City Council - Regular Meeting

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Call the roll, please. Mayor Bailey? Here. Vice Mayor Bateman?

Here.

Welcome, everyone.

With us we have our Director of Finance, Mark Medler. Assistant City Manager, Chris Weinitz. Clerk of Council, Misty Clark. City Manager, Dave Kennedy. City Solicitor, Joe Braun. Our City Engineer, Kelsey Richards. Ooh, and Captain Daniel Gangmore is here as our master at arms tonight very nice former council member todd osborne and our special guest warren county auditor matt nolan thank you for being here and you're uh you're actually first up well wait i think mr weiners wanted to give you a better introduction oh well just thanks

Thanks again for coming, Matt. As you guys remember at our retreat back in February, I think it was February, we went over our council goals. And one of the things that council talked to staff about was keeping on the radar was what's going on with property taxes at the state level. And when I heard that, I knew if we want to hear it right from where it needs to be heard from, which is Matt, he's got all the details for us. He's been county auditor there in Warren County since 2014. He was former president of the County Auditors Association for Ohio last year. He's been integrally involved in a lot of the stuff that's been going on at the state level. I asked Matt if he would give us a couple minutes today. Obviously, with any questions, I'm sure he'll be willing to ask that because as you know the way we're set up is you know most of our income most of our general fund comes from income tax but we do have about 20 about 20 of our general fund comes from from property taxes so with that matt i'll let you take it over great well it does bring up the biggest issue i have with the city of loveland which normally i have a lot of good things to say for

