City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the Canal Winchester City Council work session for May 6, March 16th. Um, roll call, please. Miss A, present. Mr. Bennett, here. Mr. Statweiler, here. Mr. Mr. McGofflin here. Mr. Moore here. Mr. Payne here. Mr. Shay present. Also in attendance we have Andrew Moore, construction director Bill Sims, finance director Mana Jackson, city administrator Matt Peoples, Mayor Joeer, law director Jesse Champ, and development director Lucas Hair. Um we'll move straight on to reports for city council or city staff. Mr. Sims.

Thank you, Mr. more works continuing at the uh water reclamation uh headworks project. Uh we're continuing to form uh walls, foundation walls. We have uh two pores scheduled for next week on that. Um so work is moving along. Starting to have a structure now in the ground. So uh it's starting to feel like we're actually building up something now. So, um, Winchester Boulevard project, the, uh, electrical contractor will be returning to the project this week, uh, so they can finish up some foundations and then continue with the electrical work. Um, and then we're anticipating the, uh, landscaping contractor, uh, following him in about two weeks so we can start, uh, we have a few more plantings that need to go in and some, uh, brick pavers in the median that need to go down. So works uh works ramping back up for that project. Uh ultimately with the new surface pavement going down probably more in the the mid to late May so that we have uh you know the proper overnight temperatures for paving. Uh see Greengate Boulevard there's no new action there. Um we really are just keeping the road closed at this point uh until it's necessary for use. There's a traffic signal that will be installed by Kroger at the intersection. So, it'll be nice to have that so you don't have to try to make lefthand turns out of there. Uh, East Waterlue Street project uh will also be resuming, but later this month, contractors scheduled to return on uh March 30th uh to begin their restoration work. Um, so we obviously have the repairs that need to be done uh with the pavement. Um, but we are also as part of

that going to be revamping the uh handicap uh crosswalk uh at Trine Street. Uh putting in a couple curve bumpouts there to shorten that crosswalk a little bit uh with a new crosswalk. Um so the intention is to hopefully have everything done on that project and be complete by the end of April. Uh McGill phase 2B. Um We've been pretty heavy into the uh submittal review process uh with probably a little more than 50% of the reviews completed at this point. Um the contractor Tucson Incorporated is anticipating uh performing tree removals um next week. Um we have to have any trees that we're going to cut down done before the end of March. Um so we don't affect the

the bats,

Indiana bats. So, um, this point we'll be out there this week getting everything marked. Uh, I'm anticipating the removals the following week and they're expecting to start on-site work in early April on that project. Uh, we'll keep our fingers crossed on the weather, but um, there's utility work that could begin, so we'll be seeing some action out there. uh and the 26 street program um contracts are exe are executed and you know at this point we would not expect to see work on that project till mid to late April typically starts with the concrete work so program or repair program typically then we'll move into pavement patching and typically paving doesn't occur until sometime in June. Uh on the private side Culver's uh project is continuing. Um they did get their uh water man uh tested. Uh the sanitary sewers tested. So the utilities are done. Um also at the OP Cheney Mill, uh the contractor was working last week on trying to get sidewalks installed. They have all but a couple pieces of that done. Um, and we're hoping to get the asphalt pavement patched on, uh, West Oak, uh, maybe later this week when the weather's a little bit better, so get those plates off the road. Uh, Kroger's continuing. There's a lot of work yet to be done out there. Um, but the underground utilities are in at this point. So, uh, it's all pretty much just site work from this point forward, private site work, and there are no, uh, significant, um, rightway utility pro projects going on right now. Um, really about the only thing you might see is on Gender Road, uh, south of Grocport Road down by the,

uh, the bridge over the river. They are doing some, uh, conduit installation for South Central Power. Um but um really other than that it's just gas services. Any questions?

Mr. Sims, how do how should somebody go about reporting potholes and it do they need to be a particular diameter before you will entertain repairing them? Um well the any pothole is worth mentioning um for sure and um they can either make a call to the city um certainly the street manager would be probably the appropriate person but really any call to the city will get you to where you need to be on that even if it's just to our general number. Uh also on the website all the various emails are listed um for the street department folks. Um but yeah, any any any input on potholes is is good. This time of year obviously it's kind of when they they show their head and um you know you know we don't necessarily get on every street every day. So yeah, it'd be easy to miss something that was in a you know more of a residential area.

Thank you. Mr. Shay had a resident ask me this weekend and can you refresh my memory? Are we putting a dog park in 2B? Uh, so the proposed dog park in the McGill plan was is not part of 2B. Um, it's actually a north of the river. Um, okay.

So, yeah. So, 2B was just has a baseball field, some multi-purpose athletic fields, shelter building, playground, uh, some family kind of sport area. Um that's kind of the primary uses and walking path. But yeah, the dog the dog part is not part of that. Is it going to come in the future?

Well, we have it on our plan for the future. Um you know, we had it designated in the area just north of the creek um along like Winchester Road. So be closer to town than like parallel to the road that is just abysmal out there. Yes, correct. Okay. Um so, you know, we had that as identified as a location. Um I will say that that is flood way most of it. Okay.

Which, you know, would really kind of hampers what we can do, you know, from a permanent situation down there. Things like fences, benches, you know, uh wouldn't perform well in in the flooding condition. Um I don't if you ever kind of notice that during the floods when you go over that bridge it it does it comes way out there's a lot of flow so you know we have to evaluate you know depending on the level of what we want to do to and to to develop it is that appropriate place you know can we do the things we want to do you know to provide a good park so um but I'm sure we have other locations that would be suitable to so

okay I just I had a resident asking me about this weekend so I time to bring it up. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Mr. S. Uh, next we'll move on to C request for council action. Uh, first up we have resolution 26-012. Clerk, will you please read a resol, excuse me, a resolution appointing Will Bennett to serve a three-year term as a member of the housing council expiring on December 31st, 2028. Mr. Hair.

Thank you, Mr. Moore. I'll talk about this resolution in the next resolution as one. Um, the council created a housing council with the creation of our community reinvestment areas. Um, a housing council meets annually each year to review all properties that are receiving the benefit of a real estate tax exemption. Um, council appoints two members to serve on that housing council. The mayor has two members that he appoints. There's one from planning and zoning commission and there's two more that are appointed by the remaining members of the housing council. And so the two seats that are appointed by council um are their terms have expired. Mrs. Ach and uh Mr. Buskerk were serving in those roles. Um so we solicited council for feedback on who to appoint and the recommendation was to appoint uh Mr. Bennett and Mr. Ker to serve a three-year term on that committee. So be happy to answer any questions you have about that. The upcoming meeting for the housing council is scheduled um for March 26th. Any questions? Can I get a motion to move resolution 26 test 012 to full counsel?

So moved. Second. Motion made by Mr. Mccclaclin, second by Mr. Payne. Roll call, please. Mr. Mclofflin, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay, abstain. Miss A. Yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Deweiler, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Resolution passes. Next, we'll go to resolution 26-013. Clerk, will you please read a resolution appointing Adam Carner to serve a three-year term as a member of the housing council expiring on December 31st, 2028? U Mr. Hair has already addressed this resolution. Does anybody have any questions regarding this? Did anybody inform Mr. Kersner that was a three-year term?

I did. Okay. No one informed the No one informed the other appointee. I was just Good to check. Good thing the other appointee got the the agenda. Um, can I have a motion to uh move resolution? Thank you. Motion made by Miss Aik, second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Miss Aik, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Deweiler, yes. Mr. Mr. Mclofflin. Yes. Mr. Moore. Yes. Mr. Payne. Yes. Mr. Shay. Abstain. And thank you, Mr. Carer, for stepping up. Same to you, Mr. Bennett. Yeah.

