Council Meeting - Regular Meeting

It's 5:30. That means it's public improvements committee time. I am chairman Matt Reel, vice chairs Kelly Coffee. Other members of this committee are John Barinck and Mario Fioa. First up, the approval of minutes from February 12th, 2026. What is your pleasure? Move to approve. Second. Moved and seconded to approve. All those in favor, please signify by saying yes. Yes. No abstensions. Those minutes stand approved. We have a number of business items tonight. I believe all housed in engineering. So I will turn uh um I guess exc service director support. No, please don't. Thank you, Mr. Real. Um, you could have passed over me. I have no reports tonight, but happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much. That's what I thought. Any questions for the service director.

All right. Uh, item A, Mr. Jones. Thank you, Chairman Reel. Uh, the first item on the agenda is authorization to go out to bid for the Homewood Storm improvement project. Uh, happy to answer any questions. Questions for Mr. Jones. All right. Seeing none, I will entertain a motion to assign a number to this and move it forward to tonight's city council meeting. So move. Second. All those in favor, please signify by saying yes. Yes. No abstensions. That stand is approved. Mr. Jones. Thank you. Item B this uh this evening is to get authorization to go out to bid for the Echo Road storm project. Happy to answer your questions.

Questions uh for Mr. Jones on this. So Mr. Jones, this I remember when we looked at Echo Road, there was like four or five different pieces of that. So is this tied to a certain piece um of that overall project or uh yeah so this was one of the projects that we were able to perform without any uh downstream improvements. Uh so this is the one that's going to be uh kind of a it's a city of STO but we're tying into the Mineral Falls uh sewer. So they're city of Mineral Falls is allowing us to tie into their existing system but it doesn't cause any detrimental effects to their system or downstream. So we're able to make this improvement project without affecting the overall downstream which is the goal. Excellent. Mr. Fel,

thank you Mr. Real. Um, so Mr. Jones, I always keep all my stuff. So the Echo Road storm water we did in uh June of 25, right? We remember the study and we're good at studies and we need to do this, we need to do that. So um then we asked that same group to put it together for us. How much is it going to cost? Phase it out. We don't want to pay too much initially. So this has four phases to it, right? And I would assume you understand the document I'm looking at. Correct. Correct.

Um so the echo road localized storm sewer 157. That's one of these phases. Correct. Correct. And then we're going to get to the other three with the capital improvement budget yearly or how what's what's the plan to get them all done?

So, yeah, the Echo Road localized storm sewer was kind of one of those quick hit quick quick hit projects where uh we could get that one built. Uh the the other three out of those four are a little more difficult as there's some down major downstream improvements that are needed in in Menro Falls. Uh I did talk to um Mineral Falls and their consultant and they're kind of meeting with other consultants for one of those projects and to see if there's any grant opportunities because the project would be completely in Mineral Falls where they would have to widen some of the channel uh the downstream channel which would allow us to give us capacity to replace the storm sewer on Highwood. Um but they're they're actively meeting with consultants to see what kind of grant opportunities out there. Um, but we will continue to be in contact with them on on their the improvements that are needed in the city of Monro Falls to complete some of those bigger projects.

So, just a quick followup, Mr. Ro, please. So, of these four, I get we need Monro Falls's help. I'm not sure how much money they have. Um, but can we get any more of these four done besides the one we're going to vote on tonight? It would be very difficult to do any of the other three right now without some added capacity downstream. So I don't I think I think this project is one that we can complete that will help uh some some nearby residents for both Mineral Falls and the city of Stow um as well as not affect downstream. But we really need to kind of do those downstream improvements before we kind of hit some of those bigger projects.

I I would appreciate it if we really tried to get them all done at some point in time. I feel like um you know we we assess the problem, we know what the fixes are and we're starting which is great, but I hope we can certainly follow through with all the other things they're they're wanting us to and hopefully with Monro Falls's help. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. RIP. Further question. Seeing none, I will entertain a motion to assign a number to this city. Move. Second.

Thank you, Mr. Real. This last item on the agenda is for authorization to go out to bid for the Liberty Road water line and culver replacement project. U both these projects were on this year's capital. We decided to go out as one complete project uh that for one contractor to get both the water line and the Culver replacement um for this uh Liberty Road and and put it together to get a better price. be happy to answer any questions question second please signify

yes you're heading into March which means it is congressional project and congressional spending Each member of Congress is now 20 projects including House Congresswoman's website there's a list of 15 projects that she submitted last year on some other communities as well as Marine was a good federal tax dollar.

Uh Mr. Real, Angela, if you can kind of give an update of where what we're going with already on that.

Yeah. So, we are actually looking into that and and we were given some paperwork that had some tight deadlines for 2026 money, but what um we had a webinar a week ago. Um Linda Narstat and I sat in on that um and I brought law department up to speed on what we talked about. And so, what they're looking for from um Congresswoman Sykes's office is basically some abstracts on some projects. They are looking for things that are shovel ready. So, we've got some of that um going and there's about three different things. two are actual grants and one would be a revolving loan potentially in our water meter replacement repair program. Um so we will submit on the one side uh our safe routes to school but also um e Lillian Road and and parts of Echko that are are ready to be um uh we're actually going out to bid for those already. And then um Zach and I are going to look and potentially in combination with his ODNR uh take a look at doing another one that might be uh utilized at our our trail spur our trail head for the amp.

Excellent. Here um any further comments or questions before we close tonight's meeting? All right, seeing none, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move to adjurnn. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor, please signify by saying yes. No absentions. This meeting is adjourned.

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Okay. I would like to call to order the Roads and Safety Committee meeting of February 26, 2026 at 5:45 p.m. Will the clerk please call the role here? Young here. Yoka here. Barneck here. Next item in the agenda is do I have a motion to approve the roads and safety minutes of January 22, 2026? So moved. Second.

Moved and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying yes. Yes. Opposed. Those minutes are approved. City officials reports. Police Chief Prusha.

Good evening. Thank you. I have just a couple of things uh to highlight in terms of actions of the police department. Um this this week uh we had a Door Dash driver who left their vehicle running on Sunday and the vehicle was subsequently stolen. Uh the following day, one of our officers uh located it with the flock system and he began a short pursuit that very quickly got on to Route 8. Um exited at Second Street. Uh the driver took the turn a little bit too quick there and uh left the roadway, hit a traffic sign um and uh disabled the car. He got out, he ran, uh he was caught and he was arrested. Um it was a juvenile uh driver from our city unfortunately. Um but we were uh very pleased with the flock system and the actions of our police officers and the assistance of Ka Falls PD uh as well. So we have that to highlight. Uh, additionally, um, as you know, Echo Hills had a a small fire in the boiler room and our, uh, police department was very instrumental in helping getting the kids evacuated. And in fact, because of the weather, approached the Living Vine Church there, Caddy Corner, and arranged for the kids to um to be evacuated someplace where it was warmer. And that ended up being a good place for parents to get their kids as well. So real grateful for uh the shift yesterday that was able to help with the the kids getting evacuated there. So that's all I have to report.

