City Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, welcome. I'd like to call this January 26, 2026 council meeting to order. If you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [clears throat] 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. For all.

Okay. Welcome. Uh the first item we have we I think the Oh. Oh. Oh, we forgot that. Um, I guess what we have to do, we're going to back up a little bit here. We should have taken this first. Uh, we we came out of executive session for finance. Mr. President, we recess from executive session at 7:25 p.m. taking no action. Okay. Uh, is there a motion to adjurnn finance? So move. Second. All in favor?

I opposed. Motion carries. Sorry about that. We usually do that prior to calling the council meeting to order. We're a little out of order there, but we had to get that done. Um the um the first item we have is an oath of office and I think um uh we have uh William C. Lamb that's going to be uh for reward for councilman that's going to be sworn in by the honorable Betty Sutton. Uh and I think Betty is in the parking deck right now. So she's not here yet. So we have we'll give her one more minute. Is that is that correct, Bill? She's Yeah, that's what she said.

Okay. I'll come back in a couple weeks. [laughter] Well, we'll give it uh one more minute here because I think she you indicated she went to the other courthouse. She went to the wrong place. Uh so I'm not sure who she was swearing in over there, but uh I think the doors are locked over there too at night, aren't they? I think I think they are. I'm not too sure. But we'll give her uh 10 seconds here, 15 seconds to see if she's out in the parking deck. Does she know to come in there? You see anybody over there, Chad? Should we send someone out to find her? Okay. I think I hear the door opening. You're welcome.

There we are. She made it. So, she's just in time. Bill, do you have the Bible? You have somebody hold Nobody's going to hold a Bible. Pardon me. Do you have the Bible? You have anybody that Yeah, I got it. I You got that? Okay. You got the Bible. Okay. Welcome, Honorable Betty Sutton. Not to put you on the spot. I am so sorry to keep you all waiting. Oh, that's no problem. Uh GPS, you know, or me. I'm not sure.

Thank you. We have you. I know I'm late and I apologize to everybody, especially Councilman Um, thank you all so much. I want you all to know that I respect and appreciate everything that you do. Um, I started out as a council woman in Barberton. You are so close to the people and what you do makes such a difference. Thank you so much. You are welcome. Thanks for coming. Honor.

It's a profound privilege. And if we shall, since I've already delayed you, um, raise your right hand. I love that. on [clears throat] the Bible. I I William Clark Lamb William Clark Lamb being duly sworn being duly sworn that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the Constitution of the State of Ohio of the State of Ohio. the charter and ordinances the charter and ordinances of the city of Madina of the city of Madina Ohio

Ohio and will faithfully and honestly and will faithfully and honestly and impartially and impartially discharge the duties discharge the duties devolving upon me devolving upon me as ward for councilman as ward for councilman for the city of Madina for the city of Madina Madina County, Madina County, Ohio. Ohio. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank [applause] you. Yeah. Thank you. Sign. Yes. You want a pen? She can sign that.

Okay, Bill. That means you come up here after she signs because that means you're official. Okay. Thank you. How about that? Again, I apologize. Oh, not Rob. Thanks for coming. You can sign over.

Okay. Will the clerk please call the role? Isabella here. Lamb here. Simmons here. Simpson here. Coin here. Dalvo here. Here here. Reading of the minutes. Mr. President here. I move that the minutes from the regular meeting on January 12th, 2026 as prepared and submitted by the clerk of council be approved. Second. Any discussion on the approval of the minutes? Will the clerk please call the role on the adoption of the minutes? Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Dalvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella,

yes. Motion passes 70. Reports of standing committees. The finance committee met prior to council this evening and will meet again in two weeks. Health, safety, and sanitation. Mr. Simpson. Thank you, Mr. President. No meeting scheduled. Nothing to report. Public properties. Miss her. Thank you, Mr. President. I have nothing to report and no meeting scheduled at this time. Thank you. Special legislation. Mrs. Dalvo. Thank you, Mr. President. I have no meeting scheduled and nothing to report at this time. Streets and sidewalks. Mr. Isabella. Uh we have a uh committee meeting scheduled for 5:00 on February 9th uh before our finance committee here on the rotunda. Uh otherwise uh nothing else to report. Thank you. Wing utilities, Mr. Simmons. Uh thank you, Mr. President. No meeting scheduled and nothing to report.

