City Council - Regular Meeting

the uh Twinsburg caucus meeting for October 14th to order. The time is now 7 o'clock. Shannon, call the role. Mr. Mr. Post here. Mr. Vel here. Mr. Fury here. Mr. Bonacci here. Mrs. Walker present. Mrs. Lavy here. Mr. Bar here. All right. Excellent. Um, do you have any presentations this evening? Okay. So, next is uh items for discussion. Does anybody have anything you want to bring up? Not at this time. This meeting? No. Nothing.

All right. Next, that brings us to audience participation. Before we get to audience participation, I just want to say a few things. First of all, welcome everybody. Beautiful night outside. Love that you came to join us. Um, so a few things. When you speak, just want to remind everybody. Uh, some people might be speaking that have never spoken before. When you do speak, remember you have five minutes. after four minutes and Miss Collins will tell you you have one minute left. And when you come to the mic, I want you to uh remember that you need to say your name and where you live. Say your address, please. Okay. Uh and before we get to that, uh I just want to say a couple things. I know that Excuse me. Is my mic not up?

You know what it it usually it I appreciate you telling me that. Thank you. It's Is that better? Ah, I say I I'm I'm a high school teacher. I can go to teacher voice. I could do the teacher voice if you need me to. Is that you guys can hear me now? Did Did everyone hear what I said before? Just not Well,

all right. Perfect. Thank you. All right. So, I just want to say a couple things. First of all, I know that a lot of you are here um to talk about data centers. Uh we know that and so here's what I could tell you before you all come up here. Uh we understand that it's a hot topic right now and we've had a lot of uh correspondence uh with residents this week. We've had a lot of correspondence uh with each other. I've had long conversations with the mayor and with the law director this week. And here's what I'm going to start off by saying. Uh we are not going to make any decision this evening. Um so I know a lot of you think that we are here tonight. We are going to be voting on it one way or another. Uh we are not. And let me explain why. Um there's a lot to this decision and so we don't want to go ahead and make a decision um too quickly without researching it completely. Um and we know that um we've had a lot of residents con uh express concerns to myself and my colleagues up here and and we are listening to you and we know that this is a concern for you and so we do not want to go ahead and move forward on something until we know all of the facts. That said, um I know it's been brought up, you know, it needs to go to the vote of the people. It needs to go to the vote of the people. Um so I just want to clarify what does and what does not. Okay. Um I had a long extensive conversation, so I just want to bring that up real quick. Um whether I need to or not, I think it's just a good idea to so everyone's on the same page. You know, we did spend a long time on this um on this rewrite of the zone of the zoning code. And it was well done. There was a lot of input from everybody and it was really well done. But as we know when we did it, it's a work in progress. Okay, we knew that it's a living document. There might be some changes and as time changes, there will be changes needed to it. For example, a data center or data, however you want to pronounce it, uh a data center. Um it's not in there currently because, you

know, it's new to the world and so we have to make changes. That said, anytime there's something that is an equivalent use, equivalent use meaning you're not going to be changing restrictions or whatnot, um council can um you know, consider something and make a vote on their own on an equivalent use. Now, that said, the legislation that is up here currently is all equivalent use. Uh we have there there's nothing up here that is anything other than that. Now that said, there has been conversation at the last council meeting. There has been conversations about maybe we should slow down and look at this and maybe we should put some restrictions on this knowing that there is a lot to it. So we are going to be sending it back to planning first uh because we want planning commission to um look at it more specifically as to what is the specific use, what is meant by you know what restrictions are there. I know Mr. Bonacci uh mentioned last time that maybe we should look into solar panels or you know closed circuit for the water and all that and I thought those were excellent suggestions and anything like that where we do it if there is changes that would have to go to the vote of the people and we understand that but the legislation in front of us right now does not have any of that and that's why we are going to pass on it this evening and we're going to send it back to planning and we're going to discuss it more to make sure we do it the right way. Okay, that's all I want to say before we have our our comments. Okay, so we've heard you, we're listening and we want to work together to do it the right way. Okay, with that said, please call the first person.

