Council - Regular Meeting

Oh, that's a 7 o'clock. The meeting is called to order. Let's start with the pledge of allegiance, please. To the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for it stands nation for all. Um, hi Ryan. You can call the role. Anna here. Boille here.

Here. Erlin here. Harry

here. Thank you. Okay. First order of business is uh Nicolina Noi. She's going to speak to us tonight about human traff. I wanted to begin with um if you haven't already noticed uh out by our child sculptures at the front entrance to the building is what is a pinwheel garden. a pin wheelel garden is planted and I want to thank Bob Zugan and his team for installing it. Um is here to recognize child abuse awareness awareness and prevention month. And I want to thank Nicolina Noetti with the Canopy organization to be here tonight. They are they're a child advocacy center for um helping us to better understand the issues of child abuse. I have a proclamation for her that I will present in a moment um that recognizes child abuse awareness month in Orange Village for the month of April. And uh I present that to her. I'd also like to recognize Sergeant Jason Marvin in the back of the room who is our juvenile uh diversion officer. He's also a member of the Ohio Governor's State Advisory Group on juvenile justice. They work with families and youth in our community. Um, and if you are aware of families or children in need of support or assistance, please contact him at the Orange Village Police Department. And if you're aware of child abuse in the community, the Canopy Organization is

here to help and assist. And I'm going to present this proclamation and I'll just read the introduction. Whereas Orange Village is committed to protecting our most valuable and ensuring children grow up safe, healthy, educated, and prepared to reach their full potential. And now, I, Judson Klein, mayor of Orange Village, do hereby proclaim April 2026 as Child Abuse Prevention Month. We are honored to present and recognize this event in Orange Village. Congratulations. Thank you. Good evening and thank you for this meaningful proclamation in recognition of child abuse prevention month. At Canopy Child Advocacy Center, we serve children and families in our community during some of the most difficult moments of their lives. When abuse is suspected, children come to Canopy to be heard, supported, and protected in a safe, child-friendly environment. Instead of being interviewed multiple times, they share their story with once with a trained professional while a coordinated team of law enforcement, child protection, medical, and mental health partners work together on their behalf. But our work doesn't stop there. We also provide advocacy, trauma-informed services, and prevention education to help break cycles of abuse and build safer futures. This proclamation is more than words. It's a commitment to protecting children and strengthening families. We're grateful

for your partnership in creating a community where every cha child is safe, supported, and able to thrive. Thank you.

Appointment of Shane Trivano as part-time firefighter paramedic. Make that motion. You Kim second. Thank you, Amanda. Um, great. Um, Bill, would you like to Yeah. introduce? Thank you.

Good evening everybody. Council, mayor, council, community, colleagues, all of our guests. Uh, I'm Assistant Chief Bill Mandic filling in for Chief Larry Gova. He said he was going to be here about 7:15. He's busy usually during baseball season, but he'll be here shortly. Um, I'm excited for the opportunity to present two except exceptional candidates for your consideration of confirming them as new members of the Orange Village Fire Department. We believe these new candidates will immediately have a positive impact on our fire department and will be assets to the department and to the community for years to come. I would like to start by introducing firefighter paramedic Shane Travisano. Shane, if you'll step up for it. I know it feels weird, but at least that camera.

Just introduce who you brought here with you tonight. Uh Shane Trivano comes to us from the city of Mayfield Heights where he currently resides with his family. Shane attended Mayfield Heights High School and was uh exposed early to the fire service, a family friend while still in high school and he decided to attend firefighter career program as a junior and senior in high school at Excel Tech. He was able to attain his firefighter 1 and two certification as well as his EMT basic certification by the time he graduated high school. As soon as Shane graduated, he enrolled at University Hospital's Parma Medical Campus and he achieved his paramedic certification. He promptly began working part-time as a firefighter paramedic for the city of Highland Heights and the department uh uh for the city of Wikliffe. Uh and he gained valuable experience at both of those departments. In 2024, he was hired full-time for the city of Mayfield Heights and is coming up on completion of two years of service there. Shane enjoys spending time with his girlfriend, family, friends, and he loves watching and attending sporting events and playing golf. Shane has an unshakable, positive attitude and is a hardworking attitude to back that up. He is outgoing and has the ability to work with anyone in any environment. Shane is a team player and will be an asset to our organization. With that, we ask for your consideration of confirmation of Shane Travis.

Let's call the roll first. All yes. Bilski, yes. Foster, yes. Vincent, yes. Hland, yes. Perry, yes. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa. Come closer. Oh, no. Well, get in line with the camera. Before you Before you can do that, before you do the duty, you have to say the words. Okay, so repeat after me. I state your name. I change your

Do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States. of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Ohio, rules, regulations, and charter of Orange Village, and that I will faithfully, honestly, and impartially

Good. Sorry. Good catch. Discharge my duties as a part-time firefighter paramedic. Discharge my duties as a parttime Orange Village, state of Ohio. Orange Village, state of Ohio. During my continuence in set office during my consider Good job. Okay. Congratulations. Okay. Sign here and here. You get to keep one and go across and and uh

accept the congratulations of all the members of council and then hand off the paper to

All right. Congratulations Congratulations, Shane. And while you're shaking hands, Bill, can we move on to Josephine Adams, please? Uh, do I have a motion to confirm Josephine Adams as a part-time firefighter emission? Make the motion. Amanda, I'm sorry.

Congratulations. We have a motion and a second and Bill.

