City Council - Regular Meeting

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. Call the roll, please. Mayor Bailey, here. Vice Mayor Baitman, here. Mr. Goodyear, here. Miss Hamlin here. Mr. Hart here. Hazel Baker here. Mr. Jick here.

Welcome everyone. With us tonight we have our director of finance Mark Medler, assistant city manager Chris Winage, clerk council Clark, Dave Kennedy, city manager, city solicitor Joe Braun, chief of police Michael Gabrielson, former council members Kent Blair, Todd Osborne, and Pat Mazize. Welcome everyone. Um, we do not have a uh officer Smallwood is not here, so we'll go right to you, Major Ersman.

Thank you. Uh, thank you again for a few minutes on your agenda this evening. Uh, to to go over the 2025 Warren County Drug Task Force annual report, which I have distributed uh for you to hopefully flip through later on, I'd like to touch on a few points. But before I start, uh I would like to thank this council for their um just ongoing support of our drug task force. U we've had a partnership with this city for a long long time. Um and uh I'll touch on our funding and our structure and just how important it is uh for all the communities that are a part of our of our team, so to speak. I also want to uh thank the chief the chief uh and the men and women of the Lelin Police Department who support us as well. also the citizens of this city who take the time to call in information and tips uh things that um you know you just never know working these kind of cases what piece of information we need that can be helpful to a bigger investigation. So just thank you across the board to everyone for what you do uh to to support us. So our annual report um I'm going to touch on a few of the areas there that you will hopefully read about. Obviously, we operate in Warren County primarily. Uh the city of Wilmington as well over in Clinton County. Uh the Wilmington Police Department has been a part of our task force since 2004. So, they've been with us for a long time. In the northern part of Warren County, State Route 73, stretches across from I75 through northern Warren County across I71 and then into Clinton County straight into Wilmington. So, we there's a lot of work for us to do up that way, that part of our county. Um the multi-jurisdictional task force is a force multiplier for law enforcement. So combining local, state, and federal law enforcement to target drug trafficking activities, it remains the most

efficient way for us to target these types of crimes, especially today. Drug trafficking today is much different than it was 15 years ago, especially in Warren County. Um the geographical location of Warren County is significant uh with our location between Dayton and Cincinnati. Dayton and Cincinnati being uh some of your larger source cities down in southwest Ohio. So that impacts us greatly. Um long ago we we used to deal with the more of the local drug problem, the people that everybody knew over on Main Street or wherever. Um you know that person living in the basement. Now we deal with drug traffickers that are coming down from Dayton or coming north out of Cincinnati who hit six, seven jurisdictions before lunchtime every day. So higher percentages of our cases each year are dealing with um drug traffickers that don't even live in our county. So um much of our work is done in surrounding counties as well. So, Warren County, uh, we do many of our investigations go through the Warren County Prosecutor's Office, but lots of our cases end up in the federal system and in surrounding jurisdictions for prosecution. Um, you will read in your annual report about the Haida program. I've talked about that before. Haida stands for highintensity drug trafficking area. Um, just a fantastic program and that's really the foundation of our unit. That's what brings federal, state, and local law enforcement together in Warren County to operate our task force. Um, they also provide some funding to us, uh, which is helpful, and I'll touch on funding here before I close, but staffing. Last year, you will read, we had 19 personnel last year from 12 different law enforcement agencies. So, um, our full-time federal partner remains the FBI. Um the FBI has been a

part of our team full-time since 2004. Uh on the state level, we have uh Ohio BCI, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Uh we have the Ohio State Highway Patrol that continues to provide a uniform interdiction team that is assigned to our office. With that team is three uh K-9 units that are out working interdiction on our on our highways. Uh the Ohio National Guard also continues to provide an intelligence analyst to our task force. Um local participation uh we have detectives from the Franklin Police Department, Hamilton Township, Lebanon, Monroe, Springboro, Wilmington, Warren County Sheriff's Office, and the Warren County Prosecutor's Office as well. So some uh some additions to that for 2026. Some some good news for us. The Mason Police Department will be assigning a detective uh to our unit midsummer for the first time. Uh so we're excited about that. Um on the federal level, we have a DEA agent that started with us about 30 days ago. So it's good to have DEA back with us as well. And we have a commitment from uh Homeland Security or HSI to provide an agent uh by summertime as well. So looking forward to to to working some cases with all of them on our team. As the task force commander, I continue to report to what's called the policy board, which you'll read about in your report. Um so although I'm employed by the sheriff, um I also have a lot of bosses and the chief over there is one of them from 16 different agencies. So the elected prosecutor in Warren County, Mr. Thornhell, uh, our new sheriff, Sheriff Barry Riley, um, and then, uh, a whole bunch of police chiefs. So, uh, we continue to have regular meetings. Uh, the policy board provides direction and oversight, uh, for the task force. Uh, they establish all of our policies. Uh, at our meetings, we talk about cases.