One is we had an amazing employee that you stole from us and I intend to try to steal back at some point. But no, thank you for having me. Loveland is such an interesting place in part because of where it sits in three different counties and it makes it interesting for tax purposes. and is regularly a part of discussion as we try to figure all this out. Last year was a huge year in the property tax world, and a lot changed. And there were many, many hearings. I think I testified 35 different times, literally, in front of the various committees in Columbus about different property tax bills, biggest topic of conversation. And in December, they passed the most complex reform of property tax law signed by the governor in Ohio's history. And nobody said a word about it. It was kind of a weird thing. There was a lot of discussion. There was newspapers, all this talk about all the bills and a lot of hooting and hollering. And then it all passed and was signed right before Christmas in this really private, quiet ceremony that the auditors weren't invited to. And Nobody said a word. There was no press. There was nothing. And so I'm trying to get out and explain all of the changes that were passed that are happening all around the county. And for you guys, you know, if Auditor Miranda or Auditor Fraley were here, they would say a lot of the same things. But we do have a rule in the Auditors Association, 88 counties, 88 ways to do things. And that affects Loveland because you end up with three different ways to do things here. But let's talk about what what is happening. And the biggest piece of it is that no longer in Ohio will property taxes ever go up more than the rate of inflation without a vote of people. So that's a big change. A lot of talk over the last few years of these massive value increases that led to very large tax increases. You saw it in the city of Cincinnati. You saw it in northern parts of Warren County. You saw it in Little Miami schools. You didn't see it in Loveland schools. And, you know, when we talk about property taxes, what we're really talking about are school taxes. That's the biggest component of it. Right. That's the main piece of it. And so what Ohio effectively did for school property taxes is said we want everybody to be like Loveland schools. And it's actually an example that's used. And when I talked to Loveland Schools a couple of years ago, they didn't love that idea. But when you look at what they want, they want local communities to say, yes, we want more taxes or no, we don't. And it's there. And over the years, Loveland Schools has passed more levies than most communities, more current, more operating levies. And that's the way they've got more money. When you look at districts like Springboro, Little Miami, they've gotten large increases in based on value increases not based on passing levies and so those models are going away and everybody's going to be like lovely they're either going to pass levies or they're not but that's the only way taxes are going to go up for school districts going forward any more than inflation that applies to the city as well right when you've had value increases regardless of what county it's been in your inside millage has gone up proportionally so if let's say overall for you, there was a 25% value increase. In the past, that would result in 25% more in revenue for your general fund. That time is gone. That will never happen again. You're now capped at inflation. So if there's 7% inflation over that three-year period, the most you can get as a city increase is 7%. And so that's going to mean likely at some point either cutting services, tightening budgets, or putting on more levies to fund those things. And that's intentional. That's what the legislature is saying they want to have happen is local communities are going to decide whether or not they want to pay for their fire departments, whether or not they want to pay for their schools or how they want those services done. Columbus isn't going to fund it. They're not going to tell us what to do. We're going to do it locally. So that's kind of at the center of the legislation that was passed. The other big part of it, there will be a small tax decrease for everyone here, everyone, pretty much in the state, on the second half tax bill. Now, Loveland's will be smaller than most because it's actually not at all for Loveland schools, it's for Great Oaks. So they'll get a small decrease on their second half tax bill as a result of that. By small, I mean like $20. um but there'll be something for all other school districts in the area springboro little miami lebanon they're going to see larger 100 150 tax decreases because they saw much larger increases with the last revaluation city of cincinnati public schools also will see a much larger decrease as a result of that The last piece of legislation that passed was the one I was the most proud of, most inconsequential, but the one I was proud of. Right now, every rental property, of which there are many rental homes, gets a 10% tax credit. We call it the non-business tax credit. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. They're running a business with this home. It's a business. They deducted his business interest, but they've been getting this credit. We've eliminated that. Our state Senator down in Hamilton County, Senator Blessing got this through. And so it will remove that 10% tax credit off all rental properties. residential rental properties. And then it goes beyond that, though. It doesn't just get rid of it. It's not just a take by the state. They're going to take the money they would get from that and give it to owner-occupied homes. So right now, owner-occupied homes get 12.5% increase. By the time this is implemented, it'll be over 15%. So you're taking money from the rental properties. You're giving it to the owner-occupied properties effectively is what's happening. That to me in and of itself is a positive, small positive. We're only talking a few percent. It's a bigger deal because we've had large corporations and a lot of this around here of American Homes for Rent and these other out-of-state companies buying up residential properties, driving up the values in our communities, and then getting a tax credit for that. This will disincentivize them from doing that. And so hopefully that'll help stabilize some of our residential values and shift some of that to owner-occupied. So those are the big changes that we've seen. Again, the biggest changes that we've ever seen in property taxes, some say in the last 50 years, I think ever, major shifts for 80% of the school districts in the state, Loveland's not one of them. And so again, it's gonna be status quo, or so for Loveland schools, for King schools. Those are the two that were not at what we call the 20 mil floor. Most of the legislation involves the 20 mil floor. But it kind of gets rid of that term. I've talked more about the 20 mil floor in the last 18 months than anybody has in the last 50 years since it was implemented. But for all intents and purposes, the 20 mil floor is gone. It doesn't matter anymore. The little time you spent learning about it, take it out of your head. It doesn't matter. Loveland Schools has no incentive to ever go towards the 20 mil floor because you don't get any more money in it. So those are the big changes that we're seeing. And it also has raised a conversation that I'm having with every local government that I can is. For the time being, and I think for the foreseeable future, the state of Ohio is out of the local government business. They're not interested in funding local governments. They've made that very clear. And I don't think they feel bad about it. There are some people that feel like we should be like Florida and Tennessee and Indiana, where people send their money to their capital and they send it out. That's how most states function. Ohio doesn't wanna be that, and they wanna be local government controlled, or at least that's the theory behind it, and at least local government funded. And so things that we've seen at the county, we just saw it at King's School, right? People want less property taxes, we're not gonna get more from the state, so we put an income tax on in King's School that will help, one, lower property taxes immediately, but more so stop the increase in property taxes. City of Lebanon did it two years ago where they reduced their fire levy and put on an income tax to take over a portion of that fire levy that they have. Warren County is talking about it right now and I think could likely happen where we'll reduce our portion of the property taxes, just that 5% that the county collects or so, and replace that with sales tax revenue, right? And so... With the exception of townships, every other local government has some other funding mechanism than property taxes. And I've seen a lot of local governments, there's this trend towards raising those taxes to replace property taxes and keep property taxes down. The King's levy had some interesting pieces to it, but I think that are relevant, is that the state's been lowering the income tax, right? And so as they've been lowering it, if local governments raise theirs, you can provide the same level of service, if not more, while at the same time, none of that money goes to Columbus. And so when the state has an income tax, it goes to Columbus and it gets distributed everywhere. When the city has an income tax, every dime of that stays in the city of Loveland or in Warren County or wherever the tax is. So that's an interesting conversation that I'm hoping more communities will have. You know, there's always this idea of don't raise taxes, don't raise taxes. And I'm a believer in that in general. But I do think there's an argument to shifting taxes. And really all the state's ever done for the last 20 years is shift taxes. Right. They've gotten rid of a lot of state level taxes and they've shifted them to local taxes. Now that that's kind of complete, that process is over, we've got to decide locally how we want to shift within our little confines. So talk too much here really to answer questions, but that's what's happening at the state and at the county level. But happy to answer anything or dispel rumors or talk about rumors or anything like that.

