City Council - Regular Meeting

OK, I'd like to call this June 22nd, 2026 council meeting order. If you please rise for the pledge of allegiance.

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.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Liam.

Here.

Simmons.

Here.

Simpson. Here. Coyne. Here. DeSalvo. Here.

Here.

Isabella.

Here. Reading of the minutes.

Mr. President. Ms. Hare. I move that the minutes from the meeting on June 8th, 2026 as prepared and submitted by the clerk be approved.

Second. Discussion on the minutes. Will the clerk please call the roll on the approval of the minutes.

Simmons. Yes. Simpson? Yes. Coyne? Yes. Hare? Yes. Isabella? Yes. Lamb? Yes. Motion passes 6-0.

Reports of standing committees. The finance committee met prior to council this evening for a great hour and a half session. We will meet again in three weeks since we have an odd week out. Health, safety, sanitation. Mr. Simpson?

Thank you, Mr. President. No meeting scheduled. Nothing to report.

Public properties. Ms. Hare?

Thank you, Mr. President. I have nothing to report and no meeting scheduled.

Streets and sidewalks. Mr. Isabella?

THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. WE HAD A MEETING LAST WEDNESDAY WHERE WE ADVANCED OUR SIDEWALK PROGRAM ORDINANCE THROUGH THE SYSTEM. WE SPOKE ABOUT IT AT FINANCE, AND WE'LL HAVE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS AND DISCUSSIONS ON IT AS IT MOVES THROUGH TO REGULAR COUNCIL.

THANK YOU. WATER AND UTILITIES, MR. SIMMONS.

THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. NO MEETING SCHEDULED AND NOTHING TO REPORT.

Thank you. Emerging Technologies, Mr. Land.

Thank you, Mr. President. No meeting scheduled and nothing to report.

Requests for Council action. We have several for the Finance Committee. 26-124, Transfer Requests, Railroad Fund. 26-125, Transfer Requests, Parking Fund. 26-126, Transfer Requests, Cable TV Fund. 26-127, Budget Amendments. 26-128, Increased Expenditure PO Fund. 26 235 hall public safety police 26 129 water rates and utility rate review commission finance department 26 130 20 26 spca funding request 26 131 banana municipal courthouse change order number three engineering 26 132 construction agreement us 42 lafayette road engineering 26 133 engineering design services for job number 1189 state route 3 north 26 134 amend salaries and benefits code 3102 and 3105 housekeeping for the service department 26 135 2027 tax budget and 26 136 proposed ballot issue for sidewalks