Thank you, Chief. Great job with the flock camera. Another great example, right, of a uh investment that we made that's helping our city to be safer. So absolutely uh questions or comments for Chief Prusau. Seeing none, Fire Chief Stone.

Thank you, Mr. Feldman. I would like to piggyback on the Echo Hill response yesterday. We were very pleased with uh the the evacuation of the students. And when our fire captain got on scene, he was asked the principal, "Are you doing a drill?" Because the kids were so orderly and and leaving so, you know, so abruptly. Uh she said, "No, this is real." He said, "Okay." And he said he was very impressed. So it it surprised him how well that evacuation went and the police officers were there helping out and it was a very good response. And uh obviously the school had to shut down for the remainder of the day for uh due to the small fire that was contained to the boiler room. Uh we also are in the process right now of accepting a couple bids for uh some training that we've re uh are going to be doing later on this year. We recently received a FEMA grant for uh tens of thousands of dollars. I don't remember the actual dollar amount. I want to say around $75,000 for training the entire fire department on technical rescue operations, be rope rescue and and that type of training, repelling, tying knots and and so on. And uh so that training is expensive because all of our training because of the busyiness of the department, we have to do it off duty. So FEMA fortunately a lot of times will also pay for the overtime. They'll help supplement that and that's important to us. So we have uh two classes we'll be doing later on this year that we're in the process of. I just received a bid from him them a couple days ago that we're looking at. So that's up and coming and we're excited about that. And then finally, as you know, we've had a number of fires in our community lately and they're all unrelated in the source and the type of fire and what caused them, but we do want to remind the public that uh having smoke detectors is important. And we do have a smoke detector installation program that is kind of picking up pace right now. Uh and uh so we have uh these are free. You can get three smoke detectors for every uh residence in Stow. We do not replace hardwired detectors that are already there. We can only add uh 10ear battery detectors to your residents, but we will do that to anybody. It's through the Red Cross that

supplies the detectors. That is no cost to us, no cost to the residents. And we uh want to remind people that that's available. We're going to throw a social media push out this weekend and uh people will contact firefighter Mel uh for that program that she started a few years ago. Be happy to answer any questions. Thanks, Chief. We got a I got a resident in Ward two that has some problems with their So what do I say to that resident on their smoke alarms? Reach out to us. So is it firefighter Mel?

Mel. Firefighter Mel is in charge of that program and she coordinates it and she is flawless. She does a very good job coordinating that and uh going out and getting them installed and uh she gets them installed. There's a questionnaire and she also leaves literature with them for some safety uh tips. So send the resident to the website, look for firefighter Mel, send a message. Yep. Okay. Questions or comments for Chief Stone? Yes, Mr. Back.

Just a quick question, Chief. I happen to be watching the news. I think it was this morning. uh Worcester Township, they I think they have a pumper truck that now is automated after they hook all the hoses up and everything that there's a system called SAM that's hoo hooked into the truck and it actually regulates the pumping and everything out, you know, out of the truck regulates all the different lines that go out and they can, you know, turn the pressure down, put it up, whatever. But it's all automated. are you familiar with? Yeah, we have it. Okay, that's all I wanted. That's good.

Thanks, Chief. Anybody else questions or comments for Chief Stone? Seeing none, city engineer, Mr. Jones. Thank you, Mr. Filman. I think between the two uh committee meetings today, but between Jim and I, we have enough to report on. So, nothing new. Be happy to answer any questions. Questions for Mr. Jones? Seeing none, on to consideration of business items. Resolution 2026-070. I believe that is you, transportation engineer, Mr. McCclary.

Thank you, Mr. Feldman. Uh, the first item is um um authorizing the mayor to uh sign a LPA, local public agency project agreement with um ODOT and accepting grant funds in the amount of 3.6 $6 million for a roundabout Fish Creek Road and Stow Road.

Thank you, Mr. McCclary. I love it. We're finally getting the roundabout way, right after many of these other cities. Kent, Green, many of them have them. And uh I I'm glad that we're getting this. And I'm more thankful for you. If you're a new city councilman and you haven't seen Ask Mr. McClary for a spreadsheet. He can show you how many grants that he has gotten the city of Stowe. I counted him up, Mr. McCclary, on just roads and safety agenda today. $5.7 million. So, thank you for doing that. That is huge um for us and um we appreciate your work and for your many years. I hope Mr. Jones, you're understanding and learning how to do all that, correct?

Yes, Jim's a great mentor. Thank you. Great. Great. Any questions for Yes, Mrs. Young. Um, being new to this, it you apply for the grant and get approval, then what is the timeline as far as actually, you know, starting the project? Uh the roundabout um the rightway purchases could go as early as 2028 and the actual construction would be 2030 for the roundabout. Okay. Thank you. Do I have a motion to to move resolution 2026-070 onto tonight's council agenda? Move. Seconded.

Moved and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying yes. Yes. Opposed. that will appear on tonight's council agenda. Item B, resolution 2026-071. Mr. McCclary.

Thank you, Mr. Feldman. Uh, this um resolution also authorizes the mayor to sign an LPA agreement for um the Fish Creek Road phase 2 resurfacing project. Um, two years ago we received Fish Creek Road phase 1 and Fish Creek Road phase 1 has already been designed. It will be bid out in 2028 and construction will be 2029. Phase two will follow that being bid out in 2030 and construction in 2031. Happy to answer any questions.

Once again, Mr. McCclary, great job. And uh, these are public knowledge, right? we can tell the uh tell the public what's going to happen here because these are obviously very outstanding and large improvements. Correct. Great questions for Mr. McCclary on resolution 071. Seeing none, do I have a motion to move resolution 2026-071 onto tonight's council agenda? So move second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying yes. Yes. Opposed. that will appear on tonight's council agenda. Item C, resolution 2026-072, transportation engineer, Mr. McCclary.

Thank you, Mr. Feldman. This is authorization for the mayor to enter in a project agreement with ODOT, accepting grant funds for the Graham Road connectivity project. This would be uh installing sidewalks and shared use path from basically Stow Oregon Corners or Sus Drive to Liberty Road and that would provide connectivity on the north side of the road. Happy to answer any questions.

Questions for Mr. McCclary? I can say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This is um great stuff, Mr. McCclary. and we are whenever you say sidewalks and it's paid for and we're doing it uh it it makes my day. So, thank you. Questions for Mr. McCclar? Seeing none, do I have a motion to move resolution 2026-072 onto tonight's council agenda? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying yes. Yes. Opposed.