Uh, next we'll move on to resolution 26-014. Clerk, will you please read? A resolution approving the mayor's appointment of Carol Delgroso to serve a four-year term as a member of the landmarks commission expiring on December 31st, 2029. Uh Mr. Moore, have you taken this one or Mr. Steer? Talk about Carol.

Oh, yes. We interviewed two people for that. Um and this is Excuse me. Sorry. We interviewed uh two folks for this and we have two good candidates. We in informed them both that we'll have an opening coming at the end of this year. So if you don't get in this one um since you got an interview, you've got a good chance of getting in at the end of the year. Uh we went ahead and picked one of those candidates, uh Carol Degrasso, after um interviewing them both. And um we think she's going to work out really good. She's had she's come before landmarks before for her own home. She's been involved in a lot of things in Canal Winchester as well as her husband uh back when we were a village and um good members of the community. So, I think she's going to work good and hopefully you guys will approve of her. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Any questions? Motion to move resolution 26-014 to full counsel. Second motion by Mr. Bennett, second by Mr. Shay. Roll call, please. Mr. Bennett, yes. Mr. Shay, yes. Miss A? Yes. Miss Statweiler? Yes. Mr. McGlaughlin? Yes. Mr. Moore? Yes. Mr. Payne? Yes.

Thank you. Next up, we have resolution 26-015. Clerk, will you please read? A resolution creating three tax increment financing districts within the city of Canal Winchester, declaring the improvements to the parcels within the tip districts to be a public purpose, declaring such improvements to be exempt from real property taxation, requiring the owners thereof to make service payments in lie of taxes, designating the public infrastructure improvements to be made that will directly benefit or serve the parcels in the three TIF districts, and establishing a public improvement tax increment equivalent fund for the deposit of service payments. Thank you, Mr. Hair.

Thank you, Mr. Moore. Um, this is the culmination of many times we've discussed this project. Uh, but this would create uh three separate tiff districts associated with the Miller Farms development. Um, this would be a 30-year um tiff where 100% of the property taxes. It basically exempts the property taxes, but then there are service payments required. So, the owners within this would pay the same amount they would pay in real estate taxes. It's just restructured as a service payment. Um, and then that those funds are then allocated to the different taxing entities that would receive funds and then to the TIF um the TIF fund that the city would hold which is in a separate account. Um, this is a non-school tiff. So, the school districts would be made whole. In this case, the the Canal Winchester School District and the the Eastland Fairfield uh career center would be made whole. Um and so they would receive all the funds that they would have received but for this exemption being in place. Um this also establishes the infrastructure that would be eligible for the tiff reimbursement. Um so this is the infrastructure that's associated with the Lopoulos road improvements. Uh so the widenings that are taking place there, Oregon Road and Hayes Road. Um so the maximum amount improvements there that would be eligible for reimbursement is capped at $6,500,000. Um and then we would be reimbursing that with interest to the developer. Um there would also be some utility infrastructure included in that um to serve off-site areas. And so there's infrastructure being brought to the development from off-site, but this would be extensions to property lines, things like that that would serve other parcels in the surrounding area in the future. Um, this one is a little different from tiffs we've done in the past because this is an incentive district tiff. It allows um single family properties to be

included in it. um with that incentive district if there are some requirements to um make payments to the county for portions of property that or portions of the taxes that would be exempt and would be taken by the tiff and so in the 11th year um we would need to make payments uh to the county uh which is up to 50% of what they've foregone in taxes with the exemption. So um a little different than what we've done in the past. Uh so we did file the notice with the county. Uh the county did object to the tiff and so statutoily we're required to to reimburse them for a portion of that which we will do and that's designated in this document. And then there are also some protected levies that um would go to the township fire department um that are protected from being part of this. So they would be made whole on those levies as well. Great. Um, so be happy to answer any other questions you have regarding the establishment of this tip.

I have a question, Mr. Hair. Yes. Um, you mentioned off-site projects. Can you describe those a little bit more and like where that location would be?

Um, so as part of the project, we we're going to require the developer to extend utilities to the boundary lines of the property. So, uh, for example, it'd be required to have a utility stub extend to Oregon Road, um, to serve property on the what would be the east side of Oregon Road in the future. Um, and the same with Hayes Road. We would require them to extend utilities down Hayes Road to serve future extensions. Um, we're also requiring utilities to run instead of cutting from Lifeopous Road across to Haze Road, we're requiring them to extend down Lopoulos Road to serve the residential parcels along Lithopouloolis Road.

And so they would be able to have, you know, curb boxes installed and connect to water lines in the future. Um, we have had some issues with parcels in that area uh that have um some well issues as well as septic issues there. So, it'd be good to get an opportunity for them to have service as well. So, okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Mr. Hair of the protected um and you may not have the details on this, but the the what leveies from um Madison Township Fire are protected. Are those the Do we know for certain?

I I'd have to look it up. And I unfortunately I'm don't think I have access currently. I'm on the public system. I can I can give you that information. I know the most recent levy, the 2015 levy is a protected levy. Okay. U because they issued debt against the the buildings there. Um but I have a list I can get you of all the protected levies. That'd be great. Thank you. Any other questions? Mr. Hair, thanks for putting in all this work for that. I know that was a a lot of a lot of work. I got one more question. Mr. Sure.

The I'm trying to figure out how to say this. When we get to the point where we have to start reimbursing the county, what does that look like? Is it a what was the percentage again? It'd be 50% of the the amount that they've foregone. So they have the inside millage which is the 10 ms. So it' be five ms. Okay. Thank you. I have no other questions. Chair. There may be other levels in there. Like I said, I have a spreadsheet. I can get you the exact amounts on and all that. No, that's fine. Does the county ever object to tiffs? They object to all of them. Oh, just by practice. Okay,

makes sense. Uh, chair motions to move resolution 26-015 to full counsel. Second motion made by Mr. Moore, second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Statweiler. Abstain. Mr. Mclofflin. Yes, Mr. Payne. Yes, Mr. Shay. Yes, Miss A. Yes. Thank you. Next up, we have resolution 26-016. Clerk, will you please read a resolution approving a final development plan for Violet Township Fire Station?

Mr. Moore, try to turn everything on here real quickly. Uh so I'm going to go the going over the final development plan application for the new Violet Township Fire Station uh to be located off QC road. Um up on the screen is a zoning map. The parcel highlighted in teal is the proposed uh subject property which is approximately 5.8 acres located on the south side of Buy Road. This property is owned by Violet Township and is adjacent to Buy Road Park, which is also owned by the township. Uh, properties to the west are multifamily apartment homes in the city owned by Redwood. Uh, to the north are large residential homes located in the township. Uh, the applicant is requesting approval for a new 11,411 square foot fire station for Violet Township. on the subject piece. Just quickly going over the plans here, existing conditions, um show the existing park, the existing trail network, the trees that are within that that zone. The property boundaries is the northern box carved out of the parkland here that's also owned by the township. Uh the um I want to leave it on this screen for a minute. Just has a lot of information. Um the fire department is looking to build the new substation uh located along BC road. The BC road and this screen is to your right Greengate Boulevard which was just constructed to your left. Um when looking at the site plan, they have the building um pushed towards Buucy Road. They're going to have a primary ingress and egress on the west side of the site. Um, on the east side of the site, uh,

