City Council - Regular Meeting

We're going to go ahead and get started. I'd like to call this meeting to order. This is a duly noticed regular meeting of Hudson City Council, held in accordance with the Sunshine Laws of the State of Ohio, Section 121.22, and the City of Hudson Charter, Article 3, Section 3.02, for Tuesday, August 11, 2026. It is 7.30 p.m. I'd like to take a moment and welcome everyone who is here in attendance tonight, as well as those who may be watching remotely via the HCTV video feed. Closing Section 1 and moving on to Section 2 on the agenda tonight is the Pledge of Allegiance. Will you please stand and join me? Thank you, everyone. We'll move on to section three in our agenda, the roll call. Mrs. Wheeler, will you please call the roll?

Dr. Byrd?

Here.

Mr. Brzezinski? Here. Mr. Rameau? Here. Dr. Goetz? Here. Mr. Sutton? Here. Dr. Weinstein? Here. Mr. White?

Here. Thank you, Mrs. Wheeler. We do have a quorum tonight with all seven members of council present. Therefore, we will close section three and move on to section four, approval of the minutes. Item A is number 26-0063. This will include the July 21st, 2026 council meeting minutes and the July 28th, 2026 council workshop minutes. Do we have a motion from council to accept the minutes as provided? Move to accept the minutes as provided. Thank you, Council President Byrd. Do we have a second?

Second.

Thank you, Councillor Brozovic. Is there any discussion on the minutes as provided? Seeing none, Mrs. Wheeler, will you please roll call the vote?

Dr. Byrd?

Yes.

Mr. Brozovic? Yes. Mr. Rameau? Yes. Dr. Goetz? Yes. Mr. Sutton? Yes. Dr. Weinstein? Yes. Mr. White?

Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Wheeler. The approval of the minutes as provided passes by a vote of seven in favor to zero against. We will close section four on our agenda and move on to section five, which is public comments. Council and myself value and respect comments from the public aligned with the City of Hudson Codified Ordinance 220.03, titled Rules, Item G, subtitled Decorum. I'm kindly asking everyone in attendance to remain respectful of the process and display courtesy, professionalism, and order at all times. Please mute your electronic devices if you have not already done so. And if you must leave the room prior to the completion of our meeting, please do so as quietly as possible. Also, per Ordinance 220.03 and Sub Item G, public comments are to be kept within five minutes. There's a device on the lectern that will turn green when your five minutes begins. It will turn orange at one minute remaining. It will flash orange at 20 seconds and then turn red at the end of that five minute time frame. Therefore, per the City of Hudson Charter Article 3, Section 3.02, if there is any resident of the municipality here tonight who would like to speak to City Council regarding any topic that's relevant to the City of Hudson, kindly raise your hand, gain my attention, and as you are verbally called upon, please approach the lectern, state your name and address, and Council will hear your remarks. Is there anyone here tonight who would like to speak to Council? Linda?

My name is Linda O'Neill and I reside at 7063 St. Ives Boulevard. I wanted to share with all of you tonight, we're not quite done celebrating at our dream playground. We are planning, we are in the planning stages of creating Piper's Key Garden, spearheaded by Dr. Jessica Hoffler and generously funded by our amazing Hudson Garden Club. The Hoffler family sadly lost their daughter, Piper Grace, after a mere 27 days. Had she survived, she would have lived with multiple disabilities. This garden will honor our littlest angels that are never forgotten and are always in our dreams. We will let you know when it's time to come over to enjoy it. I also wanted to mention that you will be able to purchase

these lovely hip design t-shirts shortly.

All right. All the profits are going to be going to funding inclusive and accessible upgrades at our parks. And in the next couple of weeks, I'll let you know. We'll have a press release on how you can purchase these. But now to my thank you. after twenty one years of serving on hudson boards i've had a unique opportunity to see our amazing city staff work up close this four-year project involved every single layer of our government from city planning communication engineering, finance, HCTV, public works and parks, all of our safety services, one city manager, three city councils, and one mayor. I have seen firsthand the high level of professionalism and heart each and every one of you bring to our city. As a resident, I am so fortunate. As a member of Park Board, I will never be able to truly express my gratitude. This playground shows the true heart of Hudson, and we did it as a team. Thank you.

Thank you, Linda. Are there any additional public comments tonight? Mr. Beam?

Brian Beam, 2633 Hudson Aurora Road. Good evening, Council. I come before you today to share my viewpoints on the proposed residential component of the downtown phase two project. The most recent plan revision on your workshop agenda tonight calls for 44 to 46 detached single family homes and 18 town homes. In August 2025, the city hired Silverload Consulting to provide a market analysis of the downtown phase two project. In analyzing the residential component located north of Owen Brown Street, the report reads, regarding the values of the future homes, as previously indicated, the city hopes to see the total market value of the residential portion of the property increase by at least $48.6 million, excluding the current value of the land, which is ineligible for TIF, or an average increase in value of $900,000 per new home. This is the necessary valuation needed in order to repay the city's expenses via a new TIF. $900,000 average valuation for a single family detached home just to break even in phase two. On July 28th, I posted a poll on the Hudson Ohio Roundtable using the most favorable numbers from this report and asked residents if they would be willing to pay between $785,000 and $833,000 for an 1800 to 2200 square foot detached single family home in phase two, which is the same size in your current plan. 302 people responded to the poll and an overwhelming 282 said absolutely not. The comments on the post make it clear that this is not what the residents are looking for. Who does the plan the current council is currently refining even serve? It doesn't provide even remotely affordable housing for seniors to downsize into. Who is going to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars more for a home that is substantially smaller than their current home? It doesn't provide housing for young families or young single Hudson residents trying to establish themselves back into the community post-college. It literally does not provide appropriate housing and properly priced housing for anybody that council has in the past indicated they want to make housing for in phase two. And any single family homes that are present will need to be priced very, very high to generate enough new property taxes via a TIF to repay all the expenses that have already been incurred because there is absolutely no way that the Hudson taxpayers would be willing to subsidize the construction of other people's new homes with their tax money. Quite frankly, This project has gone completely off track and strayed very, very far from the vision that this council laid out to the community early on. In 2015, I served on the Comprehensive Plans Downtown Phase Two Subcommittee. We drafted a proposal for the redevelopment of phase two land based on extensive interaction and feedback from the community, community groups, and professional design consultants. Everyone on this council should review that plan. I'm actually gonna email it to you tonight. In 2015, we the community collectively decided that in order to meet the needs of Hudson's seniors, young families, and young professionals, we should build 188 housing units in phase two and that none of those housing units should be detached single family homes. That's in the 2015 Comprehensive Plan that Council adopted. Following the 2015 Comprehensive Plan, TESTA entered into an agreement with the city to develop phase two. Using the Comprehensive Plan's framework, As a starting point in applying additional market analysis to the project, TESDA determined that Phase II land would require 214 housing units to meet both the needs of the community and make the project financially viable. The TESDA project also concluded that detached single family homes were not viable or appropriate for this site. I would encourage the council to go back and thoroughly review the past 10 years of extensive work that has already been done in developing proposals for phase two. I would further ask the council table the current poorly designed residential proposal and restart the residential design process using the community's already agreed upon past designs as a starting point. We only get one chance to develop this land, and we should use this opportunity to build housing that actually works for our residents, not overpriced, detached, single-family homes that don't work for our residents and do little to enhance the downtown and our community.

Thank you. Thank you, Ryan. Are there any additional public comment tonight? Sir?

Kent Cleveland, I live at 71 Keswick. This is Casey. She's a little nervous. I don't have anything prepared. I just found out about this at 7, so bear with me here. We own a golf cart. I know that's being talked about tonight. I was just going to say, having one here, the community here, the small town feel, being able to drive my kids here, to dinner, to soccer, to all that has changed kind of our family dynamic. I know you guys, this is the other one, this is Kinsley. I know you guys addressed it last year. I don't know what's happened to make it an emergency to change it again. Maybe I'm missing something, but I just say like, hey, you know, trust us that we're going to go through the proper procedures. Our cart's licensed. I wouldn't operate a car drinking downtown for dinner. I wouldn't operate a golf cart the same way. So I just ask to reconsider and kind of leave it as is. You got anything? No. All right, that's all I got.

Thank you, sir. Thanks. Is there any additional public comment tonight? Anyone else before we move on? Seeing no additional comments for public comments, we will close section five and move on to section six on our agenda, which is correspondence and council comments. If any council member has correspondence that has not already been generally distributed and or council comments, we will hear those now. Please gain my attention and allow me to verbally recognize you and assign you the floor. Are there any comments from council members tonight? Mr. Brezovic?

Sure. Two comments. One, thank you. I think actually Linda just walked out. Thank you, Linda, for the comments on the playground. Obviously, I had the initial ribbon-cutting and opening of the new Dream Playground at Oak Grove this weekend. It was a great event. I'm sure a number of other council members will mention it, but very happy to see that project completed. And then last night, we had a joint meeting with the Planning Commission and Council regarding Clinton Crossing. A number of good items discussed there, some good information gained from staff. I especially appreciated the initial discussion around RFP versus RFQ, and we were able to give direction on some changes to plan development so the Planning Commission can kind of get that rolling. And when the time comes to submit, whether it be an RFP, an RFQ, and then a full plan to Planning Commission, we have everything as far as plan developments go, if we use that tool ready. So very productive meeting, and I really enjoyed being able to collaborate with the Planning Commission like that. Thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Brozovic. Additional comment from Council? Councillor White?

