City Council - Regular Meeting

just was a Friday night. It's nice. like that.

Mrs. Cable, you get your students this quiet. Okay. Okay. It is 7:00. It's time to call our meeting to order. Anybody please call a roll. here. Mr. Leus here. Mr. Lemley here. Mr. Marmy present. Mr. Neely here. Miss Newman here. Mr. Barker here. Miss Blind

present. Mr. Shoot present. Mr. Cost here. We everyone's here tonight. Will you please stand for the invocation and then please remain standing for the pledge. Mr. Le.

Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we come to prayer this evening. We thank you for this day that you have given us. uh in the beautiful weather outside. I ask you be with our conversations and discussions this evening. Help them to uh be fruitful and beneficial for our city. I also ask uh that we pray for upcoming Memorial Day as we remember those heroes that have made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom that we that we enjoy uh today and every day. be with us this evening and help us to keep in mind your vision for our city. These things I ask in your name. Amen. Amen. Amen. That's why. Yes.

Hey, good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome Mr. Alex Kais. Uh he's a fifth grader at Ben Franklin Elementary. Right there. Okay. All right. That works as well. You're fine. You're fine. We can hear you there. So that's fantastic. All right, sir. Please lead us in the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, sir. Great job. Good job.

Great job. Next up is U caucus. Do we have anything pertaining to the agenda tonight? Mr. President, Mr. Army. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, with the agreement with the minority leader and myself and the majority leader, we need to invoke rule 11 on ordinances 26-18 and 26-9. Okay. Um, with the agreement, we'll continue. Next up is um, ordinance 2618. Cindy, will you please read the ordinance?

Ordinance number 26-18 by Mr. Marmy. Miss Engold, an ordinance rejecting the factfinders report received in connection with the collective bargaining negotiations between the city of Newark and the ASME local 2963 and Ohio council 8 AFL CIO and recommendations contained therein and declaring an emergency. You further reading of 26-18. What is your wish? Mr. President, Mr. Marie, I make a motion to adopt 26-18. Second. Got a motion by Mr. Marmy, second by Mr. Barker. Do we have any discussion, Mr. President? Mr. Marmy.

I just want to make uh clear uh with these uh there are two ordinances. The first of which is to reject. U we cannot just let this die. We have to act upon this. So I will be urging all my fellow council um members to vote no on this. So then it is turned down and then in support of the next one. Anybody else? Okay, Cindy, please call the roll. Miss Ingold, no. Mr. Leus, no. Mr. Lemnley, no. Mr. Marmy, no. Mr. Neely, no. Miss Newman, no. Mr. Barker, no.

Miss Blind, no. Mr. Shoot, no. Mr. Cost, no. 2618 does not pass. Um, next up is 26-9. Ordinance number 26-9 by Mr. Marmy, Mr. costs. Miss Engled, an ordinance approving the factfinders report received in connection with the collective bargaining negotiations between the city of Newark and the ABSME local 2963 and Ohio council aid AFL CIO and recommendations contained therein and declaring an emergency 26-9. What is your wish?

Mr. President, Mr. Marmy, make a motion to adopt ordinance 26-9. Second. Got a motion by Mr. Marmy, second by Mr. Barker. Do we have any discussion? Cindy, please call the RO. Miss Engled. Yes. Mr. Leus? Yes. Mr. Limley? Yes. Mr. Marmy? Yes. Mr. Neely? Yes. Miss Newman? Yes. Mr. Barker? Yes. Miss Blind? Yes. Mr. Shu? Yes. Mr. Cost? Yes. 26-9 passes 10. Next up on the agenda is minutes from the May 4th meeting 2026. Do I have a motion? Motion.

Second. Got a motion by um Mr. Leoot, second by Mr. Barker. All in favor say I. I.

