City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. The time is 7:40 p.m. on Tuesday, April the 14th, 2026. And I'm going to call the regular council meeting to session. We are at the Twinsburg Government Center. Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, I'm here. Mrs. Lavy, here. Mr. Bonacci, here. Mr. Post, here. Mr. Fury, here. Mrs. Walker, Mr. Castillo, here. All right. Um, let's see. Mayor Scapiti this evening is going to lead us on the invocation of the pledge of allegiance.

Heavenly Father, we come to you today asking for your guidance, wisdom, and support as we begin this meeting. Help us to engage in meaningful discussion. Allow us to grow closer as a group and natur and nurture the bonds of community. Fill us with your grace as we make decisions that affect all of our residents and businesses and dedicated city employees. Bless those away from us serving to protect our country. We ask these things in your name. Amen. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, mayor. Um, I'm going to suggest that we skip over the the approval of the minutes. We just got them this afternoon and they're quite long because we had 25 pieces of legislation last meeting. Anybody have a problem with that? No. Okay. All right. We'll take care of that the next meeting then. All right. Uh, are there any awards and presentations this evening? None. There are. No. Okay. Do we have any audience participation this evening? We do. First, we have Jonah Bashette. Good evening, Jonah.

Good afternoon, council. Jonah Pette, 11146 Heritage Drive. Uh, I want to give you guys an update on the environmental commission and our meeting this past week. Uh, we met, we swore in two new members. Um, I want to thank John and Shantu for their service, but the two new members were were seemed very eager and excited to serve on the commission and, uh, some already came with ideas and u, you know, things that we could do as a commission together, which was wonderful to see. Uh, next Saturday, April 25th, from 11:00 am to 1 pm. I hope to see all of you at the Arbor Day Earth Day celebration at the Twinsburg Community Center. Uh, it's going to be a great event. We have a wonderful amount of vendors. Um, it's just it's going to be a great community event. I hope to see all of you there. I know a number had attended last year, so I'm really looking forward to it. Nowhere better to be. 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. next Saturday, April 25th, Twinsburg Community Center. Uh aside from that, we discussed a couple of plans um for possibly future cleanup, you know, things working with the parks and recck commission that we've passed off between them. Uh we voted in nom or voted on our 2026 good neighbor and I'm very excited to say that 2026 good neighbor uh for the environmental commission will be Kathy and we're excited to present that award in the the uh future council meeting. Uh thank you to GR council council president Bellon for letting us do that. Um, additionally, we select chair and vice chair. Uh, congratulations go out to Gina Hutter on being selected to vice chair once again uh of the commission and I am grateful for the commission support and myself as as they chose to have me lead the commission again. That's all I have. Councilman Post will let you guys know if I missed anything. Are there any questions for me?

Good. Thank you. Next meeting is May 5th. Did you just say that? I did not say that. Here you go. I got something in. Next we have Lori Facina.

Good evening, Miss Facina.

Good evening again, and I'll be brief on this section. Um, let me remind you, you all should familiarize yourselves with the zoning code section 110301, 02, and 03. Read through them and and spend some time with them, sit with them. also 11202 in the new code non-conforming uses. Read that. Read it. Read it to yourselves. Um the reason I'm so passionate about the fact that that we did not enunciate similar or or um conditional use is I I'm told that we don't have a data center in Twinsburg now, but we do. You can go back on that poster board, flip it over to the other side, and see that all the schematics, these I spent over $200 at Staples printing out these planners sheets, and they all say data center. And when the representative for this data center came before the planning commission, she annunciated that that it was a hyper data center that was going in. She was very explicit on what it was, how it affected the grid and water. She was very cautionary. She put it out there and it was just skip through around our charter. We circumnavigated our charter and our then zoning code and put one in. So, I appreciate that you're going to take a vote tonight and you're going to make this an emergency. This should not be the end. And I absolutely believe and I have queried a wide section of residents in this town. We want a ballot issue. We want this permanently codified. We do not want any more of these. And and and I know that there's a person on council who said we we can't get rid of this one that's there. Well, it says in the new zoning code in 1102

or 1120. Yes, you can. But we could we could find something like a grandfathering or whatever, a cautionary tale that this thing sits there, but there should never be another one in our town. And never undercover or of darkness. And I'll say that again because again, none of us knew that that was up there. The way the grade is, you can't even tell that the building is 53 feet. But I got a I got a ringside seat during the winter when I drove past and saw this giant ice plume in one of the really cold winter days or winter nights. And that's where two of those pictures come from. Um, and I will say it again, I don't care who disagrees with me up here. It is the biggest existential crisis we could face in this town ever. It We have one. That's all we can afford. We can't afford two of these. We can't afford three, four, or five. That 40 acres behind Blue Canyon. That wouldn't have been one data center. They would have marketed that 40 acres as one. It would have been at least three. At least three. And then they would have they would have acquired the other 20 acres. That's another two. That's five right there in one section. And look at that purple section of the code. That's all I am. And we've lost a lot of businesses. I was shocked driving around town looking at how many for sale signs there are on 91, on Enterprise, on Dutton. I know we're facing some decisions, but this is not a solution. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Next, we have Will Hollingsworth.

Good evening, sir. Hello. So, like I said, I currently reside in Portage County, but I grew up in Talmage. So, like most of you, I'm a Summit County native, and I was invited to speak with you here today. The first thing I noticed while preparing was visiting my twinsburg.com, where I was met with your evocative slogan, naturally beautiful. Now, I'm going to take a guess that you'd all like to keep it that way. I've learned quite a lot bit more about this issue since going viral. Um, I've never claimed to be the expert on the matter, but I believe in critical thinking. I believe you can trust science. I believe in the research it does and the information I've gathered from it. Data centers aren't new, but the kinds that they're proposing we build are. I've never claimed, sorry, they're more akin to an oven. Banks of chips process the demands of the cloud and generate immense amounts of heat, which require immense amounts of cooling. They tell us that these are closed loop, but as I found, that is a paradox. They take cold liquid, circulate it through the rows of computer processors called GPUs, that hot water is circulated through a heat exchanger and where it's cooled, and then that cooled water is passed back to the GPUs. The system is closed. But that isn't the only loop. There's always a second loop. And that outer loop is where we're begging for a disaster. But I'm not here to rehash the speech I just made. I'm not here to reexlain the corporate science jargon behind the closed loop system. I'm not here to lecture you. I'm here today to plead with you that this naturally beautiful city pass your full 12-month moratorum so you can start setting an example that there have been a few to pass it so far. Masselin Monroe Township and hopefully next week my city Ravena you have the historic chance to start setting the precedent and if you do more will follow. You can be the beacon that lights others ways. Data centers are a bad deal. The response I've gotten to my viral moment last week has been overwhelmingly positive. But there are still proponents of these proposals who

will tell you that I'm dead wrong. But each and every one of them has admitted to me that they work in data centers. Of course, they are going to tell you that they studied themselves and that they found that they've done nothing wrong. If that's not the antithesis of checks and balances, then I don't know what is. The ones who don't work in the industry, they call themselves AI engineers, spending their time vibe coding and generating what I believe the kids call as brain rot. When it reached Twitter, many of them wasted gallons of water just to ask Grock to fact check me, only so Grock could tell them that I was right. The irony was not lost on me. In the time it could have taken them to Google search my sources, instead each of them poured an entire water bottle down the drain. And I noticed all of you were handed 16 bottles of water. Imagine all of us here if we took all a 16oz bottle of perfectly good drinking water and just dumped it on THE FLOOR. THAT'S A FRACTION of what working in a data center would be like. Now, like many of you, as that Summit County native, I have spent countless hours in the Kyhoga Valley National Park. It was one of my safe places hiking, picnicking, cooling off my feet in the Kyhoga River. I can't imagine a world where a shy kid like me who just wanted to escape into nature couldn't have had such a respit. 50 years ago, we set that river on fire. 50 years ago, we were the catalyst for the EPA. And in those 50 years, have we not learned not to give big corporations the match? Trillion dollar corporations don't have your best interests at heart. They'd suck up every last drop of the Kyhoga if it meant raising their bottom line. These corporations aren't employers, they're parasites. If this is truly the city of natural beauty, you'll vote to pause until we know the whole truth. If this is truly the city of natural beauty, you'll do what it takes to protect yourselves from losing that. If this is truly the city of natural beauty, then now is the time to show us all why. Thank you.

Next, we have Lin Clark. Mr. Clark, good evening, sir. It's been a while. I've got just two real quick things. One is the speed limit. It turns speed speed. Thank you. Excuse me if I'm not annunciating clearly.

Yeah. Yeah. A little different topic, but it it's very important. As you could go northward on nine on 91 and enter Twinsburg, that's the city line. is posted changed to 35 m an hour doesn't happen until a quarter of a mile after that. There have been so many close calls. I've almost been hit because people run that red light. They still think, "Oh, it's posted at 45. I can drive 60." Something needs to be done to slow those people down. More importantly, why I'm here tonight is to talk a little bit about data centers. Not going to rehash everything that's been done. I am curious though when I've heard from our our administration saying, "Oh, those are illegal under our current code." How we happen to have one sitting over on Highland Road. Now, the other thing is to keep in mind in addition to everything that's been talked about is when you pave over that much land, you reduce the recharge to the groundwater. And just in general, it's about a million gallons a year reduction for every acre that's paved over. We still have a lot of people in this community that live only because they have groundwater wells. As you reduce that, those people have a high probability of running out of water. Me being one, so I've got a little bit of vested interest in your studies. Make sure that is addressed. This is no longer, as the Supreme Court said in the

late 1800s, mysterious and occult. There is science. It's well documented, but you need to do the work and not gloss it over. I'm particularly concerned because before we had regulations that specified, hey, we've got to preserve the quality and quantity of groundwater. and now those seem to be reduced or eliminated from our code. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Mr. CLARK. NEXT, next we have Steve Hmel. And just a reminder, please state your full name and address.

