Board of Trustees - Regular Meeting

It's boring. We're right at 6 o'clock. We'll go and get started. So, if you can please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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.

Okay, welcome everyone to the Union Township Board of Trustees meeting. Thanks for joining us. Uh before we get started, if you could if uh when it comes time to our public comments section of the agenda, we have a comment card back there. here if you could fill one out and then uh we we'll come by and grab it or bring it up here and if you want to talk during public participation that's no problem. Uh Mr. Campbell, let the record reflect. All three trustees are present. Is there any correspondence tonight?

Yes, sir. There is. Uh first one is from uh Karen Bradlin said, "Dear Union Township trustees and Mr. Campbell uh my cohorts and I sincerely thank you for reorganizing pet partnership for our therapy contributions to our community. We have provided support in courtrooms, the juvenile detention center, assisted living facilities and also to UC Claremont for stress for less stress days before exams. We provided stress free days to clients in hospitals and schools. Proctor and Gamble, Krovers, and other companies have pro providing our animals to a stress less day for their employees. Our veterans in the suicide prevention wards welcome us. Kids read to our animals and increase literacy. Physical therapy professionals use our animals for patience, improving mobility. So, thank you for what you have done by honoring us with a beautiful proclamation. Best wishes, Karen Spredland. I have another correspondence. This is from Donna Lake, registered nurse, 5407 Mount Crest Drive, Norwood, Ohio. Uh, dear Mr. Wright, my name is Donna Lake and I was a lead instructor for the National Child Passenger Safety Technician Certification Program that was held at station 53 on April 14th through the 17th. I want to let you and other county elected officials in the fire chief know how wellreceived we were. This is an intense three-day class with a car seat check up event on the fourth day. When we arrived on Tuesday morning, Lieutenant Delotti greeted us and assisted with setting up tables, internet access, and the whiteboard. Throughout the entire 4-day period, without fail, every firefighter was willing to help in any way and treated all the participants with respect.

Today, at our car seat checkup event, one firefighter took a 5-year-old under his wing and showed him the fire trucks, answered all his questions, and had the child smiling from ear to ear. Unfortunately, I did not get his name, but he was just amazing. As a as a former government department head, I always heard when something went wrong. I truly enjoyed hearing something positive about one of my staff. So, I wanted to let you and the others know about our very positive experience at station 53 during our class time. These men are a tribute to your organization. Sincerely, Donna M. Lake. Last correspondence is a liquor permit. It's a transfer of ownership from Ram VJ LLC uh Cluff Pike Shell Gas 4261 Mount Carmel Debasco Road Cincinnat Ohio 45245 and that is transferring to MU KH M A H N T M Mahant LLC Pike Shell Gas 4261 Mount Carmel Basky Road CHA 45245 uh Mr. right has assured me that the zoning is correct and we have no objections from the police department. That concludes the correspondence.

Mr. Kim, appreciate that and obviously always appreciate the positive feedback. It's great. The uh next up is our proclamations and special presentation. Miss Sergeant Danielle Smith, come on up, please. How are you, Danielle? Good. Danielle, good to see you. Good to see you. And and Chief, uh I will throw it over you real quick. Go ahead, sir.

Well, we're proud to have Danielle here tonight to celebrate 20 years with the police department and Sergeant Smith has wore a lot of hats for us over the years. Uh she was on our bike unit for quite a while and served on our directive patrol unit and served on our drug unit, plane closed narcotics officer. And more importantly and more critical to our mission, she served as one of our traffic investigators. And Danielle is a big reason why we were able to we've been able over the years to investigate our own traffic fatalities, which is something that only the state highway patrol in the county does, the only police department that does that other than us. And um more importantly than that, she serves as a negotiator on the SRT team. And you know, Danielle's personality is a perfect fit for that job. She's good at talking to people, handling people, and she's come through some critical incidents over the years for us and served the township exemplary. So, I just want to tell her tonight how much I appreciate her.

Thanks, Keith. Well said, Chief. Vice Chairman. A lot of good stuff there. I always like to ask what um what what comes to mind over the past 20 years? Anything uh any stories to tell? I got tons of stories. Um some not appropriate, some appropriate, but no, just how this township's grown. Um, you know, starting this job as one thing and then 20 years later it's developed into a whole another realm of the township. Um, a lot of changes for the good. Um, I'm very proud to work for one of the best police departments in Tri-State. How big was the police department when you started 20 years ago?

Um, pretty close in manpower to what we are now. Maybe one or two different. Um it's just the the different types of you know businesses that are here. Uh the subdivisions have grown, the roads have grown, so populations obviously grown. So you're dealing with different types of things than we were dealing with 20 years ago. So a lot of change. All right. Well, thank you for your uh 20 years of service and we wish you many more with your new township. Mr.

Uh and thank you for the introduction. Um yeah, you definitely have uh such visibility on this township over Yeah. uh your you know phenomenal career here of 20 years and um it's always a delight to see you out in the community at the different community events or if it's you know church um and serving in those capacities where you do uh and so you know something I always recognize uh my family does and I know that families and members of the community throughout uh recognize and you know and feel um the professionalism and warmth that you bring to, you know, from from all of the first responders in this room. I mean, you guys are truly the extension of of anything that the public interacts with when it comes to local jurisdiction, local government. Uh you're you're really the first line of defense on so many different things. Uh, so, uh, really appreciate you always, you know, being, I think, a great ambassador in the community in that sense. So, thank you, Daniel.

Thank you. Daniel, you got your family here? I do. Who Who's that? Uh, it's mom, aunt, daughter, and husband. Good, good, good. Happy Mother's Day, mama. The uh Danielle, you uh I've known you since when I first became a trustee, and uh you're a fantastic police officer, great leader, great mentor to the younger officers. Uh it's truly our honor to have you on the force. So 20 years is a long time and I appreciate you serving it all here with us. You're fantastic asset. So appreciate you very much. So yeah. Anything else you'd like to say? No. Appreciate the opportunity to hit the 20-year mark.

Okay. Good. Good. Good. Well, uh Sergeant Smith, I got this award for you. We'll come down and take a picture. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Congratulations. Okay. And next item on our agenda is our Union Township safety service presentation. And uh Mr. Wright, are you ahead on that one?

Yes, sir. I'm happy to do that.

Let me throw it over to you with uh pull up the presentation here. Thank you, Lisa. Uh so uh you know, wanted to give the board an update regarding the state of safety services in Union Township. Kind of who we are. uh Union Township Fire Department, six fire stations, 61 uh fire and EMS qualified employees, 8,900 calls for service in 2025. Police department uh 53 sworn officers, 13 communication employees. We run our own 911 communication center and they field about 59 almost 60,000 calls for service last year alone. And I would add both agencies are nationally andor internationally accredited through either Kala or CFAI uh which that's the fire side. So so again first class organization uh very proud uh to get to work alongside these men and women every day uh here in our township. Um kind of what do we do? What do we what do we do? Uh we do a fire emergency medical response. We have fire suppression rescue operations. uh law enforcement, crime prevention, traffic safety, uh specialized outreach, and you know, some of the challenges that we have currently it with safety services. And it's the same challenges that everybody else faces uh in their day-to-day lives. You know, rising fuel costs, operational costs, equipment costs, escalating vehicle and equipment expenses, supply chain delays, increased health care premiums. Uh we have uh recruiting challenges that become more and more difficult to solve uh with some demographic changes that have happened. Uh we have a growing and quite frankly mandatory investment in cyber security and technology that has been uh much different than maybe it was 10 to 15 years ago. Um we do have consistent and sustained emergency call volumes and aging facilities and physical plant. So

with that uh looking at kind of the increased the the cost you know obviously there's two components to what we do um there's wages salaries and wages and benefits which is you know usually about 85% of every uh public service agency spend and here in the township it's no different. But really where we're seeing the impact is on the operations and equipment and all of the other things that we need to um do our jobs here. Police cruisers, uh fire equipment. And this is just some helpful graphics uh that I tried that that we uh tried to put together to kind of show people, you know, uh national averages for healthcare costs have gone up almost uh $5,000 uh in six years. Ours is right, our benchmark, we're right around 22,000 uh for 2026. Load CS have almost doubled. The power load CS that everybody uses to get people in and out of the ambulances, those save on bureau workers compensation claims uh because, you know, people hurt their backs, their arms, and things when they use load cuts. Those have almost doubled in cost. Um you you look at the prices for tasers. Now, again, these are multi-year contracts. Um you you can see the 2019 to 23 contract for the tasers was about $80,000. The 24 to28 contract was about $216,000. So again prices are and these are things that we need to do our jobs every day. Um and then you also see here that you know the body cameras which again great level of transparency benefits our officers benefits the public documents what we do. Those aren't cheap. You know, for the contract for the upcoming service year 26 to 2030 will be a total of more than a half million dollars to provide that level of transparency to the community.

Uh moving forward, uh cost of a cruiser is has increased in six years almost uh 90%. Uh cruisers themselves are about 14 134,000 more expensive. And these are not big fancy cruisers. These are Ford Explorers. Uh, you know what you see on them? People think they're special paint packages or whatever. They come in whatever color you order them in and they put stickers on them. That's literally that that's what it is. So, those graphics packages are nominal in that. Ambulances in 22 are about 155,000. They're now 235,000. Um, gas prices right now, just just for the board's, you know, edification here, our gas budget is through the roof. Uh, and as is everybody else's. And our trucks run on diesel. Our ambulances thankfully run on gasoline. Now, Chief, I think they're all gas fleet. So, we are achieving some savings on that. Compared to paying $7 a gallon or 650 a gallon for diesel, we're paying four something a gallon. For gasoline, police cruisers always use gas. So, we have that. And I, this doesn't even really discuss apparatus. Let's talk about fire apparatus. So, um, can remember when you could buy a brand new or a gently used fire truck basically for around what, $400,000 in my career. That same truck's $800,000 right now. Ladder truck before I left the city of Leland, we ordered a quint that was 1.2 1.3 million. That same truck's probably two and a half million today. Um, and it takes three years to get it. That's kind of where we are. So, you know, safety services feel the same pinch that uh every one of us do in our day-to-day lives. Go ahead. Next slide. Kind of an idea of our fire department financial overview. So, you can see here the red eclipses the blue because what we've done is identify these are fire voted millage levies only. So again,