facing Buy is, uh, an exit only for emergency vehicles, emergency traffic, and then they're going to have a long private drive that's going to connect the front of this site to the Boulevard in the back. Uh, the red lines I have on the screen correlate with a red bounding box. They're going to have a remote controlled access gate uh, to control traffic on that drive. So basically you don't have people cutting through their site to get from Greenate Boulevard to BC road. Uh the um fire department indicated that this connector road to the south is is really necessary due to the intersection of Hill Road and BC road with that obscure angle where the road tease in. You have the house that's really close uh to Hill Road there. So emergency traffic that will be leaving eastward out of the site will actually head south and go through Greengate Cove to get to Hill to head north or south depending which direction that you take. Um the uh application also shows they're going to be extending sanitary sewer from in front of Redwood with the green line and then the water line in blue. They're going to be extending from Greengate Boulevard to BC Road, but that's going to be a public water man. um planning and zoning commission made a condition of approval that this public water man that these drawings should show there's an easement on it basically to note it's going to be a public water line as shown in their submitt but just wasn't super clear. Uh when looking at this plan sheet as well you can see there's existing rows of trees that they're going to be maintaining. Um and I believe there's only one tree they note will be impacted for this project. Zooming into the front of the site, um you can see their primary layout. They have four publicly accessible parking stalls in the front of the site. The remainder are located behind the um the

remote controlled gate. Uh the um access drives are shown here with arrows showing which way is exit only, which way is in and out. That um left side of the building on your screen, as you'll see later, is really the garage bays for the facility. as said they're going to design this this building to where all the cars pull in one direction, exit one direction. Uh looking at the private access drive as it connects to Green Boulevard. Again, you can just see here some closer up details noting the water lines, storm lines, um and just the existing landscape that's out there. Uh landscape plan has been provided for review. Um the applicant is planting um a number of trees on the site that meets our landscape code a total of 23 trees. Um this plan also um shows that they are extending the malt east path along the frontage of BC road to the parcel limits of the fire station. Um they indicated at this time they are not extending that path through BC Park um which is separate parcel but same ownership. Um, when looking at this plan as well, you can see they're putting a public sidewalk connection from that Maltese trail um along the access drive leading to the front of the building. So, there'll be plenty of pedestrian connectivity. Uh, just another sheet here showing the landscaping that's going to be installed along Green Boulevard to help kind of screen this site as it as it matures. This is a quite a distance between these two um locations. Um, this is more about I think just strategic landscape planting. That makes sense for their long-term maintenance. Um, you can disregard the mound that's shown on the screen that was temporary for construction where surveyors just picked it up when they went out to survey the

site. Interior floor plan. This building's really subdivided into two main functions. The left half of the building is kind of their workout room, their base for the equipment, vehicles. Uh the right hand side of the building is their offices and living quarters. Um this building does feature like a tornado shelter in it. Um there is a mezzanine on the second floor for mechanical units. Um so they have this space really programmed out for um their needs. When looking at the exterior of the building, uh the firehouse is at the tallest peak 32 feet tall. Um, it's a mix of CMU block, a concrete quick brick, pre-cast concrete lentils, a board and batten metal siding, and a standing seam metal roof. Um, the applicants um 3D renderings um show that the uh building is earth tone colors. Um, it's really going to be very muted besides the bright red um garage doors and van doors that going to be on the facility itself. Um, a lighting plan was provided. Those are really hard to see on the PowerPoint, so I left that off for you guys, but they're using decorative fixtures meeting the spec heights for the overlay district. Uh, signage has not been submitted at this time. The applicant will have to come back um to planning and zoning commission and back to city council for their signage package um authorization when that gets completed. They just didn't have all the details ready for the submittal for the planning and zoning meeting last week. So, planning and zoning commission is recommending that final development plan 26001 be approved with the following conditions. Uh, the first is that the applicant provides an easement easement on the public water main extension through their site and the second is the applicant submits a signage plan for future review.

Thank you, Mr. Moore. Any questions for Mr. Moore? Got off easy tonight. Oh, never mind. Mr. Shay. So, when I look at the Violet Township Fire Station location map on the very first page in the packet where it shows the parcel in red and kind of gives you that um satellite aerial view.

Yeah. Uh I don't it's not in your presentation but it really gives you a sense of how that parcel bisects that entire area. And my concern is for the residents that are living adjacent to that now because we're going to run. I understand the concept of the private road to have safe egress for them to come out and be able to not take that hairpin s turn up there, but we're going to subject these residents to lights, sirens. Have we talked to Violet Township Fire Department about mitigating the impact on the residents that are there existing? So the question was brought to the township on why that access drive was necessary mainly because it's a lot of roadway you know why why build a lot of roadway um if you don't have to and the discussion was really all about they didn't feel like they had the um public safety to turn east on Bucy Road to service those residents that direction based on that existing road configuration and so that's why they came up with the private access drive leading to the Oh, no. I understand that. But

that was that was the answer we were provided. Okay. I mean, do we have to do something on this tonight? I mean, I'm not going to say no to a fire station, but I am trying to find that happy median of, you know, hey, I've been I've been living there for four years and now a fire station comes up and now every night I've got sirens and lights outside my window. Right. That is up to the city council to have that discussion. Right. The bio township's own that plan for a fire station in that location for 20 years. understand. I mean, but

Mr. Sh, would you feel better? Like, so I would assume that the private drive is going to have illumination at night, maybe some lamp posts or something. You're talking about installing ballards, but they haven't included those in any of their plans, but it wouldn't be it wouldn't be large lights on the the private drive. Okay. So I I guess I'm just seeing can we ask for an operational commitment from Violet Township Fire Department to try to minimize the impact of the sirens and lights as we're

I think they're probably legally obligated if they're running an emergency situation to run their lights and sirens. So asking them to run on public roads in an emergency situation without lights and sirens probably would not be appropriate. I'm not asking them to do that, but if they're on their private road, once they get on to the other one, I understand they turn them on. It is what it is. Like I said, I'm not going to say no to a fire station. I have a question. Is there a possibility we could ask them to consider any sort of like sound mitigation landscaping like a thick hedge or some sort of wall? So, if you look at the screen uh that I have up right now, just to the the left or or west of their fire station, there's a really thick existing tree buffer.

You can even see it on the area here that separates them and their their closest neighbors

um to the maybe this screen's a little better here. So when you look towards the south towards the Greengate Cove neighborhood, um the grades on this site are a little bit higher. As you get up towards the back of that 5.8 acre parcel, um so where the firehouse is going to sit is likely going to just be from an elevation standpoint a little bit lower than um as you move backwards as as you move south. You can see there's kind of a crown there and that's kind of the bold line that separates the storm flow a little more. So there is a little bit of natural grade break. Um in terms of a um zoning requirement for any kind of you know sound mitigation there there really isn't one. This is a public use which is a permitted use for a residential zone piece of property. Um, so to answer your question, I don't have any tricks up my sleeve to allow that to to require that to happen.

I guess as long as maybe if there's issues down the line, we could politely ask them to think about it. Anything else? Do I have a motion to move resolution 26-016 to full counsel? So moved. Second. Uh motion made by Mr. Bennett, second by Mr. McLolin. Roll call, please. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Mclofflin? Yes. Mr. Moore? Yes. Mr. Payne? Yes. Mr. Shay? Yes. Miss Aik? Yes. Miss Stew? Yes. Thank you. Next up, we have resolution 26-017. Clerk, will you please read?

A resolution to wave competitive bidding for the Miguel Park House exterior renovations project. Mr. Peoples.

Thank you, Mr. Moore. Uh, as we were finalizing our, uh, process to do the exterior of the Miguel House, um, including siding, roof, gutters, windows, doors, and a reconfiguration of the front porch. Um, Mr. Hair pointed out, it'd be really nice if we could do, uh, electric while we're in there. Uh, the interior needs to be have a renovation as well. Um, while we have all the siding off, makes more sense to do that. Uh that puts us above the um uh purchasing threshold that we have uh and are requesting uh to go through uh requesting council to wave competitive bidding uh and proceed with the project through River Valley Restoration and Abbott Electric.