Uh, we they get briefed on investigations and just the direction uh, that we're moving on certain things. Uh, we talk about funding. Um, it's a great way to run a task force. It's a very equal playing field. Uh, everybody has a vote at the table, so to speak. So, it's just a great way to operate. Activity in 2025, we had 201 cases, task force cases, uh, 168 arrests. Um, our troopers stopped 973 cars. Uh, we seized 188 firearms, and we executed 108, uh, search warrants. So most task force investigations are um multi-week, multimonth, some multi-year. Um it's rare for us to do a one-day investigation. It does happen, but that's not not the norm for us. Um drug threats in Warren County and in our area, the two greatest drug threats remain uh methamphetamine and fentanyl. Uh it's what we spend most of our days on. Um, not that other drugs aren't out there, but these are definitely these tie us up the most. Uh, drug seizures. Last year, we had the ninth highest drug seizures of of methamphetamine in the state of Ohio last year um from task forces. That's multi-jurisdictional task force seizures um only, but it gives you an idea of what's going on. Uh fentanyl, we had the fourth highest fentanyl seizures, uh second highest with prescription drugs, and 10th highest with cocaine seizures. So, it was a another really busy year for us last year. Um, some good news, uh, drugrelated overdose deaths, um, continue to trend downward, which which we love to see. Um, in Warren County, we had 21 drugrelated overdose deaths last year. And to give you a couple numbers for comparison, if you go back to 2021, we had 75 drugrelated overdose deaths in

Warren County. uh back to 2017 we had 102. So it it's continued to trend downward which we love we love to see u lots of reasons for that. We like to feel like we're we're helping with that. Obviously there's um you know Narcan availability of Narcan and things that are really really helping with that education and prevention efforts recovery um initiatives and things uh people getting help but uh but we continue to attack that supply chain which uh we're doing our part uh in this fight across the board. Love to see that number hit zero. Um funding remains the same and most of you have heard me talk about our funding. um the city, thank you for your contribution to us uh not only through your police department, but the financial contribution that you make. Um we we just simply would not exist without um the agencies and the jurisdictions listed on that sheet that you'll see. Some provide a small financial contribution with a full-time body. Others provide um just financial contributions. Um that was something that started for our task force over two decades ago uh as a way for us to try to exist. Um we relied heavily on grants. We rely heavily on some funding from the Haida program. Um it's a it's it's like trying to budget with a moving target every year because you have one grant that does well this year and then falls off next year. Uh so those contributions we just would not be around u in our current capacity without that kind of support. Um, I'm excited when I look at that because from our larger cities to our smallest villages, um, everybody is really trying to help. And I think everybody understands more now than ever that that this is a regional problem. Um, and every one of our communities has people who fight addiction. Um, and this

is something that these partnerships are just super important. So, um, that's all I have. Hopefully you can flip through your report and take a look at it. Glad to answer any questions if you have any. Anyone have any questions, comments? Good year, major. I just want to thank you for coming and taking your time to be here and speak with us. Um, we certainly appreciate the information and now that I've spent a year working in the Warren County Prosecutor's Office, I have much more of a hands-on appreciation for what you and your task force does and I really appreciate the work you do. I think people don't realize really kind of how regional the impact is that you have. Yes, sir.

Um certainly a lot of work in Mor County, but it it branches off pretty quickly into other areas. So, just thank you for your work and thank you for the information. Thank you. I appreciate that. Anyone else? All right. Well, thank you, sir. You know, we appreciate your visits. Thank you. Good to see you. Thank you for the update. See you next year. Thank you. All right. Thank you.