Thanks. First, I just wanted to apologize for missing the joint workshop yesterday. Turned out I had some 600 yellow jackets in the wall, so I had to get that taken care of before I could get back to work here. I did want to speak on EAC. I attended a meeting last week with them. The city engineer presented to the EAC on the city capital budget to help drive more discussion around EAC involvement within any of the projects. The EAC is going to continue to discuss bringing back a vendor fair in 2027. They've offered to take the lead on many of the efforts, but I've mentioned that they need to make sure that they keep city staff in the loop in line with all of our processes. There's also a discussion on following through with networking with other towns' sustainability teams and committees. Since council approved this last month, was it last month at the last workshop, they're looking for next steps on how to get that going. Not to keep this going, but I also attended the Dream Playground ribbon cutting over the weekend. It was a great event. I wanted to thank the mayor, Megan Higgins, Senator Weinstein, and Linda for their great speeches at the beginning. I really enjoyed that. My kids went back there today, and they played for about two and a half hours, and my wife had to drag them out. So it's definitely getting some good use. And last thing is a reminder on the upcoming e-bike and e-scooter forum. I'll discuss safety and communication around those uses. It's August 19th from 6 to 8 at the Barlow Community Center. I'll be joining Councilwoman D'Armo and I think Mr. Byrd, President Byrd as well, but we'll see. And that is all.

Thank you, Councillor White. Additional comments from council members this evening? Councillor Gatz?

Two things. Again, I want to say the Dream Playground event was wonderful. The ice cream truck from the city was great, and the kids loved it, and there were so many kids, and they had so much fun, so it was a great event. I think August is forum month because I am having a forum August 31st, also at Barlow Community Center at 7 p.m., and this is going to be about rentals, short-term rentals and long-term rentals. There have been a number of people in my ward who have expressed a lot of concerns about both of those things. So we're going to look at what we have now, what other communities have around the state and around the country, and try to then report back to council what people say. Mr. Hannon has also put together a survey that is out there for people to give their ideas about short-term rentals. So I hope people will see that and respond to it. So again, we can come up with a plan that is really helpful for the community. Thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Gatz. Additional comments from council members today? Council President Byrd?

So as far as the dream playground goes, I love the surface. What it does, it increases what's called like the critical injury height. So a kid could fall five feet onto that surface and probably not get any significant broken bones. And so it's very cushy and I love it. It did seem like it got kind of hot in that bright sun, so I think we just have to keep an eye on that. I didn't think it was like burn your skin hot, but in the direct sunlight, some of those features got pretty hot. Also enjoyed the combined meeting last night. I thought there was some really great synergy and interest in future collaboration to get the Clinton Crossing piece over the finish line, and so looking forward to more work on that. And then Ryan, as far as your comments, looking forward to reading that email you're going to send. Your survey on Facebook wasn't a statistical sample. Neither was the charrettes or the people that showed up for the charrettes. you know, one of the challenges with these events is do we naturally self-select or do people self-select into groups that are maybe older, richer, more well-housed because, you know, the people that are working two jobs and have 2.2 kids to take care of are, you know, maybe too busy to come to these events. So it is a challenge to get really great input on what the community wants. Thank you.

Thank you, Council President Byrd. Additional comment from Council? Councilor Weinstein?

I'll just add in some additional things. Thanks to the Planning Commission for the meeting last night that has been mentioned. Appreciated us going through what the process looks like going forward with getting this Clinton Crossing area over the line. And all of the thanks to a lot of people for the dream playground, city staff, the Hudson inclusive playground group, all of the residents who cared a lot about this project, all of the donors, all of the donations, both big and small, including allowances from children. The Hudson Community Foundation, who made raising the money much more easy than it would have been otherwise. Summit DD and our state funding from Casey Weinstein and Christina Rogner, and just all of the construction workers and city staff that got it over the line. So just thank you to all of those. I want to make sure there's lots of thanks, and sorry if I forgot anyone there.

Thank you, Councillor Weinstein. Additional comment from council members who have not spoken yet? Councillor Duramo or Councillor Sutton?

Councillor Duramo? Just wanted to speak about all the great events that we did have, especially Pack the Pond with friends of Hudson Parks. The mayor did a great job being the emcee at that event, and it was a really nice sold-out event once again at Hudson Springs. The beer gardener was amazing. I'm sure the mayor will speak on that, but just more great events in Hudson.

Thank you, Councillor Duramo. Councillor Sutton, I'll offer you the floor if you had any comments. Thank you, sir. I will add a couple things from my side. The Western Reserve Community Band will be on the Downtown Greens this coming Sunday, August 16th for a special concert that is America 250 themed, which begins at 6.30 p.m. again on the Downtown Greens here. I will have the pleasure to be narrating the Gettysburg Address during that special number. And I have to say, I did some rehearsals with them this past week, and they sound amazing. So if you have not been down on our greens to hear them and all of the other musical performances, Performances, please check that out and look to the city's resources or the community's resources and calendars for all those events going on The Hudson area Chamber of Commerce will be holding their annual fundraiser and that is a golf outing this Friday the 14th and once again at the city run Ellsworth Meadows golf course and I will say from the mayor's association meeting that we had the prior week and Everybody that I spoke to was very complimentary of the course. I was in great shape. The staff, everybody did a really good job there helping out, so the chamber will be duplicating that effort coming here this Friday. The beer garden, I was down there helping out, volunteering for four hours on Saturday, and it certainly looked like Friday night, Saturday night, and the Saturday daytime afternoon that I was there, that everybody was out there enjoying that event, which was on the Park Lane Green. And I will also say, I made a post right before I came here on social media that the owners, Nick and John from Green Valley Brewery, I know HiHo was there as well, had six different beers, three between each of those two companies. Green Valley Brewery's business went down about a week ago. Their chiller broke and they had to get the entire unit replaced. So John, the owner, was still at the beer garden helping making sure that everything was running and operational while his business was closed. So I spoke to him right before this meeting. They've got everything fixed. They are opening tomorrow. And I will be down there dinner time to welcome them back into business. And again, that's Green Valley Brewing Company had their beverages at the beer garden and they are on 53 Milford Road. If anybody would like to show them some love and support over the next several days or this coming weekend. And those are the updates that I had. Any additional comments from council before we close comments? Seeing none, we will close section six and move on to section seven report of the manager. Mr. Sheridan, I'd like to turn the floor over to you to provide any updates to council.

Thank you, mayor. Uh, two quick notes. First, I'm happy to and excited to report to everybody in the public that the fire renovations and staffing, uh, we will be going to 24 seven here in the, in the coming week to 10 days. We're a little bit ahead of schedule. We had planned on Labor Day was the goal, so we hope before the end of August that we'll have full-time, 24-7 fire staffing, and then we're gonna start moving the renovations over to EMS. We're gonna move EMS over to where fire has been working temporarily, and then we'll start renovating their area starting in September. The other item I have for tonight is the Hines Hill Road Railroad Bridge Public Forum meeting is tomorrow from 5 to 7 at City Hall, 1140 Terex Road, and it's in the lower level, correct, Brad? It's in the lower level of City Hall, which is in the rear of City Hall, so park in the rear of City Hall, and people can give input onto that railroad bridge that we're hoping to have construction of starting in 2028. And that's all I had, Mayor. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Sheridan. Are there any comments or questions from Council to Mr. Sheridan? Seeing none, we will close section seven, report of the manager and move on to section eight for appointments. Council President Byrd, do we have any appointments tonight?

Yes, we do. I would like to nominate Paul Steyer and reappoint him to a full term on the tree commission.

Thank you, Council President Byrd. Do we have a motion to approve the nomination by Council President Byrd?

I move to approve the nomination by Council President Byrd.

Thank you, Councillor Brunswick. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you, Councillor White. Are there any comments from Council on that motion to approve the nomination from Council President Byrd? Seeing none, Mrs. Wheeler, will you please roll call the vote on the motion to approve Council President Byrd's nomination of Paul Stair to the Tree Commission for a full term as noted?

Mr. Roosevelt? Yes. Mr. Ramo? Yes. Dr. Goetz? Yes. Mr. Sutton? Yes. Dr. Weinstein? Yes. Mr. White? Yes. Dr. Byrd?

Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Wheeler. That motion passes by a vote of seven in favor to zero against for Mr. Paul Stare to be appointed to the Tree Commission for a full term. Congratulations, Mr. Stare. Council President Byrd, do we have any other appointments or comments on future appointments tonight? We do not. Thank you, council president bird. We will close section eight and move on to section nine, which is our consent agenda. However, there are no items on consent this evening, so we will close section nine and move straight to section. 10 for our legislative agenda. There is one item, item a number two, six dash one one three. And this is a first reading tonight. This is an ordinance amending chapter four, seven, eight of the codified ordinances and declaring an emergency. Again, this is the first reading tonight of three readings, which two additional readings will happen in the future. Therefore, we will close Section 10 for legislation and move on to Section 11, which is an executive session for tonight. Therefore, do we have a motion from council to enter into executive session?

Yes, I move to enter into executive session pursuant to Hudson Codified Ordinance 220.05B2 and 5 to consider the sale or other transfer of real property and matters that are required to be kept confidential by law. Invited to the executive session are all members of council, the mayor, the city solicitor, the community development director, the city engineer, the assistant city manager, and the city manager.

Thank you, Council President Byrd. Do we have a second from council to that motion?

Second.

Thank you, Councillor Brzezic. Are there any comments on the motion to enter into executive session? Seeing none, Mrs. Wheeler, will you please roll call the vote?

Ms. Rameau? Yes. Dr. Goetz? Yes. Mr. Sutton? Yes. Dr. Weinstein? Yes. Mr. White? Yes. Dr. Byrd? Yes. Mr. Brzezic?

Yes.

Thank you, Mrs. Wheeler. That motion to enter into executive session does pass unanimously by a vote of seven in favor to zero against. Please note at the conclusion of our executive session, we will be continuing with a workshop agenda tonight after a short recess, but we will be going into the back room for a private closed door executive session. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. We are back from our executive session and we'll continue on moving to section 13, or excuse me, 12 on our agenda, which is to adjourn our regular city council meeting. Do we have a motion to adjourn?

I move to adjourn.

Thank you, Council President. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you, Council President Byrd. All in favor of adjourning, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Seeing none, this... Regular city council meeting is so adjourned at 8.23 p.m. on August 11th, 2026. And again, we will have a workshop meeting tonight. Does council wish to take a recess or just continue straight with the workshop meeting? Continue?

We have cookies.