That will appear on tonight's council agenda. And once again, Mr. McCclary, thank you. $5.78 million on those three resolutions. And I know Mr. Mayor, you enjoy signing those those grant funds, right? All right. Item D, resolution 2026-074. Mr. Jones.

Thank you, Mr. Feldman. Uh, this resolution is authorizing the mayor to uh submit applications through ODOT for the safe routes to school program. Uh we are going to be doing two separate applications. One is going to be including the first three projects that you see in the memo. Rose Avenue, Lynwood, and Fish Creek. Uh the second application will be for Graham Road and Kent Road. uh both Graham Road and Cat Road uh connections were also recommended in the connectivity study and uh we we separated them because there's a little more rightaway needed or there is rightaway needed on Graham Road and Count Road and not the other three uh which will take a little more time. So, we decided to break those out, but uh we're going to make applications for uh two separate projects. Be happy to answer any questions.

So, Mr. Jones, we're applying for 1 uh 5 million and we're only eligible for 1 million. Is that correct? Well, that was or is it the opposite of that? We are eligible for 1 million, but because we're separating the two separate, we might not get both applications. So, uh projects one and one, two, and three will be one application. Projects four and five will be another application. Um so, both both applications will be under that million. Um so, we'll be eligible for, you know, to get, you know, all million for each application

and we hope to get them both. Right. We've had a couple conversations about our safe routes to school and the plan and the study that we did once again and uh hopefully following through on some uh recommendations from the study. So, questions for Mr. Jones. Seeing none, do I have a motion to move resolution 2026-74 onto tonight's council agenda? So, moved. Second. Second.

Moved and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying yes. Yes. Opposed. That will appear on tonight's council agenda. Uh Chief Prush and Chief Stone, I I don't think you've reported to council your annual report, correct? Um can we work with Mrs. Matram? Um I know the mayor's state of the city is March 12th. I'd love to have you each take a turn on the roads and safety agenda of April 9th and April 23rd. if you're ready is we're not ready for so we've got a ways to go. Oh, okay.

Yeah, I would say that that April is a more like uh realistic, but even then sometimes it doesn't quite get at least totally finished by then. So, we we do rely a lot on uh data and numbers and um even some uh FBI numbers uh in order to finish our data. Um, so it probably won't be done by then. Well, I I I guess the reason I brought it up today is um there was an article on some that that summarized the the headline was what kind of year did police have in 2025? So, I'm thinking, well, maybe it's done, right?

That could just be u our social media posts where we put out some preliminary numbers. I think it was more of the local newsletters. Okay. It was very surfacy, but it did make it onto our social media that may have garnered some attention.

Yeah. And you know, as we wear these uh um we're going to bring up all of these different they had it cate categorized in traffic safety, service calls, officer safety, and criminal enforcement. So, I think it was one of those local newsletters. So, I was thinking maybe we're done. where did they get it? But yeah, if we could just make sure we um we get a date and I'm I'm not trying to rush anybody. Let's just make sure we get it on an agenda when it's ready. So, I think it's important information that we look through. We just had the parks and wreck one and it was outstanding. So, yeah, I'm happy to share that information when we have it. I would love to.

Yep. Chief, you're good. You'll let us know a date. Absolutely. We're in the same boat. We have the numbers. We have the data. We just got to put it together. Right now, it makes sense to us, but to the general public, it won't. Okay. And I want a hard copy. So, we don't typically do that, but we can send it by via email and maybe do emails. Maybe the mayor will be able to print a few. All right. Thank you both. Um, now comes the time of the meeting where public comment. Seeing none, we'll move on to adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying yes. Yes.

We stand adjourned. the finance committee for uh this evening and have the clerk call roll. Baronac here. Feldman here.

Herman here. Young here. Okay. Okay, I'd like to move on to approval of the minutes for uh finance committee. I'm sorry, we did not have anything ready. Okay, no minutes. Okay, we'll move on to the finance director's report. Mr. Topphen, he's not here. Okay, never mind. This is real.

Nothing major to report. Uh tax season's starting to have a little bit of an uptick in in uh crowd coming in, so we're going to we're going to be seeing more of that soon. Um, and then basically I am just like kind of combing through the budget again to make sure nothing was missed in the upload when things got put sent over and to make sure we're just all square on salary stuff. So if there's any questions, let me know. Any questions for the finance director or finance department?

We're underway with our acter and gathering things for um Julian and Groo start our acter and I anticipate the auditors will be calling any day now too. One question that I have, of course, I was watching the news again and they were doing a uh report on the House bill, I think House Bill down in Columbus regarding uh local tax collections.

Mhm. Yeah. So, right now, the one that's down there um for local tax collection is basically to make a voter approval um process for the municipalities to do um reciprocity credit reductions or repeals. So for instance, the city of Stow gives 100% reciprocity to your residents. Anybody who works um outside of Stow but lives in Stowe does not then owe Stow more money. If we wanted to say uh we need to generate more revenue and we need to drop that less than 100% or we want to get rid of it altogether, which most cities don't really usually eliminate reciprocity. Um then they're trying to push uh to have that be voter approved if you were going to do that. Thank you.

Yeah. Any questions for the FI uh finance director and finance partner? Seeing none, move on the agenda. Uh first item is um is for the attorney general's collection. See, it's a contract with the attorney general's office for doing tax collections. I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions? Mr. Felman. Thank you, Mr. Back. Real quick, um I read through the contract. I didn't see how much they're making. It said applicable collection costs or fees. So, what are we paying them?

They take 10% off the top, but it's added on to the taxpayers's debt. So, if we certify $100 for taxpayer, they'll collect 110. City of Stow will get the hundred that's owed to the city of Stow. AGO will get their 10%. Great. Thank you. Thanks, Mr. May. Just to clarify, these are our collections $500 and under. Anything over that does go to Keith Weiner and Associates. Thank you. Is that any other questions on this? Hearing none. Do I have a motion to move this on to council? So moved. Second. Move and seconded. All those in favor? Yes. Yes. Against? Absentions. That gets moved on to council. Mr. Cowen.

Thank you, Mr. Bernick. Uh this ordinance is for a new tiff district for that new development on Kent Road for the uh where Chick-fil-A Sheets and the two retail buildings would be constructed. This is our typical 30-year TIF uh which will allow us to capture that increase in property um investment of about 4.5.4 million over 30 years. So happy to take any questions. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Cohen? Just the just the question of do we uh have an updated timeline when we expect the Chick-fil-A to come in. I actually got asked about it again today. I said it's in Chick-fil-A's court, but I just didn't know if you knew anything.

Uh not a concrete timeline right now. As as far as I know, they're putting in dirt. They need a lot of dirt over there. So, that's what they've been working on. Okay. Thanks. Y Thank you. Any other questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion to move this on the council agenda? So move. Second. Move and seconded. All those in favor? Yes. Against abstensions that gets moved on to council agender. Mr. Brooker, you have the next two.

