry, Mike. I'm going to keep jumping in on you. Sorry.

Love it. So just kind of zooming in just real quick and trying to be quick with this a little bit just to foster some conversation is the concept at the site itself right now, dark blue being what's proposed as part of this project and the light blue or the lighter blue is what we're saying is future. And so this site can be phased. Again, with the grant money, we're right-sizing it, and we're going to take it to the dollar amount of that grant money. So we have a couple of items that may or may not make it, being parking, bathroom, food truck parking improvements, and that kind of stuff. So with what you are looking at on the screen and in front of you on this page is that sidewalk, and I'm going to highlight it on the screen there so you can kind of see what I'm trying to get to. The sidewalk to connect. A little serpentine here. Switch back to address the grade. It gets a little steep grade right there. Splash pad area. An additional shaded park shelter. Some bench swings in this area. And these park signs is what I was actually getting to at the entrance here and the entrance here. Entrance and exit. And that's what you see on the two columns with the Johnstown going across it. Not vinyl design, it's just the columns are pretty close to accurate. We'll need to work on the steel going across. Trying to get your courthouse in there a little bit. We can, depending on the CNC and etching of steel. Pause right here, see if there are any questions with this.

I think one of the cool parts about this, Mike touched on it earlier, but this was a point that we made. Johnstown has had a tough time over the last few years, and when development comes in, they say you don't have a brand. And when we try to say, you know, what do we want buildings and what do we want things to look like, and they say you don't have a brand. Well, I think this helps to solidify what we have because it's tying together a lot of the key architectural points in the city to really give us that brand.

So some of those architectural items being the entrance at the, excuse me, should figure out what these are actually called. The columns going into the park entrance, the swings, the shelter house. and of course the splash pad, right? So this is the concept. We have it very close to shovel ready at this point. We're just working, like I said, those terms and conditions with the grant and between the two grants.

And I think I'm going to jump in here too on the splash pad piece of it. We go back to that slide.

They screw in from the top side. So if we want to kind of change it up to give the kids a different look from year to year, or if we want to add bigger features, or if unfortunately there's some sort of maintenance issue, you know, something breaks, we can change those out fairly easy and inexpensively.

New power, and this is just a concept again. What you get is the top left picture, which is just a blank electrical box. But what if you were able to wrap paint? We actually came up with this concept as just a community arts project. You have a local school, local grade, or somebody every year can paint this thing, or it could be a wrap, like you would do a vehicle wrap. I don't know the term on those, but something like that, right? So a more permanent type of wrap, and I think you have a couple of these throughout town. You could start sprinkling them in wherever they are. Stop hiding them behind bushes and actually make them a feature of the city. I love that. Get your themes across there. This is just random stuff that we chose, right? But this is an opportunity for the city to continue the brand and movement in that regard.

I like that slogan. Yeah, it's a great slogan when you think about everything that comes in. We've talked about doing murals in the city for years, but unfortunately we just don't have the buildings that would accept a mural. So this is a great opportunity with these boxes throughout the city to showcase us.

And so I'm just going to hit, we are water people, so we're going to touch on what is the single pass, and we are planning this to be a single pass. The reusable stuff is just... You're talking very large-scale pools and beyond that. Splash pads are very hard to make it financially feasible to have a reusable system. So this is a single-pass system. So we have to consider how much water it would use. And when you look at the grand scheme of things, it's the far right column there, the percents, we call that negligible. So it's just not much water being used in this instance. And this is about a three and a half month duration, right? So we're planning on, what did we say there? Memorial to Labor Day. And we're just assuming that's when the city would operate it. And maintenance items. It's a list, but it's very short. Or excuse me, very short. It's very straightforward stuff. It's simple stuff. It's not very complicated. low voltage power by the time it gets to the valves and it's the baller feature. It's really the nozzles that are going to require the maintenance as well as just keeping the area clean of dirt and debris. So one of the things that we did implement, we didn't want grass clippings and stuff sprayed on there. So the sitting wall that wraps the splash pad will help with that and it will also give additional seating.

You'll want to round that point and not make it.

Exactly. So that is not going to make it past value engineering or the contractor. It might make it past us. Someone will straighten out. Yeah, it's a little bit of a hard shape right now. We'll speed that up.

Forty-five. I'll pick it apart at later times and we'll get there. No, no, I don't want to do it now. Safety first.

We don't need to talk about the winterization. I mean, that's all just basic stuff.

You're saying there is some maintenance to it, right? Not very much.

