Council - Special Meeting

It was I will call the special council meeting of November 5th, 2025 to order. Please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now, will you please call roll? Madden. I'm sure. Barry here. Ski here. Ner here. Here. Foster here. Silver

here. Motion to approve the council meeting minutes of October 8th, 2025. moved. Second. I'll second. I heard uh Phil first. Any questions or comments on the minutes? Anna, please call roll. Perry, Billski, yes. Almer, yes. Vincent, yes. Foster, yes. Silver, yes. Thank you. Is there a motion to authorize the village engineer to prepare plans and advertise for bid the 2026 asphalt road program? I'll make that motion. Thank you, Kim. Is there a second? Second.

Thank you, Ryan. Brian, if you have the memo, this is just a authorization for next year's uh asphalt program. um which is going to be the overlay of uh the eastern portion of Orangewood Drive as well as um the Laurel and Hemlock circles. And then along with that, we are going to uh complete a repair on Jackson with which we have a standing water issue. So, we're going to install some under drains, but it involves some pavement repair along with that. So, we're just going to tie it all together. This is our uh 2026 asphalt program.

Standard stuff, right? All right. Any questions or comments? Any change in elevation or anything? No, this is just going to be a forwood. We're going to mill down the concrete and then put an asphalt topping on it. All right. So, we're So, it won't be asphalt anymore. It'll be won't be concrete. It'll be it'll be asphalt from bas basically beachmont to Lander. Any questions or comments? Madden. Oh, sorry. Go ahead.

Just for clarity, this isn't the first time we've done this. Lander Road from miles about to Smithfield is an overlay over concrete. Yep. Okay, sorry. Madden, yes. Perry, yes. Bilski, yes. Yes. Vincent, yes. Foster, yes. Silver,

yes. Is there a motion to approve the extension agreement between Orange V Orange Village and the Fraternal Order Police Ohio Labor Council to continue the current collective bargaining agreement in effect through March 31st, 2026 with the understanding any wage increases authorized by the new collective bargaining agreement to be made retroactive to January 1st, 2026. So moved. Thank you. Is there a second? Who has a question? I I I think it's just with the understanding that any wage increases if any well if I think that's understood by the language of it any wage increases authorized by the new collective agree is there a second

thank you Lisa uh mayor

oh this is a pretty uh standard document that we uh have crafted for this our negotiations as I'll talk about in a minute uh that we in the midst of negotiations with the uh for [clears throat] collective bargaining agreement with the patrolman's association in Orange Village. Um, it is necessary for us to agree that should the uh negotiations [clears throat] extend beyond the negotiating period uh into the new year that we would then retroactively return to the beginning of the first year for any uh alterations or additions to the uh the contract for salary. And so this allows us to to do that. I think again the language in the agreement should state as it is further agreed that any wage increases agreed upon in these negotiations shall be retroactive to January 1, 2026. And I do think it should state it is further agreed that any wage increases you know comma if any

we already have any in there. I mean the word any is there already there wages any wage increases though is very specific that there is an implication that there would be wage increases. So, I I I think that the wording would be tighter with if any, but it's up to you. I don't think it makes a difference either way. We're not giving anything away by excluding the word if any. Any other questions or comments compared to like other um institutions? I think we've done I think we've done this before. You do it now so that you don't have to rush in December. We've got a full council here tonight. Yeah, I knew that part. Just

this is just a Well, it's just motion. Yes, you have the motion. Yeah, this is not legislation. Correct. Well, you know that will be a whole different animal. All right, Anna, will you please call roll? Madden, Perry, yes. Bilski, yes. Ner, yes. Vincent, yes. Foster, yes. Silver, yes. There any audience comments relating to agenda items? All right, we have no old business, no new business. And there are any audience comments relating to matters which advance the good of the village? Looks like none comments by the mayor. Mayor Klene.