Thank you, Mr. Baron. The first one is for Drew Zeppelin Sexton. This is for our our GIS service um for the water department this year. This will help us complete uh three projects that are due for the EPA. Those being the lead and copper rule, the service line inventory, and the asset management. uh as well as any other work he does for us to help um put all of our infrastructure, waterline infrastructure on our GIS. Happy to answer any other questions. Any question for Mr. Brooker? I have a question, please. Um is this a new vendor or have we used them in the past? Um because No, we've been using him for the last couple years. He's

Okay, so we we've had the GIS services. I just was used to seeing on some of those other memos previous expenses. Yeah. I know it's uh he does that's his name. The uh business is actually called mapped out. Okay. But it's asking for 47,000. So I was just wondering what the previous couple years were on the menu. I don't know if I I do not have that with me. Okay. Any other questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion move this on the council agenda? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor? Yes. Against? Abstension. That gets moved on to council. Mr. Brooker.

Thank you, Mr. Baron. The next one is for um corn main. It is for the water department again to buy a correlator. Uh correlator basically is a tool that does three things for us. It's a line locator, um electric acoustic listening device, and also it um again like it's called a correlator. Basically what that does is when we have a small water mane leak that we can't find rather than start digging up a bunch of holes throughout the city um we can hook between two valves and you can actually listen and it'll give you a distance between the valves where the leak is. We have um haven't done this in the past because of the cost. The cost has been extremely high. The last few years they've come down and they're actually the point where we can afford them and it's cheaper than contracting out. We've spent a lot of money in the past years. Anytime we had uh some type of a leak that we can't find, we have to call a professional service in and you know, we could be talking thousands of dollars per visit. So, doing this in-house, um having the equipment, our personnel can do it. It saves us time, saves us lost water revenue as well as the extra we can save on digging the hole over the brake instead of potholeing down the road and trying to find it. Happy to answer any other questions. Any questions for Mr. Brooker? Mr. Felman.

Thank you, Mr. Brooker. So, with 98 water mane breaks last year, this is going to save us some money. Correct. We would hope so. A lot of them, the problem is too, you'll see is a lot of times a water mane will break, but it doesn't always surface where the brake is. It'll follow something in the road. It'll follow uh an existing trench and it'll surface somewhere else. So, it's a lot of times it's a guessing game. This will take the guess out of it. being familiar with one at Stoman Monroe Falls High School. The leak looked like it was way far away from where the break was. That is correct. Yep. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bernard. Any other questions? M.

Um, yes. I appreciate this. I think this is going to be really great for the city. I'm all about prevention. Um, so do you have a list or can you provide a list of things that would be proactive that you would want to um have projects based on this equipment that we could then authorize to rather than waiting for the breaks to happen?

Unfortunately, uh, water lines, you really can't when when they break is when they break. Um, you really it's not going to find anything unless it's a small leak and most time a small leak usually doesn't surface. So, um, we it helps if we see like a the driest time of the year and we see a little bit of water on the road, the water department will be able to go out and correlate between valves to see if it is actually a water man break. And there's been many over the years we've dug up and they're not even brakes. They just end up being a natural spring or somebody's, you know, some pump line that was running where it didn't belong or so. This will help to offset that also. Okay. I guess I um at the last meeting, Mr. Mr. Felman had asked for pictures and we did get the pictures from um Mr. Smith.

Yeah. And uh I was kind of disgusted by the pictures of the pipes and how badly they were at those. So So um I was just again looking at prevention. Is there a a project priority list of the oldest pipes that we can Yeah, a lot a lot of that goes through engineering. Uh Jerry does a wonderful job with prevention. he's he knows which all the you know he's pretty much has the whole city mapped out and what needs to be replaced and and the time frame. So um we will you know both departments the engineering and water department work hand inand on these very well. Okay.

Um so Jerry Jerry has a a very a really good list of what needs to be done in the future and Jeff Smith and he work together very well. Okay. Great. Thank you. Any other questions? Uh seeing none, do I have a motion to move this on the council agenda? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor? Yes. Against? Absention that gets move on the council agenda. Chief Puscha.

Uh thank you. This next ordinance um is for authorization that we um are able to purchase uh four vehicles from Montro Ford. Um, that's three uh 2026 Dodge Durango and one 2026 uh Ford Explorer. Um, so two of those are going to be uh patrol vehicles and then two are uh administrative vehicles. One is a new chief's car, one is a new car for a detective. Um, as I'm told, the chief's car is rusting out um because otherwise it doesn't have really as many miles as what we would normally uh do. Um, so this was in our 2026 capital budget. Uh, we did come about $20,000 under uh what we originally projected. Um, but this this was uh part of our uh budget for for this year. And I'm happy to answer any questions.

Any question for Chief Crucial? Seeing none, do I have a motion to move this on the council? So moved. Second. Move and seconded. All those in favor? Yes. Against abstensions that gets moved on the council agenda this evening.

And our last but not least, finance. All right. 2026-073 is simply a uh request to authorize that we transfer funds between the capital account back into operating. They will go into the IT department's operating account for supplemental services. And the reason for that is that we had budgeted uh $25,000 on the police side and 30,000 on our side for servers and storage network. And the cost of memory has gone up substantially. Um so our IT director too has um looked into cloud-based storage and with that we are able to have a cost savings but it's now going to go from a capital purchase of an actual server or actual servers to subscriptionbased. Uh so that now becomes an operating cost. So those funds would be moved into the IT department and we will probably come in under the total of $55,000 for the year but we're going to go ahead and just move it all over there in case there's ancillary costs to it.

Thank you. Any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion to move this on the council? So moved. Second. Move and seconded. All those in favor? Yes. Against abstensions. That gets moved on to council agenda. Um I don't believe we're going to have any public comment this evening. Uh so do I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. Second.

Seconded. All those in favor? Yes. Against extensions. We are adjourned. I think three minutes. I call to order the Stow City Council Committee of the Whole for February 26, 2026. Will the clerk please call the role?

Young here. Barack here. Vioa here. Herman here. Felman here. Real present. coffee here. Uh we don't have minutes to approve tonight. Uh but before the law director's report, we're going to do the mayor's report.