Okay. Um, our second candidate is Josephine Josie Adams. Josie comes to us just outside of the Cincinnati area, Kings Mills, Ohio to be exact. Uh, Josie attended John Carroll University where she graduated early and achieved a bachelor of arts degree and majored in exercise science with a minor in Spanish. While she attended John Carroll, she played softball and was a pitcher. When Jo when Jos's uh playing career ended, she turned to coaching and coached varsity softball at Brexville Broadview Heights for two and a half years and was able to fill in during that time as a girls basketball coach for Independence High School. Josie has a passion for fitness and CrossFit and she has been a performance coach and a CrossFit trainer for over four years and it was in that environment where she was exposed to the fire service. Josie obtained her EMT basic training in August of 2005 also at uh Parma Medical Center and she completed her fire academy at TriC West and obtained her firefighter 1 and two certification in December of 2025. Jo is currently employed for physicians ambulance gaining uh valuable experience in the emergency medical world and with your confirmation Orange Village will be her first fire department employment. Josie is currently in paramedic school at uh Parma Medical Campus and will have her fire or her paramedic certification by the end of 2026. Jos's competitive nature, positive spirit, her willingness to learn, and her passion for fitness are all attributes that fit well with her career in the fire service. Her drive, her empathy, and her ability to work as a team in a team environment will hopefully take that career to the next

level. With that, we ask for your confirmation of Josephine Adams. Anna, will you call the role? Alma, yes. Bilski, yes. Foster, yes. Vincent, yes. Erland, yes. Yes. Thank you. Learning to walk up and down steps again. Nice to have you here with us. So, repeat after me. I state your name. solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States.

Constitution of the state of Ohio, rules, regulations, and charter of Orange Village. and that I will faithfully, honestly, and impartially discharge my duties as a part-time firefighter of Orange Village, state of Ohio State during my continuence in set office.

Congratulations. Fingers crossed. Josie, who do you have here with you? This is my mom, Elizabeth. You had some other people, too, didn't you? Yes. Hard to tell. You got sign second page, too. When you go down the line, hand that off to Anna. Exactly. Steve says it only doesn't count if you have your fingers crossed.

Congratulations. Congrats. Congrats. You're welcome. Need to give Thank you. Thank you all. You're all welcome to stay. Our meetings are fascinating. Kidding. Yes. Riveting. But uh we understand if you want to leave. Um so feel free. So we'll move on to our meeting. I need a motion to approve the special counsel meeting minutes of March 4th, 2026. Do I have a motion? I'll make that motion. Kim second. Second.

Thank you. Okay. Uh, any comments? That was Jim. That's good. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I actually heard it from any questions, comments, changes. Great. Uh, Anna, you can call the role. Yes. Boil. Yes. Bilski? Yes. Foster? Yes. Vincent? Yes. Kurland? Yes. Harry? Yes. Thanks. Next, a motion to approve. I need a motion to approve the council meeting minutes of March 11th, 2026. Thank you, Stacy. And uh any questions, comments, the roll? All yes.

Bilski, yes. Foster, yes. Vincent, yes. Yes. Harry, yes. Thanks. Uh, next is a motion to declare a 2004 International 7,400 dump truck bin number 1HT WD A15J 006721 as surplus to be disposed of at the mayor's discretion. I'll make a motion. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Amanda. You got to be faster than that, Jeff. Yeah. Um, great. You're ready when you can snare. Questions, comments?

2004. I I'm pretty sure a couple of the new firefighters weren't born yet when we bought this vehicle. Yes, they did seem very I can't believe it's still around. Uh do you have any comments? We probably don't need too many comments on that one. We do everything we can to take care of our equipment. I think this uh speaks for itself. I mean, there's not very many municipalities that have trucks that are 22 years old. So, we do everything to take care of them, maintain them, keep them up and running, and about it. And I don't know if council members know that our service department um does do all the maintenance on these vehicles themselves in house.

Everything's done in house. Yes. Which is amazing. Oh, no. No, we're still It's still running. It was just in service last time out. Thank you. Hannah, will you call the role, please? Yes. Boil, yes. Bilski, yes. Foster, yes. Vincent, yes. Kurland, yes. Perry, yes. Thank you. Next, I need a motion to approve the treasures report for February 2026. Moved. Thank you, Stacy.

Thank you, Amanda. Okay, Dana, take it away. you have the summary for the month of uh February. So February revenues were a,95,49 for all funds and our expenditures for all funds was $937,842.88, leaving us with an ending fund balance of $18,910,44. You also have the revenue and expenditure line item for February for the general fund. Uh we're at 21 12ths of the year or 17%. Our revenue to budget is about 15.4%. Um and our expenditures are about 14 a.5% of um budget.

Thank you. Any questions? Will you call the role? Alner, yes. Boil, yes. Bilski, yes. Foster, yes. Vincent, yes. Yes. Harry, yes. Make a motion to approve the tax administrator's report for February 2026. Is there a second? Yes. Good job. Um, I was ready to call.

Uh, any question or uh Dana, you want to give your report? have the tax administrator reports that shows income tax uh collections for February. The gross tax collections from all sources um are about 754,000. And that's about 67,000 higher than February of last year. And year to date, we're almost $92,000 higher than where we were um last year. Um twothirds of the increase has to do with wage withholdings. And uh you also have the cumulative and the monthly gross that shows comparisons for the last four years.

Council have any questions or comments? Nope. Anna, will you call the role? Allski? Yes. Foster? Yes. Vincent. Kurland. Yes. Perry. Yep. Yes. Um, next is a discussion of the bills to be paid in the month of April in the amount of $350,93.33 and additional March expenses in the amount of 77,967.73. Um, does anybody have any questions? Go ahead.