Good evening, Mr. Hmel. Hi. How are you guys? Good, thank you.

It's been a while since I've been here since Project Gumbo. I've been busy in the township dealing with that mess, but I'm here tonight to do a little speaking. And my name is Steve Hmel. I'm at 2500 Old Mill Road. And so, I got a few things to say. Uh, congratulations on your collaborative effort with the township. I bought your fire station or your proposed fire station. And, uh, you know, I know that property very well. Me and that property go back 30 some odd years. I know it intimately and uh good luck with that. So, that being said, uh I guess that gets to groundwater and Lynn brought that up a little bit and uh I'm concerned about groundwater as well because I live next door to Lynn and we're all concerned about that. So, that's important to us. I'm jumping around. Let him prepare. But I remember a moratorum that was put on for this senior living facility in the township and uh it didn't take long for it to get rescended and ended up in mediation and here we are 5 years later fighting a good fight but moratoriums can be rescended and uh so I think we should all consider that because I don't think the residents are going to back down from this issue. I among all the other things that have been said about about the uh environmental issues which I know well I'm an environmental engineer. I think it's uh I think data centers and AI are unethical. It dummies down everybody. Nobody dinks for themselves anymore. And that's pathetic because nobody will speak truth to power. Nobody will do that. You know, it takes a rare bird to do that anymore.

And that's sad. because this is very important to everybody here, you know, and I could go on the little the little science fiction deal here about what would happen if they put data centers on Old Mill. You know, Gene Rodberry came up with some great stuff from Star Trek, right? Here's a kid walking down Old Mill Road with his baseball bat and his glove. And now the data centers aren't protected by the police force here. They're protected by their own drones. Here's the kid walking down maybe getting ready to go back to the newly established ball fields that we beat them down on with the apartments and oh my god the guy the the drones think it's some guy with a you know rocket launcher AK-47 wipes the kid out like they did a man knob that's AI for you this is the direction we're headed I mean all these things that we see that oh so so fantastical it's not fantastical ical. It's the state in which we live anymore. Look at what's going on in this world. Do you see it? Can you see it? I mean, we're, you know, we're all just trying to get by. And I I I'm a commentary about where we're at in life. You know, what people are, you know, oh my god. Oh my god. all this you know 90% of the people in this world just want to live their lives be left alone and have their family and the and the vast even more than 90% and the minority of them the guys that run the data centers and all that well those are the ones that rule the world but you know what if there's enough of upwelling and upspring of people here you know maybe that'll change and you can see that right now I I mean, you know, look at I'm not trying to say, but this is local

politics. This is local. But there's the whole world's changing and something's got to give. Something really does have to give here. So, last thing I'll say is the issue about I'm just a little, you know, I know the township has the water district and I don't know how that collaborates with the city and their endeavors, you know, as far as that goes. I'm not one minute cogent on that, but it's interesting. Okay, thank you for your time, folks. Thank you, Mel.

Next, we have J.R. Lewis. Good evening, sir.

Good evening, everyone. I confess I too have nothing prepared, but thank you for the opportunity. Uh 40-year resident of the city. I have 50 years career experience in IT, so a lot of this stuff is quite familiar to me. Uh, I want to express my appreciation for the council and the city for their efforts in this. Uh, I think we all realize the intent of this is to ease into anything that would resemble a mega data center, some gargantuan monster that appears right around the corner from us. But uh a couple of things I'd like to just raise for consideration is that other aspects of impact that these facilities may entail in addition to power and water. Uh could also be the noise level. There's a lot of noise inside of these things. A lot of noise outside as well. So depending on the size of the facility, I think you're going to see a direct proportion of the noise output as well. Uh I think the only other thing I think that I can offer up in this course of conversation would be to uh just uh ask for some consideration be given some deep technical consideration given to any ongoing ordinance that uh what I'm where I'm trying to go with this is that data center can be a nebulous term. I know people who have enough horsepower in their basement to be considered a data center. So I know the intent is not to preclude existing

businesses to expand their server room by another rack of equipment, but this is more of a uh large uh gargantuan deployment that we're talking about here. So I think uh some caution needs to be considered on so far in so far as these limitations scopes and sizes that's going to be a part of this ordinance at least in in the short term if not the long term. Thank you. Thank you sir. Next we have Kathy Ouma.

Good evening Kathy. Hi, Kathy Oma, 1668 Bridget Lane. I'm sure you can guess I'm here for the bees. I have to continue to advocate for honeybees. Onethird of every single bite of food we eat is because of honeybees. I'm sure you agree the potential damage to honeybees can be grand with data centers. Data centers can negatively impact honeybees through heat output, noise and vibration, electromagnetic exposure, and loss of forage habitat. Each of which can disrupt navigation, communication, and overall colony health. Data centers are a serious issue with significant potential consequences if not properly addressed. It requires thoughtful input and a unified collective voice from residents across every ward. I would like to ask city council to establish an ad hoc committee made up of residents from every ward to evaluate and address data center development. This committee should be tasked with developing a clear recommendation and pathway to place this issue on the ballot, ensuring residents have a direct voice in the decision. Static language will not be sufficient. As technology advances, so do the risks. We need flexible, forward-thinking language that can adapt to emerging threats and potential detriment. The eight of you represent only a fraction of our community, roughly 400ths of the percent of our population in Twinsburg. An issue of this magnitude requires broader, more robust representation that reflects the full voice of our residents. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, next we have Sheila Williams. Miss Williams. Good evening.

I even had to write myself a note. There's so much going on here right now. I can't compete with them. But I'm going to talk about what we're doing. I'll talk about Kent State first. We had a meeting this week and we've got a lot of things. Sheila Williams and um Kent State is going to be having on August 11th a senior day and we're going to have all the seniors roaming around taking classes. People are speaking and talking and I'm going to say to anyone watching us if you have something that you would like to teach a senior they would love to learn it. Um we'll provide them lunch. still be coming from our senior center and it's called Learning for a Lifetime and it's August 11th. I hope that at least some of the council members in the mayor will stop down there to see them. She does so much. Laura does so much down there and it's just unbelievable. Then I want to congratulate we have a new board member. Rebecca Ziggler is now on our board. Um Angelo I think recruited her and she's going to be teaching a government class on the 11th. how government works and some talking about how our government works here in Twinsburg for some people that may not understand that. So, it's an exciting time going on. We're looking at different ways to increase enrollment. As everybody knows, there's a lot of conversation about eliminating the regional campuses, pushing everybody down to the main campus. And for many of our children, sitting in a classroom with 10 to 15 kids, it's been very successful. And where you can't necessarily get into campus, we don't deny anyone access at Kent State here in Twinsburg. And I think that's a fabulous thing to say that we actually have a university right here. So, I would encourage all of you all to take the time if you're off,

you'll be off for the summer, you can take the day off and play hookie and come on down and uh encourage people to use the facility if you want to have a meeting there or a special event of some sort. I know my son has done a movie screening there and we filled up the one area for it. Please contact them at Kent State. They really would appreciate that. So, I'm through with Kent State. Um, I'd like to congratulate Bill Fury. He became president of the board at Ethans. We had our meeting yesterday. Was that yesterday? We had the meeting. And, uh, our complaints are always the same. People speeding down Ethans. Um, dogs walking, barking, biting, and everybody talked about the leash law that the city of Twinsburg does have. I don't think a lot of people realize that. You just can't walk your dog loosely down the street. I don't care how well trained they are. And a couple of people have talked about being attacked by dogs on Ethan's Drive. And I have a new baby. She's only 12 pounds. I might have to go to jail if some big dog came charging out at her cuz she can't defend herself. So now I have to take my golf club with me when I walk with her because I'm a little concerned about that. And um we talked about the ducks and the eggs. And if you have an egg in your yard to please contact the Ethan board and somebody will come and pick it up and do what needs to be done so we don't have the messiness of Ethan's Drive walking as summer gets further down the road. And it I thought it was a good meeting. I thought it was a productive meeting. And uh you did such a fabulous job and you were ready to go and it's all good. It's all good.

It's all good. Then I want to talk about the police department. Anybody who knows me in Twinsburg knows I have a love affair with the police department. We are only as strong as our men in blue. And I tease the young babies. They're so young. I feel so old when I see them here babysitting us when I come to council meetings now. But they were in my community two weeks ago. Um was it two weeks ago? a week and a half ago. Yeah, about a week and a half ago. They were in my community and I have never seen anything like the professionalism that was going on. We had a crisis there and and I just have to say thank you. I cannot say thank you enough for all that our police officers did and I ran into at least one that I knew by name and he said, "Go home, Sheila. Stay in the house. We'll let you know when you can come out." which made me even more anxious. And u being on the board in Cobblestone where I live at, my phone was ringing off the hook. But I just want to say thank you to all the guys and please let them know how much I appreciate we did not have an incident. We had a few hours of inconvenience, but we did not have an incident. And I really do appreciate that. And that says a lot when you read the paper and listen to the news now more and more. I'm going down my list. We renewed the contracts at the health department. Um Chris was renewed again as our health director and we renewed our doctor's contract. And I'll give you an interesting FYI fact which I found it interesting. We get a presentation once a month from one of the departments that are doing outreach. And the presentation last week was on HIV and STDs. We have 10 vending machines