All right. Next on the agenda is review and approval of minutes. First is the minutes from the city council meeting of February 24th, 2026. Comments, changes, additions. Move to approve as written. Second. Call the roll, please. Vice Mayor Baitman. Yes. Mr. Goodyear. Yes. Miss Hamlin. Yes. Mr. Hart, yes. Hazel Baker, yes. Mr. Jarnick, yes. Mayor Bailey, yes. Motion carries seven to zero. Next is city council council meeting minutes from February 28th, 2026 or additions. Move to approve as written. Second. Call the role, please. Mr. Goodier, yes. Miss Hamlin, yes. Mr. Hart, yes. Miss Hazelbaker, yes. Mr. Jarnick,

yes. Mayor Bailey, yes. Vice Mayor Baitman, yes. Motion carries seven to zero. Right. Next is second reading of an ordinance. We'll go ahead and read the ordinance. Ordinance establishing the schedule of municipal compensation of non-UN employees and the repeal of ordinance 202586B. Any further comment on this? All right. Call the role, please. Miss Hamlin, yes. Mr. Hart, yes. Miss Hazelbaker, yes. Mr. Janick, yes. Mayor Bailey, yes. Vice Mayor Baitman, yes. Mr. Goodyear, yes. Ordinance 24, I'm sorry, 23 is adopted by a vote of 7 to zero.

Read the next ordinance, please. Ordinance amending chapter 1501 in its entirety by adopting the Ohio Fire Code 2025 edition. Any further comment? Call the role, please. Mr. Hart, yes. Miss Hazelbaker, yes. Mr. Janick, yes. Mayor Bailey, yes. Vice Mayor Baitman, yes. Mr. Goodyear, yes. Yes. Ordinance 24 is adopted by a vote of seven to zero. Mr. Kennedy.

Um February uh 28th, city council met um to prepare to uh produ prepare their 2026 2027 uh city council goals um I know I speak for everyone else from a staff that felt that it was an extremely productive day um and um as we worked through it. So following that uh day, we spend the week sort of um trying to create and massage uh what was done to create what we feel is would be your next two-year strategies. Um we have since uh I believe back in 2020 the 2020 2021 we created four sort of overarching goals that back then we felt uh covered downtown revitalization, economic development, infrastructure and city operations. So since those goals, we have just been working on the various strategies each year. So we started the day by just sort of going through the 20 202 uh4 2025 uh goals uh strategies, what we've done, what we've accomplished, those that could maybe move on, those that needed to be massaged, those that needed to basically stay in their place. Um we typically don't amend the goals the overarching goals but we did feel that one particular goal the one that um uh previously stated that tell within infrastructure that included reversing a trend of deteriorating pavement and to be honest with you um I think city council should be commended because quite frankly that particular goal can be uh modified. Um, we showed that chart during the CIP on the kind of progresses the council's direction through the funding and through the approval of the budget and what the city has done in terms of uh resurfacing and our annual road program. And when we state those numbers, that doesn't

include uh road program road repair uh that is part of uh outside grant project. So within those uh goals, we did make the modification as re as shown in the memo. Within the infrastructure goal, we are recommending four strategies. You certainly don't want me to read them all the way through, but love my dear road. Uh with those three phases fully funded. Um Chris will continue advancing note working with city council uh on scheduling. Uh a big part of this will be coordination with property owners, underground utilities, all the modifications and of course to think that there won't be any changes in the project scope that would require additional funding from council is obviously that's the reality of life. Pedestrian connectivity uh the city continues that uh connecting our neighborhoods. Uh if you recall the the complete completed uh Claremont County transportation plan, uh this uh plan does center around the safe routes to school grant application uh safe route to school travel plan application that was just submitted. If funded, that does set us off into a whole another positive movement. If not, we will reapply as they allow twice. Riverside Drive is similar to Love Madira Road. It's being handled extremely well by uh Kelsey and Chris. they will start to get a clearer focus on exactly what the city's local match, how much of that can come from WMR and so on and so forth and other grant funding that may be available. POS remediation. I was when I was writing this, it's hard to imagine where we would be on this if we uh didn't have Chris's efforts. So at this point knowing that the plan is approaching 60% design um we'll really start to zero in or Chris will be uh bringing back all the different options and options in terms of both outside federal state and of course uh local rate structure to reach that uh Nisbet Park if all goes