And of course, we'll adopt uh Mr. Lamb will be the chair of the emerging technologies committee and I think probably the next meeting Kathy, we probably have to update the um the chart and and put the name in there. So, and you may have something to add to that. Right now, the meeting is scheduled um with your approval for February 12th. Okay, there you go. You have a meeting scheduled already. I'm sorry, excuse me. March 12th. March 12th. March 12th. March 12th. Yeah.

Okay. Uh next, we have requests for council action. We have several for finance. We have 2625 budget amendments. 2626 then and now for Ohio Edison. 2627 expenditure for closing materials for the street department. 2628 review allocation of income tax amend section 16113. 2629 amend code 13301 association memberships. 2630 ratified collective bargaining agreement for Teamsters Local 436. 2631 expenditure for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and 2632 adopt changes to job descriptions for the water department. reports of municipal officers. Mayor Shields.

Thank you, President Coin. Uh, first, welcome, Mr. Lamb. Welcome back.

Uh, I really want to take a minute tonight to thank our city employees for the credible response to our snowstorm these last couple days. It was a total team effort that included employees from streets, parks, sanitation. They started at 3:00 a.m. on Sunday morning and continued around the clock. They're still out there working now. I also want to thank our water department because they were ready to also assist with the snow plowing, but unfortunately they had water mane brakes and they were in the ground dealing with that. So otherwise they would have been helping with the snow removal as well. But I don't want to leave them out for all the work they do on these brakes and these frigid cold temperatures. And then I wanted to thank all the residents who took time to let our employees know how much they appreciated the effort of our city crews. I want to share two of them with you. One was from a nurse from Fairview Hospital. She said she drove all the way home last night from Fairview Hospital and when she hit the Madina line, she could tell the difference in how well the streets were clean. So, that was really nice to hear. And then this morning, if any of you saw on Channel 3 News, they did a live report at 4:30 a.m. up on the square. At 6:30 a.m., they did the same live report and the uh newscasters could not believe how much cleanup had happened on the square in the two hours. So, it was just really nice. They they said kudos to Midina City workers for the great job they were doing cleaning up after this. And we also had a woman today who uh was from Buffalo and she gave us compliments and I figure anybody from Buffalo that compliments us on snow removal is is also high praise. So uh moving on, I wanted to let everybody know the America 250 Madina program which was supposed to be held this past weekend but was postponed. This is the founding Madina in its early years has been rescheduled. It'll be at the Madina Library community room at 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 1st. Uh, two events that I wanted to highlight for the public and council. On January 19th, Martin Luther King program presented by the Mad Madina County Churches at Second Baptist Church um

took place. I wanted to thank at large council person Ed and also Ward One Chad Simmons as well as Ward Two Denny Simpson for attending that evening. We also had our finance director and our police chief there that night. Was a very motivational. There was six different five pastors, one reverend that uh read the words of Martin Luther King and just a very inspiring evening. So I wanted to thank everybody from the city for representing so well. And then on January 21st, two nights later, we had Main Street Madina at the annual meeting and awards. I wanted to thank the city administration or Andrew Dutton, Kimberly Marshall and Barb Deser as well as council members uh Natalie Dalvo, um Ed Isabella and Chad Simmons for representing the city at that event. And I also want to congratulate former mayor Hanwell for receiving the lifetime achievement award that evening from Main Street Madina. Very nice evening. And that leads me into uh those of us who are at that um the topic of Adora came up and the entire place applauded with the idea of Adora. So I wanted to let council know that the administration is in the early stages of exploring a designated outdoor refreshment area, which seems a little uh ironic when it's uh minus degrees out there, but summer will be here again. So um the administration had been looking into this. It kind of sat for a while. So we're kind of getting going again. We have some meetings set up with various stakeholders in February and I'll keep council updated as we look to establishing a door as council will ultimately have the to approve a door. So I just wanted to get that on your radar that we'll be talking more about that in the next couple months here. That ends my report.

Mr. Durham, director of finance. Thank you, Mr. President. I uh have a few items that are on the agenda that I'll address when I get there. Otherwise, I just want to echo what everybody said. The great job by everybody taking care of all the snow. Mitch Huber, law director. Thank you, Mr. President. I have no report. Bill, welcome back to the breach. Mrs. Marshall, economic development director.