around Summit County and we have issued out 167,000 condoms and and I'm thinking to myself that's a large odd number but they're free and you can go in and they give you a code and there's a whole little thing that they do but STDs are on the rise and um it's mainly among young people which I found interesting. I saw what you did. And um I would encourage you, and I say it all the time, come down to the health department and we'll give you a $2 tour. It's worth coming down to see it. We do a lot. We have a lot. We're trying to make the best of the monies that we're losing. And um and it's it's something that's really really beneficial to our county. And I'm hoping that we don't have to come out and ask the voters for a levy cuz we have an inside millage, but we don't know with the money being cut the way it's being cut. But we're not the only ones. All of them are going through that. And I have for the board. I'll give it to my girl here. This is our annual report. So I'll give everybody talks about I would encourage you to skim through it and look through it. If you have any questions, you can call me. Maybe I can answer you. I don't know if I can or not, but um they're really working hard down there. We're working with less to make the community a safer place. Then I'm going to come down to community issues and I want to say goodbye to Amy. She's gone from us and I'm happy and I'm happy for you, Patrick, that you got it. And it's all good for us. And then with Bos leaving, I mean, you know, people are getting their time in. I know how I felt when I retired. It's a wonderful time. She's going to be a grandma, get to play with the baby, and we'll see how she

does with girls over boys. So, I'm happy for her. Going to miss her. I have a problem in Cobblestone. And I know we're going to get together and talk about it some more. We have a couple of issues with this. If we have a tremendous amount of rain, the storm sewer fills up and floods the driveway. It's not connected to anything. And um we had some misrepresentation of a resident posing as a board member to get some information, which is a problem. You know who. And um you know, and I told him, I said, "You really should not do that. you should talk to a board member and we'll make a phone call. I had called Amy, but I knew she was on her way out. I'm not sure what we can do. I don't know. I know that the road was torn up and redone 11 years ago. Everything was tied in prior to that. What happened in the interim of it, we're trying to figure it out. Um I know that um this person said to us, well the map said it was never tied into us and that's why it's our responsibility. I said that road was there forever and all the water was going somewhere and it wasn't backing up in driveways. And I'm only asking because people are falling from the ice of the winter being so bad this year. And if we could get some kind of direction, that's all I'm asking for. I'm not asking for any fix unless it's your fault, we'll gladly let you fix it. But, um, if you could, you know, let us know, sit down and walk with me or two of the other board members so that we can tell our residents something about it because, um, one lady is 85 that

lives there. And it was the young girl that fell. Um, like I tell people, I have two new hips. I know to walk on grass, not on ice. find the grass and walk on that and you're okay. So that's what I'm asking for tonight. That is my community ask. We have been busy though, but please come out on the 11th to support Kent State. And if you have something you want to teach, give us a call. We'll let you teach it. Thank you. Thanks, Sheila. Sheila, if you don't stay, please give us the address where your your concern is. I've got the two men here that are they're going to look into that. He he has the address, but I will make sure. Okay. Thank you. Next we have Sue Clark.

Good evening, Sue. Good evening.

Good evening, council, mayor, law director, ladies. Sue Clark, 9845 Crestwood Drive. I'm here to talk about the caucus and he's going to pass out a paper. Believe it or not, I do come here to engage with you guys. I like to hear what you have to say. Last time I was here at the council meeting, caucus meeting as well and it was brought up that we were going to post to we together twinsburg questions, answers, things that are stated in the caucus meeting. I watched that and as you can see in front of you, I was waiting for the legal ease on the moratorum. It posted two days ago. two days. You guys received it in the March 24th meeting. We didn't vote on it because you had just seen it. Two days ago, it posted for residents to come here and engage with you. How can we do that when we don't get the information? I didn't think I had to put in a public records request because I thought I would see it on We Together Twinsburg. This is what we're driven to. I know you cannot ask or answer questions here. So, I'm going to ask my question to hope to see it. Was the council aware that it wasn't posted? Were we aware that the residents don't see it? I'm also going to ask in the caucus meeting that you change the rules to let residents have another chance to speak. Tonight, Mr. Vazana did a great job explaining section three. I'm not a lawyer. I'm going to ask a question and I hope it does get answered. It says in here that you guys council approves legislation explicitly revoking the moratorum. Does that mean within 12 months you guys can revoke it? I don't know that because I'm I'm trying to

figure this out. I can tell you that I've also been following the data center. I've been watching moratoriums. I've been watching how they've been written. There's a lot of vagueness in this. I get it's not in our code, but then again, we have one that we can't explain or haven't explained to the residents. So, I'm trying to figure out to streamline it. What do we do? Where do we go? Where do we get our information? Do we put in public records request that when we get information we're told not accurate and we're not it nobody ever comes back to say hey sorry we misspoke it was accurate because we never get that. So I'm trying to to find out how do we engage with you guys to get the information? How do we get correct information? How do we make it become streamlined? I think that Mrs. Uma had a great idea. If there's a board, I gladly sign up. Even if you don't choose me for it, I would love to participate. This is a big epidemic, not just here. I also am in technology. I've seen we know it's coming. We need to be proactive instead of reactive. Tonight is a great step in that process, but it is so vaguely written that it leaves it open for speculation. I would have loved to have gotten this more than two days ago to have been able to come here and actually give you guys examples because as you all know, I am the queen of research. But we didn't get that. So whatever the process is, and I respect that, it's broken. So as we continue to look at the boards and commissions again, and I think that's a great thing about how we're going to

choose people, I'm begging you to have a back and forth with the residents at the end of the caucus. It is our tax dollars. We care. We're not here to bismerch you guys. We don't come here because we want to do anything other but engage. We love the community, too. This has to get fixed. I've asked and asked that. I sat back there with my hand up. Nothing I can do. I used to hold up papers to Ted with handwritten Sharpie notes. Guys, come on. We need a little bit of back and forth. I don't want to wait two weeks to ask a question. And I shouldn't wait two weeks to get the information that was handed out to you guys two weeks ago. Two days ago. On a Sunday, it uploaded. I looked Thursday. I looked Friday. Boom. Here it is. Monday. So, it's got to be fixed. If that's where you're pushing me, I'm glad to do that. If not, and you don't want to post it, but you're driving us to that, please put on we together twinsburg. We're not going to upload the legal part of the memorandum so that we know to go to Shannon and put in a public records request. I can't guess. But I want to help. I really do. I want to be proactive with you guys, but I can't guess at this. It's a great tool if we use it correctly. It really is, but not the way it's being used. So, I thank you guys for your time and I hope that at the next caucus we'll at least address it or we together twins. Thanks, GUYS.

MR. CASSELL.

YEP. I just wanted to uh my name was on the piece of paper that was passed out from the uh ask Twinsburg, but at our last council meeting when we spoke and it was passed out, we did say could this be uploaded to that thread and that was two odd weeks ago, but then I posted on there too to see it and I actually didn't see the response back from the city that it was passed out to council until it was just passed by me. But um I think if we say here in our meeting that we're going to issue this to residents then I think we should and if we can't then we shouldn't either. And I know I spoke I didn't want to be the one kind of forwarding it around town either. But that form I went to to play post it there as a resident and say you know can we post it. So in the future if we do that because I know when it was first presented to us we were told 48 72 hours would be when we post it. Um but I would appreciate that as well. uh just kind of puts us in an awkward position of not knowing if it's something that we're ready to distribute or not. And uh thank you for that.

Next we have Adam Sundarski. Good evening, sir. Good evening.

Yep. 9350 Monttoello. Um, I'm an a senior IT DevOps engineer for a uh several hundred billion dollar well I think we're at I think we're headed on $200 billion uh this year and um me I personally I have a medical condition where I would be sensitive to things like noise and uh noise and vibration uh cardiovascular condition um that has lots of impacts. And I work right next to a well-run data center uh several hundred million dollar data center. And if there were noise or vibration, I mean, I only worked 500 feet away from it. I surely know I'd surely feel the effects, but I I don't. And uh to say that well-run data centers uh in fact the data center that I work right next to it's a multi- gigawatt data center um they have their own power they source their own power right on site solar arrays and to say that um data centers will use up all of our power. Sure, if we let them, but if we regulate it well and we ensure that data centers source their power, their own power, so that they're not using up all of our power, it'll help out. Uh, in fact, you know, and if we regulate how they're developed, it'll reduce the noise. My company owns several data centers uh throughout the country and uh one of which is in uh

downtown Cleveland and it's built in an 1800's building. Some people have concerns well you know new buildings um you know or maybe some some people have concerns that we might be knocking down old buildings. We can build I mean people can build data centers you know companies can build data centers in existing buildings even 1800's buildings it's been done several hundred million dollar data centers in fact so um you know I think if we regulate those data centers well we have the opportunity to um to have you know to limit the impacts of data centers, but also to uh you know benefit perhaps we could reduce the taxes. Um you know if we you know data centers can make a lot of money per square foot especially things like managed service providers. If we attracted a headquarters of a managed service provider, the uh the dollar amount per square foot that could be generated on the substantial and we could reduce potentially reduce the tax rate. So, you know, I mean, these are tough times and um but if there's any any board or anything like that, I'm always willing to provide my expertise. And uh that's all I have to say.

Thank you, sir. And last we have Karen Clinton.

Good evening, Mrs. Clinton.