I just have a comment and then one question. Um, I was a at the outset as the newest council member, I was I guess a little I I didn't understand why we were discussing and we weren't approving the the bills to be paid. We're just discussing them, which is and I wasn't sure what the council's role with with these were. Um, I'm thankful to Danish who's very helpful today in terms of kind of walking me through the process and and and it has been very enlightening and and appreciated. Um, as like I said, it's the newest one. I think it's I'll probably ask the questions that you guys asked four years ago or 10 years ago or Lisa 20 some odd years ago when you got here, but um they're new questions to me and I appreciate the the administration's willingness to to talk them through. I do have one question and it's really for the mayor, maybe the law director. I'm not sure. But the one I I saw in the Singerman bills that the um charter review commission were in there and it looks like they were at least the way that I read it that they were paid outside of the retainer. And as I looked at the contract, I was under the impression that the that the what I would label as or what was labeled as routine services would include uh board and commission meetings. And and I would assume that this would have fallen under that umbrella. Um, so I guess Mayor, I'm I'm I'm I I assume you were the one that approved it? I What I I'm I'm just What was the analysis or is there anything you can shed any light on that?

Um, upon further review, the call the call is overturned. Oh, I've asked Steve to resend that bill and he has agreed to do so and to not charge for those services. I do nothing else in my time here on that. I kept $2,08 or whatever it is out of out of Byron's pocket. So, let let me let me set that on my tombstone for if I may. The uh um we've changed the contract every time previously because it was only once every eight years. It wasn't deemed to be routine. But since the mayor raised the question and and you raised the question, I have no problem

putting it under the retainer. This is not Fantastic. I'll just have to raise the retainer next year. We'll see about that. Assuming there is a next, it's a big assumption that there is a next time. All right, that's fine. Thank you. Great. Um, any other questions about the bills?

We'll move on to audience comments relating to agenda items only. Go to old mis business and pending legislation. The motions ordinance 2026-7, an ordinance amending a portion of section 1174.04 of the codified ordinances to amend the definition of senior single family detached attached dwelling. This is on for third reading tonight. Uh it has been recommended by planning and zoning commission. So do I have a motion? I'll make that motion. You second. Thank you, Jim.

Ryan. Oh, damn it. Hey. Uh, comments, questions.

I have a question. I don't know that's directly related to this, but I know when we did the tree ordinance and we talked about all the trees that were taken down and the amount that What is the time period for people for the builders to replace those trees and start replenishing what's been taken down? I'd have to refer back to the to the ordinance. I don't off the top of my head recall what you know it's part of part of the landscape installation that usually follows one year after occupancy but with these larger developments the occupancy is a little more difficult to define. So I'll have to get back to you on that one. I think to to your concern, I I believe PI's already actually started planting some of the trees um that you're referencing. So,

any other questions? Um then Anna, will you call the role to pass ordinance? Yes. Boil, yes. Bilski, yes. Yes. Kurland, yes. Harry, yes. Thank you. Uh, on to new business. Ordinance 2026-9, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to implement the terms and conditions of the tenative agreement reached with the Fraternal Order of Police, Ohio Labor Council, Incorporated. This is on for first reading. Um, and anybody

I I already sent my comments previously, so they've been incorporated. We will be talking about this later, too. Okay. Then we're move on to ordinance 2026-10, an ordinance enacting a new section 351.17, no parking on either side of a residential street in a culde-sac turnaround of the codified ordinances of Orange Village. This is on for first reading. Um I I have no problem with this. I get why we're doing it. I just think that we need to put up signage so that Yeah. people know. Can the police chief might

you might want to ask both uh the chief and perhaps Bob Zugan to comment on Bob can talk about the signage. He's going to handle that. Um, you know, the fire trucks, service trucks, mail trucks, school buses, they all have a problem. Garbage trucks, they all have a problem navigating these call the sacks. And it's it's I'm surprised we haven't had this years ago. It's just about time we suggest that we do it if it meets your approval. And Bob can talk about the signs. This is exclusive to the culde-sac itself, not the leadin areas to it. Right. Is there is there a penalty involved for parking? There is. I don't have that committed to memory, but maybe uh and but

there needs to be a penalty because um I it's the same big landscaping. Yeah. They're the ones that are the problem because the school bus can't get by and a fire truck could not get in if they needed to. And you say something to them and they don't seem to care. Mike and I were going to lunch and

after the penalty um the penalty is uh between the handicap uh misdemeanor. Uh it's a misdemeanor of I have to get back with it because we have uh specific citations for violations that that general penalty. That answer your question?

Talk about signage too about the penalty signage going to look like? I was

Yeah, just I'm waiting for the approval here and we'll get the signs ordered and get them up. They're going to go into the center of the culde-sacs um instead of the approach to the right. So, going to be straight in um you know, so they're very visible and stuff like that. That way they're not hidden by tree canopies and stuff. And just uh this is for every culde-sac in Orange Village. Dedicated streets only. Everything private would be uh you know need to be policed and um taken care of by them. So um that's inclusive of areas like Hidden Valley and stuff. But I can't um uh comment enough about it that there's problems that we've uh always calling out in the winter time to have police come up to have cars moved and trying to remove snow. So, it's something needs to be done.

Okay. Thank you. We'll see it again uh next month. Next is ordinance 2026-11, an ordinance amending the annual appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures of Orange Village during the calendar year ending December 31st, 2026. This is on for first reading. Um but I would like to make a motion to suspend the rules. Is there a second? Thank you, Stacy. And Anna, will you call the role for suspension? Yes. Boil, yes. Bilski, yes. Foster, yes. Vincent, yes. Kurland, yes.

Perry, yes. Thank you. Okay. Next. Um, have a motion to adopt 2026-11. Please. A motion. Thank you. And a second. I'll second it. Sorry. Uh, great. Uh, questions, comments? Uh, Dana, take it away.