part of the operational model here at the township has been to supplement uh the existing voted outside millage levies which are reduced over time to generate the same amount that they generate at the time that they're adopted. uh you see the expenditures eclipse that the biggest challenge on 2025 and I have a note here uh that was uh to replace a almost 30year-old Quinn and as part of that that that was a significant departure from the uh deficit you can see we dropped the deficit spending in 24 really restricted costs went to right sizing our fleets keeping fewer reserve ambulances because when you keep fewer reserve ambulances you have to keep fewer duplicate pharmaceutical packages and all those things. So, we've really been working on trimming costs. Unfortunately, in 2025, you know, we had an opportunity to replace a 30-year-old Quint that was essentially a 80,000lb boat anchor. And now we have a brand new state-of-the-art short wheelbase quint in station 51 that provides expanded service coverage to the heart of Union Township. for the police department. You can see the uh revenues and deficit, the expenditures versus the voted millage levies that come in here. You can see that has held fairly constant uh in 23 and 24. You see in 25 the police department did a really nice job trimming about $400,000 out of the budget and their cost recovery and reduction efforts continue. Some of the things we've done uh SRO's are now paid for uh with some uh through the schools and through the other entities that have them. Uh we've done things to rightsize our fleet again. We've looked at reducing the number of uh unmarked vehicles. Just a lot of different things. Uh shift changes to reduce overtime going from a 10 to a 12. Uh establishing a detail rate. A lot of

things to try to keep things manageable. Um, if you go and you can kind of see here, this is kind of what we're running. We got about a $2.3 million hole in the fire department on voted millage and a $2.8 million hole for the police department. Those are true costs. And again, I would say for those two departments, uh, they're they're as good as anybody in the region, and I would put them up against anybody in the region. Uh, and I think I think we're the best at it. Uh that that said we do have a significant financial challenge that we have used other funds to offset this. Uh and going right into that you can see this is uh everybody asks about joint economic development districts and tiffs. Well where does that funding go? So you can see about 38% of the funding goes to the school districts right now straight away from every tiff that Union Township has. And most recently, some of the newer stuff that's coming out of the ground, particularly at Glen Estie High School, the first $2 million that are generated in TIFF revenue go entirely toward the new high school at the corner of Bach Bucks and and Cluff Pike. So, the township will realize no revenue from that until after the first 2 million. Again, wonderful facility, great transformational for our community, but you know, no revenue uh that we do have a Jed with that. We were grateful to partner with them. You can see the Jed about 64% of that goes straight into police equipment and salaries to offset you know the voted millillage shortfall there. Uh you can see a significant portion goes back through a developer agreement. About 2% of the Jed monies go into the service department and about a quarter million uh and this is 2025 numbers go into supporting operating expenses. Those are utilities, landscaping, maintenance, all the things that go into those jet districts. As you see with the tiff, about 14% of the total tiff is taken up

by safety service equipment salaries and again less than 10% and 25 were utilized for either road maintenance or park improvements. Um notably very small number 2% developer agreements those pay for infrastructure improvements related to the development very small amount and under one and a half% you have some small grant programs service department equipment uh operating expenses uh participation in TI uh in that so you can see that you know by and large between school district payments you know existing debt obligations which is predominantly the debt that the board refinanced to accelerate or was it to accelerate or to reduce the annual note charges a few years ago. That's the bulk of that debt and you can see that a significant chunk of that goes into safety services. So there's only so much of the pie to borrow Mr. Campbell's expression there's only so much of the pie and right now it's being allocated nearly completely. So next slide. So what have we done? What have we done? Most importantly, I uh we have been subsidizing devoted millillage to uh prevent uh having to come back for additional millage with tiff and jed funds. As you can see, at some point you eclipse your ability to generate the revenue, especially with the cost increases that we've seen in on the equipment and operations side. Uh but we are taking significant steps to trim costs and one of the things that you know every employee here I am grateful for uh taking being willing to take on more of their health care costs in that and doing so that will net the township significant savings in that uh these these department heads are probably sick of getting grant application forwarded to them. We apply for every grant we can to maximize return of federal, state, and other dollars back to the township.

We've been repurposing vehicles. For example, we've been taking the best of the best police cruisers and repurposing them for staff vehicles for the fire department because the usage is different and less intensive. We look we have been structuring lease purchase agreements on our apparatus to at a very competitive rate in order to spread our cash flow and to stretch our budget more efficiently. Uh we are doing all of our maintenance inhouse. We have implemented fees for non- township related details. We have gone to reducing overtime costs. We are balance billing non-residents for EMS calls. We are charging false alarm drop charges for police and fire. We are doing everything we can to be the most efficient user of resources and to be the most efficient steward of taxpayer dollars here in the township. So what does this mean? So really, you know, there's a couple options. We can continue to do nothing. And if we continue to do nothing and allow our tiff revenue to grow on an incremental basis or whatever, u it is most likely that we are going to eclipse our ability to subsidize uh the voted millillage in either the police or the fire or both uh through the tiff and through the jed because the growth in those is incremental and the growth in the expenditures particularly what we're seeing on the fire side and the apparatus side and uh the healthc care side and all these uncontrollables is exponential. So we've got a growth curve doing this and then a revenue curve tracking this way. So we can do nothing and at some point if we do nothing that will reduce the other services that we provide up to the point where we can't make our debt and when we get to that point and again some of that debt falls off. Again that's a measured that's sort of a thing that happens over time. Um as that happens we will have to reduce services to keep revenues in line

with expenditures. Other options are um you know we look at a safety services levy. The last safety services levy was run in uh 2020. At the time that it was run I remembered the discussion and I think Chief Reese was there at the same time and Mr. Campbell was here at that time and we had talked about the need to come back and get maintenance levies every so often. that has not occurred because we've been fortunate enough to be able to stave that off with the board's judicious use of the TIFF and Jed revenues in that. Unfortunately, I believe, you know, we're not in an emergency right now, but if we do not do something now, we will be in an emergency and I believe it's incumbent upon me to advise you of that in that regard. So, that's where we are. Um, you know, I think these guys I I don't think there's any department out there that does more with less than either the Union Township Police Department or the Union Township Fire Department. They are constantly looking for ways to provide 100% top-notch service to our residents, our businesses, our stakeholders at a reduced cost. And you know, for that, I'm very appreciative uh of their effort and their sacrifice in that regard.

Happy to answer any questions. you, Mr. Vice Chairman, do you have any questions? I do. Mr. I go back to page four.

So, my questions on the the third uh circle there, the 173% increase in the police tasers, one four-year period to the next four-year period. Why is that? I think some of it has to do with technology and I think it has to do with the fact that once they have you, you know, you're they have and I think Chief, wasn't there a technology upgrade from the Taser? It was a I forget the model. So, and since our last 5-year contract that we signed with Taser, they've the Taser has changed two generations. We went from an X2 to an X7 to an X10. Obviously, the technology gets more expensive. Taser is now instead of making you pay for your practice cartridges, those are the the cartridges that shoot the darts and your real cartridges and your batteries, we always pay for those separately and sometimes hundreds of training cartridges because we've got so many personnel. Now they include that in the cost of the taser. We've also got docks now. So, uh the batteries are being recharged on the docks and we have to have docking stations at the PE. So, all this this increase in technology, this increase in product, that's where the increase in the cost comes from and you know taser's Axon's corner the market on taser I do not know any other police departments and I just came from the chief's con uh the state chief's convention I don't know any departments in the state of Ohio I don't even know that there's another product out there available other than the axon taser and I don't know of any police departments that are using anything other than that so you know as far as looking for a taser that's more economic more economical or more value to it I'm not seeing it out there and we've looked very similar with body warn camera. Sir, Axon is kind of the leader in the body warn camera arena from turnkey, you know, the archival of that to be a to be able to redact that, utilize it, store it. Uh, and that they have these programs. I mean, they recognize that

you're going to basically pay as you go over the length of a four or five year term instead of, you know, hey, we want our half a million dollars up front. That's not how that works. but they you kind of get embedded for a four-year term with that equipment or that very similar uh strikers going to that model as the board saw. You know, we were looking at having to replace cardiac monitors and our ambulance units at what was it about 70 grand, 80 grand a pop, something like that. Yeah, about 70.

Well, when you replace one, you can't just go out. It's not like it's not like you just put a new alternator in one car because it's all about cross compatibility about across every unit that we have. So Striker recognizes that too and they have a program where they're doing this. A lot more of these an agencies have realized that they can go to this fee for subscription type purchase because a lot of this equipment is just so expensive. It's just expensive. Okay. Uh one more question. The um on page five, it's a 265% increase in the cost to outfit a police.

We actually had a typo on that. It's 88%. So, I didn't mean to take your breath away on that one. That was a prior It's 88% here up here. Uh, it went from 144 to 27,000. So, I got the old copy. You have the old copy. We had a typo. So, it's still bad. Not quite as bad. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you,

Mr. Logan. Any questions? Uh, one one quick thing to clarify the if I heard this correctly on the Taser X2 upgrade or in line with current technology X10 that price figure at 79,000. That's really just was the unit cost, not the cartridges and expendables that we utilize. So those two numbers might actually be a little tighter together than 173% growth potentially. It's everything now. You're paying it's one stop. But the 79,000 was not everything.

There's other supply. Yeah, there's other supplies that are not compartmentalized in that for a for a broad brush. I mean, we could certainly get that.

No, no, I just want to track the number. I just that's the way I'm interpreting it. Maybe I'm wrong, but um yeah, I mean, Cory, you're really addressing it's it's a kind of a structure that's uh be more coming as a capability as a service. Um and that's that's really kind of you want to be able to have the capability for security, for safety, for what it is that may be going on. Um, so anyway, I I think elephant in the room. Uh, so what do you want to tell me as far as uh funding moving forward and is this laying the ground of of NAS to the board? Um, yeah. I mean, I think I need some direction from the board. I mean, I can continue to do, you know, we're approaching a a August filing deadline for the general election. Uh if we decide that we do want to put out a safety services levy, I'll need some direction from the board. I might look to see if the board is interested in some work sessions to discuss potential millage scenarios. We know that a mill in Union Township generates around a million and a half dollars per year. That's from the county auditor's office. So, you know, anything helps. Um, and I think it would behoove us to have a work session to go through some spreadsheets and look at some different, you know, 200, 300, 400, $500,000 home scenarios because there aren't a lot of $100,000 houses anymore. Um, and to kind of get some direction from the board on if that's something that the board wants to move forward with because there are two pieces of legislation that you have to pass. You have to pass a resolution of necessity and you have to pass a resolution to

proceed and those have to happen timely and those have to be filed and we need to make sure we get the right ballot language and everything else down at the board of elections. Not that we're again, we're not going to lose staff next year uh if we were to delay if we were to delay to a May primary. But I I think we need to go now because if the the further we we're literally digging the hole while we're standing in it. That's what's happening. We're digging the hole while we're standing in it. And we continue to get, you know, like this. And at some point we will eclipse our ability to cover that with the tiff and the jed.

Yeah. And the tiff and the jed's been the mechanism to subsidize the budget which is really not even providing the residents the opportunity to voice what level of service or how they want to fund their local government. it the residents ultimately get the chance to define the level of service they find

with tiffs and jets that it's not something that goes before the people per se and so that's that's where people don't necessarily have the opportunity to voice that. Okay. I just wanted to track where where your and the department heads minds were. Um I definitely have some uh items to save for later. Uh that would be in in line of consideration of how yes there's good there's cost growth with things like technologies you're describing. At the same rate, there's efficiencies uh and automations uh that can occur that can also reduce costs. Um but I hand the floor to you.

