City Council - Regular Meeting

It is Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, and we are calling this meeting to order at 6:35. Teresa, you want to call roll? Yes. Mayor Tiffany Hollis here. Ryan Green here. Donnie Barard here. Matthew Huggin here. Kyle Cook here. Jeff Bar. Nicole. I'll do it. Can you do it? Okay. Thank you. Sorry about to Yeah. All right. Shoot from the hip. Yes. Thank you. Uh tonight's imocation will be from uh Councilman Bar.

Let's all take a moment of silence and recognize the airmen uh from the Ohio Air National Guard and the loss of their life life in the line of service to our great country. Lord, thank you for bringing us together tonight to serve our community, our friends, neighbors, and family. We thank you for the wisdom that you bestow upon us and the trust that you have in us to help deal with our community and the needs and the desires to keep it safe. Thank you for the first responders and our police that are out there every day serving our community, our staff that are doing things that are not necessarily recognized each and every day. We thank those people for what they do. Thank you for bringing these guests into the meeting this evening. May we serve them to best of our ability. We thank you for this day. Forgive us of our sins known and unknown. and we thank you for the blessings you bestow upon us individually for our family and our community. Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen.

Thank you. Uh the pledge is going to be led by the Girl Scout Troop 7535. Girls, you want to come up? Yay.

Speak slowly, not fast. Okay, you guys can keep scooting down so you get Come all the way down. Sink in. Okay. On your queue, Emma. 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. Good job. Great job, ladies. Wonderful. Yeah, we're getting the picture. Stay here.

Scoot over here. Thank you. Oh, I'm getting in the picture. Yeah,

thank you. Okay. Next, we have a presentation by the Girl Scout Troop. So, if you I know there's three of you that are doing the presentation. If you want to stay here, you want to get them up at the podium like a little chair. Yeah. Do you guys want to stand at the podium with a microphone? All right. What does she know? She's like answer your question about the barn. No, you never do anything wrong.

Paint there. help. Stand up if you want. There you go.

Good evening, mayor, and everyone in our community. When people hear Girl Scouts, they often think about cookies, but Girl Scouts is about much more. Girl Scouts help girls learn new things. We learn about science. We help our community. We learn about um we learn how to save and use money. We learn to be brave and speak up. We um we also go outside, try new adventures and work together on projects. Every badge we um earn help helps us grow. It helps us become strong leaders who care about others. Girl Scouts is not just about what we do today. It helps us become leaders of tomorrow. Thank you for supporting Girl Scout.

Thank you. Okay. Next on the agenda, we have a proclamation for Women's History Month. So, I actually would like the Girl Scouts to all come up here with me while I read this.

Close that chair, too. No, it's okay. I'm going to come around there with you guys. Hi, how are you? How was school today? Good. You guys can

You guys are center of attention, not me. you want. Stand however you want. Okay. Okay. Women's history month, March of 2026. Whereas this Women's History Month, we celebrate the extraordinary American women of our past and our present. And whereas American women of every race, class, ethnic, background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our nation in countless recorded and unreported ways. And whereas American women have played and continue to play a critical economic or I'm sorry play critical economic, cultural and social roles in every sphere of life of the nation by constituting a significant portion of labor force working inside and outside of the home. And whereas American women were particularly important in the establishment of early charitable, philanthropic and cultural institutions in our nation. And whereas American women have served our country courageously in the military. And whereas the National Women's History Alliance has set the theme for the Women's History Month of 2026 as leading the change, women shaping a sustainable future. Therefore, I, Mayor Tiffany Hollis, on behalf of John City Council, do hereby proclaim March 2026 as Women's History Month and encourage all residents to recognize the achievements of women past, present, in the ways they support our community, city, state, and nation. I want to do one more thing.

I have one more thing I got to read. Um, when we think about women's history month, we often think of big moments and bold names. I was going to do this. Um, and bold names, but some of the most important leadership doesn't happen in small. Teresa, could you? Oh, sure. Yeah, it happens in the details and the consistency and the people who show up every single day and keep everything running.

Our clerk of council, Teresa, is that person for the city. She's the glue, the steady hand behind the scenes, making sure nothing falls through the cracks and everything moves forward the way it should. While her work may not always be seen, its impact is felt at every meeting, every decision, and every step forward. When the spotlight may not always find you, please know your work matters, your presence matters, and the city matters. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you girls for coming. You did a great job. Hold on, Tiffany. Can Tesa get her picture with the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you very much. Okay. Standing with the girl. Yeah. You stand right in the middle, Teresa. In the middle of the girl. Hi, girl. Here. Here we go. All right. One, two, three. Change. Do this way. Absolutely. One, two, three. All right.

Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Appreciate it. And it's really hard to surprise you with a proclamation when it's

Okay. Uh, next on the agenda is approval of the agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. I'll second. All in favor? I. Next, we have action on minutes. Uh, everybody was here. Can we approve this in a block? Yes. So, we have uh February 19th, 2026, the special meeting, and March 3rd, 2026. Anyone have a motion? Pass the minutes and block as written. I'll second. Great. All in favor? I

um do we want to take just like a two-minut break to let the girls leave? I don't know if you're staying or you want to go, but we'll give you a second to get out if you want to. Rest of the meeting might get pretty dry. Yeah. Thank you guys for coming. Nice job. facility next weekend in front of the special meeting. We haven't talked about doing another facilities meeting as needed. Thank you. We don't have any other ones scheduled. Is there some will be at the special?

Well, we don't know. So, right now, um like when we get to that point, I was going to fill everybody in, but basically Sounds good. You give the update then. I like it. Thank you. Yeah. Right. I don't mind giving you the update now. I just, you know, I'll wait on swear Steve Dyer got to play around with that part of Gav. Yeah, he got to use it for zone. He was pretty excited. I'm terrified. He just was like a mess. I'm kind of intimidated by it. So, yeah. Although, if it was for my kids, I could definitely get I could get behind that. She's great job.

Good. Okay. Um, citizens comments on matters not on the agenda. You have speaker slips? I do. I have two. Uh, Sam Stewart, you have three minutes and I'll set the timer.

Okay. Um I'm Sam Stewart. I live at 309 Bon Trager. Um first of all, I'd like to thank the council for the um workshop that just occurred. I want to thank uh Jeff Bar in particular because he brought up the whole idea of doing these workshops. Um the thing I came to speak about again today was the whole issue about pulling out a JAG. And a month ago, um we pretty much got told we were going to have an explanation for why we pulled out a Jag. Now you've left me left me to my own devices and unfortunately that means having to go on social well or not social but news networks to try and figure out what exactly was going on. I was going to bring this up at the workshop but the discussion at the workshop was so positive and going in that direction I wasn't going to change directions and bring up something completely different. Um, but as I've gone through, as I've walked through this, the big issues seem to be the concerns about the amount of money we were spending on consulting fees to help develop the JAG program. Um, my question is, how big a problem is it really? I mean, 300,000 to 500,000, that's a pretty big range that's floating around out there when you're talking about it and critiquing JAG. And I'll be honest, I'm sitting there listening to talk about a tight budget and all that and I'm like, how the heck do you afford $300 to $500,000? How is this all exactly set up? And I'm not 100% clear. And I think if we had been made a lot more clear on this, and this kind of came up in this in this workshop meeting about the need to be clear with the community about how money is being spent and where we're going, I don't think you would have had a line of people standing up here asking questions and me sitting in the back with guys going, "Why?" I mean, I just need an answer, that's all. Um, the lawsuit with Jersey Township and the associated legal fees. I know that's expensive, but the question is, how big a deal is it? And if the lawsuit goes our direction, does Jersey Township have to pay for our

legal fees? Cuz if they do, then as a taxpayer, I'm like, I'm not on the hook. They shouldn't have taken a brought the lawsuit in the first place. So, I don't understand exactly what the situation is with that. how soon I know it's an ongoing litigation. You can't talk about that kind of thing, but you know, where do we stand with that and how big of an impact is it financially and in the HMT water service plan and the EPA report come bubbling up when you get news coverage of this? Um, I've pretty much stuck to oh my god, what is it? the reporting, the reporting service, the guy out of Dennison University who writes a lot of the articles that go to um the advocate and go to the dispatch and I mean there's been really thorough coverage and I'm but I was at some of the meetings they were covering. So I'm just reading and going okay that's nice that's what happened at the meeting but what actually behind the scenes is going on. One of my big issues was were there ways to address these problems without pulling out of JAG entirely. Were there other options to like address it and change the direction we were going? Cuz when I moved here, I was reading stuff about um now I'm going to space out of time about communities um municipalities and townships working together to control the development. And that seemed to be the direction JAG was going. And now that we're not in it anymore, my question is where are we? Um, and in the words of the um, city manager from Granville, um, are we leaving the townships and municipalities open to third party developers that don't primarily care about us? And I don't want to be the guy who's dealing with a situation where decisions are getting made by people that don't particularly care about me. And you know, so that's why I would like, you know, I would love to see the workshop take on some of these and say, "Hey, we're talking about