Anybody have any questions?

Mr. Hart? First of all, thank you very much for coming in tonight. I really appreciate you giving us some time. Kind of broadly, since you've been up there a good bit and been talking in a lot of these circles, do you think, we hear a lot about it in social media and all this other stuff, what is the appetite from the legislators to pass legislation to get rid of property taxes entirely?

Zero.

Is there an appetite for that within legislation?

No, there's none. So, Great question. I was hoping somebody would ask about it. Private taxes aren't going away. Flat, hard stop, they're not going away. The group that was, quote unquote, organized to eliminate them and had petitions at all our festivals and things like that, very disorganized group and poorly funded. However, they achieved more than I could ever have dreamed. The legislation that was passed in December was not original legislation. The Auditor's Association drafted that legislation literally a decade ago and it got nowhere. It moved nowhere. We were told it had no chance until this property tax group came out. And the threat of them was far greater than the threat of the Auditors Association and commissioners and treasurers and all the groups that supported it. They made this all happen. This would have never happened without them. So there is no appetite to get rid of property taxes because it's completely infeasible to get rid of property taxes in Ohio or anywhere, right? All 50 states have property taxes. Anybody know where the lowest property taxes are? Any guesses? You got to guess. You got to humor me. florida florida is always the first guess nope they have low but not those what's that nevada nevada no no no others are relatively high the lowest is west virginia and i love that that's the answer because it makes my point real well right what happens when you get rid of property taxes you become west virginia which as a good ohioan there's no place i want to be less than west virginia uh and so yeah we've got to find ways to control property taxes we've got to find ways to lower property taxes in a lot of cases especially for senior citizens and the disabled but we can't get rid of property taxes and i think i think truly 99 well 132 out of 132 legislators agree there's five or six that'll pretend they don't because it's politically advantageous too but but the vast majority in columbus know we need property taxes in some form uh but i think also the vast majority think that there needed to be reform and needs to be more reform thanks for asking that that's a great question yes vice mayor uh again i just echo what mr hart said thank you so much for coming and taking the time to explain uh to us um you know your point of view i i had the

privilege of attending about a year ago an auditor advocacy event down at the Hamilton County. I think you were there. Okay. With Auditor Miranda and I think the auditor from Montgomery County was there.

Yeah, yeah. The one that we did over at the The coroner's office. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.

Yeah. So I really appreciate that because I'm going back looking at my notes and there were four pillars of change that that group was sort of pinpointing and targeting. And it was, you know, two of them you've talked about, which is eliminate the non-business credit. And the other one was the 20 mil floor. The other two that were listed here that I remember was working on the homestead exemption and then I think a menu of targeted relief. Are there any... Could you give an update on progress? I mean, two out of four in a year is amazing.