well I think you could see that the end of 2027 we could uh if all goes well we'll be putting up a lid on that one and uh all aspects of the Nisbet park master plan under downtown. Uh a lot of this does focus on the build planning grant, but um we're going to take a more uh wider view of the railroad trestle. It was obviously important to council that it remain on there. Again, a similar downtown traffic flow. Um continuing to to to massage the downtown to keep traffic moving through. Uh the build plan would look at not only the trestle but uh five points downtown streetscaping obviously of all the master plans not from lack of effort. We've own we've not been able to get that big golden nugget that we need to do the phase especially the one that we be working jointly with um MSD uh economic development chestnut street. Um the council sort of directed Chris and I to to get more involved with uh sort of the regional opt uh the regional um authorities including um every aspect to do it where Chris and I are actually got a call coming with a larger scale industrial development downtown uh development opportunities. Again, a lot of this centers around the upcoming zoning regulation changes that will be working their way to council as they wrap through uh the planning and zoning and getting a handle on infield development and what all can the city do that the anticipated private development that's going to follow the revitalization. What all incentives, zoning, everything the city can do that will get what we anticipate will be from a private redevelopment of Love Madiraa Road. Now's the time to get everything in place. city tax revenues. Everyone knows that there could be changes coming. This is a lot of it is education and looking at all the city's options if some of the state tax changes do come to fruition. Uh city operations lastly uh maintenance of city facilities.

Currently working on a total square foot of all of what the city owns and the need to make sure that we are maintaining these facilities. I'll tell you right now, we are looking at creating a a facilities manager position, but this is very timely when uh with all of what we have, the money that's been set in this into this building, the safety center, the new fire station amphitheater coming, new public works building to let that stuff not uh let those items not be properly covered. Reserve policies. This is just finishing a goal. Mark will take the lead and get that reserve policies back. And then lastly, looking at a wider scale view of marketing and communications.

Thank you. Any comments or questions on all of that? Baker. Go ahead. Okay. All right. Um, no, I just wanted to thank the city and the staff. I mean, it was um well organized. I think um the kind of procedure and kind of going through, we were well taken care of from Missy, so just gratitude there. Um, I do appreciate when I saw the updates coming through just that reorder and that those kind of um to make sure those priorities are are clear and um the additions of kind of how we'll work um to kind of improve those communications to those residents. So, just a a lot of appreciation here, Mr. Hart.

Uh yeah, I mean I echo Miss Hazelbaker's thoughts there. a lot of appreciation for our staff um and the work they put in not only in getting that ready that day ready um but being prepared to answer questions and being participatory and um helping us understand the best approach we could possibly take. Um I I do I do think that um I I love where these goals kind of ended up in terms of this feels like what we should be worrying about as a council. um our city's infrastructure, our city's safety, um making sure that we're we're taking care of the basic needs of a city so that we can continue to move forward in the best way possible. So um I think this highlights what um what we need to do from a foundational standpoint um to make sure that we're putting into place all the things that we can do as a council to make sure that that any type of development or any type of movement forward from the city um is able to happen. Uh so um I'm I'm really appreciative of the work that everybody did. I really also appreciative of the colleial approach of all my you know fellow members of council. I thought it was a very collaborative discussion and uh I thought everybody had great ideas and everybody was willing to listen to ideas from everybody and uh I thought it was a well-run meeting. So appreciate it.

Mr. J. Yes. I I also want to thank uh uh our city manager and staff. Uh it was eye openening how well things went down and how I see it on paper and the missions that you guys um did last time, the last goals and how how much stuff was accomplished. I'm looking forward to seeing that come through. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else, Mr. Goodyear?