I personally want to say a huge, ginormous, gigantic thank you to Jacobs for, one, taking this on and being willing to partner with us on this. We would not be this far along with any of it if it weren't for you guys. So kudos to you. And also, you did an amazing job getting the vision of what we're talking about. And this community deserves it. It's exciting.

Well, we're excited. Thank you for being appreciative. We value the partnership, obviously, and this task is a good task for us to be ingrained with you, and that's how we approach you guys is, hey, we're working water and wastewater. How can we be more part of the community of Johnstown itself, right? And so this is a great avenue to engage more people. I think you guys are engaging the community with this project and doing reach-outs with it. It's a good story. It's a good story to tell. We're happy to be a part of it. We just want to take it to that next level if we can.

It's a great opportunity to show the power of public and private partnership. And when you collaborate with the people you're working with already, it's just a testament to how much you can get done if you really roll up your sleeves. I think I'll set the box. So thank you. Does anybody have any questions for Mike? No?

Thanks. Thank you. Very well done. Thank you.

Yes. Great job.

Thank you.

to the agenda. Council Committee reports Design Review Board met July 28th, 2026. Next meeting is August 11th at 530. Teresa, do you have anything from that meeting?

They had four certificate of appropriatenesses for various exterior improvements. They were all approved.

Okay. Planning and zoning met same night. Next meeting is also August 11th at 6.30 in council chambers. Kyle, do you have an update?

We discussed allowing the conditional use of a care facility at the old nursing home And we had a couple of variances to discuss with the last year. Okay.

And safety and service met on August 4th. Next meeting is September 1st. Do you have anything from that or did you update it the last?

We updated the last one, but you guys will just reiterate. We were supposed to meet today, but we canceled that. So council will see what we've had come out of there. I know we talked about our water and sewer quite extensively, the new clear well, tap fees, and sewer rates. You'll also see something coming up about the e-bikes and some other projects that we have on the horizon there.

And the next Finance Committee meeting is August 18th. You haven't met since the last meeting, so there's an update there.

There is an update. We'll start some preliminary discussions and talks about fiscal year 27 at that time.

Okay.

Getting it scheduled for the budget. Yep.

Okay. And those are open to public participation, correct?

Absolutely. Please come.

Director reports, service department. Mr. Liggett.

Okay, you have in front of you the water, sewer, and street individual reports. I am going to jump straight to the service director's report. Just an update on the water plant. We meet weekly, so July 2nd, 9th, 22nd, 23rd, and 30th. critical discussions for the mock-up on the new chemical building. We are in current construction with the new sludge holding equipment and we had a sludge hauling. Trying to get our loads of lime and sludge in and out of there on that tight site with construction is trying. However, working with Owen and Jacobs has been very good so we can continue them to work and we can get our facilities in as well. For the plan update, there are a couple final EPA approvals that we're still waiting on, but we're in preparation to bid that project. Hopefully have that project, Mike, correct me, but September?

Advertise end of August.

Advertise end of August, first of September to keep that project on track is the plan. Item 4, I always give you an update. We had repaired a watch valve at the library which was leaking going to the fire hydrant. We also had another break on Central Station Place which has been fixed but the road repair is not done yet. We had another break up at Post Office Alley and one that is not on here was a Buena Vista. We had another leak in Buena Vista. Not another, we had a leak in Buena Vista. So we got those all repaired. We still have two vacant positions on the street department. We're trying to continue to advertise, keep that out there. If anybody is an individual that would like to join our team, we've got it on Facebook. We have positions to fill. Probably a lot of you have seen the micro-sealing and crack-sealing on Concord Road and Buena Vista has been completed. And hopefully the striping will follow in about a week. They've got to let that micro-sealing get firmed up and dried before we go ahead and put the micro-sealing or the striping on there. But hopefully that will go on by the end of this month. You already know the initial street grading has been turned in to the city for review. We got the bids back on Leafydale and Pershing drives for mill and fill work. Ball construction was the low bid on that project. And the IMGIS... is moving forward well. They are getting all of our information integrated into their GIS and work order system. I would say probably within the next three weeks we will have a training session to make sure everything is in order and for the employees to be shown how it operates and how it works. Any questions on any of those items or water and sewer reports?

So the residents where the utility flag marked, if they wanted to, they could pull that out? I'm not sure of your question. For the GIS markings, when they flagged all the water?

Yeah, yeah, they'll be able to pull the lines up on... No, no, I mean the residents where the...