Only one um change in the appropriation ordinance, and that's to fund 401, the capital improvement fund. It was increased $5,000 due to change order for the architect services, which has a typo excellency for the uh safety facility. The original contract was approved um through a motion with council for $85,270 and there was $19,500 in change orders that brought it to 104,770. Thus, that's why we increased it to 5,000. I had budgeted a 100,000 in our previous budget appropriation ordinance. So that's why it's only a $5,000 increase and not the full 195.

Okay. Okay. Any other questions? Will you call the role? Boil. Bilski? Yes. Foster? Yes. Vincent? Yes. Kurland? Yes. Perry? Yes. Next is ordinance 2026-12, an ordinance amending section 1162.08, 08 improvement of parking areas of chapter 1162 off- streetet parking and loading of the codified ordinances of Orange Village. This is on for first reading. Does anyone want to speak to this?

Zoning commissioning. Oh, it is. Let's refer to planning and zoning and then we'll hear more about it when we're Next is ordinance 2026-13, an ordinance authorizing the village to participate in the Ohio Department of Transportation winter contract 18-27 for road salt and to take any other action necessary to participate in the bulk purchasing of road salt for the 2026 2027 winter season and declaring an emergency. This is on for first reading, but I'm going to make a motion to suspend the rules on this one, too. Do I have a second?

Thank you, Jeff. Anna, will you call the role for suspension? Yes. Oy, yes. Bilski, yes. Foster, yes. Vincent, Kurland, yes. Perry, yes. Thank you. And now, do I have a motion? I'll make a motion to adopt 2026-13. You want to second it, Stacey? seconded it. Yep. And uh um Bob, you want to speak to this, please?

I think it's pretty clear what we're looking for. Participation in the ODOT contract. We've done this for numerous years. As typical, ODOT sends us out at the last minute to put their participation in. Um they're looking for it and there's some time parameters of why they're the suspension of the rule. So, um, ODOT contract has been very good for Orange Village, certainly because we have the, uh, space to, um, store the salt needed. As just a reminder, you know, there were a lot of places that were having salt problems this year, deliveries and storage and getting that stuff and, um, you know, we we were good to go. So, we ask uh to get this approved so we can participate.

Does it take into account the amount of salt wheat that was used this year and raise it up for next year? Yep. We always calculate in what we have, what we anticipate, and sort of throw a dart against a wall and try and figure out what winter is going to bring. And and what ODOT is doing is getting these requirements together and they put out based upon the the amounts people are taking. So they're going to be buying the amounts that people expect. And that's why they there's a min and a max of 15. It's a 15% collar.

Yep. They changed that and that's one of the reasons why we don't come in early until we get uh what the ODOT contract is because I clearly want to see what the rules are if they all of a sudden change it where it's uh 50 to 150 you know percent and stuff. So um it was just a few years ago it was a 10% sway one way 90 to 110. So there's actually by that 15% gives a little more flexibility um certainly when winners are bad. It was it was such a big issue at the beginning of the year, the beginning of the season with people running out of salt with certain communities and areas. So, I just want to make sure that's taken into consideration as we move forward. Hopefully, we won't as bad a winter next year, but how much salt do we have left, Bob?

700 tons. No kidding. What do we normally use? That'll get us through April,00ibility. Certainly it allows us to when salt is high that we can drop it but salt low we got storage capacity we can take it at 115 so you know it's nice to be able to up or down as needed. Yep. That's amazing. We ended up with so much after all that like hooplab uh Huh.

Well, it it's great to know that we had enough salt for the winter. We're very lucky. Thank you, Bob. Okay. Um, do I have a motion? I'll make that motion. Right. And a second. And a second. Great. Any other questions? Anna, will you call the role? All yes. Oil? Yes. Bilski? Yes. Foster? Yes. Vincent? Yes. Kurland? Yes. Perry? Yes, thank you. Next is audience comments relating to matters which advance the good of the village. Comments. All right, we'll move on to comments by the mayor.

Thank you, Lisa. Um there's a lot on on the list today. Uh first of all, um we have quite an amount of wood chips and please uh that can be delivered free of charge to residents. Sign up on our website at orangevillage.com. I want to thank all of our departments for their hard work during the recent storms that we uh experienced over the last several weeks and months. Uh there was a great deal of pressure put on them and they did an exceptional job for our community. Uh Orange Village is currently undergoing its bi-annual audit. Uh the villages are audited every two years. Uh the report is not yet complete and will be made available when it's concluded. Uh branch shipping is Monday, March 20th. Please have your items out prior to 700 a.m. Uh service did a special shipping after the storms as well, you may recall, and that was a real boon for us all. Uh there's still time to order your leaf humus. If you go down Pike Avenue, we still Pike Drive. You can see that there's a nice pile there. If you'd like uh leaf humus for your yard, uh we're ready able to deliver it. Please uh place your order on the website. The Orange Cares Committee will be holding a free internet safety and and current scams affecting senior citizens workshop. Uh it will be provided by the Orange Police Department on uh Thursday, April 23rd at 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall. uh invite your friends um from other communities as well. This is an important topic. There are so many scams going on in the internet these days. We are all subject to them and being able to recognize them and what to do is really important. Paper shredding will be held at Pepper