What did that add to the uh electric is 45,000. It's a whole new panel. It's an old house. Yeah. Um very old house. uh we were going to pay it on the interior plus restoration of all the walls and everything else as well. So this is looking to save us some uh some funds as well that does have some um we have our IT room up here for the site. Uh so that is uh going to stabilize that as well. Perfect. What is the total we're looking at now? Uh 140 for the house and 45 for the um for the electric. So 185 185.

So this was originally on last year's budget for the house to do. Um we had a couple different quotes going back and forth. The the quote the the other quote that we got just for the house uh was higher than the 140. I think it was 165. And if I remember correctly, we had even looked into potentially not keeping the house, but it was in such a such

foundation is in is in great shape. Uh we we uh and that's why we did the um the back porch uh last year, year before um and and got it stabilized as well. We have a generator out there uh for the the operations. Again, that's what controls the um access management for the wood shelter. Uh, and uh, like I said, we're we will be going on to a a future project on the interior um, to get a restroom facility in there. Um, be able to have uh, there's a pot belly stove. Uh, this includes uh, taking out the chimney for that old pot belly stove in there as well. Okay, great.

Mr. Peoples, we've we've talked on and off about how that house might be used. Um, I think we've said maybe a park office. is do you envision it being a rentable facility or there just isn't enough footprint inside to I mean there there could be some meeting rooms uh in there um it with the library coming online and their meeting rooms it might not make it as uh as as rentable but it's it it's not a it won't be a bad place where the the interior will have two um two rooms. One of them will be a a large office area and uh the the upstairs is not going to be used at all. Uh it's got two three bedrooms.

Uh and one of those was converted to the IT room. Okay. Okay. So it would just be first floor. The the um the restroom in there is not operational at this point. It is but but we do anticipate some useful life to the industry. Okay. Yeah. Already came up with something. Don't worry, Lori. Yeah, we've already got it figured out. That That's a really old property. Does the Is the 140 contract, is that like a firm one or is he got or does he have the ability to add on if we run into more complications?

There's some contingency that's included in that 140 with wood rod especially. Uh some of the that's that's all old original wood. I don't know about original, but wood siding. Um there's a piece I don't know if they call it at the bottom of the siding where it kicks it out. Uh it's wood as well. It's almost like a piece of flash unit that that supposed to keep the water away from the foundation. It's completely rotted out. There's it's been needed for some time. Uh even before we got it, it would probably need a new sighting on it. Um this one thing, this is all Hardy Plank. So, uh being the the age of the house, uh Mr. Starer worked with Mr. Moore uh on working to our I'll call it our land or our landmarks. um u standards of specifications. Uh so all of this work does meet that even though it's not in the district.

But being the age of the house, we wanted to um put it to that uh those those standards. Thank you. Okay. Go ahead. Um yep. Will has a question. Yep. Yep. I tried. Um Mr. Peoples, if you could um do me a favor, remind me the benefit to the public of waving the competitive bid for this project. What's the benefit?

The project delivery. Uh it'll keep we this is a uh we do it as a simple contract as well. Um these the the spec we didn't develop the specifications of this um other than we said this is what how we want to do it. If we're doing a public bid, all of that has to be put in documentation. Uh, so we're saving not only our own time and effort but the contractors as well when they start bidding on a public publicly bid project like that. Thank you, Mr. Peoples. You're welcome. Are you comfortable with the 140 contractor?

Yeah. Compared to the other contractor that that we've used here uh as well um uh he does a lot of our painting uh work. He does uh work uh throughout the community. Uh this um I I do feel good good about this. All right. Thank you. I'll um motion to move resolution 26017 to full counsel. So moved. Second. Second. No. Second. Uh we have a motion by Miss A, second by Miss Deweiler. Roll call, please. Miss A. Yes. Miss Deweiler? Yes. Mr. McGofflin? Yes. Mr. Moore? Yes. Mr. Payne? Yes, Mr. Sheay. Yes, Mr. Bent.

Yes. Next up, we have ordinance 26-007. Clerk, will you please read an ordinance to amend ordinance 24-010 updating the swimming pool rates? Miss Jackson.

Thank you, Mr. Moore. Um, as you may recall, two weeks ago, we discussed uh changing the daily admission rate for the pool to u move to a resident non-resident rate as a result of being able to u more quickly identify residents and non-residents based on our new policies. So, um the ordinance before you this evening does just that. It keeps resident rates exactly where they have been for many years now. Um and then has a uh an additional $2 for non-residents.

Thank you. Any questions? In the past, Miss Jackson, where do we set the age requirements for admission? Is that in a separate ordinance or is that part of our daily rate in the past? Uh the I will pull it up and because anything that was in the last I'm sure if it was in the last one, it's in this one. I just didn't know. So, the one that is in front of you this evening does nothing more than change the daily rates. So, everything else that is in the previously approved one remains in effect. Um, let me pull that real fast.

But I know we talked about increasing the age for admittance. Why did I already did that? It's not I believe you. I just Yeah. wondering why I think we discussed making it. So, I don't think we ever settled on a firm age either. Um, it does not specify in the previously approved rate ordinance. Um, as a matter of fact, that rate ordinance does not include any rules and regulations. Those are set by the mayor andor his designate.

Got it. So we will not need to take any council action to set the age admission. Correct. Thank you. Chair motions to move ordinance 26-007 to full counsel. Second motion made by Mr. Moore, second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Statweiler, yes. Mr. Mclofflin, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay. Yes. Missing. Yes. All right. And the last but not least, we have ordinance 26-008. Clerk, will you please read?

An ordinance to amend the 2026 appropriation ordinance number 25-029, amendment number one. Miss Jackson.

Thank you, Mr. Moore. Uh, the memo that was attached to this ordinance um details out exactly what the use of all of these funds are. I will very quickly go through that. Um, in the general fund, we're asking for a total of $536,000. The bulk of that is uh related to the purchase of 650 Bowen Road that we spoke about two weeks ago. That would cover two quarterly payments for that lease purchase. Um, the rest of it in the general fund, there's 52,000 in the parks capital outlay that is related to two separate projects. one being the resurfacing of the tennis courts. This is something we're doing in conjunction with the schools. Um it was originally included in the 2025 budget. The schools came back last year, said they weren't going to do the project, then approached us about a week ago and said, "Hey, we need to do this project now." Um so that is why we are asking for those funds. Um and it also has to do with the electrical upgrades that we are doing um in at for the McGill Park House. We did have some money already budgeted since the as Mr. People spoke about our other quote came in at 160. So we had a little wiggle room there. Um but then when the electrical came in as high as it did, we needed some additional to complete the electrical work. So that's um included in the parks money. Uh the $116,000 in the transfers and advances line item. Um this is related to the Basil Western Road project that we are doing. Again, city council approved um an intergovernmental agreement with Fairfield County and the TID. Um this is our portion of debt that will be due later this year. That debt was issued by the county, not by us, but um we do have a portion of that that we agreed to pay. That money is going to be transferred from the general fund to the debt service fund and then paid out of the

debt service fund. So you will see that money technically appropriated in two different funds. that is how I am required to account for it. Um in the bed tax fund we're asking for $20,000. This is related to the marketing consultant um that we have spoken about. This was the result of the community partner study that was completed. Um and then in the water fund and the canal point uh industrial public water system fund. These are grant funds that we were actually awarded last year. We did not spend all of it as we anticipated in 2025. So, we are just asking to reappropriate the remainder of those grant funds. These are reimbursement grants. So, we have to spend the money and then we will um get the money back after we fulfill all of our requirements. So, that's 10,000 in the water fund and 20,000 in the Canal Point water fund. And then finally, in the sewer fund, um we're asking for $15,000 related to a toxicity study um that we are currently doing. We have been doing this for many years. Um it there was money included in the 2026 budget for it, but the estimate that we got for 26 from the contractor at the beginning of the this year was a little higher than we were anticipating. Um so we are asking for additional funds for that. If you have specific questions about that, I would refer you to Mr. Peoples.