That passes appointments. There are none. This meeting reports of standing committees. Finance street service without objection will be received and file. Reports from city officials. Uh Ryan Bub, city auditor operating report for the period ending April 30th, 2026. Brenda Cooper, tax administrator, income tax revenue reports for the period ending April 30th, 2026. Communications Ohio Division of Liquor transfer liquor permit from North Ohio Hotel Management LLC to 2299 Cherry Valley Catering LLC Cherry Valley Hotel 229-2319 Cherry Valley Road, North Ohio. Next up is comments from citizens. I'm going ask you to give your name and address. Keep your comments about three minutes. Do we have anybody tonight? Come on up, please. world famous Linda Abbott at 165 North 21st Street. Um, I'm here about the ebikes. Um, I was going to defer to everybody else I talked to, but I have several people here and we're very concerned about the ebikes and the lack of legislation on it. And we're hoping that maybe if we come and talk to you guys that you might be able to work out something to curb, it's not just ebikes, it's any gas powered, any motorized thing that children underage are driving. Um, it's out of hand and somebody's going to get killed and it's probably going to be just a normal citizen that pays their taxes and does the right thing and kills a child that they're going to ruin their lives for a kid that a parent isn't lodging over. So, I just want everybody to be aware that there's several people here that we really are concerned about it and we'd really like you guys to really, you know, have a have a conversation.

Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else would like to speak at this time? Come on up, ma'am. Hello. My name is Lesley Redmond. I am the president of ask me local 2963 and I just wanted to express uh our thanks to city council and the city administration for their support of the bargaining unit members who provide this necessary and essential services to our citizens here in New York. Thank you. Anybody else? Come on up. Mr. Bruner

Tom Bruner 419 South Second Street North 4305. What I want to talk about is exactly what she said. Motorized mini bikes run up and down the streets. We're starting to have over on Second Street also. And the thing of it is the one that runs up and down our street. He runs at night. So that should tell you what he's doing. He only has a headlight on the mini bike, no tail light. He flies. Cars is pulled out and almost titty. And he's going to get hurt serious or he's going to hurt somebody else. Then the other thing I'd like to bring up that possibly I know it was voted on has passed the marijuana law. Okay. I know we're trying to get things into play to help us regulate these laws, but I can't even sit on my front porch through the day or in the evening. I can't open my windows to my house because of the people south of me. I mean, it's constant 24/7 at their house. And I've got my great grandkids a lot and they don't need to be smelling it or anything. I mean, it's ridiculous. And I know there has to be something we can do to regulate them from having it outside. They need if they're going to do it, do an in-law. I mean, that's just logic. I mean, when they started no smoking ban, I know you had issues with it, but we brought it around to where it worked out for everybody. We need to do something with that. I don't I mean, whether it's the city, the state, the government, or whoever, we need to get together and set up this I

don't know if you guys have ever smelled it, but it's the nastiest smelling stuff I ever smelled. And I'm almost ready to pour bleach up on one side of my house or not bleach but uh ammonia up one side of my house just keep from smelling that cuz I can't smell ammonia. So, but I mean it's ridiculous. So, I'd like to see somebody try to find out some information to see where we're going forward because I know there's no like I talked to Tim a little bit ago, the I watch them go off their front porch. They'll have one in their hand, go straight out, get car, fire the car up, and leave. And like he said, right now there's no way to test it. We need to get that figured out. Cuz if not, I've seen him pull up, do a U-turn, and back up in front of somebody right there. Back up in his driveway, almost hit somebody. They're more, you know, out of their mind than what people think they are. I used to think drinking and driving was bad, but this is this way worse. But I'd appreciate if maybe we'd look into seeing what we can do on our side.

Thank you. Thank you. follow up.

Thank you. Michelle Bolan Smith, 237 by Court. Um this weekend there was something in the news about the bikes and um it was in another area and what ended up h it was the same um resolving um one of the things I mentioned last time where a teen had hit a elderly person and killed that person and the mother was being held responsible. Um the way it was settled is that the um teen gets seven years. Um he did not have breaks. Um he did not um um some other things were not functional. Um uh this is becoming a global issue, not just New York. And I think this resolution will come about and I think we need to to pay attention as to what's happening. this is out of it's beyond our hands. Um, as far as that's concerned in terms of bikes and and that sort of thing. I think there are some really simple educational things that we could do that are not going to be costly, but we need to team together. I personally have done some research and I've worked with um hospitals and and um and the state and and um other things. But one thing I I found out this week since I spoke to um to all of you and just randomly talking to people is that the public does not understand the rules of bicycling. A lot of people are under the impression um

um a a large number of people um because they've been um gradually doing this are under the impression that when you ride a bike you go against traffic. So it is a total mis um misconception of what the laws are. We need it. I believe that it's the um the state's responsibility and the country's um a responsibility to educate and as well as the city. It's not that bad and that difficult a problem if we work together. Thank you.

