City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. I would like to call to order the City Council meeting for Tuesday, 01/13/2026. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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.

Alright. And, madam clerk, can you please call the roll of council members?

Sure. Mister Humphreys absent. Mister Brandenburg?

Here.

Mr. Nudgevar?

Here.

Mr. Noble? Here. Mr. Spate?

Here.

Mr. Maker?

Here.

And Mr. DeVittas? Here. Okay.

All right. On our agenda, we have the council study sessions. We have a few items to approve this evening. First one is TMP five thousand one ninety four. This is the approval of the 11/25/2025 council meeting minutes. I move to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Madam Clerk, please call

the roll.

Mr. Nudgebauer?

Yes.

Mr. DeVitus? Yes. Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mr. Spate?

Yes.

And Mr. Mager?

Yes.

All right. Motion carries.

Next is TMP five thousand one ninety five, approval of the 12/09/2025, council meeting minutes. I move to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mr. Nujibar?

Yes.

Mr. Maker?

Yes.

Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mr. Spate?

Yes.

And Mr. DeVitus?

Yes.

All right. Motion carries.

Next is TMP5210, approval of the 01/05/2026, Council Organizational Meeting minutes.

Motion to approve.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? And please call the roll.

Mr. Neugebauer?

Yes.

Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mr. Spate?

Yes.

Mr. Maker?

Yes.

And Mr. DeVitus?

Yes.

All right. Motion carries.

And next is TMP 5,217, approval of the October 2025 electronic financial report subject to audit. Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mr. Nudgebauer?

Yes.

Mr. Spate?

Yes.

Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mr. Maker?

Yes.

And Mr. DeVitus?

Yes.

All right. Motion carries.

And last item in council study sessions is TMP 5,218, approval of the November 2025 electronic financial report subject to audit. Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Please call the roll.

Mr. Neugebauer?

Yes.

Mr. Maker? Yes. Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mr. Spate?

Yes.

And Mr. DeBeatas? Yes. All right. Motion carries.

Next item on the agenda is the public report. We did not have anybody signed in this evening to speak, so we will move on to the public hearings, which we have none scheduled this evening. So next item is the reading of correspondence.

Okay. We have the 11/19/2025, Planning and Zoning Commission meeting minutes, the 12/17/2025, Planning and Zoning Commission meeting agenda, the planning department's December 2025 monthly financial summary, the Summit County Sheriff's Department December 2025 activity report, the Planning and Zoning Commission 12/17/2025 meeting summary, and an email from Dustin Ivy regarding the VC station apartments high utility costs. And that is all.

Thank you, ma'am. And now we'll move on to the new legislation.

Okay. We have twenty twenty six r zero one, a resolution approving change order number two and number three for the increase in the Barbacus Construction Co, Inc. Contract for the Graybill Road Turn Lane project at Green Elementary School, making an appropriation and declaring emergency.

And that will be assigned to the finance committee.

2026DashR02, a resolution authorizing the city of Green execute utility easement granting Ohio Edison Company a 10 foot easement on property owned by the city of Green at 4820 Thursby Road and 1844 Greensburg Road and declaring an emergency.

This will be referred to the Intergovernmental and Utilities Committee. Mr. President? Mr. Brandenburg.

The administration has requested first reading passage of twenty twenty six R02 to avoid delaying construction at the site. There were no objections from members of committee or counsel. I'd like to give a quick summary and then make motions on it. So a quick summary. So in committee, we learned that Ohio Edison has requested a 10 foot wide easement, two eighty five foot long for the installation of an underground wiring duct bank.

It will be used to supply electricity to Klectner Park, the City of Green Equipment Storage Facility and the Green Local School bus garage. No other purposes for the easement other than bringing power from Thursby Road to a concrete based transformer. So at this time, I'd like to make a motion to bypass additional committee deliberations on 2026 R02. Second.

I have a motion and a second to bypass committee deliberations on 2026 or '2. Are there any discussion? And Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mr. Nugibar?