Thank you, Mr. Herman. Um as we move into March, uh we've got a lot of great things going. First of all, I invite you all at 11:00. I see you're all wearing orange this uh evening, and I appreciate that. Uh we will have a uh group photo with our um employees at 11 o'clock uh this Monday here at city hall. So if you're able to attend and wear your orange, we would certainly appreciate that. And of course that is the whole month of March. Um also too, uh what kicks off in the month uh month of March is our women and arts. This will be our fifth year. Uh it's a great way to where our artists uh actually be able to display their things and also uh promote our businesses in which they display. So you can go online and you can see where the women and arts are going to be displayed. So that's kicks right off here in uh March. Also uh also too in March we kick off our first environmental commission meeting and that will be March 11th um at 6:30. So that's an exciting thing. Uh another exciting thing is this coming Wednesday we have our elite business awards in conjunction with the Stone Falls Chamber of Commerce. Uh I can tell you um as you would much expect uh the mayor's award is going to uh the sockoffs who are the developers of uh the area where the amphitheater is and they are very excited. So, if you're able to attend, it uh is on Wednesday, uh March 4th, and the awards will actually start at 7, but doors open at 6, and it will be at the center here in Stow. Also, too, uh has been open, Dairy Queen has been open, but they're going to do their official

ribbon cutting uh on March 5th, that's this coming Thursday at 10 o'clock. So, if you'd like to stop by and check it out, uh they've really done some great improvements and I know you'll be pleasantly surprised at how great it looks. So, they're all ready for the summer season. With that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions for the mayor?

Uh seeing none, we'll go to the law director's report. Mr. Kylie, I don't think it's fair that I get to have to follow uh Mayor Pbonic, but uh no, believe it or not, we're actually at the end uh coming to the end of the first quarter. So, uh at the next council meeting, um I would request that we schedule an executive session for the first uh update on litigation for the members of council. Other than that, um nothing to report, but happy to answer any questions. Any questions for law director? Okay. Uh seeing none, we'll move on to consideration of business items. Uh first is a motion to appoint Steven Beagstad to the urban forestry commission.

So move. Second. Uh any discussion? Uh Mrs. C. Just a question. The previous um person who was on the committee, did they was it the end of their term or There was actually uh two. We had a vacancy and gosh, the name slips me now. Uh that we moved from urban forestry Kyle to environmental. Yes. Yeah. Um Andy Bouty. Andy. Okay. So that would be Yeah.

Yeah. So he's what is going to be great uh with this and they've already talks amongst themselves of working together both urban forestry and environmental commission even though they will retain their separate status I think there's some good work that can be done with that but that will fill one of those spots. Thank you. Any further discussion? Uh seeing none uh I make a motion to appoint Steve Bagstab to the Urban Forestry Commission. Second. All in favor? Yes. Uh, that motion passes.

Uh, next we have a motion to appoint Tom Clinger to the Urban Forestry Commission. Uh, any discussion? Uh, I make a motion to appoint Tom Clinger to the Urban Forestry Commission to fill the vacancy for the term 226 to 1223. Second. All in favor? Yes. That motion passes.

Next, uh, we have a, uh, discussion item. uh council received a petition from uh I believe it was signed by 10 uh residents uh asking uh trying to bring this up on this uh the screen so that see it um does not seem to be cooperating uh but the petition uh essentially was asking for the city to continue to enforce uh quality of life policing methods such as for vandalism, littering, loitering, vagrancy, public's intoxication, other quality of life violations. And so I thought since this was to the whole council, it would be more efficient to just have a brief conversation about it and confirm that uh we are doing that. and uh to ask uh our our chief uh of of police if she would like to comment on this.

Of course. Um I think it's great that these uh um uh citizens brought this forward and said this was a concern. I I have never heard of such a movement. I'm not familiar uh with it as I know I've discussed with a with a couple of council members. Um and so we certainly enforce quality of life issues. We have zero plans, have had zero discussions in diminishing this. Uh even if there was something put out um pushing for that, I think we would push back because we think that these are important things uh to enforce. Additionally, even even one of the um one of the ordinances or one of the uh concerns that they had um that law is actually a a felony. So certainly no minor thing and a lot of these are substantial like above a minor misdemeanor. Um and so we are happy to enforce these for quality of life issues. We firmly believe that it's important.

Thank you, Chief Puscha. Uh any other discussion from council, Mr. Feldman? Yeah, Chief, I know I met with you as soon as I read this because I didn't quite understand it. We do it anyway. We do anyway. Yeah. I mean, this is what we do and stuff.

Yeah. You know, one of the ones that they uh listed, loitering, uh part of that ordinance actually includes or part of that law actually includes the um systematic checking of like doors or door handles on cars. I mean, that's that's pretty substantial. That can lead um to uncovering very um large crimes. And so, it's certainly no small thing. So, I'm and I'm not sure where they got their list from, but vandalism is a felony. So again, I I think the spirit of it is we want to make sure that we're uh enforcing these smaller laws, but I don't think that some of these are small. So just to follow up, Mr. M Mr. President, um so you're pretty new chief, and I probably I would assume haven't had time to set your vision, short, midterm, long, whatever it may be. But community policing, what we're talking about here is going to be an important part of that. uh resume.

Yeah, I I think so too, which is why I appreciate that they even took the time to write the letter because I I do have plans to try to interact with the community um more. You know, I'm scheduled um next month uh to talk at the community center and just do a like meet the new chief um and and just, you know, talk about if people have questions like this, I'm happy to do that. Great idea. Thank you, Chief. Thank you, Mr. Turmy. Thank you. Any other discussion?

Okay. Uh thank you very much. Uh so we'll move on to the next uh discuss discussion item on uh defending uh constitutional home authority of cities and this is an issue uh that we had discussed during the the previous council but which uh other cities are becoming more active on trying to defend our home authority. So I uh just wanted us to be able to have a brief conversation about the extent to which we want our council to be involved uh with that. I I know that uh we are members of the Ohio Municipal League and uh several of us have already gone to are planning to go to trainings with the league which really emphasizes the importance of home roll authority. uh which I I think that even though most citizens don't really understand, I think it's important that we understand our roles on council and and the importance of home role authority and uh the se separation of powers that we have and and the importance of that. Uh and so I had uh shared a a link attached uh with this discussion item uh that is the Ohio Municipal League's uh summary of home roll authority and the importance and I I didn't want to like blab the point uh but I did want us to be able to discuss how our city could potentially be impacted uh because uh one of those powers of local self-government is municipal police powers. And that is important for community policing because our local police build these important relationships of trust in our community so that our citizens

know that they can trust our police at the local level. And uh when I was sitting through charter review uh commission, we had a discussion uh Mr. I believe that uh you kind of summarized the this situation how our mayor is the de facto public safety director and is essentially the commanderin-chief for the city. And so our police uh answer to our local elected officials and not to the state or federal government which uh it has you know become a problem in history when uh state and federal governments have tried to control local police. And so this is a sort of uh tension with uh attempts by the state house to preempt home rule and take police out of the hands of our local government uh in ways that are unfairly politicizing our police department. And I wanted to be clear that our city is not picking that fight. other cities are trying to defend against it and educate the public and so I was hoping that we would be able to have a uh brief conversation about that. Uh and also uh our Summit County Councilman Dr. Dr. David Lott is here and I would like to invite him to participate in this discussion because I know that it's something that is being discussed at the county level because Summit County is also uh it's one it's one of two charter counties in the state of Ohio and I know