I would echo what everyone else said. I think I know we're all kind of saying the same thing, but I think it bears repeating because it was uh a lot of work, a lot of effort uh on the beha on the part of staff and of course council members as well, but putting us in a place where we can have a successful productive meeting like that and then being able to air out a lot of different ideas and go through um you know the big macro ideas of what where the city's heading and what we should be doing. I mean, also I appreciate having a chance to review the packet this week and see the product that came from the goal setting session. I thought that it's just such a a really great blueprint for exactly what was expressed and where I think the city should be going. So, I just appreciate all the hard work. I really that's the second time I've been able to do this and I really appreciate um as a member of council having the ability to sit down and really kind of focus on where we're going, what we're doing and I think that the goal setting session is a very effective way to do that. So, I I just really appreciate it.

Thank you. Anyone else? All right, we'll go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution establishing city council's 2026 2027 goals and strategies. Call the role, please. Miss Hazel Baker, yes. Mr. Jick, yes. Mayor Bailey, yes. Vice Mayor Baitman, yes. Mr. Goodyear, yes. Hamlin, yes. Mr. Hart, yes. Resolution 25 is adopted by vote of seven to zero. Mr. Wage.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, back in January of 2024, uh, city council adopted an ordinance um, defining and creating regulations around short-term rentals. Um, essentially short-term rentals at this point are conditional use u conditional uses in every zone except for LI. Um, and if you recall back in 2024, there was basically a two-year grace period that was given to all of the short-term rentals to get registered. Um, that time came up here this past January. We did a uh internal audit of all of the short-term rentals. And it uh was basically brought to light that we have upwards of 30 um that we know of that that are on those types of sites like the Airbnbs, the VBOs. Um, so we've got those all um, you know, classified and we've got those letters sent out for them to be registered. And in the last six months, planning and zoning has seen at least three, um, applications come to their attention for conditional use of short-term rentals in various parts of the city. Um, and at this point, planning and zoning, uh, at our last meeting on March, uh, would have been March 3rd, um, we had a a a conversation about what to do going forward. Um, we've got good regulations in place, but what we don't have and what we haven't really looked at, um, are some of the things such as the density, location, kind of what the saturation looks like, what it looks like neighborhood by neighborhood. Um and they felt at this point um they wanted to make a recommendation to council uh to consider putting a 1880day moratorum on all applications that come forth. Um they feel there's a lot of work that can be done to tighten up some

of these regulations as well as um looking at specifically looking at the saturation and the density and what the what each neighborhood you know does it make sense for all these zoning districts to be um to have short-term rentals as a conditional use to really look deep into it. I think the regulations we have as far as um being registered and all the things they have to do to meet the requirements those are good. Those are I don't think we're going to be looking necessarily at that. I think it's more of a 30,000 feet foot uh look at what do we want to see going forward. And this is a difficult topic because or a difficult discussion because as you know I don't have to reiterate any of this but we've got three three event centers within you know fairly close distance. Um very few lodging opportunities. Um in fact the one off 275 in Miami Township is closed indefinitely. um that that's a hotel. Um so it there is a need for these types of um uses. Um it's just the question of you know what does that look like going forward for the city. Um so with that as I said they have planning and zoning has made a formal recommend recommendation through a motion uh to to recommend that 180day moratorum and in that time period we will be meeting with potentially if it uh goes meeting with planning and zoning to uh really iron out a lot more of the details and bring that forth um as an amendment uh to council.

Thank you. Vice Mayor want to Yeah, sure. I mean, and uh all all transparency, I was out sick. I missed the meeting, but uh great summary. I would have uh So, you have nothing to add.

No, I do. I I got But I would uh I would I would have gone along with this uh you know, in lock step with the with the my colleagues on P&Z in large part because I think you know, as an aside to what Mr. Wish said uh you know largely speaking depending on where you sit in the you know economic scale regionally and nationally we are in a housing crisis whether with price to affordability and in large part our responsibility uh stewards of the housing stock in the city of Loveland really ought to be for residents of Loveland as opposed to tourists of Lovelin and I think as much as I'm against overly regular ating uh things that put uh make things difficult for property owners. I think this is an exception and we've got a duty to be able to protect uh not just uh you know the the future residents but also uh the neighbors of the uh these potential um short-term rentals. So it's an evolving process. I think Mr. Wish did a did did a as I said a good job describing the rationale behind this but I really look forward to uh you know rolling up our sleeves and getting to understand a little bit more about uh what we can do to ensure that uh that this is a viable option going forward where it makes sense uh but not uh creating a an environment where uh where uh houses that could uh that could host uh full-time residents to the city of Leland uh are are easily uh flipped and become uh you know part-time residents or part-time uh short-term rentals. So that I'm not to show my cards on this issue, but uh that's how I feel.