Okay. Thank you. Uh to begin with, I'd like to congratulate all the new council members. Unfortunately, I don't see any of them here tonight on their elections and and congratulate those who will be returning to the DAS next year. Uh this and [clears throat] I'd also like to thank Stacy uh Manila for her efforts and uh commitment to the to Orange Village uh in pursuing uh an opportunity to to join the council. Uh their code red notification update. If you did not receive notifications sent by the police department last week, please go to our website to sign up for the notifications. Orange Police Department and Orange Cares Committee will host an internet safety night on Thursday, November 13th at 6:30 p.m. for parents and children ages 10 and up at Orange Village Hall. This will focus on internet safety and be conducted by the uh Orange Police and the Ohio Internet Safety for Children uh group. Kyhoga County Solid Waste continues their pumpkin collection through November 10th at several locations. The closest locations are in Solen, Mayfield Village, and Shaker Heights. Visit our website for more information. Shop with a Cop is, as you may have noticed when you came in the front door, there's a there's a uh sign out there. Uh it's a wonderful annual event. All donations are given back to children in our committee community. Tickets are $1 each and six for $5. You may also make just a monetary donation. Visit the website if you if you're interested. Uh, the orange. Oh, I'm going to skip that and hand that one off to Stacy. Um,

save this one for last. Um, I'd like to make note of the fact that Deputy Chief O' Callahan has retired from the Orange Village Police Department uh, and he ending uh, his long career with the village. I'd like to also update the status of the dog park which is moving along. Hopefully some of you have had a chance to go over and see the construction that's taking place. Our service department is doing a wonderful job in preparing the the site. Uh and we're hoping to move the project along much more quickly than we thought we would and uh thanks to some some grant money that we received from the county. Uh we are closing on land acquisition for the parcel from the Kyhoga County Land Bank that we uh acquired last year and uh that that conclusion will come be u forthcoming momentarily. All the paperwork has changed hands. We're just waiting for the title to to come to us.

Plot on Emory. That's the plot plot on Emory Road.

Okay, good. Um there um I've received uh proposals for the architects for village hall and the fire station. Um I will be reviewing those and getting back to council next week uh for further action. uh the first calls program that we have talked about in the past uh which we are going to enter into as a a subgroup with Solen Beachwood Pepper Pike uh and and with Shaker. Uh there's anou that's out that's being reviewed. And speaking ofus, we also have anou being reviewed for the Beachwood boundary relocation. And I've had several conversations with Mayor Burns over in Beachwood. Uh they've already met with the Mooneyies over there and moving some things along uh on that. Veterans Day is November 11th. Thank our veterans for doing and do something for them. Do something for them to demonstrate how we really appreciate what they've done for our community. As I as noted by the agreement that we just um had a motion for the extension, uh we are in the midst of the CBA negotiations. Uh they're current currently underway. We've been involved in discussions all week long and uh they've been uh very productive. I'm hoping that we will draw this into conclusion very quickly and get to a final agreement that will then uh come to council for review. Uh, last on my list is an invitation from our fire department to all council members who are interested to observe a joint auto extraction drill this Friday between

9:30 and 12:30. So, if you ever want to extract a vehicle, um, you might want to be interested in seeing that. And last but not least, from where is this and where is it being extracted from? It will take place over behind the service uh service garage over off of Pike Road because of light cut out. Say the time again. 910 9:30 to 12:30 on Friday. 12:30. Thank you. So

is it just like you stop in whenever you want to or is that the whole time? Yeah, you can stop whenever you want. The last item on my uh agenda of my my mayor's comments has to do with the uh last summer the Orange Arts Center held a muraling program. Uh some of you participated in it, I believe. And uh each of this the communities that make up the Orange Arts Center and Orange Wreck community uh have a panel that was part of a larger mural. The panels were then uh displayed over at the Arch Arts Center throughout the the summer and then this week, this past week, uh each of the panels for each of the communities was delivered to the individual community. So, I wanted to reveal our panel.

We should put it by the camera. The big reveal. [laughter] So, as you can see, it includes our a bit of our uh amphitheater and the music at the amphitheater. uh a little bit of our community uh garden and and farmers market and a little bit of a rainbow that connects us all together. And I want to thank everybody who participated in the in the process. Um I can tell you I painted all the blue sky and I think Stacy painted some of the rainbow. I did

and uh and others participated. It was great fun. kids were up there and they were painting and uh it's a great representation for our community. We just have to find a spot that we want to hang it probably somewhere in here. So that come up and take a look particularly look at the very careful brush strokes. [laughter] I wanted to very careful brush strokes. That concludes my report.