Thank you, Mr. President. Just a couple items to note for council and the public this evening. Uh, this Friday is actually our January ribbon cutting day, and I think they may have to be indoors unless the businesses want to reschedule. But I did want to talk a little bit about the new businesses. So, we have three that day. Uh, one is called the the first one's at 10:00 a.m. The Morin Dabbi Agency, which is all state insurance agent, opened a new office at 107 West Liberty Street, which used to be the barber shop. Uh, the 11:00 is OneShot Soccer Academy, who's located out at 777 Westmith Road. And then at 3:00 is a new business called Off the Wagon uh at 101 Public Square. This is the space where the Omnif Fiber folks were supposed to move in and then they decided not to move forward with the project. So those are our three new business ribbon cutings. And again, this is a collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce and uh the city of Madina and Main Street Madina. Thank you.

Thank you, Chief Kenny Police Department. Thank you, Mr. President. I have no report. Mr. McCulli, service director. Thank you, Mr. President, and I appreciate the mayor's comments and like to echo the same for our crews. They did an outstanding job. I mean, we weren't perfect. We missed a couple areas, but um overall, it was definitely a challenging snowstorm. Um one of the most tremendous that I've had since I've been working here to deal with. So, um kudos to our guys and staff and the parks and everybody else that helped out. Um also, sanitation is delayed this week because the CPF was closed uh today. So, we're working Tuesday through Saturday to pick up trash. It'll be delayed um one day. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Worley. Parks and Recreation Center director. Thank you, Mr. President. I have no report this evening.

Mr. Patton, city engineer. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh the work to reconstruct Blake Avenue was supposed to start today and this week. Uh because of the weather, it's been postponed. We'll keep all the residents in the area advised us when that project will start. Chief Walters, Fire Department. Thank you, Mr. President. I have no report. Mr. Dutton, planning and community development director. Thank you, Mr. President. I have no report. Thank you. Confirmation of mayor's appointment. We have one. We have Paul Wood for the Uptown Park Advisory Committee for a term expiring 123128. Motion to approve. Second. Any discussion? Clerk, please call the role. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Dalvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, [clears throat] yes. Lamb, yes.

Motion passes 70. Notices, communication petitions, there's none. There's no unfinished business. Introduction of visitors. Members of the public who have admitted the opportunity to speak on any issue or concern which pertains to the city agenda devoted to introduction of visitors. All comments shall be directed to the chair and a reasonable time limit approximately five minutes shall be imposed. If there's a group, please appoint a spokesperson. Speakers should approach the rear microphone and state their name and address so can be entered into the minutes. Members of the public will be afforded the opportunity to comment on other portions of the meeting as he determined by the chair by a vote of majority of council members present. Is there anybody that wishes to address council at this time? Yes.

My name is John Whiten now. I live over on Manchester Court. I want I was out at 1:00 this morning to go out check on my son and their snow stuff down on Route Three and we had a they actually got to Manchester Court. Obviously, we usually wait till the last because of little court right there, but it was done. And then when I woke up this morning, we had a second time. So it was just it was great. And ODOT had everything cleared on. They were down to pavement last night down there after. But I my wife and I moved with our eight kids to Madina 20 years ago. I put five of them through Madina High School in lower schools. I'm a truck driver for 40 years. 5 million miles of driving with no accidents or tickets. But when I come back to Madina and see these problems with the people running the lights, running the stop signs, blocking the truck turns. And I hear on my wife constantly tells me there's another lady complaining on those things about the big trucks on the city streets of Madina on the square. Where are they going to go? They built Reagan Parkway years ago to do that. Trucks are supposed to go there. Then they restricted it. They did other things that nothing's changed in the square and there's nothing else. Obviously, there's nowhere else they can go. There's quite a few avenues to get in and out of here. But when you have people that run red lights, refuse to stop at the white lines. It is illegal for me if I'm making a turn and somebody's blocking that I say someone you're not supposed to start a turn obviously in a truck just like a car when there's somebody in the intersection but when you start and then they come up and they get you it's against the law for me to move I can't back up cuz I could hit somebody.

Uh, the stop sign running was very We live over where Michelle, can you help me on the street? I'm sorry. Lawrence.