Yeah, absolutely. And the other two passed as well in different formats, and I should have brought up. So the Homestead, is everybody familiar with the Homestead program? So the Homestead program is available to anyone who's 65 or older or permanently disabled and roughly reduces your taxes $500, depending on where you live. And if you're a veteran whose disability is a result of being a veteran, it doubles. So it's about $1,000. And so almost nobody qualifies for it is the problem because you have to have a household income, gross income of less than $40,000. And so in Warren County, that's a very small percent of our population, and we get very few applicants. Almost all of our applicants are veterans. The veterans don't have to meet that income requirement. So if you know any disabled vets, please encourage them to apply. So there was a bill that passed the House and a bill that passed the Senate to expand that homestead program, because everybody agrees we don't want to tax seniors too much. But the two sides could not get those together. So what they passed instead was kind of a, again, to my point, the state doesn't want to be involved. It's an interesting, if you're a political nerd and you study things like this, our state legislature may be the first in history that says, we want out of the governing business. We want to give that to somebody else. We don't want to do that. The local governments are going to do this. And so they said, counties, you decide who gets the homestead. And they doubled the homestead for any county that wanted to do it. And there are quite a few counties that did, I think eight or nine counties. Claremont, I believe, did. Warren did not. Hamilton did not. The reason, and it's the commissioner's decision, but they decided not to. Their reasoning was. when you give the homestead credit and you take that money, you give that money to senior citizens, you're taking it from someone, right? Like I talked about, everything is just a shift. Well, you're shifting it away from the school districts. And so you're effectively taking that money away from the school districts and the commissioners weren't willing to do that. They proposed, the prosecutor said they can't, but they proposed they'd reimburse the school district the way the state reimbursed the school district. The law doesn't allow for that. But yeah, so that was the commissioner in Warren County's reasoning. Quite a few counties have adopted it. I think it should be a state program. I'm not aware of anywhere else in the country that decides county by county who's gonna get homestead and who's not, or to what extent. But again, Ohio is, we have really bought into the local control concept, hook, line, and sinker. A lot of people love it. And there's a lot of reasons too, right? You get to decide in Loveland what's best for Loveland. Columbus doesn't get to decide. Akron, Cleveland, they don't get to decide. So it makes a lot of sense. But Loveland also, it's just such a great example for so many different things because you can have residents that live in the city of Loveland, in Loveland schools, right next door to each other, and get completely different benefits because one's in Warren, one's in Hamilton, and one's in Claremont. And they can be completely different, which is kind of a unique thing.

Thank you.

Any other questions or comments? Yes, Mr. Goodyear.

I don't have a question, but I just want to thank you for being here. Certainly appreciate all the information. I know you are a busy guy, so I appreciate you taking your time out. And I guess Chris is a good reason to come.

Thank you very much. Thanks for having me.

All right. Thank you, Audra. We really appreciate you coming here and educating us.

Anytime. Any questions anybody has or if you think about things or hear about things as they're going on, feel free to reach out.

I'm happy to help.

Thanks for what you do.

Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Next is review and approval of the minutes from the May 12th, 2026 meeting. Any changes, comments?

Move to approve as written. Is there a second?

Call the roll, please. Vice Mayor Bateman? Yes. Mr. Goodyear? Yes. Ms. Hamlin? Yes. Mr. Hart? Yes. Ms. Hazel Baker? Yes. Mr. Janet? Yes. Mayor Bailey? Yes. Motion carries 7-0. Mr. Kennedy?

