City Council - Regular Meeting

Ladies and gentlemen, it is 7:40 p.m. on Tuesday, February 24th, 2026. We're at the Twinsburg Government Center, and I'm going to call the regular council meeting to order. Shannon, would you please call the role? Mr. Bellen, I'm here. Mrs. Lavy, here. Mr. Post, here. Mr. Fury, here. Mrs. Walker, present. Mr. Bonacci, here. Mr. Castillo, here. All right. Mrs. Walker is going to lead us in the invocation of pledge of allegiance.

Oh God from whom all powers come by whose divine will all must abide. We thank you for our civil liberties and freedom for our opportunities and our privileges. We beg of you to bless, assist, and enlighten this council and representatives of the city of Twinsburg. May we prove worthy of the confidence placed in us by our fellow citizens. May we be just and upright in thin thinking, honest in all of our actions, and ever be guided by a true conscience in the legislation we propose or vote upon. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Amen. 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. Thank you, Mrs. Walker. Has everybody had a chance to review the minutes from the regular council meeting of February 10th, 2026? Yes. I'd like to make a motion that we accept the minutes as submitted. Second. Mr. Fury makes a motion and Mr. Post seconds. Is there any further discussion? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Bellen,

yes. All right. Approval of the minutes passes 70 as submitted. Are there any awards and presentations this evening? There are none. Do we have any audience participation this evening? We do. First, we have Colleen Rubin. Good evening, Mrs. Rubin.

Good evening. And again, thank you, Colleen Rubin, 2259 Sandalwood Drive. I spoke at caucus regarding the mayor, but I have concerns regarding the chief of police and council as well. Chief Mason is the foundation of lawsuits and settlements which have cost the taxpayers dearly, yet has seemed to avoid any fallout for his egregious mismanagement of our police department. I was unimpressed about his wife's speeding ticket controversy. However, the continued flagrant abuse of law with his son and daughter changed that. Most kids have made poor choices. That's what teens do. But a parent is supposed to make that a teaching moment. Chief Mason's kids learn that they don't need to obey law or suffer the same consequences as their peers. Then they watched their father, the chief of police, knowingly deceive the residents of Twinsburg over and over on their behalf. Then came the depositions which show a powerful story of failed leadership. In his deposition, Chief Mason had 211 evasive answers, as in I don't recall, I'm not aware, etc. Yet he was the official designate for knowing such things. This is who the city sent to 173 questions. He answered no knowledge, no memory or no awareness. 67 of those 173 fall into the core chief responsibility bucket. 27 times he said he did not know policy. 18 times he admitted to policies not being followed. He admits the police department did not follow policies when running the investigation of the TPD3.

In short, Chief Mason has a credibility crisis, a policy crisis, a records crisis, and a supervisory crisis. By his own testimony, he has demonstrated that he is unfit for command level leadership. Our chief was complicit in a sham set of terminations triggering years long cover up. One must ask, how did this happen? We have a mayor. We have city council. We have a law director. I checked [snorts] records and I found this comment from one of our council members. Council is to be the checks and balances. If the administration was not doing its job, the council would absolutely step up and put a stop to it. Also, we are blessed to have the city leadership that we do. I am not sure who is feeling blessed right now. I have sat here and listened repeatedly from councel unwavering support of Chief Mason despite all the evidence contrary to what was being claimed by he and the mayor. So please explain to the citizens what happened. I came to this podium more times than I care to remember with great concerns asking you please look deep. Then I brought details which were scoffed at as being fantastical tall tales. I have been ridiculed and criticized by council members. Residents were being told that record requests were flying out the doors in record numbers when citizen after citizen would come here and complain that this was not the case. A mandamus action was filed against the city. Did you not think that maybe some

of your constituents were telling the truth? Who were you listening to? And so I ask, did you not understand the scope of what was happening? One minute. Thank you. Were you fearful of retribution? Were you not kept informed? All of Twinsburg wants to know how [clears throat] the mayor and the chief of police were able to deceive and waste our hard-earned dollars when there was supposed to be checks and balances in place to protect us and we were told they were. You either you knowingly or negligently turned a blind eye. And if that was the case, then please resign. However, if you don't think that's the case, we want a full explanation of how this happened under your watchful eye. The people who elected you deserve answers and assurances that this is not going to happen again. No more millions.

Thank you.

Next, we have Lorie Facina. This takes courage. Yes. Good evening. Good evening again.