Thank you. Anybody else at this time? Okay. Oh, come on up now. at 490 Daniel over in the worldly edition. Uh we've had a lot of problems just in my neighborhood with the motorized bikes, which is not so bad that we have them that the fact that there are little very small children, it's it's ridiculous because of the speed that they tear around the neighborhood. kind of they backed off on that for a while. But the other day I have a lot of dog walkers in my neighborhood and I heard a noise and around and around and around. So I went to investigate and a child probably about 10 years old who probably weighed maybe 50 pounds was on a 100 pound four-wheeler with her father egging her on. go, go, go on city property and she totally destroyed it. So, I'm I'm sure when they go to MO later in this week, they're going to go, "Oh, heavens, how are we going to do this?" Because she tore it up completely tomorrow. So, it's it's a problem in my neighborhood as well as trash. But

that's a big one.

Okay. Thank you. James Cwell, 121 South Second Street. Um, and to echo what Desire Blake said at the last meeting, the pe the the work that's been done on Second Street has been excellent. I have nothing but praise for for everybody that's been involved in that. At some point, Second Street is going to be reopened after they get the the issues with the the railroad bridge done. Um, Second Street has basically since I've been since I've lived here has been kind of like everybody's private drag strip. There's there's very little regard to the stop sign there at Second and Fleet and the many bikes that are running through there. This is going to like it's been mentioned before, it's going to cause some cause some issues um with people's lives. The other thing um is with all the the work that's being done on Second Street and my wife and I have have tried to to make our house as presentable as possible. Directly across the street is a rental house. And I don't know what the what the ordinances are and all that sort of stuff regarding rental property, but if anybody's familiar with the uh the Monsters TV show, that's kind of what this house looks like. and it's it's right at right at the corner of second fleek and um along with al some people with mini running the minibikes late at night um I've had some instances with people across the street playing cornhole at 11 11:30 midnight um watching a big screen TV on their front porch so I can see I can see from my bedroom window what's what they're watching and I don't have any problem with cornhole I don't have a problem with people watching WWE or whatever they're watching but not at midnight. Not when it keeps me awake. So, with the beautifification and and the upgrades to Second Street.

Um, I would hope that we can do something about the the noise, the minibikes, and I don't know what we can do. The renters aren't going to do anything, but I don't know what we can do with the landlords if we can if we can have some sort of um minimum requirements for for the way a house looks. So that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. All right. You have another opportunity later on the the agenda. Next up is ordinance on the second readings. Uh there are none this meeting. Ordinance on the first reading uh be 26-17.

Ordinance 26-17 by Mr. CS, Mr. Barker, Mr. Marmy, Miss Blind, Mr. Leboutus, Mr. Neely, and Miss Ingold. an ordinance vacating portions of Water Street, River Street, Hill Street, and two 16- foot wide alleys as shown on the plat of James L. Berkeley's first edition as recorded in platbook 2, page 236 of the Licking County Plat records. Said streets and alleys are located between Spring Street and the Licking River.

26-17 will be held to our next meeting, June the 1st. Next up for resolutions on the second reading 26-22 ordinance 26-22 by Mr. CS, Mr. Barker, Mr. Marmy, Mr. Neely, Miss Blind, Mr. Leboutus, and Miss Engold. A resolution appropriating monies for current expenses of the municipal corporation. Further readm 26-22 was your wish, Mr. President, Mr. Chute, like to make a motion to adopt resolution 26-22. Got a motion by Mr. Shoot. Do I have a second? Second.

Second by Miss Single. Do we have any discussion? Cindy, please call the RO. Miss Engled. Yes. Mr. Leboutus. Yes. Mr. Limley? Yes. Mr. Marley? Yes. Mr. Neely? Yes. Miss Newman? Yes. Mr. Barker? Yes. Miss Blind? Yes. Mr. Shu? Yes. Mr. Cost?

Yes. 26-22 passes 10. Next up is 26-26. Resolution number 26-26 by Mr. Barker, Mr. CS, Mr. Marmy, Miss Blind, Mr. Neely, Mr. Leutus, and Miss Engold. A resolution authorizing and directing the director of public service of the city of Newark, Ohio to apply for, accept, and enter into a water supply revolving loan account agreement on behalf of the city of Newark for planning, design, andor construction of lead service line replacement project number eight and designating a dedicated repayment source for the loan.