Pike City Hall, 28,000 Shaker Boulevard from 9:00 a.m. to noon on Friday, April 24th, which is also Arbor Day. Arbor Day is a holiday dedicated to planting and celebrating trees, something we really appreciate in Orange Village. Founded by Jay Sterling Morton in Nebraska in 1872, its purpose is to promote environmental stewardship, increase urban canopy, and highlight the vital roles trees play in cleaning air, preventing erosion, and boosting mental health. Orange Cares Committee will also provide a free bicycle tuneup day on Saturday, May 2nd from 10:00 a.m. to 100 pm. Get your bike ready for the spring. Bring your helmets and the experts will make sure that your helmet fits properly and your bike operates well. Be a women's self-defense workshop geared towards college age females that will take place on Thursday, June 4th at 6 PM. Registration is required. Visit our website or call 440498-4400 to register. For those of you not paying attention, April 15th is tax day. However, Earth Day comes shortly thereafter. Since it's it is being celebrated on April 26 22nd. Since its start in the 1970s, Earth Day has grown to a global movement for environmental protection and climate awareness. Our sustainability and resilience committee is hard at work bringing those same goals to our Orange Village. I want to thank them for their dedication to communities environmental health. Last week, I attended the Midwest Climate Summit held at Case Western Reserve University. I met local and regional sustainability leaders to develop collaborative community strategies to promote uh to have an impact on climate

change. I will be reporting on initiatives we are looking to engage. I spoke today with uh Mayor Spencer in Morland Hills and we're going to partner with their uh sustainability commission uh and work together on some projects. The Orange Farmers Market and Artisans Market will again take place this summer. The kickoff event will be on May 2nd from 10:00 to 300 p.m. at the Pepper Pike Learning Center. Then thereafter, the monthly markets will then take place starting on June 13th from 9:00 a.m. to 100 p.m. Join us for the Junth remembrance with the per performance of Full of Love. will be on June 18th at 6 PM at the Mohe Pavilion. In an effort to provide a meaningful contribution to the 250th celebration, we've been contacted by Cleveland Mayor Justin Bib to participate in an initiative to promote kindness and civic connection by contributing 250 acts of kindness through the values and action organization of Cleveland. We invite Orange residents, organizations, and village government to participate. There will be information available in the next e-news to suggest how we can contribute to this worthy way to commemorate the founding of our country. Finally, um this is hawk nesting season. There are we have reports of hawks that have attacked people and pets. um do don't get anywhere near them if you can at all avoid them because they are protective of their young and they're very aggressive. So please be careful. They are a protected species and you and popular opinion. No, I won't say that. So that's concludes my report. Thank you.

Thank you for my report tonight. Um Bob, feel free to pop in here. I wanted to talk about um I got an update uh early this week. Um that it looks like the dog forest, which we're calling it, is going to be completed fairly soon. Um depending on weather, is that correct, Bob? And uh it's moving ahead very nicely. So very excited to see that happen. Thank you to the service department for everything that they're doing. That's the end of my report. Unless you have anything to add. That's amazing. Thank you. Great. And um TRIC is also contributing. We supply the materials, but they designed a a dog bones shaped um area made out of bricks that will be enhance. It's it's like a an art artistic version. What do what would you call it? Piaza excited to work with them again. It's an opportunity. Matter of fact, this group

to seeing it. Our committee meets this month, uh, the third Tuesday of the month, and we will be hopefully discussing, um, and finalizing what kind of benches we want. I know you're going to add a few benches that we have in the meantime, but we're hoping to get our fundraising going and people would be able to contribute benches um in honor of their dogs somehow. So, we're going to try. And that concludes my report. So, let's move on to Kim, please.

Thank you. Um it was mentioned earlier that Sergeant Marvin works um with uh youth with our youth for lack of a better word for maybe intervention services if they you know this kid is maybe going maybe in the wrong direction he can help redirect that child. Um, and I would like to have that highlighted in our next newsletter that that is available so that parents know that Sergeant Marvin is there and um the things that he can do to help their families and their kids because I think that's an important thing and I don't know that a lot of people know that we offer that

and he does a terrific job with that entire assignment and he makes himself available before things get to needing the law to be involved. Um, so I I agree completely. If we can highlight that, that's always well shared.

Um, with respect to the branches being out, I know that Bob's team hard to get them. But I also think that we need to maybe even have a reverse 911 call and let people know if the branches are not they need to be put out uh perpendicular to the road all in one direction. Uh the piles that I've seen all over the are piles are all over the place and there's people are adding leaves to them. Landscaping companies I've seen them they're adding all the debris instead of the landscaping company taking it away. And that's not fair to our service department that they should have to put up with that. So I think it's appropriate to let residents know that while um branches were being taken, other debris is not and that it they the branches need to be put out in the appropriate way. And if not, then they are welcome to have their landscaping company take them away or to put them in their trash bins.

Yes, we've had some problems along the way. Uh certainly there's been homes that um I just uh it it's very time consuming. just alone in the Wood Crest Fairview area, we took out almost close to seven loads of chipped wood. That's equivalent to about um 90 to 105 yards. We had one resident that on a corner lot that basically had probably 150 ft long of a brush pile that we were there for four guys, an hour and a half. So,

what doesn't happen then is when all the stuff is intertwined, we see pipe, we see stuff like that. Um we've always put that information out. Um it's on our website about our rules and our policy is that if it's there we decide we can either give them a warning and pick it up and the next time we won't or if it's that bad we just won't pick it up and leave it and they'll be responsible for restacking it and doing it appropriately. One one clarification too which you and I had talked about um where people heard that that the pickup was going to be on why hasn't it been picked up just so people better understand that's when it starts but there's a lot of work that was involved in that and kudos to your guys for getting it done as quickly as they have um and especially with the various piles that were all over the place. So so thank you but I just want people to understand too that it does take time so be patient. Well, it's it's that and and I think that um what's overlooked um this scenario here, this will cost the village money, not just going out and shipping. Our program has been sustainable by delivering wood chips to our residents, by delivering leaf humus to our residents and our programs. That way, we don't have to haul it out. Manpower, fuel, more equipment. we don't have to pay for disposal which all of these uh you know recyclers the boyes of the world and you know TRC's but um you know when when you have bulk of quantity and you can't get rid of it that's a problem and I can't hold it we're not uh you know we're a class 4 composting facility for our humus but that doesn't give us the opportunity to store stuff 365 days a year