Good evening, everybody. Um I'm here tonight actually. Um you guys hear me? Okay. Getting over a little something. Um, so I'm here tonight actually first of all um about public records. I uh I wanted to thank Sean Castillo um who uh made efforts to help me uh my own councilman uh Mr. Bonacci um and trying to obtain the records for the uh dispatch audio, the phone audio. Um you had mentioned um that you know you had um I had dropped some stuff off at your house. I did. You reached out. I dropped it off. Um you had a meeting with Mr. Rosanna and um you know we went over uh what my expectations were and of course crickets. I got nothing but an email that stated that um pretty much the same information that it's overly broad, ambiguous, yada yada, and none of that is true. Um he clearly, Mr. Visanna clearly knows what I'm looking for and why I'm looking for it. Um, I was a victim of a crime committed uh from my police department calling, harassing. Um, it's it's it's been very disruptive to my life. Um, I want to hold the people that were involved accountable, but unfortunately, um, I'm not getting the cooperation that is needed to do so. So, um,

you know, I I gave it a valid effort to get those records from dispatch. Um, Mr. Vazan is very disingenuous when he says he doesn't understand what I want because he does. I had a lengthy conversation with Yakapovich, explained in detail. Uh, I'm confident that Sean Castillo in his meeting made it clear what I was looking for. I pretty much explained it to him. Um, and it's just not going to happen. So, I'm going to have to, you know, find a different venue to get that done. Um, with that said, um, Mr. Rosanna is clearly aware of the crime that was committed. He's clearly aware of other crimes that were committed within the police department. So, I'm going to do this verbally. Um, I am doing a public records request. It does not have to be done written. It can be done orally under Ohio Revised Code. And I'm not going to try to dazzle you with the numbers. That's the law, Mr. Vazana. You know it. I know it. Just as you know, I am entitled to those records. Why they're being withheld, I don't know. Now, I'm going to hand this into the record. These are the crimes that you are aware of that were committed within the police department. Mr. Vazanna,

Mrs. Clinton, please please address your comments to me. Thank you, Mr. Bellen. Thank you.

Your law director is completely aware of these crimes that were committed within the police department. As an officer of the court, he has a duty to report this. He sat in on the depositions. He's clearly aware this happened. What I want is a public records request of who he reported all of this to, where he reported it, starting with mine, when he reported it to the prosecutor in Akran. I want the records that he submitted to her. And then I want to know what these other crimes that were committed, what agencies he reported to, and the dates that he reported them. Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Clinton. ANYBODY ELSE? CRIMES. Thank you. That's all we have.

Oh, I lost my pen. Can I just grab my pen? Certainly. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. Mr. Bell, if I could, the reason I interrupted this document that was introduced was a notice of dismissal that was filed in the U mandamus actions. the parties, namely attorney Bardwell, who represented Olivia Phto and Olivia Bartullik and Dan Phto, uh has subsequently filed an amended notice of dismissal just for clarity here that replaces this document. So, I did want council to know that that has happened in the I'd say the last couple of weeks. Thank you, sir. Okay. Crimes were still committed.

Moving on to council communications and committee reports. Uh we're going to start with Mr. Post this evening. Good evening, sir. Good evening. Thank you. Um Oh, and one other thing. Sorry, I was famous.

I also believe it's also important for the record to note and I forgot for a second because we have brought this up numerous times. Uh Mrs. Clinton, who's the lady that just spoke there, she mentioned being a victim. The city did prosecute the employee who did uh engage in telecommunication harassment. That employee did end up pleading guilty to the charges. Uh and that was done through a special pro prosecutor out of Akran because that might have been confusing for the public and for some of the people sitting here. Uh my office made the determination that would be important that since it was a former employee who had called uh Ms. Clinton on the telephone as a dispatcher. It was her last shift if I remember the facts correctly. Wanted to make sure that the prosecution was done by an unbiased party to eliminate.

Excuse me. Oh, sorry. I thought there was something going on over there.

They wanted to make sure that the prosecution was was uh done by an unbiased uh party. of my office referred out to a city of Akran prosecutor who did bring the charge against the defendant former employee and then after the the usual pre-trials a discovery a trial date was set ultimately the uh former employee plead guilty to telecommunications harassment. So wanted to remind everybody here on council of the history that led up to that moment. I will note again, I personally have not heard a reason from her about what this uh 24-hour period of all radios, cell phones, uh and you name it, audio, video, and the list. What exactly is the reason behind what she's asking for? That was mentioned a couple times here. I have communicated with her a couple different times. It also sounds like she's communicated with some of the council members. Those reasons have not been identified to me. I have in at least two written communications asked her to reach back out to me with more information to provide clarity aka the reasons. So please, Miss Clinton, I I believe it would be uh more productive if you came to the podium and provided more information about what exactly you're after and in the same manner that I have asked numerous times to her in the past. So thank you.

Thank you, sir. May I say something? I just wanted to just Yeah, briefly say, you know, we had that conversation. It wasn't a full-on meeting, but we did talk about it at the uh state of the city address. So, uh I think some other people joined in on that, and I know we're all eager to get that collected and done. Thank you, Mr. Post. Good evening, sir.

Good evening. Uh Jonah once again kind of stole my thunder about the environmental commission, but that's okay. It's his thunder as well. He runs a fabulous fabulous meeting and um you know does great with that. Uh the only other thing I want to agree with is I want to welcome our new members but really I want to welcome all our new members to all our boards and commissions. Um we have a great group coming in and I want to welcome them and wish them the best of luck in their new endeavors. I do want to say again thank you to John and Sha New for your service. uh you guys uh did great and the environmental commission is better because of you. Um I do want to respond to a lot of the comments we heard tonight about data centers. I too as many people said did not prepare I did not prepare to say anything about this but I do have to say something after hearing this again. Um, you know, I feel like I'm going speak for myself, but I think I speak for everybody up here when I say that this is not a uh you against us or us against you situation. I think we're all same team here. I think that I don't think there's anybody around that really wants the data centers that we all envision in our heads to be landing in our neighborhoods. I don't think anybody wants that. I don't think anyone in this room or in the city has talked to anybody up here who has said, "Oh, yeah, bring them on. Let's have them." I I don't think anyone's had that conversation. We've gone as far as to, you know, have legislation brought up to have a moratorum probably really because of all of the public comments and feedback we've gotten. And so I I still feel like no matter what we do, it's not enough. for doing this moratorum that stops it for 12 months because we are

wanting to do right by our constituents. Yet, I still feel like even though we're presenting this, I still feel like nothing we do is good enough. And we are going to do what is right by the community. We are community members. We We're not deciding things for this community and then going home half hour away. We are your neighbors and so we are going to do what's right for this community. We've heard you. We know what you are asking and we will do everything in our powers to do right. It's not us against them. We're in this together. Makes sense.

And um and that's what I want to say with that. So if it comes to the fact that in this I don't personally think we need a committee um because I think we all feel the same way. I I think that you know if we decide that the way to go about it is a vote, then we'll do a vote. I, you know, we'll do whatever is necessary to make sure it doesn't happen. That's enough I'm going to say about that. And I I speak for myself, but I think I think I speak for everybody. Um uh I also want to say that, you know, I heard mention tonight that, you know, we can u only engage every couple weeks um here with people. Everyone up here has a phone and an email and I engage with residents all the time and anyone can call me anytime. It doesn't just have to be every two weeks. That's that. Um, congratulations Patrick. Rockstar. Love the new look. You're rocking it. By the way, that's Patrick. If you don't recognize him right there, he looks great. Um um I want to say thank you and congratulations to the law department and the administration for the ruling that came down um with the Twinsburg Police Department. Um I think that was um grandioso uh the ruling that came back. I think that it was tough sitting here for a very long time and hearing all of this being directed towards us and yelled at us as if you know you know let me just rephase. It's tough to sit here and get yelled at when we have not done anything and we cannot respond as we have said for two years. We cannot respond because there's pending litigation. Yet week after week after week for two years, we've heard from so many people that, you know, the city is this, the city is that. Well, the truth has

finally come out, and I'm so glad for it that the community can now see that the city did what they supposed to do. And all those things that we said were lies were lies. And I'm so happy that the truth came out. And I want to congratulate you, Mr. Visanna, for getting it out there and and and and doing what you're supposed to do and and doing it well. And congratulations to the whole administration. And I hope we can put that all behind us now and all work together as a team, not us versus them, and and move forward and be the city that we're supposed to be, which is a great city, because we are a great city, and work together. And we have a great police department led by a great man. And I hope that uh we move forward in a positive direction. Moving forward with that, um, I had one thing I was going to mention later, but I might as well mention it now and then I'll have nothing later. Uh, the Rotary where we have our meetings at the Kent State building every two weeks, uh, which it is a great building. Uh, the Rotary has their flag sales right now. Uh, we want to try to have a record year and get up to, uh, 500 flags. So, if you've not ordered your flag yet, it's the flags that you see around town that come out five times a year. You'll see in the resident houses that there's a flag put out there. It's actually the scouts that put them out. But all the money raised um goes right back to this community. Whether it be scholarships, whether it be, you know, organizations, things for the schools, u you know, patio at the uh at the VA building, you know, whatever. It all goes right back. So, order the flags. It's a great cause and it looks great to have there. So, $45 go to twins flags.org and that's all I have. So, thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Manaci.

Good evening. Since our last meeting, none of my assigned committees are have met. Uh the next architectural review board meeting is this Thursday at 6 PM in these chambers. Um hats off to our recreation department. In the last few weeks, I was able to attend and help out at three Easter egg hunts. Uh, a return of the adult Easter egg hunt, uh, which our CERT team helped with and, uh, the recreation department was putting that on and a beautiful event at the, uh, um,&m party center. And, uh, congratulations to the winners. Uh, they, we hid 300 eggs or 290 eggs and 288 of them were found. 208

288. In other words, two were unfound. These people are expert Easter egg hunters. I was convinced that you were going to be out there for days finding these things. I would drop one and I couldn't find it two seconds later. U some folks got a lot of eggs. Some folks uh came back empty-handed, Mary. Um but it was uh shared with me by a great school friend that this is the best event that Twinsburg puts on. uh somebody that uh that I've known for heck since I was in kindergarten. So, it was great to hear that that event's back and people love it. Uh the other Easter egg hunts, boy oh boy, those kids in a fraction of a minute it seems that they're over. Uh takes way longer to plan, way longer to scatter and a fraction of a minute. So, next year folks get there earlier because we had a few folks arrive right as it started and there were no eggs left for folks. Cody Sugar Shack. That's a great event that the recreation department put on. I got to create with a few dollars to pay for this uh event through our recreation department. Some Food Network quality sugar cookies. Heck, I thought that stuff was easy to do. You watching it on TV? Uh not capable. But uh Cody Sugar Shack gives Yeah, that experience in there doing a Mother's Day one. So hopefully I'll be there again and maybe we'll have more participants. It was great to hang out with some residents. Congratulations to our recent retirees. And with those recent retirees, it creates new opportunities. So, check uh the city's website for job postings, not just for those positions, but for uh the seasonal hires. They're going to be hiring a lot of people seasonally, and we could use it. And hats off to all the folks that put on those great events. Thanks.