Okay, we will then move right into our workshop meeting, which is item 13 on our agenda. Thank you, everyone. I'd like to call this meeting to order. This is a duly noticed workshop meeting of Hudson City Council, held in accordance with the Sunshine Laws of the State of Ohio, Section 121.22 in the City of Hudson Charter, Article 3, Section 3.02 for Tuesday, August 11, 2026. It is 8.24 p.m. Per ordinance 220.031 titled Workshop Meetings in Item C, I would now like to turn the meeting over to Council President Byrd so as to continue through the remaining workshop agenda items. Council President Byrd, the floor in Workshop Meeting is yours. Okay.

Thank you, Mayor. Number 14 is correspondence and council comments. If you have some new comments that you came up with in the last 50 minutes, then please share. No, okay, seeing none, we will move on to discussion items 15A26-0064, the Brandywine Creek Watershed Study Model and Final Draft Report. And here to talk about that is Mr. Brad Cosco.

yet uh... good evening council uh... online with us tonight is our hydraulic uh... uh... analyzing company gpd group uh... jesse roofer is our model or he's uh... very familiar with the city of hudson eyes worked on a number of projects here in the city of hudson both for the city and private uh... agencies in town, so a good fit, good study. This final presentation to council is the culmination of that study. We're probably about 95% complete with the evaluation, so at this point, we'll do the presentation, we'll go through it pretty quickly, and then we'll have time for questions and answers at the end. We'll take council's comments, and we'll incorporate them into the final study, and then we'll present that, and then the recommended projects out of this will eventually show up in our capital budgets. So with that, Jesse, go ahead and get started.

All right. Thanks, Brad. I assume that everyone can hear me just fine? Yes.

Thank you.

Okay. So as Brad mentioned, we're here talking about the Brandywine Creek watershed. A couple of things we'll talk about on the agenda here is the area that you're probably mostly familiar with, some past projects that have occurred in the watershed and some current ones that city staff is working on, where we're at with the study, some analysis of the existing conditions that we've looked at, the alternatives we went through, and then as Brad mentioned, we can get into some questions and comments that you all may have at the end of the presentation. So what we have here is the black dash line represents the approximate limits of the city of Hudson. The bold red line would be the Brandywine Creek watershed. And then the different color, the green, blue, yellow, orange are the streams that are tributary to Brandywine Creek with the yellow one and the blue one being The blue ones, the Brandywine Creek tributary through downtown, and then the green and yellow being the primary Brandywine Creek streams. It's primarily the downtown part of Hudson, the older sections of town, and then it moves to the northwest part of the city. All right, so as Brad mentioned, we wanted to study this area for a couple of reasons. It has been looked at in the past by the city and by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. But the August 2024 event kind of triggered great interest in the area and in the city. And so we wanted to update what the sewer district had looked at and then look at with a little bit more detail in the watershed to come up with some additional alternatives to look at improving the storm sewer system in an area that doesn't have a lot of space, that's primarily developed in the area where we'd want to do something. And so just need to look at it a little bit more detail. And just to refresh, the storm in August of 24 was somewhere between a 500 to 2,000 year storm, over seven inches of rain. If you look at the different rainfall depths in the table, it's just an incredible amount of rain. These depths under the 24-hour are for a 24-hour storm, and most of that rain fell within two hours. So an incredible event that just typically is not going to be able to be handled by any storm sewer infrastructure. So our alternatives won't necessarily capture that completely, but we're looking to do the best we can to help reduce the flooding and the damage. So on the screen here, you have The red, again, is the watershed. The blue represents 100-year flooding limits. And then the orange diamonds are reported damage from that August 2024 storm. The cluster to the right of the red watershed is more in the Tinkers Creek area. The study that's ahead of ours was looking at that area. So we're looking in the Brandywine area. There weren't as many calls. kind of traveled from west to east and was more intense over the Tinkers Creek watershed. And you can see that based on the storm damage complaints. So when we were looking at the existing condition results, we wanted to, A, look at those calls, number one, and then compare our model to those calls and then look at where our model might predict flooding that nobody reported damage, A, because maybe it didn't happen or just they didn't make the call. And then also one thing we kind of noticed is that a lot of the damage was in the older parts of town where the infrastructure is more limited. There's no stormwater management as far as detention retention basins in place. And the sewers are generally a little smaller than would be if designed today. So kind of looked at all of those things to kind of then develop, you know, some of our alternatives to reduce some of that stuff. Um, but the next thing I wanted to kind of talk about was just kind of what the city has done in this watershed. And it's been quite a lot, um, as we were looking into this project. Um, so starting in 1979, the, the Barlow ponds were constructed. Um, the picture on your upper right is from, uh, 1978, I believe. And then the lower one is from 1980. These are from ODOT historic aerials. So you can see where the pond, when it was constructed. But that was after a 20-year storm that these ponds were constructed. So nothing like what was happened in August of 24. And the ponds were only designed at that point to contain a 50-year storm or a 2% recurrence interval. In 96, the city had the first Brandywine Creek watershed study completed. That made recommendations based on a 25-year storm. And one of those was the basins at Colony Park that were ultimately constructed in 2009. So, you know, a study was done and some of those projects were implemented. From 2003 to 2006, there was the downtown redevelopment, which there are multiple underground detention systems to help the area of downtown. In the 2010s, there were multiple culvert replacements. completed. In 2019, the sewer district did a master plan, stormwater master plan, and made several recommendations, which we are looking at advancing. But one of the ones that was implemented was Barlow Ponds, which is to increase the storage there and to take it from a 50-year level of service to something greater. And then in 25, the city built a stormwater basin on the east side of the watershed off of Ravenna Street. So there has been a lot done, and this isn't even naming all the projects, but I think compared to the Tinkers Creek watershed, there's been a lot of work done here to help alleviate the problems through the years. In addition to the ones that have Past projects, there are some future projects that are being looked at by Brad's team. Near Colony Park along Easton Way, they're looking at doing a storm sewer to redirect some flow into the basin and expand the eastern basin. By Rosewood Grill, we've found a choke point in the storm sewer system there. that a simple upgrade in that area would relieve a lot of pressure on the system upstream of Streetsboro Street and to help reduce some flooding there. At the Western Reserve Academy, looking at maybe expanding that basin to provide a little bit more storage and slow flow down through the Hudson and Aurora Street area there. Some of the homes in that area were hit the hardest during the August storm, and so that basin retrofit if it could be implemented would help quite a bit. And then some additional storm sewer upgrades in that area. So those are projects that the city is currently looking at. So when we were looking at, A, we wanted to build out on what the sewer district did and then where else could we potentially do a project? So one of the first things we wanted to do was prioritize publicly owned land. So the blue, parcels that you see on the map are city-owned property. So within the watershed limit is now blue color, a light blue. Most of the publicly owned land within the watershed is the city. There's a little bit of school property in yellow that we looked at that maybe might be an opportunity. But a lot of it is in the downtown area. Or the large tract in the northeast corner is in an area that it's large, but it's downstream of most of the city proper and wouldn't provide much benefit. But we did look at potentially doing something there. Just one other thing to point out with the areas in downtown, a couple of those blue areas are the Barlow Ponds, the Veterans Park, where there's a small wetland right now, the Colony Basin. or Colony Park Basin. A lot of it is already being utilized. We looked at what can we expand on and then if there's any other opportunities there. Other things we looked at were, can we retrofit some of the detention basins for the subdivisions in the northern part of the watershed? Could we use smart controls to lower the water before in advance of a storm based on forecasting? Some other options were to expand floodplains, redirect storm sewers to other locations that had more capacity. Those are the primary things we looked at. And then, you know, smaller projects we didn't model, but if residents had, you know, what can I do to help? You know, we could talk to them about, you know, rain gardens or rain barrels, downspout disconnections, things like that, because every little bit would help. And that way they could be involved as well. So on the map here, we show the different alternatives that we looked at or that reached final evaluation. There are 21 total. And the different symbols indicate different types. So the upside down triangles are conveyance or storm sewer only projects. So we're either redirecting or upsizing storm sewer systems. The blue are storage, so it's either creating floodplain storage, maybe building a basin or expanding a basin. And then the purple crosses are a combination of basins and storm sewer improvements. The next couple of slides I'm gonna go through about a third of the different alternatives just kind of give you an idea of what we're looking at as far and then what we had modeled. And then these we have costed and we've come up with a preliminary ranking that we will share towards the end of the presentation. So this first alternative here is this would be in that large blue area on the map with the city properties. So it's in the Northwest part of the city But what we're proposing to do is to direct, there's two smaller streams coming down from Middleton Road towards Hines Hill. We've proposed to put a large storm sewer in and direct all the flow to city property. And then you'd build a basin, a large basin over, be just west of the railroad tracks to where the city owns a bunch of property and you could store quite a bit of water. Several challenges with this one is you got about a little over a mile of storm sewer to build, large diameter, very deep. It would have to be tunneled for some, if not all of it. So very costly and likely what we've looked at, the benefit, it wasn't there due to the improvement, but we wanted to see what we could do with that large tract of city property. A smaller footprint, this would be in Middleton Park. The current drainage comes through by the ball field and then it enters a stream and then continues south towards the downtown area. There'd be an opportunity to build about an eight to 10 foot tall berm at the south edge of the property to store some water in a basin there. And when we looked at this, it did show some promise to slowing flows down as you move downstream in the system. We understand that there could be, you know, we tried to design it so there's not impacts to the residents when it's full. And then there would be emergency spillway to keep water away from the homes on the east side should it be pursued. A floodplain expansion project. This would be north of Owen Brown and on the east side of the stream. This is a privately owned property by the church that's just off the screen to the north. We looked at what would happen if we did a pretty large floodplain expansion here, provide a lot of volume, but just kind of due to its location in the system, didn't provide a lot of benefit for the cost. So something that likely won't have a lot of legs, but something we wanted to look at due to its proximity to downtown. Another property or project here would be the Winston Manor Basin. Look at expanding it to the east towards the cemetery. We would also want to modify the outlet before it goes under Blackberry Drive to help store more water. Because right now a lot of the water, it just kind of passes through, it's in and out because there's not much control at the outlet of the basin. In addition, we'd want to do something to mitigate sediment that travels through here that has been an issue in this basin. So it could be either done through either one of the berm that's shown or a forebay or a combination of two. But we either want to pass the sediment through or we want to put it into a spot that it can be easily removed from the system instead of just spreading out through the entire bay. And this project would be at Colony Park. So this would be expanding the west basin and then increasing some storm sewer that's coming in from the south. So this would be all of this stuff would be to the west of the project that Brad's team is working on currently in this area. And what this one does is it helps reduce flooding to the neighborhood to the south and then would just slow more water down that's going north under the railroad and towards Ravenna Street. This project is over by the Veterans Way Park or is in the Veterans Park. So we would look at expanding the wetland that is already there, so the north basin expansion, and then constructing another basin in the southern part of the park, south of all the amenities that are there now. The blue lines represent where we would redirect and or upsize storm sewer to get water from the neighborhood east of Main Street over to the basin to help reduce flooding there. And then the two basins then would slow water down before it moves under the tracks and then ultimately goes through the system. Either it goes into Brandywine Creek by Main Street or currently some of that area floods and goes towards the Villa Street Apartments and then before it goes under the tracks towards Morse Road. So this area here would help a lot of that. So it would be a good project. And then we looked at there's more city property off of Prospect Street. If we did a floodplain expansion here similar to what we did it looked at Morse or just north of Owen Brown to the east of Morse Road. Similar requires a lot of excavation. And the benefit cost for sometimes for these floodplain expansions isn't quite what we had hoped, but we needed to look at it, do the availability of property here. So that's a quick run through of a few of the projects we looked at. And then here we have the rankings for 17. There were four other projects that we looked at that we did not include because of either the constructability or just the cost. So, for example, the, the 1, where we're directing flow to the, the Heinz Hill. North of Heinz Hill to that large area that the city owns would have been upwards over 60Million dollars. So just not feasible for the benefit you're getting. So, um, the dark text you see on the screen here are the ones that we, um, would recommend to the city to implement. And the total cost of those projects is approximately 24Million dollars. Um, the other ones, you know, have benefit. Um, but just these are the ones we felt like it gave the most bang for the buck and that we felt good recommending to the city. Um, the total cost of all 17 that are listed here would be about 40Million if they were to be implemented. And with that, I know I went quickly, but if there's any questions or comments from. Council, I'd be happy to take those.