Those of you know, Union Cemetery Road, it sort of jogs in and out of the city in the township. The city back a couple of years ago, we did some sidewalks, but we've been in constant communication with Sims Township regarding some joint sidewalk work. Well, they are applying for a sort of grant. The city has never, you have to be a certain distance from a bus route to be eligible. So that section of Union Cemetery Road from Montgomery to Carrington is eligible. So the township reached out to the city regarding our interest in working jointly with them, co-sharing the cost, rather than, if you look at page 11, that about summarizes how it would be a piece there. It's a good cooperative project. It's very similar to years ago back to the big Union Cemetery project that was going on back when I got here in 2012. So the way this would work is they're on a bit of a fast pace. The legislation, Mark has already submitted the financial commitment pending enterprise approval. That information would go to them. If they're funded, it would be, the project would be latter part of 2027 would be included in the city's budget but we do have residents up there on carrington technically also the lodge there's a small little multi-unit development also going in on union cemetery so it is beneficial to both township and city residents thank you any comments or questions

Read the resolution. Resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a cooperative agreement with Sims Township for the submission of a Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority Metro Transit Infrastructure Fund grant requested for the Union Cemetery Road sidewalk improvement project and commit a local match. Thank you. Call the roll, please. Mr. Goodyear. Yes. Ms. Hamlin. Yes. Mr. Hart. Yes. Ms. Hazel Baker. Yes. Mr. Jarenick. Yes. Mayor Bailey. Yes. Vice Mayor Bateman. Yes. Resolution 45 is adopted by a vote of 7-0.

Mrs. Richards.

Thank you, Mayor. So annually, the city receives bids from both road salt... suppliers in preparation for the upcoming winter season. And for this year's contract, bids were requested for 1,000 tons, plus or minus 20% of bulk road salt, with vendors requiring to provide a per ton price for both dumped and piled delivery. We received four bids, and those bids were publicly opened and read aloud on May 18th. And as listed on the memo, Compass Minerals America, Morton Salt, Cargill, and Evans Landscaping submitted bids. Due to the benefit of the piler, Cargill's preferred bid at $112.90 per ton dumped and $148 per ton piled. Thank you. Any questions or comments?

I'm just curious. It talks about they were the only ones to do the piled bit. Why didn't the others?

Some companies don't have that machine. It's just kind of like a conveyor belt to shoot it up at the very top. Some companies don't have that. So they just don't submit for that price.

Okay. Excellent. Thank you. I'm sure that saves us a lot in the long run. Thank you.

Mr. Hart.

I was talking to Mr. Kennedy. He said there's something about the brine machine we have.

Yeah. Well, she won't say it, so I will. Kelsey just secured. So brine is a big part of our assault operations. It's how we pre-treat, especially West Loveland on the Hill. Kelsey just secured a grant for the city for $75,000 for a new brine machine. And that's a big score for the city. And thanks, Mr. Hart, for bringing that up. So that's a great win. And I just thought it would be a good sort of stage that that would get brought up so we could mention that.

Well done.

Well done. Yes.

Very nice.

Any other questions or comments? Read the resolution, please. Resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into a contract with Cargill for the purchase of road salt for the 2026-2027 winter. Call the roll, please. Ms. Hamlin? Yes. Mr. Hart? Yes. Ms. Hazel Baker? Yes. Mr. Jernick? Yes. Mayor Bailey? Yes. Vice Mayor Bateman? Yes. Mr. Goodyear? Yes. Resolution 46 is adopted by a vote of 7-0.

Mr. Medler? Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Council. So we haven't even completed our 2025 audit, and yet we are now talking about 2027 in the budget. So the first part of this process is what's called a tax budget. This is something part of the Ohio Revised Code that we're required to do. So it's in no way as expansive as our normal budget process, but we need to take a look at our, again, as we just talked about property taxes. So the tax budget is we're taking a look at all of our funds that receive property tax revenue, which is our general fund and our fire levy funds. So what we need to do is have a public hearing to discuss it. I'll be presenting, like I said, a basic estimate of what revenues we will be expecting in 2027. It will be presented to you, but we do need to have a public hearing to do so. And that, again, is required by Ohio Revised Code. So I'm here requesting that there be a motion to have a public hearing on July 14th, 2026. At or about 7 p.m. to receive comments regarding the 2027 tax budget.