I did have one more thing I want to say. I read the um the mailer that came out. This is not this is the state one, but uh uh I want to say uh that the mailer that came out this uh recently everyone should have got into the city um the newsletter, but the the the newsletter, the Together Twinsburg newsletter, but this one had a parks and wreck um summary of the entire year. And I don't believe I've ever seen that before. I believe that is new. Okay.

First time and I loved it. And congratulations for doing that. I think I want to say again that the communication that we are putting out there to our residents is more than I've ever seen in the 20ome years that I've lived here. So I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Fury.

Good evening. The CIC met on April 9th. Items on discussion were uh transferring the properties, the three properties on Aurora Road that the CIC has purchased over the last few years to the city. Uh that's still pending. U Rebecca Ziggler has put together a program for a f facade improvement grant uh where again we're trying to make the buildings around the square better, more attractive. In fact, the old bank building, I was told on the corner just sold and there's somebody that's very anxious to do some nice things with that as well as the gold uh he bought the gold place across the street. So, um some exciting things are happening in Twinsburg. But this program is a pardon me.

Okay. So, this program is would be a 50-50 split uh between residents that have businesses around the square to upgrade their facades, their windows, make it more business friendly or make it more attractive to have more walking in that area in conjunction with the streetscape that we're doing. Uh the downtown develop that we'll be hearing about more this summer, as well as the uh the square that the townships put millions of dollars into, which is going to just make that whole area look a lot nicer. So that's what happened to the CIC. Um public's works met this evening. Uh we elected uh Mr. Castillo as a chairman. I'm sure he's going to report on that meeting. Uh the finance committee will meet on April 28th at 6:30. We did have some retirements this month. I wanted to talk about Steve Boso for a few minutes. You know, he he spent 35 years on the Twinsburg Fire Department. He started as a part-time fireman, then went to full-time as a fireman medic, lieutenant, captain, assistant chief, and chief. And the thing that Steve, in my opinion, or chief uh Boso really succeeded in was emergency planning. He loved emergency planning and and coordinating different entities, you know, and and why is that important? Well, since I've been in Twinsburg, we've had a tornado, we've had a micro burst, we've had multiple floods, we've had power outages that last five days, you know. So, when those things go on and we don't have uh uh street lights and we need people to, you know, to direct traffic and do things, Steve Bosso brought in the CERT team about 10 years ago. That's a citizens emergency response team that, you know, you see them at Tways. They're they're they're handling the uh the blocked roads and moing on and off. But but when we have power outages, they're on the main roads directing traffic as well. And uh we have like 50 people that train monthly

with that. I was a member of that group for seven years. I just I couldn't didn't have the time to continue invest in it. But that's a big deal because that takes a that saves the city money, brings more people in. It really helps us uh coordinate all the events, the rock, the parts and everything. Uh he als the other thing it does is you know he he went he worked for FEMA. He he was so good at this at a national level that when there were hurricanes in, you know, in southern in southern the southern part of the country, he would go uh the floods in New Jersey, he was there, you know, and we'd be reimbured, but we miss him, but he'd go for, you know, three or four weeks away from his family to help coordinate relief efforts from FEMA, for through state resources, through county resources, and through local resources where we have to coordinate all these different police and fire units in the same county. I mean, it's really complicated. It's quite tedious to tell you the truth. I mean, the the how to do emergency uh contacts are I mean, it's it's a six-inch book and he put that together before he left. That was a big deal. Um so, really appreciate the stuff that Steve did. He left a structure and a training program with the city and and things will last far after he's gone. And uh really appreciate that from Steve Boso. Then we had um Amy Moore was the longest serving department head that I had relationship with. She had been with the city 26 years. I've been here 23 and as the mayor has uh and uh she had it's the only department head that stayed consistent. You know, I've been through multiple fire chiefs, police chiefs, lawyers. Uh a lot of lawyers. Uh but uh anyway, Amy did some great things. You know, she we got the uh Mctarian Parkway. You know, it took seven years to pull Mcarian Parkway because there were some environmental issues and can

you imagine trying to get around Twinsburg a day without cutting through before you had to go all the way to the square and come back or you had to go down to Glenwood. Um that was a $7 million project and and and we had the greatest kickoff. It was a luau with lays and things when that opened for the kids to ride their bikes around it, but took seven years to get that going and she did that. 91 82 all the road programs that she's done, she she brought in over $50 million in grant money to the city. So, in 26 years, she's averaging $2 million a year in money that she was able to bring into the city to help subsidize the roads. And our roads are in great shape compared to our neighbors in this in this area. we get tested by ODOT, we test high. Um, you know, she also had to deal with some tough things. You know, sometimes she had to tell people no, okay, you know, sometimes there's flooding and there's water and there's things that aren't going right and there's challenges on building programs and sometimes she had to say no. And that's tough because people get mad and then they come and talk to us and you know that's that wasn't an easy job. There were a lot of things that she had to work through some some for years that went on uh that uh that were challenging and she always did her best and I with integrity and u I wish her the best in her retirement uh and to be a grandmother. My mother did the same thing retired about the same age when my when my sister was uh you know my mom decided to be a grandmother instead of a superintendent of a school system. So, I really admire that. And again, Amy did a fantastic job in my opinion, and I will miss her. About two and a half years ago, there's I can see Patrolman Sliff out in the in the lobby. Yeah. How long you been with the department, son?

About two years.

Two years now. Okay. Well, a little bit before you got here, there was a there was a patrolman that did his uh his probationary period, and when they asked him, "What you know, what do you think would be an issue for you to be successful in your job boom forward?" And he said he didn't think some officers would back him up on a night shift, which started an investigation, which Lieutenant Donado ran, and and it uncovered some things and and once those things were uncovered, action had to be taken. So there were three officers that were released for cause. There's unions involved and processes and it takes a long time to be the right or wrong. But at the end of the day, we've had two officers who have chosen not to go through the whole matter through the arbitration that is that they could have and had a arbiter rule in their favor and being reinstated or they chose to settle and and move on. and the last one we had just ruled in our favor. So, we do not pay a sentiment. We're done. But, you know, there was a lot of anger, a lot of misinformation, a lot of lot of, you know, really unkind things said about people and their families. And uh I want to tell you that I think that Tom Mason, Chief Tom Mason, who's here this evening, and Brian Donado, Lieutenant Brian Donado, both who I've known for over 20 years, are men of extremely high character and integrity. I think they're doing an outstanding job, and I don't think the Quinsburg Police Department has ever been as good as it is today. So Tom, thank you very much for your service and what you do for us, and I appreciate you, and I'm glad this is over for the most part moving forward. And that's all I have this evening. Good night.

Thank you, Mr. Cherry. Uh, good evening everyone. It's good to be back. It's uh seemed like it was a long time a spring break and those kind of things. So, I hope you're enjoying the beautiful weather. Uh, as Mr. Fury alluded to, we had the public works committee earlier this morning or this this morning earlier this evening. I'll let Mr. Castello report on that. The next meeting of the finance committee will be on Tuesday, April 28th at 6 PM here in Chambers. And the next meeting of the safety committee will be on Tuesday, May 12th at 6 PM, also here in Chambers. Mrs. Mrs. Lavy, good evening.

Thank you. Good evening. The next finance meeting will be April 28th at 6:00. The next planning meeting will be this coming April 20th at 6:30. And the next Jedi meeting will be May 11th at 6:00. And I also attended the committee review meeting with Mr. Castello, which I'm sure he'll report on. And the meeting today prior to and I also wanted a shout out to the uh retirements that I attended this past two weeks because they were um extraordinary employees and um I wish them all the best. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Walker.

Thank you. Um I did well I didn't attend the Jedi meeting because I didn't have a Jedi meeting. I the the people who were supposed to come never came. They never called me and I just really feel bad about how I was treated, you know, with a phone call. We're not going to make it. We can't do it this time. Maybe next time. And so what I would like to do is sit down with all the Jedi people that are on this group and just talk to them, you know, and I call it a come to Jesus meeting. And I think we need to do something with the Jedi because they say they're going to come and they don't come. And you know, what are you gonna do when you put your whole heart into something that really touches my heart? And I want everybody to know this because it inspires me when I see the people come together as a whole and then they call me up. I can't make it. I'm thinking, well, the meeting is tomorrow. Well, I can't make it click, you know, then I get, you know, they hang up on me. And uh but one thing, you know, I'm a I'm I'm a tough person. People don't know that. I come from a family of 12 12 siblings. And that's one thing. You don't mess with me, you know, and I just want people to know how I am. You don't mess with me. You don't pick with me. I'm probably one of the kindest people in my area in my house than you would ever know. But when I work with you and tell you I'll help. I'll come and pick you up. We have the meeting. You tell me yes and then I go pick you up and you're not

there. So, but that's my problem. That's something that I have to learn and it's something that I will be talking to the Jedi committee and the other committees that I have public safety and fitness advisory and just to put everything together because I don't want anybody to dislike me or you know saying that you know you think you're something that's not it you know I want to be number one your friend I want you to know that I'm a good person I want you to know that I'm not a liar you know when I say and I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. So, with that being said, that's all I have. And if you have any questions, call me or call the mayor. Thank you,

Mr. Castello. Good evening.