Just before we get into comments, the metrics that you use to measure the impact, is it houses, is it dollars worth of damage, is it?

square feet what the the potential draft scoring or the the major way i like the term matrix but uh right now we're preliminary uh jesse and i are are debating uh valuations on that matrix but it's flood benefit number of structures removed or lessened in their um property impact so i think private property impacts that involve a railroad or or something like that. Environmental impact. So do we think we're getting into Army Corps or EPA permitting? Or is there an environmental benefit? Does the project actually enhance something? So that could go two different directions. Jesse, was there any other major categories? I think I hit them all. And benefit cost was there, of course.

Yeah. No, I think that's the main point. Maintenance. Future maintenance was another category. Okay.

I had a resident reach out about the Winston Manor Basin project. Can you explain a little bit about the thinking of why that one's not in bold?

So let me, I'll go back to that one on the slides here. So the one couple of things here with this one, right now at the outlet of the basin, there's a channel that comes through under here. There's really nothing that slows down a lot of water. So when flow comes in, it spreads out a little bit, but it then moves down. When we expanded the basin footprint, it didn't drop the water surface in the area here or downstream enough to have the benefit for the cost that it would be to implement the project. And the other thing is the the sediment mitigation that would be needed because there's some sediment in this basin already. We didn't evaluate that as far as the cost goes, but that would be something else that would need to be added here. So just the benefit to homes in the area. And then they're really like Blackberry Drive doesn't flood right now. So that was another thing we looked at when we were evaluating, do roads flood? And if the roads that are flooding, are they... Does it limit emergency services, those things like that to get through? And so this one, BlackBerry doesn't flood to where, well, it doesn't flood at all through here. And so it just didn't score high in that regard there.

I do want to clarify, we're not done scoring. We wanted to collect council comments first before we finalize anything.

We return to the draft ranking. Thank you very much. First question is, could you just help me understand better the difference between the numerical ranking of the projects versus the recommended bolded projects? Why aren't all the recommended ones the top and then the unrecommended ones the bottoms? What's the difference?

So for example, I'll do this Middleton storm sewer one. There's a small segment of sewer on Middleton towards the eastern edge of the city or the watershed where there's a segment of sewer that's just not the same size as the other sewers in the area. It's like you have one size, then it gets smaller, and then it goes to a bigger sewer. And so one thing we looked at when we were coming up with alternatives we wanted to evaluate was, is the storm sewer functioning as it should? So like that segment of sewer was not functioning as it should. So as an alternative, we looked at it. It's a benefit, but in that area, there were no flooded homes. There was not really any road flooding. There's no environmental benefit, obviously, to that one. Is it a good project? Yes. But is it going to help residents, emergency services and things like that? So if it didn't. And so that's where we're talking with Brad about our scoring. We might refine some things and that may change a little bit where that would fall in the category.

Jesse, can you clarify? I think the numbering sequence was was random. It was just projects that we nominated through the.

model development so i don't it says rankings but is clarified did rosewood grill rank above number two above number three number four or is that just a sequencing this these were a general ranking at one point like they're in as we refine the rankings um and continue to evaluate it will rearrange

so it it does have some it's not necessarily perfectly tied to data is what you're telling me is this was kind of a general rough draft that was my recollection i think at one point in time they were in alphabetical order and then we just started kind of moving them up and down and at some point in time middleton road storm sewer fell off the list so Yeah, because I've got to say that's just... Yeah, why wouldn't all the bold ones be at the top and the non-bold ones be at the bottom?

Yeah, I've got to say the presentation of it being called draft project rankings, but the numbers not being the actual ranking, I find quite confusing. My only other piece of feedback would be that the Middleton Park Basin project, I believe you said it would generally be a pretty beneficial project, and we currently have plans to do... I don't want to use the word substantial, but some decent amount of upgrade to Middleton Park next year. It's budgeted. It's going to be renovation to that park. If we were going to do a stormwater project at Middleton, next year would be the year to do it. So I... Once again, I guess it's bolded, so it seems like it's probably higher than the 12 that it's currently at, but I would put some consideration on timing for Middleton Park. That next year would be the year to do something there. That's all.

Questions for Brad? So as far as valuations, is there not like a standard, a norm, a gold standard that most communities use?

There is not, no. So what may be a priority for the sewer district versus another community in Summit County, No, they're not consistent. What I'm working with Jesse on is what's important to Hudson. We always try to avoid private property impacts through our public input process. There was environmental concerns, there was a big proponent of that, so environmental benefits, pros and cons is in that matrix. I really want to avoid right away, or I'm sorry, railroad impacts. So that's a big category for us, that whenever we're involved with the railroad,

That's the impact of these projects, but I'm thinking like the, what are you saving? What property are we saving? What people are we saving by doing them?

The highest scoring will be the project benefit. The most impactful ranking category would be, yeah, would be the benefit of the project.

Which will be measured by?

Right now we have it on a scale from minus three to positive three, yeah.

I guess it's probably hard to get into too much granularity around the dollars worth of property that would be saved versus not.

Would you like to see a copy of the scoring matrix? Is that what you're asking for?

Very data-driven. Pile wants one.

Sure. Yeah, yeah. I don't want, it's a pile.

I mean, I'll look at it too.

No, I'm not, I'm not, I hope you, I'm not being critical. I'm just.

No, no. If it informs council and it's, we can put that in a memo form and send it out.

You know, and the more, more objective we can be, something that is measurable, the better, um,

You're still deciding among these or have some then decided that you're going to go ahead with them? Are you waiting for us?

Some of them are already programmed and we're actively working on now. For example, the one that was mentioned down at Rosewood Grill, we are actively designing that, planning on bidding that project up. Other ones will go into the upcoming budget. Cost is going to play a factor, so if there's already maybe some Tinker's Creek projects big projects in that annual, in that year, we may have to kick back a future project to council's comment, hey, if we're already working in a neighborhood or working in a park, maybe we need to align the stormwater project in that park with that budget year and something else has to move. So rankings will play a factor, but when it comes down to it, we have a limited budget we need to work within as well.

I think Samantha would probably better address this, but there's been a lot of talk in Manor people. So if it doesn't get the big project, is there something that can be done for that silt and the dredging or whatever can help that problem?

yeah we are we're still talking to the sewer district they're actively looking at this model with us i was hoping to see it rank a little bit higher on that seeing some flood benefit out of that so i'm not saying no to the project but based upon this current ranking i don't know where or when we would get to that project just a few questions um specifically do we have a budgeted amount for this

you know, I like that Jesse said the biggest bang for your buck and the bolded ones, I like that. And we said, okay, that's 24 million, but you know, in a perfect world, yes, we would like to do that, but like, do we even have like what we can do 10, you know what I mean?

These projects are not yet been budgeted in any future capital projects. Gotcha.

And then Jesse also made a comment about like, there's things that the public could do to help you know, mitigate some issues, storm barrels, things like that. I mean, I think it's nice to have those options available. Do they really make a substantial benefit would they provide?

No, no, you'd have to get thousands and thousands of them Yeah, but the fact of the matter is there is no one clear-cut open space that we can do like a silver bullet project So it is like eating the elephant. How do you do it? It's every little bite at a time and that's why we started off as 20 projects as a matter of fact I think we were already closer to 30 projects when we originally started this evaluation some immediately came off and I think during the public comment period, some of the residents spoke up and said, what about planting trees and maybe high asphalt areas? Yeah, that helps. Does it move the needle a lot? No, but we need to get every little ounce we can.

And the last thing was, I agree with Kyle about the Middleton Park. I mean, it just makes sense, you know, if you're, ripping up an area, maybe we should look at it.

Yeah, if we're building trails or beautification projects, yeah, build it at the same time. I will say that the footprint of that particular project sits largely within a FEMA floodplain area. It's not touched anyway. It's in an area that's underutilized right now or not utilized as park right now. It sits in the park. I'm not saying it's not part of the park, but it is not a play area right now. It's just if you're going to bring a few equipment in. If you're going to bring a backhoe in there, do it one time.

IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE RANKINGS. IF PEOPLE REACH OUT TO ME, I CAN EXPLAIN WHY I HAVE SOMETHING I CAN LOOK AT WITHOUT HAVING TO ASK TOM ALL THE TIME OR YOU ALL THE TIME, CAN YOU TELL ME WHY THIS ONE WAS HIGHER, WHY THIS ONE WOULD GO FORWARD, JUST SO I HAVE SOMETHING AND I CAN EXPLAIN, WELL, WE USE THESE DIFFERENT THINGS AND THIS IS WHY THIS ONE WAS AHEAD OF IT.

WE'LL GET THAT OUT. IF COUNCIL IS DONE REAL QUICK. Just going back, I want to make sure that we highlight this. You mentioned this was a 500 to 2000 year storm. Is that correct?

The August 24 storm?

Yes. And in the state of Ohio, what what is typically designed to what year storm?

So storm sewers are typically designed to carry a some cities have a five year, some a 10 year storm. to carry it within the pipe, and then they'll do the next one up, so 10 or 25 year before it surcharges to the road. Culverts and bridges are maybe a little bit bigger storm, but that's what you're looking at typically.

And then stormwater management is typically 100-year storms?

Yes. Detention basins usually are up to the 100 year storm.

So we were hit not so much in Brandywine Creek, but we were hit with five times minimum five times the size of a storm of any storm water pond that we have. Um, I guess, and maybe I missed it, but I want to make sure that the public's clear too, is one. Thank you for, you know, stating, you know, the different storms and what we see across the state. Um, but. What are all these projects, what are they, is there a year design that they're going to? I didn't hear that. Are you looking at just flooding that we know that is on record or are you looking at these projects because they'll solve the 100 year or the 200 year or the 500 year? Was that one of the items that you guys looked at when you were ranking these?

So when we were looking at which projects to do, we looked at where there was flooding reported or storm damage, and then where did the model predict there to be flooding? So kind of a holistic look at it. And then we looked at the 10 through the 100-year storm. So some projects might not do a whole lot for the 100-year storm, but they do a lot for the 10-year. And since that's what the you know, the majority of the system can take, you know, we thought that that was still a benefit. So we're not hitting that mega storm, the 500 year plus, but we're looking at due to the limited space within this watershed, doing what we can, where we can.

Okay. And that's what I wanted to make sure was clear to the public was that we are designing up into the 10 and 100 year, which are currently in our engineering standards. So the 500 to 2000 years, as I have said, in quotes is more of a biblical type of storm that has come in. And I know there's a public out there that feels the storm water frequencies are not correct anymore with FEMA and so on and so forth. And Brad and I did talk to everybody down at ODNR and FEMA about this the Chicago office regarding and I believe Brad correct me we did move our our stormwater management up to meet FEMA's new rules that are not in place yet right yeah we updated our engineering standards last year to account for more intense rain events that we're seeing we're on the cutting edge just so council and the public knows that we're taking this seriously but i want everyone to know that we've done a lot of research in the last three or four years since that flood and talked to some of the the you know again like jesse and gpd group here uh others that were consultants that we've used but i just wanted to make sure that was all clear to everybody that um the city is working within the the confines of THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY AND STORM FREQUENCIES THAT ARE BETTER THAN SOME OF THE OTHERS IN THE STATE. THAT'S ALL.

THANKS, JESSE. I HAD A QUESTION ON TIMING. DO WE HAVE A SENSE OF IF WE SAID YES, GO AHEAD, THE RECOMMENDED PROJECTS, THE 24 MILLION, I KNOW THIS IS A LITTLE BIT OF A FINANCE, WHEN WOULD THIS ALL HAPPEN? HOW MANY YEARS ARE WE TALKING?

Ballpark? Yeah. 10. Okay. Is that correct? That's what you were shooting for?

I'd like to see 10, but I think we had $30 million of projects come out of the Tinker's Creek watershed, so it's 30 in this one and 24. We're looking at $50 million. I don't know of any community that can handle that.

Yeah.

Knobloch says he can't handle that, huh? Okay, so you're going to get us some info. As we budget, we're going to have ideas of how much we can commit, and then we'll be talking about Tingers Creek and Brandywine Creek and coming up with one or two of these that's possible for 27. Kyle?

AS WE WERE TALKING FINANCES I PULLED UP THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN AND WE HAVE SPECIFICALLY A STORM WATER SECTION UNDER OUR FIVE-YEAR PLAN AND I'M SEEING FOR 2027 JUST SHY OF $2 MILLION OF PROJECTS PLANNED AND FROM THERE IT TAPERS OFF. WAS THAT A WE'RE JUST LEAVING ROOM FOR WHEN WE DO AND WE EXPECT TO DO ABOUT 2 MILLION A YEAR? WHAT WERE THE THOUGHTS THERE, JEFF, IF YOU COULD?

I think we were waiting on these studies to be complete and then what, as you've all talked about, is look at what are the prioritizations and then try to fit as many as we can within that five year time frame.

Is that still a thought that we'd be spending approximately two million a year or? Two million a year, you're looking at well over 10 just for this watershed alone, let alone the other two.

I, well, I can't say with any certainty what, if that we would spend, I would, I would imagine we would, that would be our attempt to spend at least the $2 million a year.

If, if I can, sorry, I got to interrupt. We have sidewalk projects out there that council wants to, we have a fire and EMS department and we're looking at potentially, you know, one day going full time there. So, i want everyone to know this is what we do in the in august and september internally is we don't just look at the flavor of the day i don't mean any disrespect to what we're doing right now it's very important parks are very important all these things are very important so we have to kind of give you all what we think the best educated guess is is where you should be spending your money and budgeting we're recommending and then council will approve in the fall that's what we've done like every year but um you know we will be here to say you know hey this project is needed this project's a want you know and sometimes you trade them off but that's basically how we go through the budget process so before jeff goes too far down um i just want to make sure that we all know that we'll look at this whole budget collectively and what jeff said is correct um you know we've been kind of preparing for the storm water just like we're preparing for these other things um that's our job so we're trying to make sure that we will listen to council. And when you say, Hey, let's do 10 sidewalk projects or whatever, a million dollars a piece, we might want you to scale that back because those are more like a, a want. And I know there's safety concerns, but it's hard to tell people who are being flooded that, you know, they can't get their repair work done because somebody is getting a new sidewalk or whatever the case may be, or a paid parking lot in a playground or something like that. So again, again, we'll, we'll talk about all that in the fall.

Thank you. I just wanted to kind of put a number out there for everyone to understand what we have in the five-year right now. And then my last point was back to the ranking model, and I think I brought this up with the Tinkers Creek study. I know this study doesn't include sewer, but is there any ability to... add into the ranking or take into account in the ranking things that could impact you know causing sewer backups because to me with these flood events that's always one of the big things um that i'm worried about like flooding's you know we live in three watersheds flooding is going to happen we're going to do our best to mitigate it flood water damage is bad but it's not as bad as sewage backup

You're referring to sanitary sewer? Yes. Run by the county? Yes, right. Just wanted to make sure. Yes.

Once again, I know that's not our system, but obviously these rain events can impact.

All I can promise you is we will work diligently like we have in the past with the county to try to remedy these issues, but I have no power over the county. Mr.

Okay. Thank you, Brad. Thank you, Jesse.

Thank you.

All right, next up is 16B, which is, I'm sorry, 15B, which is TMP-8795, Ordinance Enacting Section 11 of Chapter 1419, Engineering Standards for Infrastructure Construction and Amending Section 1016.04P and Section 1 of Chapter 1419, 1419 of the codified ordinances.

Dr. Bird, I'll tee this up while Brad's pulling up the information. As you all know, back in June of this year, there was a fiber optic incident with a gas line in a community north of us, and it was a substantial damage to a large street there with a bunch of houses. I think it was upwards of 20 homes have been damaged. Following that incident, we put immediate a moratorium on horizontal directional drilling, which is a process. And it's one of the exhibits I think is really good that the city engineers provided in your packet to take a look at. It's a little different than open excavating when you see a big trench and you drive past it on the roadway. It's a different process, and Brad can kind of go into that firsthand here when he starts talking about this subject. But after the moratorium, we immediately went into our specifications, which we felt were very good, and they were up there with the par of everyone. We had some hiccups in the beginning with our fiber in some neighborhoods. and we corrected those immediately and things seemed to settle down. But when this happened, it was a matter of stopping everything, looking at our specifications, knowing that we really didn't want to do anything until we heard back from the fire marshal and the PUCO reports, which I just want you to know, we have not heard of any of those There was a house explosion in Girard, Ohio back in April, the end of April of this year. And talking to the mayor over there, I don't believe he's gotten a report. He said he would get it to me as soon as he could. And he has not gotten me a report on that one yet. So it could be months away on those two reports. They could be around the corner tomorrow, but we don't know. And with that, we'll turn it over to Brad and he'll kind of go over, you know, what, engineering has done since this incident up in a community north of us here.