I think uh it sounds like there's been some abuse going on as well and uh you My understanding is that, you know, there was a bad windstorm. I get it. Branches came down. It was a nice service for us to offer. But if you're having a bunch of trees taken down, you don't have them chopped up and put out for our service members to take. I think that's an inappropriate and abuse of of the service, frankly. And and that information is on the website. I mean, this is not for whole tree removal. The idea was this is stuff when you're doing trimmings, branches fall off the trees, stuff like this. This is not a program for you to hire a tree company to come in, cut two, three, you know, two, three trees down in the yard and drag it to the street.

I do think it may be a rever reverse 911 or something to let people know because I think it's getting excessive and I do think that there's still a lot of piles out. I know you guys are working hard. But I'm not suggesting that the piles out is is their fault. I do think at this point and it is very costly for the village to undertake this when your uh staff has a lot of other things to do. So maybe at this point it's time for us to tell people if they're not done right, get rid of it yourself. You still have ground to cover, right? You're not done.

Yeah. And I would say um I appreciate your uh you know your your care about this. Um, but I think at this point, the reverse 911 at this point is is a mood point. We've been around our first time. We're finishing up on the north side. Um, we'll be back out the 20th. Um, so I I think it's something that we just again put in and and try and emphasize when the timing is right with the e-news and newsletters.

Great. Honest, the next meeting is the 15th of the month at 7 p.m. at the Orange Senior Center. Again, it's a great way to get involved. um the June 4th um self-defense class that the mayor mentioned, I'm very excited that um Jeff and I were partnering along with um the police department to bring that to our um college age uh girls and I understand the sign up is with you. A number of people have contacted me directly as well and we're working on having um pizza provided for the girls as well from a local um pizza establishment. So

people are contacting you directly. Please have them sign up online or let me know. I will I only have like three people. I have I have five or six myself. So I will. Okay. And then with respect to um IT issues, I know I haven't been able to get into my council email for many months at this point. Um, I understand that I am not the only person. I I know, but I've called and we've tried dealing with it. And I mean, they're supposed to be forwarding the emails.

And I don't think I'm the only person, the only council member that's having issues with emails. I'm assuming that we pay money for the service. So maybe the IT people need to do a better job making sure that the IT that the emails are accessible to council members. Again, it's not just me that's having an issue. I'd assume mine were user error, but perhaps it's a larger problem with the emails that I do have them forwarded to my personal email and if I have trouble interfacing those two. So, it's really I'm learning it's very important to not interact on my um my personal email. So, if I delete something in my personal email, it's deleted in the uh council email. But if I respond by accident through my personal email to something just by not thinking about it, half the time it doesn't get sent to the recipients and I don't know anything about it. So, I keep trying to remind myself go to the Outlook email and work through

at least you're seeing them for months. I supposed to supposedly uh I've been set up on forward and I can tell you in the last four or five months and this is since this was set up I've probably had maybe five emails total forwarded to me. I guarantee that there are more emails sitting all you send them directly to me but I'm just but but you should be getting it twice. I don't I get it once directly from my that's my point is their forwarding is not working. I just it's an issue and it needs to get resolved because either they need to fix the problem or we need to work with an IT company that can provide a service. Yeah.

No, I think we're we'll talk about it, but you should always use your Orange Village account because then you're subjecting your personal emails to public records. I don't want it. Oh, no. I fully understand that. definitely know that understand that I really don't want them forwarded. I'd like to be able to get into my emails and that's at some point I've just kind of given up. But I know that there are people that have said, "Oh, I emailed you." I'm like, "Well, I'm really sorry I don't get emails that are sent to the village and it's a problem." So, I'm saying that this is an issue that needs to be addressed.

And that is it. And happy tax day. And don't forget that postmarks have changed. So, if you actually do send it in the old-fashioned way, which I don't know if anyone still does that, um you need to go a few days early to make sure that it gets postmarked in time uh because of the ch the change in postmarking. So, amazing. Thank you. Okay, Jim.

Um briefly, I I too would like to thank the service team. It was I don't know what it was like in the rest of the community, but back as you mentioned over in our neighborhood back in in Woodrest, it was a mess. And it wasn't um to be fair, it wasn't branches coming down. It was huge old trees that came down, enormous trees blocking the road. They got the roads cleared. Um and and I know in other areas of it, it was it was branches. And so the I luckily and I would like to thank the the department for they didn't cite me but they sent out one of the letters about six months ago. It's like you better cut down that tree because it's dead and I got it cut down before the storm um because it definitely would have come down during that storm and and it would have been even worse. We were out of power for in our neighborhood for 4 days. So

um and and most of us have septic and well water so we don't have any water. So it's a whole problem back there. So to the extent that it was worse there or looked worse, you know that I think it was. But the comments again and I I I think you're right. You know, I had my tree had fallen before it and I had all of the stumps much to my neighbor's chagrin. You know, I chopped up because I'm going to, you know, have them made into firewood. But there were lots of people that were just essentially hauling the entirety of the tree down to the front and that became a problem. And I will say that your your team was great. They had the skiitters out there. They put a lot of work into, a lot of effort and and it is not lost on certainly the residents back there, the work that you guys did. So, thank you. Is that it?