Quick question on the uh the money for the inter intergovernmental agreement. Um, I know the anticipation was that TIFFs would pay a majority of that. Are we moving that there as a just in case or is there just not enough TIFF money out there because there's not development out there yet? Correct. There's no TIFF money coming in yet. Got it. So, um, and the way that the debt is currently structured, there are debt payments due this year. So that is the those funds are for our portion of the bond payments that are due at the end of 2026. Gotcha. 39%.

39%. Yeah. And we would Could we reimburse ourselves when they're when TIFFs do start out there from that or can we loan it to the tiff? I don't know the answer to that question off the top of my head. Um but I can speak with Mr. Champ and Mr. care about that. Just might be nice if we can give ourselves some money back, take it as a loan and yeah. Uh any other questions?

Yes. Go ahead. Um the tennis courts is like I'm always confused on these. Um do we have an agreement that allows our residents to use them? Is what is that agreement? What the tennis court? Meaning what? What do you mean? Well, sometimes I hear people say, "We're not allowed to use those. Those are the schools." And I'm like, "Yeah." And I'm not sure what to tell them. Uh the school has first priority use on those for their tennis program. Okay. Um and then at any other times we we have that or it's just open to the public. Okay. Thank you.

Anything else? Do I have a motion to move uh or or resol or ordinance 26-08 to full counsel? So move second. Motion made by Mr. McGlaughlin. Second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Mclofflin, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Missweiler, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay, yes. Miss Amit, yes. All right. Next up, we have uh any old or new business? Well, any new business? I do. Mr. Shay, um Mr. Peoples, while we had our um power loss this weekend,

I saw a lot of great efforts and heroic efforts by city staff, especially our folks that are probably the most unappreciated guys on the team, and that would be our sewer guys hauling generators around to lift stations to make sure that things were continuing to flow and to pump and that's very appreciative. Have we ever looked at putting natural gas generators on sites for those to service backups? Is that a bad idea? Is that just too cost prohibitive? I'm just curious.

Yeah, we uh some places do not have gas. Uh we we have a the pump station out of US Route 33 um at the on the on-ramp from DY Road uh that has a backup pump there. Um we have generator hookups at all of our other stations. most of the time we we are we do well. Uh we have two other mobile pumps as well uh that we have. So some of the line of thinking is generators are great uh but if a pump failure happens um then a generator is worthless. So that we kind of have that combination that we're able to um to jockey those around uh when when we have something that's catastrophic that we've had before. um whether it's a lot of extra uh weather along with um or extra rain along with the um uh the power outages which fortunately we did not have this uh this this past weekend. Um it it just gives us a lot of flexibility having that all those.

All right. Thank you. You're welcome. Anything else? Do I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. Motion made by Mr. Shay. Second by Mr. Mclofflin. Roll call, please. Mr. Sheay, yes. Mr. Mcofflin, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Miss Aik, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Stweiler, yes. Time out. 651. Oh, no. You're fine. 6.

This is the call to order for the Canal Winchester City Council meeting for Monday, March 16th, 2026. Our pledge of allegiance this evening will be led by Mr. Moore. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Mr. Moore. Again, welcome to all of our distinguished guests this evening. Roll call, please. Miss, present. Mr. Mr. Bennett here. Miss Steweiler

here. Mr. McGofflin here. Mr. Moore here. Mr. Payne here. Mr. Sh here. Thank you. The first item is the approval of minutes 26-009. These are the work session minutes for March 2nd, 2026. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Motion made by Mr. Moore, second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Deweiler, yes. Mr. McGlaughlin, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay, abstain. Miss Aean,

yes. Thank you. The next is the minutes from the March 2nd, 2026 city council meeting minutes. Uh, minutes 26-010. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Motion made by Mr. Moore second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Statweiler, yes. Mr. Mclofflin, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay, abstain. Miss Amit,

yes. Thank you. Next, we have communications and petitions. The first item is communication 26-008, Madison Township Police Statistics for February 2026. I believe we also have Assistant Chief Adams with us this evening.

Good evening, council. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and staff. It's nice to be back here in this beautiful spring evening. It's lovely. Love it. Uh just wanted to say uh we're happy to be here. We want to discuss obviously we'll call it a weather incident uh here in Canal and everywhere else on Friday. Um unfortunately, we did lose a house uh here in town on Friday. Um, we will call it kind of a win. We saved the two houses next to it. It was obviously um quite a challenge on Friday with the weather. It's one of those um everybody remembers where they were days on the fire truck. Uh we responded over 60 incidents on Friday. Um the county itself responded over 1,077 with seven working fires in the span of 3 hours right here in the county. So with the weather Friday, it uh created an an incredible challenge for us. Um the good news was our you know our first truck was on scene within three minutes but to to show the true force of mother nature that house the fire was already through the roof of the house uh of the initial house within three minutes. Um so we had 40 mph sustained winds with 60 mph gust during that attack. Um once again we had to just really make sure we got those two houses across well next door. Uh but as our trucks as they described it our initial drivers looked like the apocalypse when they showed up because literally we had fires across the street and mulch beds. We had trees on fire. Um, that's just one of those rare instance where the guys even show up and go, "All right, where do we start?" And, uh, so it's a good time to talk about I talked about the Growthport meeting. This is weather awareness month because March in Ohio is insane. Um, once again, it snowed on my way over here and, you know, it'll be 70° by the end of the week. So, once again, uh, we also ask like, you know, open burning this time of year between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Even though it feels like it's constantly raining in this state, this is actually one of the drier months because of the constant winds. This is the windiest month of the year in the state of Ohio. So that once again, as we saw what happened in Friday, you get a small mulch fire outside of a building and it can turn into a conflaggeration within minutes. So we ask everybody to be aware of that. Um, one last thing, if

you don't mind, I'd like to introduce Trustee Chris Anders. He came with this this evening and just wanted to say hello to the through the council if he could. And and if you have any questions for the fire department, I'd be glad to answer those. Anything for Assistant Chief Adams? Thank you for uh Yes. pouring water on smoke. Yeah, it was. We had plenty of water and we had plenty of fire to put it on, too. So, thank you for being there. Hey, you got Thank you. And here's uh Trusty Christian. I didn't know if you want to say anything or not.

Good evening, council, as always. Nice to be here. Brought my daughter with me today, Lana. She's learning. She told me today she uh memorized the uh the preamble to the Constitution, right? Or the Declaration of Independence, one of these documents. and I said, "I know where you need to go tonight." So, uh, brought her out here. I just do want to commend our fire department and, uh, we're so thankful for what you guys do. Uh, that's just an amazing thing and, uh, really thankful for that. We do have some good news in the township on our police side as well. We, we have two new officers that started today. Really thankful for that. Filling some spots, allows us to continue to serve. And, uh, uh, thankful uh, really neat add-on to the team. One of them is, uh, fluent in Spanish. I think that'll be a good addition to the community and uh we're just thankful for what's going on. So, thank you for what you all do.

Thank you, Mr. Andrew. Thank you. And I just like to mention I looked at the the report from Madison Township Police and the hours they spent within the city has increased exponentially since last year when we brought it up. So, I don't know if that's an increase deputies uh or just working together. Uh but I I want to say I noticed that and I appreciate that and appreciate you guys. I'll make sure to pass that on. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Anders. Next, we have um communication 26-009, the National Vietnam War Veterans Day Proclamation. Um that will be delivered by Mayor Steer.