Sorry, I don't have the screen up and running, but the exhibit that is in your packet is this one here. And I thought it was a good example in one photo of horizontal directional drilling process there. So it has a little numbering sequence. The process is is really good. It, it avoids that open cut scenario where we're, we're open cutting roads or people's front yard. So there is a benefit. Uh, we've had some residents say, why do you even incorporate that, that process? Well, this is why, because we don't have to do a road and sidewalk disturbance. So the process is, a boring pit and a receiving pit on the other side of wherever that drilling is excavated. And then you can see on the left-hand side of the screen is this machine. It's the boring rig. It sends out the pilot hole first. And that's our most critical part of that process, is making sure that pilot hole is avoiding all those underground utilities. They're shown on this image under the roadway in that yellow and red pipes there. So we want to This new specification that we've put together really focuses on how do we locate where those are, how do we do it safely, and how are we going to remain diligent in that? We've talked internally about staying diligent and not being complacent with our inspection or our safety protocols here. So that pilot hole goes through first, and then depending on the material that you're pulling back through, they can either pull back the new conduit, whether it be plastic or metal pipe. Sometimes if we're using bigger pipe, maybe it's water lines or sanitary sewers, that reaming process, that initial pilot hole and that reaming back may go past a few times. But for the most part, that image kind of in one-stop shopping shows everything. and some of the items that I'll talk about are on there. There's two items that I'm talking, that we're upgrading tonight. One is our general, or I'm sorry, our engineering standards section one. We added a number of definitions to that, so that's kind of the blanket over all the other engineering standards. I won't spend a whole lot of time on that. It was largely talking about directional drilling, terminology, and one critical item that the city manager noted is we should get a definition of what Hudson infrastructure is. So that didn't exist any place before, it's hard to believe, but now it will be in there. A whole new section 11 has been incorporated, and I want to apologize to council and the mayor. In your packet, there's two versions of that. And ahead of the council meeting where we go to hopefully pass this regulation, we'll clean that up and you'll just have one regulation in there. But tonight I talk about, like city manager noted, a little bit about what we're incorporating. I think it's a good specification. I don't know of any other community, at least in Summit County, that is going to this level of effort to ensure safety of our infrastructure and our public. As the city manager noted, we already had some of the regulations in our projects, Ohio Revised Code and Code of Federal Regulations kind of dictate some of the minimum requirements Above and beyond those requirements in this new Section 11 is some design parameters, including required buffers from existing infrastructure. Typically we want to stay 18 inches horizontally away from the infrastructure. Here we're incorporating three foot separation where we can get it. Sometimes that is impractical and we have safety measures if those if that requirement can't be met. And some of the design requirements on some of the plans that we have submitted to us would be implemented in this design standards too. I do want to note that not only would this regulation apply to outside agencies and other companies working inside of Hudson, we'll implement these on our own projects as well. uh... gas utility escalation criteria and any infrastructure for that matter critical infrastructure certainly if a contractor doesn't feel like a utilities marked out accurately or simply can't find it that could be because there's no tracer wire or there's no records of it uh... we now have a process in place on how they escalate that whether it be through the utility owner or our own in-house use of what's called a ground penetrating radar We were looking at purchasing this piece of equipment, and if we needed it, we could implement it, take it out in the field. You roll over the ground, and it's able to sense where some of this underground infrastructure is, and that'll be a huge help to us. The most critical item that we're implementing is vacuum excavation. That's sometimes referred to as hydro excavating. They're both under the same umbrella of process. So that is non-mechanical, non-cutting type equipment. So that's either the machine, it's loud, but that machine either vacuums up the material as we're looking for that initial where is that gas service or that water main or that electric main. It uses air or water to do that excavation process. So there isn't that cutting and that shoveling that we had, the shovel strikes that occurred in our own project. That's a huge improvement. That's a huge improvement Safety factor in our program, we will pay for that. It's a rather slow process as a specialized piece of equipment, but it does exist throughout the community and we've shown success with using it here in town. Not only do we want to locate utilities when we're crossing them, if we're parallel to them. There wasn't a protocol in place if we were paralleling them, so now you have to uncover every 50 feet along that parallel utility. If we're in a curve area, and there's a lot of curves in our streets, you would have to locate those about every 25 feet. Um, safety controls, um, they, on some of the newer equipment, there's an automatic kill switch. So there'll be, uh, uh, an inspector. Not only would the contractor be standing over that drill path, the inspector would be standing over that and they hold a device that as soon as it, it looks like it's going to, it, as soon as we don't know where that drill head is, they take their hand off that device and it stops the operations. Where we don't have that equipment in place, we have other protocols in place. There has to be continual conversations between the operator of the machine and the inspector monitoring that drill path and making sure that we are on target and we are above and below each of those utilities as we go past them. Along with that is, it sounds mundane, but we developed a field checklist. And that's where I go back to our due diligence. We're remaining diligent in our inspection. So here is a checklist. I don't have a copy of it in your packet here. Did the inspector see the markings? Was the... Was the utility crossing located? We want to see an 18-inch envelope around that utility. Did that occur? Is there any evidence that maybe there is a utility that wasn't mapped or wasn't marked? There's a number of locations in not only Hudson and throughout the county, where there's private gas wells. And some of those gas wells had gas services that went between properties and under roads. So is there evidence that there may be a private gas service, is the example I'm giving, that we need to do a little bit more due diligence and find that before we start drilling? Even though it's private, it still could have the same complications. I do want to note that I did have our fire and EMS chief look over our specifications as he is one of the most impacted departments when we have these utility strikes, hey, is there anything you think we need to add? He and one of the fire captains looked at it, had very little input into it. He said it was good. We also had our peers over at Enbridge look over our specification. They have really upped their game since they took over more of the responsibilities of their gas facilities, and we mirrored a lot of their specifications when it comes to horizontal directional drilling and locating of utilities.

Brad, can I also mention that we gauged it against the 120-plus miles that the county is doing using the same process?

Yes, that's an excellent point. The county did that Summit County loop, and they had good success with their project, and, yeah, a number of the factors that they used in their program we implemented in this as well. Lastly, I do want to say that I think... I think these new specifications are good. They're excellent. I've had other city engineers reach out to me and say, hey, after you've published yours, would you mind sharing them with us? We're considering updating our regulations as well. So I think it'll mean a much safer, not that we weren't safe before, but a much safer project overall. And that's not only for our directional drilling, for our fiber, but any projects that we incorporate directional drilling. With that, I'll leave it up for any questions.

Few questions and first, I think the field checklist is an awesome idea. In healthcare, we do like a timeout and it's kind of the same kind of concept where you verify everything and you go through everything. So I think that field checklist will be very helpful. The vacuum excavating that we're implementing, were we doing that before? I'm confused what we were doing or if we are doing, you know what I mean?

It was not a requirement. The contractor could volunteer to use that method. They were using hand excavation primarily. Like I said, it's a specialized piece of equipment. It slows the process down. It does. So it wasn't a requirement. It now is a requirement.

We're making it a requirement.

We are making it a requirement.

Okay, cool. And then the directional drilling we're always doing.

Yeah, it's common practice.

I mean, just that it's less disruptive. You're kind of emphasizing that as far as showing us the exhibit and everything, right?

Yes, yeah. We were already doing it. It's not a super familiar project. I think most people driving past a construction site sees the backhoe, and you can tell that they're digging a hole and putting a pipe in the ground. Here is the less obvious process. So I just wanted to, if I could, bring everybody's education on it. Great.

Yeah, the hydro evac that's required now, is that just for us, or is that also for other contractors, everybody?

That's across. So any work that takes place in a city right-of-way, a public easement, or on city property. I'll be required to do it? Yes.

Okay. And I agree this is all great for the safety and everything, but the cost to roll this out with the new standards, both from a financial standpoint and the longevity of it, because I know we had a three-year, four-year plan to get this all rolled out. What does that impact look like?

There will be an increase in cost. I don't know what that is yet. We are in the process of modifying our current contracts or canceling them. We'll redesign with these new standards in place, and then we'll have real-life bid costs at that point that we'll share with our Velocity and our finance team on updating that.

And slowing down the process, though, because it does take longer to hedge or evac.

Yeah, I think the overall construction sequencing might take a little bit longer, yes. It will take longer.

Just to piggyback on that, I know it'll affect not only city projects but private projects. Since we've had this pause, will there be any grandfathering if you already pulled a permit, you already started drilling, you had this pause, or moving forward we'll all have to do it regardless if you already pulled a permit?

I'll verify with the city solicitor on that. my desire that this is the new standard, regardless of what permit was provided at any given time.

There'd be no.

Grandfather.

We're grandfathered in. We started. Yeah.

they're all waiting to hear from us what our new standard is and then they would have to implement that to put it in. So we do have like a Hudson Public Power line going in on Atterbury. It's being directional drilled that we stopped and now Hudson Public Power will have to follow this rule after we put this specification into place. And just to add, Enbridge did this, the gas company, and they were looking at just a ballpark, but we'll know with the bid, as Brad said, 20% increase is what they saw.

Do you know what the increase was in time?

No. Because basically they could get ahead of themselves to get the stuff located and get it as part of the plan and do the drilling on other streets while you're investigating the next street or two streets ahead. There's processes that can make the time come back down. You know, when you get into a rhythm, um, for example, when Detroit had their water line issues and all their water, basically they were putting in an entire block of water lines in one day in eight hours, they went from the old line to the new line, because again, they planned everything and they pulled the line through very similar with Brad's doing called pipe bursting. And they basically got everybody's services back up by five o'clock each day because they got into this rhythm and the, and the city used the technology and they, they became very efficient at what they did. I'd expect that same thing here.

It'll be a learning curve. So it might be slow, especially beginning, but could speed back up later.

Correct.

Brad, just a quick question. I'm familiar with the hydro excavating, super slick process. To your point, it's loud. I'm familiar with the one that uses high-pressure water, and then you've got the vacuum. I mean, that vacuum tube is, I don't know, 10 inches or 8 inches, so you're creating all that vacuum to, I mean... Just real quick, you're using that high pressure water to essentially cut the earth and then you've got that big tube in there and the water and the dirt that loosens up is sucked out. So you've got a huge industrial vacuum with the high pressure water. So it's a very specialized piece of equipment, works extremely well. My question then is, and to preface my question, all for implementing whatever we need to do to make things as safe as possible moving forward. Do we think that requirement for hydro excavation is going to, we understand potential cost increase. Do we think we're going to have people that won't be able to bid projects, that projects will be slowed down implementation-wise because maybe we've got, just throwing out a number, three qualified vendors now, but maybe there's only one that's gonna take this on because of the hydro excavation or other things. Have we looked into the risk of implementation because of these new standards? And again, I'm not saying we change them to reduce the safety given the situations that have happened recently, but have we looked at that aspect?

Certainly going to reduce the contractor pool, but I think we have a big enough project, I don't foresee us not being able to find qualified contractors to do this work for us.

If I could answer that, too, the county did 120 miles, and they had how many contracts?

I don't know.

So they actually did 120 miles in a year or so.

And were they using hydro excavation?