Could the uh uh ballpark what's the ETA of when the the Glenn site will pay up that $2 million so the township start receiving some of that? Just the ballpark. So the two million. So you've got what people don't understand is when they see projects coming along um when tiff revenues come in they're they look at the value as of one one of the lean year and you have to remember property taxes are always paid a year in a rears. So this year people are paying property taxes from 2025. So you acrew your prop. So the best way to think about it is you acrew your property taxes from 11 one of the lean year to 1231 all through the year and then they come due the following year. So we're in 2025 tax year due in 26. So what they do is they look at the valuation as of one over there and they look to see whether there's any value collected. Our understanding is and I've been working very closely with Mr. Campbell and Mr. Romano at the school district uh because it's West Claremont that we should start to see significant revenue tranches come this year from some of the development that's fully online that came on with a full occupancy cert with an occupancy certificate 25 again they'll typically do a 10% this is what this is anecdotal they'll do a 10% value capture 40% value capture and 100% really takes three years from when a project starts that's three tax years to get the full value. Some I mean that's sometimes unless it's a project that's built in one year, you know, a smaller project or whatever, it might come on in 18 months to to break it down easy for any folks that live here in the township or especially our employees.

Um if I pay $100 in property taxes, c can you divvy up the percentage ballpark for me? How much do schools get? How much the county get? How much township?

Sure. So on a standard property tax bill in West Claremont Union Township between them and the Joint Vacational School District, they get about 55 to 60% of and I did this a while ago. I sent this this a very nice exchange email exchange for a lady. um about 55ish% of the of the total tax bill for an average home in West Claremont, Union Township, let's just say right around the corner would go to West Claremont with some going to joint vocational and then about so that's 55% of 100%. So the other 45% about 20 it's like 23 25%. So you got 55 25. So what am I at? 80%. Now that goes to the county and then so we do all of the rest with the remaining 20%. And of that 20 to 20 to 25% 85 cents of every dollar we collect is spent on police and fire. So that leaves us 15% 15 cents on the dollar to do everything else that we do. push snow, plow roads or plow roads and push snow, repave roads, have parks, have amenities, you know, have have zoning and code enforcement, have all these other things. So, it's 85 cents of every dollar that we collect goes into police and fire.

Okay. Um last last two questions is um do we probably want to go ahead and put on the agenda for June and July to have a work in session because if if August is the deadline to make a decision, we need to probably go and have that. We I would recommend that we look to have a work session later this month. Okay. With the potential for a resolution of necessity in June. That would be my recommendation. and then the board will have the resolution in necessity and then in July unless you would like to have a second work session in June uh to discuss it and then have a resolution to proceed in July. I went back and looked at 2020 and we did

do we need that the agenda for working session or can we just you could make a motion to establish a working session during new business or old business whatever. Good. Okay. All right. I'm good. Any more questions for Mr.

Uh, actually you you pulled a great thread with the auditor valuation. Uh the six-year reevaluation is ongoing now, I believe. Right. Um so commercial properties that were last evaluated in 2020, it's my understanding that with the 2026 the six-year revaluation there may be maybe that's part of the significant fin um increase that that you're talking about uh with Dan Romano is tracking but just want to put on your radar if you're tracking that what we anticipate the growth to be I've heard in other counties you know 30% type of value from commercial properties that have not had that six-year revaluation because it's kind of real estate It's kind of a long-term growth. Doesn't like you said, you're paying taxes that are on the rears, but a year in the rear, but it's these revaluations are the trianual and the six year. So, so with commercial eva re reevaluations I think anything there was actually if you look at the bulk of them there were no increases during the last trienal the last one which so so really when we were talking about police and fire you know we have inside millillage you have 10 mills you have the first 10 mills and then you have the 20 mil floor for the school district aside from that all your voted millage levies never really collect more than what they collected when they're voted in and so they have this thing called a reduction factor which means that as property values go up, the amount that you used to pay drops, right? Because there's more people to spread that amount. So, that certainly will help take some of the pressure off of, you know, the homeowner in that if the commercial valuations go up. We don't know what that what that is

yet. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Good. Okay. All right. Personnel actions. All right. Uh, first up is our fire department looking to hire Ethan Honard. Is that right, Honer? Did I say that correct? Honor, perfect. Yeah. Well, welcome Ethan. And then, uh, Chief Clemens, I'll throw it over to you.

Thank you, Mr. DS. Uh, I'd like to introduce and recommend Mr. Ethan Hon for consideration for the position of full-time firefighter paramedic. Mr. Hon is a 2019 of Milin, Indiana High School. He earned his paramedic certification from IvyTech in 2024 and recently graduated and received his fire certifications through Scottsburg Fire Department's fire academy. He has several years of EMS experience and is excited to continue to learn from our department. Ethan has successfully completed all aspects of the hiring process, including a background, polygraph, and psychological evaluation. Ethan is following in his father Shawn's footsteps, who is a lieutenant with the fire department. And I don't think there's a greater compliment to an organization than when a member's child wants to join the same department and the parent allows that to happen. Ethan has shown his dedication and commitment to this department by recently moving closer to the area. I'll recommend a conditional offer of employment to Mr. Hunter as a full-time firefighter paramedic at a rate of pay consistent with step one of the CBA effective June 1, 2025 at 7 a.m. pending successful completion of a physical examination.

Fantastic. Thank you, Chief. 2026. Yeah, 202 I'll say that. Yeah. Yep. 2026. I caught that, too, but I Yeah, when I make a motion, I'll get the uh vice chair, please. I just want to say thank you for your interest in Union Township and uh we're looking forward to having you on board. Well, thank you, Mr. Lug. Yeah, welcome. Looking forward to having you. Thank you, Ethan. You got your family here obviously. I got mom, dad, and then I think Oh, they're there. Yeah, grandma and grandpa are here as well.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then uh for what it's worth, you got all your firefighters back there. They're here for another guy as well, but they are here for you. They always show up in numbers whenever we got a new hire promotion. So, it's fantastic. The uh uh your father's a good good guy. Great guy. Sean's good people. And so you got good team, good leadership on here. So I appreciate Hey, I heard Chief say you moved closer. Yes. So I appreciate that very much. Appreciate the investment. So good deal. But uh anything for the board at all before we vote? No, not really. I'm just excited to start working here. Fantastic. Okay. Good. Good. Well, yeah. Glad to have you here as well. Uh gentlemen, I a motion for the hire of Ethan Hunter for the position of firefighter paramedics step one in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement. Effective date June 1, 2026 7 a.m. pending successful completion of the medical physical examination.

So moved. Second. And uh any further discussion? Mr. Campbell. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lug. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. Ethan. Congratulations, sir. Thank you.

Welcome. Welcome. Absolutely.

And then Ethan, stick around just for a minute. We'll get a picture with you before we finish up. Okay. Yeah. And uh next up is uh a promotion of Gregory Deans. Sir, come on up. How are you? Good. How are you? Well, good, good, good. The uh uh so Chief, I will throw it over to you first, sir. Go ahead.

All right. Perfect. Uh I would like to introduce and recommend Lieutenant Greg Deems for consideration for promotion to the rank of captain. Lieutenant DeS is originally from the northern Dayton area where he obtained his firefighter 1 and two from Sinclair Community College as well as his paramedic and fire safety inspector certifications in 2006. Prior to earning his fire certifications, he spent four years serving in the United States Army in the 75th Ranger Regiment, completing missions in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He joined Union Towns Fire Department in June of '06 and was promoted to lieutenant in 2021. in his role of Lieutenant Greg has stepped up and played a huge role in our fleet maintenance division helping manage our apparatus ensuring routine maintenance is being completed minimize minimizing the out of service time for our fleet. He is consistently thinking of more efficient ways to track and streamline our processes in an effort to save time and money. Greg is a great asset to our department and he will thrive in this new leadership role. I would recommend the promotion of Greg Deans to the rank of captain at a rate of pay consistent with the CBA effective May 25, 2026 at 7 a.m.

Thanks, Chief. Uh, vice chair, please. I really don't have anything. Sounds like you've earned the promotion and uh looking forward to uh seeing you at that new level and and I'm sure Mr. Dills have something to say about your haircut, Mr. Luke. Sir, congratulations. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, Gregory, welcome. The You got your family here. Please put them out. Yep. Uh wife, kids, parents, in-laws, the whole whole It's a big deal. Thanks for all being here supporting. That's fantastic. Did Did I hear you're an Army Ranger?

Okay. Yeah, that's that's pretty That's pretty amazing. That's awesome. Yeah. So, remind me to never make you upset. The uh uh Greg, great people, well deserving of the promotion. Uh anything for the board at all before we vote? No, sir. Okay. Appreciate you being here. The uh uh gentleman entertain a motion for the promotion of Gregory Dee to the position of captain effective May 25th, 2026 at 7 am pay rate consistent with the CBA. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Mr. Camp. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. Congratulations Greg.

Congrats. Congratulations. Great. Greg, same thing. Stick around. We got two more to go. Uh, all right. For our service department, we got Jake Riley. Come on, Jake. Jake, good to see you. And then I'll throw it over to our service director, Matt. Go ahead, sir. Mr. Taylor.

Thank you, Mr. Dills. Uh, tonight I would like to present Jake Riley for consideration of promotion to police vehicle mechanic position. Mr. Riley has been a service department employee since 2016. During his tenure, Mr. Riley has worked in the parks and the roads for almost 10 years. Uh, but has always had a passion for repairing things. He has a bachelor's degree in administration. Uh he has also obtained ASSE certifications uh for certain facets in automotive maintenance. Mr. Riley has also worked as a summerhelp employee prior to starting full-time for us. He has successfully completed all phases of the promotional process. I respectfully request the board to promote Jake Riley to the position of police vehicle mechanic within the Union Township Service Department at a rate of pay consistent with a collective bargaining agreement. His promotion will be effective May 13, 2026 at 7 a.m.

Thank you, Mr. Jaylor. The uh vice chair, please go ahead. Uh it sounds like you're qualified for the job. I appreciate you having the u interest in uh doing it. You have my full support. Thank you all. Mr. Love, always great to see you around and continue to see you around more in this capacity. Thank you, Jake. Yeah, I appreciate you very much. 10 years with us and uh so you started off a summer help and then then transfer over full-time. There was a little gap in that, but yes, the uh Well, I appreciate you you allowing us to be inhouse and so we don't have to sub the work out, you know, to other dealerships and things like that. So, very much appreciate you and uh Hey, you have your family here? Please, please. Oh, good. Good. Yeah, good to see you. The uh uh well, Jake, anything for the board before we vote? Nope.

Okay. Fantastic. The uh All right, gentlemen. I entertain a motion to promote Jake Riley to the police vehicle uh mechanic effective date May 13, 2026. Pay rate consistent with collective bargaining agreement. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Mr. Campbell, roll call. Mr. Ber, yes. Mr. L. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. Congratulations, Jake. Congratulations.

