City Commission - Regular Meeting

[music] Good morning. The Dayton City Commission meeting will now come to order. Would you all please rise for the invitation and remain standing for the pledge of allegiance which will be given by Commissioner Beckham this morning. Thank you. The invitation, excuse me. Dear Lord, thank you for this day. Uh thank you for the opportunity to serve. Uh we ask that you uh continue to lead us as we attempt to lead this city. We ask for wisdom, clarity, provision um as we deal with the issues that so many other cities are also grappling with. In your name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen.

I pledge algiance 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. All right. Good morning, Miss McClendon. May we please have a roll call? Mayor Turner Sloth. I. Commissioners Joseph Shaw. I. Fairchild. I. Beckham. I. May I please have a motion to excuse the absence of Commissioner Joseph, please? So move your honor. Second the motion. Your honor. It has been properly moved and seconded to excuse the absence of Commissioner Joseph. All in favor say I.

I. I. All oppose say no. May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the March 18th, 2026 meeting? So move your honor. Second. It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the March 18, 2026 meeting. All in favor say I. All oppose say no. [snorts] Miss McClendon, are there any communications or petitions this morning? There are none, your honor. Thank you. This morning we have a monthly demolition update. I'd like to call Mr. Steve Gondul to the podium, please.

Good morning, Mayor, Commissioner, City Manager, Miss McClendon. Steve Gondell, director for the Department of Planning, Neighborhoods, and Development with your Dayton Recovery Plan Demolition Monthly Update for the month of February 2026. Last month we saw 20 demolitions occur in our city. All of those were under our ARPA contract. Uh to date that has equated to 33 demolitions also all funded through the ARPA funded uh demolitions. Our fire pile uh progress remains the same. We ended uh January where we started um with 22. Um we have not removed any. We have not had any added uh in February which is good. Um and again reminding from last month that uh team is drafting a new contract uh for the removal of the fire piles um to happen in 2026. We're working through um processing our CDBG demolitions uh and some ODODS, but that is going to be part of also our 26 work plan is a new fire pile removal contract.

Repeat that. I'm sorry. I want to make sure I'm tracking. Could you repeat your last sentence with Yeah. So, um, what they're working on right now is, uh, teeing up our demolitions in Birkhart and in Westwood using our CDBG funds, which we've kind of paused that to to use the ODOD and ARPA because they were timesensitive. So, they've been focused on that. And then they're going to move to draft a new contract because we have actually fulfilled all of the previous pile contracts. And so we're going to draft a new one to uh address the remaining properties and any new ones that come on. Do you know when we should see that come in before? I will get with the team to kind of get a timeline when we might expect that. All right. Thank you.

Um as I mentioned, good news. Uh we had no emergency demolitions in the month of February uh either for fire or for uh blight or or not blight uh fire or structural deficiencies. So that is encouraging. are uh 20 demolitions. Uh here they are occurring throughout the city. We had one demolition in Roosevelt neighborhood, uh one in the Twin Towers area, two in the Five Oaks, two in the Santa Clara neighborhood, and 14 in the Southern Dayton View neighborhood. To date, uh our demolitions, 33 have occurred. one in the McFarland neighborhood again, one in Twin Towers, the [clears throat] two in the Five Oaks, three in the Roosevelt neighborhood, seven in the Santa Clara neighborhood, and 19 in the Southern Day View. And that is for January and February.

Thank Thank you for breaking it down. I really appreciate that. kind of I asked the team um while they map it to [clears throat] start giving that neighborhood so that we can kind of see you know we can see it but to actually have that count because when you look as the year to date as you all know it starts getting uh populated pretty big and so having that kind of breakdown by neighborhood is really helpful thank you

okay our [clears throat] properties added to the structural nuisance list in February there was 19 uh 14 of those were houses uh with um two garages. So, we have to identify them separately, but the the two garages were associated with two houses that were on that list. Um and then three commercial properties. 14 of those were for blight, five were for fire. So again reminding everybody that when a structure uh in um experiences a fire but it's not severe enough where we have to do an emergency demolition, we'll often then put that in a structural nuisance because it has been damaged enough to where it it needs to be properly repaired or or through our building services group. So that's where I you know moving those properties um onto this list versus probably the emergency demo list our pipeline. So, we had a pretty quiet uh January as I noted where there's nothing. But now we've kind of uh you'll see we're ramping up. We had 127 title reports completed. We had 88 asbestous surveys completed and 16 asbests remediations completed in the month of February. And the breakdown of that was um of the asbestous surveys, 38 of those were for the ODOD uh the state funding. 50 of those were for AR the ARPA uh focused demolitions. And on the asbesus remediations, uh 16 of those were for ARPA related demolitions or pending demolitions. And some before and afters uh from last month. Um 626 Cambridge. Uh kind of an interesting before and after. Snow, no snow uh difference a few weeks makes. um 215 Rockwood, 269 Huck. And so I just want for anybody that knows the area in the Twin Towers, this is looking south towards Zena. And