All right. Thank you, mayor. Um I just want to say Halloween I think was very successful the other night. I know. I think there were two police cars driving throughout Orange Hill in our neighborhood throughout the night blurring their music. That was a new touch this year, I think, was blasting some Halloween music out their cars, handing out the glow sticks again. So, good job uh to the police department. Good job to the service department for picking up all the election signs today. Um congratulations to Jeff and Lisa and Amanda and Jim as well. And that is all that I have. Uh moving on to comments by uh council members. Uh, Phil Madden, I have nothing today. Nothing. Okay. Uh, Lisa Perry.

Um, thanks. I just want to thank all the residents who came and voted yesterday and even those who voted early and absentee. Great turnout for such a little a small ballot. I appreciated talking to everybody yesterday. I had a great time. Welcome to the new members of council and I want to echo Jud's statement of, you know, nice job and uh hopefully there'll be a space here for you someday. Thank you for doing all that hard work. And that ends my report.

All right. Uh Ryan Bellski, uh congratulations to the uh everyone who was successful last night. Stacy, nice work trying on uh it was definitely a good effort. So, thank you. Um and also um economic development meeting. Keep an eye out for upcoming dates in the uh village news or the online on the calendar. Just trying to align some dates with some folks. So, stay tuned. All right. Thank you, Kim Olner.

Um I echo everybody's comments and I I think I've reached out to most people on the election and looking forward to working with our new members. uh a returning member for Amanda, new member for Jim, and uh Stacy, I'm sure you're going to be up here soon enough. Um uh our planning and zoning, we've had a couple times where we've had some issues with respect to solar panel legislation and I would like to request that we revisit this legislation that uh is currently um in place in Orange. um at least two members of planning and zoning and I think actually more than that um have concerns with respect to uh 1148.02 O2 accessory uses and in particular if you look at let's see A11 D2 um it allows people to have solar panels in roof locations that are not um not in the rear facing basically not fa the rear you know facing the rear of their yard. So essentially it's going to be facing the front of the yard of the house uh or on the front of the house and then people can see it from the street. And the concern is is that there are four um ways that people can sort of get out of the requirement to have it on the rear. Um and the language and this is why I think specific language is important. Um you know I'm try to be very precise in our language. uh you have A or B or C and or D and um there is no it's very easy essentially for someone to um to meet one of these and to get the to have the panels on the front of their house. There's additionally with that, there is nothing in here that requires

them to keep trees or anything that might um uh cover up, you know, from seeing the solar panels from the street. In particular, we've had two recently uh two residents asking for solar panels coming in under these requirements. One of them, the resident really worked very hard. He has a black roof and black panels and black everything so it really blends with the roof. He's not getting rid of the trees that you know help, you know, uh hide it from the street. And I think that was seen as a little bit different than um another um resident who has a like a reddish brown very light colored roof and then you've got all that black equipment on there and it's facing the front, you know, so you can see the neighbors across the street can see it and everything. there's no trees really um blocking it. So, I did tell planning and zoning I would bring this to um to council and I do think that we need to to look at this. I I understand that the the bigger concern or the the concern with getting in solar panels is probably most likely to happen before December 31st of this year given the tax incentives. But I still think that we should look at revising this section so that it's um meeting the you know we should we should at least consider it. So whether everybody here disagrees and says no we like it the way it is at least I I feel like we should really look at this. So I wanted to bring that to everyone's attention.

Okay. So you want to adjust the language of the ordinance. I want to adjust the language of the ordinance and I want to add some language in there that would require at the very least that if they have trees that they, you know, or something that's blocking already that they not get rid of them. The tree and by I should be clear, your roof is up here. I'm not talking about trees that are going to be over the panels. The trees are further out, closer to the street, but because of, you know, perspective, they can help hide the the panels. So, I I do want to look at the language of that and and have us look at that. Um maybe it's not ores, maybe it's two out of four or so, you know, of something and we should be looking at, you know, a homeowner is, you know, going to keep landscaping that they have. There's nothing in there that would require that right now. Um so even if planning and zoning approves something because we are like, well, there's trees blocking it, there's nothing that says that a year later the homeowner or subsequent owner is not going to cut down those trees

in our new tree ordinance. Doesn't that take care of that or no? Well, the the tree ordinance um doesn't prevent people from taking down up to four or is it six