Here we stand. [clears throat] I'm going to abbreviate some of what I spoke about earlier because it's redundant and it's on record already. Uh, but I think I want to concentrate on this little board over here that I brought up because I guess it's very interesting. I'm another one of these people that's a victim of not getting records that I wanted to get. And I've not asked for a lot of records. I think I could count on one hand, maybe two, the records I've asked for in in a period of 10 years. But when I ask, they're important things. They're not trivial. They're not frivolous. They are things that matter to every one of us in this room if we live in this town. None more so than this. None more so than this. This was built under cover of darkness. It was given a conditional use of 50 ft in 2010. And and we don't have to quibble about this in here. It'll be quibbled about in more important places when the code in that part of town was not 50 ft. If you went if you drive up to Highland Road and you look at this, you'll just be stunned because it used to be Brownberry Ovens for those of us who have lived here for a way bit of time. Used to be Brownberry Ovens and it was graded strangely. So, you don't necessarily see that the building behind the original building is 50 foot tall. The smoke that you see there, that's condensation. That's when it was very cold two weeks ago and my husband and I were heading to an event and we went down Highland Road and I said, "My god, is there a fire on Highland Road?" And he said, "No, that's the AI data center. That's what comes out that you don't see on a sunny day." On a daily basis, that one facility uses 243,000

gallons of water. That would equate to 124,000 showers a day in this community. We don't have enough people to have that many showers. But imagine, should you, not one of these, but a hundred of these in your town. And I can tell you that if you drove 4 hours south to Ashurn, Virginia, you would see the delletterious effects of this kind of menace in our town. But somebody had a reason for bringing this into town and they endangered everybody in this town by bringing this in and then covering it up. There is no business name at 2000 Highland Road. Verizon is gone from there. Uh I found a great article that says Verizon was very clever. they went and turned a lot of their nonuseful properties into AI data centers that they own the building and then they lease out everything to one of the five big hyperdata center companies. So when I tell you that a it is an imperative that you listen to your citizens in this room and outside of this room and put this on the ballot because killing it I don't see a dead body. I see a working data center at 2000 Highland Road. Killing it is permanently codifying it. No AI data centers in town. And I can tell you that I've perused the new code and I found a get get out of jail free card to get rid of this. And if I have to pursue that, I probably will. It's in the code. I'm not going to tell you where it is. You could you could find it if you're clever, but but this is this is an existential

crisis above everything else. We're talking about this glorious downtown redevelopment, but we're not talking about something so dangerous that it could change your property values on your homes. It could change whether or not you can take a shower.

One minute. It will take over our electric bills. Our electric bills will go up. That's happened in other communities. Thank you for the one minute. This can't go on. This can't go on. I I I'm so ashamed when I come in here because I used to come here when my uncle was mayor. I know that's a long time ago, but it was robust. There was dynamic conversations, often difficult but productive. What I see up here is a solid ball of mass that says, "You don't matter. We matter. You don't matter." And that has to stop. It cannot go on.

Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Karen Clinton. Thank you.

Good evening.

Good evening again, council. Um, again with the whole police department dispatch thing. Um, I'm going to read something to you and this is in reference to the uh lawsuit that was filed and that everybody's talking about that has been settled and actually it was the records mandamus action. Um, I'll try to blow through this quickly. Uh, officers Fedau and Barlovak also wish to alert the court to the evidence indicating that the Twinsburg Police Department incident reports and other records which the court and its officers routinely rely on are susceptible to tampering with normal effort. as the case of Chief Chief Mason's son goes through the depositions. It talks about everything, you know, we already know about. Um, I'm going to try to save time here, but it goes through all of it and and at the end here it says that uh, moreover, despite knowing tampering with records is a criminal offense, Chief Mason testified uh, that he not taken any steps to investigate it or to discipline Lieutenant Trinowski, who was responsible for um, altering that report. Well, we have a problem because I we did speak Sam we and he's also not only our mayor but our safety director and we talked and I had asked for a complete investigation. Well, the problem is Lieutenant Trinowski did my [clears throat] investigation. So, yeah, how do I rely on this? How do I how do I and it was supposed to be a complete comprehensive investigation. I got what I got. Not good enough. Sam, I reached out to the Summit County

prosecutor. Um, reached out to his office, Brian, uh, Lereny, I think is his name, and I'm also, um, contacting the detectives. Um, and I want you to know I I'm asking you as our safety director to reach out to BCI, get somebody into that police department to do a complete and comprehensive investigation because that's what we need. That's the only way you're going to save face in this town, sir. That's what needs to be done. It's a hot mess in there and again, it needs to be fixed. We're not going to stand down. They've done everything they can possibly do to me. And I'm not going away. I want my records. I want everybody that was involved at what they did to me held accountable. And whatever else you find, those people need to be held accountable. This doesn't go away. Doesn't get covered up. Everybody's aware of it. Please do something. Do the right thing. Get the right people in here to investigate it because it hasn't been done. It hasn't been done. How can anybody rely on Lieutenant Trinowski if he tampered with police reports? Is it is is the investigation tampered with? Is everything that he's touched tampered with? How do we rely upon these people? Now, this is what I'm faced with. God forbid something jump off at my house. Who do I call, Sam? Who do I call? The Twins Police Department. How do I trust them? I'm going to call the sheriff's department. It's pretty sad. Thank you.