Yes.

Mr. Spate?

Yes.

Mr. Mager?

Yes.

And Mr. DeVias?

Yes.

All right. Motion carries.

All right. Next, I'll make a motion to bypass the three reading rule on 2026 R02.

Second. We have a motion and a second to bypass the three reading rule on 2026 R02. Is there any discussion? Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mr. Nugibauer?

Yes.

Mr. Spath?

Yes.

Mr. Maker?

Yes.

And Mr. DeVitas?

Yes.

Okay. Motion carries.

And last, I'd like to make a motion to adopt twenty twenty six R02.

Second. We have a motion and a second to adopt Resolution twenty twenty six R02. Is there any discussion? Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mister Nudgebauer? Yes. Mister Spate?

Yes.

Mister Mager?

Yes.

And mister DeBitis?

Yes.

Okay. 2026 dash r zero two is adopted six zero. Okay. We also have legislation, 2026 dash zero one, an ordinance approving the ed approving the editing and inclusion of certain ordinances and resolutions as parts of the various component codes of the codified ordinances, providing for adoption and publication of new matter in the updated and revised codified ordinances, repealing ordinances and resolutions in conflict therewith.

All right. That will be referred to the Rules and Personnel Committee, which I chair. As we discussed during committee meetings this evening that the administration has requested first reading passage of this legislation. To give you a quick summary of it, basically, this is just adding all of our codified ordinances into a permanent piece of legislation here and making it official. Ideally, we do this twice a year.

However, based on our contractor that we work with on this, the best we can do is get this done at this time right now, and the administration is looking at alternate options to make this happen on a more regular basis. The law director did ask that we move forward tonight just so we can match up the legislation or I'm sorry, the ordinances with our website. So at this time, I move to bypass committee deliberations on twenty twenty six-one.

Second.

I have a motion and a second to bypass committee deliberations on twenty twenty six zero one. Is there any discussion? Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mr. Spate? Yes. Mr. Mager? Yes. Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Nujibar?

Yes.

Mr. Noble? Yes. And Mr. DeVitus? Yes. Okay. Motion carries.

Thank you, ma'am. And at this point, I move to bypass the three reading rule on 02/2001. Second. I have a motion and a second to bypass the three reading rule on 02/2001. Any discussion? And please call the

roll. Mr. Spate? Yes. Mr. Maker?

Yes.

Mr. Brandenburg? Yes. Mr. Neugebauer?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

And Mr. DeVitus?

Yes.

Okay. Motion carries.

And at this time, I move to adopt twenty twenty six-one. Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Adam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mr. Spate? Yes. Mr. Mager?

Yes.

Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Neugebauer?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

And mister DeVitus? Yes. Okay. Twenty twenty six dash zero one is adopted six '0. Alright. Our last piece of legislation on first reading is twenty twenty six zero two, an ordinance amending chapter 30 of the codified ordinances of the City Of Green to authorize the recovery of credit and debit card processing costs and bank fees associated with certain payments to the city.

And that will be referred to the Finance Committee.

That's all I have. Okay.

Next item on our agenda is the report of counsel committees. We will start with the Finance Committee, which was chaired this evening by Mr. Nuegebauer. Thank you, Mr. President.

The Chair of the committee was not here this evening. Was absent. However, I served as Chair today, and C. J. Mager was also present. We had no items of legislation. We had no old or new business. So officially, we did not meet.

Thank you, Mr. Neugebauer. Next committee to report is Environment and Parks, once again chaired by Mr. Neugebauer.

Thank you, Mr. President. All members were present, myself as Chair, Justin Spate as Vice Chair and Clerk DeVitas. Again, we had no items of legislation, had no old or new business, and therefore, we did not meet.

Thank you, sir. The next committee to report is Public Safety, chaired by Mr. DeBeatas. Thank you, Mr. President. My self and Mr. Nunezhoubauer were present for public safety. Vice Chair Humphrey was absent. We did meet. There was no items of legislative business on the docket tonight.