M, is there anything you want to add or change this? I would like you to add that mayor. The mayor has Okay, there is um just Is your mic on? Because I can't hear. Yeah, my mic's on.

All right, maybe a little closer. There is there has been no application from anybody to come here and uh start a data center in the city of Twinsburg. All that was asked by the property owner was to be able to put that into the zoning for his property so he could possibly market it to somebody with uh that's a that would like to start a data center. But I think there's some confusion that we've been approached by no one to, you know, for there's been no applications made, no permit applications. They're not coming to any of the the meetings because there is no one out there yet. Okay? Not saying that there never will be, but I think I just wanted to clear that up and just make that perfectly clear to everybody that the only thing this was is the property owner approached and asked if we could make it in if it could be a similar use so he could possibly market it to, you know, th those folks that do that. So, that's all I wanted to say about that. I just wanted to make sure everybody's clear on that.

I appreciate that. Mr. Mr. Rosanna, did uh I say anything uh incorrectly? I just want I I'm pretty sure I I said it correctly. I just want to make sure if I did everything great. No need to say anything. I just want to you know Yeah, I think we're good. Yeah, I think I think we Yeah, we'll move on to audience comment at this point. Perfect. Thank you. So, with that said, um you you're welcome to uh still speak. I look forward to hearing what you have to say. Um but we are listening. That's all I want to say. He's called first.

First, we have Norah Sudter Riley. Good evening. Thank you. Good evening. Um, Nora Sudter Riley, 1771, Lockwood Oval. Thank you for those comments, Mr. Post. Thank you, Mayor Scapiti. Um, that that made me feel better. Oh, I appreciate that. Um, I am a former high school science teacher here at Twinsburg. I'm a resident for 20 years. I'm a longtime environmentalist. I live across the street from the proposed site where um this data center idea is to be uh uh thought about. Um and I I'm made me very nervous to say the least. I am very aware of how environmental disasters start and how they may end. And I am glad we are pumping the brakes and thinking this through. I appreciate that. Um, you know, and I I apologize for coming late to the game. You know, we don't have newspaper anymore. We don't have investigative reporters. And you know, you heard hear about this stuff through the grapevine and uh you got to get on your toes because no one's doing that work for you when we don't have a local newspaper. Um I hope we can have long conversations and think clearly about this topic. I am very nervous about any data center going in in the middle of a residential place. Um, I have done a little research. I've seen the aftermath of such things and it is not good for

anyone living in the vicinity of that uh type of facility. You know, it's noisy. It's an energy grab. It's a resource grab and doesn't even get you a bunch of jobs like and and I don't think there's a lot of benefit for the schools. like I don't see a lot of good in such a thing. So, um, thank you for slowing down and putting the brakes on. I appreciate that. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Casey Kirtley.

Hi, I'm Casey Kurtley, 1830 Parker Lane, Twinsburg. Um, also kind of came to this late, just heard about it very recently. didn't really know a whole lot about it. Just started researching a little bit. Um, this would also be in my backyard, Parker Lane, kind of runs Dutton, runs basically perpendicular to Parker. Um, so I drove down to the end of Dutton, and was really shocked at even how long Dutton is now. And I I think if I understand right, it would be kind of towards the end of Dutton is where you would be looking. Um, if from what I've watched and what I've what I've learned in my very short amount of time researching this, if this were stuck in the middle of nowhere in Twinsburg, and I don't know where that is, um, there would be concerns with just drains on resources um, alone. But from what I saw, anywhere near a neighborhood, hundreds of yards from homes, there are major major concerns. And obviously um being kind of in my backyard, it's a huge concern um for me. So very concerned about that. Um hoping that everyone will really look into this and make sure that um those worst case scenarios would never happen here.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Sam. So the only thing I'm going to say, I'm not going to address your comment personally. Um but one of the conversations we've had, I know there's lots of variables to this. One of our conversations and our bullet points are um distance with respect to residential homes. You know, we have a right to say if we want it, we can or cannot have a certain minimum distance. And so that's one of that is a conversation we've had. So I don't want you to think that we haven't talked about that. That is absolutely a very high bullet point. Absolutely. You know, if it even happens. So all right. Thank you.