reports of municipal officers mayor shields thank you mr president uh just a few announcements i wanted to uh take a moment since our last meeting on saturday june 13th on a beautiful day on the square we had our fifth annual juneteenth celebration took place from 10 a.m to 3 p.m had a great crowd kenny crumpton denita harris we had a motown band from detroit and a spoken word artists from Atlanta, Georgia. I want to thank council members Simmons, Simpson, and Isabella for attending. Special thanks to the Cleveland Clinic for being the event sponsor. The committee that put the day together, Pastor Arthur and Tracy Ruffin, Reverend Wilson, Main Street Medina, Angela, Annette Finley, Pam Miller, Christy Shoebridge. Just a really great day. We always in Medina try to schedule our Juneteenth celebration closest to the Saturday to the date. And next year, it's actually June 19th is a Saturday. So we'll have the event. Probably one of the most entertaining things. The Motown band was absolutely phenomenal. But they did... love train and uh... if you could see a love train going across medina square it was pretty it was really a great site so just a great day and appreciate all the work that went into making that day happen uh... this friday at one p m main street medina in conjunction with the city will have a ribbon cutting for the new bee park located just south of smith road and on South Broadway at the Medina Supply former warehouse there. The festivities begin at 1 o'clock and that's open to the public to come see the new Bee Park and the public mural that will be on the side there. And then I want to take my time tonight, because we don't have another meeting until after the American 250, July 3rd, 4th, and 5th holidays. And please, everybody else, jump in, too. We have so much stuff going on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th in Medina. This is just going to be an amazing weekend. Coming up, we're going to start on July 3rd with the largest fireworks event. ever at medina high school at dusk special thanks to murray and sue van epp medina township montville township the city of medina everybody has put in additional funds to make this the best show ever the chief will talk a little bit more about the fireworks show and some of those challenges because it's such a large show That will be Friday, July 3rd. We do have a rain date, which will be on July 11th. It's the next weekend. We wanted to have it on a Saturday night so it would push it all the way, but we usually have great luck with weather. It's going to be nice. Everything's going to be great on July 3rd, but you won't want to miss this great show. On July 4th, we start our day up on the square with the Twin Scissor bike and running races. We have the Farmer's Market. We have the Spirit of 76 celebration from 10 to 3 at Old Town Cemetery. There are so many events at Old Town Cemetery. It's just going to be unbelievable with reenactors. Paul Revere will be there. Austin Badger will be there. Bife and Drum will start up at the gazebo, march over to the Old Town Cemetery. St. Paul's Church, all of that property will be involved. Just a nonstop great day. After that, the parade kicks off from the high school, the 4th of July parade heads from the high school up Spring Grove to Liberty Street to around the square at 4 p.m. Then we have a band concert that evening. and an ice cream social with Medina Breakfast Kiwanis that evening also. And then on July 5th, we have a car show at the County Administration parking lot that benefits the Medina County Historical Society, also another America 250 event. I know I'm leaving out a lot, but I'll let everybody else fill in, but there is no reason not to have the best America 250 celebration right here in Medina, Ohio on July 3rd and 4th and 5th. Thank you.

thank you mr durham director of finance thank you mr president i know uh i already told this to council but some of our viewers at home didn't hear that we had a meeting uh that uh nino piccoli pat patton and fred from the engineering department andy bendell attended with me at avon lake regional water to talk about water rates for 2027 and the good news is they're not raising our rates so our So the rate the city is paying is not going up, so the city rates will not be going up in 27. Other than that, a couple things that came out of finance I'll talk about when we get there. Thank you. Chief Kinney, Police Department.

Thank you, Mr. President.

I have no report. Thank you. Senators Tuca and Ms. McCord.

Thank you, Mr. President. Nothing to report.

Mr. Gladys, Building Official.

Thank you, Mr. President.

I have no report.

Mr. Bacoli, service director.

Thank you, Mr. President. Real brief, we'll be moving a crew in tomorrow at Fair Road to perform some repairs with respect to the pavement underlying, and then Chip and Sia will follow later in the week. So I think there will be two days of full-depth repair on the road itself, and then we intend on paving all the way to Lafayette and redoing that piece as well.

thank you thank you mr patton city engineer thank you mr president just an update on our us-42 resurfacing project that project actually started today in addition to resurfacing 42 from basically north of homestead to lafayette it includes intersection improvements at several of the intersections throughout the corridor today's work started at quartz and east union and also at court and homestead each of those phases should take about a week or two to finish thank you chief walters fire department