Sturbridge and Lawrence. They [snorts] run them all the time. And when we called a couple times to have police come, yeah, they came, but they sat at the intersection. You got to sit further back. This is a This is on the mayor's street. I mean, off off of his street and it there's got to be some sort of my other big thing is the four-wheel drive pickup trucks with four doors and long beds that park on the angle. I mean, you guys know, everybody knows the traffic in this is just horrible. We and and these people that say the trucks don't need to be there. Yeah, we have to be there. Everybody, nobody would have their salt, their their food. You guys all know that you all I don't know what the I mean I just I come through here in an 18-wheeler all the time up to Home Depot. Uh and what's you know I'm going to say what you could do is you put beat cops out there during the day and when they block the intersection and the lights red for them now take their license plate, send them a ticket. Do the same thing with these people. put the police out and watch all day long when they're blocking the the the uh the white bar for the trucks. You know, we can't we we can only go down to Jefferson Street on Smith can't go any further to get out of town. That but that one intersection down here, those two intersections on the south side of the square are the two worst. Busy B. That's a horrible one. and and all I know a lot of these guys will come through and they'll they'll run over stuff, but you can't do that on a truck. That's considered an accident. So, all I'm asking as a citizen is we got to clean that up. If you clean that stuff up with the running the red lights, the people blocking the driveways, blocking the intersections,

and and and it's just people don't care anymore. They and the worst thing and another one of the things is is those lights for the people to cross into the uh in the square. People don't honor it. They go right through it. They'll hit people and sometimes it's very hard to see there in the dark. But, you know, we've in 20 years we've asked twice for the police because we had kids that were going to school over there at Canaman and that to come up and look at the that intersection we were talking about there where Mayor Hanwell lives to the right and then up to the left and then we live up straight. They run it all the time. All the time. I've pulled up there as a fir as the first guy stopped at the four-way stop right there and all three of them go before I do. Some of them don't even stop. that there that can be policed in some some way I think at least. But not to say that everything's great is I we love Madina. We love it a lot. But the traffic is and I know the square is beautiful. It's great. We have a lot but people are going to get killed and the and and we've got to get in and out of this town and our trucks to give you what you need. And I had to teach all these kids, all my kids about, hey, you got to watch because you're going to get sideswiped and get killed in this town because the people just do not care.

So that's really what I came to say for and uh am I out of time? You're pretty close, but hey, we'd like to hear from you. Hey,

the other thing I get so tired about is the deer population. We just lost 162 acres to put more houses up in which is fine. But man, what do people I'm not blaming anybody in this room, but what do people think is going to happen when Madina grows like it does? Cuz everybody wants to come here. They're going to be around. We can't shoot them. We can get them with our cars, that's for sure. I've hit third I've hit 13 in my 40 years of driving. 13 deers, an analopee, and a prairie dog out on I40 in Arizona. It is a costly thing on a semi-truck to fix. And even so, and I go to work over at Overberland, I work over at the big greenhouse over there. And I always like to come back when I come down from Sand Ridge and make the turn there to go up Lake Road every weekend that uh [snorts] that that uh car fixing place. What is that? Crash Champions full. It's always full. So it's you know it's just unbelievable. But that I mean I I just wanted to say that about the trucks and that stuff. There's just got to be something and and and even more for other than just me as a truck driver because I know what's going to happen is people and injuries and just the disregard for any kind of traffic device any most of them don't even have respect for you guys.

So thank you. Thank you. Is there anybody else that wishes to address council at this time? Oh, okay. Introduction and consideration of ordinances resolutions. At this time, I'd entertain a motion to suspend the rules requiring three readings on the following ordinances resolutions. Ordinance 926, 1026, 1126. Resolution 1226, 1326. Ordinance 1426, 1526, 1626, 1726, 1826, 1926, resolution 2026, 2126, ordinance 2226, and ordinance 2326. Mr. President, Miss Hair,

I move to suspend suspend the rules requiring three readings of the ordinances and resolutions mentioned. Second. Any discussion on the motion to suspend the rules? Will the clerk please call the role? Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Dalvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmon, yes. Motion passes 70. Ordinance 926, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into a three-year contract with Rain Associates, Inc. for the preparation of the city's CAFR in accordance with the accounting principal principles generally accepted in the United States of America GAP for 3 years ending December 31st, 2025, December 31st, 2026, and December 31st, 2027.