Uh thank you, uh Miss Ach. Uh before I do the proclamation, while we have our veterans here, I would like to um talk about what recently happened over in Iraq. Uh last Thursday on March 16th, we lost um locally six lives in the air refueling operations. U three of those were from Rick Backcker Air Force Base. Uh in total, we've lost 13 lives in this uh epic epic fury um operation over in the Middle East. Um, so I wanted to just talk about that a little bit tonight. Uh, Governor Dwine has ordered our flags to half mass. So I thought it would be uh a good thing for us to um honor those uh men and women tonight. Canal Winchester has historically had a connection to Rickmbacher Air Force Base and we have many pilots from the past and present um here which uh serve over at the base actually in that refueling uh operation as well. Uh many of them uh are in our local restaurants, our taverns and um live here. I talked to um four of them last night. uh they called me about um the BFW over uh in Lockorn and and um just the grief that's going on over there uh with these these airmen. Uh we also have a past mayor's wife Carolyn Eert who's a liaison to these folks and uh she's quite busy with those families right now. So we'll keep her in our prayers as well as these families. Um the actual plane that went down is a K a KC135 uh Strato tanker refueling plane and there is actually one of those planes over there that is has our name on the side of it, the Spirit of Canal

Winchester. So um we we definitely want to recognize our connection to the base, to these families, to these men and women. And um I'd like to read off the names of these folks right now that lost their lives at Rickenbacher Air Force Base in Columbus, Ohio. The 121st Air Refueling Wing. Uh we lost Captain Seth R. Kovll of uh Morsville, Indiana, Captain Curtis J. Angst of Wilmington, Ohio, and Tech Sergeant Tyler H. Simmons of Columbus, Ohio. Uh we also our country also lost from McDill air McDill Air Force Base in Florida. They were assigned to the sixth air refueling wing. Uh Major John Cler of Auburn, I'm sorry, Auburn, Alabama. Captain Arena G. Savino of Cumington, Washington. And Tech Sergeant Ashley B. Puit of Bardstown, Kentucky. Let's keep those folks in our prayers. And right now, I'd like to uh have a moment of silence for all these these lives lost. Thank you. And the proclamation reads, "Whereas the

Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act was signed into law in 2017 by President Donald Trump designating March 29th of each year as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. And whereas March 29th marks the anniversary of the disestablishment of the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, and the departure of the last US combat troops from the Republic of Vietnam. And whereas the men and women who bravely served our country in Vietnam represented nearly 10% of their generation and fought a war that is known as one of the country's most painful times. And whereas 58,220 service members lost their lives in the Vietnam War and those who returned home were often met with hostility, neglect, and disrespect and blamed for a war they didn't start. And whereas these service members should be commended for their patriotism, their courage, and their resiliency and be honored for their sacrifices for the preservation of the liberties that we hold dear. Now therefore, I, Joseph Steager, the mayor of the city of Canal, Winchester, Ohio, do hereby proclaim March 29th, 2026 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. And I thank those who served on active duty in the United States Armed Forces between November 1st, 1955 and May 15th, 1975 for their service and their sacrifice to their country. Thank you very much.

In witness whereof, I here unto set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Canal, Winchester, Ohio, to be affixed to this 16th day of March in the year of our Lord, 2026.

Thank you. Appreciate it. I wasn't expecting to speak, but I think I will. I humbly accept this on behalf of not only my post members that served in Vietnam, but all my fellow brothers and sister comrades that served in Vietnam that never had a welcome home. That's why when we approach each other, it's always welcome home. We are so thankful that the current veterans are being recognized for what they do. Not only for what they do, but their loved ones home. They have a greater battle. They worry constantly about their loved one serving overseas. But I accept this on behalf of all the veterans, but most importantly for the 58,000 plus that are on the wall in BC. They paid the ultimate price. And like I've said many times before, freedom is not free. And we thank you very much for this proclamation. means a lot. Trust me. Thank you again.

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Thank you, Commander Williams and Mayor Steager. I'd like to acknowledge we do have two public comments in our package this evening. uh one PCS 260001 from K Goodson and one PCS 260002 from El Failen. Are there any public comments that anyone wishes to deliver this evening? Thank you. Public comments are limited to 3 minutes per individual. Your time will not begin until you begin speaking. Your time will be displayed on the screen behind me and more time may be granted at the discretion of the chair. Let it be noted that this is not a time for council to answer specific questions. If you do have a question, you may ask it during your time and we will attempt to have your question addressed throughout the remainder of the meeting. If you do not feel your question is has been addressed properly, please reach out to a member of council or appropriate city director after the meeting. Go ahead, please. My name is Adam Carner. I'm a Canester resident. As a U retired boom operator from the 121st, just want to say thank you. Sorry. Take your time, Mr. Carter. We lost some good airmen.

And I was deployed when the last tanker crashed in 2013. And it's it's difficult for everyone. So I just want to say thank you. Thanks again for the recognition and thank you all for what you sacrificed. Thanks. Thank you for your service, Mr. Kushner. Appreciate it.

Okay. Um, Madam Chairman, yes, sir. Um the public comment numbered 5235. Can we request that the law director review that and if need be refer it to anybody at the attorney general's office that it might be relevant to? Certainly. Is that uh 001 or 002? That is 001. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Champ. I'm assuming you have everything you need. Okay. Yes, thank you. Okay, moving on to reports of city officials and staff. The first item is the mayor's report.

Thank you again, Miss Aik. Um, tonight I would like to just report a few things to you guys. Uh we have applied for two grants as of um the end of last week or the be the be the be beginning the last two weeks

last two weeks we've been working on this. Um there's one federal grant through uh Congressman K's office that we applied from $5 million for the Headworks project. And the second grant um is through the state representatives. Uh we sent through u state representative Meredith Row uh Senator Schaefer and Senator Reynolds office for $250,000 for connector pathways from downtown to McGill Park. So that uh that project will be close to a million dollars, but um we we are only going for 250 because the state is giving out less money this year. It's better to ask low. They're giving more money out to more people at less amounts. So um I want to let you guys know that we we have applied for those. And um also on the um the our partners um consultant um process that's going on right now as of the 15th of this month uh which was yesterday. Um all the applications were supposed to be in for uh requests for qualifications and we have four applicants that uh put in uh qualifications. So, um, we'll be looking at those in the next couple weeks and hopefully hopefully by the end of next month, we'll be picking a firm for that or a person. And the last thing is the mayor's court. You guys have it in your packet. If you have any questions, we'll be glad to answer those for you. As of that, that's all I have. I would like to thank u David Payne for bringing the Vietnam uh recognition day up to me. It's really appreciated. Uh, Mr. Carner, thank you for your service as well along with with these folks. And

um I'd also like to to thank uh Amanda Jackson for putting these proclamations together. It sounds like all my words, but it's not. It's hers. She does the research and she puts her heart and soul into it. It's muchly appreciated. So, thank you, Amanda. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion to approve uh February 2026 mayor's court report. Second. I'm sorry. Who was the second? Mr. Bennett. Mr. Bennett. Motion made by Mr. Moore, second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore. Yes. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Miss Deweiler? Yes. Mr. McGofflin? Yes. Mr. Payne? Yes. Mr. Shay? Yes. Miss A?

Yes. Thank you. Next up is city administrator, Mr. Peoples.

Thank you, Miss Aik. Yeah. The only thing I want to add to my written report is uh we talked a little bit at work session about the the storms over the weekend that uh Chief Adams talked about. Um we pretty much came out of this unscathed. We had a lot of work involved in that of uh with we had power outage. Uh this building was out until yesterday at about uh 2:00 I believe. Um even though most of uh the downtown area uh which stayed off uh it was the worst hit. It seems like the uh it was uh didn't come back on till about 3:00 on Saturday. Uh most of the rest of the town that was without power came on about um uh about 11 12:00 on on Friday night. That included the the wastewater treatment plant. Um the generators all worked very well. We had minimal damage. Uh we did have some uh wind damage over at the pool where the the entire uh uh east uh fence came down between the the pool and the u basketball courts. Uh so it was kind of odd that an open fence would blow down like that, but uh as as chief said, we had had uh the wind gust kind of kind of got to us uh ripped the concrete right out of the ground. So uh it was interesting. Uh fortunately we didn't have a whole lot of rain with this uh that uh kind of saved some of the the pumping and flooding around town as well. Uh so any questions we'd be happy to answer.