Thank you.

That's all we have this evening. All right. Thank you, Council President. I have one comment I'd like to make uh with regards to um Calling Rubin's comments. I would I need to tell you that 75% of the venom that comes out of that woman is false. False. Believe what you want. I'm telling you it's false. Stop. Please. Please. Thank you. All right. Listen up. Anybody else? That's all. That's all. Thank you. I have a comment. Okay.

Um, Mr. Yes. Um, I just want to say that in regards to the data center, I will just speak um for myself that I didn't I did not realize personally that Verizon was no longer in there. Um, I don't want to pretend like I did know that because I did not know that I was under the impression that Verizon was still in there and that it was a small data center that was part of that. So, um I guess Well,

no, I I believe you. I believe you. So, I I guess my question is, um I don't know who else knew that or didn't know that. Um but I guess the question is what I I think we should look into that. And I do agree and I thank you for bringing that to our attention because I did not know that and I don't know what I don't know. And so, um I do agree that you know if there is a data center there um it shouldn't be and I agree with you. So, for what it's worth, um, Miss Ziggler, if you could, you know, find out some more information about that, um, and maybe find out how it got in there. If Verizon tried to find a loophole, maybe um, to put that in there and if if that shouldn't be there and it's not allowed, how do we get rid of it? So, if we could figure out all those answers, that would be awesome sauce. All right. Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Post. Yep. Anybody else? So, uh, with respect to data centers, I attended a meeting. I'll be reporting that, uh, on that on my committee reports. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Bonacci. All right. No other audience participation. Shannon, there is none. Thank you. All right. Moving on to council communications and committee reports this evening. Mr. Post, good evening. Uh, good evening. None of my uh, committees have met. However, I will be here Thursday evening for a an awesome parks and wreck meeting. Anyone who wants to join for that will be here Thursday night. Good times. Mrs. Rubin, please. Thank you. And that's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bachi.

Uh, since our last meeting, I attended the February 19th architectural review board meeting and three cases were heard. Uh Chamberlain Road, there's a new single family dwelling that architectural rendering was approved. On Daryl Road, Primrose Schools signage was approved. On Revena Road, Absolute Auto, new sign approved. Architectural Review Board meeting scheduled for March 5th is canled due to a lack of agenda items. Next regularly scheduled meeting will be March 19th. Um residents in Tickers Woods and Heritage Estates may have seen uh some utility markers. Those utility markers are most likely connected to an infrastructure improvement by uh Windstream Kinetic to improve high-speed internet in that neighborhood expanding their network in Twinsburg. They've been in other community or other parts of the town. They're coming to a good chunk of Ward One. Earlier this month, a resident emailed us.

Is that fiber? Yep. Highspeed fiber. Um earlier this month, a resident emailed all of us about a citywide framework that Avon Lake is using aiming to align city plans, growth, uh finances, a whole bunch of stuff, uh together. It basically sounded like Avon Lake has developed a strategic plan. Some of what we deal with up here sometimes feels like u we would benefit as a community if we had a strategic plan. So maybe that's something we could discuss in the future specifically for five years. Different than the comprehensive plan, different comprehensive plan.

It was the strategy it, you know, you could check out the if you didn't get it, it popped into my junk mailbox, so it took a little bit of effort to find it. Uh I randomly found it. I'll forward it out to everyone again. Um so, you know, I want to start this with remembering that uh the way the code is written, there's no mention of data centers. So, effectively, they're told I'm told they're not allowed. So last week, uh, I attended the Ohio Municipal League's program on data centers. Again, data centers, as far as we knew, up until earlier today, not allowed, not part of our community, right? Uh, since that topic came before us several months ago, it's been something I try I've tried to lean into and learn a little bit about. So, it was nice to be able to attend this uh this program. And uh basically um you know I think it's important to re report back to our residents that talked about a topic to let them know that while we might not see legislative action people are looking into it and I'm I'm looking into it. So for Lori, Nora, Michael, Chris, Casey, Lawrence, Susan, Richard, Lynn, and Jimmy. I heard you and I'm looking into it. So, OLM had uh Ohio municipally had the Montros group and Amazon come in and they talked about uh the market of data centers. Ohio's number four um in the country right there four we're the fourth largest state with data centers and it's growing quickly. It's going to grow at about 18.5% for the next five years targeting mostly agricultural land and brownfield so former industrial land and agricultural land. And you know, I know it's the likelihood of it impacting Twinsburg in a significant way is pretty slim. Uh, but it impacts our region in general. So, I think as an elected official, it's important to be aware of what's happening and to be able to communicate when needed. So, Amazon represents lots