Anyone care to make that motion?

I'll make a motion that we schedule a public hearing on July 14, 2026 at or about 7 p.m. to receive comments regarding the 2027 tax budget. Thank you.

Thank you. Call the roll, please. Mr. Hart. Yes. Basil Baker. Yes. Mr. Jarenick. Yes. Mayor Bailey. Yes. Vice Mayor Bateman. Yes. Mr. Goodyear. Yes. Ms. Hamlin. Yes. Marcia Carey, 7-0. Mr. Wyant.

Thank you, Mayor. Once again, something else we talked about back at our goal setting session. Clearly, we have PFAS and PFAS remediation on our radar. One of the things that we wanted to do at staff level and bring to council for their potential signatures is several letters to the federal and state legislators outlining kind of where the city of Loveland is at and what we need and what not just us but other communities too as far as construction dollars. They've done a good job of supporting communities with design dollars and study dollars but the construction dollars are lacking not just for us but for everyone throughout the state. So in front of you are several letters to Senators Moreno, Senators Husted, Representative Taylor, Representative Lansman, and then at the state level, Representative Brownlee, Representative Teska, Representative Schmidt, Senator Wilson, and Senator Johnson. So what I'm asking is at the end of the meeting today, if you if the council so wishes. We do have the letter here for signatures that we will send up to the state and to the feds. And we will also be sending emails of those letters to their staff members also.

All right. Any comments or questions? Yes, Mr. Hart.

I just recently saw there was, they changed the timelines on completion at the federal level. Does that have, I mean, obviously we're down the road and we're going to take care of this issue here locally, but Do you think that's going to impact kind of this is just asking you to ruminate about it a little bit. But do you think this is going to impact funding opportunities for us because they've changed those timelines?

So what you're referencing, Mr. Hart, is the. What's being presented by US EPA is moving the deadline from 2029 to 2031. Yes, that's what they're pushing for so that it does look like that is going to happen. And that'll probably happen here before the end of this calendar year. What that's doing is yes, I think they're buying some time to provide additional funding to communities. One of the conversations we've continually had with Ohio EPA, as well as US EPA is, You know, right now, you know, let's just say they keep it at four million that we can have as grant money. If there's ever a time in the future before, you know, let's say we're under construction. We still want to be eligible for reimbursement. So we've continually said that just because we're ahead of the game, we should not be penalized at the end. So we've made that clear to them and they are they understand that. So I do think what I think what they're trying to do is buy time for additional funding for communities.

I appreciate it.

Pamela.

Yeah, I definitely support this letter. And I would just like to use this opportunity to encourage residents to also contact their representatives. I have done that to my congressman and to my senators as well. And I don't think we can write enough letters in response to this. So encourage everybody else to do that as well.

Anyone else?

Yeah, I just want to echo the sentiment of like preparing these. I know it's been a lot of pressure and obviously the council goals and that came up in this conversation. So appreciate you getting this together and agree that I think that the residents can take these and There's, you know, the more we can contact them, because I know Brownlee has been in contact to try to see, because there was another mandate that was presented. I'm like, we don't need any more mandates. We need funding. So I appreciate this letter to get them straight on kind of what the local needs. So thank you.

Vice Mayor?

Yes, I also agree. This is a great opportunity. And I think like with a lot of things, timing is also critical. And to piggyback off of what Mr. Hart said, I was also following some of the news in the EPA. I think I saw something that they had sort of pushed to have some funding that was earmarked for municipalities to get their water systems in compliance. So I think that with with that being proposed, I'm not exactly sure what what the status that I think was $5 billion was what I read. But to have this in front of our legislators as that issue may be top of mind, I think is really, really crucial. So thanks for bringing this at what seems to be the opportune time to do that.

Any further comment? Mr. Bronner, do we need to take any formal action to agree to sign these letters?