what you may not realize is that that property, while it faces Huck, um it had a lot of overgrown vegetation going towards Zena. And again, what I love about our demolish is that not just the house, but we take out all brush and trees um especially trees under six inch diameter. And so a significant amount of brush was also removed from that kind of opening up visually that corner there. So what you're looking on the right is that is looking towards the uh properties along Zena uh looking south and then 926 Windsor and again here's an example where you know remove the property but you know that tree obviously exceeds 6 in but also it was not a if we don't feel that the tree is going to contribute to additional blight or concern you know we leave them there and so because that it's a significant expense but we do our team does look at each and every one of those whether um do we need to also remove this which then we have to put on as like an additional, but this is one where the tree was healthy. It wasn't uh impeding any anything else or in danger of damaging anything else. And then lastly, so I'm going to be update using this every month. Uh so where are we? So of our 33, as I noted, um those are going toward those uh what we believed are budgeted and 120 ARPA funded demolitions for the year. So all of our work so far has been on those ARPA contracts. As we move forward though, you will start seeing more of the ODOD's coming on and then eventually the CDBGs coming on. So, um the one thing I probably don't have on here is uh we'll probably add is uh any general funded uh demolitions which might be the fire pile. So, I will add that um once we kind of figure out with money, what money we have, what we think we can tackle, you know, the volume on that. So, that'll probably be one addition. Um, you know, we remain we are going to probably expend every single penny of our ARPA funds by the end of the year and we have 10 months to do that on the ARPA work. So, with that, I'll cease my remarks and uh take any questions or comments you all might have.

Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Commissioner Beckham. Thank you, your honor. Uh, thank you, Mr. Gondel. Always appreciate your comprehensive uh report. I'm also encouraged by the fact that there were no emergency demos, so glad to see that and uh appreciate the additional detail. So, thanks again. You're welcome, Commissioner.

Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Gondol. This is one of my favorite reports that we get, and it's great to see the progress. Um, I was curious on the fire piles. It's great that we haven't had fire piles. I know we've had homes that were fire damaged. Do we have a total on how many houses are fire damaged? And then what's the path for those homes that are fire damaged? So, good question. Um, so on that, not everything uh that falls into that structural like on on the fire damage does actually hit our responsibility. So, if a if [snorts] a homeowner's property burns, they have insurance, it may be on that list, but it may it might come off once they do the repairs. And so I would have to um have my team pull that to see of the fire damage, fire damage, structural nuisance, how many of those um and how we kind of know that is their insurance company will send an escrow to the city and that tells us one they had insurance and two we hold that and then if they complete that repair or if it's so bad if they complete a demolition uh up to our standards, we release that fund back to the insure uh to the owner. So I will try to get that number to get a clear thing is how many of these fire damage are going to kind of maybe fall into our responsibility versus how many are actually being addressed by a responsible party homeowner or a business or insurance company. Are there any homes that end up in some kind of zombie state where the escrow amount isn't enough to do what needs to be done? The homeowner says, "I'll just take the the loss." And so we've got a home there that's not being addressed. We've got funds that can't address all the needs and it's in some limbo.

Absolutely. So, we have had situations where, let's say the cost of demolition is 20,000, maybe the escrow is 10 or 15, um there's obviously a deficit there. But for us, if we're having to use general funds to remove that, we at least think again some compensation, uh, whether it's the 10 or $15,000, it may not always cover that, but for us, it at least minimizes our expense and we put that right back into the the pro the the removal. So, it does happen, but in those situations, um, we do have the escrow to hold.

Yeah. I mean, I would like to see maybe in next month's report kind of that level of the structural nuisance cuz, you know, I can think of a couple properties, some of them pretty visible, like the one down on uh Smithville right at the edge of Ketarine. It's been there I think maybe a year. It's not clear anything's happening with that. I think there's one on uh 1010 Bair, which is right next to the house I grew up in. So, I'm mindful of it. um that was damaged a while ago and and still sits there damaged. So, I'm curious how many of those homes we've have have out there that are damaged and then um and what paths we have to

either code enforce the owners if they're responsible or um get them into the the queue for demolition if appropriate.

And that's something we look at. We look to we we have a number of steps. We look to see if it's on escrow. We look to see um if we've had communication. If we do hit that state, there's no communication, there's no escrow, we will then initiate the code enforcement and also alert our building services to where don't release any permits until they um come in and start addressing the structural nuisance, but kind of keep an eye on and I know Commissioner Joseph has also pointed out especially a number of those on Smith in that general area as well because there's not, you know, they they really stand out especially on their location. So I will um look into kind of uh providing the information to the city manager to get to you all.

Sure. And can we look at the slide with the um structural um nuisance list? What's the total number of structural nuisance? Oh, I do not have that on here. I don't know if I had reported that. Uh this was just the running list. That'd be another thing I'd have to provide the city manager with. I would probably from what you've already requested it would be it would just be part of that you know the whole list how many of those are structural how many of those are fire and then whether we have recourse through escrow so

that'd be great and I'm curious what steps we took to mitigate you know we added 476 maybe that's was that the year we did the survey and we captured a whole new group of them okay because it looks like we're trending up for this year. If we project 37 out for the rest of the year, we're going to be up to 140 or some. So, I was curious what mitigation steps we take to try to prevent properties from ending up on the nuisance list. Like I said, we we look at a number of factors whether you know responsible party