Mr. Peoples, thank you and your team for um all their work um over this weekend. Thanks. We'll let them know. Uh next we have Fairfield County Sheriff Sergeant Strong.

Thank you, Mrs. Amos. Good evening, council. Um, I should be in your packets my statistical I give you every month. Um, and also just to piggy back on Mr. Peoples too on our end. I want to give a shout out to the deputies that were working Friday. They kept very busy. Um, nothing on our end major, but just enough that it was I was Friday working. It was all day long. It was call to call to call to call to call for 12 hours straight. So those guys kept their heads up and kept pushing through. So, I don't have anything else, but happy to take any questions you may have. Thank you. Any questions for Sergeant Strong?

Compliment on the increased uh metrics that we're seeing here on these reports. Thank you. Next is uh law director, Mr. Sham. Thank you, Miss Sam. Uh no formal report, but happy to take any questions. We'll look into the public complaint, public comment. Thank you. Absolutely. Okay, hearing none, the next um item is finance director, Mrs. Jackson. Thank you, Mrs. Aik. I don't have anything in addition to my written report this evening. Any questions for Mrs. Jackson. Okay, hearing none. Next up is development director, Mr. Hair.

Thank you, Mrs. Zamik. Um just wanted to quick update on Brew Dog. U there was an announcement today that Tillray Brands has agreed to terms to acquire the US operations of Brew Dog. And so they'll be acquiring the brewery here in Canal Winchester, the hotel, and then uh the tap room operations both here, New Albany, uh Cleveland, and Las Vegas. And so um they'll be fully acquiring those within the next 45 to 60 days. Um I haven't had much communications because Tillray is a publicly traded company and kind of in that quiet period of um getting their deal done. And so um now that's done, we'll follow up. But as I mentioned previously in discussions with Brew Dog, I think there's potentially some opportunity to have increased um activity there on the site, Tillray does own 40 different brands, you know, probably 15 or so of those are breweries. And so a lot of beer brands that you would see in the grocery stores and things, craft beer brands are owned by Del Rey. They're the the fourth largest or fifth largest uh craft beer brewer in the country. So, um, Brewog was the 30th. So, u, now I would imagine that's going to move them up the list. And so, be happy to answer any other questions you have about anything development related.

Um, Mr. Hair, I'm not sure if this is for you, Mr. Peoples, or maybe even Assistant Chief Adams. Um, any is it too soon or premature to ask about fireworks from Brew Dog? I do not know the answer to that. um I can follow up with them and see if that's something they're going to intend on continuing to do. I just saw someone in the community was asking about that. So, okay. Thank you.

Any questions for Mr. Hair? Okay. Moving on to resolutions. The first item is resolution 26-012. Cler, will you read the resolution, please? A resolution appointing Will Bennett to serve a three-year term as a member of the housing council expiring on December 31st, 2028. Thank you. The sponsor is Mr. Mclofflin. Uh I move to adopt resolution 27 uh 26-012. Second. Motion made by Mr. Mclofflin, second by Mr. Moore. Roll call, please. Mr. Mclofflin, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay

abstain. Miss A. Yes. Mr. Bennett. Yes. Mr. Yes. Thank you. Next up is resolution 26-013. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please? A resolution appointing Adam Ker to serve a third three three-year term as a member of the housing council expiring on December 31st, 2028. Thank you. The chair is the sponsor and I move to adopt resolution 26-013. Second. Motion made by uh the chair, second by Mr. Payne. Roll call, please. Missing? Yes. Mr. Payne?

Yes. Mr. Shay? Abstate. Mr. Bennett? Yes, Miss Deweiler. Yes, Mr. Mclofflin. Yes, Mr. Moore. Yes. Thank you. Next up is resolution 26-014. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please? A resolution approving the mayor's appointment of Del Rosa to serve a 4-year term as a member of the landmarks commission expiring on December 31st, 2029. Thank you. The sponsor is Mr. Bennett. Uh motion to adopt uh resolution 26-014. Second

motion made by Mr. Bennett, second by Mr. Moore. Roll call, please. Mr. Bennett, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay, yes. Miss Aick, yes. Miss Deweiler, yes. Mr. McGofflin, yes.

Thank you. Next up is resolution 26-015. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please? A resolution creating three tax increment financing districts within the city of Canal Winchester declaring the improvements to the parcels within the tip districts to be a public purpose. Declaring such improvements to be exempt from real property taxation requiring the owners thereof to make service payments in lie of taxes. Designating the public infrastructure improvements to be made that will directly benefit or serve the parcels and three tip districts. in establishing a public improvement tax increment equivalent fund for the deposit of service payments.

Thank you. The uh sponsor is Mr. Moore. Uh motion to adopt resolution. Sorry, I lost my 15 2615 26-015. Second. Motion made by Mr. Moore, second by Mr. Mclofflin. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Mclofflin, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Sheay, yes. Miss Ame, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Deweiler, abstain. Thank you. The next item is resolution 26-016. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please?

A resolution approving a final development plan for Violet Township Fire Station. Thank you. The sponsor is Mr. Bennett. Motion to approve resolution 26-016. Second. Motion made by Mr. Bennett, second by Mr. Payne. Roll call, please. Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Payne? Yes. Mr. Shay? Yes. Miss A? Yes. Miss Stweiler? Yes. Mr. McGlin? Yes. Mr. Warren? Yes.

Thank you. The next item is resolution 26-017. Clerk, will you read the resolution, please? A resolution to wave competitive bidding for the McGill Park House exterior renovations project. Thank you. The chair is the sponsor and I move to adopt resolution 26-017. Second. Motion made by the chair, second by Mr. Sheay. Roll call, please. Miss Hay, yes. Mr. Sheay, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Deweiler, yes. Mr. Mclofflin, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Payne,

yes. Thank you. Moving on to ordinances. We have some for third reading this evening. The first one is ordinance 26-001. Clerk, will you read the ordinance, please? An ordinance to adopt section 941.041 of the codified ordinances to require pollution prevention plans as part of the storm water management code. Thank you. The sponsor is Mrs. Deweiler. Third reading. Motion to adopt ordinance 26-001. Second. Motion made by uh Mrs. Deweiler. Second by Mr. Sheay. Roll call, please. Miss Deweiler. Yes. Mr. Sheay. Yes. Miss A? Yes.

Mr. Bennett? Yes. Mr. Mclofflin? Yes. Mr. Moore? Yes. Mr. Payne? Yes. Thank you. Next up is ordinance 26-002. Clerk, will you read the ordinance, please? An ordinance to accept the dedication of real property from Kenneth Cole LLC for use as public rightaway. Thank you. The chair is the sponsor and I move to adopt ordinance 26-002. Second. Motion made by the chair, second by Mr. Mclofflin. Roll call, please. Miss, yes. Mr. Mclofflin, yes. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Stweiler.

Yes. Thank you. The next item is ordinance 26-003. Clerk, will you read the ordinance, please? An ordinance to accept the dedication of real property from Canal Family Farms 2 LLC for use as public rightway. Thank you. The sponsor is Mr. Moore. Motion to adopt resol ordinance 26-003. Second. Motion made by Mr. Moore, second by Mr. Bennett. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore. Yes. Mr. Bennett. Yes. Miss Deweiler, yes. Mr. McGlaughlin, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay, yes. Miss Ame, yes.