Next we have Lorie Facina. Good evening.

And I I want to let the audience know that when we were here in September, this was ready to be voted on. And if we had not shown up, I'm guessing that it would have been voted through. So, I appreciate the comments that have been made from the dis, but now you're going to hear from me. It's quite a shame that a 96-year-old taxpaying city uh citizen of the city of Twinsburg should have to bear the burden once again of challenging wrongheaded decisions by this body politic. Yet, our active citizen, Sally Gados, has a current case pending against this city. Why? Because this city has been found wrong in so many cases before, always on the grounds of abuse of power. And it just doesn't seem to dampen the spirit to do wrong and not follow your obligations to us, the taxpaying citizens. And let's remember, immunity of office does not extend to actions, you know, are invol violation of our charter and our zoning code. Time and time again, the courts six times have ruled that the city of Twinsburg has violated section 7A. And you can call it like you. You can say that it is your opinion that it doesn't need to go to the vote of the people. I urge every one of you on council to read 7A.01 in our charter. Six times. Several judges have said you did not interpret it correctly and we are interpreted incorrectly and you are wrong. Let us revisit just one of those many lawsuits that were won against the city. CV1104962, page 7. Quote, "Any actions affecting a change in zoning use or classification must follow 71

of Twinsburg's charter. 7A1 supersedes any ambiguities you have inserted into this new code. 71 is the authoritative or legislative superlative answer. We, your con constituents, hold that power in the absolute. No amount of irrelevant like use or your go-to favorite use of the term housekeeping will save you in a court of law. I urge you to put down your pens. 71 protects us from the monstrous incursion of hyper data centers. And let's talk about what it's going to be. It's going to be hyper data centers. It is not in our code. the one you spent all those months and all that money on recreating. And that is where it should remain outside of our protective bubble. No amount of so-called guard rails can protect us. If you insert the words data center where they don't belong, you've opened Pandora's box. What will it take to finally have our elected officials and our law director govern within our home rule charter? What will it take? Sally's case will be a seventh ruling of abuse of power. I have no doubt that that's how that's going to end. And I'm wondering, do I need to file an eighth case on this matter? I do hope I do hope you take a long time in looking at all of this. And I have the planner's notes and it shows two attorneys from out of state coming in and asking for this like use. So don't tell me that it's just so you can market it. We've been here too many times before. Those of us who have been around know the lay of the land. Resolution 85 and 86 are grand examples of overreach. We are protected from

outside interest from any business coming in. And especially this, we've never begrudged you having any other industries in this town. This is where it stops. We cannot allow these data centers in our town. The provisions contained not only in 701 but in another durable document available American Legal. I'm referring to ordinance 52-1979 still on the books. Section 2A prior to the effective date of such enactment will not res will not relieve any person that's you guys on council from punishment for an act violated committed in violation of such legislative provision nor to affect any indictment or prosecution thereof. Do the right thing. Abandon this. No AI data centers in Twinsburg. Period. Thank you. Next we have Lawrence Gist.

Sorry. Thank you.

Hello, Lawrence. Just 2219 Meadowwood Boulevard. Uh there's a couple of things as you said. It's going back to planning. There's some things that I think you should definitely include specifically for them to look at. Number one, water reclamation. You should be stip stipulating that 95% or greater use of the water should be reclaimed. It's going to be used largely for cooling. So the reclamation is just like cooling towers and filters. That's about it. Otherwise, they just dump it down the drain. And that's they use voluous amounts of water. From a current standpoint, high draws of current generate our our electricity is at 60 cycles per second, 60 hertz, and it makes a sound that it's a low frequency sound. It the walls of the structure, and I'm speaking as I have a career in sound and vibration analysis. The walls of the structure act as a resonator or a speaker and physically radiate that sound out. And if it's close to a house dwelling, the walls of the house will also act as a speaker for the people inside. So the limit of sound from like use, I'm sure that in it's not like used to say you can make any kind of noise you want when you put an institution of any type in. And I think that that's a a huge factor in addition to the fact they should really look at the amount of energy that they are going to be using. It's very high. Also, it's going to employ employ. So, if it should come to it, I think abatement should not be considered. You're not getting any real income from it. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, sir. Thank you. Next, we have Susan Za.