However, we did have two presentations and updates brought to the committee. The first of which was from, Doctor. Leila Halei, who is our community outreach associate regarding the mental health follow-up program. So this is a program, we received a grant for last year. It's a three year grant, dollars 455,000 to fund a program where we have a city employee who goes out and follows up with people with mental health crisis, abuse issues, and other problems along that field of work.

The Doctor. Halei is a very well studied individual who's been working part time for us. She is a social worker among her many other credentials that she presented to us during meeting. They just gave us an update on how that program went during its first year. They did respond to 121 calls where they went out and followed up with people who were having mental health or substance abuse issues and helped to direct those people to the resources needed, hopefully to help them get out of the crisis they are in and also alleviate strain on city EMS and fire resources with going to those calls, sometimes repeatedly.

So we did receive that update from her, and she gave us a very extensive report of how that's gone and future plans for the community outreach program. So we appreciate her coming in and giving us an update on that. We also received an update from Valerie Wolford, our communications manager on the emergency alert system. So the city did change over from their old alerting system for emergencies, whether it's weather, road closures, etcetera, to a new system called Regroup. It works the same way where you'll receive texts or emails or call notifications if there's an emergency within our city or adjacent areas that might affect us.

She did give us an extensive briefing on that and explained how residents will need to sign up. Just to reiterate what she said, the best way to do this is to go to cityofgreen.org/greenalert. That will allow you to sign up for all of the notifications as well as provide your address, which will help to provide a more tailored notification system to your exactly where you're located within the city. If if you don't want to use a computer or are not tech savvy and you still have a cell phone, you can sign up via text by texting JOIN GREEN OH at the number 58339. Again, we highly recommend that all the residents of our city do this.

It's a great way to stay notified of any emergencies, road closures and so on that may occur in the city at any time. And Ms. Wolfer did say there's going to be a big communications push, including a mail newsletter sent out to people who aren't actually on phones or cell phones or computers and that they can also call dispatch and they'll set it up for them. Again, preferred way to sign up is on the Citi website because it gives you the address portion of the service. So that was the extent of what was reported in public safety tonight. We had no old or new business, and we adjourn.

Thank you, Mr. DeVitus. The next committee to report is Planning, Community and Economic Development, chaired by Mr. Noble. Thank you, Mr. President. Myself and Mr. DeVitus were present tonight. Mr. Humphreys was absent. The Planning, Community and Economic Development Committee, however, had no items of legislation and no old or new business, so we did not meet this evening. Thank you, Mr. Noble. That takes us to Rules and Personnel, which I chair. We did have one item of legislation, twenty twenty six-one, which we just passed.

And then the next item on our agenda is to confirm Mayor Juergen's appointments for the twenty twenty six Charter Review Commission. Those appointments would be Kristen Yenko, Deborah Coral, Betty Cohen, Robert Dufferin and Bob Knepp. So at this time I'm sorry, let me back up real quick. The mayor did give us a good rundown of all of those appointees to that commission. He did mention that we are on our seven year mark where we are required by charter to review the charter, and these are his appointments.

So at this time, I move to confirm Mayor Juergen's appointments to the twenty twenty six Charter Review Commission. Second. I have a motion and a second to confirm Mayor Juergen's appointments to the twenty twenty six Charter Review Commission. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, would the clerk please call the roll.

Mr. Spate? Yes. Mr. Maker?

Yes.

Mr. Brandenburg?

Yes.

Mr. Neugebauer?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

And Mr. DeVitus?

Yes.

Okay. Motion carries.

And after that discussion, we adjourned our committee at 05:53. Next committee to report. Mr. President, do you

have to discuss the first reading passage we did? Did I miss that?

Yes. I briefly touched on it,

but yes. Okay. Thanks.

Alright. Next committee to report is Transportation, Connectivity, and Stormwater, chaired by Mr. Maker.

Thank you, Mr. President. All members were present. However, are no items in legislation before us and no older new items, so we did not meet.