that uh our our sheriff and uh other county officials have uh been trying to navigate this situation as as well. And uh sorry I can't put it up on on the screen, but uh just to sort of like emphasize the importance of home role, the preamble for the charter of the city of Stowe is uh one sentence. It says, "We the people of Stowe in the county of Summit and the state of Ohio, in order to secure for ourselves the benefits of municipal home rule and to exercise all the powers of local self-government under the Constitution and laws of Ohio do hereby adopt this charter for our municipality which was adopted in 1958." And uh so I understand that from some perspectives that this you know seems like a conversation about you know abstract values of what democracy should be but uh and I you know I I don't want to to to cause tension. I want to just recognize that a tension exists between us trying to focus on local issues here in our community while also trying to be mindful uh that we have a responsibility as stewards of our charter to ensure that we defend our local autonomy. And so when I see other cities like Akran for example passing resolutions objecting to legislation in the state house that tries to take our local police powers away from our city and put it in the hands of the state and federal government. Um I you know I don't I

don't know if our council would want to stand in solidarity with other cities that are asking the state house to not violate our constitutional home authority. Uh but I wanted to at least have that discussion. Um would anyone else like to weigh in? Mrs. Young.

Um I I have the OML training a week from Saturday. So, I haven't been through it yet, but of all the reading that I've been doing on on it, um I would be in favor of that. Um they say all politics is local and we certainly have to abide by and we all swore an oath to uphold, you know, the the constitution or the charter of Stow Constitution of Ohio and and the United States. So um I think that we want to keep home roll and our control on the things that we have the ability to do that. Um I don't think we want, you know, the the big government breathing down on us telling us how to how to run, you know, different different aspects of it. So I would be in support of it.

Thank you, Mrs. Young. Anyone else? Uh Mr. Would you like to speak to this issue? Uh David Lat 2946 Crown Point Drive here in Stow. It's nice to see many of you. Uh I was almost confused as to which which topic you wanted me to speak on tonight because they're related. And by the way, just as an aside, Chief knows this. There's research on uh quality of life policing, otherwise known as broken windows policing. Uh could this devolve into zero tolerance policing and uh there there's there's positive and negative aspects to both of that. But if you're interested in the research on that, uh I have two hats. You know, one of my hats I'm a policing scholar. I do the research on that. I'm not operational. I'm not a police officer. I was a crime analyst. I'm a poling researcher that teaches courses in that. So, you want to dive deeper, but I think uh I think Mr. Feldman and the chief put their finger right on it. It's about community poling which relates to the other topic because community pleasing at its heart is about partnering with the community and developing the priorities. What are the priorities in your community? Uh and so I I wouldn't really rest I would encourage the individuals that send in the letter not to rest on the strategy necessarily of quality of life policing or broken windows policing or remains poling, how whatever you want to call it. Community policing, problem order policing is probably a more appropriate strategy because it is all about home rule. Because if you're doing community policing, if you're doing problem policing, you are defining priorities uh that are emerging from the community. You're partnering with your community members and you're anchored in the community. You're you're not going to be beholden to another layer of government. Um you're not going to get out of your scope and authority. Uh because every layer of policing has its own scope and authority. It has its own mission. Okay?

And at the local level, that mission is to serve your community. Uh, I think that doing that with the least amount of force possible is a good idea. Uh, so I would disagree at some parts of the the quality of life police scene if it's going to be to arrest everybody and I think the chief would probably agree with that as well. I don't want to put words in her mouth that we don't want to arrest everybody. If you can warn somebody, you can cite them, you know, uh, because that doesn't make a community that you want to live in. And when that broke down, it was in New York City, zero tolerance policing when they tried to have 100% enforcement. They gave everybody tickets and they pushed all the homeless off the streets. We saw use of force incidents go up. We saw complaints go up. We saw relationships with the community go down. And so at the heart of it, it is establishing relationships with the community and understand the priorities in your community. U and so that that is the heart of home rule. The idea that you know best, you know, Stow best. Uh I do a lot of research with multiple police departments at all levels. Uh I was research partner for the US attorney's office for 15 years. Uh and worked with federal law enforcement, state and local. Uh and I know for a fact and we've had communications that when federal law enforcement came in, for example, to Akran and try to share information and tell the Akran Police Department about their own jurisdiction, the Akran Police Officer would say, "You know what? I mean, we we know our jurisdiction better than anyone." Okay? The Sto Police Officers know their jurisdiction better than anyone, you know, and they know the people in here and they're building relationships. So, uh, it comes down to community policing, uh, and not over enforcement. Um, and so certainly we don't want other agencies to come into Stowe, not partner with our local agency, uh, particularly if they're not accountable because I, you know, I had a great relationship with with obviously Chief Film and we know that we have a high level of professionalism in our police department here in St. uh, and they're going to be evidence-based and they engage in constitutional policing. They're going to violate the constitution. Why would we want to invite people in or

participate with other levels of government that aren't going to do that? Now, I would also be careful about poking that bear because we don't have that issue in STO. Okay? And and you know, um it is politicized and if you do attract attention to it, um we have people that in other labels of government that might be vindictive and bring that attention to us. Uh and I think we're doing very well. Um you know, have posit we send students to the the Stow Police Department. You know, I've worked with the Stow Police Department. They're super professional. They know what they're doing. Um, so again, just as I'm taking up too much time here, but it's about community policing. It's about partnering. As long as you stay anchored to community and probleming, um, home rule is going to guide you. Okay? Pay attention to the constitution. Be accountable. Be transparent. Uh, and, uh, it's unfortunate that other layers of government are engaging in poling. That's not constitutional. That's not accountable. That's not transparent. because unfortunately although we have 19,000 policing organizations in the United States that are very different uh people tend to paint policing with the same brush. So if something happens in another part or another another agency um it reflects poorly unfortunately on police officers in Stow even though they have nothing to do with it even though they're super professional and they have wonderful relationships with their community. Um and so we have to be aware of that. I mean, you know, there is an argument for standing up and saying, uh, hey, listen, we see what's happening in other branches of government, other parts of the United States, and we're not that, and we're going to stand up. I I will say I'll put my other my my county council hat on. We did send a letter to our senators, uh, and and say that listen, one, um, we don't want any detention centers to be built in Summit County, okay? And two, we don't want what happened in Minnesota to happen here in Ohio, okay? We think it's inappropriate, okay? It wasn't constitutional. Excessive force was used. There's no accountability there. Uh we're proud of our law enforcement, our sheriff's office at the county level. I'm proud of the STO falls police departments, you

know, and and various other police departments around here. And it's a black eye on what they do, okay, when we have to deal with unconstitutional policing that's not accountable at another level. Uh it's the antithesis of community policing, have people wear masks and bully protesters and do things of that nature. But we don't see that around here now, do we? So, you know, you have to weigh how much of a stand do you want to take on this because you don't want to bring things to our community that aren't already there. I mean, that that's that now that's now that's my personal opinion had, I guess. So, thank you for indulging me. I took a lot of time. I think I went well beyond three minutes.