Hi there. I'm Suza. I live on 2598 Maple Drive up on the square. Um, I'm here because I heard about this a few weeks ago and trying to discern whether it's rumor, it's fact, they're going to vote on it, it's not really happening, whatever. my so I delved into it a little bit and speaking to the gentleman that was just up here, the water consumption for an average AI data center is 300,000 gallons a day. That's equal to 10,000 homes a day. The electric usage on the power grid is massive. it. Speaking from someone whose power has gone out multiple times this past summer for a minute or 15 minutes or whatever, we would have to, I'm assuming, grow the power grid. Um, other communities that are fighting what has already been built or what's going to be built are doing this to protect the fact that their bills are going to skyrocket. the water runoff. A lot of the water isn't reclaimed that they use. It evaporates. What is runoff will tax our water department because it will deposit things that are not common to our our so I'm assuming the water department would have to have upgrades also. And so I am glad to hear that it's not a solidified thing, but in such a small community, I think we could have a better use. And my one question is, I don't know if I can ask a question, but is this homeowner that owns the land, is he able to sell it to an AI data

center or does it have to be approved by someone to do that? It would have to be an approved use or a similar use that that would have to go through a process with the city. You want to do this? Okay. That that would have to go through the city process planning u I know I've heard that things have been built in Twinsburg and some people say, "Well, don't complain about it. The guy owned the land and it was zoned that way so he could sell it to the guy that built the loop stop or whatever next door."

The question on the on 85 was to put a data center as a permitted or as a a similar use uh as a uh um warehouse basically. Yeah. So that there would be a conditional use so that we would have the city would have total control over but that's off the table now starting from scratch. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Richard Papa.

Good evening. Thank you, David, for grounding us because I originally had come here with a whole list of questions and you just threw it right out the window. So, thank you for doing the work. Don't forget to say your names.

Yeah, thank you. Uh, Richard Papa, 1727 Maple Grove Drive. I've lived in Twinsburg for 25 years. Uh, one of the strengths of our community has been the balance of the residential needs verse the community and the the commercial aspect of our community. Many of you, I can look at your faces and know you were here when Chrysler left. We've recovered. we've built business. So, there's a balance between the community and what the residents desire from a community and the business needs of our the financial needs of our community. So, um had I I do have a question. Has a feasibility study been done by the city? We're not there.

Okay. No, that's fine. No, again, that was my background of not understanding where we're at. I spent about eight years traveling the world building testing testing labs for a company in the greater Cleveland area and planning for something like this is dramatic. Um some of the comments that came out are very true. Just give you some data points. Um an average data center uses 5 megawatts of data or uh for a community. That is about a thousand homes on an annual basis. I'm sure First Energy is going to kind of crinkle when they hear that. They're we're not prepared to handle that. uh capacity of water 100,000 homes or three 300,000 gallons on average a year. This is a huge burden to our community as you all can hear. So, thank you for stepping up and saying we need to pause. We need to hit the brakes under the equivalent use case. I think you can all hear that this is not an equivalent use case. So, by the number of people that are in hearing the complaints and um I think it's time we pump the brakes and say, "Listen, let's stop. Let's do an evaluation and a study to say, is this good for our community." Now, you may look at your code and your zoning rules and say, "Well, we could we still have the right to approve it as a city council." In the interest of transparency in the number of people in this room, I would highly suggest you stop and put it to a vote for the people. So, thank you and I appreciate your time. Thank you. [Applause]

Next we have uh Steve Zenzac.