Thank you, sir. And last committee to report this evening is Intergovernmental and Utilities, chaired by Mr. Brandenburg. Thank you, Mr.

President. Yourself, Mr. Noble and I were present. We met to discuss the one piece of legislation that was passed on first reading. We also had one item of new business. Our Service Director, Ms. Salary Weisscar, mentioned that bidding process has begun for 2026 electric rates. Will be ongoing here for a couple of months. We'll provide updates periodically. So no other items of all the new business, and we adjourn.

All right. Thank you, Mr. Brandenburg. That concludes our committee reports. Next item on the agenda is the Mayor's report.

Thank you, Mr. President. Summit Connect's public safety fiber network construction has officially begun in the city of Greene as of January 12. The construction begins at the corner of Cottage Grove and Jarvis Road with crews progressing south. The Summit Connects initiative will link all 31 communities in Summit County to a robust 130 mile public safety fiber network, improving communication systems used by law enforcement, fire services and other essential government services.

I'm happy to report we have more than $29,000 in sponsorships so far for twenty twenty six events. Those include to date, Sara Autopark is presenting sponsor for our summer celebration concert series. Twisted Olive is our presenting sponsor for Twisted Wilderfest. Consumers Bank is our children's stage sponsor at Freedom Fest and is also a sponsor for Arte Palooza and our Pickleball series. Additional sponsors include Evans Insurance, Direction Home and Greet Magazine.

Businesses or organizations interested in being a sponsor, including in kind sponsorships for our various park events, please contact Parks and Recreation Supervisor, Matt Kress or my office. Renew Mission Thrift Store opened at 4875 South Main Street. We did a ribbon cutting there on Saturday, the tenth. As more residents utilize electric payment excuse me, electronic payment, we've decided to no longer mail hard copies of city tax returns to residents. These forms are now available online on our website, in our office or at the Green Branch Library and we would be happy to mail any forms to residents upon request.

We are sending out a postcards very soon letting residents know that we want to go to a paperless product as much as possible. By way of events, the annual State of the City address is coming up Thursday, January 29 at 7PM at Green High School Auditorium. Doors open at 6PM for coffee and dessert. The public is invited and indeed encouraged to attend. The presentation will also be live streamed for those unable to come out for the evening.

Registration is appreciated as we're ordering some food. City offices, keep in mind, will be closed on Monday, January 19 for Martin Luther King Day. And finally, please save your please save the date for February 28, that's coming up, it's not that far away for Battle of the Slice. This is the new winter main fundraiser for the Green Schools Foundation that will replace the celebration of education. So it's somewhat of a big change, Some things are going to be different about it.

Some things are the same. So for example, all proceeds will continue to support scholarships, grants and programs that are funded by the Green Local Schools Foundation. As with celebration of education, there will still be kids activities and live performances, mostly music. What's going to be different about it, this year it's going be held at the middle school and core and there's going to be a focus on competition of community pizza places. That's why it's being called Battle of the Slice.

Tickets will be required this year. There's going to be two times where pizza tasting will happen and then you'll be asked to vote for your favorite from eleven to 2PM and then from three to 6PM. All right, so this is different. You got to get tickets this year. Please check out the calendar. Look at the Green Schools Foundation website for further details and spread the word. We hope it's a good crowd. Mr. President, that concludes my report.

Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Okay. Do we have any unfinished business to come before counsel? All right. And new business, I would just like to welcome back Mr. Brandenburg to counsel. And while Mr. Humphrey is here, we will do the same. Any other new business before counsel? Hearing none, I would right. I'd like to make a motion to adjourn. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Please call the roll.

Mr. Sweat?

Yes.

Mr. Nunezhoubar?

Yes.

Mr. Brandeber?

Yes.

Mr. Noble?

Yes.

Mr. Meagher?

Yes.

And Mr. DeVitas?

Yes.

Okay. Motion carries. Thank you.

We are adjourned.