of jobs in Ohio and they're a big player in it. So, here's the deal. Uh, this whole thing, lots of information was shared, including that Amazon has 15 acoustical engineers on staff. There's times where I see more than 15 Amazon trucks in my neighborhood. So if they're taking this problem seriously of noise, I'm not really seeing it from what they shared. Uh our legislative bodies, the state legislator, uh Casey Weinstein has introduced and is working with colleagues on a number of issues related to data centers. Our current state representative Steve Demitrio is working on that. The Ohio Municipal League just sent out a memo on a uh what do they call it? It's a a legislative update to communities. And that legislative update to communities included information about home rule and changes to put the rules and the growth out of the state legislative body and back to the local neighborhoods. Okay, that's just what's coming down from Columbus. So, we have both sides of the aisle working on an issue that they may have created themselves, but they're working to fix it. Um, you know, I just wanted to share this to kind of close the loop and let residents know that that we're working on it and, you know, I appreciate the opportunity to report on it. It's maybe not the way I wanted to, but that's okay. I know in the past when we've had similar things that were under consideration at the state level, we've put a pause on things through a moratorum. Maybe that's something that we're willing to discuss in upcoming meetings. That concludes my report.

Thank you, sir. Mr. Fury.

Thank you and good evening. The uh next finance committee meeting will be on March 24th at 6:30. The next CIC meeting will be on March 12th at 4:00. Also, I uh would encourage our residents to go on our website and take the uh survey for the Twinsburg streetscape improvement program that Rebecca has put forward. It's an easy five question multiplechoice rating kind of a uh of a uh survey. And so they partnered with an environmental design group to develop downtown streetscape for state route 82 and 91. And these standards will help guide us for the look and feel of our main thoroughares creating public space safety, welcoming, walkable, and distinctively Twitt. The survey will be available till March 5th. Please take a look at our website mytwinsburg.com and uh take the survey. We'll take you about five minutes. The Cleveland Guardians are are hosting a summer camp in Twinsburg uh hosted by the high school uh school forum July 13th through the 17th. The camps are for boys and girls ages 6 through 14 and all skill levels from beginners to travel baseball players are welcome. It's supposedly high energy, highly instructional uh to build confidence, teamwork, and a love of the game. The uh camp is five days and then there's a VIP experience on at Progressive Field. Um, if you're interested, the, uh, Twinsburg High School has a website and also there's a Major League Baseball website, mlb.com/guardians/fans/summeramps. Uh I'm sure that they'll have this more

information going out through um our multiple media and ways to uh uh to get information to residents, but uh uh you know, when my son was very young, we did a a day camp at Guardians Field. It was really cool. It was fun. I And uh this is much more instructional. And uh they're they're basically doing a a round through major high schools in the greater Cleveland area to put these on. So anyway, if you're interested and your children are between 6 and 14, please look into the Guardians fan uh appreciation summer camp. That's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Fury. On February 17th, I attended the planning commission meeting. There was one case on the agenda that evening. The applicant, Ignite Volleyball, was looking for a conditional use permit for a volleyball training facility located at 2242 Pinnacle Parkway. Public notice was made, adjacent property owners were notified and there were no public comments. It was unanimously approved by the planning commission and later this meeting we made a motion to approve that conditional use permit. That me meeting also marked the last meeting for Michael Walker. He is a member of the Coast Guard and he was mobilized to Arizona for a year. I would like to thank Mr. Walker for his support and service not only to the country but to the city of Twinsbury and the planning commission and wish him the best of luck in his in his uh travels. Additionally, that evening I had the honor of recognizing outgoing chair of the planning commission, Mr. Mark Cohen, and we recognized his 21 years of service to the planning commission. He will be sorely missed. Next planning commission meeting will be on Monday, March 16th at 6:30 p.m. here in council chambers. As Mr. Mr. Fury said the next finance committee will be on Tuesday, March 24th. And the next meeting of the safety committee will be on Tuesday, March 10th at 6:00 p.m. here in Chambers. And finally, the next meeting of the public works committee will be on Tuesday, April 14th at 6 p.m. here in Chambers. Mrs. Lavy, good evening.