All right, last one. I don't know if I should call this guy up. Mr. Flouty, come on up, sir. How are you? Good. How are you doing tonight? Good. Could you you could have dressed a little nicer next time. The uh next time I'm allowed to give him a hard time. He used to work with us a long time ago. Good good guy. The uh uh well uh Mr. Wright, I think I'll allow you to introduce this one, sir. Sure. It's all right.

Uh thank you, sir. Uh uh Mr. Flo, Mr. Becker, Mr. Dills, I'd like to uh gives me great pleasure to present to you Craig Flouty for the position of planning and zoning director. Uh Mr. Flouty, I've known Mr. Flouty for a very long time. I won't belabor the details, but he started as a co-op green at UC, worked here several terms, tenur, whatever they call them, semesters, something like that. He put up with me uh for all of that time. Kept coming back, learned the organizations. Uh we hired him full-time as a planner. Did a great job. Went got some experience, some supervisory experience at the was it uh Butler County? Yes,

butler County. Uh in their planning department there. Ironically, I started my career in a county planning department right out of school uh for Claremont County. So, I can appreciate that. And uh we are enthusiastically uh excited. We're very excited about Craig's return. Uh Craig and I work very well together. Um Craig will do a great job. He knows this township. Um he cares about this township and I I'm ready for him to jump back in and and hit the ground running. And that was a key part of this is that Craig will be able to jump in and hit the ground running and and do that job, the planning and zoning director's job. So,

appreciate your support. Thank you, Mr. Wright. Uh vice chairman. Great. Welcome back. Thank you, sir. When uh when Mr. Wright uh first brought up your name some time ago as a possibility to recruit you to come back in, I I was all in. If you can land Craig, get him back in here. Thank you. I appreciate that. I We're very happy to have you back. That's all. Chairman, Mr. Blue. Yeah, it's excellent to see you back. Thank you. Welcome back. Ready to hit the ground. Yep. Sounds good. I remember when your office was downstairs. I give you a hard time all the time. I remember that. The uh it was when uh Mr. McCormack announced that he was leaving. I actually first thing I was like, "Uh, Cory, you're going to go call Craig, right?"

So the uh he's already on top of it. But uh fantastic. Craig, the uh you got your family here real quick. I have my I have my mom and sister and then I have Scott and his wife Lisa here for me tonight. Scott's been one of your biggest cheerleaders. He has you know that the uh we call him the mayor. So mayor's been a big Yeah. big cheerleader for you. Craig, welcome back. Uh tough position. Basically any business that wants to come to Union Township, you are the first line of defense to walk them through and and what also you got to gauge the board's temperature of what we do and don't want. And so you you're Yeah. No doubt you're perfect fit for it. Glad to see you back home, sir. Thank you. I appreciate it. Anything else for the board before we vote?

Nope. You'll just be able to find me a little bit easier here since I'll be on the on the top floor for this time around. That's right. That's right. The uh gentleman honor a motion for the hire of Craig Flouty to the position of planning and zoning director effective May 18th at an annual salary of 96,000 per year. So moved. Second. Any further discussion? Mr. Campbell. Roll call. Mr. Becker? Yes. Mr. Lug? Yes. Mr. D? Yes. Motion carries. Congratulations, Craig. Thank you.

Good to see you. Congratulations. Thanks, Court. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Jesus Christ. What's perfect? Right. You're not going anywhere. Right.

That's l squeeze her in up there. Not going anywhere. Yeah. Keep her up. I got another chair. Yeah. I think she agreed. 653. Knock us out.

All right. As they're leaving, if anybody else I've got three so far. Is there anyone else for public comments tonight? If so, I'll come on up. Sure. I'll grab yours. You just want to They're right in the back if you want to fill one out. Appreciate you very much. All right. Okay. Uh and then actually, uh I'm reading this one, Mr. I'll probably throw this one over to you so I don't make any mistakes on this one. Uh but our first uh one for public comments is most Miss Joanne Meyer. Is she here? Joanne Meyer. Did I say her name right?

Oh, could come on up please, please. The podium's yours. But by the way, um, you know, you've got really pretty handwriting, by the way. Cursive is a dying art. You know, I was a teacher. Yeah, I I I could tell. Yeah, I could tell. Yeah. Well, Miss Meyer, just state your name and address for the record, and the floor is yours. You got five minutes. Please go ahead. Uh, I'm Joanne Meyer. I live at 454 Dominic uh in Betavia. Um, is that all that you need? That's all I need. And the floor is yours, please. Whatever. Whatever's on your mind.

Okay. I didn't realize I would be asking this. I thought you'd just read it and everybody talk about it. Um, the questions that I have came up when I was reading, I believe, the the spring publication that is put out. Yeah. Because it mentioned this thing called the Union Township New Community Authority, which I didn't know anything about. So, I'd like to know what that is and what was the need that created that and and what do they have the authority to do? It's a great question and Mr. Ray, please go ahead. Stop her for time. I'm going to stop her for time.

So, uh, the new community authority is a relatively recent um development tool uh very similar to like a CI sort of like a CIC port authority. It allows the township to and and it was uh we're one of the few townships at least until I think they just pushed through some legislation to allow all large home rule townships to do that. uh because you had to be in a county that's less than 200,000 population or more than 200 less than 400,000. So, we were one of the few townships in the state that had the ability to do that uh authorized by the legislature. What can a new new community authority do? A new community authority can levy additional taxes. It can levy additional sales point of sales taxes. It can levy um hotel tax. But here's the thing, it can only do it on parcels that affirmatively petition to be in the new community authority. So what does that look like practically? So let's say there's a project, let's say there's a 10acre project where there's a hotel and maybe some restaurants and retail and some other things. the developer of that can petition to be in that new community authority and then enter that property into that and so they could charge like a like a beverage tax like a like an entertainment tax or something or you could have lodgings tax and what that does the new community authority collects those revenues and and gets to support infrastructure and you know can come back and support the services of the township. So, it's just another way for the township to create revenues associated with development to help offset the very services that you know we talked about here tonight.

So, is it created in looking forward in in anticipating a lot of um res not residential growth but commercial growth?

Uh it was created I think to be responsive. Um, you know, one of the first things when you get a tool like this is that, um, you know, I'm always worried that once you have the ability to do it, they could always take it away from you, but once they exist that you you have the tool and it is available. I would never want to see, you know, a sea change in the state legislature, us to just sit by and do nothing. And I think the board had a lot of foresight to go ahead and form the NCA and to use it. We're going to do it on a small trial run basis on this little project on Glasti. It's about, you know, 10 acres total. We're going to kind of dip our toe in the water and see how that works. But I think it it could be a valuable tool to reincentivize, you know, if again, we've read about the mall. Everybody want to talk about the mall. We all know the mall is a long way off, but it could be an opportunity one day for the mall, you know, it could be an opportunity for other pieces of property e redeveloping, you know, uh or new development, infield development where you have like parking lots now where they may want to do something else or maybe there's an entertainment district or maybe there's some hotels where we could capitalize on some additional lodgings tax that would come back to the township to support services. you know, because you know, the police department and fire department still provide those services to the NCA, right, to the parcels that are in the NCA. Um, so, you know, it's a very it could be a very powerful tool to help

do the does the public get to vote on these on the the board of trustees? So, the developer has to petition the owner of the property has to petition to put the property into the new community authority. Okay?

So, he has to choose. he or she has to choose to do that and then they'll what they'll do to add property to the new community authority. They'll petition that and then the board will review the petition. There's several public hearings and then the property gets put into the new community authority and then there's some covenants that are recorded that says, "Hey, there's a new community authority. They can levy different kinds of taxes like a an extra lodgings tax, u an income like tax, um you know, a whole bunch of different things that don't apply to most parcels in the township. But people could affirmatively if they wanted to be a part of it, they could petition to be in it. But there will be public hearings about those. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Meyer. The uh next up, uh Mr. Dit, come on up, sir. I think we all know your address by heart now, but please go ahead and state your name and address for the record, sir. Um Melvin Dwit, 3902 Banks Road, Union Township, Ohio.

Thank you, sir. Okay, I should have done this uh last month. However, um I had a chance to be away, so I took it. Okay, this is in reference to the zoning hearing that was in u March. Which one that is is not particularly uh important. But during that meeting, a certain gentleman during the hearing stepped in and started questioning you guys as though you were witnesses during that hearing or for any zoning hearing. You are really judge and jury, not witnesses. and you lost control. Mr. Dills, you being the chair,

sure, are certainly the face of that, but I think it was all of you are guilty of letting that get out of control. And I hope that it doesn't happen again. On the other hand, all these numbers to charge to win tonight, I need a ven diagram to follow them. So, congratulations on that. Um, finally, Mr. Becker, have you ever tried UDF as your cheap dinner? You can get quite filled for under $6 and have a drink. Besides,

I am embarrassed to admit I did have dinner at UDF one time. There's nothing to be embarrassed about there. On the other hand, I think maybe all of you ought to learn to cook. And I know somebody that can teach you. He used to teach at the culinary institute. So if you need him, let me know. Mr. D, I'll say uh last month uh was last month. Yeah, that was I'll tell you that was my most challenging meeting I've ever had and I definitely dropped the ball quite a guilty as charged and uh they should have prompted you.

No, it was my fault. I'm chairman. I'm chairman and it you know cuz I I don't like to be a gavl kind of guy and oh five minutes bang you're done. Wrap up your but I mean there was a few folks that definitely went six, seven, eight minutes and I try to say wrap up your thoughts you know all good. uh couldn't agree more and and I try to look at the agenda and prep myself uh and but I did not because that was all that was all public comments like what you're doing now and I didn't prepare for an hour and 15 minutes of public comments uh or however long it was pretty long um and I I completely agree I dropped the ball and uh I I will absolutely do better my word so appreciate yeah appreciate the constructive feedback

you have listened to me say that you need to listen to the public much more and you have been doing in the past year or so. You've been doing a lot better. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. But guilty is charged. It's on me. I I'm I'm the one that controls it and I uh No, I happen to know the gentleman that interrupted you and Yeah. started challenging you. That's That's People are upset and I get it. It's okay. It's okay. I get it. So, they're personal. It's their personal lives and I don't take offense to it. It's fine. It's not a big deal. So, but I but I I I have my word. I'll do better next time. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you, sir. Yeah,

my wife loves that I cook. It's one of my favorite things to do for the family because I just love to cook for them. Probably about five nights out a week. You should teach those two then. I got to make improve the last year and a half. So, yeah, I definitely need to do new diet plan. That's for sure. Thank you, Mr. Dwood. Appreciate you. Thank you. The uh Okay. Uh Mr. Gary Beach, sir. Good evening. Then just state your name and address for the record, sir.