six trees in a year. So, it's possible that the six trees that they're entitled to take down on their own property would be trees that that screen the the neighboring property. I can speak to the history. Um some of you are newer than others. Um and and the the history was the original draft that came to council or went through the planning and zoning commission had the requirement that it be on the south uh the side of the house away from the street. Well, if you're on the north side of the street, the only way you're going to be able to have solar panels is on the south side of the of the building, which is what you do in northeastern Ohio to have solar panels. the the requirement was reduced significantly from the original draft to do exactly what you're talking about, which is basically eviscerate the requirement that the front of the house. Um, so if council wants to change its policy, you're you're entitled to do that. Um, my recommendation would be ultimately after you discuss it to vote on it if you want to change the policy to get more strict and then if you do want to do that, remand it to the planning planning and zoning commission to actually work on the language before it comes back to council. Um, but you know, it's it's up to council to determine whether or not the you want to change the policy because there's no question it's not required that you keep solar panels on the back of the house

and and and to raise the other side of the issue, you know, there are many I myself in general do believe um homeowners should be able to do what they want with their property. So it's it's finding a balance and I and I you know I've just raised that as sort of the other side but I think the concern you know again the concern was we are we need to look at this or say no we're happy with the way it is and we're not going to look at it but I said told planning and zoning members that I would bring this up. I do believe again when I looked at sort of the two recent cases, the one with the sort of the black roof and everything was matching, I I really felt like, oh, it's it's really not bad. I mean, that person really made every effort, you know, to to sort of, I think, be respectful of the neighbor's view, you know, view of it. But the other one, it was like, well, it's I mean, it really does really show quite a bit given the color of the roof and everything. And I I just thought, you know, so it is an issue. I don't know if you guys have any other questions about it. I'm happy to pass, you know, pass out the the language. Um but but I did say that we would, you know, I would bring this to to everybody's attention. So

I spoke with Kimberly about this last night at planning commission. Um,

having been the author of that particular legislation with uh, former Councilman Ken Alfred, the two of us wrote this in concert with um, consultants from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Uh, they helped us craft the language that made sense. Uh obviously it's important to be a for solar panels for photovoltaic systems to be functional that they need to at least face the sun in some in some form. Uh however having said that I have no objection to revisiting the language to find a better way to um install these systems in such a way where they are less intrusive as they can be on uh a streetf facing elevation. uh that may need some massage and some very careful thought as to what and how you do it so we don't reduce the effectiveness of the of the system and u so that's something we certainly can revisit as I said I'm familiar thoroughly familiar with the language of it and and how we got to where we got on this and uh willing to work with the team if you will if that if that's so desirable to push for a modification to the language, then we'll move forward on that.

If I could speak from the resilience committee standpoint, I would think I think that we would want solar panels be so ubiquitous ubiquitous that it it wouldn't seem unusual to have solar panels on your house whatever way your house is facing. I think it is a it is a benefit not just to the individuals but to the community to have solar panels on as many homes as we can. Yeah, I would I would tend to agree with that as well. I mean, just traveling to a lot of other places around the country, California, Arizona, uh you see you see solar panels are kind of all over the place. I'm

see a lot more sun there, too. Yes, you do. But I I'm curious here in the on like a planning and zoning, how how many of these kind of come across? Do you see a lot of them like requests to add these to houses? In my opinion, no. But it's just a few that we do see. And I think that um again, it was if they're on the back side of the house, it's not an issue. So this is really just talking about the front side. You don't have a choice depending on which way your house faces. Correct. And also the you need a certain number of panels to get the load that you you know given the size of your house. I mean, like it's the whole way that they figure that out.

Um, again, I think it's just trying to balance, you know, having a nicel looking neighborhood and and it's not that anybody on planning and zoning is against solar panels or against um, you know, energy efficiency and all of that. It's that we're trying to balance what the neighbors have to look at as well. And I think that um the way it's currently written, you know, there's there's not a lot that can be done to really keep a a neighbor from having to look at quite an unsightly what could be quite an unsightly view. Again, it's if it's not blending at all with the roof, if there's no landscaping at all, you know, it it it you know, it's again the on planning and zoning, we have lots of rules that are trying to balance the the two the interests of the land owner and what they want to do on their property versus the neighbors. There's this is certainly not I mean Steve will correct me if I'm misspeaking but there's we have lots of rules and regulations in Orange that are trying to maintain a a good looking community and at the same time you know let homeowners do pretty much what they want with their property but you know it's it's a balancing act. So I my suggestion is is that the language could be massaged a little bit to to borrow um Jud's wording. I'm not suggesting that it's going to get taken away. I don't think anybody in planning and zoning is suggesting that that right be taken away, but you know, it's there is a concern for what neighbors have to look at. Can