Thank you. Um, Mr. Bellon attended the planning commission meeting for me last week, which I thank you for going and reporting. Um, excellent job. The next meeting, as he said, is scheduled for March 16th at 6:30. Um, the Jedi Committee will set up at the Black Business Vendors Fair tomorrow at Twinsburg High School from 5:00 to 7:00. The next Jedi Committee meeting will be March 9th at 6:00 p.m. And Lori, I just wanted to say just today I had a conversation. I was in the building with Lynn Mutter and we talked about getting that on the ballot. So, sooner rather than later, Thank you.

Is that it? That's all for me. Thank you, Mrs. Walker. Good evening. Um, my best friend did my Jedi committee for me, so I have nothing to report. Thank you, Mr. Castillo.

Thank you. The uh regularly scheduled meeting for BCA was uh cancelled this month and our next scheduled meeting is Monday, March 23rd here in council chambers. Uh no other committees that I serve on have met since this uh last meeting. I had the opportunity to meet with some of our department heads and leadership within uh the building department, police department, service department, and the water department, our wastewater department, and they are exceptional. A lot of great uh people within those departments that keep our city functioning and moving. And uh I appreciate them taking time out of their day to uh walk me around and talk me through some of the projects that they were working on. Um let's see. I wanted to um talk about a program that I learned about uh this is the mailbox replacement program. So, a few residents had reached out to me about uh you know the the snow that we've had over the past couple months or excuse me, past couple weeks, feels like months. Uh and our service department replaces mailboxes. So, if your uh mailbox was hit by a plow, uh they encourage you to call the service department. somebody will come out and inspect that and they go a step further of replacing it and uh you know taking care of it for you. So I found that to be a great asset. The phone number is 3309636212. Um again I think it's a step two mailbox that they have that they'll replace you with. Uh community engagement since our last meeting. I attended the Twinsburg Garden Club uh with my daughter and we were able to get our seed packet for our future uh garden that we'll be building out. So that was exciting. And uh we attended the Twinsburg Historical Society featuring the great great grandson of uh James Garfield who is a resident of Twinsburg and he is the executive director of the Garfield Trail. It was a fascinating uh conversation and um he had his great great grandmother with him uh was a great character player uh in that she plays a role I guess within the historical parks. But anyway, that was

uh fascinating. I'm glad that he's a member of our community and uh I encourage everybody to reach out to the Garfield Trail. Uh this Saturday I attended the soft opening of the Juice Club on Church Street and I had the opportunity to meet with the owner. I learned a little bit more about her goals and what she was looking to accomplish there as she opens and expands. Uh I think there's going to be adjacent to the juice bar a little bit of a I want to call it like a workout center or something along those lines. So it's being built out and I'm excited for her to open fully for us. The juice was great. um freshly squeezed and thankful for that to be in our community. And then I just want to say congratulations to Twin Mass Performing Arts Center. Uh their season kicked off in February and they were sold out for their first performance, remember for a lifetime. Uh their next performance is Vanities. It's scheduled for uh May and you can find more information on twin masks.org. I also too want to encourage people to uh fill out the survey. I know that we have in our home and um I had asked if we could get a QR code or something along those lines where we can put it up. Uh it may already be up, I don't know, uh like in a poster setting um in the rec center library and stuff along those lines to encourage people. And I had uh wanted to kind of get out to the library myself. was there talking to people about doing it, encouraging them to sign up and to fill it out this past weekend. So anyway, I'm looking forward to those results and uh thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening.

Thank you. Good evening, Council President. Uh I have one item. Um last week I had the honor of swearing in Miles Berdick to our police department. He's our newest member of the police department. Just went through the academy. And um what's really exciting about having Miles on board now is with him on board our police department and it's been a work in in progress, but is now up to full capacity that we haven't been up to full capacity in many many years. And I think that this is the time that um it should be up to full capacity with just the way the world is working today. Um so I'm proud of that and I'm proud of everybody in our police department. We have a very functional police department that works very well together. They work well with our community and um I'm just proud of them and I'm proud of Miles and congratulations to him and that's all I have to

Thank you. any department heads this evening? Christina, this is Connor. Good evening.

Good evening. Just one item. Um we have started our 2025 audit with the auditor of state. So every council person should have received a fraud risk assessment. Um they send out different ones. Obviously, mine is probably a little bit more comprehensive than yours. Um, so if anyone had any questions, um, Jackie, who is our head auditor for this year, has said please feel free to reach out to her. She can explain what any of the questions mean or just give you some examples. Um, those are due back. I think she said March 6th is the due date to return those to her. So, email's best. She said if for whatever reason you can't access it by email, you can call her over the phone and she can go through everything with you.