Thank you. Any comments or questions? Mr. Hamlin. Um yeah, I just I guess I would just echo what Mr. Baitman has to say. I think this is a good idea. Um, this type of housing has unique considerations and we're not saying we don't want it. We're not saying we do want it. We're just going to press the pause button for a little bit. And um I think that's a I think that's a a great compromise. And so yeah, I'm I'm in favor of this. This makes sense, Mr. Hart. Yeah, that helps. Thank you. Here. I'm here to help.

I appreciate that. Um, I I do I think this is a a very prudent step. Um, to Mr. Wines's point, we do have businesses that um that probably do count on these these short-term rentals, you know, with the event spaces that we have in in close proximity. Um, but there's a multitude of other factors that that need to be balanced when we think about that. So, um, the the step to, as Miss Hamlin said, press pause, um, and make sure that we've got our ducks in a row and make sure that this doesn't get into a place that we don't like or um, gets out of control or, you know, is staying a positive asset for our city, uh, I think is a is a prudent step. So, I think this is a good idea.

Thank you, Mr. Tum. Um, I just have questions, not really um, comments yet, but um, as you kind of were talking through um, kind of the pros and cons and what they're evaluating, have we received any resident complaints of, you know, I obviously I don't want specifics because I don't want to call anybody out on that, but just kind of an overview of any complaints coming in from neighbors or kind of the experience of it. And then as you kind of go through that um, what your review period of your kind of evaluating I heard density was kind of the main is there any other um, kind of criteria that you're looking at to of maybe other cities or how they've managed them of pros and cons um for the short-term rentals.

Yeah. So, uh Miss Hazel Baker, the first the first one um you're referencing um public comment for a condition the conditional uses. Is that what you're asking? I just want to make sure I understand. Oh, sorry. Like neighborhood impact.

Okay. So, we have seen we have seen neighbors come in during those during a conditional use public hearing um concerned with the transient um nature of short-term rentals. Um you know, they are different than than your normal rental, which is the definition is 30 days or more uh for for those types of rentals. Um so there has been concerns specifically in the last I would say the last two applications we've seen more um concerns being raised. Um so I think that was that was definitely a a catalyst um because we are seeing the concern being raised from our neighborhoods. Um and then the second part of that was um we are going to look at so I think what what we're going to provide to planning and zoning is essentially a uh a bullet map kind of thing of showing or pin you know showing all the pins of all the where the Airbnbs are currently that we know of um and get a feel for where they're where they're saturated where they're at where they're kind of you know showing up. And then I think the idea that and we'll have to we'll work through this, but I think the idea with planning and zoning is to kind of to honestly to almost take it neighborhood by neighborhood. Um you know, we're not that five square miles. It's not crazy. It's not going to take forever to figure this out. Um, so I think that is going to be the approach. Um, to look at it macro and then micro. Um, and try to get a good balance um, for where they're located. You know, for example, like I think, you know, I'm not speaking for, but I think in general, we all agree in, you know, in proximity to the downtown area makes more sense, right? That's kind of, you know, makes sense. But, you know, when you're talking farther out on the outskirts, why why, you know, maybe will be the question planning and zoning will be asking. So, that's kind of my thought process on how that'll go. Um, did that answer that?

It did. May I have one followup question? Thank you. Appreciate that. Um, so you you said you you know of 30. Is there a a guess or a knowing or is there a fear that there are more that we don't know of? Um, I don't think necessarily because I don't know unless I'm miss unless I don't know where else unless there's a black market for short-term rentals. I think it's all Airbnb and VBO. So, I'm not there's no fear. Um, you know, maybe we're missing one or two, but no, I don't think there's a big fear that it's like 100 compared to 30. Thank you. Any other comments?