structural news is pretty significant, but again, if they qualify, I mean, because I I don't want to just say we send everything to the home repair network because sometimes this is pretty significant, right? But we do look to see, have we initiated conversations with the owner? Have we taken all the official steps with notifying them our expectations? Um, do we believe there's a path out of there or do we believe there's a path like it's probably going to lead to demolition based off the severity of it? Because again, not everything in structural nuisance is uh headed for demolition, but it's a it's a degree of of of blight or damage. And so kind of varies on on how many of those. But um you know that that's just kind of looking at the list, looking at where the properties are. And then the other thing is, you know, um when a property is on structural nuisance, we actually don't um when we do our housing condition survey, we actually don't survey that because it's already in that. Like for us, if you're on structural nuisance, it doesn't I mean, I'm not going to come in and put you on structural nuisance and then say you're a two or a three. It's

you're you're in a you must repair or uh demolish it. So we we kind of we have them skip those because we already have those accounted for. And you anticipate my last question where we are with the um survey and yeah and do we anticipate adding a significant number like we did in 24 onto the nuisance list.

So I mean this is real time this is running. So anything um we are down they have surveyed over 60,000 structures and lots. So, one of the things that we added this year was we also have an accounting for um vacant lots as well, just as we're building our GIS database. And so, they're down to just a handful of kind of pockets that they are uh we're doing uh daytime operations, some limited overtime during the week and then some designated Saturdays uh with teams to just kind of flood those areas to get it done. Um, knock on wood, I think we're done with snow events. So, I uh we [clears throat] believe that, you know, the p they're back on a routine pace where we're doing almost five to six days of it, but close to um again close to probably wrapping it up here in the next uh week or two.

And lastly, you know, thinking about this whole thing comprehensively, do we have a number of how many properties are actually vacant? Some of those would be on the nuisance list, but others may not. So, That's something we'll have to look at um again from our our our working group around the data is some some of the factors that we use to kind of determine uh a vacancy um to get a sense of uh because again I'm really you know the work that they're doing out there collecting this data using GIS through a mobile app um we're able to also then identify some other kind of observe you know they can observe if something looks vacant but that's not the only you know there's another number of other factors we're going to look at to see is there a ongoing vacancy there that we could then probably get a predict like get an understanding of maybe what is our percentage of all these properties now that we believe to have some level of vacancy based off of a number of uh data criteria and that that's going to come with the completion of the survey and our review of the data and it's more than just PND we have MMB staff public works GIS staff and some other partners kind of looking at that trying to get a better sense and I think as we're building on this survey you know 2004 was great because we hadn't in a while. 2006 is even better because um the thoroughess of it uh the the implementation of GIS which allows us to add layers in and also uh our team is most of them have two more years under their belt. So they're really fine-tuning their assessment skills. So really excited to see what when they're completed what we're looking at and some data sets we can get out of there.

Awesome. Is there ability to match um your survey with like water connections? Okay. That's one of the data sets that we we layer in to see if we can get an a we can identify maybe uh if something is vacant aren't big. Great. Thank you. Appreciate it. Welcome. Good stuff. Thank you, Commissioner Shaw. Well, Commissioner covered a lot of ground there, so I have no questions. Just thank you for the update. Appreciate Thank you. Thank you. Well, um, as always, I appreciate the update and please extend our appreciation um, to the entire team and the staff. I do have a couple of of pain points, if you will.

Um, the 300 block of um, Westwood, there are a number of structures that are literally caving in. Um, so if you could provide us with an update to Missine so that she can ship that over to us, that'll be greatly appreciated. And then I know there's been some attention in the past to Ferguson and Faulner and the southern Dayton View area. Um but again there are a number of properties on Faulner and Ferguson that needs uh attention. Okay. So um again thank you very much and I I really appreciate you adding that level of detail. It's great information. Thank you.

Appreciate it. Thank you all. Miss McClendon, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar? There are none, your honor. Thank you. Miss Dixon, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar?

Your honor, I have no additions or deletions to this morning's calendar. I do have a few I would like to highlight. So, um item uh B3 is a grant agreement for the Center City uh residential LLC. This is our home developer agreement that will provide $2 million of funding um towards the construction of the 121 residential apartments in the center city building. Uh this project is um over $120 million in um investment in downtown and this uh $2 million grant agreement will um secure 10 units that uh for home, seven of which will be fully accessible and three of which will be um visual hearing impaired um accessible. So, uh, this is our, um, uh, first, um, or second agreement that's coming forward. As you know from the briefing, there's a total of $10 million invested into this through a variety of different funding mechanisms. So, there will be another one or two agreements coming before you um, as they work towards closing um, here in the next uh, 30 days. Uh item B5 is a service agreement with Sanvic Architects for 72,500. This is um uh the Sanfvic Architect Group is out of Cleveland. They are renowned for adaptive reuse architecture. They do a lot of um his they've done a lot of historical redevelopment up in Cleveland and they have come down and and done work for us as we have had largescale projects. We have them under contract to explore the reuses for the 34 North Main Street. It will go handinhand with the um task