26. You've heard the read of 2626. What is your wish, Mr. President? Mr. Parker. Thank you, Mr. President. I make a motion to adopt resolution 2626. Second motion by Mr. Barker, second by Mr. Neely. Do we have any discussion? Cindy, please call the role. Miss Engold, yes. Mr. Leudus, yes. Mr. Limley, yes. Mr. Marmy, yes. Mr. Neely, yes. Miss Newman, yes. Mr. Barker, yes. Miss Blind, yes. Mr. Shu, yes. Mr. Cost, yes. 26-26 passes 10. Next up is 2627.

Resolution number 2627 by Mr. Marmy, Mr. Cos, Mr. Barker, Mr. Neely, Miss Ingold, Miss Blind, and Mr. Leboutus. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor of the city of Newark to submit an application to the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Office for Federal Fisc 2027, Ohio Traffic Safety Grants Program, Selective Traffic Enforcement Program, STEPP, and the Impaired Driving Enforcement Program, IDAP. Further reading 26-27 was your wish, Mr. President. Mr. Marmy. Thank you, Mr. President. Make a motion to adopt resolution 26 guys 27. Second.

Got a motion by Mr. Marmy. Second by Mr. Barker. Do we have any discussion? Send me. Please call the role. Miss Engle. Yes. Mr. Leudus. Yes. Mr. Limley. Yes. Mr. Marley? Yes. Mr. Neely? Yes. Miss Newman? Yes. Mr. Barker? Yes. Miss Blind? Yes. Mr. Shu? Yes. Mr. Cost? Yes. 26-27 passes 10. Next up is 26-28.

Resolution number 26-28 by Mr. Marmy, Mr. Barker, Mr. Cost, Mr. Neely, Miss Blind, Mr. Leboutus, Miss Ingold. A resolution authorizing and directing the mayor of the city of Newark to apply for financial support from the state of Ohio 2025 nature works grant. Further reading 26-28. What is your wish? Mr. President. Mr. Marmy. Thank you, Mr. President. Make a motion to adopt resolution 26-28. Second. A motion by Mr. Marmy. Second by Mr. Parker. Do we have any discussion? Cindy, please call the role. Miss Single. Yes. Mr. Leudus. Yes. Mr. Lemley? Yes. Mr. Marmy? Yes. Mr. Neely?

Yes. Miss Newman? Yes. Mr. Barker? Yes. Miss Blind? Yes. Mr. Shu? Yes. Mr. Cost? Yes. 26-28 passes 10 Z. Next up is resolutions on the first reading 26-29. Resolution number 26-29 by Mr. Marmy, Mr. Cos, Mr. Barker, Miss Blind, Mr. Leas, Mr. Neely, Miss Ingold. A resolution appropriating monies for current expenses of the municipal corporation. 26-29 would be held to our next meeting, which would be June the 1st. Next up is 26-30 Expedite.

Resolution number 26-30 Expedite by Mr. Marmy, Mr. Cost, Mr. Barker, Miss Blind, Mr. Leboutus, Mr. Neely, and Miss Ingold. A resolution appropriating monies for the current expenses of the municipal corporation. Further reading of 26-30. What is your wish, Mr. President? Mr. Marmy, I make a motion to wave the two-day reading rule on resolution 26-30. Second. Got a motion by Mr. Marmy, second by Mr. Barker to wave the two-day reading rule. Send, please call the roll. Miss Engold, yes. Mr. Leis, yes. Mr. Limley, yes. Mr. Marmy, yes. Mr. Neely, yes. Miss Newman, yes. Mr. Barker, yes. Miss Blind, yes. Mr. Shu,

yes. Mr. Cost, yes. The two-day read has been weighed. What is your wish, Mr. President? Mr. Marmy. Thank you, Mr. President. Make a motion to adopt resolution 26-30. Second. A motion by Mr. Marmy, second by Mr. Barker to adopt. Do we have any discussion? Sydney, please call the RO. Miss Engold, yes. Mr. Leis, yes. Mr. Lley, yes. Mr. Marmy, yes. Mr. Neely, yes. Miss Newman, yes. Mr. Barker, yes. Miss Blind, yes. Mr. Shu, yes. Mr. Cost, yes. 26-30 passes 10. Next up is 26-31.