it on this day. You want to hear about it and listen to us talk about it, I'm seeing." And I think that would would open the window a little bit and clear up some of this stuff. So, thank you very much for your time and thank you very much. Take a moment and answer some of your questions. What's that? I'm going to take a moment and answer some of your Oh, sure. That's fine. At least address some of them. I can't um I wish I had the documentation to back everything I'm about to say,

but I don't. And that's part of the reason we had to withdraw. We uh previous council had not all of us on previous council um the majority requested for two years documentation on the financials and we have yet to see those. Um, I cannot in good conscience I was hired or elected to be a steward of taxpayer money and I felt that was my job to do first and foremost when I can't myself get answers on where the financials were exactly with documentation. I'm uncomfortable at that point. Um, so you you said consulting fees of 3 to 500,000.

That's what's floating around out there. That is what's and I can't I can't speak to that for for certain because I don't have that answer which is a problem. It is a problem that this council this body still does not know the answer to that question. It's a problem. Well, no. See, one of my points as a as a as a voter was where was this discussion back in November so that I could listen to both sides. I would love to have that answer for you. I'm saying I would love to know that answer also for you.

There were a lot I mean you can go back and watch through meetings. Uh there was a lot of not a lot of public discussion in public meetings. There was not we were asking for answers. We as a council we were um and I'm not here to rehash the past, but I'm just going to try to give you the facts that I have. Um I can tell you that I have been in contact with Granville and Alexandria. Alexandria has admittedly um or admitted they contributed zero dollars even though theou agreement was 45% 45% and 10%. They admitted they have not paid anything. Granville uh has failed to give me any documentation showing that they have paid anything to this point. All of that combined is why we withdrew and in the manner that I did. I absolutely did it quickly and swiftly because we were spending money that um we didn't know where it was going or what was coming and and going out. But is there a way to re approach the idea of the communities, the municipalities, and the townships working together in concert as opposed to independent?

I don't think there's ever um collaborating with our neighbors is always on the table. I I would I mean I I'm I think anyone here would tell you that that is my passion is to make sure like to work together and find a solution that works for everyone. Um, I don't know that I'm not saying that JAG was not right, but when we're spending taxpayer money and we and I can't look you in the eye and tell you this is what we've spent, I can't get behind that. Can I have a rebuttal to this since I don't Yeah, I I feel everything the mayor just is what I wanted was I think everything the mayor just said on pulling out was is incorrect.

Um, there were many there was many documentation. What kind of documentation would you like? I didn't ask to start this time. We have legal bills we could look at. Mr. Stannard reported many times on what we were spending. There were multiple times that we had meetings that he reported on what we were spending twice formally. Documentation showing Granville contributed between the two of you and she had the minute. I've got the time now. Jeff, this would be a good workshop. I agree.

This I'm just saying. The fact is that people are trying to throw what we did. These individuals over here except for Ryan, I'll give him credit. He voted against it every time. They all voted to continue to do this to spend every dime except for the lobbyist. I'll give him credit. They didn't ask to spend for the lobbyist. But to go back and revisionist history now, did Graham or did Alexandria pay? No. But if anybody in here goes on a trip with three or four people, you true up at the end. What are we supposed to send an invoice to each place that says pay this right now? Granville's paying for service. taxpayers should pay.

I'm speaking so please can I I don't interrupt you. Please, Tiffany, I'm asking you. Please, are things going to be chewed up? Yes, I 100% believe. And that's the finance director's job to make sure everything gets paid correctly. So, he's got to go back through three years of invoices and bills and divvy that out between Alexandria and Granville. How do you do that? How do you do that from a year-to-year budget? I'm not in the finance department, but yes, they need You are the director. You're the chair of the finance committ. I'm the chair of the finance committee, but it is Dave's job to rehash and look at all the bills and make sure and so you believe that that is fiscally responsible to do it that way to save three years of invoices and then reconcile at the end of three years with two other municipalities. It could have been done yearly. It could have been different done differently.