The little blue flags? The little blue flags.

Can they take them out? Can they throw them...

No, we'll have to go put them back in.

Okay, so they're still needed?

Yes.

Okay.

That was asked. What section, if I could ask?

In Rolling Meadows.

Well, that work, I believe, is AEP replacing poles, or it could be the gas line. We have multiple, so I don't know what section. Okay, I'll follow.

Could be guys building fences, too. No, water. Um... The Leafy Dell Drive paving, do we have a date on that yet?

No, I don't. As you know, we bid that late in the year. We did get a reasonable bid on that. I'm calling to see if we can squeeze it in before school, but I'm going to tell you that it's unlikely.

Right, yeah.

But it will be done before the end of October, according to our contract.

Okay, and then the traffic light there at Leafy Dell on 37, have we gotten a date on that?

I made that phone call because we talked about that. I made a phone call to ODOT. I'm waiting on a phone call back. Left a message Friday. I may touch base again tomorrow.

Okay. Other than that, Concord and Buena Vista look great.

Great. I thought they did a nice job, and particularly did a nice job with the traffic. I was very concerned about Concord because all those developments all come out on that same road. But their flagging and traffic work, I was up there, checked on them probably a half a dozen times, and they kept traffic moving. I thought they did a nice job.

Quick question on Concord, and I haven't seen Buena Vista yet. At the intersection, there's a lot of stone and stuff out.

That is where the cars are most tracking in and out and turning. They wanted that stone, A, so nothing came up on the cars from the tires, and B, until that sets, that's where the twisting and turning of the tires go, and that stays on top, protects the top coat just a little bit.

Okay, thank you. You can see one spot in there where there's some tires where somebody was doing something.

Well, you know, that happens.

Yeah. Teresa, when you hear about the traffic, could you send an email to all council? Because we'll get, especially us in Leafy Dell, we're going to get asked a lot, like, time frame and how long.

I'll let everyone know. Thank you so much. We're trying to head that off.

And just as an additional item, of course, this is July 4th, but we did... At least temporarily get the lights at Bigelow and 62 recovered. I'm trying to find a permanent cover for those lights, something that will last right now. Honestly, they're just trash bags wrapped around it with duct tape, but it is serving the purpose.

Do the lights have to stay on the poles, or can they come down? That's not an option.

Oh, I'm sure we can get somebody to take them down. Tiffany's got a couple brothers.

I'm not afraid to ask.

The biggest concern would be the wiring because it is tied in with the light up at Wendy's to make sure we're disconnected properly and it doesn't affect that other light. I don't know if we've made a decision that those lights are not going to be turned on or are going to be turned on in the future. I don't know if we've made that decision. But if we have made the decision we're not going to turn them on, we should actually... do that, just get them down and out.

And there's no sense in having them, yeah, might be like, I don't know how much a light is, but.

Because to have the crews go out there every so often in the middle of that traffic, A, it slows down traffic, B, it's dangerous for them because they're up in that lift truck, you know, out in the middle of the street. And so if there is a permanent decision, I think that would be good. We could make moves if we decide to do that.

We get a lot less questions about it.

Do we want to add that to the next safety and service? We can add that. Teresa.

Thank you. If I may, I would suggest that between the two of us, we figure out a contractor who might be the one to take the lights down and check and see what the impact would be. Can we keep the wiring safe after that's done and what the impact would be? If we can get that before the next meeting, we can report back what the likelihood of just taking them down.

If you can bring us options to the safety and service meeting of, you know, these.

This would be the cost. This would be the pro and the con.

And if you decide to turn them on, we need some sort of pattern discussion.

That's a whole different issue if you're going to turn them back on.

Yeah.

So, yes, we'll give you some additional information.

We have never operated them. that they were supposed to be installed, that the lights are in sync with each other. So they're both green and they're both red at the same time. We have other lights on Jersey Street that are supposed to be in sync with each other as well. As you know, as time goes, they drift. Sometimes they stroke. They do. All old equipment, particularly the storm situation, they'll go, but... We don't have funding to replace them and all the wiring. So we just keep rebuilding, resetting.

Duct tape and WD-40. Duct tape and WD-40.

Well, that's what we got on the line to think about.

Obviously, I'm not an attorney, but I would hesitate to turn them on without a traffic study to justify why they're there.

Anything else for Jack? No?