No, no, thank you for coming. And I also should have mentioned for the record that Dr. LOD in addition to being our county councilman is chair of the University of Akran's criminal justice department and has extensive experience working with and and training uh local law enforcement. So So thank you. Uh do we have any questions for Dr. Lott? Councilman Lott. Good. I'm charging $20. Okay. Thank you for coming back to council. Thank nice to see everybody. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for indul. Uh any other discussion on this topic? Oh yes, Mrs. Reve,

I would like to point out that while home rule um public safety is obviously a large area where we would be concerned and see it, home rule also affects the areas of taxation and finance a lot. Um and so that is another place where in the last several years um you know the state government has tried to impose uh uniform tax codes trying to get a little bit in you know in the mix of municipal income taxes um and county budgets being able to reduce local levies. So it's not um you know it's important to protect home rule across the board um safety and and otherwise for us to be able to run our government the way we see that is important to us and beneficial to our residents.

Thank you. Mrs. Rey, and yes, uh we've had uh those similar conversations in previous terms about how the state has been increasingly uh cutting local government funds while also pushing unfunded mandates on cities. and uh even now is moving forward with uh legislation to take away all local government funds from cities that exercise constitutional powers of local self-government in various ways. Uh, and so even if we don't uh poke the bear, which I agree we we don't want to do that, I do think it's something that we should at least be uh mindful of and and uh educate our community so that they know that they can trust our local government, they can trust our police uh and that we are looking out for them at the local level regardless of what's happening at other levels. So thank you. Uh any other discussion? Okay. Uh, seeing none, we're now in our public comment period, but I don't believe we'll see any further uh, public comment. And since we do have about Oh, sorry. Yes. Uh, Mr. Tick,

just want to let the residents and council know that the income tax division has selected the extended hours for the year. On Saturday, April 11th, we'll be open 8 to noon. And Tuesday the 14th, and Wednesday the 15th will be open till 600, both days. Thank you very much. Uh and uh yeah uh before we adjourn since we have a little time uh I would like to invite uh the council to do a group photo after we adjourn since we are all wearing orange uh in for uh celebration of uh inclusion day coming up on Monday for uh the Summit County uh developmental disabilities board. and uh they have events going on throughout the month of March on their website, but uh events that are starting this Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Uh you and your family can go to the Akran Zoo for free if you wear orange uh in celebration of inclusion. Uh so, thank you all for uh joining this uh spirit day. I always felt like we had a strong sense of community back at Stonewater Falls High School when we would have our spirit days and I think it's a good way to show unity and community. So, uh, thank you all for participating and I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn.

Move to adjourn. Second. Uh, we all in favor? Yes. Uh, we are journed.

I call to order the Stow City Council meeting of February 26, 2026. Will the clerk please call the role? Young here, Baronette here, here. Herman here, Bel here. Real present. Coffee

here. To lead tonight's prayer and pledge of allegiance, we recognize Councilwoman at large, Kim Young. Uh, could we please bow our heads? As we begin this meeting, let's pause and reflect. May we be guided by integrity, humility, and respect. May our deliberations be thoughtful, our dialogues civil, and our decisions shaped by fairness and concern for the common good. May we honor the dignity of every person in our community, care for the place we share, and work together to promote peace, safety, and opportunity for all. With gratitude for the responsibility entrusted to us, we commit ourselves to serve with clarity, cooperation, and purpose. Thank you. Amen.

Amen. 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. Uh so uh no proclamations or commendations for tonight. So, we'll do the approval of minutes first from uh our council meeting on February 12th, 2026. Do we have a motion to approve the minutes as circulated? Move to approve. Second.

All in favor? Yes. Those minutes are approved. Next, we have the minutes from the February 12th public hearing. Do we have a motion? Motion to approve February 12th public hearing minutes. Second. All in favor? Yes.

Yes. Those minutes are approved. Now we have our public comment period. If anyone wishes to speak to council tonight, please raise your hand. Seeing none, uh we've already done the mayor's report during committee to the whole. So, uh is there any old business to discuss? Seeing none, is there any new business? Seeing none, uh we will move on to our disposition of ordinances and resolutions. Beginning with uh first reading for uh item A. Uh will the clerk please read ordinance 2026-62 by its title? 2026-62, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to make an enter into a professional service contract with the Ohio Attorney General Collection Enforcement Division for purposes of providing outside legal services as council for delinquent income tax collection and declaring emergency.

I move to suspend the rules. Second. Second. All in favor? The rules are suspended. Move to approve. Second. Second. Uh, we have a motion to and a second to approve. Any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the role? Young, yes. Baron, yes. Bioca, yes. Herman, yes. Belman, yes. Real, yes. Coffee, yes.

That ordinance passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item B by its title? 2026-63 an ordinance declaring the improvement to certain parcels in the city to be public purpose for exempt exemp and exempt from taxation pursuant to OC 5709.40B 4 OB providing for the collection and deposit of service payments and specifying the purposes for which those service payments may be expended expanded and authorizing school and library compensation payments and declare an emergency. Move to suspend the rules. Second. All in favor? Yes. Yes. The rules are suspended. Move to adopt.

Second. Any discussion? Real quick, Mr. Herman. Um, these continue to pop up on the agenda and Mr. Riley and Mr. Rio when we started this, I mean, these dollars are going to go directly to infrastructure improvements. So, every time I see one, I get excited and uh, thank council and really you guys for initiating um, and we're going to continue. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Feldman. Uh, anyone else? Uh, will the clerk please call the role? Young. Yes. Baron, yes. Yes. Herman, yes. Belman, yes. Rio, yes. Coffee, yes.

That ordinance passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item C by its title? 2026-64, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract with Drew Zeppelin Ston DBA, map out GIS Services LLC, a professional service provider for GIS professional services for use by the water department without the necessity of public bids and declare an emergency. Move to suspend the rule. Second. All in favor? Yes. The rules are suspended. Move to adopt. Second. Any discussion? Will the clerk please call the role?

Young, yes. Barack, yes. Vioa, yes. Herman, yes. Felman, yes. Rio, yes. Coffee, yes. That ordinance passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item D by its title? 2026-65, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to make an end to a contract with core and main LP for leak detection and line location equipment and declare an emergency. Move to suspend the rules. Second. All in favor? Yes. The rules are suspended. Move to approve. Second. Uh, any discussion? Will the clerk please call the role? Young, yes. Barack, yes. Yes. Herman, yes. Bellman, yes. Real, yes.