That's why we withdrew. We withdrew because people are putting pressure on certain council members to pull out. I had no pressure at all that and people are putting pressure on certain council members to vote in and someone's paid by another person to stay to pull out. They are. Yes. You're paid to be a pull out. Yep. Check your record. Mine are available. I just to say that it was to to say online. I make a motion to uh take a break. Taxpayer money. Yeah. I make a motion to take a break. I I take a I give a motion that we this into a workshop and work. We'll keep the show going on then. So,

look, I'm going to be the odd man out. I'm just going to say one thing for the public that's sitting here since this is my first term on here. If anybody really wants to see the entrance into JAG, they can go on YouTube and view the September 19th, 2023 meeting where three council members voted against entering JAG. Three council members voted to enter JAG. Therefore, it failed. Council rules state that when a vote fails, council members are not allowed to be questioned about that. Immediately, the council was questioned about why they voted that way. False statements were made to the council members that they gave the keys to Southwest Licking at the time and they basically forced another vote. Scaring using scare tactics in my opinion.

So you would pressuring? Yes. I think that vote was done in duress. Additionally, when Mr. Coun uh Councilman Green started asking questions before the vote went down, another council member looked at him straight face and said, "You do not need to be privy to everything that goes on in this city or with the leadership in this city." As a council member, another council member said that my goal for my statement is to let the people of Johnstown go out publicly. It's all online September 19th, 2023. Look at the vote. Okay. And I haven't I'll be honest, I haven't watched that video.

I would suggest to go June 18th, 2024 meeting and there was more talk about JAG. Go look at that meeting. Watch the whole meeting. It tells you guys a lot that you need to know. Okay. I'll address one other thing that you talked about the um the lawsuit with Jersey Township. Obviously, we are still in litigation. So, that's I'm saying legal fees, but how big a deal is it when you That is something that we'll be able to address again probably within the next two council meetings. Don't hold me because I have legal that has to get clear through that. But um as soon as we're able to make that public, we will. Okay. I appreciate that. Yeah. I mean, we're all going to find that one out, I'm sure, when that once that comes down. So, okay. Okay. Appreciate it. Thank you guys for your time. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Yep. I think you need to quit accusing us of being pressured to vote a certain way. By the way, all of you clear. You said certain council members up here Yes. pressured other council members to vote. I didn't say pressure other council. I said to disrespect Mai's opinion on a matter. I think it was disrespectful that we didn't have further discussion on Jack and talk to all the people involved. Okay. Do you have any more speakers? Teresa, I do have one. Jeff Wrath. Set the timer. Yeah.

Jeez. Uh my name is Jeff Wrath. First off, let me say that uh I'm an Air National Guard veteran. I appreciate the the moment of recognition in the meeting.

Um the reason I'm here, my address is 1685 Career Drive West, New York. Uh the reason I'm here is I am running for Licking County Commissioner. I'm not going to stay up here and and go through a whole speech. I just want to introduce myself, let you know a little bit about my experience. Obviously, I'm a service veteran. Uh, bachelor's degree in education, master's degree in sports medicine. Uh, 16 years served on New York City Council. So, I have local government experience. Uh, I think actually touching on what some of you guys were talking about, it is vitally important that the county seek local government input on things that affect that those communities. Uh, and I want to make sure that that happens. uh not just occasionally but all the time. Um obviously there's a lot of concerns with growth, a lot of concerns with taxes, things of that nature, and I've addressed all of those some of my campaign literature and whatnot, which I will leave here on the table if uh anybody's interested in picking that up. But really, I just want to introduce myself, make it real quick, real simple. If anybody wants to talk to me, I will stick around after the meeting. Um, if anybody has any questions for me, be glad to talk with you.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you. Was that was that all Teresa? Oh, I have. Okay. Uh, next on the agenda is council committee reports. Design review board met Oh, did not meet on 3:10. Their next scheduled meeting is 3:24 26 at 5:30 p.m. Planning and zoning met on March 10th. Kyle, do you have an update for that? Yeah, we went further into light manufacturing. Uh nothing to present to council yet. Uh we did approve the um allowable use for the Granville Melon Company to do the drive-thru. I think that goes to design review before it comes up to council. That's what they're expensive.

Okay. Uh safety and service next meeting is April 7th at 5:30 in council chambers. Um facilities committee. Have you guys had a meeting since the last update? Mr. Cook. So, we have not had a meeting since uh with facilities. What we've been doing is uh Yas did look over the lease agreement with the Legion. Mhm. Um he had no edits or red line to add to it. So, I did let Jeff Zabo know. Jeff is working to um redo the um the chart and then get that back in there and then we'll be ready to present. Present to council. Okay. Uh rules committee. I don't know. Memorization. That's what I was trying to think. Yep. Uh, Mayor Hollis, back on facilities.