Motion to approve. Second discussion, Mr. Durham, that's three years. It should say 26, 27, and 28. Or 25, 26, and 27 because we're we're doing last year's. Oh, this is okay. This is the same uh company that did it the last three and we're just going another three. It's incrementally increased, but any further discussion on the adoption of the ordinance will clin yes. Dalvo, [clears throat] yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Ordinance 926, passes 70. Ordinance 1026, an ordinance authorizing expenditure not to exceed $60,000 to signal service company for the street department. Mr. President, Mr. Hair,

motion to approve. Second. Any discussion? Mr. Polei. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, this contractor handles emergency repairs to our traffic signalization um system. Uh, specifically, they have expertise uh where we have um circuits uh tied in with the railroad. Um they're on Smith Road. Um so this will get us through the year. Thank you. Thank you. Any further discussion? Will the clerk please call the role in adopting your ordinance? Dalvo. Yes. Hair. Yes. Isabella. Yes. Lamb. Yes. Simmons. Yes. Simpson. Yes. Coin. Yes. Ordinance 1026 passes 70. Ordinance 1126. An ordinance authorizing expenditure of $70,000 to Lake County Sewer Cove. For the street department. Mr. President. Miss.

Motion to approve. Second. Discussion. Mr. Polei. Thank you, Mr. President. This contractor handles our uh cleaning and grouting of storm sewer and infrastructure with the storm sewer that's uh deep under pavement where the uh street department can't esavate or we prefer not to esavate because the cost of uh repairing pavement um all throughout. We have probably 200 of these areas a year that uh we need addressed and this company has the expertise of uh grouting and and jointing um these pipes. Thank you. Thank you. Any further discussion? Will the clerk please call the role in adoption of the ordinance? Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Dalva,

yes. Ordinance 11:26, passes 70. Resolution 1226, a resolution authorizing the application and to accept reimbursements from the fiscal year 2024 Patrick Lehey bulletproof vest program for the police department. Mr. President, here. Motion to approve. Second. Uh, discussion. Chief Kenny. Thank you, Mr. President. This is one of our two bulletproof vest grants for the year. Any further discussion? Clerk, please call the role on the adoption of the resolution. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Yes. Hair, yes.

Resolution 1226, passes 70. Resolution 1326, a resolution authorizing the mayor to file an application for grant assistance with the Bureau of Justice Assistance US Department of Justice for the fiscical year 2022 bulletproof vest partnership BVP grant program for the police department. Mr. President, Miss approve. Second. Uh discussion. Chief Kenny. Thank you, Mr. President. This is the second grant request for our bullproof vest program. Thank you. Any further discussion? Clerk, please call the role on the adoption of resolution. Lamb. Yes. Simmons. Yes. Simpson. Yes. Coin. Yes. Salvo. Yes. Hair. Yes. Isabella. Yes. Resolution 1326. Pass the 70.

Ordinance 1426. An ordinance authorizing the purchase of one 2026 Ford F250 regular cab four-wheel drive pickup truck equipped with a snowplow from Montreus Ford to be used by the cemetery department. Mr. President. Miss her. Move to approve. Second. Uh discussion on the ordinance. Mr. Worley. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, this unit will replace a 2011 Ford F250 that was identified for replacement through the 2024 uh, budget cycle. Um, this will be purchased utilizing the community university education purchasing program through Montrose Ford. Thank you. Thank you. Any further discussion? Clerk, please call the role. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Dalvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Liam,

yes. Ordinance 1426, passes 70. Ordinance 1526, an ordinance amending section 13301 of the codified ordinances of the city of Madine, Ohio relative to the city association memberships. Mr. President, Mr. Hair, motion to approve. Second. Uh discussion. What is this? Who's this going to? Maybe it's you. Is it Mr. Picoli?

Thank you, Mr. President. So we we've been in a member of the COE which is a community university education uh purchasing program started in uh Akran and Canton Summit County and this they've changed their name to in addition to the COE to COG the council of governments. So they require resolution and Kathy our clerk um prepared the sample resolution that is uh needed and there's all there also has to be a designate which sounds like I'm the person that'll be going to two meetings once. Thanks Kathy. Two meetings a year, sorry. To um satisfy this requirement. So we benefit the PD buys cars um from Montros for a CUE member as well as parks and service. So we benefit greatly from this uh membership.