Okay. Thank you. All right, moving on to legislation this evening. First up is resolution 2026 12, a resolution expressing the intent of the city of of Twinsburg to in 2026 to sell by internet auction personal property, including motor vehicles and other property referenced in revised code 721.15, which are no longer needed for public use or obsolete or unfit for the for use for which they were required and declaring an emergency. All right. At this time, I would like to make a motion to adopt resolution 202612 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. Mrs. Lavyby seconds. Any discussion? Amazing. Oh, I'm sorry. Mrs. Walker, I apologize. That's great. Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen? Yes. Mrs. Walker?

Yes. Mr. Post? Yes. Mr. Castillo? Yes. Mr. Fury? Yes. Mr. Bonacci? Yes. Mrs. Lavy? Yes. All right. Resolution 202612 passes 70 as an emergency. Next up is resolution 202614, a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Tinker Creek Wershed Partners Incorporated and declaring an emergency. All right. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 202614 as an emergency. May I have a second? I'll second. Mr. Fury second. Any discussion? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker. Yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes.

Mr. Castillo, yes. All right. Resolution 20264 passes 70 as an emergency. Resolution 202616, a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract with the legal defenders office of Summit County, Ohio, to provide representation for indigent defendants and declaring an emergency. This now stands on its second reading. Resolution 202621, a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with animal control services with Summit County, Ohio. This now stands on its second reading. Ordinance 2026 24,

an ordinance amending section 149 of the codified ordinances of the city of Twinsburg regarding fees and deposits to include the fees for emergency medical services and ambulance transport. This now stands on its second reading. Ordinance 202625, an ordinance repealing chap chapter 731 of the city's administrative code regarding ambulance subsidation. This now stands on its second reading. Resolution 202626, a resolution authorizing the city to both apply for and accept an energized community program grant administered through the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council and declaring an emergency. This now stands on its second reading. Resolution 2026 27,

a resolution adopting an updated local landmark list. This now stands on its second reading. Ordinance 202628, an ordinance amending section 1125.02 C3 of the codified ordinances of the city of Twinsburg to correct a terminology error. This now stands on its second reading. Resolution 202629, a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a real estate purchase agreement with the Twinsburg Community Improvement Corporation to acquire certain real property located at 8949 Daryl Road, Twinsburg, Ohio. This now stands on its second reading. Resolution 202630, a resolution authorizing the city to enter into an agreement pursuant to the source cooperative purchasing program for the acquisition of a skidster and necessary attachments and declaring an emergency.

At this time, I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place resolution 202630 on its third and final reading. May I have a second? I have a second. Mrs. Lavyby seconds. Reason for the suspension of the three reading rule is to so the purchase can be made prior to the contract price expiring and to ensure the equipment is received by the city in a timely manner. Is there any discussion on the suspension of the three written rules? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Post, yes. All right. Suspension of the three reading rule passes 7 to zero. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 202630 as an emergency. May I have a second? I have a second.

Mrs. Lavyby seconds. Any further discussion? The cost the cost of the uh purchase is $109,66. Thank you. Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Resolution 202630 passes 70 as an emergency. Resolution 202631, a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into contracts with Medical Mutual of Ohio and ameritus for certain employee benefit plan services and declaring an emergency. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place resolution 202631 on its third and final reading. May I have a second? Second.

Mr. Castillo seconds. The reason for the suspension of the three rating rule is so that the new plans can be in effect with the new benefit year starts on March 1st. Any further discussion on the suspension of the three rating rules? No. Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavyby, yes. All right. Suspension of the three reading rule passes 70. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 202631 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. Mrs. Lavy seconds. Walker. I'm sorry, Mrs. Walk. I know it's over there. Sorry. I know we look alike. Any discussion about resolution 2631? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen,

yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Resolution 202631 passes 7 to zero as an emergence. Ordinance 202632, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to amend the existing agreement with AMS Landscaping LLC to authorize removal of additional sediment from the Waterford Pond and declaring an emergency. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place ordinance 202632 on its third and final reading. May I have a second? I'll second. Mr. Fury second. The reason for the suspension of the three reading rule is so that work can continue and not delay the project timeline. Any further discussion on the suspension of the three- rating rule? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bowen, yes. Yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bonacci,

yes. Mr. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. All right. Suspension of the three reading rule passes 7 to zero. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 202632 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. Second. Mr. Castillo seconds. Any further discussion?