Resolution number 26-31 by Mr. Barker, Mr. CS, Mr. Marmy, Miss Blind, Mr. Leboutus, Mr. Neely, and Miss Ingold. A resolution authorizing the conveyance of certain real property now owned by the city of Newark, Ohio to Newark development partners as its agent for industrial commercial distribution and research. 26-31 will be held to our next meeting, June 1st. And our last one tonight is 26-32.

Resolution number 26-32 by Mr. Barker, Mr. Cost, Mr. Marmy, Miss Blind, Mr. Leudus, Mr. Neely, and Miss Ingold. A resolution authorizing and directing the director of public service to negotiate and enter into contract without competitive bidding for the purchase and installation of a new chiller for the for city hall and declaring an emergency. Further reading 26-32 as your wish, Mr. President. Mr. Barker. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 26-32. Second. Got a motion by Mr. Barker, second by Mr. Neely. Do we have any discussion? Mr. President. Mr. Barker.

Thank you, Mr. President. This is an emergency and we are waving competitive bidding. This contractor has already uh previously been through a competitive process for the city uh and we work with them regularly. So, I would urge everyone to support this resolution. Thank you. Anybody else? Mr. President? Yes. Um, thank you so much. Um, I did just want to say I will vote in support of this because of what Mr. Barker just said. Typically, doing something without competitive bidding would not be something that I would accept. But because it was clarified at the last meeting and tonight that this is a vendor that we have used repeatedly and pricing has been fairly standardized for that, um, I will vote in support this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Right. Cindy, please call the role. Miss Engled?

Yes. Mr. Leus? Yes. Mr. Lemley? Yes. Mr. Marley? Yes. Mr. Neely? Yes. Miss Newman? Yes. Mr. Barker? Yes. Miss Blind? Yes. Mr. Shu? Yes. Mr. Cost? Yes. 26-32 passes 10. Next up is comments from citizens. Does anybody else like to speak tonight? City officials. City officials.

Just two project updates for folks down South Second Street. Apologize. This project's taking a little longer than expected, but they are trying their best. We are trying our best. Uh but it is delayed a little bit just because of some railroad work. So, we are doing a little bit of work. Uh we're expecting to just get that project going again uh to get the sewer and the water line under the railroad and be out of everybody's hair down there as soon as possible. So uh we are working uh 16 north project. I talked to Miss Newman earlier. Um we are getting ready to kick off that project as well um next Tuesday. So they're going to be starting on North Street. And so um as Mr. Burker said, D-Day is upon us. Uh it's going to be a big project. We'll keep you all updated as it moves along. Uh but the big thing just to keep in mind uh at the kind of the fall of this year uh fall of 26 through kind of fall of 27 that's when confer road will be shut down. So um don't want to share any more than that but just as an eye keep that in your purview and and we'll be communicating accordingly for that project but um it's good to get that thing moving.

Thank you. Thank you. Any other city officials law director? Uh thank you. Uh, first of all, my assistant, she's great, isn't she? She is. Don't get comfortable. Um, happy Memorial Day. And, uh, Mr. Bruner, the Ohio Department of Commerce, uh, controls all the rules regarding the use of marijuana. So, that was taken from our control and is is firmly within the state's grasp. So, you can talk to your, uh, representative at the state level about changes. So, that'll pass. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Um yes, with council um supporting the factfinders report, I'd like to thank everybody both asked me and administration and council. It's been a lot of months and I'm sure everybody looks uh very uh happy to kind of move on to the next stage. So I appreciate everyone's hard work on this and uh months and months of of work, but uh our employees are our most important asset and I'm happy we came to an agreement. Second of all, uh Monday is Memorial Day when we honor all those that gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we can actually sit here and conduct uh free and open meetings. Um there'll be a um small Vietnam veterans uh service at 9:00 a.m. at the courthouse at the flag pole, which is done every year. It's kind of a little more discreet, but it's open to anyone, of course. Uh then at 11:00, we'll be down at uh Cedar Hill Cemetery and do our annual um ceremony there. And then at 2:00, uh, there'll be a, uh, small ceremony and lunch at the BFW. So, anyone is welcome to attend any of those events. With that, I pass. Thank you, Miss Sangle.

Mr. President, I think first we would like to acknowledge and recognize um, two gentlemen who have a birthday this week. Jim, you're on the 21st, I believe.