Yes. The process that I mentioned that I wanted Brad to make sure that was underscored, and I want the public to know that. um basically that's the reason using hand digging it's safe when you put a tape above it and you dig down and you go oh there's there's a gas line here that's the way it's supposed to be we on our contracts hit three gas lines with a hand shovel metal shovel cut through a plastic gas line and just let gas air you know come out that's under uh pressure We didn't have a fire. We didn't have, obviously, any explosions or anything. But again, that just goes to show you how the difference in safety. And then we implemented, when that happened, we implemented stricter inspection processes, again, because of what they were using. But at the end of the day, in this last month, hydro excavating, vacuum excavating is really the real term, is the way to go if you do not want to have destruction DIFFERENT TYPES OF PIPING.

THANK YOU.

KYLE.

YOU MENTIONED THE SUMMIT COUNTY PROJECT, 125 MILES. HOW MANY STRIKES OCCURRED IN THAT PROJECT?

WHEN WE TALKED TO THEM, BRAD, IT WAS THREE AT THE BEGINNING, MAYBE FOUR, AND THEY CORRECTED IT BY THIS METHOD.

I don't know if you'll have an answer on hand for this one. How many miles are we doing overall on the project per year? Do you know? No.

Do you know, Joe? No, I don't. We can get that to council.

Just some comparison there. We're following a process that another entity in the area has used quite successfully. It speaks to the availability of the vendors who can do this process. I'm very much in favor of this. My last comment, I know we discussed the carryover funds at the workshop last month. Once we have that kind of preliminary estimation on increased in project costs from these requirements. I'd really like to take a serious look on applying some amount of that, we can have that discussion to the amount, but some amount of that carryover balance to offset these increase in costs.

The engineer's estimate before he bids those projects out with this new spec, he has to put that in because if we don't raise it up to 20%, I'm just, I'm gonna listen to Brad, obviously we don't know if that's etched in stone, but we have to be within 10% of that estimate or we have to reject all bids. So we definitely want to get our numbers up to the correct numbers, as you mentioned, and we would have that whenever we get this section of the code in place.

So timing wise, I'm just, you know, this section of the code, you mentioned you're going to budgeting here in August, September timeframe, um, all kind of lines up where next 30 days. Yeah.

By mid, mid September.

Perfect. Um, AND OBVIOUSLY THIS WILL BE UP FOR VOTE NEXT TUESDAY. WHAT'S THE TIMELINE THEORETICALLY IF THE COUNCIL DECIDES TO PASS ALL THIS NEXT TUESDAY? WE GO NEW RFPS GOING FORWARD FROM THAT DATE? WHAT DOES THE TIMELINE LOOK LIKE TO GET RESTARTED AND MOST IMPORTANTLY FINISH THOSE PROJECTS WHICH WERE IN PROCESS WHEN WE PUT ON THE MORATORIUM?

IF I COULD, BRAD, IF YOU'RE OKAY WITH THAT. THE ONES THAT ARE VERY CLOSE, WE'LL CALL 90% ARE MORE DONE. the different neighborhoods we are going to be paying an extra fee but we want to complete those existing contracts because they're almost done we're talking hundreds of feet and they're done with this so we looked at all the projects that are out there and basically get that to get those ones completed and pay the little extra without going back out to rebid because they're so close to being completed the other ones that haven't started yet are We determined, and I'm responsible for this, but basically said, let's just put a stop on these ones. Let's return those. They didn't get into any materials. We purchased all the materials, just so council knows that. Normally, we have contractors do that. But if you recall, our IT and VVB department came back earlier in the year and asked to purchase these things. So long story short, we would cancel those contracts. We would rebid those contracts under the new spec. And then basically we're looking forward to seeing what the actual bid numbers are, how many bidders we get. And then we want to report back to council too, because what if that number is too high and it wasn't something that we projected? We're not looking to change the spec. I don't want anyone to think that because I really think this spec is very good and safe for our community. And for all those other, you know, Fiber companies that could come in our town, they would have to follow this spec. So I think it's the safest spec, and it'll work out really well. But we'll know more in the next 30 days.

That's all. Thank you.

So the, you talked about a process map that, you know, if not, if we can't find it here, then we do this and da, da, da, da. And part of it was the radar, what's the term?

Ground penetrating.

Ground penetrating radar. So is that in the specs? It is. So we probably need to buy it pretty soon, right? Is it, are they? Can we?

There's services. There's consultants out there that we'll rely on until we have our own.

Okay. And then if it's in the specs, then it'll be an expectation that everyone else uses it also, so they will have to be able to have access to one or we share it or something like that.

Yeah, I don't know that I'm prepared to share, but... But yes, yeah, there is an expectation. Like I said, there are numerous consultants that can provide this service.

Okay.

Okay. And then lastly, if there was some way that, and maybe you already do this, but capturing like near misses where people, you know, I almost did struck this and kind of a root cause on those as well or some sort of deep dive to understand. We don't just wanna learn from the mistakes of a strike. We wanna learn from almost had a strike as well. So if there's a way to think about how we can encourage that kind of reporting and sharing and people saying, Hey, you know, yeah, we didn't have anything, but we almost did.

Well, that issue should be going away by the visual confirmation that we're requiring the specification. You have to find that piece of critical infrastructure before you can proceed with the drilling.

Okay.

And the checklist.

Yeah.

Because I think somebody on council brought up the fact of a private well that has a service line going to a house, then they get free gas. That doesn't get marked out. And those are the kind of things that are in that checklist. So Brad and his team went through all of those different scenarios that we know of, as you mentioned. The good thing is, is you have a lot of experience in this department. And I feel confident that the things that they looked at are the things that are out there that we should be watching for, so.

If we're 99.9% reliable, one out of every thousand, we're going to make a mistake. So we just want to make sure we're learning from those.

Yeah, continually.

Okay. Thanks a lot. Thank you very much for the work on this. It's going to make things a lot safer. I know this was a long kind of wait for the community, and I think it's worth it now that we We have a great process to move forward.

And one more thing, I know it's not as important, but the flags. Yes. So we're going to work to remove those. Brad has a plan in place. And again, we don't feel comfortable pulling out flags that other people put in, so we want our contractors and other contractors to do that. And remark, so when they go to the new spec.

And lawn and ground repair. Correct. Remediation.

Restorations, yes. Thank you.

Thanks. Okay, next is 15C26-0065, Clinton Crossing Project Update.

Greg. Good evening, everyone. I know we had a brief update to Council two weeks ago, and then we had the joint session last evening with Planning Commission, which was very helpful for staff and a good discussion. But as we noted, as the community engagement is narrowing down, we just want to find some additional touch points with council, let you know where staff is at and receive any additional feedback as we get through these key processes. So I just want to give some brief orientation And brief reminders for yourselves and for anyone tuning in. Our current step right now is we are taking the community feedback from the July 22nd session. That's where we presented three revised or refined plans to the community. We had 230 surveys completed. RDL is taking that information and working towards a preferred plan. And we'd like to show you the working draft that RDL is processing at this time. We will be presenting that to the community on August 22nd, getting some additional and further feedback on that preferred plan and then reporting back to council on September 8th. A brief reminder from the survey trends to date, we received strong feedback and strong support for smaller single family, 90% support. 79 support for townhomes and then an appreciable drop-off and support for duplexes quads or apartments so those have not been those uses have not been incorporated into the preferred plan From non-residential, plans one and three received the strongest support of the three, although all three received an appreciable support. But both plans one and three had mixes of market hall, flex space, and community space, and the hotel from plan three. So the framework going forward for the non-residential is the hotel, market hall, and community flex space. And then a brief note on the financials. We touched on this just briefly last evening. Bricker, Graydon, Wyatt are doing evaluations. They did some high-level reviews of the three plans for the July 22nd, and they were tracking that assuming the full 20-year TIF period that we are working on with the schools to date, all three of those scenarios would likely recoup or significantly recover the city's $11 million investment. There are, of course, factors that could change that. If the city has publicly owned facilities, that would reduce that potential property tax basis rather than privately owned facilities. The anticipation is that the Market Hall Hotel could certainly be a privately owned. The community flex space is something that will need some additional study. The preferred plan is to not have facilities a intensity of development which would require a parking back by not having a parking deck that also appreciably helps the tough performance and allows it to recover the city's investment to date. An additional piece with the tiff in addition to targeting the city's investment there may still be some additional public improvements and may have an opportunity to capture with that such as the veterans trail extension. that would benefit the larger area. And our consultants have noted if a hotel is pursued, then a bed tax would be an additional income source to consider. And finally, for the financials, the consultant is also going to give us insights on any additional tools that we should be considering in addition to the TIF that may help the finances of the project. And also, as noted last evening, we do have several consultant activities underway. A brief reminder, Walker Parking Consultants is doing a downtown-wide parking study. So the city staff have been working on hourly parking counts for several days, which can help see where the hot spots are at different hours and in different locations. And that information has been given to Walker and Walker will also be working on the parking needs for the proposed project. TMS traffic engineers will be preparing a detailed traffic study. We also are doing a smaller scale streamlined hotel feasibility to give us some understanding if a hotel is viable in this marketplace. Council may remember last summer we had a preliminary financial analysis from Silverloaf consultants just to give us some initial feedback on market halls and the housing and We have engaged them to give us some commentary on the preferred plan so of note August 22nd will be the next large community engagement that's a Saturday, and it will be on the actual project site. Our last session was on the street. This one will actually be within the site acreage. So this is a key night. If you have any additional comments, questions, or feedback for us, that would be great leading up to the August 22nd plan. And then Brian was just going to at least give you a snapshot of the working draft Emily was able to just put this together just in the last couple hours late afternoon with feedback from RDL and giving some labels to help give you some orientation. So I'll just, a brief orientation. The residential, which is north of Owen Brown, is largely the layout from plan number one, which by far received the most support of the three residential plans. RDL has added some additional curvilinear features to the streets, which was a strong item of interest from the survey. And as you can see, we've got more traditional detached homes along Morris and some on Owen Brown to respect the historic neighborhoods to the west. Currently, the townhomes are at the interior. There may still be some study on where those townhomes land in the end of the project. THERE'S A CENTRAL COURTYARD IN THE MIDDLE, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THE ABILITY FOR SOME HOUSING UNITS TO HAVE ALLEY, BUT ALSO FOR SOME HOUSING UNITS TO HAVE GARAGE OR DRIVEWAY ACCESS, WHICH YOU WOULD ALSO SEE IN SOME OF THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS. AND THEN TO THE SOUTH OF OWEN BROWN STREET, THIS IS THE NON-RESIDENTIAL AREA. HERE IS THE MARKET HALL. THE TWO PLANS OF THE THREE CONCEPTS, ONE PROPOSED A 10,000 SQUARE FOOT MARKET HALL, THE OTHER PROPOSED A We're anticipating now a range of 12 to 18, targeting something in the middle and bringing the intensity down a touch from that plan three option. And then the boutique hotel is shown there as it's scaled at 48 rooms. We anticipate from a target standpoint that might be somewhere in that 48 to 60 or 70 range. Each of these we know needs some range to it as once we further define the plan and once we engage with the developer, there may be some adjustments needed. And then on the north end, the hotel would be a flex room or flex space. That's been targeted as a community use space and a key piece could be hosting winter farmers markets, crisp candle markets, things that are difficult in poor weather season or might need a hardscape adjacent. the thought would be the market hall and the community flex space might both have large glass areas or overhead garage doors that could open to the hardscape plaza which could also be part of the programming space and i just want to give that as a brief orientation and again rdl is going to keep advancing this over the next 10 days ahead of august 22nd but glad to turn over to council for any questions or comments