force that Congressman Turner has set up to look at that building. It's a similar approach to what we did with arcade where we study the demolition of a building and then we study the redevelopment of the building and we have to have expertise in both camps so that there's a comprehensive very um well um informed discussion uh to come forward with recommendations as to whether something comes down or whether something is um pursued for development. Uh so we are uh excited to be bringing that forward so that the his the so that Sanvic can provide that historical character analysis. They will review the structural and exterior envelope analysis that's already been done on that building. They will provide conceptual design and floor layout. Uh and then similar project analyses as well as preliminary historic preservation services. So, we're excited about that um contract coming forward. Um item B6 is an award of contract to Archon Builders. This is for our East Patrol Division's um north renovations project. It's a $5.2 million project. Um with a completion date of April 30th, 2027. Um this is a we had to go to bid twice for this uh because the first bid had 0% MBE goal um achieved and there has already been a PLA executed because it's over the $2 million threshold and that is also included in this um award of contract for approval today. And then finally, item number nine is an informal resolution accepting the 2026 recommendations of the tax incentive review council. I believe Commissioner Shaw still sits on that Turk body.

I do. Unfortunately, those uh out of town for the for that meeting.

Okay. Um so this uh this reviews all of our basically tax abatement kinds of tools. Every year we have to review it with the county auditor and our program um recommendations have um six TIFF projects, six EZ projects and then our CRA program which has a residential and a commercial pro component. Our TIF agreements uh essentially leveraged $154 million in investment and um created or retained 1,168 jobs. Our EZ agreements uh leveraged $106 million of investment and created or retained 1,240 jobs. Our CA CRA program um resulted in 184 residential uh projects that leveraged $261 million of investment throughout our neighborhoods where the CRAAS exist. and then um 32 commercial and industrial projects that leverage $700 million of investment and $4,742 jobs. A large component of our commercial CRAAS are the it includes the airport as they have pre94 CRA. So that is um so it captures all of that development and ongoing investment at the um Dayton International Airport. So that is all I have this morning. Thank you, Miss Dixon. Yes,

Miss McClendon, are there any citizens that are registered to speak this morning? There are no citizens registered to speak on calendar items. Thank you. Commissioners, are there any comments on the city manager's recommendations? Commissioner Beckham.

Um, just thank you for bringing some of these key items forward. Um certainly glad to see uh the investment uh and some of the major blighted and vacant real estate downtown. Um so glad about that. Um congratulations to the police department moving forward on East Pod. Uh it's good to see knowing that uh the new West Pod is underway. Lastly, um mostly uh very very eager to see phase four of the Salem Avenue rebuilt. Uh so I'm glad that is in here this morning as well. So those are all my comments. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Fairchild. Yeah. Uh just a couple questions on number five, the SAVIC architect

in that study. Will that include a a business plan? I'm just curious who the potential users are. It it will include um uh conversations around development perform because it will identify the resources that can be brought forward for redevelopment and we will have you know we have um conversations right now going on with developing or groups who are interested and there's one or two groups that are looking at that building right now. Um and we may have more after we are able to put out more information. Um, and would there be something that would distinguish that space separate from like the Stratacash building that's right next door or the me building right across the street that has significant space, vacancy space?

Yeah, it wouldn't it would not be office wouldn't be reconsidered. It would be housing redevelopment, mixed use, first floor, retail like it had, you know, remember there was a Quiznos there for a number of years. Uh it has a light well that drops down to the third or fourth floor so you can get natural light in every unit. Um it's very so that's a real attractive component. Um it also makes it less um dense with regards to housing. But yes, there is it would be it would be a redevelopment reuse and we'd look at those kinds of uses and it wouldn't include office. I mean because many of our reuses that bring residential, we also do office within them and then

some it depends. That's a that's a market driven conversation um as far as what the developer feels comfortable with with our um office vacancy right now as well as the lower demand for off office office space because of work from home shifts still. Um it would probably be unlikely that there would be office. There might be a a a work live space that's a little different than office, you know, but it that's really a market developerdriven conversation.

Okay. because it I mean it goes back to a broader conversation that we had recently around how how do we activate all this office space that we have downtown and the strategies that we're employing to attract additional people into that space. So, it'd be helpful if we can see whatever that plan is in light of the broader conversation around including people into trying to reduce those vacancy rates in downtown in terms of office space. Um, I'm going to reserve some the opportunity to ask some questions around the um the incentive review council. I just had some general ones today. As you know, the supporting documents came a little late, so I I didn't get into them as as much as I probably would have liked to.

They are largely the same as they were last year because we haven't added new projects. Yeah. Um, who makes up the council? It's a it's it's defined by the OC. Uh there are representation from the commission. There is representation from the uh administration, treasurers who are um who represent the school districts impacted are at the table as well as the county auditor and and his staff. Okay. Um because I like on the CRA, I noticed we're at 100 everything's at 100%. Who verifies that? Who because the council doesn't have staff, right? Is it the city?