Um,

at our previous meeting, we talked about hiring a commercial realtor. That can be done through the acting manager, Mr. Dand. We We do not need to formalize it by resolution or ordinance because it's professional services. Um I feel like that now is the appropriate time to you know give that direction to Mr. Dan. Um so that if there's opportunity now or in the future with some of the things that that uh we need to deal with in the sense of uh future location for city hall and police department though we have plenty of time to do it. We we should retain somebody. So unless there's some reason not to that, but I'm not thinking of, I'd like to make sure we give Mr. Delay direction to uh work with staff to do that. You maybe you got something different.

No, actually I spoke with Yas and actually EMTT is working on the CIC. Okay. So with that, uh I did request that get it up to date. Obviously, there's board members on there that are no longer exist here, but also the advantages and the pros and cons of the CIC and what it can do, how it's funded, different things like that because it has to be somehow we have to be able to fund that uh through the city. We definitely need to get that on the next um agenda for sure. Great. Uh I talked to him last week uh and I'm hoping for next week. Okay. Everything. Uh so that's the game plan.

Okay. I will definitely keep everybody updated on So then maybe we can put on the next meeting agenda. Okay. You have anything else? Are we going to then that's that's the CIC, but what about the commercial realtor? Well, that that I mean that would serve as to them also with the CIC. what you know the realtor would go through this any relationship between them. Do we have a timeline between today March 17th and when we're hoping next week that EMTT and them will have everything for the CIC and the pros and cons and then I can obviously approach them on the commercial real

and your professional opinion. I realize not holding you to a date, but between now and that we have a realator through the CIC, right? What is that time frame look like? And the reason why I'm asking if you tell me it's 9 months from now, I would still encourage that you need to get a realtor. Um, if you're telling me it's within the next 60 days, no, I'm hoping that the CIC will be finalized, then I can get some information. I mean, by the next council meeting, I'm hoping CIC will have information.

And I think if everybody's comfortable with that, then in two weeks, if we don't have a CIC, then we make a decision then whether we move forward with getting a real. All right, sounds good. That works for me. Um, thanks Dave. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Rules committee. Um, Matt, you guys haven't met anything. Okay.

The city management oversight committee has not met any anymore. Um, so nothing to update on that finance. Next finance committee is April 21st, 2026 at 5:30 in council chambers. Um, Donnie, have you guys met at all before since Okay. Uh, and next on the agenda is director reports, Russ Chief Smart.

Um, I don't have too much. We hired a new police officer uh that will be starting this week. Um, I got to the honor of speaking at a career day at the intermediate school. Uh, that was about a 10 to 15 minutes. So, it was very nice to do that with the students here in our community. Uh I also applied for OACP district 1 liaison and I'm awaiting their selection to determine if I'll be that or not. So I'm currently on the mentoring committee and uh I'm awaiting my uh liaison for the district.

What exactly is that? So, I would meet with uh me and um the director over the district would go around the counties informed of what's going on in the OACP and uh I would attend the meetings just like I have here at our county meetings. Um I would would attend those meetings and just inform them of legislation, what's going on in our state, what's going on in our district. Okay. Anyone have any questions for Chief? No. Thank you, Chief.

Okay, then we're going to move on to uh tabled legislation resolution 2026-19, a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a lease amendment with the American Legion. We're going to leave that table until we hear Do we need to make a motion to keep it tabled or we just can leave it tabled?

Okay. So public hearing of hearings of legislation resolution 2026-23 a resolution appointing members to the administrative board of review for the kota applications. So we do need to discuss this um the board was comprised of myself Ryan was the um planning and zoning representative uh and Wes Kobel was the other seat. So, um I I believe the way the code of board is set up, Kyle, you will automatically go on to that as the planning and zoning representative just and then we have um one seat to fill which um we had discussed just keeping Ryan there so that we have a little bit of continuity. Um we've had I think two meeting Jamie, have we had two meetings with the code of board? I really

um that's my input. If anyone else has any input,

I'm fine keeping Ryan on for continuity, but yeah, unless there's any other interest, I shook expressed interest, but okay, I'm good with Ryan. Um, is there a motion? Do we need to make a motion on the new members?