I suggest that um if we sh can we share that wording as it is right now and then revisit this next week? And also, can you share the the addresses of those houses? You just take a look and see. It won't be up yet. They were just applying for it. Yeah, they they Yeah, they the panels won't be up yet. Okay. I can share them but there's nothing to see. Well, do they have does Bob have images or something he could share with us of what they were around for everybody to take? I mean there's want a copy of it. I don't just to help understand what it

I mean the again just the the one I mean I can give you the addresses but the one is just the fact that it's a a very light colored roof and it's and it's not being it's not going to be blocked by anything and they're really going to see every you know really going to look at those panels. Um, and the other one, as I said, I think nobody really had an issue because the homeowner really, in my personal opinion, went to great lengths to make it all blend so that it wasn't an issue for their neighbors. Aesthetically speaking, aesthetically speaking, correct? You want to work with Jud andor Steve to maybe massage that language to Happy to do so. I just I think we have to have a

The recommendation would be does council want to change the policy and and I think the idea of looking at it I mean looking language we send out [clears throat] revisit the discussion next week and then that's fair. Sure. The policy choice you want. Okay. Once we have the policy choice, the planning commission mayor can work on the language. Okay. Can we do a red line version so we can see what it was versus what you thinking? Well, I think what he was saying was the first step is take a look at what it says now and then you have three outs essentially. uh where you don't have to comply with the [clears throat] put it on the back of the building or outs

four that out. Steve to be offensive looking to me, but uh I'd also like to know if there's any evidence that people do find them offensive looking. Um

well, I I mean I'll I'll look. I think that Generally speaking, the preferred place is the back of the house so that other people don't have to look at them. And obviously given the fact that some homes in which way they're facing, that's the whole purpose of why we have the legislation to begin with. That's the preferred route. So if a if a homeowner can put it on the back of a house, they don't, you know, we don't want them putting it on the front. That's what's built into the current legislation as it stands. Again, I'm not suggesting that anybody's against solar energy. It's just, you know, we're trying to balance the interests of all community members.

I understand that. I think but I think if we are putting any restrictions if we're putting restrictions on solar energy, then we are limiting solar energy. So I that we not restrict having it in the front of the house. I I I don't see the the issue. Well, let's we'll well, I'll take a look at the ordinance and we'll discuss it further next week. So, anything else, Kim?

Yes. Um, November 19th is Kowanis' uh monthly meeting at the Orange Senior Center at 7 p.m. And um a resident contacted me about putting in a little food pantry like we have a little li little free library. She would like us to have a little food pantry like a permanent one. I know that there are is a um a bin um right when you come in here collecting food right now for for residents who might need it. She's talking about something a little bit more permanent. I did raise to that resident my concern about who would maintain it sort of where would it go? Who would who would maintain it?

Again, I I fel I feel as a council member when somebody brings something to me, I need to bring it forward. My personal opinion is we also already have the Garfield um church pantry which I believe personally is effective but I just wanted to raise this because somebody brought this to me. I feel like this came up once. Stacy Jud, you remember? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I brought it up. You brought it up and the concern was um animals or maintaining it and who I I think I think we just said there's enough other options in the community that Yeah. Yeah. I have a thought, a suggestion after hearing all week long, you know, problems that are with people talking on the microphone, please.

Having access to a food pantry. And I think that if we um want to ask our residents to drop off food here, we might be able to say just drive it every, you know, once a week down to a food pantry that we that's close by and Garfield would be perfect if you ask me. So residents would become more aware that Garfield has a food pantry and residents who want to contribute have a place to do so conveniently or maybe they just drop it off right at the Garfield um instead of reinventing the wheel. Um

some there's some efforts underway right now in the community to do this and actually the questions that I got were when can we drop them off? like they were happy to drop it off here, but they didn't know what times and where are the boxes and could they get into village hall or did they have to was it an outside thing? So, that was the question that came up. And then um I we work with Garfield all the time and their food pantries. They should just take it straight to Garfield. You can do that too. Yeah. Encourage residents who want to be helpful just they already have a system now.