Well, thanks for volunteering. Any other questions? Please call the role. Thank you. Simpson. Yes. Coin, yes. Dalvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Ordinance 1526 passes [clears throat] 70. Ordinance 1626, an ordinance accepting the appraisal fair market value estimate for the South Huntington Street Bridge project. Mr. President, Miss Move to approve. Second. Discussion. Miss Hair. Uh, Mr. President. Yes. The emergency clause has been requested and I move to add it at this time. My second includes the emergency clause. Discussion on the ordinance and the emergency clause. Mr. Patton.

Thank you. Uh, as council knows, we are going to be rebuilding the bridge on South Huntington Street. In order to do that, we need are required to acquire several easements. Uh this is accepting the appraisal for one of those. We ask for the emergency clause because we have some certain grant imposed deadlines to get the rightway secured. Thank you. Any further discussion on the emergency clause andor the ordinance? Will the clerk please call the role on the adoption of emergency clause? Coin, yes. Salvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Motion passes 70. Clerk, please call the role on adoption ordinance. D Salvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Ordinance 1626 passes 70.

Ordinance 1726, an ordinance approving the 10th amendment to the city of Madina Mville Township joint economic development district and annexation contract to add territory to the district. Mr. President, Miss Move to approve. Second. Discussion. Mrs. Marshall.

Thank you, Mr. President. So this request is to approve the 10th amendment to the city of Madina Montville Township joint economic development district and annexation contract by adding territory to the district for council's consideration this evening. Those uh uh we will be bringing four parcels into the district that total approximately 59.4 acres. Two of the parcels are owned by Lakefront Ohio LLC and the other two are by Cobblestone owned by Cobblestone Crossings LLC. The Jed board met uh May of 2025 and approved the four parcels joining the Jed. Um, as council will recall, we held the public hearing uh two weeks ago and as well as uh Montville Township public hearing both passed and um I believe I had emergency clause requested.

Uh this No, did you? It wasn't on there. I didn't see it. Okay. It should have been on there. I had it on the original RCA. And the reason for it? The reason for the emergency clause is so the developer can move forward with breaking ground on the project as soon as possible. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Hair. Okay, Mr. President. Yes. Emergency clause has been requested and I move to add it at this time. My second includes emergency clause. All right. Any more discussion on emergency clause and early ordinance? Will the clerk please call the role in the adoption of emergency clause? Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Talvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Motion passes 70.

Clerk, please call the role and adopt the ordinance. hair. Yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Salvo, yes. Ordinance 1726 passes 70. Ordinance 1826, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to execute a railroad crossing agreement and letter agreement between the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company and the city of Madan, Ohio pertaining to the Prospect Street Bridge project. Mr. President. Miss Hair. Move to approve. Second. Discussion. Miss Hair. Mr. President. Yes. Emergency clause has been requested. [clears throat] I move to add it at this time. My second includes emergency clause. Discussion emergency clause and the ordinance. Mr. Patton.

Thank you. In addition to the South Huntington Bridge, we are also doing a project to replace the Prospect Street Bridge just north of West Smith. Um, as you probably know, that bridge abuts the railroad. We do have some work to do inside the railroads right away. Uh, these two agreements are required by the railroad for in order for us to complete that work. Thank you. Any further discussion? Click, please call the RO. Adoption emergency clause. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Dalvo, yes. Hair, yes. Motion passes 70. Clerk, please call the role and adoption your ordinance. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Dalvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Ordinance 1826, passes 70.

Ordinance 1926, an ordinance amending ordinance number 21825 pass December 8th, 2025, amendments to the 26 budget. Mr. President, is here. Move to approve. Second discussion. Mr. Durham. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, people watching at home may find it odd we're amending our budget in January, but the reason is when additional funds come in and in these this case, all three of these are additional funds that came in and we have to appropriate those in order to be able to spend them. Any further discussion? Click, please call the rolling adoption your ordinance. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Dalvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes.

Ordinance 1926, passes 70. Resolution 2026, a resolution accepting a donation of $12,000 from Murray and Susan Van App to assist the city of Madina with the purchase of vacant land located at 338 Foundry [snorts] Street. Mr. President, Miss Hair, move to approve. Second. Discussion on the resolution. Uh, Mr. Roelly. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to thank Murray and Sue Vanett for considering the funding of the purchase of the property at 338 Foundry Street. Um we tried to come up uh with half the purchase price uh through donations and when approached uh they agreed to fund a portion of the project. Uh they funded a lot of unique projects um throughout town and appreciate their continued support.