Um Steve Senzac, 3194 Evans Way, Twinsburg. Um I'll apologize if I stutter at all when I'm up here. Um a lot of people have already made these comments. Um I'm pleased to hear that this is being paused. Um, but due to the extensive potential impacts, I don't see how anyone can make a rational argument. This is equivalent use. This is not a warehouse. I mean, that argument was made in planning commission. The the applicant stated it's just like a warehouse for servers. Sure, if they stayed in the boxes on shelves in pallet racks, it would be a warehouse. That's not what's going on. The reason we have power needs and water consumption needs is because they are running 24/7 every day of the year. The number of employees you're going to get, they site 20 25. A handful of people need to be on site. The rest of them could be in India or China in five years or two years and there could be almost no income to the community. Okay, it's significant. Um there's another project for example Triton I believe it is in another city in Ohio. They're going through and fighting this battle. To give you an idea of the scope all of this the power generation was going to be done on site. Originally they were going to bring in the petroleum to power the generators on train until they found they had a liquid gas pipeline they could tap into. All of the water was going to be recycled. So closed loop system. So that those those considerations show this isn't equivalent use. You you would have no idea to think about those things. If you're talking about a warehouse or a dental office or a tavern or any of those things, the scope goes way beyond anything in our zoning code right now. And it's probably beyond anything we have expertise on our planning commission or on the board or maybe even in the community to consider, especially on short notice. The only number I saw

cited in the planning commission was the applicant said something like 200,000 square foot, which is about four and a half acres, which would fit on the property this applicant's talking about because it's about 25 acres of land. 200 megawws is the number he cited of power usage. That's the capacity. That's 100,000 homes. We have 7,900 residences or households in Twinsburg according to the census. So about 8,000 houses and or apartment units. That's a tenth of the power consumption this one site could potentially need. So you can say, well, it's in an IM zone. It's not going to affect residents. How's the power going to get there? What's the impact going to be on our residential rates? You know, they're going to have to build power lines. They're it's going to have to come from somewhere. So this is not equivalent use by any stretch of the imagination. It's a whole new ball ball game, basically. And once you open that door and they bring high fiber in to support one data center, do you think it will stop with one? Do you really want our entire IM center, that entire zoning to turn into 50 data centers in 10 years? Is that what we want our city to be? It really requires a lot of consideration because this is not equivalent use. So, thank you for your time. Thank you for putting a pause on all of this.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] And last we have Lynn Clark.

Good evening. Lynn Clark, Old Mill Road. Perhaps you recall. Uh couple of things as we're embarking on this investigation. What is the operational definition? Too often this body and many others around the world throw out terms like data center etc. and it's not defined. It doesn't say here's how much water it's going to use, here's how much power, here's all of those details that can be translated into what is the impact positive or negative on our community. I highly recommend performing a failure modes effects analysis. This was developed by NASA because they didn't know what they were going to encounter. This is to help you understand what could possibly go wrong. What's the likelihood that it might go wrong? in what kind of mechanism is in place that we can detect a pending failure before it blows up in our face and the people in the whole community don't have any power, they don't have water, whatever those adverse consequences might happen to be. Considering the magnitude of these and the impact that they've had on many other communities, regardless of anything else, I highly recommend it be given to the vote of the people. Let everybody in the community voice their opinion loud and clear. So once it's defined what this beast is, the community can decide yay or nay. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. Excellent. Good to see you. That's all we have this evening. appreciate that. If you could if you could uh just state your name.