Yep. All right. Go ahead, Ryan.

All right. So, uh in addition to paying your taxes in April, April is also uh financial national financial literacy month. So uh I think as some of you may recall when I started talking about my active orange idea and my kind of pillars of wellness I think about physical wellness, mental wellness, but also financial wellness. So financial literacy and education is a is a big part of uh you know something we have to teach our kids. I think something some adults also need, you know, to kind of learn or maybe recap or review for themselves. But, uh, there's no shame in that, but there's no no time is too late to kind of get your personal finances in order or learn more about what you can do for yourself financially. So, uh, there's a lot of resources out there. Uh, I am a certified financial planner. If anyone ever has any questions, always happy to be a resource. It's not what I do for work, so I wouldn't get paid for anything. So uh but I'm always happy to be a resource and uh again it's an important thing. So talk about with your friends, your family, your kids, most importantly your kids because your kids probably all of our children can use uh use help and understanding and learning what they need to know. They're not getting enough of it in school. Um, another thing that I've been um, working on, and thanks to the mayor for kind of setting me up or connecting me with this, uh, this group, but there's a national nonprofit called the National Fitness Campaign, and they, uh, work with municipalities throughout the country to, uh, install these little areas for kind of parks or, uh, other outdoor like recreation areas that have workout equipment kind of built built into the the platform or the area and they work with you to uh get grants to cover the cost of the majority of these installations. So, uh

continuing to have dialogue with these guys to see if there's anything that we can do here potentially for the village. Um and then, uh the last thing I want to comment on is that we will keep an eye out. The next economic development meeting will be coming up here uh in the next few weeks, but uh waiting to lock in a date and just a lot of people we're trying to arrange to come to the next meeting. So there's a lot of calendars to coordinate. So apologize for tardy being tardy and setting this next one up, but it's coming. Thank you. Thank you, Ryan. Um we'll move on to Jeff. Couple questions. Um Chief, is there any ordinance or um Chef, use your mic.

Sorry. Is there any um ordinance about these kids riding around those little electric Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, beep beep beep beep. Yeah. Almost hit me and there was no tag on his bike. All I saw was a black. He like covered up like you couldn't see his face, right? And he they're zipping. I mean, I'm a motorhead. I like speed, trust me. But 30 miles an hour on a 13-year-old, it just seems like a little wacky to me. The answer is yes. And um we've made contact with that exact child. Um I'm not sure if it was before or after your incident, but uh um Bob Zugan grabbed a couple of them. I grabbed one the same day, prepared notes. U we called help you.

We called parents. Um I don't know how much that's even going to help with the parents, but if we see it again, we'll just start taking the bikes and we'll we'll get it one way or another. But um mini bikes and go-karts when I was a kid. I get it, right? But this is the way it is around here. There's there's three classes of those bikes and the the lower classes don't go fast enough that it's the same speed as a bicycle, right, that you would pedal. The the higher ones go 40 and higher, right? And those ones are prohibited and there's age restrictions as well. So, we we have remedies when we see it and we we do enforce it. Okay.

Thanks. Um next, um infrastructure. So, is there any chance to put power lines underground? So, we lose trees and branches all the time. And that's not my thing, but I'm just curious, wouldn't it be more effective down the road? Like, maybe not initially, but down the road to put power lines. The number that is in my mind, having been to these meetings where everyone asks those questions time and again, is a million dollars a mile to go underground with them. So, yes, if you want to spend a million dollars a mile, you can do that. But the electric company doesn't do it.

I think for most of our developments are are all underground, right? But to go back and to change it, we've looked at that issue many years ago and couldn't couldn't figure out how to make that work. But it's a really good question. I think it's safer, too. Right.

People ask me during all the power outage, all that type of stuff. So, I just thought I would bring it up since I was Okay, number three. Um, Ned and I and Barb Long met last week when we were off. So, happy Passover for those who celebrate. Um, so we took the time to meet and we came up with some great ideas for the 250th. Um, I need to have a sidebar with Bob and the mayor to get exact numbers, but we came up with uh signs for the village. Uh, potentially um a Fourth of July tree competition where um people decorate their yard in red, white, and blue. And then we go around and judge it to see um what was it? A scatter, not an Easter egg hunt, scavenger hunt. And then we will put out um five or six things in the history of each service and then the kids have to read it and then come back and then the one who does it the fastest would get like a maybe a gift card or I'm just kind of we were just kind of spitballing fourth or the ninth to sing and then there was something else. But anyway, we got a couple things coming. I just want to let you guys know. Thank you for all your support. Um did I forget anything that we talked about? had a we had a good covering from there.

Jeeoff, maybe instead of decorating a tree, how about decorating the mailboxes? Mail boxes. We're open. It was just kind of like a Some people don't really have a tree in the front. Maybe it got a mailbox, right? Get someone to judge tree in front. Yeah. Anything something I'm open to suggestions, but just something

to celebrate 4th of July, 250th. And also for the council members, um I sent there's a resol there's a blank resolution document that I gave to Steve. He's going to figure he's going to fill it out for us and that'll get us into the 250th Ohio celebration that opens doors for funds and information for young adults and kids about the history of Ohio. Once that resolution is we'll get it we'll get it on next month's agenda for passage and then Anna can probably fill it out and file it. So she gets the contacted from the organization. Yeah. Get on there within the organization to be

we'll get the resolution ready for next month. I think there's funding Ned also for information and things. Give you a May 1 though. When I read the document, it was only May 1st. No, March 1st when it first started. So we have time to get something going on for Orange and have like a little plaque or whatever that'll include us in all the um celebrations in Ohio. Great. That's it for me. Okay. Thanks, Jeff. Thank you, Ned. Uh, Stacy, go ahead.