Coffee, yes. That ordinance passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item E by its title. Ordinance 2026-66, an ordinance authorizing the mayor to make an entro Ford for the purchase of three 2026 Dodge Durango pursuance and one 2026 Ford Explorer and Scepter for use by the police department without the necessity of public bids and declare an emergency. I move to suspend rules. Second. All in favor? Yes. Yes. The rules are suspended. Move to adopt. Second. Any discussion, Mr. Feldman? Real quick, uh, Mr. Brooker, you're in charge of the fleet, right?

Yes, sir. Um, resale value on these, the old Excuse me. I apologize. Whatever we're getting rid of.

So, we'll do like we've done in the past with the police department cars once they're done with them and they get everything out of them. Um, we thoroughly go through the cars, we clean them, we look at them. Um, normally their cars depend on what they were used for. Uh if we get any old detective cars or um cars that might have been used by like the K9 officers who usually take care of their cars a little better because there not as many people in the seat. Um those cars go to city hall and they get used here until they're really worn down and from there they go to the leaf pickup program. By the time we're done with them with the leaf pickup program, they're done. And that's when they either go to scrap or they go to the auction. Um we have fared pretty well the last few years. We'll still get a couple thousand dollars out of a car, but by the time they get over there, they've they've seen their years.

Thank you, Mr. Booker. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Feldman and Mr. Booker. Uh, any other discussion? Will the clerk please call the role? Young, yes. Barack, yes. Yes. Herman, yes. Felman, yes. Rio, yes. Coffee, yes. That ordinance passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules.

Will the clerk please read item F by its title? 2026-67, an ordinance authorizing the director of public service to advertise and solicit bids on behalf of the city of Stowe for the Homewood Storm improvement project authorizing and adopting plans and specifications prepared for the city of Stowe. Therefore, and authorizing the mayor to make an entrance to contracts and related documents said services so long as proper authorization is first obtained in accordance with section 173.05 05 COS and declare an emergency. I move to suspend the rules. Second. All in favor? The rules are suspended. Move to adopt. Second.

Any discussion? Will the clerk please call the role?

Young. Yes. Barack. Yes. Yes. Herman. Yes. Bellman. Yes. Rio. Yes. Coffee. Yes. That ordinance passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item G by its title? 2026-63 or 68, excuse me, an ordinance authorizing the director of public service to advertise the solicit bids on behalf of the city of Stow for the Echo Roadstorm improvement project and authorizing and adopting plans and specifications prepared for the city of Stow. Therefore, and authorizing the mayor to make and enter into contracts and related documents for said services so long as proper authorization is first obtained in coordinance with section 173.05 COS and declaring emergency. I move to suspend the rules.

Second. All in favor? Yes. The rules are suspended. Move to adopt. Second. Any discussion? Will the clerk please call the role?

Young. Yes. Barack. Yes. Yoka. Yes. Herman. Yes. Belman. Yes. Real. Yes. Coffee. Yes. That ordinance passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item G by its title. 2026-69. An ordinance authorizing the director of public service to advertise and solicit bids on behalf of the city of Stow for the Liberty Road waterline and Culbert replacement project authorizing and adopting plans and specifications prepared for the city of Stow. Therefore, and authorizing the mayor to make an enter into contracts and related documents for said services, so long as proper authorization is first obtained in accordance with section 17305 COS and declared emergency. I move to suspend the rule.

Second. All in favor? Yes. The rules are suspended. Move to adopt. Second. Any discussion? Will the clerk please call the role? Young, yes. Barack, yes. Herman, yes. Belman, yes. Rio, yes. Coffee, yes.

That ordinance passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item I by its title? 2026-70, an resolution authorizing the mayor to of the city of Stowe to sign the LA LPA federal local le project agreement accepting grant funds for the Fish Creek Stow road roundabout project and declaring an emergency. I move to suspend the rules. Second. Second. All in favor? Yes. Yes. The rules are suspended. I move to adopt. Any discussion? Mr. Felder. Congratulations, Mr. McCclary. This is great stuff. All three of them. Well, I'm not going to stop us on the next two, but congratulations. Yes. Thank you.

Uh, any more discussion? Will the clerk please call the role? Young, yes. Barack, yes. Bioca, yes. Herman, yes. Belman, yes. Real, yes. Coffee, yes. That resolution passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item J by its title? 2026-71, a resolution authorizing the mayor of the city of Stowe to sign the LPA federal local lead project agreement accepting grant funds for the Fish Creek phase 2 project and declare an emergency. I move to suspend rules. Second. All in favor? Yes. The rules are suspended. Move to adopt. Second.

Any discussion? Will the clerk please call the role? Young, yes. Barack, yes. Bioca, yes. Herman, yes. Felman, yes. Rio, yes. Coffee, yes. That resolution passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item K by its title. 2026-72, a resolution authorizing the mayor of the city of Stow to sign the LPA federal local project agreement accepting grant funds for Graham Road connectivity project and declare an emergency. I move to suspend the rules. Second. All in favor? Yes. The rules are suspended.

Move to adopt. Second. Any discussion? Will the clerk please call the role? Young, yes. Barack, yes. Bioca, yes. Herman, yes. Bman, yes. Young or Rio, yes. Coffee, yes. That resolution passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item L by its title? 20 2026-73 an ordinance authorizing the transfer of funds between the capital improvements fund and general fund for declare and declaring emergency. I move to suspend rules. Second. All in favor? Yes. Yes. The rules are suspended. Move to adopt.

Second. Any discussion? Will the clerk please call the role?

Young. Yes. Baron. Yes. Yoka. Yes. Herman. Yes. Yes. Felman, yes. Real, yes. Coffee, yes. That ordinance passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Will the clerk please read item M by its title? 2026-74, a resolution authorizing the mayor of the city of Stow to file an application with the Ohio Department of Transportation to receive SAFE funds to school program SRTs funds in declaring an emergency. I move to suspend the rule. Second. All in favor? Yes. The rules are suspended. Move to adopt. Second. Any discussion? Will the clerk please call a role?

Young, yes. Barack, yes. Yes. Herman, yes. Felman, yes. Rio, yes. Coffee, yes. That resolution passes and will take effect in accordance with the rules. Next up, we have our bill of listing approval. I make a motion to pay the bills. All in favor? Yes.

The bills shall be paid. uh scheduling of standing committees or uh general council announcements, any upcoming items uh that you want to think about or consider for committees or any events that you want to flag that are coming up uh or anything else for the good of the cause. Seeing none, thank you all for a very efficient meeting uh in solidarity with our uh spirit day supporting uh inclusion month and uh passing all of this legislation to approve all these massive really helpful significant grantdriven infrastructure projects. So thank you all for a good night and I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn.

Move to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? Yes, we are adjourned. Out of my way.

Yeah. When is that? It's not for two weeks, right? Yeah. Yeah.