City Council - Regular Meeting

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good evening and welcome everyone to the meeting of the first september of the municipal council of ashley to our viewers at home and thanks for being with us members of the public members of the council but that you have passed the commission guys lawyer bush director paxton welcome welcome everyone the first point in the order of the day of this evening will be the approval of the

There are no additional eliminations or verbal corrections. I ask for a motion for approval. As proposed.

It will be approved.

The first order of this evening will be an order that authorizes the issuance of the Dennautown certificate for the following expenses related to the city of Ashton, Ohio and... I'm not going to read... Unfortunately, this then and now came to us after the update of the last meeting of the council. Unwittingly, sometimes our public utility services call to report crimes. Unfortunately, sometimes the point where they think you pass the line is where it is really a bit different. Fortunately we have stuck the line of the Columbia Gas and this then and now is used to pay that bill. Unforeseen. It was not at all planned. It happens that accidents happen when you dig in the ground. So this is just the authorization to pay the fee.

Question or discussion?

I imagine being surprised that it is no longer high.

Could it be?

I'm sure it could be.

Let's not say we did it.

They took two and a half hours to contain the situation.

It's impressive.

It can be, as you can imagine, a very explosive situation. Public services do their best, with the equipment at their disposal, to be careful. But, unfortunately, sometimes it happens. Propongo di sospendere le regole per le tre giorni. Now we have an ordinance that approves the request for tax incentives for the area of community investment in the city of .

In 2019, it was June 2019, we were contacted by Brian Wellman, the manager of the . So when he was one of the first in franchising to obtain the gastronomic trailer, Chick-fil-A, he said he wanted it. You remember well, in 2000... And in fact, they even helped us with our great party in the pool, I think, for two or three years, bringing the truck and serving panini Chick-fil-A and... Well, the truth is that at the time it was not possible to have a franchise in our community, but that did not mean that our people did not want it.

And we are very lucky that they did not give up.

About a year, a year and a half ago, we were contacted by a representative of the company to start.

We are considered a market.

Well, after many discussions with their representatives, tonight I bring you an agreement of community reinvestment necessary to make them feel that they should build a restaurant. Chick-fil-A, the company with a seat in Georgia, would like to build a building of 4,472 square meters, a restaurant of about 8 square meters, near Calver, on the West 250. would have a cost of about 3625 million dollars and would take about 30 full-time jobs and as part of what we have discussed with them in recent months they believe they need a tax incentive to make the restaurant now we are seeing callers have a great success right now at 250 So, I have no doubt that CICFILA will have a similar success, but tonight I ask the Council if you could consider the approval of a fiscal incentive of 50%.

Is there any discussion?

I think that 50% of the...

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Ten years go by very quickly, and with all the economic activity we see out there, I don't think we'll go back very long term, because we predict that the next step will be the construction of a new hotel, which will probably have about... This will involve the accommodation fee, imposed on sales, all the activities generated by their guests in our restaurants, in our shops. you have the impression that they are close to sit at the table now it has been a long time and let me just say this nothing is official until it is not official so if you approve this tonight there are always things that could happen from here to the time provided for the construction but I am confident

I imagine I feel confident that the project will go well.

I will be very happy.

So I respectfully request your approval of this agreement. The terms are very similar to those that we have offered to all the others who are building restaurants. Not everyone, but many of our local restaurants, such as some of the projects completed in the center on Main Street and some that are in the process of

So this is not out of place, and it is nothing more generous than what we have offered to other investors for projects. I propose to suspend the rules for three separate readings.

to approve the order.

Okay.

Order 5026.

Several years ago this sign appeared in the city of Ashland and recently someone brought it to the office. So now I can officially show you that it is expected that Chick-fil-A will start construction in the spring of 2027. And they think that if everything goes smoothly, they will open in the third quarter of 2020.

I need a phone. We can finally use the card.

Well, we are certainly happy that they have chosen.

Absolutely. Here is the situation. Everyone knows that Bacchus is coming to a disconnection near us and this is obviously exciting for the quantity. And I think some people think it can have a dramatic impact on our disconnection and on the traffic. But I'm very confident with the introduction of Caldars, the arrival of Chick-fil-A, Seven Brew and Starbucks still present. I am confident that we will have a lot of traffic to our disconnection because specific franchising do not exist. So we're still halfway between Cleveland and Columbus.