They do. My personal opinion is they do have a system. Their doors are unlocked a lot of hours. I mean, I'm not going to say it's 24 hours a day, but it's a lot of hours, far more than our than our doors are unlocked. And they have a system in place. They have a pantry. And I I mean, I've never heard that they're not serving the needs. So maybe we again I'm bringing this up because somebody brought this to me. I personally believe we already have something in our community. And I'm happy to continue supporting the Garfield, you know, pantry. But but again, I wanted to bring this up. If they bring some someone brings food here, what's the process to get it to Garfield? Because you don't wouldn't want to overwhelm our workers.

No, that's what I I would rather just tell people to we're not we're just literally down the street from Garfield. So to to have people bring it here and then we have to get it there to me seems a little silly. Like you said, they have a system in place. They've been doing it a long time. It's close by. I don't think there's any need to start up something different when I just want to ask, was something set up here or it wasn't set up here? Something is set up here right now because of tree pals. They're doing it. I can read about it. They're doing it due to the fact that the government shutdown. Government shutdown. It's not all the time, but they're doing I have to look it up. Pantry pals. Who's they? I will.

It's a community individuals and they set up a it's a page on on social media and you can you can click on the page and ask if you if you're in need or if you want to donate. But I just they didn't have times listed of where and when to drop off. So that was the question that a couple people were asking me is do they come here at a certain time to drop it off? Ironically, I suggested to all of them since I didn't know the answer to that. You could drop it off at Garfield. They have boxes out front daily. I mean, I will during this current government shutdown, there's this they have a box here. They have it at the other village halls as well. There is a sort of local effort, but my personal opinion is we're being superfluous. Garfield does a great job. Yes,

we all should be, in my opinion, donating at Garfield and just letting them handle it. But this particular resident was interested in having us have a little food pantry, you know, that you like the little libraries, that kind of thing. So, smart move with respect to that is there's a system in place that can serve the community best. Our best job is to promote it. Yes. on our both on our website and our e-news and newsletters to let people know that that's there. And if they really want to contribute, head down the street to Garfield and drop it off there. And and if you need a name and number at Garfield, I can connect you with that. I work with her regularly.

Okay. The lady asked if we could put the box there. I said that's fine. I didn't care. They're doing it for the month of November. It's called Pantry Pals. They have a I I don't know. They're going to bring it to Garfield. I guess is I I'm not suggesting that we should stop that for this one month, right? Just one month temporary, but I'm not suggesting that put in the news. The box there right now. It was filled yesterday. It's empty today. So clearly somebody came and got the stuff. You want to donate food? There's a box here in the entryway of Village Hall or you can take it to Garfield Church at Lander Circle. Either way, it's going to end up there because that's where they're taking it, I think. Yeah. Yeah, that's what they said. Yeah. Okay, great. Perfect.

We're only open 8 to 4. Have we had people uh reach out or contact the village at all during this time for this purpose? Not not I'm not talking about like uh organizations, but I'm talking about actual residents. Yeah. Families in need. Have we had people getting in touch? Nobody's contacted me. Just curious. Our orange cares program. I will say that many of the people in need in our community, their children, if they have children, their children go to the Orange Public Schools and there are social workers and they do tend to know the families that are in need and I'm fairly certain that the they schools does a very good job of reaching out to those families so that they know what is available.

I would hope so. There's also the Orange Area Service Committee which um does really generous donations for Thanksgiving for families in our community in need and they work through the social workers too and it's all very confidential. Um so if anybody's looking to donate um money instead or gift cards, food cards, uh Heinens's grocery cards, whatever um they could reach out to Orange Service Committee and we can put that number on our website too. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Last thing, um I just wanted to say I'm very appreciative of all of the support that the mayor has given behind the first calls program that I brought to Orange and that it's going to happen and it's in the budget for next year, which you guys will all see um when you look through the budget packet. It's actually not very expensive in my opinion. I think it's a great program and I think it's a I'm just really excited that we can roll this out to help our our residents and our employees because I think they'll all benefit from this. So that's it. All right. Thank you. Uh Stacy Vincent,