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Okay, moving on to tabled legislation. The first item is Ordinance 08-2026, an ordinance accepting an annexation of 99.4 acres, more or less, from Monroe Township, Licking County, to the City of Johnstown, and declaring an emergency. So, um, I believe the first reading was done at the last meeting. Um, Before we move forward with this, I need to make a motion to amend the initial reading to add the emergency.

Are you making that motion?

I am making that motion.

I'll second. Thank you.

Mayor Hollis? Yes. Kyle Cook?

Yes.

Jeff Barr?

Yes.

Nicole Shook? Yes. Matthew Huggins?

Yes.

Don Barnard? Yes. Ryan Green?

Yes.

Does anyone on council have any comment or questions? No. We'll open for public comment. Does anyone have anything regarding this ordinance? Hearing none, we will move on to we need a motion to approve as amended.

We'll make a motion to approve ordinance 08-2026 as an emergency. I'll second.

Donnie Barnard? Yes. Ryan Green? Yes. Senator Hollis? Yes. Kyle Cook? Yes. Jeff Barr? Affirm. Nicole Shook? Yes. Matthew Huggins?

Yes.

Next we have Ordinance 09-2026, an ordinance amending the official zoning map of the City of Johnstown rezoning approximately 99.4 acres to a planned development district and declaring an emergency. So we're going to do the same thing. I'm going to make a motion to amend to add the emergency to the initial verbiage.

And I'll second.

Mayor Hollis? Yes. Kyle Cook? Yes. Jeff Barr? Yes. Nicole Shook? Yes. Matthew Huggins? Yes. Donnie Barnard? Yes. Brian Green?

Yes.

And does council have any comment or questions regarding this? None. We'll open for public comment. Yep, you can come up to the podium. Oh, yeah, sure. I'm sorry, I didn't see you raise your hand.

What's the emergency?

It's listed in the ordinance, but it is to expedite a development that has substantial impact on the city's financial well-being, infrastructure well-being, and to attract jobs and development to the area. Thanks, Josh.

Mike, do you want to come up to the podium?

Do you want me to pass this on out? Yes, please. I didn't know if council had them right now.

Is everybody OK with giving it?

That's fine.

Yeah. Yes. There's seven.

Yes, please.

All right, sir.

Mr. Slargy, a reminder, three minutes.

Yep, ready. Hello, I'm Mike Slargy here tonight, Monroe Township Trustee, and I'm here to present a letter on behalf of the Monroe Township Trustees and the Monroe Township Fire Department. Thank you very much for this opportunity. Dear Mayor and members of council, On behalf of Monroe Township Board of Trustees, we respectfully request a meeting with the City of Johnstown to discuss the development of a compensation agreement addressing the impacts of the City's annexation of approximately 99 acres from within Monroe Township that just occurred and the tax abatements associated with that development. While the Township recognizes the economic opportunities that new development can bring to the region. The tax abatements granted as part of this project will significantly reduce the revenue which would otherwise be available to support essential town services, most notably the Moreau Township Fire Department. The fire department will experience increased demand as a direct result of this development. Additional commercial growth requires enhanced emergency response capabilities, staffing, training, apparatus, and equipment. At the same time these service demands are increasing, the tax abatements have diminished the primary source of revenue needed to fund those improvements. Accordingly, the Monroe Township Board of Trustees requests that the City of Johnstown enter into discussions regarding a compensation agreement under which the City would reimburse the Township for the Fire Department revenue lost due to the tax abatements. Such an agreement would help ensure that emergency services remain adequately funded and capable of providing the level of protection that residents, businesses, employees, and visitors to the new development sites will expect and deserve. We believe a collaborative approach between both the city and the township by ensuring that public safety infrastructure keeps pace with growth while fostering a strong intergovernmental partnership. We respectfully request the opportunity to meet with city representatives at your earliest convenience to discuss this matter and work toward a mutual beneficial agreement. Moreau Township Trustees, thank you for your consideration, and we look forward to your response and to working together to support responsible development and continued safety for our shared community as one, Moreau Township and the City of Johnstown. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyone else have any public comment? Hearing none, we need a motion to approve as amended.

I make a motion to approve Ordinance 09-2026 as an emergency as written.

I'll second. Donnie Barnard. Yes. Brian Green. Yes. Mayor Hollis. Yes. Kyle Cook. Yes. Jeff Barr.

Yes.

Nicole Shook. Yes. Matthew Huggins.

Yes.