Yeah, it's uh it's an increase of $144,000. I I do not like at all that the company was off by almost 50%. you know, it's a 50% increase, which I think when you go in and make a bid. I mean, it's nobody's fault obviously, but it's just frustrating that, you know, a 50% increase of needing more. You know, I just um it's disappointing to me that the company would be off by that much and our hands are tied on that. We have to get it done. But that's very disappointing to me. That's all. Mayor, now I can tell you part of the reason for the the increase is I know that they took out much more material.

I'm sorry. Part of the reason for the increase is because they took out much more material than they had planned on. Once they got in there, they emptied that pond and they they started digging it. It needed to be. And actually, there's still more that they would like to do, but it it's not necessary at this point. Yeah. So, that that's part of the reason. I mean, it wasn't that they were just off on their their uh quote or their bid. It's that once they got in there, and that happens, you know, change orders happen. None of us like them, right? We could have always said no and and had them stop. But I think that the right thing to do is to have them dig deeper and clean that out. Look at what the project's for because that was never dredged ever.

Oh, listen. I'm not saying I disagree with you. I'm just saying that it's just frustrating from to be out there that you said that, you know, that they were off that much on their bid. They they weren't off the scope of the project on the project itself. Correct. Yes. Yes. Yes. That that makes it Thank you for clarifying my verbage. Yes, I I agree with that and I agree with Mr. Bellon. If you haven't driven by it, you should go see it. It is crazy cool to see it if you have not seen it. It's very cool. Any further discussion? Shannon, please call the RO. Mr. Bell, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Post, yes.

All right. Ordinance 202632 passes 7 to zero as an emergency. All right. Unfinished business, new business, and miscellaneous. Can I skip one? No. Okay. Mr. Castillo, good evening.

Good evening. Uh, last night I was at the um community center and we started our wizard house party adult Easter egg hunt and the uh driveway was pretty active with a lot of adults coming through to get their tickets. It was from the within an hour time frame. So, that was exciting to see that this is event is getting some traction. I know parks and rec said that there's a few tickets left uh for it and uh I encourage everybody take a look at that. It looks like a fun time for everybody and uh I applaud the city for doing this adult program. It seems like it's going to be a fun one. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Walker. I have nothing. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Lavy.

I just wanted to say at the end of Black History Month that Dr. Walker, you have been just such an inspiration to me and you are the person in Twinsburg that I know has the most history to me and I appreciate you conveying that. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else? No. Thank you.

No. Okay. Um, let's see. I just uh Mr. Castella mentioned the side or I'm sorry, the mailbox replacement program and I wanted to give our service department a their kudos that they deserve. I had a W five resident that was affected by this. He his mailbox got knocked over and I just want to read some of the message that he sent me. Um he said, you know, I wanted to say a huge thank you. I truly appreciate your help getting the mailbox replaced. They replaced it with the same exact model which was I was not expecting. We were absolutely blown about away by the lengths everyone involved went to to replace our mailbox. They even put numbers on the mailbox. They fixed the landscaping around it after they installed it. Thanks again. So, massive props to to our service department. That's an outstanding program. Um, let's see. I would like to make a motion to approve a conditional use permit for a volleyball training facility at 2242 Pinnacle Parkway for an I am innovation and manufacturing zone as recommended by the planning commission at their February 17th, 2026 meeting.

I have a second. Mr. Fury seconds. Any any further discussion? All right, Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mrs. Lavyby, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Motion passes seven to zero. Um, I also have another motion to make that the president of council sign a letter of support on behalf of council as a whole for the twins crossing district as part of the downtown development project. May I have a second? Mr. Fury seconds. Uh, is there any discussion about this particular motion? Thank you for doing that.

Very welcome. Um, and as a reminder, I know there's some there's been some discussion about the plan and and really this is just out us saying we favor moving forward with some development, not necessarily a particular plan. There's nothing specific. There's nothing that we are that we are approving. It's just that we we approve the directionally moving forward. So, all right. Uh, Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. All right. Motion passes seven to zero. Thank you, council. Much appreciated. Mr. Fury, good evening.

Good evening. Uh, Mark Cohen does a really great job running the planning commission, has done for almost 20 years, and also does work for the Ethan's Green Home Association as our architect's review uh architect. And uh, he will be missed. He did an outstanding job and uh know that he's put a lot of time into that. I also again congratulations to Mike Walker on his move out to the Southern uh command. Uh he he's a JAG lawyer and uh he's he's a really great guy and I'm going to miss him. But uh congratulations to him. He did a nice job as well. And E, I feel safe because you're you're guarding us tonight. Thank you very much. You didn't even hear me. That's all right.