Good evening. Thank you, Dr. Walker. Uh this evening, as has been mentioned, we had the public works committee meeting. There were a lot of uh updated items coming from our construction projects and service department. We're going to get a compiled list and share with everybody uh and uh saving some time for us. Uh our board and uh building uh zoning appeals meeting will be taking place Monday, April 27th here at city hall. We have a item on the agenda. So uh look forward to bringing that to uh to uh the council. Um additionally, we've uh met with the committee to review boards and commissions. We've had a few meetings going over the uh survey. We've pushed it back out to residents uh staff and council to uh try to get a little bit more participation. So I believe that we've extended that to the end of this week. Shannon, is that correct?

Right. All right. Good. Um, next I just want to kind of talk a little bit about um the Twinsburg uh public library. There's a mini golf program coming up next week. Seems like next week's a busy event uh season kicking off. And this past weekend was the Twinsburg Schools Foundation fundraiser for the Harlem Wizards. It was a great program in the gym. Uh lots of fun for family. I'm sorry I'm speeding along here. I know we got a lot of things to do. Uh one of the things I do want to point out too is our community gardens are open. you can get your plots at the community center. Um, we've gotten ours. So, if you're going to be next to 61, uh, good luck. And, uh, I guess I just want to end with, um, thanking everybody for coming out today and for the participation. The dialogue that we have here is invaluable to us. I know we don't all like to hear some of the things that come at us. I know you perceive things maybe a little bit differently. Um, but I do appreciate that opportunity that we have and perhaps I know it was mentioned here as we go ahead and discuss this big item that's only been discussed here in Twinsburg about data centers and so on that we maybe put on discussion whether it's valuable or not to do a communityled committee. I think Mr. propos you had said if council decided to do that maybe that's something right we'd go however I would say even if council doesn't have a community-led committee I don't think that there isn't a problem for residents to get together to put together their thoughts and ideas and share them with us so that we can also be informed on what you're thinking and what we might be able to work into uh the overall program um with that said to speed along that's it

Mr. Good evening.

Good evening everyone. Thank you so much. Um, you know, I wanted to talk about I just want to say that um uh I just want to echo the sentiments of Councilman Fury and Councilman Post on the I plan to talk about that, but I think that they said it uh most eloquently and there's no need to continue on with it. But, you know, I do want to add that um uh that was a long drawn out process. Um, you know, terminating three police officers, uh, is not a normal thing to do and it certainly is not a normal thing to do here and not something that we appreciate or enjoy. But sometimes there's things that you have to do that need to be done. And so they were done. And at the end of the day, when you go two and a half years about 2 and 1/2 years later, as Mr. post said, "We sat here, we took all the the comments, we took all the the tongue lashings, we took all, you know, the the signs, we took all everything that we took." Um, that's not a sign of weakness. That's a sign of because we know better. We know what we did. We believed 100% in what we did and why we did it. And we knew it at the end the truth would come out and the truth came out and it it's over. That portion of it's over. And somebody mentioned our our police chief Tom Mason. I have to say that um you know him and I had several talks and I wanted to make sure that we were um on the right page that we had nothing to be concerned about that we had nothing to um there all the personal attacks on him and his family that everything was clean and he assured me of that or I would have never sat up here and and backed him and I told him that. Don't let me go out there and and look foolish because we need to have the truth come out. Uh, Chief Mason sat there in front of me and said, "Mayor, I assure you that none of that is true." And and we went through arbitration. The arbitrator's um report came out. I believe it was 45 pages. Uh we've posted that. If anybody's read it,

you know, if you haven't, it it's a long read. Um but you'll you'll see where the truth came out. And yeah, we settled with two of the officers and then the final officer chose not to do that. At first, he wanted to settle and and he chose not to. he wanted to go to arbitration. So, and again, we were not concerned. And I thank our legal team. I thank uh the chief. I thank everybody in that police department uh for the job that they do and they continue to do and and that the all the uh everything that we endured throughout those three years. And I think that uh at this stage of the game, it was uh it was well worth it, I guess, right now. Uh we have a police department that's running, you know, second to none. And I would put our department and all of our officers and all of our staff there up against anybody. And I'm going to use that as a segue into um you know, we now the law enforcement agencies that participate in the Ohio Collaborative uh law accreditation program. This was uh created by Governor Mike DeWine. Uh these agencies must meet 32 policing standards that address various core responsibilities in law enforcement such as professional conduct, bias-free policing, crisis intervention, and community engagement. Standards also address policies surrounding criminal arrest, use of force, vehicular pursuits, appropriate policing of our youth, patrol practices, record and ev evidence management, uh agency wellness, and career development. And I'm happy to say that, you know, Ohio has over 900 law enforcement agencies and Twinsburg PD is one of the first 50 agencies selected uh for the application progress uh process. Um as of February 2026, only 24 law enforcement agencies have fully met the Ohio standards of professional excellence. You know, on March 30th, we had um Ed Burkhammer. He's the director of law enforcement services uh from

Columbus was here at our council chambers for a signing ceremony. It was a big deal and it was a happy day and it was a a very festive day when we had u the signing uh our chief was here. um some of the department were here, everybody that was some of the the staff from all over the city came to watch this signing and you know although the accreditation progress is not complete simply qualifying for and getting accepted into the program is a major accomplishment and one for which that uh they wanted to honor us. So I just want to shout out I want to give a thanks to Lieutenant Donado. He's the one that's been working diligently spearheading us getting toward our our our police department accreditation. So to um Lieutenant Donado and to our police chief, again, thank you for your leadership, Chief. I appreciate you. Uh I think you've done a great job and and I I really can't say anymore. I I say that all the time. Our safety forces are second to none. And I know our police department's taken a lot of beating, but uh at the end of the day, we're a well-run machine there. And you know, I feel that the people in this community could feel safe with our with Tom Mason at the helm. We've never had this in my opinion in our police department before. So, he's done a really good job and I think we're in really good shape and the residents of the city of Twinsburg should feel very comfortable in in our safety forces and I I again, thank you. Thank you for everything. Now, um I want to go on to the Easter egg hunt real quick. The adult Easter egg hunt. Um Councilman Bonacci so uh eloquently called me out. Yes, there were all those eggs were out there and it was on the golf course and uh we went out there and I searched around in the dark with flashlights and had prickers in my hair and for you know it was a mess. At the end of the day we came back in after how long did that go? Half hour the hunt. We came back in and all we came back in was was uh two old dirty golf balls. So we found no eggs. We won no prizes. But it was a lot of fun. We

had a great time. uh everybody that was there and participated had a good time and uh you know Jen and her and her staff they all do a wonderful job. So shout out to Parks and Wreck for for bringing that uh that program back that popular program back. And finally I'm going to end with um last Friday I had the opportunity I was invited to um Grand Village at one of their residents had turned 100 years old. And so, um, Sophie Arena, she turned 100 years old, I believe, the next day. I was there on Friday. Saturday was her actual birthday. And so, a shout out to Sophie again for a hundred years of um, I asked her, you know, tell me your secret. I'd like to know, you know, what it is that makes you, you know, be here 100 years later. And she kind of looked at me and she looked at me like, you're not going to make it. But I said, that's okay. That's all right, Sophie. I'm fine. I'm here to wish you happy birthday and uh you know I hope I do make it but God bless you on on uh many more happy birthdays I told her. So on behalf of uh myself, the council and the city, you know, happy birthday to Sophie. Um so yeah, it was a great day and that's all I have tonight. Thank you very much.

Can I clarify one thing for 30 seconds? 30 seconds. I heard Mr. U Fury say I heard you say as well, Mr. mayor um that we settled two of them. And when I hear the things settled, sometimes people think that's an admission of guilt.

And I want to clarify that when you say we settled, that was not an admission of guilt. That was here's some money so you go away. And that's really all it was because we knew we had done nothing wrong. And so I don't want anyone to think because we paid anybody that it's an admission of guilt because it wasn't. It was just headaches and lawyer fees and it was worth it just to make it go away. And the settlement was spawned by them, not by the city. Their union and their lawyers came to us asking for a settlement. So we entered into settlement uh negotiations with them. Yes. Because we've gone all the way because we know Thanks for the explanation. Yep. Absolutely. Exactly. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. You got any department head reports this evening there? Uh we do, I believe. Who's Patrick? You got another report?

Yeah. Come on, let's go. Patrick Jeffers, he's our new city engineer. Uh he was appointed on Monday taking Amy Moore's place and uh Pat's been with us for about four and a half years now. He's very experienced. He's been a civil engineer for the last 14 years I believe he's practiced and he's got his degree in civil engineering. So uh I feel very confident and I think that we're in good hands. I know Amy Moore was you know we got to put her on a pedestal but if u you know Pat think I he I think he'll follow those footsteps and he's going to be on that pedestal someday as well. So, thank you, Patrick. And go ahead, your report.

Yep. Thank you, Sam. Appreciate your confidence in me. Thank you uh for for bringing me on as a as city engineer. As everybody's mentioned here, Amy retired last Friday. She uh had a a great long career here, and she's got a a lot of lot of legacy to to live up to here. Um luckily, I've inherited a great staff with uh Greg and Tyler working with us over there in the engineering department. We've got a uh long list of projects that we've got coming up here this summer and uh well into the future. In the interest of time, I won't go through all those, but we discussed them at the public works committee meeting um prior to this meeting. So, uh if you're interested, go ahead and take a look at on at it on there, and I look forward to working with you guys in many years into the future. Thanks.