Thank you. Now for second reading, we have ordinance 26-005. Clerk, will you read the ordinance, please? An ordinance to authorize the mayor to enter into a real estate purchase agreement for the purchase of 650 Bowen Road Canal Winchester, Ohio, owned by Charles R. Smith and Deborah S. Bnel. Thank you. The sponsor's Mr. Moore. Second reading only. Thank you. And now for first reading. The first item is ordinance 26-007. Clerk, will you read the ordinance, please? An ordinance to amend ordinance number 24-010 updating the swimming pool rates. Thank you. The sponsor is Mr. Moore. First reading only.

Thank you. The next item is ordinance 26-008. Cler, will you read the ordinance, please? an ordinance to amend the 2026 appropriation ordinance number 25-029 amendment number one. Thank you. The sponsor is Mr. Mclofflin. First reading only.

That takes us to council reports. Um the March 30th, 2026 committee of the whole meeting is has been cancelled um in lie of the many um individuals who are on spring break. We will have a public hearing on Monday, April 6th at 5:30 p.m. to uh review the Bowen Road resoning. We have work session and council on Monday, April 6th at 6 pm. And there is a mayor's retreat on Friday, April 17th, 2026 from 900 a.m. to 300 p.m. Um, our next council connect meeting at the Columbus Metropolitan Library on Growport Road will be this Wednesday, March 18th at 6:30 p.m., 6:30 to 7:30. And your host for that evening will be Mr. Moore and Mrs. Deweiler. The next report is Canal Winchester Human Services. Mr. Sheay,

big things going on at the uh Canal Winchester Human Services. The community Easter egg hunt is Saturday, March 28th, and we're looking forward to a wonderful event and hoping for great weather. Spring Community Care Day, Saturday, May 16th. If you know of a senior within Canal Winchester School District who could benefit from mulching, weeding, or light yard work, please have them call human services at 614-834-4700. That's 614-834-4700 to sign up. And there will also be a senior financial fraud protection workshop Thursday, April 16th, hosted at human services. Community members may RSVP by calling their office at 834-4700. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Sheay. Um, the report for the Canal Industry, Canal Winchester Industry and Commerce Corporation. I have nothing new to report. The next meeting will be April 29th at 11:30 a.m. here in council chambers. The next item is the Canal Winchester joint rec district. Mr. Bennett and Mr. Moore,

uh, just a couple things to report. Uh first, our next meeting will be April 14th at 6 PM. Um we do have a couple positions we are looking to fill right now. Um we do have a requisition out for a swim coach. Um we have the commissioners in place, just need a full a head coach for swim. We already have an assistant. Um and also another assistant is we we're in need of another assistant. Um, also we do are also looking for someone for our e-gaming um to get our e- gaming sports programming off the ground. Um, attempted that last year, had didn't have as much interest as we expected. So, we are revisiting that this year, but we're looking to someone to head that up. Mr. Bennett, anything for you?

Nothing to add. All right. I think I mumbled enough for both of us. Thank you. Next is Destination Canal Winchester. Mr. Pink Destination Canal Winchester is continuing to make great progress planning all the upcoming events this year. Um right now they're still collecting sponsorships for the art in the canal uh art stroll and the blues and ribs fest and artists and vendors applications are still coming in. Um there's lots of exciting things coming up. Um if you haven't already, please download the free Canal Winchester app to see everything that's going on around town. Thank you, Mr. Payne. Uh, next is Canal Winchester Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Mclofflin.

Yeah, I just want to highlight a couple events that are coming up on our calendar. Before I do, I want to welcome uh the chamber's newest member, uh, Cam Logistics. Good job finally joining the chamber. They're finally showing me value.

They have the chamber's been doing a fantastic job. I'm glad you said that uh, under Elizabeth Wood and the current um, board members, they're doing doing a great job. They're growing. Uh, so to get back to what I was going to say, so we have two events to highlight the state of the community. It's on Wednesday, April 22nd from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. at the Canal Winchester Community Center. This is going to be different than uh how it's been in years past, hence being the state of the community instead of state of schools or state of the city. It's going to be a combined effort between the city and the schools. Um it's already halfway full as far as registration goes, so please sign up and sign up early if you'd like to attend. Um registration includes lunch catered by coffee on high. Um second event is connections for a cause golf outing. Uh that is on Friday, May 8th at Westchester Golf Course. New this year, a portion of the proceeds from each ticket in the 50/50 raffle will go to the Canal Westchester human services. Individual and team registration is now available and if you don't golf but want to be a part of the fund, please contact the chamber about volunteering. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Mclofflin. Next up is the sustainability commission, Mrs. Deweiler. So, the sustainability commission uh is having their community cleanup day April 18th. Um, that sign up is available on the website if you would like to volunteer to help uh clean up our community, which that's kind of a misnomer. We'll be repainting fences, um, painting fire hydrants, picking up litter, whatever needs to be done. Um, but our community is very clean, so it is kind of hard to find tasks to clean, but we're going to find them. Um, the flyer will also be online and it will be around town. Um, this is a free event. It is again April 18th. It starts at 9:00 a.m. and then our next meeting will be April the 1st.

Thank you, Mrs. Deweiler. Is there any new business? Hold on. Is the city helping the sustainability committee advertise that at all? Yes. Okay. Thank you.

Anything else? Okay. Is there any new business for this evening? Okay. I just have a couple of quick things. I spoke with uh Mrs. Woodruff today about the um the veteran banners uh that the current campaign is currently going on. Just a reminder that the deadline is April 10th. Um and if you are not re-uping, but you're ordering a new one, the cost is $100. It is a private pay at this time. And as of this morning, she had received three new to date. So, uh, that deadline is still a ways out. But, um, if you have someone who, you know, is interested in one of those banners, April 10th is that deadline. Okay. Is there anything else?

Mr. Shay, maybe I missed the discussion in my illness at the last time, but we've covered those banners in the past as a council. Are we not doing that again this year? Um right now we have pro the city provided seed money at that for those initial in the Hannah I believe said it was the 23 24 year for those banners. Um I believe there are still discussions ongoing. The problem that we have right now we have no idea how many that is. So Hannah said that she would send out an email on Fridays and let us know how many banners have been requested. All right.

So we'll uh we'll keep you posted. I think we've had um an incredible amount of support for these banners, whether it be through people who are willing to fund them privately or further council discussions. We will need to know by April 6th though, which is our next council meeting. So, we'll have some additional dialogue at that time. Um there is and Mr. Peoples, maybe you can help with this. I know that we're trying to keep the the banners to central downtown just so that they're not as exposed to the elements and they'll last longer. So, do we still not really know how broad or wide that number is in terms of how many we can accommodate?

Yeah, I think we paid for the original 75 of them. I I don't know that I have a a total number of poles. Uh obviously, we want to keep it in the pedestrian area. So, uh, for example, going up High Street, there's not sidewalk on one side. Uh, so that's be north of the tracks. Uh, the same thing we get further out on West Waterlue Street. Um, there is that is a wind tunnel out there. So, we've had a lot of damage to our our previous banners out there. So, we're kind of wanting to keep those in the downtown core. Um, again for the on the pedestrian side of things since those are kind of narrow banners the way our uh uh our uh street lights are are designed.

Right. Okay. Thank you. I I would like to say too that the banners themselves cost $100. There is no fee from the city to hang them. There's no overhead or upcharge or anything like that. That is to cover the cost of the flag and the shipping. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Motion to adjurnn. Mot motion by Mr. Moore to adjurnn. Second by Mr. Mclofflin. Roll call, please. Mr. Moore, yes. Mr. McGofflin, yes. Mr. Payne, yes. Mr. Shay, yes. Miss Amit, yes. Mr. Bennett, yes. Miss Stweiler, yes. Thank you. Timeout 7:43.