No, the the the economic development department manages all of the abatement projects. Okay. And then I think like one property I did see on the report was the old Beerman property I believe which was that Reynolds and Reynolds originally. So did a what I couldn't track in the the report was the incentives that Reynolds and Reynolds got and then when they

the Reynolds and Reynolds didn't the company itself the what the incentive that came with Reynolds and Reynolds was the tiff that generated and went back into the structure. Every tiff is structured differently. Um, this particular one went back because that was a redevelopment led by Citywide Development Corporation. Reynolds and Reynolds was the tenant. So, the TIFF was structured to go back into the project, the real estate, and pay for the debt on the building because it was owned by citywide initially. And what commitments were made to secure that tiff? Like retain jobs, attract new jobs

investment. It was an 11, I believe. This is going back in my way back machine, but it was around $1 million investment to reposition that building from the uh retail that it was to the office that it became, office space it became. Um so it was there was a job commitment. there was a um uh project investment um that typically comes with that. And who was responsible for the job commitment? Reynolds and Reynolds would make a commitment through citywide. And so then when they leave do they have do we call back because they didn't fulfill the job commitment

there? In in some cases there are clawbacks in early years. Um in this particular case because it was a I think Reynolds and Reynolds left after 5 years. Um there was not a clawback. Uh and that building went on to serve a lot of attract other jobs between um the advanced area on aging a aging aa whatever that is right and cares source went into there for a number of years. So it the the um many times when we are positioning investing into buildings you have we think of it as we are stabilizing our office inventory so that there is opportunity when a company outgrows the space or should need to leave the space. We have space to new space to market and that building um up until recently was very productive with regards to jobs

and they had the same number of jobs as what Reynolds and Reynolds would have had in that space. Uh at one point in time I think they had more when Care Source was in there before they consolidated. Okay. Because I'm just trying to track you know we made an agreement what 20 years ago right? It's at 100% but we don't have the same number of jobs in there now as when we made that agreement.

When we do our when we do our analysis and we look at our paybacks we were and we know we enter into 20 and 30year agreements with these we are looking at the first two to five years because we know we you know our crystal ball doesn't work much past it gets really murky at five. So our, you know, we are justifying the investment on the shorter end front end of that agreement because we know of the long tail. Okay, great. Thank you. It's helpful.

Yeah, thank you for that clarification. I'm going to go back to 34th North Main Street. So, I get where you're coming from with the reducing vacancy rates of housing also reduces vacancy rate in those buildings. So it's not just office uh space that that um that reduces that number which is incredibly important uh in a in a city like ours. And then uh with the tiff and again I apologize I was not able to attend that meeting. Did they report out um the ratio the return on the investment last time it was 13 to1 generally it's about 10 to1 ratio. uh these tiffs have been very successful in in uh encouraging development and supporting uh supporting that investment.

I I don't have that I don't have that at my fingertips, but we do report that out in our development updates and one is coming up here in a few weeks. Okay. I'll dive into that further. was not able to open up those documents on my phone. Uh I I am interested in finding out if if it's I'm sure

I'm they all overperformed, you know, because again the state and and these are also state applications particularly for the CRA the you know the they are encouraged to put realistic conservative numbers in place um because of and and the and the the state EZ program and CRA is more about real estate investment. that it's not about, you know, the jobs are are there, but it really is about the investment in commercial activity in the state. That's their number one priority. Um, and they always overperform,

right? That Yeah, that's my experience uh with that as as long as I've been on on the Turk council. But uh well well like I and I can tell you just from from the the summary memo um the let's see EZ projects um thought they would create um 118 jobs and there's 1240 full-time equivalent jobs right in 2025. So it is it is always a a a high per overperforming in both investments and jobs typically.

That's right. And yeah, I appreciate you kind of delineating. This is not meant to to track them over the the course of 30 years necessarily. It is centered uh on on uh recapturing our investments in the short run. So I'm glad you pointed that out. Um I think that's all I have. Mayor,

thank you, Commissioner. I just have a couple of questions. I would too like to highlight um and thank you rather for highlighting some of the various different service agreements that you mentioned in particular B3 and uh B6. Um kudos to noting the PLA, the project labor agreement. Um I know this is something that was hard fought for so I'm glad to see this. Thank you very much. and it was it was very refreshing to see a number of the um building trades unions that they have signed off and they are fully committed. So kudos to you and the staff as well as to my colleagues for us coming and being able to push that forward. Um and then I have a question in regards to I [snorts] just want to pull on that thread a little bit. Um the informal resolution for accepting the recommendations for the the tax incentive review council. Could we ensure that those reports are in fact uploaded to the site?

Yeah, it was it it was an o oversight that I didn't catch until Monday morning that it didn't go out and pack it. I had instructed them to go out and pack it and because they typically we typically send them ahead of time and we um will make sure that they get put on the site. Thank you. Then one of the things that I noted too, and we can definitely take this um offline, but in reviewing um the report, it mentioned PSA um manufacturing or maintenance hanger. Mhm.

Um, and I guess I'm really trying to get an understanding as to why it still highlighted PSA maintenance um because of you know their um their their um execution if you will or they're they're leaving the site itself. They didn't they didn't leave the maintenance hanger. It was their headquarter jobs that went to um their Carolina. The maintenance stayed and the maintenance is not planning to move and the maintenance was the the maintenance hanger was the CRA project.