My name is Jimmy Davis. I'm in 9155 Chamberlain. Um how I view this, a like use is not a legal term. It's a strategy used to bring forth projects on stream that are unbeknownst to the citizenship. Okay, we've all at this point in time identified envir potential environmental effects. Okay, that's um significant and beyond anything we can create or imagine at this point in time. environmental reviews how it impacts this project needs to be assessed you know like I I initially myself okay I wasn't aware of all these environmental impacts I wasn't okay I've been educated okay but if that is true then this definitely definitely is something that is not equivalent and when you do when you do the feasibility study okay these variables ought to be weighed and quantified and dollarized and that's all I have to say about that it's all been said but I need to to to say that okay we need to at least look at the feasibility studies determine what those variables are and then qualify.

Thank you. Thank you for your time.

So I just want to say thank you all for your comments. Um the only thing I'm going to say to that is we're listening. We hear you and we're listening and we understand your concerns. Uh we've had a lot of residents talk to us and we hear you. That's all I'm going to say. Okay. So, thank you very much. Um, that moves us on to pending uh legislation. All right. Resolution 74205. This resolution is to enter into a contract with the environmental design group to provide professional services for streetscape design guidelines. This will be on its final reading tonight. Uh, this being asked to be on an emergency to enter the agreement to start the project as soon as possible. Um do you want to add anything or are you good or

Sure I will. Um no I asked to um to pass on this last few meetings uh because we had u some um project going with EDG that um we needed some clarification on. Um and so before we got into another contract with them on a on a separate and but different project um I wanted to make sure that we were clear and all on the same page. uh we had that meeting and uh we're back on track and so I have no problem with council going forward tonight and uh passing this to uh get that uh the streetscape project uh in gear. We've talked about this for so long. So excited for this to

I know it's going to be nice beautiful design to uh to our beautiful downtown. All right. Thank you. Appreciate that. Anyone else want to add anything? Nope. All right. Uh ordinance 842025. This ordinance is for changes to chapters part 11 of the codified ordinances regarding planning and zoning after its fourth read tonight. Uh uh I'm going to be making a motion to uh further postpone this uh to consider uh until November 12th. This will give us plenty of time to go through it, verify, and um making sure that we take the proper action. Okay. Uh 85 and 86, which is why you're here. Again, this is for the data center.

Excuse me. So, you're not going to take action on 84 tonight? No. Correct. Okay. That's different than the uh notes that we have. So, no worries. Yeah. No, we're gonna we're going to postpone that and move forward. That's correct. Thank you. Yep. Thank you.

Uh resolution uh 85 and resolution 86. Uh both these uh are related to the data centers. Again, uh we're going to read the motions, but we will be sending it back to uh planning to discuss, you know, all of those things that you mentioned. Uh what is equivalent, what is not equivalent, what is needed, what is not needed, and we're going to get it right. Okay. If it happens, um the public meeting on October 28th will also need to be cancelled due to the postponement of this. And um are there any other comments on 85 or 86?

No. All right. Excellent. Uh, ordinance 98205. This ordinance is to amend chapter 147 of the codified ordinances regarding employees. Um, would you like to uh speak on that a little bit? I think that Miss Cleo is here from HR. Good evening. Good evening. How are you? I'm well, thanks. Um,

good. So the city undertook a massive overview of 147 chapter of the ordinances on employment matters. Um and along with that we um basically rewrote the employee handbook. We've updated policies. We've added policies. Um council has been set a summary of the changes um and also provided with a redline version of all the changes of 147. Um, do any of the council members have any questions about those?

I don't don't have any questions on the red line. When I might not have personally seen the red lines. What when did that come in an email and I missed it and I overlooked it. I just personally haven't seen the redline one. I did receive the copy of the um what you sent with the changes. But I I do want to see that redline copy. It is in the box app. It is. Okay. I didn't you I must have missed that. I apologize. Thank you. I'll double check that. Was that Okay, I'll find it. Thank you. Which is why I asked I didn't need to see that. All right. Thank you. Yeah. And I did follow up on your email and send it to I know. I saw that. Thank you. I appreciate that very much.