Good evening, everyone, and happy spring. As a reminder, the mayors meet with the school board members tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. in the board office on the Orange School's campus. All council members are cordially invited to attend. Uh, I they said they would provide for Passover as well as uh since we have one more day on that one. Um, so hopefully you all can make it. Uh the arts and culture committee met last evening and we're in the process of finalizing our upcoming events. The mayor already mentioned uh the full of love group. Um the founding director and uh Dr. Fred Weed and has it's a multi-layered orchestra. They've performed with Artha Franklin. Yeah, they performed with the Franklin, Barry White, Steve Wonder, Glattis Knight, and many other well-known artists. And their music features everything from Mottown to rhythm and blues, jazz and Latin to classical and more. and instrumentation includes violins, horns, vocalists, and a funky kicking rhythm section. So, we hope you'll bring your families out. It will be in the Malkee Pavilion, not the amphitheater. Um they need the electricity run there and um full of love. This is on June 18th and that will be part of our um Junth celebration weekend. We've also finalized our end of the summer concert with Replay uh scheduled for the amphitheater on August 15th. As you know, Replay did a fantastic job last year. Had the crowd up on its feet, uh, dancing around and going around and, um, lots of kids enjoying it, too. Uh, music throughout the decades. That concert will be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on the 15th. Uh, it is a weekend, so we hope you'll all come out to that. We're still finalizing our details for our July orange goes red, white, and blue concert, but it sounds like we're going to be able to do some work in tandem with with the others uh to celebrate the semi-quincentennial. So stay tuned for further details on that. Um the mayor also talked about the market, so I won't go into specific, but the one thing I do want to mention is we have asked that each committee take at least one one um

day to have a table there. um maybe recruit for your committees, maybe talk a little bit about what your communities are doing. You can do handouts, flyers. I want to thank Ned and the Veterans Committee. They're taking the May 2nd um market. Uh Arts and Culture is going to take the June um one. So, uh the July through December are up for grabs. So, please let me know if your committees uh would like to take a certain date. We'd love to have you. Um and I also want to do a huge shout out to all those working on the markets. I mean, they're doing such amazing work. They're having food trucks, art projects, games for children, incredible vendors. Um, please support our local um, talented artists by attending these markets. I guarantee you'll find at least something you love. If you tell a friend, they tell a friend, we get more people and it supports our community as a whole. Our next arts and culture meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 5th. However, that is the primary. So, I'm thinking I don't know if we're going to have access to village hall that night. Probably not. So, we might need to find an alternate location. Um, yeah. All right. Well, so we'll get back to you on that, but right now we are planning for Tuesday the May 5th. Um, all are welcome. If you're looking for a fabulous night of arts and culture, uh, please head to Morland Hills Elementary School on Thursday, April 23rd for the annual MHS International Night. I know the mayor went a couple years ago. It is an absolutely wonderful treat for the eyes, the ears, uh the stomach with representatives from more than 50 cultures and backgrounds providing food and displays and tremendous artistry. And the best part is it's free and open to the entire extended community. Um they're anticipating about 600 people this year, so get there early and enjoy it. Again, that's April 23rd. Um one final note on arts and culture. Uh Brady Middle School is putting on Matilda this weekend on Friday and Saturday nights at 7 o'clock at Orange High School. A huge

number of Orange Village residents make up the 55 person cast and crew. But um I want to give a special shout out to leads who are who live in Orange Village, Ava, Lily, Zayn, Sophia, and our very own Matilda who is Violet Hex is doing the lead role and she's an Orange Village resident in my neighborhood. I'm very proud of her. Uh so I got a preview today. It's going to be a fantastic show, suitable for adults, young adults, young kids, everybody, and a lot of fun. Just a fun ride. So, hopefully you'll come. Um, I also want to send my kudos out to the service department and Bob for always answering my messages when I get messages from some of the homeowners, including the most recent one was, "When is AT&T going to come in and fix uh all the divots and everything else that were um done when they were putting in the digital wiring?" Um, and I know it's not Orange's village's responsibility, but he's always so gracious about answering. So, thank you for that. I know they appreciated hearing and they called the representative that you gave us. Um, and also all you do, um, you know, and all everybody did with the service department,

Stacy. Um, finally, I want to thank all who came out for the Kuanas egg hunt last weekend. I'm asking you wrap it up, please. This is my last thing. Uh, we had our first hoppingly beautiful day filled with sunshine and more than a hundred children enjoying it. I know. Uh Kim already talked about the um Kuanas joining Kuanas. Uh they put out more than 2,000 eggs and made a lot of kids happy. So you Stacy, we're gonna move on. All I got. Thank you. Okay, Amanda.

First, I want to um welcome our firefighters, Shane Tisano and Josephine Adams. So, it's exciting to have new people in. And then I just quickly res the um resilience and sustainability meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday the 14th. John, is that still on? Okay. Um we'll have to keep you updated. I don't know. I guess we if it's not going to be we'll have um the website updated. We won't be here to update it. Will someone else be here to update it, Anna? If you're not I'm sorry. Yeah. If we need to cancel the meeting next Tuesday, someone able to

be able to let you know by Friday what the plan is. Um I know that we'll get things back into gear soon, I'm sure. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you for making it so nice and brief. Okay. Okay. I need a motion to enter an ex executive session and discuss the appointment and compensation of village employees of the status of the union negotiations.

I'll make that motion. Second. I heard Jeff first.

Thank you. And uh we will not be taking action afterwards. All right. Please call the roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Vincent. I need a drink.