My name is Gary Beach. I live at 4606 Pearl Lane of Tav, Ohio. First of all, I'd like to compliment the chief and his group who uh took such diligent care of my house, keeping an eye on it while we was gone on vacation. They did a superb job and I got the report of everybody been there. Everybody was there once or twice, it seems like, because we was gone for an extended vacation. And my other questions I wanted to discuss uh last year before we left on vacation, m Mr. Taylor and I got together on Eva Lane and Dogwood about some issues over there with drainage and stuff and we still have the same problems. Water's get running out of the ditches. Gravel's all over the road. Trees need cut back. Dead trees need down. Is is it property owner's responsibility to cut limbs and stuff that's hanging out over the road roadway or I don't know. I tried to contact you today, but you must have been busy. So, that's just some of the questions I have. And then guard rails on uh Dogwood, they've uh somebody's going to go film here before long end up at a house if they don't get them repaired.

No problem. Mr. Chill, do do you have uh do you have his information? You do? Okay. Yeah, we'll definitely address it, take care of it. That's not a problem. Yeah. Okay. Well, thank you for your time and like I say, we got together last

October, November, and actually took a ride around and discussed a lot of things. Another thing I'd like I don't know if the department or the township has a inspection outfit that works with the what goes on, but you pay the money to have all these roads paved and stuff and then you let contractors come in. It looks like nobody pays attention to what they do when they do the rope and cuts, fixing gas lines, water lines, different stuff. that needs some attention, too. I just I come out of that construction background, then I was in inspection. Yeah. And it's lacking. So, appreciate that. Thank you for your time.

I was going to say, so unfortunately, and I know Mr. Beach's frustration because we talked um it was not too long after we had I guess resurfaced that or been through there that Duke Energy came through and cut a bunch of potholes. You know, they call it potholeing. went in and did I don't remember if they were doing valve replacements or something. It's really unfortunate and you know in a perfect world I think the state legislature should give us the opportunity to make them resurface that road. Unfortunately that they won't do it. I mean if inspection when they're doing the repair they're just not doing it properly. Yeah. So you end up with a wavy kind of patch you got you got holes it does more potholes than what Right. and and so it's really unfortunate,

you know, whenever they go in and I wish that, you know, it always seems like when you go in and repave, then they want to come back and do it. And it's just, you know, and maybe the answer has to be no or you're going to resurface. And and that's something that we're not I'm not Look, I I've spent my entire career telling people no. And so I'm used to being a bad guy. I'm not afraid to be bad guy Duke Energy. Not that they listen to me. Um but you know, we'll get back on. I know I spoke to Mr. Taylor about guardrail on Dogwood. There is a failure point. Another resident reported it. We We do have to have a specialized crew do that. That's not something our guys can go out and do. Um so we'll have a company come and help us with that. That is on the books. I don't know when it's scheduled. I'll talk to Matt tomorrow about it. And then we'll get our roadside mower out to Is it Eva? Is that the street?

Eva and Dogwood. Eva and Dogwood. Yep. We'll get it out. We'll hammer it back. It it I had to do the same. I didn't know if that was a owner's responsibility to keep trees that's on his property that's out over there. We we try to keep the rightway clear, but again we have 134 miles road. They try to make what two p is it one or two passes a year? Two passes a year, but unfortunately like you know right now it grows quick. Yes, it does. So uh we'll get back out there on those and uh get that taken care of for you. Very good. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Mr. Appreciate you. Have a good evening. And last one I got is uh Mr. Rosemary Mloud. How are you, Miss McCloud? Just state your name and address for the record, please.

Rosemary Mloud, 4510 Dominic Drive, Betavia, Ohio. Yes, ma'am. Please. The floor is yours. Five minutes, please. So, one thing I've heard that there's going to be an extra $5 put on our license plates. You don't know what's true or not. Is that true? Yes, ma'am. That is true. So, yes. And that's just Union Township residents. I I guess so. And businesses, correct? Businesses. I mean, correct. The other question I have, I mean, we've there's been a lot of discussion about short of funds. I know that we just got or at least it was reported on TV that we got quite a a chunk of money from the dispensaries and that there should be more coming. Can some of that be used for some of these shortfalls in money or where's that money going?

So, the $5 play fee, just so you know, Mr. McCloud, is going to that man over there, uh, Mr. Taylor for the roads. Uh, that's that's to help with our uh uh service department. Okay. And uh and then as far as the uh the dispensary dollars, I mean, I'll throw it over to Mr. in just a moment, but uh was it 750 grams that we got? Yes. So, we received a one-time trunch from the state of Ohio in the amount of 750 something,000. uh that constituted more than a year of say I think it was like more than a year of sales from when the dispensaries opened to where the state legislature finally appropriated the money to send it to us. Right.

So, so that was a one-time kind of tunch or bucket that came to the township. Significant revenue. Absolutely.

Um you know that's receded into the general fund. The general fund is separate from the voted millage levies with the police and fire. General fund is administration which is actually a pretty small component. Zoning which is a fairly small component. The bulk of your general fund expenses are roads, cemeteries and parks. It's a service department and they operate with no voted millage outside of I think we have a mill is it a mill for road and bridge is that correct Mr. Campbell? And we have 8/10en of a mill for the from on the general fund side. That's it. So that money predominantly is used to subsidize those operations to offset that because we have the tiff and the uh Jed and the voted millillage for the fire and police

and I don't mean to be ignorant but I don't know what tiff and jed is.

A tiff is tax increment financing. Okay. So those are pilot payments that's called payments in lie of taxes that tiff the tax increment financing district properties pay that come to the township. We just we distribute a significant portion of that to the schools andor the joint vocational school district and then we retain about 40 on average about 45% of those revenues to make improvements you know infrastructure improvements support police and fire do all those other things with that um Jed means joint economic development district we have nine of them now that is a special taxing district that is formed in combination with either a village or a city. We have eight of those districts with the city of Milford, one with the village of Betavia. The biggest one we have is Ivy Point Jed that generates the most significant revenue followed by I'd say Jungle Gyms, the West Claremont High School and and West and I think the West uh the former high school site. What do we call that, Mr. Campbell? Is that the Gonasty one?

So, those are the four biggest ones. Um, Hamilton Safe is actually that's the Round Bottom Jed down on the north side of the township that's starting to generate significant revenue as well because of job growth in that area. So again, those are probably our four or five biggest. Uh, the other ones are smaller jets, I think. Is that that's pretty accurate? You did a good job. That's good.

Basically, we just try to come up with different tools that could generate revenue so we don't have to go back because all this board is against property taxes. We don't want to do it. We try to figure out and Mr. Wright's a genius at figuring out different tools to come up with different revenue so we don't ever have to go back to the voters for a levy. And so tonight was about, hey, do we want to put a levy up or not? Because uh some of those tools aren't supplying enough money for that. So yeah, if that makes sense. Yeah, I guess. Yeah,

I have one more question I forgot to put on there. So I my property backs up to Tilltown Road where Redwood is. Redwood I've heard isn't going to continue developing. So I've heard and going to sell at one point part of that property had to stay natural. So if they sell to housing development, can they then use the whole thing or do we have to go back to the original agreement? Um or does anybody even I haven't heard Redwood selling, but have you heard is Redwood selling? I have not heard that they were selling. In fact, my understanding was they were going to advance phase two. They are okay.

That I had I had which is on the books now. They have to adhere to the requirements of the plan. Nobody can build different than what's on the plan. And there's a significant kind of natural green belt that runs through there. Yes. Uh with the creeks and the lake and all that. Notably, the one thing that because the second phase is much smaller than the first phase, there will not be a cross connection over the creek because of the environmental impact to that. So it'll be reduced in that on this on the schoolhouse side. So you won't have people another village Glenn kind of thing Mc Beguffy thing where they're zipping across but my understanding is they're moving forward. I had not heard that they're selling.

I know about a year ago I talked to a manager over there and she said that they wasn't doing well renting there and they didn't know but you know that's her talking a year ago but my concern was if it sold to a housing development could they end up changing what the original plan was? They would have to come back to the board to do that and Okay. and I'll be at that meeting if that happens. I don't think it'll happen, but if it does, absolutely. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for your time. All right. Good comments tonight. Anyone else? Last call.

Okay. We'll go and move on to our department reports. And the first one will be our fire chief for our fire and emergency services. Uh Chief Clemens. Sir, thank Mr. Dills. In the month of April, the fire department responded to 177 fire and service calls, 552 EMS details, had patient contact with 479 patients, and transported 383 patients. Uh, the fire department completed 1,339 hours of training, took part in 15 public education details, excuse me, hosted ride time with local EMT and paramedic students for a total of 70 hours, completed 146 life safety inspections and 19 building uh inspections with the Claremont County Building Department. And that concludes my report.

Vice Chairman, nothing. Mr. L. Thank you. Thanks, Chief. Chief, good job. Love, love the turnout. Whenever you have a new hire or promotion, you always have good turnout. So, appreciate that. Uh, with our police department, uh, Chief Ree, sir.

Thank you, Mr. Dills. In the month of April, the dispatch center handled 5,235 calls for service, processed 550 juvenile or adult court related documents, handled 109 court notices, requiring officers uh appearance in court, processed one vendor permit, handled 163 records requests, and redacted 44 body camera videos. In the area of operations, our officers in the month of April took 320 incident reports, 81 crash reports, conducted 431 traffic stops, issued 142 citations, 295 written warnings, made 65 criminal arrests, 74 traffic arrests, and served 56 warrants. Our honor guard participated in one event in the month of April. That was the annual um yellow ribbon Matt Min event at the Oasis in Lovelin. And in the month of April, our officers and staff attended 296 total hours of training. And that concludes my report, sir.

Mr. Becker. No. Good. Slow. No. Thank you, Chief. Uh, Chief, just real quick, the uh uh I love this. So, traffic stops 431 citations issued 142. If m my math is correct, it's about a 39% ratio of of tickets that we give out compared to traffic stops. So I I I don't like overpolicing. I I do think people are should be given grace occasionally and so clearly we're doing that. So just want to say good job there. Um all right, next department is our service department director. Uh Mr. Taylor, sir.

Thank you, Mr. Dills. in the cemetery division from October from April 1st through the 30th 20 burials were performed generating $12,000. 33 resident crazies were purchased generating 23,100. Eight non-resident crates for $13,600 excuse me and eight colarium niches for $12,000. Uh the total amount generated for the period was $67,78825. In the parks division, uh weekly mowing and trimming and uh landscape maintenance continues on all townships and buildings with in our parks. And in the road division, a total of 81 potholes were filled over 14 streets and a total of 33 work orders uh were completed on multiple township roads. And that concludes my report.

Thank you, sir. Mr. Becker. No, Mr. L. I'm good. Thank you. Good job, M Taylor. Appreciate it. Thank you. Oh, hey. I saw that we had opened uh Cleer Park, the um splash pad. Yes, sir. Today. It's great news. Good, good, good. Okay, good. Mr. Right. Drove through there. He said somebody was actually in it. Mr. Did you get in it? No. I thought it was maybe Mr. Becker. No, I I bet the water was a chilly 45 to 50 degrees coming out of there. Yeah, that's fantastic. What What are the hours that we have that going on and off? Any idea? I think it's 7 to 7. Okay. I think is what it is. It's I know it opens at 7 and I think it's 7:00 p.m.