Spencer, you're on the 22nd, I believe. So, happy birthday, gentlemen. It's nice to celebrate your birthday. Second of all, Cindy, I have that Mrs. M Miss Campbell has done an excellent job tonight. Seriously, thank you very much. You have done a nice job. Appreciate it. Um I um had a conversation with the service director today because I had had some questions about builder dry that's in Ward 3 and um it's a mess. Um and the reason is they've just built on both sides of the road and the road has not been completed at this point but it will not be they took bids today for sewer separation project and so with that the sewer separation project will happen and then the road will be fixed. So anybody here anybody listening that gives you an idea about that. Lastly um I would like to call a personnel meeting for uh June 1st please and with that I'll pass Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. Libertus. Thank you, Mr. President. I would also like to wish Jim and Spencer a happy birthday coming up. I wish everyone a happy Memorial Day next Monday. Uh we celebrate that day, but it's a it's a somber day to remember those that have given the ultimate sacrifices as the mayor mentioned. I would also like to thank everyone who came in to voice your concerns this evening. Obviously, a lot of you had concerns with the uh ebikes or motorized vehicles. So, uh we'll have to take a look at that. That I will pass. Thank you, Mr. Limley. I'll pass at this time. Thank you, Mr. Marmy.

Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, first of all, I need to call a finance committee meeting for June the 1st. Um, I want to thank everybody who came in and um, gave their opinions and thoughts about electronic bikes and motorized bikes. Um, it is definitely not only a current concern, but it's a growing concern. it just continues to grow. Um I'm a firm believer that it needs to be addressed. Um especially with the youth that are utilizing them. Uh they're modifying them and it is just going to be uh there's going to be an accident. Um and it's just a matter of when, not if. Uh so I think we need to do everything that we can possibly do to create a safe environment for everyone uh with the utilization of those. Uh I also uh Mr. Caldwell you mentioned about the properties on Second Street. We do have a property maintenance um department in which we have uh property maintenance issues. It is not a beautifification type of a thing, but it is to maintain your property in the proper order. If there's deterioration or anything that could attract any kind of other critters or animals or bugs or a lot of different things, uh then definitely contact the property maintenance department and they will go inspect and see if there's something that they can do. But I will tell you it's not a beautifification. Now, chipping paint is another thing. That's another thing. and the EPA is definitely so chipping paint is a hazard. So, if somebody has a house that has paint that's chipped or anything, uh that is something that you might want to still contact them with.

Uh let's see what else was there. Oh, uh I was just going to talk about the uh marijuana regulations for our law director did a great job on that. So, with that, I will pass. Thank you, Mr. Neely. I will pass. Thank you, Mr. Newman.

Uh thank you, Mr. Mr. President. Um Mr. Fox, thank you so much for the update on the work that is going to be beginning. Um and that will heavily be in the seventh ward. Um so I'm trying to get out and just make as much contact as I can with my neighbors about what's going on. Um it's going to it's going to be a long haul to get there, but when it is completed, it means really amazing updates for our city and for our ward. Um but it's going to have some growing pains with it. And so I encourage people as you have questions, as things come up, please reach out. Um, my contact information is on the website. I'm happy to help field questions and do that, such as to call to constituents as that work is beginning. Um, second, um, I agree the ebike issue, I think we all do, is one that is definitely not only um, a problem in our community, but communities across the country. Um the proliferation of the bikes is growing faster I think than infrastructure and enforcement really will allow. Um I think there is a lot of potential with um education, safety awareness through different partners within the community. I've got a couple meetings set up this week to talk with different partners about that and encourage others to be having those conversations as well. You don't have to be on council to take a leadership role in that. Encourage the organizations where you're at to be talking about this issue where they're at. Um, the last item I have, I did want to say thank you to everyone who came out and voted during the voting period up until May 5th of last week. Not really the outcome I had hoped to see, but our work continues here and we need to have a lot of important conversations. Um, don't wait until it comes to council. If you have concerns about what's going on, reach out to your council members, reach out to your administration. um just because that um did not pass does not mean our work stops and um it just means it's going to change direction a little bit in what we're going to be doing. So we need to hear from you and we need to be engaged. Um and with that I will

pass. Thank you, Mr. Barker.