Um, all right. I would just say I was a huge proponent of us dealing with this a few years ago when we at least put some legislation forward to to cover this. I think as a city we're trying to to get away from from rentals as much as possible in in in every neighborhood if we can. Um, and my concern with this has always been I think that these can change the character of your neighborhood and and change your quality of life as as a homeowner if you have these um Airbnbs and just in general and and certainly if they're not managed correctly. But I think people much would much rather have neighbors than constant turnover. So I I agree we need to look at it there. There's possibly a place for it, but I'm glad we're doing this. I think it makes sense. And also we are being asked to pass this as an emergency for obvious reasons. We'd like it to go um in place or in effect immediately. Any other comments? All right, we'll go ahead and read the ordinance.

Ordinance establish a 180day moratorum on the acceptance of all applications and the issuance of any permits for any short-term rentals within all zoning districts established within the city of Loveland, Ohio and declaring an emergency. Call the RO, please. Mr. Jick, yes. Mayor Bailey, yes. Vice Mayor Baitman, yes. Mr. Goodyear, yes. Hamlin, yes. Mr. Hart, yes. Miss Hazel Baker, yes. Ordinance 26 is adopted by vote 70.

Um, wait, we don't anything else on the All right. So, announcements. The city is accepting applications for a full-time police officer through March 13th. You have three days. Details available on the city's website. Um, Direct Energy will be mailing letters on March 20th regarding the new term of the natural gas aggregation program. There is a fixed rate of 0.596 per CCF for 24 months, which we all know what that means. It's very important.

In general, if you want me to just clarify, in general, um, it's gone up. It's gone up a little bit. Um, but not nowhere near what electric and everything. Um, so we we decided and this was prior um prior meetings, but we decided to enter into another two-year contract uh similar to what we had before. So it's gone up a very small percentage.

All right. And if you if you I guess that rate will be good through April 28th meter read. Okay. Um our railway barber shop has been nominated for best barberh shop in Cincinnati by citybe. There is voting open on the citybeat website. So, if you are so inclined, get on there and vote for our barberh shop. Um, finally, families and businesses can help us celebrate 150 years by taking part in our sesqua centennial sponsorship program. Families receive special keepsakes to honor their place in the city story, while local businesses will shine at community events throughout the year and all of our big cesennial celebrations. Sponsorships are only accepted through the end of this month, right? So we can get everybody

businesses the president's ones can go longer. Okay. So for family sponsorships they start at $50 and for that you get commemorative coin and a declaration. Um the next one up $150. Uh there also the coin and commemorative 150th street sign that you can have say anything up to 15 letters. Correct. So, well, it doesn't have to say Love Lovelin Street Drive. Thank you, Mr.

Which is kind of cool. Um, and then there's 250, which your name then is also included on an official CES Centennial plaque. There are also all kinds of corporate sponsorships that are available. So, we would urge all of our businesses to take a look at that because there are going to be a lot of events that uh name recognition will be will be prominent. Correct. All right. Does anybody else have any? Yes, Mr. Jared.

Yes. I wanted to thank Chief Gabrielson. I got to uh ride with um our our police department for 12 hours and see what their day and day what they go through. It's a and I've done a lot of ride alongs with a lot of other municipalities and uh we have a great police department. I mean, they were they they went talked to businesses, talked to the community oriented policing at its finest, and I want to say thank you. Yep. Very good. Anyone else? All right. We do need a motion for executive session. What? I'll make a motion we go in executive session under both. Whoop.

Go ahead, Mr. Jarnick. Whenever you're ready. Sorry. I would make a motion we go in executive session under higher votes code section 121.22 G1 to consider the compensation of a public employee. Second. Call the role, please. Mayor Bailey. Yes. Vice Mayor Baitman. Yes. Mr. Goodyear. Yes. M. Hamlin. Yes. Mr. Hart. Yes. Miss Hazel Baker. Yes. Mr. Ch. Yes.

We have a motion to adjourn now. Motion to adjurnn. Second. Call the role, please. Vice Mayor Baitman. Yes. Mr. Goodyear. Yes. Hamlin. Yes. Mr. Hart. Yes. Miss Hazel Baker. Yes. Janick. Yes. Mayor Bait. Yes. Thank you. Zero. I don't know.