So, when we reviewed the ordinances, we've actually proposed changes to all but three of them in that chapter. So, we have gone through them in detail. Some of the changes are just um grammar and updating language. Um some of the changes um are to bring it in line with um for example, we're removing references to the police lieutenants who are now unionized. So the ordinances which apply to the non-bargaining employees, we took out references say to the police um lieutenants because of them being non-bargaining. Um some of the other sections we've updated to comply with state law or um for example the section on military leave has been updated to comply with the federal law. you Sarah.

Um, so if there's any other questions, thank you so much for your consideration and taking the time to review everything. Thank you. I know that had to be very time and timeconuming and cumbersome. So, thank you for all the work you do. You're welcome. And much thanks to all the help I've had from finance and law and the support of the mayor and getting this done. Uh, you do great work there. Thank you. Thank you.

If I can, I just want to thank Tammy for going through this. That was a big undertaking. Um, and we did have several meetings about it, but you know, between now and, you know, the next two readings, this is going three readings. If council has any questions, please feel free to give her a call. She'll be more than happy to answer them. Someone's going to have to help me find that red. All right, I'll find it. All right. Was it in box? Was it in the last one? I'm looking at it right now. No, it's in the box. All right, we'll find it.

Okay. Not so crazy. Maybe I need to update my my iPad here. All right. 99 ordinance 99205. Uh this ordinance is an appropriations ordinance for a total of 325,000 of which 210 is for purchase of property at 2597 East Aurora Road. 80,000 is for settle settlement agreement and 35 is for the replacement of gas pumps and tanks at the service garage. Um we're asked to be asked to suspend the three reading rules so we can move forward on this right away. Okay. Are there any questions or comments? No. Self-explained. Self-explained.

Yep. Uh, ordinance 100 2025. This ordinance is a transfer ordinance from the general fund to the fitness center in the amount of 430,000. It was discovered during the annual budget process that the fitness center would need subsidy from the general fund due to um the repairs the um you know and everything associated with the repairs. Uh we're going to suspend the three reading. We're going to be asked to suspend the three reading rule. Make the transfer as early as possible. Are there any concerns, questions on ordinance? No.

All right. Resolution 101 2025. This resolution uh is to accept a settlement dispersed payments uh for the cost of repairs to the sanitary sewers for sewers for a total of $78,2125 which was caused by ProSource Utility Group. Uh dispersements will be to Xream Plumbing for $15,458 and Hos Brothers Excavating for $62,56325 for their work for the repair. Uh again, we're going to be asked to suspend the three renewals so we can get uh these contractors started and paid as soon as possible. There any questions on resolution 101? No.

All right. Ordinance 102,2025. Uh, this ordinance is to submit funding applications for resurfacing of Chamberlain Road from State Route 82 to Revena Road. The engineers estimate is $1 million uh but beautifully we will only be responsible for 10% or $100,000. Again, we're being asked to suspend the three reading rule um to meet the application deadline of November 7th. Does anybody have any questions on concern about that? All right, a few more here. Ordinance 103 2025. This ordinance is to submit funding applications for resurfacing of Glenwood Drive from State Route 91 to Liberty. The engineers estimate is 785,000 uh which again will only be responsible for 10% of that which is 78,500. Again, we're being asked to suspend the rules uh three reading rule uh to meet the deadline of November 7th. Are there any questions or comments, concerns on that?

Both 102 and 103 are just applications for the grants. It's not an it's not definite that uh we would allocate those funds until we got the grants which we typically get because Amy Moore does a great job and has brought in millions of dollars for the city to repair our roads. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Resolution 104 2025. This resolution is to appoint one member of the ARB to fill a vacancy. Uh we're being asked to suspend the three reading rule and um so we can appoint that person right away. So said person uh can be scheduled for the first meeting which is on October Thursday.