Thank you. Any further discussion? Clerk, please call the role on adoption of the resolution. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Salvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Resolution 2026 passes 70. Resolution 2126, [clears throat] a resolution accepting a donation of $20,500 from the Tom and Jill Lincoln Foundation to assist the city of Madina with the purchase of vacant land located at 338 Foundry Street. Mr. President, Miss Hair, move to approve. Second. Discussion. Mr. Worley.

Thank you, Mr. President. Much like the last resolution, uh we turn in an application to the Tom and Jill Lincoln Foundation uh to uh support the purchase of this property at 338 Foundry Street. uh they generously contributed $20,500 and we appreciate their support uh to make this happen. Thank you. Thank you. Any further discussion? Clerk, please call the role in adoption resolution. Coin, yes. The salvo, yes. Hair, yes. [clears throat] Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Resolution 2126 passes. Simmons. Ordinance 2226, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to execute a purchase agreement with the with Richard Allen Anthony for the purchase of the property located at 338 Foundry Street. Mr. President, Mr. Hair, move to approve.

Second. Discussion, Mr. Worley. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, so those past two resolutions all uh lead to uh the purchase of this property at 3 338 Foundry Street. Uh just just a reminder for the public, we've acquired a number of pro uh properties along Foundry Street to help expand the frontage uh throughout that area. Uh this particular parcel of butts one that we recently purchased at 334 uh Foundry Street and is currently a vacant lot. Thank you. Thank you. Any further discussion? Clerk, please call the role on the adoption of your ordinance. Dalvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Ordinance 226 passes 70.

Ordinance 2326, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to approve change order number one to the GMP number three with [clears throat] ruling company for the renovation of the work at Madana Municipal Courthouse. Mr. President, Miss Hair, I move to approve. Second. Discussion, Mr. Patton. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, as we discussed at finance, this change order actually encompasses, I think it's seven different project director changes at the courthouse. And the amount of the money is the amount is 280,000 and change.

Yeah, we tal we talked about this and you know we went through it and uh we did have the change order. Some of these were unavoidable. Some of them were ours. Uh and uh we just have to keep an eye on that because again with courthouse that we did is you know were $3 million more than we really wanted to spend on the beginning courthouse when we had a a relationship with the county and we're going to go in that building. So, we just have to keep an eye going forward on on what what's going to happen with any more change orders. Any more discussion on the ordinance? Will the clerk please call the role in adoption ordinance? Hair. Yes. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Salvo, yes.

Ordinance 2326 passes 70. Ordinance 2426, an ordinance of the council of the city of Badan, Ohio, certifying that when a municipal obligation was incurred, sums were lawfully appropriated in the funds to satisfy the obligation and sufficient funds sums currently exist to satisfy the obligation. Mr. President, Miss Move to approve. Second. Discussion. Mr. Mr. President, the emergency clause has been requested and I move to add it at this time. My second includes emergency clause. Discussion on the emergency clause and ordinance. Mr. Durham. Thank you, Mr. President. We didn't have enough money on our 2025 purchase order to pay the uh all of the electric bills. So, I need a new purchase order and I need an emergency clause because we already used the electric and we got to pay the bill.

Any further discussion on emergency clause and the ordinance? Clerk, please call the role adoption of emergency clause. Isabella, yes. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Salvo, yes. Hair, yes. Motion passes 70. Click, please call the role on adoption of your ordinance. Lamb, yes. Simmons, yes. Simpson, yes. Coin, yes. Salvo, yes. Hair, yes. Isabella, yes. Orus 2426 passes 70.

Council comments, Mr. Simpson. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh between the last couple days with the extreme cold weather and the snow, uh we've also been forced to witness another tragedy uh that's that's happened in Minnesota and the fears of of people all around our country from the things that are happening. Uh there's not much we can do uh as individuals, but as a group, we we can stand up and and support uh the people that are suffering. And there's a lot of people suffering all around our country. Right now, it's it's it's uh we're focused on Minnesota, but I'm afraid there's going to be other states that that are going to be involved with this type of action. So, I just hope you keep them in their thoughts and prayers and then remember it's so much easier to be kind to people. Thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. Hair.