Thank you. Thank you, Patrick. Thank you. Anybody else? Mayor,

Nate, you want to report? Yeah, we have Nate. Good evening, Nate. Good evening, Again, council. Um, I have three topics tonight uh to provide an update on the wastewater treatment plant improvement project. Um, I know we had a public works meeting today, but I don't have a lot of fancy pictures or anything that's going on. It's more administrative duties, so I figured I could tackle that here today. Um so far we've had three uh follow-up pre-construction meetings to uh work with APHORA and BNN in which we have set up a SharePoint site um so that we have access they have access uh to have um documents being uploaded viewed all simultaneously uh shop drawings RFIs and whatnot. Um some of the materials have been ordered as well and uh tenatively groundbreaking is set for August. Um, so we actually are going to, uh, try to schedule a groundbreaking ceremony. Um, so we'll see if we can get some, you know, gold gold, uh, hard hats and some shovels and whatnot. Um, I'd like to invite you guys as well, uh, with that. Um, secondly, just a quick update. We have two planned projects for this year for uh, sewer improvement projects that are handled uh, by the wastewater department. So, they are a smaller scale, small, smaller dollar amount, something that's not bid. Um Patrick has been intrical as this. Patrick and I have roughly the same amount of time with the city. Um so the first one that was uh scheduled for this year was uh Serene in Bel Meadow. There was a 12-in uh sanitary main that had actually come uh undone and it was roughly 40% blocked. Um this process uh it was it was a big deep hole that had quicksand. We found a fantastic local contractor that was able to tackle that and as of today uh the last uh uh restoration of the grounds was completed with that. Um upcoming here scheduled to begin in May. We have uh 12 to 13

manhole rehabilitation. So that's also something that we've worked on in the last year with the engineering department. That was a a typical program every year. Um, so we're going to be going through tackling um, manholes every year with rellining andor replacement depending on the situation. Um, these are found as our sewer maintenance crews are out uh, cleaning and then follow-up televising. Uh, they actually pause inside the manholes and scan the camera around to to determine what the condition of them are. Um, some are pre-cast, some are are um, uh, brick and mortar uh, with it. So, those are the ones that we're trying to tackle first that uh you know allow groundwater to come into our system. So, uh we're working on that. So, when that does schedule, I will send out an email to the mayor. I'll also include you council so that you guys are aware of where these are at. Um but they're kind of peppered throughout the city. Um serene court, presidential, Edison, and East Aurora. Lastly, um just wanted to come to brag a little bit tonight. Um, I'm excited and proud that we are be going to be giving a presentation at the NESA uh innovation seminar on Thursday this week down in Richfield. Um, we purchased an instantaneous BOD sensor uh at the beginning of 2025. Um, you know, with with your approval and the budget aspect with it, it brought a brand new technology. It's a biological sensor that gives me instantaneous data of how strong the wastewater is or the BOD measurements which greatly impacts how the operators um can run the facility instead of waiting 5 days because that's what the typical uh you know wait time is for the analysis which that water has already been through the facility. Uh we can see uh what these levels are at instantaneously. Um so we're going to be uh giving a presentation with Pelton who

is the uh sales representative for the the product that Sentry uh to cover the installation, the integration, the preventative maintenance and then the um you know the integration into our operations system with that. So myself, my maintenance coordinator and my chief operator will be going down uh Thursday afternoon to give that presentation. Um that's all I have tonight. Thanks Nate. Last but not least, we have Chief Tom. Chief Mason, good evening.

All right, I'll make it quick. I know it's been a long night so far. Uh for the first quarter year encompassing obviously January, February, March, we handled a total between police and fire 8,800 or I'm sorry 9,031 calls in the first quarter. Our total last year at this time was 8,87. So we're 225 calls above that this year. Um during this first quarter we had a total of 17 employees that had anniversaries. They range from one year to 23 years and everything in between. So that's great. Uh some of the calls, those uh 9,000 calls I mentioned of note are six counts of theft, three of assault, 11 for possession of drugs, drug rellated offenses, uh 13 for disorderly conduct, three for domestic violence, 39 for driving under suspension or without a valid license, seven for operating vehicle under phones of alcohol or drugs, 15 warrant arrests. Um the rest are miscellaneous offenses. There's a total of 759 traffic stops conducted by our officers. Um, out of that 253 people were either arrested and or sight cited uh and a total of 355 counts. As far as traffic accidents go during that first quarter, we had a total of 105 accidents that were investigated and handled by the uh officers. 13 were on private property. 13 were also injury accidents. Uh 92 were non-injury, proud to report and unfortunately we had did have one fatal during that time. Uh just a little bit information about what some of the officers have been up to during that time. Um officers conducted a combined total collectively. They attended over 360 hours of training, in-person training. That doesn't count any roll call

trainings or anything done by the shifts. over 360 hours collectively in person. Uh I was pleased that the mayor mentioned the Ohio Collaborative. That's a a massive undertaking and it's going to be a great achievement for the city. And I'm very proud that he mentioned Lieutenant Donado. He's really the one who's been spearheading that effort. You know, I also want to mention that Lieutenant Robert Waltz graduated from the Certified Law Enforcement Executive or CLE program. It's a 14-month intensive leadership training. It's presented by the Ohio Law Enforcement Foundation. Um, so Bob completed that. That gives us uh three CLE graduates in house. And I want to mention real quick, give you guys an update. You know, I've talked with you before about ebikes. I know ebikes aren't everybody's mind, especially with the weather breaking the way it has. Um, we continue to make progress regarding potentially new ebike ordinances and a fair way to enforce them, including an educational component for not only those riding them, but for parents who are purchasing them for their children. Sergeant Pat Quinn is in charge of this task and has made great progress. Sergeant Quinn continues to evaluate programs, norances for not only other communities within the state, but some nationwide as well. Uh, every community around us is facing these challenges and it's a work in progress for all of them. you know, I anticipate our programs rolling out soon.

Ebikes. Well, yeah. Yes. Yes. And I I'll I'll Yes. I'll I'll I'll touch on that. One one of the things that Sergeant Quinn is putting together is a very comprehensive guide to what is an ebike. There's ebikes, electric motorcycles, micro transports, I think they call some of the other things that fall into that like that seat. So there's a lot of categories. It's creating a lot of confusion especially amongst parents who buy these things for their kids. Uh it's be it's what has become increasingly evident is something we've thought all along. Parents really need to understand the difference between an ebike and electric motorcycle.

Uh this was never more evident than a couple weeks ago. Uh we dealt with an incident involving three juveniles that were on electric motorcycles. Not ebikes, electric motorcycles. In this instance, the in individual juveniles were all charged with several violations and referred to juvenile courts. I won't get into much detail there. I only mention this because two of the three juveniles as well as well as their parents had been previously warned and advised of ebike rules. This particular incident emphasizes the importance of educating not only riders but the parents of the but the parents of the juveniles operating the ebikes. specifically the difference between an ebike and electric motorcycle and the potential that a parent may be held accountable as well for these violations. So again, it's something we're we're looking into. We're going to have a very comprehensive u awareness and education component to this, but I would hazard to say that probably 50% of what you see most juveniles on is not an ebike. It's an electric motorcycle. It's very different. Speeds are are are greater. The electric motors are much bigger. uh they require registration, requires a motorcycle endorsement. There's a lot that goes into it. I think a lot of people just aren't aware. So that's something we're uh working towards. And the very last thing I want to touch on is this week is national telecommunications or as we call it dispatcher week. I try to frequently mention what is a vital role which is our dispatch ser that our dispatchers serve in keeping our community and first responders safe. Uh this week of appreciation is welld deserved. Please remember to thank anyone you know in the profession. We couldn't provide the service the community do without dispatch. So I just want to close by uh mentioning that.

All right. Thanks chief. Thanks. Appreciate you. Anybody else? Mayor. Okay. All right. Moving on to legislation this evening. Resolution 202636. A resolution accepting the bid of parent asphalt company for the Glenwood Drive resurfacing project and declaring an emergency. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 2026 30 I'm sorry, resolution 202636 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. Mrs. Walker seconds. Thank you. Sham, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes.

All right. I apologize, folks. I skipped over discussion. Can anybody any discussion? Sorry about that. Okay. All right. Uh resolution 202636 passes 7 to zero as an emergency. Resolution 202640. The resolution authorizing the city to donate certain personal property owned by the city of Twinsburg and no longer needed for municipal purposes to the Metro SWAT team and declaring an emergency. Mr. Sure. I'd like to make a motion that we uh that we pass the three that we uh that we uh remove the that we have a three we suspend three rules on the three meeting rule. Excuse me. I really am better at that than this.

So you Yeah, you're a lot better at that. I am. I'd really messed that up. I believe you were making I wouldn't even vote for that one myself. So Jeez. Okay. So I I will second your motion to suspend the rules and place ordinate resolution 202640 on its third and final reading. Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bellum, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Okay. So, the suspension of the rules passes 7 to zero. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 2026. We got the

I'd like to make a motion to amend resolution 2020 uh 20 or excuse me, resolution 040 2026. Um we're want to say more. Yeah, it's 40. Okay. At this time, I'd like to add the standard emergency clause. Is there a

If I If I may add a little bit of uh a little more character to that emergency clause. I think it one of the reasons uh when when uh we were considering this piece of legislation, I was talking to the fire department there there is a need to quickly get these old plates to Metro SWAT so they can uh move them into training as soon as possible as opposed to having to wait, you know, over a month. So I I would advise that uh a possible reason for the emergency might be to be able to u introduce these training instruments as soon as possible to make sure that our partners

actually we have members from our own PD that are members of the metro SWAT have the ability to engage uh with this new material. Well, we have a motion for the emergency and that would be the discussion telling us why we needed to do that. So I think we're okay. Yeah. Well, I didn't want to miss my opportunity to offer that input. I'm on a roll. I'm really bad at this right now. It's late. Thank you for your time. Is there a second? I'll second. Thank you. All right, Mr. Fury. Yes. Mr. Bell? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mrs. Lavy? Yes. Mr. Post? Yes. Mr. Castillo? Yes. Mr. Bonacci? Yes.