Okay, fair enough. Okay. Yeah. Thank you, M. Appreciate you. The uh All right. Planning and zoning uh inter this is your last time, right? It is. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Mr. Right. Go ahead. Take it over.

Thank you, sir. Uh so uh again, you'll see on the back page of the report double-sided, there's a year-over-year comparison on permit activity. Um uh for 2026 we handled uh 27 inspections, 33 complaints, eight of which were unfounded, 17 warning citations, five 15day non-compliance letter, one 30-day violation letter, um 13 items resolved administratively, illegal signs removed, we had 311 of those uh and uh 11 miscellaneous issues. 12 existing violations reinspected and one nuisance filed. And that a lot of that doesn't you don't see the work behind the scenes. We've had a couple of nuisance structures that we've been dealing with that are pretty significant. So, uh kudos to Mr. Berkkey for that. Uh regarding commercial or permit activity, four new commercial permits, six changes of use, nine signed permits, uh seven single family home permits. Uh, we had a couple of deck permits, a lot of accessory buildings, 13 and 11 pools and fences, 54 permits for the month, $15,795 revenue total. That concludes my report. Mr. Luke,

no. Good. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wright. And you continue on, sir.

Thank you, sir. And again, I'll be brief. We got a lot to cover on the agenda tonight. Um, so just want to give the board an update. We are underway on engineering on the old 74 systemic safety sidewalks with ODOT. That's 8020. Uh they're paying on that on the engineering. We are applying for STBG money for the Icults pedestrian improvements which will stop uh start where the county left off and and get us as far as we can to uh down to Ivy Point and Eastgate Boulevard. We've also presented to ODOT for systemic safety grant funding. We'll now await to see if we were funded. We've submitted a CDBG sidewalk grant for additional sidewalks in Somersside as this area is eligible because the county has elected to not fund uh two years in a row Mount Carmel Park applications. So, we're going to pivot in that.

Um access control upgrades continue. You'll see a purchase order related to that. We have uh commenced with the SID to advance the culvert lining project at Miami View Trail. My understanding is that's close to completion, Mr. Taylor. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct.

Yep. That's quite an quite an operation. Um the new cemetery fees take effect tomorrow. The new community authority held its first organizational meeting. Uh we have commenced on the ODOT safe routes to school travel plan. We've achieved the easements for the Elmont Drive and Old 74 project. Thank you to Lisa for making that happen with the property owners. Uh we have uh at Summerside, if you think back with the arrangement we have with the school to dispose of excess property that is moving forward. Um there is a Jed contract hearing tonight for an amendment to the language with the city of Milford. Um work continues to fill the IT position. Unfortunately, that's been a tough position for us to fill. Uh so we're kind of back to the drawing board. Um couple of t or we have a tiff developer agreement for first watch uh the bonal hill site that'll pay for some improvements to Glasti Road. Uh very similar to the other deals that uh we've worked to achieve that infrastructure upgrade. Um I've requested authorization to transfer several different parcels that are subject to economic development projects. Uh we have an item to consider for the board tonight for special use vehicles. Uh we have a real problem with people uh behaving poorly on quarter acre and halfacre lots with motorbikes, UTVs. We have one property in particular where they're literally they've turned the backyard into a dirt track. It's unbelievable. Chief Reese can I mean and that's probably not the only one. It's just the only one that is actively being complained about. So um couple of disposal resolutions. Um two tiff agreements for the board to approve this evening. a junk motor vehicle nuisance declaration and uh a lot of high grass nuisance complaint declaration. So happy to answer any

questions you have chairman. No, Mr. L. No, thank you. Okay, good job, Mr. Right. Appreciate you. Thank you. Uh all right, moving on. We have two public hearings tonight and uh let's go ahead and Is that you, Mr. Are you presenting this one? Yes, sir. I'm happy to present this one and I'll just point out to the board there's no action to be taken other than opening and opening and holding and closing the public hearing this evening on vote on this at all. Not tonight, sir. Fair enough. You cannot vote on it till the city of Milford has their public hearing. Okay. So, this is for the city of Milford. This is for the joint economic development district number one, sir. All right. So, go ahead and present and I'll open it.

So, this is a simple contract amendment. It actually deletes a parcel because you can't amend the Jed agreement while there are electors residing in the Jed. Uh why are there electors residing in the Jed? That is at the Clover Senior Apartments. Clover Senior Apartments was originally supposed to be something else. That project was uh subsequent to that. Uh and it was permitted uh because the prior Jed language did not include any of the mixeduse multif family language in it. the current Jed contracts do. Ivy Point Jed was the first Jed contract and say there we may only have one or two of these that don't have the new language in them. So this is an amendment to allow to authorize the addition of applicability to persons working net profits of the business and persons residing in any mixeduse development located within the Ivy Point Jed. We're literally just expanding the opportunity to collect tax to people who might reside in the jet at some point in the future. This is just really kind of a housekeeping item. And then in order to do this, we have to remove the existing uh Clover Senior project which was again supposed to be something else entirely. So that's where we are.

Perfect. Uh any questions for Mr. Right? Seeing none. Okay. I will go ahead and open this public hearing. Uh gentlemen, do I have a motion for the opening of public hearing Township City of Milford Jed District 1 contract amendment? So moved. Second. Mr. Camp, roll call. Mr. Becker, yes. Mr. Lo, yes. Mr. Dills, yes. Public hearing is open at 7:25 p.m. All right. Now is the time. I doubt it because it's just housekeeping, but is anybody for or against this public hearing for this Jed with Milford? Okay. Last call. All right. Seeing none, uh, gentlemen, entertain a motion to close public hearing. So move. Second. Mr. Campbell, roll call. Mr. Becker, yes. Mr. Lo,

yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. The public hearing is closed with no action. 7:26 p.m. All right. Next one. Last public hearing is zoning case zoning case 495-Z is in Zulu. Uh Mr. Ray.

Thank you, sir. And I'll be brief. This is a very simple PD major amendment. And I almost will blow through the PowerPoint here. Long and the short of it is Mount Carmel uh is it Mount Carmel uh Baptist Church was kind of left. They lost a significant port of part of their part parking portion of their parking due to the 32 improvements. They were able to secure a settlement and I believe they acquired this with the settlement proceeds from ODOT. And so they're going to uh put a uh nice parking lot gazebo and uh kind of some other improvements on that to help sort of restore that uh their parking load there. And you can kind of see with the highway improvements, it really hurt them significantly. So, so again, um, you know, traditionally it's been the department's policy to try to hold people harmless on permit items, fences, but for zone changes, administrative modifications, we had to bring it before the board. I think this is as close to a no-brainer slam dunk as there is one. And uh I'll bel labor any other points with that. But the action required is to approve or modify or deny this application from major amendment to the existing PD uh in case 495Z. Uh and there are several recommendations which are pretty standard for any zoning case that we have. So fair enough. Any questions for Mr. Right? Great. Seeing none, uh, gentlemen, I entertain a motion to open the public hearings for Union Township Zoning case 4-95-Z and Zulu.

So move. Second, Mr. Kim, roll call. Mr. Becker, yes. Mr. Log, yes. Mr. Dills, yes. Public hearing is open at 7:27 p.m. All right. Same thing on this case. If anybody's for or against this church, putting a parking lot in a gazebo in or for against it. Anyone? Anyone? Okay. Roger that. The uh you got it. The uh no problem. All right. Seeing none, it should be pretty easy. Cut and drive. Appreciate you all coming out for the support. Uh gentlemen, I entertain a motion to close public hearings for zoning case 4-95-Z. So move second. Mr. Cam, roll call. Mr. Becker? Yes. Mr. Lug? Yes. Mr. Dills?

Yes. The public hearing is closed at 7:28 p.m. All right. Uh any discussion, vice chairman? I'm all in. Mr. Logan, uh you know, this this is great because a couple years ago now at this rate that um one of the members of the church reached out to me. She was, if I recall correctly, teaching one of my kids at one of the local schools and was talking about this issue going on and I was like, "What can you help? Like, what can you do?" And so I put her in touch direct. I was like, "Yes, we can absolutely help. this seems like a, you know, no-brainer. So, I'm happy to hear what you already both said.

U, but got her in touch with the staff up here and just made sure to continue to follow up that, you know, unfortunately things take a little bit of time outside of our controls, but I'd see some up and down head nods and some smiles. And you know, there's not a lot of always um the very positive uh aspects or rewarding aspects of being able to um uh where be where the rubber meets the road with this role in this job because there's a lot of diff difficult governance decisions to be made. But this is one where, you know, it's it's really really great to be able to help your community um among, you know, the things that we can't control, but but do the things that we can control and help you with this. So grateful to to see the church thriving and and doing well. So

good. Good. Thank you guys. No problem. The uh uh no easy cut and dry. Uh if you'd like, you can reach out to me. Uh I have a handful of asphalt paving companies that I know of. They'll either do this as charity or give you a significant break because obviously all are nonprofits. So unless you already have yours picked out, then I don't it's all good. So if you need help. All right. The uh All right, gentlemen. I'll entertain a motion for the approval uh as presented for new township zoning case 4-95-Z is in Zulu. It's so moved. Second. Any further discussion? Mr. Kim, roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Loe. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. Congratulations, guys. Thank you.

All right. No old business. New business. Uh our consent agenda. I'll entertain a motion for the approval of our consent agenda, which is the approval of minutes April 14th, 2026 regular meeting minutes, April 14th, 2026 zoning meeting minutes. Uh item two is approval of payments as prepared by our fiscal officer, Ron Campbell. And item three is the approval of monthly financial report prepared by our fiscal officer, Ron Campbell. So move. Second. Any further discussion? Mr. Campbell. Roll call. Mr. Becker? Yes. Mr. Log? Yes. Mr. Gills? Yes. Motion carries. All right. Next item is our purchase orders exceeding $15,000. Mr. R, you want to take that over?

Thank you, sir. Uh, first purchase order is a purchase order for admin. It's really it. This is the second phase of our security camera replacements and access control upgrades with mobilecom in the amount of $129,000. Second item is administration. This is a payment to West Claremont local school district relative to the tiff extension and lease reimbursement for their offices here. in the amount of $35,900. Uh we have the purchase order to Pervvis Systems Incorporated for the fire department. This is phase two of the automated computerated dispatch which is meant to increase or to to decrease response times and increase efficiency, not increase response times. Right. Yep. We always want them to go down, not up. So that's 10155270. Uh, next one is fire for mobilecom for the installation of the purpose system in the amount of $18,990. And the next item is to wax bank for estimated fuel usage in the amount of 80,000. And the last one is through the service department for back tractor sales for the cemetery, a uh new K Cabota zeroturn. Uh there are few places that mow more grass than Mount Mariah Cemetery and they put the miles on those units. So that is in the amount of 16,046 and I believe we did we receive trade on on another unit. Is that correct?