Um, I just want to know for the public before they see what ever this final plan is. I know there were, um, there was a lot of feedback of different uses that people wanted that they don't, they may not see on here. Um, and I just want to let them know that we are starting to have those conversations of where might those uses go in other places. Um, so I just, so if there's anyone who's disappointed of, I really wanted this, that other people might have voted on that. We are starting some of those conversations.

That's a great point. That did come up as well last evening. We've noted that there are several uses that there's a community need for these uses, but it may not be appropriate to address in the Clinton Crossing site. We're going to make sure that those are on the list for council's capital budget consideration so you have a chance to digest and see those. But we'll include ideas such as the nature center, a dedicated senior center, a dog park, and community theater.

I do see a number of references to things such as play area, play spaces. And I know this is an unprogressed plan here, but I guess I don't see anything that's very specifically a playground. And I just would very much, I know a lot of residents with young children would very much like to see a proper, preferably enclosed playground somewhere in our downtown space. If you have young kids, we've got the green, the first and main green, which is completely surrounded by roads. We just do not have a safe enclosed area for young children anywhere. And I'd really like to see that.

That's helpful to hear. We do anticipate additional descriptive information and imagery photos by the 22nd. There has been some talk of some nature scapes where you might have large boulders that you can play on, things of that nature. That's a good point. Maybe it needs an even more formal traditional playground.

IT CAN BE A VERY SMALL PLAYGROUND, BUT SOMETHING PREFERABLY ENCLOSED WITH ACTUAL EQUIPMENT.

I'LL ADVANCE THAT.

YEAH, I'LL BE INTERESTED TO SEE THE MARKET EVALUATION ON THE HOTEL. SEEMS GENEROUS TO ME. then will something like that be the parking person the parking evaluators will take that into account as well because um those people will be driving in the foot yeah the hotel would be would be incorporated into that parking analysis yes and then i think like we've heard from you just mentioned and we heard from other uh consultants the the importance of of ranges and so we're giving people but we are acknowledging that nothing can be as finite as just one particular number.

That's helpful. We have just been talking about that further for the August 22nd to acknowledge some range and some acknowledgement that this is a framework and is still gonna need some further study plus some feedback from the developer partner at some point. A clear example we've talked about is things like back of house, loading docks, service areas. Those things alone may require some adjustment.

Okay. Thank you very much, Greg. Thank you. Next is DTMP-8815, honorary resolution designating the crosswalk at North Hayden Parkway and Victoria Parkway as the Clark-Remeiser Crossing as an honorary street intersection name and providing for location of a sign at the intersection. Thank you.

I can tee this up. I was at a graduation party earlier this summer and some residents had asked me to look further into this. I believe there was some initial discussions with one of members of our Hudson Police Department. I then contacted Mr. Sheridan and started the discussion of is this something that we would want to consider and sadly if People have not heard, Mr. Rummeiser did pass away just very recently. He was a crossing guard here in the city of Hudson for over 50 years. I believe it may have been 52 years where he was actively a crossing guard. Many families and people know him very well for being at that crosswalk there that's at North Hayden Parkway and Victoria Parkway. It's also one of the areas where we put an RRFB crosswalk. a few years back with that project. So the request from that resident that day was, could we do something to put an honorary street name at that corner for Mr. Rumizer? And just as a point of reference, Mr. Sheridan, correct me if I'm wrong, but on Franklin Street that goes into the new middle school, that is already an honorary street. Is it Ada Miller Cooper or Ada Cooper Miller?

Ada Cooper Miller.

Ada Cooper Miller. You have the pole that has the green street signs and then there's a stop sign real close to that. This honorary street name is right above the stop sign. So those two poles are close in proximity. I believe there's one for Marino Way on First Street. Is that correct or is that not there?

It was passed in 2016, but honestly, I haven't seen it.

I don't remember seeing it. I do remember looking in the past archives. I believe Mayor Basil was there for that unveiling. So I'm assuming that sign is still there, but I'm not sure. So that's a brown sign that is an honorary street name. There's a few of them in the city of Hudson. This request is to have council provide their feedback and input on is this something that we would want to do to honor Mr. Rummeiser's over 50 years of service to the city, the students, the youth, the school system, and I believe it's even more pointed now that he has very recently passed. I believe it was early last week.

August 4th. and he's 26 years. He was at Hudson, uh, Victoria Parkway and Hayden Parkway and 53 years. So add a year to what you mentioned, but you know, good memory, 52, 53.

And I've met him several times. Uh, we went through the school the one time, uh, for his birthday, uh, and all the kids were, were cheering for him as we walked down the hallway there at, uh, McDowell, and again, many, many families have utilized his services and this is the request to see if council is amicable to consider this.

And, Mayor, just one other thing. When I drafted this, I just put in there his name and put the crossing. And, again, that was just something to ask council if that was adequate, if you felt it was appropriate.

I do want to check with the residents because I wasn't sure if they wanted to put – the first request to me was Clark's Corner because he didn't usually go by Mr. Rummeiser. He just went by Clark. So do we want to – kind of follow that or do we want to officially have his full name which kind of feels more formal to do that so whether it's his full name and crossing or corner that's TBD but I would look to some of the residents and I believe his daughter has been in touch with the HPD and the residents and that's how it all kind of started and and then they pulled me into it so

I just want to make sure everybody was clear. We're not married to that. We just want to start a starting point with a phrase there of what it could be. So open to any suggestions. I just wanted to highlight that. Sam?

Yeah, I think we would all be in support of that and interested in hearing from the family as to what they think the appropriate name is. And if it's Clark's Corner, then we'd be okay with that.

So Mayor, will you reach out to the family and the people that you've talked to?

I can do that, absolutely.

Okay. Just get back to me and we'll edit the legislation accordingly.

I was just jumping in to help after some initial discussions with the HPD officer.

So, my pleasure. Okay, 16, the consent agenda for next week. A is TMP-8814, motion to accept the timely receipt of the July 2026 monthly financial report. Bob Locke, any comments about that?

No, just a quick highlight. The income tax, we dipped a little bit July as compared to June. We're still within budget though. We're about just under 1% above estimate through the end of July. So that's, as I mentioned, I think a couple of meetings, a few meetings back second half of the year, we tend to bounce up and down a little bit higher or lower. So, but we're, we're still, uh, we're still in good shape.

And I would like to add that we've, we're still working through the capital project. So we haven't stopped anything. We're not backing up on anything. So all the projects are still going forward that we had planned.

Next is 16B, TMP-8815. That's what we just discussed about Clark Crossing previously. 17 is legislation for the August 18th meeting next week. 17A, 26-113, ordinance amending chapter 478 of the codified ordinance and declaring an emergency. That is all about... the low-speed vehicles. Scheduled for a second reading this week. And then 17B, TMP-8795, Ordinance Enacting Section 11. of Chapter 1419, Engineering Standards for Infrastructure Construction, and amending Section 1016.04P and Section 1 of Chapter 1419 of the Codified Ordinances. That is what Bradley just spoke to us about. And I noticed that Kyle made a reference to passing it on emergency. It doesn't say emergency on this, or we want to... Do we want three readings on this, or can we move it along faster?

We're ready to move if council is. We can change that.

Move it along faster.

And just for a point of clarification, it's on legislation, so unless there's a motion to suspend the rules and pass it on a first or second reading, it would go through three readings. The emergency language would just waive the 30-day pause after it is passed on whatever reading it's passed, which would implement it, obviously, 30 days sooner.

So should it be shifted to a consent agenda? A consent agenda with an emergency rule?

We just looked at it because next week is your second reading on this. So it was close with this dual meeting that we would be able to do it in early September. But if you want to move to consent, we're all in favor of that from our side.

Strongly in support of that as well.

Can we get solicitor's input at all?

I can. I'll meet with him tomorrow.

Either way, we would want emergency language as well.

Correct.

And then the question for Mr. Pitchford or the solicitor's office is, are we okay moving this from legislation to consent, given the subject? If that's clear, then yeah.

Couldn't counsel even pull it and vote, so.

Okay.

Any other comments about that? Any items, number 18, any items to be added to the future agendas?

I think we know about everything. I mean, there's a few proclamations coming up which are on the tracker, so those will happen, I believe, in September. We may reach out to Door to Art as well. have a 20th year anniversary this year, so I'll reach out to Adriana to see if that's something she would like us to recognize her for. They are going to be unveiling the mural in downtown in the First and Main Shopping District here soon. So we may put something on an agenda or we may do something. I've done recognitions outside of the public meeting, so that may be something that we'll look at here very quickly.

Okay, so number 19 is adjournment. Is there a motion to adjourn? All in favor? Aye. All right. We are adjourning this workshop at 2157.