Yeah. I mean, if you have a consensus on or if you want to make a motion with the resolution or someone in that blank and vote on the resolution as completed. Does the motion need to include the nominee? Right. I'll make a motion for resolution 2026-2023 as written with the nominee to fill the vacancy to be Councilman Green. I'll second. All right. Jeff Bar affirmed. Matthew Hoggin, yes.

Donnie Barard, yes. Ryan Green, yes. Sarah Holllet, yes. Kyle Cook, yes.

Next, we have two happy things, which is really nice. Uh, resolution 2026-24, a resolution to approve the honorary street name sign request for Brigadier General Perry Miles. Um, I don't know. Terry, do you want to come up and talk about this at all? Just give a little snippet. I mean,

yeah. Further education on the public. I know you guys have already had your packets. So hopefully everybody got to read their packets, but as Perry General Miles was cousin of ours and my mom on her side was the Longwells and it's all the Longwell property. So Perry was a brigadier general and retired out of the army after uh he he did speeches and everything for um West Point and presidential things even. So he was very well known. So we just thought we could honor him if you guys would be up to that. And it's been a long time. We're still fighting to get the land as everybody knows. And this is going to go um at the intersection of 62 and Oregon Street.

If that's okay with you, that's that was our plan. That was the request. Yeah, because the properties on 62. So that's okay with you guys. Do we know what color it's going to be? I think we still have to decide that. Maybe blue. Maybe blue. Just kidding. Oh, it's so I know that's I think we're still in the design process and making sure we meet obligations of So the city passed let's see the city passed in 2024 the resolution on the signage and under the description blue and white is it it's white and blue

blue and white for the honorary street signs but I think we can change that. That's just a federal standard, correct? Okay. Okay. Because when you guys were talking about it before, my understanding was that the brown and white we have now was not correct. Is that right or no? It it Well, that was that was at the federal level. They suggest I think a brown and white. The brown and white was federal. And we we can do we can do other things. Um there's some ideas floating around some different ideas that we can do. Um maybe an inverse of what the new city signs are going to be or something like that. So that's what I would vote. I like the red and white. I'm a Johnny. Okay. Does anyone have a

Thank you. Does anyone want to make a motion on resolution 2026-24? Red and gray stories alone. That's my family. Can I do a motion? Yes, you can. Go ahead. I just Sorry. I'll make a motion to pass resolution 2026-24. Uh resolution to approve the honorary street name sign request for Brigadel General Perry Miles. I'll second Cook. Yes. Jeff Bar. Affirmed. Matthew Huggin. Yes. D Barard. Yes. Brian Green. Yes. Baron Hollis. Yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh, next we have resolution 2026-25, a resolution to approve the honorary street name sign request for Mr. Louis Mine. Um, let's see what we have. Does anyone from the family want to come up and say anything? You don't have to. You don't have to. No obligation. I think Grant said he wanted to though, right? Yeah, this just came as quite a surprise to me. I I know we love this community and we'll be deeply honored as we all are. Thank you.

This um sign will be at the intersection of Maple and Maine and uh Edwards and Maine. This is the intersection of Maple and Maine and Edwards and Maine. I make a motion that we pass resolution 2026-25 as written. I'll second Brian Green. Yes. Mayor, yes. Kyle Cook, yes. Bar, affirmed. Matthew, yes. And the cool thing is you always lived on Main Street. Now it's the Louis Main Street. So,

we've been there. Um, D for three or four years. So, thank you. It's quite exciting.

Okay. Next on the agenda, uh introduction of legislation. We have none. So, we'll move on to other business. Uh we'll start with Jeff. Mr. Bar. Um, I would like to schedule another workshop in the month of April and I'd like for all of us to um come up with that date. I think there's some things that we could talk about. Should we wait until Nicole's here so that she can be a part of the planning for the I thought I thought we decided it was going to be before the council meetings, the second council meeting each month.

Well, that's right. We did the second one. The second meeting each month. That way we try to Wasn't it we were going to try to get all the talk about that? We did. I think we're going to move finance back to 5 and do it 5:30 to 6:30 and then council. So the second interfere with planning and zoning, right? Do what? The second meeting might interfere with planning and zone. Nope. No. No. No. Cuz that'll be the 28th. Yep. Yep. So, this will be the 21st at 5:30. Started hunting council and planning and zoning together. So, can we do the workshop on the 21st and at 5:30 p.m. And we're going to do what committee at 5.