Thank you, Mr. President. As the mayor mentioned, we have quite a fireworks show lined up for the city and the residents and visitors this year. So a little bit out of necessity, but also just for information, we thought we'd take an opportunity to educate everyone on the backside of that. A lot of people show up every year to see the fireworks and probably really don't know where they're actually being set up or shot off from. And this year it's gonna be particularly important Um, residents don't, uh, accidentally, uh, find their way, find their way into the area where the fireworks are being set up. So, uh, Jared, if you could, uh, well, actually that is the back lot that'll work fine. Um, the first thing we wanted to point out here, and then I'll, uh, show you guys, uh, make sure everybody knows where exactly we're looking at, but. The red ring and the yellow ring represent the fallout areas of the fireworks that will be shot off. And this is not any different from any other year. The red ring is for the eight inch, the very large fireworks that we see. You can see how large of an area the fallout from those fireworks going off are. And you may think that's not a big deal because it's just burnt pieces of paper, but there is always the possibility that one of those large shells could shoot several hundred feet in the air and not detonate and then come back down. So these boundaries are particularly important. So we just wanted to share that with everyone so they have an idea of just how big that is and why we put so much effort into making sure everyone's safe there. So, Jared, if you could go to the next one there. So if we are looking at the back of the school, the high school entrance off of Weymouth Road, if you go past the rec center and then all the way into the back to the rear entrance that very last lot that jared's got his mouse on in that area is where the if you have that picture with the red there you go that area is where the fireworks are set up and the way this works is a a large semi truck and all of the The contractor that shoots that, which is American Fireworks for us, they will come early in the morning and begin to set up and at one point they will open that truck and once they begin offloading the ordinance, everything changes at that point. The security becomes very important. No one that is unauthorized is allowed to be in that area. the fire department, the PD will be helping, and even some of the school folks will be helping with the summer camp, making sure that that doesn't interfere there. So we just wanted everyone to be aware of that parking lot that Jared has the red box over and the bus loop just to the right side are the ones that are primarily affected. And then Jared, if you could go to the next picture, we'll show you, There you go. So this is looking a large overhead of that. The red ring again, you can see the lot where the fireworks will be shot off right in the middle, yup. And then Jared, if you'll start in the bottom right, that yellow, that is the entrance that you would come into that back lot from Weymouth. The yellow line there indicates where the barricade will be throughout the day before the fireworks are being shot off. And what we're trying to illustrate there is you can see just to the right, there's a cul-de-sac, and that is Shorewood Drive. And there is a pathway that comes from Shorewood through into the school property. And during the day, you will be able to come through there. You just won't be able to go into that lot. We do have people periodically move a barricade or go under the tape, and we're just really asking people not to do that and pay attention so that we can continue to allow them to come through that area and then go down and over to the festival or out to where they're going to watch the fireworks. time of shoot or just prior to, so somewhere prior to 10 p.m., which is the scheduled shoot time. The entire walkway between the school property and Shorewood, the circle there, will be closed off and no one will be permitted in that area sometimes people want to sit in that area and that that we're not allowed to allow people there people can sit in the cul-de-sac that's fine just not in the walkway there and then jared if you're going up to the top of that circle or just down the walkway there you can see there's a path between the football stadium and the baseball diamond that is uh a problem for us every year. We have people that will walk inadvertently right into the middle of where the fireworks are being set up. And again, that will start at like 10 a.m. So the entire day that parking lot will be off limits. In fact, Chief Crumley will be closing, he'll be putting barriers up at about 11 o'clock the night before. So on the second. So no one through there, just keep that in mind. plan your route accordingly. And then just to the left of there, yeah, over there, you can see if you were to park in the parking lot at the top left of your screen and make your way through past the Ken Duke stadium and you want to cut through, uh, prior to the shoot time, that is perfectly fine. As long as you stay out of the radius area, which is all, uh, that'll all be taped off and, and, um, have barriers up. Um, so we just, I think sometimes what happens is people don't really, uh, understand what they're walking into and what, cause it doesn't, doesn't look like a lot, but it is. And this year there's nearly double the amount of ordinance. Uh, so the fireworks people will have extra staff on hand and they will be a little bit, um, more particular about our efforts to keep people out of that area. So any help the public can give us, we'd certainly appreciate. And then the very last thing that I'm going to mention is, Jared, if you can bring your mouse down to the bottom of the red circle, that horseshoe loop there up just a little bit, the parking lot loop. Yep. That area, you can see the yellow line is where the barricade will be. So theoretically, during the day, people will be able to get into that loop. And the only reason that we're leaving that open is for the summer camp. for the parents to be able to get in there and pick up their kids at around the 5 to 5.30 timeframe. So the school is gonna be helping, the summer camp folks will be helping keep people from parking in there. But if someone does slip in, once they close it off, you won't be able to get your car out, number one. And number two, when you come back to get it, it's gonna be covered in debris. Those three asphalt areas of the parking lot, you could shovel them with the amount of paper debris. So we just wanted to share that with the public for anyone that sees this and hope that helps. You can see the other red lines that are through the stadium up at the top and then down at the bottom. Those are the boundary lines where spectators will not be allowed to cross. And if anyone has questions about that, I'm happy to answer. Yeah.