We'll circle back. Mr. Bonacci, good evening. Um,

two things as we wrap up today. Homelessness and housing insecurity remains a concern in our community. If you're facing those types of challenges, 211 is a great resource, uh, managed by the United Way of Summit County and Madina counties. Uh locally we have an effort of residents that are getting together trying to figure out ways to bridge the gap between Twinsburg and the resources available at our county seat. Uh and then lastly to those observing the holy seasons of Ramadan, may you have success with your fasting journey. For those uh celebrating and recognizing Lent, may you have success during your fasting journey. And may you know that uh I'm looking forward to all your wonderful fish fries. In all honesty,

I'm sure you [laughter] in all honesty, the discipline, Friday night at St. Cosmos and Damian, the discipline that people put into this time of year is impressive, and I wish I had a fraction of it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Post, uh, yeah, I want to say a couple things. Uh, I will, uh, piggyback off of your mailbox. uh Endeavors, the uh mailbox across the street from me went down and the brand new one with the numbers was up so fast. I was going to go over there with a Home Depot bucket and put the old one in it and by the time I thought to do that, the new mailbox was already in.

Super impressive. Uh that's number one. Number two, uh Mr. Fury and I met last night with an uh with fiber optic company, the Ethan's Green HOA. We spent about an hour on the phone with them. uh they're a company coming uh in and trying to get our permission and our blessing to work in our development and we're going to do a lot of research before that. But we are going to talk as you mentioned before and with Mr. Gatowski um about different places that have come in. Um but I'm excited for fiber optic lines to go all around Twinsburg and give us all the the best internet and everything that we can uh we can all get. That's that's um that's that's the second thing. And the uh third thing I I do want to address um some of the comments tonight um about the police, not not a lot. Um I know that uh I was quoted in saying that we are the checks and balances and that was my quote and I'm glad I said that we are the checks and balances. Uh the problem I have is as the checks and balances, yes, we city council, we are up here to represent the people and I think that we do an awesome job representing the people. The problem I have is when the people are wrong. And when the people are wrong and saying lots of facts that are wrong, it's hard to represent them. And

alleged I alleged alleged alleged facts.

Alleged facts. Thank you. I appreciate that. But I hear a lot of the stuff going on as well and we don't comment back. And why is that? Because we have said time and time again, you can talk to us, but we will not respond while there is any pending litigation going on. You come up here every week and berate us about facts. We're not going to respond and we will continue to not respond while we are advised by our legal to not respond during litigation. That's why the mayor doesn't respond. That's why nobody responds here. But I will tell you this. I have encouraged the administration that when this is all over to say our side because there are two sides to every story. I have heard so many blatant lies for months and months and months and I sit here and I listen to it and I don't respond. No response is a response. We are giving you exactly what that speech deserves. No response. And we're not going to respond because we are told we are not supposed to. But there will be statements, I'm hoping, coming from this city, from the admin and defending the truth that will come out. And I think a lot of people will be shocked because lies are easy to believe. Everything on social media is easy to believe. Lawyers on one side that say everything to the public can say anything they want. It's easy when the other side is saying nothing. So I implore all of you listening to everything you hear on newscasts, on

radio stations, on social media to recognize you are hearing one side and one side only. and will continue until everything is all done. And only then will you hear a second side and only then I hope you make your opinions on it because I agree with what the mayor said before. There are so many lies being said it's turning my stomach and that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, mayor.

Yeah, I just have one announcement I I forgot to make earlier. Um, I want to congratulate our our Twinsburg Tigers uh boys varsity bowling team. Uh, last week they u they pulled through and they clinched their second place spot to move on to districts. So, congratulations to the Twinsburg varsity uh bowlers. Um, they did it and uh next Sunday they will be at districts. So, I want to wish them the best of luck. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to uh wish Mr. Vazanna a quick recovery. He's feeling under the weather here this evening. Has been for a couple days. So, Mr. Rosanna, you were missed for sure. Mrs. Conway, anything further this evening? Not tonight.

Mrs. Collins. All right. Thank you very much. All right. At uh this time, I would like to make a motion to enter into an executive session to discuss and consider the appointment, employment, or compensation of a public employee or official. May I have a second? Mr. Fury seconds. Any discussion? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Labby, yes. Mr. Bonacci. Yes. Mr. Castillo. Yes. Mr. Post. Yes. All right. The motion passes 70. We will now enter into an executive session. No further business will be discussed this evening. We will come back later and close the meeting. Thank you very much.