Okay, moving on, we have Ordinance 11-2026, an ordinance amending Section 921.06 of the Codified Ordinances of Johnstown, Ohio, in order to set water and tap and capacity fees charged by the City of Johnstown. This was initially introduced at the July 23rd meeting. Does anyone have any comment?

Yes, Mayor. I'd like to table Ordinance 11-26 and 12-2026. So we could have probably a workshop meeting would be best. Have our team that presented these fees have them present as well so we could have a little more debate, discussion, and get comfortable with the proposed fees if we went to amend, whatever that looks like. Okay.

Are you making the motion?

I'm making a motion to table. I'll second. Ordinance 11-2026 and Ordinance 12-2026.

In a block?

Yes. Great. You second it, sir? Yep.

And in other business, can we establish a time for this meeting? Yeah, we need to.

Okay. Motion to table for both Ordinance 11-2026 and Ordinance 12-2026.

Affirmed.

Nicole Shook.

Yes. Matthew Huggins. Yes. Ellie Barnard. Yes. Ryan Green. Yes. Mayor Hollis. Yes. Yes.

Moving on, we have Ordinance 14-2026, an ordinance approving the editing and inclusion of certain ordinances as part of the various component codes of the codified ordinances of Johnstown, Ohio, and declaring an emergency. We're going to need a motion to waive the second reading. Teresa, do you want to explain what this is?

Our publishing company that publishes our online ordinances after they're passed has held up the publishing waiting on some legislation, state or federal, that they wanted to include. It's been a year since we've had an update online on our code. So they just got me all the written changes and the legislation of everything that's going to be included. So the emergency just lets it go into effect immediately so we can get them published online right away.

I'd like to make a...

The only thing I was going to say, Mayor, is that everything that is being codified has already been adopted by either the state or this local body, so it's not changing anything substantively. It's just actually putting it, giving people notice of it on the codification website. Make it accessible. It's just a housekeeping issue.

So we need a motion to waive the second reading.

I'll make a motion.

A second.

Ryan Green.

Yes.

Mayor Hollis. Yes. Al Cook. Yes. Jeff Barr. Yes. Nicole Shuck. Yes. Matthew Huggins. Yes. Lonnie Barnard. Yes.

And does anyone on council have any questions or comments on this? We'll open for public comment on this. Anyone? Hearing nothing, we need a motion to approve.

I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second.

All right. Kyle Cook. Yes. Jeff Parr. Yes. Nicole Shook. Yes. Matthew Huggin. Yes. Donnie Barnard. Yes. Ryan Green. Yes. Mayor Hollis.

Yes. Next we have Ordinance 13-2026, an ordinance authorizing certain actions necessary to maintain the status of the Johnstown Community Improvement Corporation, including authorizing the city manager or finance director to take all actions necessary to maintain such status, directing the preparation of a code of regulations, establishing the board structure, and declaring an emergency. This is an introduction only. We will not be voting on this tonight. We will vote August 18th prior to the expiration of our current.

Can I ask a question? Sure. Are we simply doing this just to restore the CIC to good standing, or what is the...

Yes and no. So... The caveat that I have not worked with the Johnstown CIC in the past and don't know how it has been used, there were some... The CIC exists and is in effect right now. What they didn't have were the code of regulations, at least that we could see filed with the Secretary of State's office that's required, and the Articles of Incorporation needed to be updated because they had certain individuals named in their individual capacity as opposed to in their professional capacity. And then this will allow, once the code of regulations go in, it will allow the self-governance of the CIC board itself. So I think there's a second step to really reinvigorating the board, which is getting that board constituted. There's, I think the mayor, city manager, and finance directors sit as three of the five and then two more appointments from the city. If those two additional members have not been appointed before, there needs to be a reappointment of that, and then the board can meet independently and change the code of regulations, update it as they see fit, and then start getting to work.

So there is a code of regulations now, or there is not? There is not. So the board will have to create that? Correct.

There's been one drafted, but the board itself would have to adopt it. Okay, perfect.

Thank you.

Do we need to advertise for those positions?

The two members for the city?

Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead. Can we advertise for those two positions, or is that something that we're just going to hire ourselves?

Can it be council members, or it needs to be...

I need to go back and check the draft code. The board can be expanded. We like to keep it odd numbers. We like to keep it not too large, five or seven is typically best practices. We've got three representatives from the city already, but I don't think there's any prohibition for the public members to also be affiliated with the city. Let me just double check that that's not, and that could be amended or articulated in the code of regulations as well.

Does anyone have any other questions regarding the CIC?

No.