Well, there's no objection. Any objections? If you want to add some force behind it, you can take a vote, and then he can represent in there that council voted to approve it.

Well, why don't we do it? Just because we're all signing it, so I think there should be a motion.

Send the letters.

Yeah. Anyone care to make that motion? Anyone?

Sure, I'll move that we sign letters of request for support for PFAS remediation to our federal, state, and representatives.

I second. Call the roll, please. Ms. Hazelbaker? Yes. Mr. Janik? Yes. Mayor Bailey? Yes. Vice Mayor Bateman? Yes. Mr. Goodyear? Yes. Ms. Hamlin? Yes. Mr. Hart? Yes. Motion carries 7-0.

All right, so yesterday, as we all know, was, I think that's all we have on the regular agenda, was Memorial Day. So thank you to our Veterans Commission who put together a very nice parade and ceremony. Had a wonderful speaker, Chris Cravens. What is his rank? Sergeant. I thought he was Sergeant. The United States Marine Corps, give a very. Very moving speech. And thank you to our Police Department and Fire Department, Public Works Department, who made sure we had all our flags and got Veterans Memorial ready. It was a flawless parade. Thank you to Councilmember Jaranec, who was the emcee and instrumental as the Veterans Commission Chair in making that happen.

It was my honor.

Walked with Councilmember John Hart, Vice Mayor. Mr. Goodyear, we did not walk with Ms. Hazel Baker because she was donning the reflective vest and helping direct traffic, but joined us at the ceremony. So we also had Mr. Weinich and Mrs. Clark and Mr. Kennedy there. So I thought that was a very wonderful event. Also, I want to thank our sponsors, volunteers, and the Sesquicentennial Planning Committee and all the city staff. for their hard work on last weekend's 150th anniversary celebration. I think we saw most people down there. It was pretty, it was a very well attended event. It was fantastic. Mr. Kennedy won the pie baking.

It was not rigged.

It wasn't rigged at all. The vintage baseball game that was supposed to be played on Saturday the 16th was postponed due to weather, so the Loveland Froglegs will take the field on June 27th at the originally scheduled time, which I believe is 1 o'clock at Phillips Field. So everyone is invited to join us for that very special part of our sesquicentennial. The community is invited this Saturday to attend the open house and guided tours of the new Chief Otto J. Huber Fire Station 63. It'll be 1.30 to 3 o'clock at the station. As construction of the new amphitheater continues, this year's summer concert series will now be held on the lawn of City Hall. That kicks off this Sunday, May 31st, with a performance by our very own The Harmonics from 6 to 8. So bring a blanket or lawn chair, pack a picnic or grab takeout, and enjoy an evening of music. Fun facts. I'm not doing all of them. Just telling you. In May of 1985, council passed a resolution recognizing Loveland Hearst High School students who won first place in the first annual Ohio State Science Olympiad Championship. Do we still have it?

Big deal. Yeah.

Nice. In May of 1992, where is it? I'll ask you. Council passed an ordinance prohibiting theft from recycling bins and receptacles. And it reads, no person shall pilfer, steal, or otherwise remove any item from any city-sponsored recycling collection bin or receptacle. And if convicted, the first offense is a minor misdemeanor. Subsequent convictions are misdemeanors of the fourth degree. And that law remains in our current code of ordinances. In May of 1993, council authorized a contract to construct a pier wall on Second Street. After the hill slipped, it was passed as an emergency for the immediate need to repair the street to prevent damage to the public utilities. And in May of 2003, council established the Tree and Environment Committee. Committee was charged with addressing environmental issues and maintaining the Tree City USA status for the city. Still have. That's all my announcement. Does anyone have anything else? All right. I believe we need a motion for executive session.

I make a motion to go to executive session or hire by his code 121.22 to consider the sale of property.

Second. Call the roll, please.

Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

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Yes.

a motion to adjourn so move sir second second call the roll please yes yes yes yes yes yes