Okay. Thank you. Cuz I thought I had read somewhere too that they cuz you're right. I remember that the headquarters, but then I thought that there was additional information that came out that they said that they were going to remove the maintenance hanger. No, they are committed to keeping their maintenance hanger here. Okay. All right. Um, I want to have a conversation with you about that offline. We want to make sure they stay for the next 20, 30 years. So, we want to find some way to ensure that. Um, but thank you for bringing these recommendations before us. I really appreciate it. May I please have a motion to approve the city manager's recommendations? I move to adopt the city manager's recommendations. And I'll second that. It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the city manager's recommendations. All in favor say I. I. I.

All oppose say no. legislation. Miss McClendon, first reading ordinance number 32180-26 amending chapter 153 of the revised code of general ordinances of the city of Dayton to abolish the city of Dayton Board of Building Appeals and redirect appeals to the state of Ohio. Informal resolution number 1016-26 accepting the 2026 recommendation of the tax incentive review council.

Your honor, I move for the immediate adoption of informal resolution number 1016-26. Second the motion, your honor. It's been properly moved and seconded to adopt informal resolution number 1016-26. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. That concludes legislation, your honor. Thank you, Miss McClendon. Are there any citizens that are registered to speak this morning?

Your honor, there are two citizens registered to speak. I would like to state there is a 3minut time limit. As you address the commission, we ask that you state your name and address for the record. At that time, I will turn on the green light. When the green light comes on, you will have three minutes to speak. After you have spoken two and a half minutes, a yellow light will come on. You will have 30 seconds remaining to speak. When the red light comes on, you will be asked to cease your comments and to take your seat. To the audience in attendance, please be mindful this is a business meeting and we kindly request that during this portion of the meeting you refrain from any hand clapping, finger snapping, and conversation that would prevent the city commission from hearing speaker comments. I call to the podium Paul Carrian.

Good morning everyone. Paul Carrian25 Persing Boulevard. I'm here again. Let's see about a month after the installation of the speed signs on our street purging part of the hill. That's been a problem that you saw the data from the survey that was implemented by your ple our police department maybe the city managers I don't know who started that it has brought us here and I the last time I was here the week after those were posted you weren't here so I didn't get to thank you I got to thank everybody else so thank you

real appreciative of it I'm sure the whole street is to give you an update uh the police had a daily presence on that street anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes each day up until last week. So it was in the morning, midday after late afternoon, sometime they were sitting there throughout the day and they had their lights on. That has brought down the traffic through that street dramatically. I can't give you a figure on it. At least 40% if not more. Instead of every 30 seconds or 10 seconds a car screaming down the hill, it's now about every 5 to 10 minutes. And in the morning when it used to be everybody screaming to work all over the place, there's not much traffic at all. I'm sure there's officers sitting out there wondering what the hell am I doing here. I'm not There's nobody driving by. People had stopped coming down that street. It was all of those signs and the police presence. Well, it's holding on. I just want to say it's holding on. This weekend with the weather out, there was a lot more people speeding up and down that hill. I'm hoping that was a short-term thing, but those signs seem to have had an impact on people's speed. They're seeing it. They're slowing down. you can see them slow down. So, they're responding to it. The other problem that we had was the excessive number of people using that street as their main thoroughfare to get through southeast quadrant of Dayton. That was a big problem. 6,500 people went through there two day or two weeks as you saw in the report. That was ridiculous. It still has more traffic than any other street in that neighborhood by a long shot. But that's the nature of that street. It gets you from point A to point B in a very efficient way. And some people aren't going to drop that ever. But it's come down a lot. It has changed that neighborhood and I'm so thankful. We're all so thankful. So, not only do people come here to complain to you, come here to thank you and I'm thanking you again. And I'm going to keep coming back here as much as I can to give you updates cuz I don't think this is going to hold because it went on for 20 plus years. It's going to come back. That's my fear. So, when it does, I'll be back here

again complaining like I was in the beginning and I don't want to do that. Thank you again, everybody. Oh, I want to say to these police officers are coming. I appreciate what they're doing. I know that they've been pulled off this and they're needed elsewhere and that's okay. I just don't want them to leave us abandoned like they did before. Please come back and patrol our street once or twice or three times a week. I hope. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Carrian. Thank you. I called to the podium Yousef Elzane. Good morning, mayor, commissioner, city manager. Good morning.

Congratulations. Uh, city clerk. My name is Joseph Elan, 4906 Amberwood Drive, uh, Dayton, Ohio. Um, as I stand before you this morning, more weeping mothers in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran are burying their children. They are burying their doctors, their nurses and aid workers who should never be targets in a war. This is my third appearance and it will continue before you with the same message. And each week the situation grows worse. The human cost rise. The violence expands and the word moves closer to normalizing war crimes. moves further from dialogue and closer to prolonged generational conflict. Yes, I use the word generational. It matters here. The decisions being made today will be inherited by generation who had no voice in making them. Our children and grandchildren will carry the fiscal weight sustained uh weight of sustained military and financial commitments to foreign entities already reflected in the latest federal government's own financial report that was issued last week. They will also inherit environmental damage because war is one of the greatest drivers of ecological destruction, poisoning land like happening in South Lebanon and Palestine. And they will inherit whatever precedent we set by our actions or lack of and by our silence. Which bring me to something happening right here in our own city. This city has declared genocide morally unacceptable. Yet our economic choices raises serious

moral questions. Every contract is a policy statement. Every incentive extended is a choice. Fiscal p fiscal responsibility cannot mean directing public resources toward partnerships that raise serious moral questions while our own communities go underserved. I'm not asking Dayton to be ad adversarial. I'm asking Dayton to be consistent. [snorts] The resolutions and the re recruitment cannot go cannot be true at once. Dayton is not just a city. Dayton. So I'm going to move on. The question now is whether Dayton's action will match its word. How does Dayton wish to be remembered? As a city that rem remains silent or as a city that chooses to lead. I urge you to take the next step. Review the city economic uh relationships. Issue a public communicate or join the Greater Dayton Peace Coalition and and holding a peace summit. We're planning one. Thank you.