Perfect. Good. Thank you. Gentlemen, any Mr. Becker, any questions for Mr. R? No, Mr. Lo. No. Thank you. Gentlemen, I a motion for the approval exact here. Sorry. Approval of purchasers exceeding $15,000. So moved. Second, Mr. Campbell. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Logan. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. All right. And uh Mr. Wright, I'm going to throw a handful of these all over to you, so we'll get ready. The uh first one is the contract authorization for the tip.

Sure. Uh this is a uh developer agreement with Bunnel Hill Development Corporation. This is for the corner lot at Glestie and uh Cleer Lane. Pay for some uh turn lane improvements and some it's a reimbursement over time. So it's not, you know, it's not really an abatement. They're paying the taxes. We return a portion of that back after we make the schools home. So, pretty similar to some other things we do. All right. Gentlemen, entertain motion for item two on the motion agenda, the tax increment finance agreement contract authorization. Sim second. Any discussion? Mr. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Log. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. Mh. Mr. Right. Item three, purchasing card.

Sure. I'll be real brief. We got an auto estate uh purchasing card. uh advisory. Whenever the auditor of state publishes an advisory bulletin, that generally means they're going to audit you on that next year. And so we're amending the policy proactively so that we don't have to, you know, listen to them tell us that we should have did what they told us last year. This just deals with convenience fees. Basically, we've addressed it in the policy and said don't pay them if you can't if you can avoid them. They're a necessary evil someplace some places. So check with your department head or the township administrator. That's it. Any question? Mr. Right. All right. Gentlemen, a motion for the approval of Union Township purchasing card and tax exempt policy amendment.

So move. Second. And Mr. Camp roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Item four, motion to transfer property to the economic development purposes. Mr. Wright.

Sure. Uh this is just a motion to authorize transfer of 4476 ITS. The second parcel uh I'll just read the pins and not the addresses. Parcel 413105A 038 Parcel 413105A 164 Parcel 31 413105A1 170 parcel 413105A 167 and parcel uh 413105A 166 and uh 413105A 168 to the Union Township Community Improvement Corporation for facilitating the sale and transfer of property for economic development pro purposes and authorizing the execution of any documents relative there too. This is just a housekeeping issue. Uh most of these were transferred via quit claim deed by the TI to the township as a result of overby from the icults project about six years ago. Got it. So any question right? Gentlemen, entertain a motion for the approval of transfer of property economic developers purposes. And I I will read these addresses very quickly. 4476 I Colts zero I Colts uh 4484 I Colts and 4486 I Colts. That looks like that's it.

They're just and just the several parcel numbers is listed there. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I was trying to skip that, but I reckon I'll read them. The 413105 A is an alpha 038. 413105 A is an alpha 164. 413105 A is an alpha 130. 413105 A is an alpha 167. And 413105A is an alpha 166. And last one's 413105A is an alpha 168. 170 sir. Which one? Seven. Oh, I didn't say that one. Nope. All also include 413105A and alpha 1 170. Yes, sir. So move.

Second. All right. Discussion. Mr. Camp. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dill. Yes. Motion carries. Next item. It looks to be uh ex uh very similar. Correct. Yes, sir. Very similar. These are parcels on uh Glenn Estie Wamsville. Uh these are parcels currently in the township's possession that need to be transferred to the CIC. Perfect. Gentle entertain a motion for the transfer of economic development purposes. Um I'm just going to read the pin numbers. 414220.001 414220.002 and that is it. Second. Any discussion? Mr. Gam roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Log. Yes.

Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Special purchase vehicle registr uh regulations hometown home rule township resolution. And uh did you want us to discuss that, Mr. Ray?

Sure. I just wanted to present this to the board for their consideration. Uh so I didn't spring this on you. So, we've got issues with people riding motocross bikes, dirt bikes, UTVs, ATVs, three-wheelers, four-wheelers, maybe five wheelers, I don't know, on uh all manner, shape, and size of property. And uh as you can I mean, these things are very ubiquitous now. I mean, you can go to Lowe's and buy one, you know, you can go to Home Depot and buy one. Um you know, they sit them out in the parking lot. Every time I go to Lowe's, my son wants he wants to go sit on them or whatever, you know, and that's all fine and dandy, you know, as far as, you know, using them for maintenance of property, snow removal. Super convenient, right? We have developed problems where we have people in these platted subdivisions, think quarter acre, third of an acre, halfacre lots where they're literally letting their kids ride these gas powered. They used to be like Kawasaki 250s when I was a kid. I guess like little dirt bikes just round and round and round and round and round for hours and hours and hours on that. Um, we uh have the problem is the zoning process takes forever. because it has to go through com common please if they sort of thumb their nose at us. We have to deal with the court mercy of the court system with common police. The judges down there have very busy docket. I do not want to overload people you know the court system with except for the worst of the worst. And the problem is the police department has very limited recourse right now to address these on private property. Is that correct sir?

Correct. So, what this does is a home rule township is we have the ability to set ground rules on these and levy civil fines uh that go to municipal court. Uh proposed legislation working with the law director's office basically saying that you can't do this in a platted subdivision. You can do it on lots larger than 2 acres. You get exemptions for maintenance, normal maintenance activity, like you want to haul some gravel around your backyard with your UTV, you want to push some snow out of your driveway. What you cannot do is ride it around in a circle over and over and over again for 5 to 10 hours.

So, this would assess this would establish fines. There's a process to adopt this. We'd have to post it. Uh, puts hours of operations on there. set some rules around riding areas, what those have to look like, and uh would just, you know, get the board's direction as to whether you're interested in pursuing this or not interested in pursuing this. I can have this queued up for the next meeting. Good. Uh, vice chair, what are your thoughts? Not just yes, but hell yes. Uh, I I agree. Um, Mr. Wright, Chief, do you have any idea as far as Oh, I'm sorry. I did not throw it over to you. I'm sorry, Mr. Please have a second.

I'd like just like to hear you know what what's in our our capability. Um I know that you know it's it's I don't even know what the chief is able to do also with the roadways and neighborhoods and stuff because I mean these parents I don't know if it's just an education campaign or what but like these kids are going to get killed. Like literally I mean I don't know about what you guys see. It's not only just the backyards, but it's, you know, um going 2535 down suburban streets on these crazy little vehicles that are either electric or gas or it doesn't matter. Um, but I mean, it's literally just a matter of time before someone's killed. No one wants that. No one wants that. So,

plus I can't imagine a dirt bike in his backyard for two hours. Yeah. So, maybe I'm maybe I'm addressing a broader concern there, the streets as well. But yeah, we we we've got obviously authority on the streets. I mean, the vehicles have to, you know, have regulated. They have to be licensed. They have to be driven by a licensed driver. They have to be street worthy. So, we have some power there, but in the backyards, it's private property. It's more of a disturbance to the people that live behind them than anything. So,

um maybe for next month when you present this, Mr. Wright, uh just just like to know the order of, you know, penalties. First one, slap on the wrist, warning, second, third, fourth tier, fifth tier, what happens, and how much? We have those in the resolution. So, you have a hund $100 first offense, $500 second offense in 12 months, third offense is $1,000 in 12 months. Offense in a 12 month calendar. Yes. And then each additional offense is $1,000 after that. No way. 12 months. Um

I mean, and I know our officers are great about issuing warnings to people. I I' I'd like to say the first Well, I guess you use as discrepancy, but I like an actual warning before we throw the $100 flight on to be step one, but you know, if they if you give them a warning citation. Oh, okay. UT serious. Okay. All right. And then then 100. That's my thoughts. But what do you think?

Um, well, you know, you do what makes the most sense. Of course, be a warning before you start finding people, you know. I mean, I'm just thinking in terms of, you know, I my heart goes out to these people that want some peace and quiet and then they hear these, you know, this herd of chainsaws going on in their backyards and, you know, it's ridiculous these things. You know, if you're going to be using them for recreational purposes, which is fine. They're not intended to be done recreationally in subdivisions. You know, they need out on farms out in out in the woods someplace. And and as Mr. Rice pointed out, there's legitimate uses for, you know, moving snow, moving gravel, you know, that's not recreational. Um, so yeah, whatever whatever we need to do to put this into effect, I'm all in.

Cool. One good thing is this on iPads, you know, but all good. I think I think you got the board's temperature. Sure. So, if you want to bring it next month. Yeah. All right. Legislative agenda. All right, gentlemen. We have uh nine items and uh you just stop me, interrupt me if you would like Mr. Wright to explain. Most of these are pretty self-explanatory. Uh so legislative agenda item C. So the first item is resolution 2026-30. It's the disposal of township property. It's Township uh fire department Tahoe insurance settlement. Basically looks like we're disposing of the 2023 Chevy Tahoe that was involved in an accident. Um and I'll have a motion to approve that. So move.

Second. Any discussion? Mr. Campbell. Roll call. Mr. Becker? Yes. Mr. Logan? Yes. Mr. Dills? Yes. Motion carries. All right. Uh item two, resolution 2026-31. Resolution authorizing same thing. Dispose of obsolete property 2017 Ford Explorer. Second. Second. Any discussion? Mr. Camp. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lug. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Third item is resolution 2026-32. Resolution authorizing the continuation of the natural gas aggregation program. So moved. Second. M discussion is I hate this but we have to do it. Uh Mr. Campbell. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Log. Yes. Mr. Jills. Yes.

Motion carries. All right. Uh resol item four resolution 2026-33 the touch of 2026 amended road resurfacing declaration. So moved. Second. Mr. Skim roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lug. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Mr. And then uh Mr. Wright, I'm going to throw this one over to you. The the Brier Hill uh tiff. Sure. This uh puts uh a another 2 and a half acre uh tiff into play along Glenn SD. Uh again, this has already been approved by the school district. School district. It's a makehole tiff. Um, all the notices have been put out and pretty standard stuff.

Perfect. Okay. Uh, gentlemen, on a motion for or did you have any questions, Mr. Right? Okay. On a motion for the approval of resolution 2022-34, the Baronville tiff agreement district. So move. Second. Mr. Cameron, roll call. Mr. Becker, yes. Mr. Lug. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Item six, the resolution 2026-35. Uh I entertain a motion for the this approval for the disposal of township property uh looks like property vehicles and equipment. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Mr. Campbell. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. And Mr. Wright. Again, I'll throw it to you for the uh the omni drive tiff.

Sure. So this is related to a repeal of a prior tiff district that was sort of a set clock. It was a time clock tiff. That's what I call them. I call him time, you know, 30 years over on Omni where we had two parcels. Uh we actually rescended that TIFF if the board remembers that resolution rescending that. This will put everything in a tiff back there. So um to go ahead and do that that way uh and these will be springing, you know, it'll come on when uh certificates are issued or when COS are issued. So it's just kind of a strategy to reposition that that area. Perfect. Any question, Mr. Rick? No. All right, gentlemen. The approval for resolution 2026-36, the omni drive redevelopment tax and increment tiff.