thank you. Uh first of all, a huge thank you to our officers and firefighters who assisted at trunk or treat. It was a wildly huge success and everybody was so excited. I think we had a couple little firemen and little policemen and police women and fire women coming up to take pictures with you guys, too. So, thank you for that. And thank you for uh patrolling the streets on Halloween. It was great to see your presence there uh throughout the neighborhood and the community as always. Um, I also want to thank Anna and staff for um, offering the glow sticks out um, to our kiddos. Once again, they're a huge hit. Um, and I also want to thank our officers for their quick deescalation of the serious situation on Miles Road recently. Um, I appreciate all the difficult work you all do. Um, I also want to thank all those who took the time to exercise their right to vote and also those who campaigned for office. I know well the time and effort it takes and I commend all those who did so, especially for a right in candidate. Congratulations on that work. I want to welcome aboard in January, Jim, and welcome back Lisa, Jeff, and Amanda. And I look forward to working with all of you in the years ahead as we share our passion for Orange Village and this wonderful community we serve. I am excited to announce our first Light Up Orange for the holidays event on Wednesday, December 10th. We hope you all will be there. We would love to introduce all of our council people that night. It'll be from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. It is the night of a council meeting and it's going to be right beforehand. We're planning to have musical groups from both our community and the schools featuring Orange Village's own notoriety singers. We will we're planning to have either hot cocoa or cider, maybe both. Uh and cookies in the Mohei Pavilion. And then we are doing a lighting of the gazebo and the tree in the gazebo. Thank you to our wonderful service department. Our plan is to make it a multicultural event to include Hanukkah, Quanza, and Christmas. And there may even be a visit from a special guest at the end. Sh. Uh, [snorts] please plan to come with your

children. Spread the word so we can make this a wonderful, hopefully annual event. I want to thank Michelle KD and the arts and culture committee as well as our mayor, Anna, the service department, the fire and police departments, and everybody involved for making this happen. We're looking forward to it. We hope you guys will all be there. It's just a matter of coming a little bit early to a council meeting. Uh speaking of arts and culture, we meet tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in the Woodell room. Please join us. All are welcome to join in the planning for this event. If you have any ideas, please let me know. Uh as well as the upcoming indoor artisan market on December 6th. Um I participated in the shop with a cop a couple of years ago. It was a wonderful ride along with with the chief and um to see the kids the light in their eyes when they got to shop and they got this wonderful gift card of $150. Um all of them were buying things for their family members and they were so excited to get something for somebody that they wouldn't otherwise be able to do. So please uh think about contributing, think about donating. Um and I want to thank Joyce Sherwood for coordinating Orange's efforts along with Anna for all of their help. Uh the school board met with the mayors a couple of weeks ago. The next schoolboard meeting is on Monday, November 10th. Congratulations to the Orange Tennis State Champion Team. Uh and all those Orange Village students who are invited to states for cross country as well. Um one final note, Orange High School has a veterans wall in which 52 names were just added including those of staff and alumni from Orange who have served. Uh this was spearheaded by alum and retired teacher John Sangdal. There is going to be a an inschool dedication on the 11th uh which is Veterans Day. But I want to take a moment to thank all of our veterans for their service and dedication and the sacrifices that they and their families have made to defend and protect all of us and wish everybody a happy Veterans Day. Thank you.

Thank you, Jeff Foster.

One, I want to say thank you everybody for uh participating in the democratic process. Um I always learn something when I go out and walk around the community. Um, Stacy, you were the first writing person I know and I know that takes a lot of work. So, I appreciate that. But even just the fact of going through the process and for me making sure that everybody puts the right address on your form when you're registering, [laughter] I can say that that, you know, it's a learning. It's you learn something, you know, that's why you do it. The fact that people don't put the right address is amazing to me. But anyway, it's a democratic process and we should all participate and enjoy it. Um, we still need a nominee for the veterans um website and for the so we can find out who's going to be the first one for the Orange Village uh veterans view. So that will be appropriate for day coming up. If anybody has anybody they would like to be highlighted, please let myself or Ned know and we'll try and get it in a flyer.

Can I nominate Bob Zugan? Be a resident. Does it have to be a resident or just but we can we're flexible for an employee at least for the first one but you know and then we'll go from there. All right. Anything else? Sir. All right. Thank you. Um I'll make a motion to adjourn to executive session. Um I ask uh Anna if you could put the full language of the motion in the minutes. I'd appreciate it. It's very long. Is there a second on that? I'll second that. Thank you. call on

Madden. [snorts] I'm sorry. Bilski, yes. Foster, yes. Silver, yes. Are we taking any action after this? Will we Okay. And you're inviting. Okay. Um