Thank you, Chief. If we could just remind, and I think it's Nino, Every year I get emails or phone calls because people are concerned about the debris that's left on the roadways and the sidewalks and stuff. Since this is going to be on a Friday, I'm sure there will be some cleanup, but the majority of the cleanup, am I wrong, probably will take place the following Monday or during the weekend.

we talked about that at our staff meeting because our uh we usually get a couple calls so we're going to have a crew in the area but the big cleanup will be monday but we'll have people out through the weekend here anyway so if the public can just be aware of that that every year i get several calls and emails about that but thank you

Thank you, Chief.

Yes, sir.

Planning and community development director, Mr. Dutton.

Thank you, Mr. President. I have no report.

Thank you. Notices, communications, and petitions. There's none. There's no unfinished business. Introduction of visitors. Members of the public will be permitted the opportunity to speak on any issue or concern which pertains to the city during a portion of the council agenda devoted to introduction of visitors. All comments should be directed to the chair. and a reasonable time limit of possibly five minutes will be imposed. If there's a group, please appoint a spokesperson. Speakers should approach the rear microphone and state their name and address so it could be entered in the minutes. Members of the public will be afforded the opportunity to comment on other portions of the meeting as determined by the chair or by a vote of the majority of council members present. At this time, I would call Tom O'Connell. He's the Madonna Metropolitan Housing update on the Next Step Up Shelter. And then after that, anybody else would like to speak? I know we've got a lot of people willing to get up. Tom?

Good evening, everyone.