Thank you, Miss How? That is all, your honor. Thank you, Miss McClendon. Miss Dixine, do you have any closing comments? Uh, no, your honor. I do not. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Dixine. Miss McClendon, do you have any closing comments? I have none, your honor. Uh, we have a work session, right? Is that correct? Yes, ma'am. So, after the meeting today, there will be a work session held in the PRC directly after the meeting. Thank you, your honor. Thank you. Commissioners, do you have any closing comments? Commissioner Beckham.

Yes, your honor. Um just want to thank Mr. Carrian and Mr. Eline for uh coming out um the comments. Mr. Carrian specifically appreciate uh the in real time uh update. Um uh please continue to come back and let us know how things are going. Uh I appreciate that. I want to thank the University of Dayton's uh Black Law Student Association. I had the honor of keynoting their Joseph Sinc uh banquet over the weekend. um enjoyed that opportunity and I want to congratulate um Judge Woreram uh who was awarded with uh a very deserving recognition that night as well. Um lastly, if you haven't taken the adapt survey as we updating our zoning code, I do encourage you to do that. I'm not sure when it closes um the survey, but it seems to still be open. Um, so if you uh are interested in being a part of that process, please take the survey. Uh, you simply just visit adapt adaptdaton.com. Uh, thanks. Those are all my comments.

Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah. Um, thank you, Mr. Carrian, Mr. Alzine for comments and citizens who've come out for this important work. Um, one of the, uh, good fortune I have in working at Dayton Children's is I get to work with a host of social workers. I get to see the work they do. One social worker who is now retired, stands out. Her name's Libby Nicholson. It was Libby who called me out of the blue um, invited [clears throat] me to apply for the manager of chaplain services position. I was serving a church in Belbrook at the time. Wasn't on my radar at all. Literally changed my life. Um, at first I told her no and then over a weekend God started to um arouse my imagination of what that um opportunity could be. And uh I'm fortunate that Libby made that call and uh really value the work I'm doing at Dayton Children's. But social workers um are making an impact all across um our community in incredible ways. um our continuum of care. There's many social workers involved in trying to make sure those who are most vulnerable get connected to the resources they need. Um and so um March is National Social Work Month and I'd like to commend and celebrate the vital and far-reaching contribution of social workers whose dedication strengthens communities across the great state of Ohio and beyond. Uh their compassion, advocacy, and unwavering commitment to serving others makes a profound and lasting impact. So, thank you to all the social workers, even those who are employed here at the city of Dayton, uh, for the work that they do and the difference they make. Um, it is also, uh, women's history month. Last night, I had the good fortune of being at the League of Women Voters Dangerous Dames banquet. One of the honores is here. We celebrated her a couple weeks ago, but Mary Suga Miner's here and she was honored. So congratulation to her and the other

women who were recognizing including Sharon Davies who's over the caring foundation who's doing the work with us on that public assembly. So uh her mission continues to impact the city. Uh Lucy Anne Macaussky who's a longtime volunteer with the League of Women Voters. Uh Alicia Pagan who's been one of our grassroots community members making a difference in our community. uh Bonnie Rice who's an honore who's a friend of the commission in the city and then uh Sharon Rab who brought us a Dayton uh uh literary peace award and her impact to this community. So, some amazing actress Dames. Um, and I would encourage you next week the uh Dayton Live will be having their Broadway series with a musical called SUS which tells the um history of the suff suffragette u movement. So, there's an opportunity for you to participate in women's history month. And then finally, um, in hon well in terms of this moment, uh, in honor of Women's History Month, the at Dayton Library, we'll be hosting a celebration honoring 10 outstanding women from device diver diverse backgrounds whose leadership, resilience, and commitment to uplifting others are creating meaningful change in their communities. And this is going to be on Saturday, March 28th from noon to 3 p.m. at the main library in the Ekleberg Forum. and Karen Wick Gagnet will be recognized as a special honore. So encourage people to come out and uh also to honor Karen. And then you know as u Mr. Zen was speaking. Um I was mindful last week I was having a conversation with the base commander Colonel Richardson and um I was it's an odd moment you know standing there talking to um leader in

the Air Force here we are in Dayton going to enjoy college basketball and not mindful of our service members who you know are participating in um what many people believe are war, but is at least military operations and their lives are on the line. And there's a wide difference between our experience and our service members and even a larger dis distance between our experience and the citizens that Mr. Alzine was speaking of who are bearing the brunt of violence. And um last night at the League of Women Voters, I think it was Sharon Rab who was talking and like the only path forward out of out of violence is nonviolence in an active pursuit of, you know, making love real in the world, creating relationships, embodying compassion, building empathy, and closing the gap between these experiences, between my experience and the citizen in Lebanon who's bearing the brunt of of violence. And we can do that in this world now. Um we can communicate and build relationships and we have our sister city um relationships that help to do that. And so you know the work of of this century is going to be being able to close that gap humanto human. And I'm curious around um the proposal around the peace summit. Yeah.