Thank you, Mr. President. Uh first of all, I need to call service committee meeting for June 1st. Um I want to thank a couple people. First of all, Cindy Campbell, thank you for stepping up and and helping out. I'm glad I did not have to do it and I was asked earlier today about. So, I appreciate that. Um Joe Paul, our property maintenance department uh took care of a couple issues this past two weeks um in the fifth ward and I I really appreciate how quickly and efficiently they get on an issue uh when it's brought to them. So, we appreciate that. Um and then I want to give big kudos to Buster Prince and his team. Um, I was on 21st Street one morning about 7 am and watched a a pickup truck lose, I don't know, half a load of lumber in the middle of 21st Street. And just kept driving like nothing happened. I was doing it away so I couldn't spin around to like tell him, "Hey, you just lost I don't know how many $100 worth of lumber." Uh, but I called Buster and within 10 minutes he had somebody there and cleaned the whole street up. So, um, the quick response was great. It could have been a huge traffic issue, safety issue. Um, so I want to again thank Buster Prince and his team for getting on that right away. Uh, two more things. Uh, if you were on social media today, if you follow Ohio State New York, COOTC, you might have seen they posted a video. um they are are announcing their new entrance is going to start being designed or built uh here. Um so that is something that I know the fifth ward me particularly since my my street is across from one of their entrances currently. I'm looking forward to their new entrance which will take it down to the Londonale Parkway traffic light intersection. So it'll just be a lot safer for everybody. Um so that is coming. check out their social media if

you want to learn more about that. Um, and then I want to keep uh ask everybody to keep in in the memory of Craig Young who is a former president of council uh brother-in-law of former president of council Don Ellington who passed away last weekend uh or last week um services are this this weekend. Craig was a great guy and I always had some interesting conversations with Craig and if you knew Craig, you had interesting conversations with him, too. So, with that, I will pass. Thank you, Miss Blunt.

Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, happy Memorial Day to everyone. I know we do have at least one veteran in our midst. Great young man. Looking forward to the breakfast at the American Legion. It's a great tradition and we always have a good time there. So, so if you have opportunity that morning, please come down and visit us. Uh, happy birthday to our councilman. Uh, Mr. Bruner, let's begin working on this. All right. Just because a person has a right to do one thing doesn't mean they can infringe on the rights of others. Thank you very much. Uh for all those who came to speak about the ebikes, the ATVs, no one should have to feel unsafe or harassed. Uh when individuals or sometimes groups of minibikes, ATVs, or or even ebikes, uh they will overtake sidewalks and sometimes streets. Okay. I've had people call me and say, "I'm not letting my children outside anymore." Now, in the past years, I've spoken with Director Hickman, and I truly understand where we are as a city. Uh, I have met with phone conversations, phone conferences with Columbus police on on two occasions, and they related how they use drones to track activity and then follow the vehicles to where they live. Now, we are not phones. I'm very aware of that. However, we have a great network of people that can relate even without speaking. That's where they live. That's where they are. Okay? And that information can be related to our

police. And we have very talented officers that can monitor things with drones. If that resource is a possibility here, I believe it is. We cannot be Columbus. That's true. However, uh our magistrate, she said we can create things. Uh magistrate listen. She said that we can create laws that fit our city. We can do things that work for Newark. Let's do that. If we have to start impounding these things, holding parents accountable, that's what we need to do. That's exactly what we need to do. And then sometimes money talks louder than words. And unfortunately it sounds like that's what it's coming to. But I would like to thank everyone who came tonight and I want to thank the New York police who are reaching out and they're trying different methods. But we will find something that works for this city. There's, to your credit, I didn't hear a lot of people complaining, you know, I'm not, you know, my car is being hit, although they are in some occasions from what I'm hearing from residents. Uh, my flower beds are being torn up, although that is sometimes true. But they're more concerned about these kids. They're more concerned about these youth. Nobody wants a tragedy. And so I thank you for coming, sir.

Thank you, Mr. She. Thank you, Mr. President. I will pass, Mr. Cos. Thank you. I will pass also.

Thank you. Um, happy birthday to Jim and Spencer. Hope you guys have a good birthday, good week. Um, I'd like to thank Cindy. We uh went down to double A and pulled her up tonight. She did a great job. Um Amy's son, he he's a senior in high school and he was getting a pretty big award tonight and she was stressing about not being there. I said, "You go. We'll we'll figure it out because family's first and your kids's only a senior once." So, thank you very much for filling in and helping us out. So, our next meeting will be June the 1st. Do I have a motion? Motion by Mr. Cost by Mr. Leus. All in favor say I. Same sign. city.