Mhm. Safety and service is the 3. It'll be finance on the 21st. It'll be finance. finance on the on the second meeting of the month, the safety and service and the other one's on the the first. Okay. So, on the finance on the cuz we will meet on the 21st if we're going to meet at 5:30. I feel like we can do 4:30. If you guys can do 4:30 probably can't, can you? I'll make it work.

Thank you, Matt. So, we'll do finance on the 21st at 4:30 and then we'll go into Committee of the whole at 5:30 and then council at 6:30 somethingish as our pace has been going for the 21st

works for me. Mhm. I also want to uh um again uh thank those service members that uh from the Ohio Air National Guard and um I I don't know if the message will get to their families, but um you know our our condolences to those families that were affected by that and um Yeah. That we just keep them in our prayers and thoughts as we have many service members that are in uh harm's way with conflict and battle and uh across our across the uh on the other side of the earth. So let's keep them all in our prayers regardless of where you are on the current situation in the Middle East. That's all. Thank you, Mayor. Uh Matt, do you have anything about business?

Donnie,

I think I have a couple. Um first thing, um really cool full circle moment here tonight. So my daughter Emma has been coming to these meetings, I think, since she was born. So um that's how long we've been involved in Johntown and the city now. Uh she has turned 8 and tonight she got to speak at the podium. So, I think that was really cool since she's been coming through these meetings the whole time. So, hope to see more out of her. I think she did a pretty good job. Um, so her brother was in here running around, too. So, fully biased opinion and I don't care. Um, so, uh, the other thing, uh, make sure you're coming out to the fish fry at the Catholic Church. And the Legion, I think, has also had some events, um, coming up on Fridays, um, during Lent here. Saturday, too.

And this Saturday, too. Saturday's Legion breakfast and Easter egg hunt. And the Easter is the Easter egg hunt this this week. Easter egg. Let's see here. March 21st Easter egg hunt. Hot take. You heard it here first. Yeah. So, we'll have that. Come out to the Easter egg hunt. And I think Kyle and I are cooking up on the grill. Yep. Um, also on a business note, uh, we had talked What time does it start? Saturday. What time? Saturday. Breakfast? 9. 9:00 a.m. And then the egg hunt is when? To follow. You have to wear a bunny suit, though. What's that? Well, yeah, you got to wear a bunny suit.

I can get that. I don't know. Look it up. Okay. Um, on a business note, the flock cameras, um, we brought that in. We had a presentation in finance, presentation in safety and service. Um, when are we have a scheduled date for those to be implemented? Finalized right away permitting uh through ODOT as well as through our city. They're in the next phase. Now, I hope to have them up in the next couple months. Yeah, we had talked we had talked about briefly in safety and service uh protocol for those um and just guidelines. I know that we brought that up, Councilman Bar, you remember that?

Yeah. Yep. We had brought that up. Just working through like a brief outline on that. I just wanted to make sure that we followed up on that. Um that to you. Did we have Okay. I just want to make that public. I had I had a couple people reach out. So maybe I'll just get a copy of that from you and uh or we may want to put that out as a social media post. I had a couple questions of just people were concerned about safety and things and how that'll be implemented. Was was there any intent that it needed to be vetted through council? I mean I I didn't think so. I do know that he did present it.

I was just trying to remember and see if we had anything on that. Okay. Yeah, it was it was just requested. So, that was the only thing. And then a stop light or stop sign. Sorry. There's a stop sign on uh Maple um that had come up. So, um over there by the Legion that had come up. I think there's a stop sign that's missing. Back service department, police department tried to uh bend it back. I don't know if there was ever I'll check on that. I I put that on the work order list. I'm pretty sure it was already on your radar, but I I had a couple messages come in about it. So, I just I would

So, you just got this today? Uh over the last couple days. Okay. Cuz I had asked them to get that replaced Monday. So, I knew it was on the radar, but I just wanted to bring it back up. So, I I'll I will check on this. All right. Thank you. That's all I got. I don't have anything, but I would like to give an opportunity. Dave uh Dandy, acting city manager. Do you have anything? I do. Okay. And then Jeff Sheridan, our interim city manager. No. Uh just uh plugging along, trying to uh get caught up on a lot of projects, meet with a lot of people, and learn as much information as I can. Okay. Well, thank you for being here.

My pleasure. I think that is that is it. Does anyone want to make a motion to adjurnn? Motion. One second. paper. I