Because it seems like something that we want to be a part of. [snorts]

Thank you commissioner. Commissioner Shaw. Thank you for that. Um, so I want to thank the commission uh for allowing me. Last week I attended the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference in Washington DC. Um, and while there I had the opportunity to advocate for federal bills to make funds uh for building housing more accessible, provide cities with larger share of federal transportation funding, which is very important, decrease the risk of train derailments, um, help address the POS pollution and water supplies, and reauthorize funds to help cities replace lead pipes, manage storm water, and support other water infrastructure needs and projects. uh also to make uh disaster funds and relief more accessible. Um and then reduce the complexity of of federal grant applications which are very complex. In Dayton, we have staff to to do that work, but there are other smaller communities around us that simply uh although they may qualify for federal funding, just won't take advantage of it because it's too cumbersome. Uh but have great conversations with our entire federal delegation. uh really important to to bring local funding uh federal transportation dollars and other funding uh generally goes to the states and we have proven through our our pro process. Thank you, city manager. That we spend that money much more efficiently and better, put it in the right places and push it out into the community and and we really should have the opportunity to receive those funding uh ourselves. uh we only get about 16% of the money that goes to the state for local uh communities and that's just that's unacceptable. So, thank you all for letting me do that. I I really appreciate that. Also, yesterday I had the opportunity to tour the Dayton Equity Center uh and learn about their forklift training program uh which is really just outstanding. And for those looking to acquire a new

skill, you can get paid to learn how to to drive a forklift uh and get a certification and gain connections with employers looking for full-time operators. So, you can apply at any time uh as they are always accepting applications. And for more information, go to daytonequity.org or call 9377161098. Uh and that's all I have today. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner. Um, just a couple of comments this morning before we go into our our work session. Um, Miss Dixie, could you, if you wouldn't mind, could you just at a very high level just speak to the benefit of us amending chapter 1 um 53 of the revised code as it relates to the the building um appeals process which is noted on calendar item um under legislation calendar item number eight. Sure. This is a a process that um essentially um aligns with state law. Um but um the city doesn't receive any funding um or support from the state to do this activity and it's you know not without work uh and capacity. And so the decision was made to um give that process back to the state so that they will manage it. Um many of the um communities are doing that because it's trying to winnow responsibilities and and expand capacity. Okay. And then I'm sure that the process itself once we have um we pass the legislation and once an individual whatever have you go through the process then the planning staff will work through them with them to direct them as to what the next steps are and for them to work with the state. I'm just trying to make sure those lines of will be clear.

Yeah, there will definitely be clear communications. It's not something that there was a lot of activity around um but we absolutely will make sure um at the counter and in our processes it's all well communicated.

Okay. Thank you Miss Dixie. I appreciate that. Um very quickly I did not mention um and shame on me uh the 75th annual Delta Sigma Theta sorority deputy Tom Ball which took place last Saturday. would like to um uplift the work of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and all the great work that goes along 75 years. That is a a a testament to the commitment and it is in fact an introduction to young ladies as well as the the escorts to um to the world and so it is is definitely something that is celebrated and it is a joyous occasion. I believe your daughter was a deput is that right? Or she was a deputan. I know I was a deputant. Many in the in the room probably were deput as well as um participating in the the contion as well. So I would like to just again congratulate all the deputants. Uh my niece was a a deputant and I was very proud um Journey Barry as well as many other young ladies. So congratulations to all of the deputants. And then this Saturday, the 28th, is the Jack and Jill Bilian, which will take place again this Saturday, 6:00 p.m. at the National Air Force Museum. So, look forward to that celebration as well. And also Saturday morning, the Department of Recreation is doing some great work. They will be hosting the annual Gym City egg hunt at Triangle Park. The event starts at 10:00 a.m. Make sure you get there about 9:30, 9:45 because it is well attended. A number of families come out each year. Um, and again, the event is from 10:00 a.m. until 12 pm with egg hunts beginning promptly at 11:00 a.m. And we're asking that our families come out to join all of the fun featuring thousands of of

eggs that are hidden throughout the park, age specific hunting zones, and plenty of prizes for participants ages 0 to 12. Be sure to arrive early again to explore the community resource table and enjoy local food trucks. For more information, please visit daytonrec.com. That's d- a t- o nrec.com. And I believe those are all the comments that I have. I would like to also mention u again thank you for recognizing the legal women voters in the dangerous dames. Congratulations, Miss Mary Suga Miner as well as Miss Ber Rice and many other of the other um dangerous dames. The keynote was a hoot. She did a an excellent job with her remarks. Um and also like to thank Miss Bonnie Rice. Um I believe it was two weeks ago I had an opportunity to um participate in my first uh women's sader. So that was in fact a um uh a great experience to have. So I appreciate that opportunity. And with no further business come before the commission, this meeting is now adjourned.