On behalf of the MMHA Board of Directors, our staff, especially our emergency housing and Next Step Up Shelter team, I want to thank Mayor Shields, his staff, his team, and the members of city council tonight for the opportunity to update you on the operations and the impact of... There we go. I think he's okay. So on behalf of MMHA, the emergency housing staff, our Next Step Up team, I want to thank Mayor Shields, his staff, members of city council for this opportunity to update you on the operations and impact of Next Step Up, Medina County's very first emergency homeless shelter. So since opening in February of 25, just last February, Next Step Up has served 304 people. That's 304 human beings have stayed at Next Step Up through mid-June, since last February. 176 of those 304 guests, well over 50%, have come from the city of Medina. 83% of the Next Step Up guests are Medina County residents. Over these 16 months, 35 children have stayed at Next Step Up. Just about a month ago, we actually had six children staying there at Next Step Up, ranging in ages from four months old to 17 years old. One aspect that makes Next Step Up unique is that we have a small pet kennel area. Because as Next Step Up was developed, one of the obstacles that we heard about for people entering shelter was, what do I do with my dog? What do I do with my cat? I don't want to leave my dog. I don't want to leave my cat. So we created, as Next Step Up was designed, a small pet kennel area. Again, over these 16 months, we have housed 26 dogs and 12 cats over the 16 months. Since opening its doors through the hard work of our Next Step Up staff, our case management team, 53 households have successfully exited Next Step Up and entered into their own lease agreements. 21 of those 53 households have successfully found permanent housing here in the city of Medina. And that is through really our strong relationships with so many private landlords here in the city of Medina. One of the common questions that we get regularly is how long do people stay at Next Step Up? Right now, the average length of stay is 33 days. We don't set a time frame when they enter because we believe that's all they would be thinking about from day one is I only have 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, whatever that might be. But our philosophy is as long as they're engaging in their case management plan, they have a place to stay at Next Step Up. Since February, 68 guests have secured employment, and I'm really happy to share just in this calendar year alone, 34 of those guests have secured meaningful employment here in the city of Medina. There are so many opportunities here locally in the city of Medina. Obviously, the opening of Next Step Up has provided a safe place for people to live and the resources and support to help them take literally their next steps. But the needs for those who are still experiencing housing crisis and homelessness here in Medina County remains great. Since opening, we have averaged, these numbers really haven't changed much. But since opening, we are using 23 to 24 beds every single night at Next Step Up. There are 27 beds and two cribs. Both cribs have been used throughout these 16 months. That average has not changed much over the 16 months, 23 to 24 beds. Also, to demonstrate the need, our MMHA emergency housing team is fielding on average 68 calls per month from Medina City residents that are experiencing a housing crisis. These are residents here in Medina who, whether they might be literally street homeless that night or that day, or they are at imminent risk of homelessness. Maybe I have an eviction notice. We are incredibly thankful for the work that is being done. And that work really has been made possible through the support that we have experienced through the cities here in Medina County. And I especially want to thank being here in Medina tonight, the support of City Council, the support of Medina City leadership, and the generous contribution of $50,000 to support Next Step Up operations this year. We are incredibly generous. Again, we're incredibly thankful for the work that has been done. But we all know there's still much more work to be done. I do want to just provide just very briefly a few other just brief MMHA Medina Metropolitan Housing updates while I'm here tonight. Most of you know that most of this calendar year, the housing authority, the office staff, which is about 21 of us work out of our main office, we have been somewhat nomadic for various reasons. I'm happy to share that on Wednesday, May 6th, so a little over a month ago now, a month and a half ago, MMHA moved into some new offices, temporary offices. We are located at 4079 North Jefferson. We are in an office suite just behind Hobby Lobby and Walmart there on North Jefferson. The space is wonderful. It wasn't big enough for all of our office staff, but through some creative inflexibility in our team. We were able to fit 15 of our staff under that roof there. It has helped incredibly with communication and productivity to be able to just walk down the hall and talk with members of our team instead of having to get on a Teams call or send an email or get in your car to find them where they were. in a different office location. We are really looking forward to working with the city to use that lease that has been signed previous to me being hired as executive director just across the street at the Medina Municipal Court. Cindy has been incredibly communicative throughout these months to keep us up to date on their process and their move. So I really appreciate her and Mayor Shields and how well they've communicated with us just to keep us up to date on that process. But we are looking forward to at some point later this year to be moving into the municipal court building and all being under the same roof again. and more centrally located here in Medina. Another update is the Lafayette here in Medina on Lafayette Road, 11 units of permanent supportive housing. If you drive by, it's well underway, over 60%. Construction has been completed, really due to a six-week weather delay in the winter. We're now looking at a mid-September completion, which is not that far off from where we are today, but really excited about opening that property later this year. And then lastly, Northview Manor, also here in Medina, one of our largest affordable housing properties, 85 units. We are in the process with our development partner, CHN, Cleveland Housing Network, of closing up financing on that deal. We are going to renovate all 85 units. Once financing is closed, construction will start later in July. It's about an 18-month project. It is a challenging project because of the size of the property, but also it's occupied. So there is a whole relocation plan that will literally start tomorrow. People will start being relocated within the building for the renovation of that property So we're really excited about that opportunity and the facelift that's going to give that That property so again on behalf of the housing authority on behalf of our board of directors our staff Especially our next step up team. I want to say thank you for this opportunity, and thank you for your support tonight. Thank you.

Thank you Is there anybody else that wishes to address council at this time I? Okay. Introduction and consideration of ordinances and resolutions. At this time, I'd entertain a motion to suspend the rules requiring three readings on the following ordinances and resolutions. Ordinance 102.26, 103.26, 104.26, and 105.26.

Mr. President, I make a motion to suspend the rules requiring three readings on the following ordinances and resolutions.

Second. Any discussion? Clerk, please call the roll.

Simpson.