Next, we're moving on to other business. Ms. Shook? No, I don't have anything tonight. Mr. Huggins?

The only thing I have is an update on the cleargov.com that we're looking at. I have a meeting set up with them on Thursday. This will be more of a fact-finding meeting. I'm sure I'll go through some sort of a short demo with them. I've allocated, I think, an hour with them. outside of my work schedule so I can make time for that. Once I gather all that information, I will bring it back to finance at our next meeting, present it to finance and see if they want to bring it back to everybody on council and see what any initial thoughts are. If there's any type of adoration for this type of product, we can always have them come in and do a complete demo for all of council publicly. I think that's Thursday at 3 or 3.30.

So you'll have something by next meeting? Yes, ma'am. Anything else?

That's it.

Mr. Barr?

I just wanted to address our public comment. We look forward to having those dialogue and meetings with you guys to come to agreement and understanding of as we embark on things that are forthcoming with this recent annexation. So appreciate the comments and reaching out.

Mr. Barnard.

Yes. So the first one is the signs that we discussed, the honorary signs.

Yes.

What is the status of that? Because I've been asked by a couple of families about that. So can we move that in safety and service and get that moving? Yeah. We can do that. Okay, because they were asking about that and it's been a few months. The second one is the workshop. If everyone wants to open their calendars and we can try to set a date. I have a couple things I'd like to see on there. The tap fees, discussion of NCAAs, and then maybe discussion of the water park there that we can just discuss.

It's pretty aggressive.

Please make an agenda.

Should water park go to facilities, though?

I mean, honestly, with the water park, like, our budget is going to tie our hands on a lot of stuff. Sure. So, I mean, that's kind of what we can do. I definitely want to talk about it as a group. I think it just stays on council. And it's been talked about for a couple years. But I think we can do it in that. I think we can do it in a work session.

We can get to some discussion. Okay. And if we can't get to water park on that one, we can do it on the next.

Yes.

Yep.

So I don't think having it on a council day is a good idea because it makes us... What was the second one you said?

Sorry.

NCA. Thank you. Do we have a Tuesday coming up where there's not going to be a zoning or design review meeting that we know of? September. End of September. Yeah, I know. Yeah, we don't want that. What do we have open in the next week? So the week of the 10th or the 17th? Do we have applications for planning and zoning?

Yes.

Okay. We have a table that we need to come back to.

Anybody open to a Sunday afternoon meeting?

I'm gone the 16th, but every day after the 16th, I can do the 22nd or 23rd, the 30th.

If it's the next two, yes. August 9th? Yeah.

I'm out of time.

You just said the 16th? I said, well, I meant, I thought it was going to be the 16th.

You're out the 9th?

Yes. Okay. And the 16th, I'm available the 23rd and 30th. How about this? How about we all send, or Teresa can... Yeah.

Poor Teresa again. Always.

Can we tentatively say Sunday, August 30th? I'm good with that. I can make that work.

So this is a special council meeting?

Unless we can all find a date before. Yeah.

So we'll set the 30th, and we'll see if we can get something before. Okay.

Yeah. What time? 2? Is that what you said?

2? Does that work?

We both said 2 o'clock. I think it's meant to be.

You don't want to do it a little later? No. Church. You'd rather go earlier? I'd rather get out of the way.

Okay.

That's fine.

And then my last item I have is I just want to acknowledge that our city attorney, Yaz, and I won't say his last name, made the Columbus 40 under 40.

Oh, my gosh. Congratulations.

So the city of Columbus is a huge, huge accomplishment, so you must be doing something right in life.

I haven't turned 40 yet.

Yeah. I mean, honestly, I thought you were over 40, so. Thank you, Donnie. Man, yeah, it's getting done on the edge. So congratulations to you, and that's all I have.

I think the key was being our city attorney.

Yes. Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, so we have some of the most fun time of the year here in Johnstown. We have the Hartford Fair coming up, and we have Springfest coming up, back to school also coming up, the football games, and all that good stuff.

It's also the 100-year anniversary of the Mass.

Yep. So watch for traffic and make sure you're coming to the events.

That was it, August 8th, Summerfest and Macedon Celebration. Come out, it should be a good time.

I'm sorry, we have the Farmer's Market tomorrow night from 4.30 to 7.30.

And I do not have anything, so anyone, Mr. Sheridan, do you have anything?

No, good meeting.

Anyone else? Good. I'll make a motion to adjourn.

I'll second. All in favor?

Aye. Thank you so much.