Okay. So, the amendment passes 7 to zero. At this point, I would like to make a motion to adopt resolution 202640 as amended as an emergency. May I have a second? I'll second. Mr. Fury seconds. Any further discussion about resolution 2026? That was a really good motion. You did a nice job. Thank you. Chad, please call the RO. Mr. Bell, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mrs. Labby, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. All right. Resolution 202640 passes 70 as amended as an emergency. Resolution 202646, a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract with Richard El Bowen and Associates for professional services relative to the amphitheater renovation project.

Right. This now stands on its second reading. Resolution 202659, a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation to participate in the ODOT road salt contracts awarded in 2026 and declaring an emergency. Okay. Okay. At this time, I'd like to make a motion uh to place resolution 2026 or suspended rules and uh excuse me. The reason for the suspension of three reading rule is so the project or so that the uh so the salt could be bought as soon as possible. So I have a motion that I would like to have uh the three reading rule waved. May I have a second? Sir, Mr. Crystal seconds.

What don't you like? That one is written as an emergency with the proper stuff in the body of the legislation. So, we just need I didn't put the emergency in. I thought I just did the three readings. Do we do we need to make a motion to wave the three readings? Yes. Okay. So, that's the motion that you made to wave. I didn't hear to and the emergency is already in there. So, we didn't have to do that. We talked about that a couple hours. It was at the end I believe. Yeah. Mr. Free said wave the three reading rule. All right. Please call the role on the removal of the three reading. Mr. Fury, sure. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes.

All right. So, we've removed the three reading rule. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 202659 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. Mr. Castillo second. Any further discussion about resolution 202659 as emergency? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Yes. Mrs. Lavy? Yes. Mr. Post? Yes. Mr. Fury? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mr. Bonacci? Yes. Resolution 202659 passes 70 as an emergency. Resolution 202660. A resolution affirming Macedony's accept acceptance of the bid of Ronak Paving Incorporated for the Shepard Road resurfacing project and declaring an emergency.

At this time, I'd like to make a motion to place ordinance 202660 on its third and final reading. May I have a second? Second. Mr. Castello seconds. Reason for the suspension of the three reading rules so the project can start as soon as permitted. Is there any further discussion about the suspension of the three reading rule this evening? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Balon, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Post. Yes. Mr. Bonacci. Yes. Mr. Fury. Yes. All right. Suspension of the three reading rule passes 70. This time I'd like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 2026, I'm sorry, resolution 202660 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. Mr. Bonacci seconds. Any further discussion?

The cost of uh the project for the city is $190,56. This is the There are four communities involved in this. This is a realigning that's been talked about for 10 years. So Amy Moore did a great job on this program as well. All right. Anything else? Shannon, please call the RO. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Bac, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. All right. Resolution 202660 passes 70 as an emergency.

Resolution 202661. A resolution affirming the city's action to enter into an agreement with Axon Enterprise Incorporated for the purchase of 40 taser bundles for the use for use by the police department and declaring an emergency. This time I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place resolution 202661 on its third and final reading. May I have a second? Second. Mr. Castillo seconds. Reason for the suspension of the three reading rule is so the purchase can be paid for as soon as possible. Is there any further discussion about the suspension of the three reading rule? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavyby, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Fury, yes.

All right. Suspension of the three reading will pass 70. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 202661 as an emergency. May I have a second? I'll second. Mr. Fury seconds. Any further discussion? The cost of the 40 tasers is $243,892. Thank you. Anything else? Shannon, please call the RO. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Resolution 202661 passes 7 to zero as an emergency. Ordinance 20262.

An ordinance authorizing the mayor of the city of Twinsburg, Ohio to enter into a contract with Teamsters Local 436 and declaring an emergency. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to the suspend the rules and place ordinance 202662 on its third and final reading. May I have a second? Second. Mr. Castillo seconds. The reason for the suspension of the three reading rule is so the agreement could be entered into as soon as possible. Is there any further discussion on the suspension of the three reading rule? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bell, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Bac, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Suspension of the three read passes 70. This time I'd like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 202662 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second.

Mr. Castillo seconds. Any further discussion? Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Balon, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bacon, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Ordinance 202662 passes 70 as an emergency. Ordinance 202663, an ordinance updating the investment policy for the city of Twinsburg. This now stands on its first reading. Ordinance 20264, an or ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into agreement with Western Reserve Wire Products Incorporated to provide tax incentives under the terms and conditions of the Twinsburg occupancy program. This now stands on its first reading. Ordinance 202665,

an ordinance establishing a moratorum on accepting for filing and consideration and or issuing zoning and or occupancy permits for any building structure use or change to use to use involving data centers as a principal use for a period not to exceed 12 months and declaring an emergency. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place ordinance 202665 on its third and final reading. May I have a second? Second. Uh, M. 90 seconds. I just I got to pick something. The reason for the suspension of the three rating rule this evening is so the moratorum can be in place as soon as possible. We have talked a lot about data centers. Any further discussion about the emergency or the removal of the three rating rules on 20265.

Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bell, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. All right. Suspension of the three reading rule passes 70. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 202665 as an emergency. May I have a second? Mrs. Lavyby seconds. Any further discussion this evening to the administration and to all involved in drafting this and getting this before us. Thank you. Thank you. Shannon, please call the role. Mr. Bell, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Bacon, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Fury,

yes. Ordinance 202665 passes 70 as an emergency. Ordinance 202666, an ordinance amending part 11 of the codified ordinances of the city of Twinsburg to change the symbols used to identify the use permissions in certain tables within the planning and zoning code. Uh this now stands on its first reading and at this time I would like to make a motion to send ordinance 202666 to the planning commission for review and report. May I have a second? A second. Mr. Fury seconds. Any further discussion about 202666? Shannon, please call the RO. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Glavy, yes. Mr. Ballad, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. Mr. Bac, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes.

All right. The motion passes 70. That will be sent down to the planning commission for review and report. All right. Unfinished business, new business, and miscellaneous. Mr. Castillo, just make this simple. We talked about it earlier about having a discussion uh at a future council meeting for data centers to include residents. I'd like to see that come up on our future agenda so we can discuss the opportunity and if not some sort of timeline that we can engage residents where they can give us their feedback maybe in an open uh setting versus minutes at the the podium. Thank you, Mrs. Walker. I have nothing. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Latty. Nothing further for me. Thank you.

Thank you. Nothing for me, Mr. Fury. I will not be here at the next council meeting on April 28th. I'll be on a trip for my birthday. I will be 65 that day. You can sing. You can have cupcakes on your own, but I will not be here. You don't look 65. You look I know. It's amazing, isn't it? Way younger. I know. It's the hair. You look You look so good. Thank you. We will miss you. I appreciate that. Mr. Bac,

as Mr. Castella mentioned Twinsburg Schools Foundation hosted the Harlem Wizards. You know, they're a a trick basketball team similar to the Harlem Globe Trotters. Wizards been around since the 1960s, but they have a a more important mission of fundraising and creating health and fitness awareness throughout the community. The players were so engaged with young people. It was fun to be there. It was great to see their talents. It was fun to see folks connected. Um, April's Autism Awareness Month. like to remind residents that their police department maintains a special needs registry not just for folks with autism but folks with any kind of disability that uh having that information in in the time of need might be of assistance to law enforcement and our fire services uh that register for that on the website. Um Twinsburg Parks and Recreation and the police department are partnering to get Safety Town back on the agenda. So uh check the website to register June 8th through 12th and June 15th through 18th. two programs, a morning and an afternoon on those two dates. And let's uh communicate how we could be safer in our communities to little ones before they get those crazy ebucks. That concludes

Thank you, Mr. Post.

So, the only thing I want to add is Mr. Still, I understand that you want to have that subcommittee. I have always said forever for 20, 30 years that I've been at work, a meeting just to meet, it's there's no point meeting just to meet unless there's a reason. And I'm not saying that there's not a reason for this, but I'm saying to put a committee together, to have residents come in and talk when the residents that will be on this committee have come and talked every week for three months now. I think that we should come up with a plan and and let the city come up with a plan first. I think um and at that point, you know, put it out there. It's going to go on three reads and at that point we are going to get more feedback via email, via podium conversations. I I just think setting up subcommittees upon subcommittees just to just to create subcommittees is not worth it. That's just my opinion. Um but I agree conversations are good but I think we have them here but open conversations.

Thank you. That's all I have. Mayor Scapiti. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. I have nothing further tonight. Thank you Mr. Vazana. Nothing further for me tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Connley. I just want to say congratulations to Patrick Jeffers. He now joins our uh department head crew. And so I am no longer besides Dale. I have moved up uh one rung. So um by my next meeting, I will have had my third year anniversary. So congratulations to him. Sorry to see Amy go. She was a wealth of knowledge. I've never had to deal with as many grants as coming to Twinsburg, but it's she was a wonderful teacher in that aspect and uh she will be missed.

Thank you, Mrs. Collins. That's true. Happy early birthday, Bill. Thanks, Sharon. All right. We have no absent members to excuse. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to enter into an executive session to discuss matters pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 121.22G3 22G3 and four to conference with an attorney for the public body concerning disputes involving the public body that are subject of pending or imminent court action and four preparing for conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment. May I have a second? Second. Mr. Fury seconds. Shannon, please call the RO. Mr. Bellum, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Labby.

Yes. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Castillo, yes. All right. Motion to enter executive session passes 70. There will be no further business discussed this evening. Thank you for attending. Thank you for staying. Thank you for your comments. We'll see you in a couple weeks. Thank you.