Yes.

COIN.

YES.

HAER. YES. ISABELLA. YES. LAM. YES. SIMMONS.

YES.

MOTION PASSES 6-0.

ORDINANCE 102-26, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 13301 OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MEDINA, OHIO, RELATIVE TO ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

YOU GOT TO GO FIRST. OH.

MS. HAER.

MR. PRESIDENT, MOVE TO APPROVE.

second uh chief walters thank you mr president this membership will assist our inspection fire marshal and his staff with plan reviews and training and a lot of other benefits and it's very affordable Thank you. Any other questions? Clerk, please call the roll.

Coyne.

Yes.

Hare. Yes. Isabella. Yes. Lamb. Yes. Simmons. Yes. Simpson. Yes. Ordinance 102-26 passes 6-0.

Resolution 103-26, a resolution amending Resolution 186-26, passed November 10, 2025, relative to the Probation Community Corrections Grant, CCA, for the Medina Municipal Court. Mr. President. Ms. Hare. Move to approve. Second. Discussion. Cindy.

Thank you, Mr. President. The municipal court was awarded an additional $7,500 to purchase a stand-up check-in kiosk for our probation department. We're just asking the council to approve it.

Thank you. Any questions? Clerk, please call the roll.

Chair?

Yes. Isabella? Yes. Lamb? Yes. Simmons? Yes. Simpson? Yes. Coyne? Yes. Resolution 103.26 passes 6-0.

Ordinance 104.26, an ordinance authorizing the finance director to make certain fund transfers.

Mr. President? Mr. Chair? Move to approve.

Second. Discussion?

Mr. Durham? Thank you, Mr. President. These are transfers to the railroad fund, the parking fund, and the cable TV fund. And I realize that we changed the cable TV department to the communications department, but the fund is still the cable TV fund because A big chunk of the revenue comes from the cable TV franchise fees.

Any further discussion? Clerk, please call the roll.

Isabella? Yes. Lamb? Yes. Simmons? Yes. Simpson? Yes. Hoyne?

Yes.

Heer? Yes. Ordinance 104-26 passes 6-0.

Ordinance 105-26, an ordinance amending ordinance number 218-25, passed December 8, 2025, amendments to the 26th budget. Mr. President? Ms. Heer?

Move to approve.

Second. Discussion? Mr. Durham?

Thank you, Mr. President. These cover the aforementioned transfers and some other items. Thank you. For discussion, please call the roll.

Lamb?

Yes.

Simmons.

Yes.

Simpson. Yes. Coyne. Yes. Heer. Yes. Isabella. Yes. Ordinance 105-26 passes 6-0.

Council comments. Mr. Simpson. I'm good.

Whoa.

Be kind.

I just want to say with the July 4th holiday coming up and so many people get excited about shooting off their own fireworks, I heard plenty over this past week and I'm thinking, what's going on here? But I've got to admit, after I hear the fireworks going off, you know what comes to my mind and I verbally say it, gee, I hope nobody blew off a finger. So please be safe this holiday.

Mr. Simmons?

To reinforce the mayor, the America 250, the Friends of the Cemetery, have been working for a year, year and a half, on events at Old Town Graveyard and behind St. Paul's Church. So I'd encourage you to pick up a flyer like this. They're behind me at the window. There's activities all day. There's speakers all day. There's music all day. It's going to be a wonderful, wonderful event. I encourage you to attend. Yes, sir?

I do have one more thing to say, sorry. I want to thank the administration and the service department. They will be working on Fair Road here tomorrow and this week. And it is actually a benefit to the community as so many people use Fair Road to drive from Smith to Lafayette, Lafayette to Smith, avoid the trains on the track. thank you so much for getting that done and In its key because the fair is coming up August 3rd through the 9th thought I'd put that plug in and so you know it Welcomes the community, and I'm glad that street is going to be safe to drive on thanks again

Mr. Isabella?