I agree with Mr. Simpson. Um, I've been hearing from a lot of folks who are highly distraught over what has happened over the last few days in Minnesota. And gosh, I hate to have to say this, but to remind people that we need to protect the Constitution and the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. It's not just for me, it's for all of us. We need to keep that in mind. Uh, on a much brighter note, um, you know, John makes jokes about it, but I have to touch on it. Um, as a member of city council, one of the things that I really try to do in my position is to encourage people to be involved in what's going on in our community um, through discussions, coming to meetings that may be held wherever in our community. And I'm happy to say there's a new face in our audience tonight, uh, Ahmad, who is a a member of my neighborhood. Thank you for coming and please continue to come and if you want to hear more details, come to our finance committee. Thank you, Aman.

I I like that you're trying to get him to come to other meetings. We have a lot of them. They're all open to the public. Some of them we have food at, too. So, you know, maybe you can eat them when we come to some of them. Mr. Simmons, just a reminder, if you haven't seen the America 250 book, it's right behind me in the literature rack. Uh on Sunday, February 1st, uh at the library, we're going to have early stories from Madina by Roger Smallley. And then the following Sunday, February 8th, at the UCCC church, you're going to hear about Pulpits to Patriots. So, both going to be great programs. Thank you,

Mr. Anything, Mr. Savo? Um yeah, I just wanted to throw my um compliments to the departments um getting out there when I was driving down Guilford. Um as I was approaching that intersection at East Smith, I saw all kinds of dirt and brown water and I immediately knew that um as soon as I crusted that top of that hill, I would see this the workers there in the frigid cold with the freezing water working away. Um, so I just really appreciate them getting out there and um I also live on a kind of a culde-sac and my husband got up this morning. He was like, "Hey, they got our street." So appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. Isabella.

Uh, want to just reiterate again compliments to our uh to all the staff in our service department. They've done a phenomenal job this weekend. Uh, want to welcome uh, Bill Lamb back to council. I guess I'm still technically the new guy here. So that hasn't changed at least for a couple more years, I suppose. Um, and then just want to reiterate that we're having that uh that streets and sidewalks committee uh to talk about, you know, besides sidewalks, you know, potentially our traffic issues on the square, sir. So, you know, like to talk to you after this meeting and, you know, would hopefully, you know, have you uh attend to, you know, provide your comments. So, thanks. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Lamb. You're new. Am I [laughter] I I think I'm still the oldest person on council. I'm pretty sure. Maybe. Right.

Close. Close.

Um anyway, what's great um that I hadn't intended to talk about is what a reminder tonight has been about what city government is is about and what and city government being that one place that's so close to us in our everyday life. The discussion here about cleaning streets, that's what city government is about. When it when it snows, we clean the streets. When water lines break, departments are out fixing waterline brakes, regardless of what the weather is. And the gentleman that spoke about the traffic issues, um cars that pull over the white lines, folks that drive through the the the flashing lights at the crosswalk, those are the issues that really matter to us locally as a community. whether we're in a neighborhood, we own a business, or we have an industry. That's what's so special about for me anyway, just coming back is that reminder. That's that's what city government is is all about. So, it's um it's simply it's an um I'm honored to um have this opportunity to participate in public service again. Uh to work alongside this group of principled and pragmatic counselors dedicated to their job. Um the president of council, the mayor, and the administration. I am honored to be here. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. And to thank Judge Sutton for swearing me in and my friend Lisa Campbell for holding the Bible. Thank you. And welcome back, Bill. I know you're the newest, but Ed, you're right. You are you are the newest. And at the last meeting, you were thrown into the fire right away. So, I think that was I'm pretty sure I'm still technically the youngest elected person in this county, too. I think if you were to look through the the various city councils, I think I've got everybody by at least five years. Just saying. Wow. I I guess I never looked that up. So, and we're glad to have your youth, Eddie. We're glad to have your youth on council.

Yes. And thank you. And uh Honorable Betty Sutton, thanks for coming and listening to our council. This is We have a lot of fun every time. We have more members of the crowd. We we always like to have members because, you know, we try to discuss issues and have fun here because, you know, we're here for the residents and, you know, we're glad that people participate. I think that we try to we try to do the right thing and uh try to make things happen as best we can. So I appreciate it and with that the meeting is adjourned.