So move. Second. Mr. Camp. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Logan. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Uh item 8 resolution 2026-37. Uh the I'll entertain a motion for this the approval for a nuisance vehicle abatement resolution. So move. Second. Uh Mr. Gam roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Log. Yes, Mr. Bills. Yes. Motion carries.

All right, guys. I'm I am going to read off these addresses here. This is a motion for the approval of resolution 2026-38, nuisance abatement resolution. It's for 4819 Clatt Road, 794 Pigway, 4496 Pearl Lane, 598 Kluff Pike, 699 McCormick Lane, 470 Ro Glen Glenn Rose Lane, 4552 Forest Haven Lane, 4639 Eastgate Boulevard, 434 Barber Lane, 4068 Ponder Drive, and 3944 Banks Road. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Do you drive by these, Mr. Becker? No. Okay. Mr. Mr. Burk is busy. Uh, Mr. Kimber will call. Mr. Becker, yes. Mr. Luke, yes. Mr. Dills,

yes. Motion carries.

All right. Comments from the board. Vice Chairman, you're up. Um, Mr. Chairman, I have a bit of a cold and my uh my voice is raspy. I have five items here I'd like to briefly uh cover. None of which are food related. You might be pleased to know. Very surprised. So, um, first off, uh, the listening bench lady, she's back. She took off the uh the winter for obvious reasons. So, uh her schedule's Monday and Wednesdays from 10 to noon in Veterans Park. She's on the bench facing the lake. Uh her only rule is don't confess to any crimes. However, Chief Ree will be happy to hear those confessions. Uh I get a lot of questions about the construction activity that's going on up by the um uh Audi um store. It is a a Bibby Bob Asian grill and a first watch and child care center that's getting built. Uh I want to make a comment about the the the recent election. Uh first off, I want to just say a word about Greg Gentiel. Uh he called me to congratulate me on the on the victory. This was for county auditor. And uh you know, I I have only nice things to say about Mr. Gentiel. He's a standup guy. He's a very honorable. He's he's he's a he's first class and and I'm very much looking forward to working with him uh 10 months from now in the auditor's office. And kind of related to that as a housekeeping item, my intention is to tender my resignation as a trustee effective March the 7th, 2027 because by statute the new author takes effect or takes office, I want to say it's a second Monday in March. So that would be March 8th, 2027. And uh the last thing I have uh Mr. Chairman and also related to to the election, you know, there's there's there's, you know, there's there's there's cheering from the one side in

every election and and you know, moans and groans from the other. Um I don't like to see people hurting and and I know there's a lot of lot of people hurting in Battavia specifically in the auditor's office and so I ask that prayers go out to those people. Thank you, chairman. That's all I have. Well said, Mr. L. Um, John, congratulations on auditor- elect. It's exciting times. Um, as I I I'm a little sad because I don't want to lose you up here at the at the DAS. Um, it's it's it's but fortunately we got a long runway here over the next uh as you call 10 months almost 10 months.

Uh long time long time to go a lot more uh positive um uh actions to get done for the township and the people of Union Township. Um, so again, congratulations, Mr. Auditor Elect. Thank you. Uh, if that's right to go ahead and say I know the November ballot has to occur, but I don't know what opposition uh, you know, is no Democrat filed. So, okay, my name's the only name on the ballot in November.

Well, there we go. There we go. Okay. All right. Thanks for the clarification on that. Um, yeah, congratulations again. So, uh, one one little quick point I wanted to give a plug on. Uh, we just passed the resolution as as Mr. Wright was bringing up for the Which one was it there? Which number was that? I'm sorry. Um motion agenda item three, the township purchase card and tax exempt policy amendment. Um I I want to ask you know the board members um Mr. Wright as staff I want your guys' support but I'd like for Mr. right to take a look at u there's a program a purchase card company called ramp and they utilize a lot of artificial intelligence uh to basically be able to have physical cards and virtual cards if something does not fall in line with our purchase card policy. It takes that purchase card policy that we just passed tonight. It basically incorporates it into the operating system and processes. And if someone wants to take their virtual card or physical card and make a purchase and it doesn't fall in line with our policy that we passed, it blocks it at the point of sale. It saves taxpayers money. It's like live auditable on the spot, which I think moves us in a new direction. And probably one of the big kickers that I like out of it, uh just another jurisdiction, um as they've been pushing into the local government space, um the city of Mount Vernon anyway, they they stated that they've gone from several hours of reconciliation when you got to like match receipts to purchases,

policy, etc. down to minutes because it's an utilizes artificial intelligence and you really get velocity. um and and you get to be um more or less have that better transparency and visibility into the decision uh loop that occurs. So I like that and I like where the direction of that could potentially go like referencing bringing more AI type tools into uh local governments I think is going to be a place that we can actually keep services high while cost come down. So any support you guys like the idea we can ask Mr. Wright to maybe dig into a little bit of that get some demos or

sure to work with Mr. Campbell on it while sit my office. Okay. All right. Thank you. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. The uh uh Mr. Becker same. Congratulations. Um

thank you. I I'll tell you, I was surp I I I had a feeling you were going to win, but not by 11 points. And uh that tells you because I didn't know how you're going to do in the eastern half of the county. I thought, you know, Union and Miami would would be a win for you, but well done. And then uh um yeah, I think uh I think you'll be a fine auditor. You're you're fair and and all that you do, whether you're it's your team or not your team, I think you've always been fair and like you said, Greg's Greg's good people as well. So absolutely. the uh uh what was it? Jean Schmidt and Cla Corkran on the two contestant races I think. So, right. Yeah. So,

locally locally. So, yeah, congratulations to him as well. Um you always talk about personal food. Uh I I I told my son because I didn't think he was going to. Uh he's he's he plays for Midland baseball and uh I promised him I'd give him a shout out if he did this because I'm trying to encourage him and motivate him. and uh he pitched uh they he's 89 it's a 89 league select team and so you're you're you're limited on your pitch count you know for being so young and he pitched uh he got the last game was eight strikeouts in two innings and this last game was five strikeouts in two innings and I'm like you got to be kidding me so uh okay so there's my shout out to him and uh I promised him I would so he'll go back on YouTube and watch it so my son Gunner but uh that is all I got um all right uh I Got gosh, this is the part where I wish I was Mr. Logan could read really fast. All right. Uh, upcoming events. Park Recreation is meeting the Wednesday, May 13th at 5:00 PM right here in the Civic Center. Uh, Union Township residential voucher program in partnership with Rucky is now underway. Uh, hey, Mr. Taylor, any any issues at all? I'm putting you on the spot. Any issues at all with that since we since Junk Days is gone? No, it's uh in the be

in the beginning we had a you know obviously a rush and just getting everybody through it, but I think now it's kind of everybody's hit hitting the groove. Uh it's been very popular. People enjoy it because they go whenever they want to go. Cool.

Uh okay, good, good, good. Yeah. Yeah. I had two two friends of mine call me. They're like, "What in the world? Are we not doing drug days?" I'm like, "No, we we we put it out there. We announced as best we could. I mean, so but no. Okay. Fantastic. Make sure you have any any issues at all. So, pick up the voucher at our service department and then you go to rum whenever you get a chance on your timing. New Township Zoning Commission will meet Wednesday, May 27th, 7 p.m. right here. Union Township Board of Zoning Appeals will meet Thursday, June 4th, uh at 7 p.m. right here in this building as well. And our next regular meeting, business meeting scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, which will be June 9th. Um, actually, let me pause there. Mr. Are we willing to put on the agenda now or or for a work in session?

I I believe I believe in the reorganization meeting minutes we there's something in there about is it the fourth t Tuesday. Uh but I would just ask the board if if that works for the board. It would be um pull up my calendar. Actually, what am I doing? I have one sitting right in front of me. Um 20 23rd 20 we got a a zoning commission me meeting on the 27th.

We could look at the 26th. Is that the 20 is what the day after Memorial Day though? That's sort of if you wanted to push it to the 28th which is a Thursday we could do that. Are you traveling? Uh either either day is fine for me. Uh Mr. Logan, Mr. For record, we're looking at the week of Memorial Day weekend. You're green light. Are you green light, Mr. L? What date?

Well, it would either be the 26th because we have a zoning commission meeting scheduled for the 27th. Um, Memorial Day is the 25th. So, it either we have the 26th, which is a Tuesday, or we have the 28th, which is a Thursday. I could push it another week and a half, but I mean, that doesn't give us a lot of time to prep stuff. So I I think we should pick a day that week. I think 26 works. 26. It's the day after Memorial Day is Tuesday. You're good. Wide open. All right. Green light. You want to do for 26? And then uh just for housekeeping, we don't need to vote on that. We can just We can just just announce that the board will have a work session on 528. Is that correct, Mr. Campbell? 526. 526. I'm sorry. 526. And the item discussion is the safety services levy.

Yes. Any other items we should put on there at all? Not to my knowledge. Okay. Safety services levy is the working session and levy or is it safety services? Yeah, just levy. And now this is uh if we if we decide to move forward, Mr. is that a fire levy and a police levy or is it safety services? No, it's actually safety services. Now, uh there was a provision in OC. It's on my notes somewhere. What's the statute? 5705. We can combine them. That's all. All I'm saying. Yes. Something. Yeah. There's You can combine the two of them now. All right. There was some legislation that passed that

you couldn't and then they fixed that. Now you can again. So

All right. Good deal. Okay. Perfect. So Tuesday after Memorial Day. Perfect. Uh let's see. Township's annual catch family catch and release event is Saturday, May 16th at Cleper Park. Registration begins at uh at 9:00 a.m. near the Clapper Park pond, followed by catch and release fishing from 9:30 to 11:00. Uh the annual catch and fish uh event will occur rain or shine. The next CPR AED training provided by our fire department is Saturday, May 23rd, 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. Follow Following the training, participants receive a certification uh from the American Safety and Health Institute. Registrations uh is on the township website. uh farmers market and summer concert series kicks off Friday, June 5th. The farmers market is held on Fridays from 400 pm to 7 pm at the Civic Center from June 5th uh through September 11th, including June 19th and July 3rd, which are holidays. Oh, excluding I'm sorry, excluding June 19th and July 3rd, which are holidays. A wide range of products including beef, poultry, produce, sauces, honey, baked goods, milk, eggs, plants, um and much more will be available. There you go, Mr. Becker. you got your food to cook at your house like that.

And uh then I I remember the summer concerts will be held at the Civic Center Amphitheater right behind us uh Friday, June on Fridays, June 5th, June 12th, June 17th, June 24th, and the June and July 31st. I said July, July 24th, and July 31st. Concerts begin at 7 p.m. More details available on our website. And gentlemen, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. Second, Mr. Campbell, roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo, yes. Mr. Dills, yes. We're adjourned at 8:01 p.m. Thanks for everyone coming out tonight. Appreciate you.