Just to echo our other council members, thank all of our service departments for their excellent work, and obviously be safe, folks, along with playing around with explosives. It's a weekend that people seem to enjoy adult beverages. Keep yourself safe. No reason to find yourself overjoyed by the celebration.

Thank you, Mr. Lamb.

OK, not to echo everybody else. For one thing, shooting off fireworks I do believe is illegal. And I have heard fireworks near where I live, which means people have that don't live right where I live but close by every single night I hear. And there are people, you know, when we all celebrate like the fireworks and I'm great, you know, you want to have a bigger firework show. There are people that live here that have PTSD, that that can be a very uncomfortable thing. And there are some countries that shoot out fireworks that make no noise. And the other thing about fireworks is, not to sound unpatriotic, but I guess I never really thought that fireworks really were a signal that you were patriotic. But fireworks are very hard on all living creatures. And so it's always interested me how excited and how much money to spend for something that actually does cause harm to some people and a lot of creatures that have nothing to do with this celebration that we're having. And I do not view it as a signal of whether or not you are patriotic or not patriotic. Again, though, what I'm working on, and I'm going to submit in the next week or so, is I am working on, for the deer program, There are things that we can do that are not about shooting the deer, but things that we can do, particularly with the number of car accidents, car vehicle collisions that we have with deer. And so I have the cost for a variety of different kinds of signs that I have researched and a mapping of how to put up different signs to see what signs actually work as the best deterrent for vehicles and deer. And so among those signs, there are LED signs that simply light up and they continually blink, solar signs. for caution there are radar feedback signs like the police use when they put the signs out and say you know you're going over the speed limit those also tend to have folks slow down whether they're even on when they're on people tend to slow and when they're not on they they actually are on that would help and there are standard signs and then the other signs that i'm looking at are motion signs that are um They are radar signs that they sense the size of the animal when it comes near the road. And so those signs would not light up until the radar identified an animal, and then they would begin to blink. And those signs in test cases have cut deer car vehicle accidents by 80%. They're more expensive, but studies show that a sign that doesn't light up at all is not much deterrence and a sign that constantly lights up is not much better if it's always lighting up because no one pays attention to it. So my thinking is we try some different signs at different locations and see which ones seem to be the best and then on top of all that have some temporary signs that put up and then take back down and maybe rotate and rotate some of these signs. And the other thing is, um, we're not going to wait until after the deer program this year into next year to begin to work on, uh, removing invasive species from some of the parks. And, um, I've looked at a number of different companies and have quotes from some companies. AND I'M LOOKING AT MORE TO WORK WITH THE PARKS DIRECTOR AND THE ADMINISTRATION TO SEE WHAT AREAS WE CAN REMOVE THE INVASIVE SPECIES AND BEGIN TO PLANT NATIVE PLANTS AND FIELDS THAT ACTUALLY WILL BE, WILL BETTER FEED THE SMALLER MAMMALS, BIRDS AND THINGS THAT LIVE IN THE PARKS BECAUSE THEY'RE NATURAL SO THAT'S THE KIND OF FEEDING THAT THEY WOULD WANT TO HAVE. i'm working on a on to develop west uh... west washington street which if you look at the nine block historic district it was decades from nineteen sixties through the nineteen nineties to save the historic lighting in the historic district in that late nineteen sixties there was an exhibition in City Hall of a Cobra headlight like you see on freeways that were considered to be being put up and removing the historic lighting. In the 1980s, There was another attempt by Ohio Edison to remove those lights, the historic lighting. But if you look around the square, it's a nine block district. And if you look at West, if you look at West Washington, West Washington, there is no historic lighting on West Washington Street. There is a lot of overhead wires. And then there is businesses there and there are new businesses, buildings being redone. And in order to help promote that, I think we will look at,

um continuing the historic lighting down that street so those are the things i'm going to submit within the next week um or so thank you thank you and with with that everybody have a safe holiday there's plenty of activities enjoy the time in the city and enjoy your family and uh have a great holiday week thank you