Or Culver's. Or a cafeteria.

I'm sure most families are... Well, I appreciate your approval, because I really think it was necessary to realize...

The last time I heard it, you couldn't find... We don't have resolutions tonight. No point of order of the day. No old practice.

Unless the advice has something to prove.

But we have new practices. It is the transfer of a license for alcoholics from the CNK Ashlyn Ventures LLC, known as Park Market 8823. West Main Street Ashlyn.

Ah, the 8823.

It does not require an audience in this case, if there are no suspended concerns.

There will be a new activity. There is no new activity ready to enter that space at the moment, but it involves the closure of the park.

The license follows the mobile. In this sense. So there is a motion to not request. I ask you not to request.

Mr. Kyle, would you like to start?

I said no, it's just an agent. I received a call from someone and he was angry.

I would like to mention that no one complained about this, but the other night they were using... ...to freeze the asphalt.

And I think... ...they're doing pretty well... ...probably... ...they started at 6.30... ...they have to finish...

There have been some calls from people who have damaged their tires, perhaps on a protruding tube. I encourage everyone to drive carefully and slowly in those milling sections because they act around all those different obstacles and this is exactly what I was talking about. I don't know if I can say it in technical terms. I can assure you that there is a roundabout, a narrow area all around that. So we hope it starts to happen more often than it has happened in the past. But I apologize to anyone who has had that problem.

All right, sir. And on the same line regarding the streets, I noticed while walking around the city that many activities are improving their parking lots, asphalting, concreting and fixing them. So congratulations to them. It's a good thing for the city and it makes it much more attractive. So thanks to those who are doing it. They are spending money to take care of their own properties.

I just want to thank you. The hotel passes in front of us every day and it's just fantastic to see all this. It's looking fantastic from that side.

I have also received many questions about complaints, specifically why there is loose sand everywhere and what is it for. Yes, I think we did an adequate job in explaining what it is and why there is that loose sand. I also received some comments on why it was necessary to close the roads on the first day of school. And many comments about. Listen, they have to asphalt when they can. They just have to go out and do the work. And these roads are all over the city, right?

So it's not that we only focused on the school area. It's happening all over the city.

So it happens when the plumber, I think the plumber owns the milling machine.

so they plan the milling when they can get it and when they have it they use it 24 hours on 24 to take everything and then be able to go back to the asphalt so it is mainly this and in fact do not take me in words but I am quite sure that this is a correct statement in reality they started later than expected because they were waiting but now the roads are beautiful I know the alarm is not wonderful

I pass the word to you.

The only thing I would add is that we are waiting to know the results of our ODOT contract for salt. We are receiving some fragmentary information, it seems that we will be able to obtain our order, but we do not know for sure what the price will be, which will still be much higher than... There is no doubt, but I think that at this point we can take a sigh of relief, because we think that... One of the challenges we are facing is the difficulty of hiring machine operators in our road department and we are discussing with the union the increase in the income wage hoping to attract more talent in that organization. To give a little context, we usually have eight paths for snowplows we only have five qualified people to drive those snow-capping trucks so we need another three in the winter we are trying to figure out which is the plan b if we should not find them if someone is interested in working with the city we offer excellent benefits we are working to raise wages so that they are competitive with the private sector so do not hesitate to move on you need a cdl certificate this is our current limit not all those who work

I add that they are good jobs.

Hard but good jobs. Anyway, great jobs. Then I would ask for an executive session. And. Without going into details, I will tell you that it concerns.

Any problems? Well.

Having said that, let's move on to the comments to the questions of our audience. If anyone wants to speak to the council, this is the time to go up to the podium. Good evening.

Good evening. Good evening. I have difficulty finding the list of asphalt roads where I can consult it.

And also, if one of those roads is Milo Avenue Without checking, wait a second Maybe I have that one Well, I think this year we have 85 roads Let's see if I still have it here in my folder I brought it with me for a long time, in case someone asked, I have it It's a bit here Melody Marlo Avenue Thank you for coming, Mr. Prime.

Does anyone else want to address the council?

Since there is no one, there is a motion to update the seat in the executive session, in order to discuss the provision of real estate.

Okay, we are updated and no action will be taken. If you have commitments, this is the moment.