Thursday correct October 16th. So all right any questions on that? All right and finally ordinance 105 2025. This ordinance is to create chapter 157 of the codified ordinances for a school district relations committee. Uh this ordinance will be on its first reading tonight. Um, let me tell you a little bit about why um, I asked to have this here. Um, I know that we do have already a community relations committee. Um, and I know that the community relations committee seems to me, and I could be wrong, and again, whether we want to go through with this or not, um, it seems to me like there's a lot of things that happen within city to city, Twinsburg, Verminville, uh, Twinsburg Township. My concern is that it it has seemed due to specific happenings over the last couple years that I've seen that there is not seemingly a harmonious relationship between the city and the schools. And for years I have said that this bothers me because we are the two biggest entities in this city and we should be working for the same goals. And to quote a friend, we should all be rowing in the same direction. And I feel like sometimes we're not I feel like there's miscommunication sometimes and it's just there are so many things that we have in common with them between uh potential tiffs between uh the rec center and I want a way to have open communication between the schools and the city so we have this beautiful harmonious relation and um that's really why I presented it. So the way it is written currently um is can certainly be changed. Uh if members of council feel they don't like it, that is you're right to say you don't like it. Um I just want to see us moving in the right direction. And you know if we

feel that the community relations committee is the place for that, that's possible. Um I just don't know if all of the things we need to discuss happen at that. Uh maybe you can speak better. I know at the community relations uh we don't even have a council member there I don't believe I believe you've gone but that that evolved into more of a an interaction between the people that are full-time uh so uh the township has their person that works full-time so that they're up to speed on all their programs and projects reminder bill did the same thing correct and that's why we have Shannon there correct she's doing all this so correct and I agree that that's what it should be But

okay. But I mean that that that that morphed into that. Go ahead. But I Oh, if I may. Um I believe the community relations board, you know, that's made up of a board as you mentioned, the the communities, the three or four communities and the library.

And it's not always the um it's not always the people at the table that I believe you're proposing that this would be council and school board. Those are the people that are uh need to be informed on everything that's going on and making the decisions between the two entities. So I think that um again those other those other meetings uh the community relations board meeting has various representatives of each community but it's not really the people that need to be there and have these discussions you know like have council and and the school board work together. So you know both both boards can you know work things out uh to the best uh of our ability for each win-win for both. I think that that's uh that's um really I I like this your committee that you've uh recommended

and I would hope that it passes. Thank you. I did talk to Rhonda Crawford, the uh school board president about it and when I mentioned it to her, she was very excited about it. She thought it was a great idea. Um she went back and talked with the school board and superintendent. They really like the idea as well. They want to they agree they want, you know, a a great relationship between the two entities being that we are the two biggest entities in the city. So, and I would like for uh I believe you love for the mayor to be there and also the school superintendent.

Actually, yes. I was just going to get there actually. Yes. But um the committee the way it's written uh will be comprised of two board me uh two council members and the mayor, two school board members and the uh superintendent. I I asked uh Rhonda how many school board members she would want. She's the one who said she wants two as well. and uh they they really like the idea as well. So again, it's on three reads. So I know that I'm kind of throwing on this uh throwing this on some of you tonight, maybe seeing it for the first time. Um you know, but we're not voting on it now. So come up with questions, concerns that you have and we can discuss it at the next council meeting and um you know, I'm I'm open to any suggestions. It was just this was just initial let's get it started. Um if it needs to go to four reads, it doesn't matter. It's not like it's it is also written that it would be chosen uh by the president of council just like all the other committees. Uh so it would start in December December 1st just like every other committee and it's written that we would meet twice a year uh once in the first half of the year the first six months once in the second half of the year. Again that's just what I thought of. if we think that that's too much, too little. Again, I'm looking forward to the dialogue to get it exactly what we think is going to be best for both entities. Okay. Does anybody else I think I've said everything there. Does anybody else have any comments or concern?

Not at this time. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Uh, miscellaneous that we're done with that. Miscellaneous. Anybody have any items they want to bring up? Miscellaneous? Nothing received. Nothing. Okay. So, uh, with no further items, let's, uh, adjourn the caucus meeting at 7:46 and we will take a 4-minute break and we will start at, well, now we'll start at 7:51. Exactly 4 minutes. Thanks. [Music]

council meeting to order. Gentlemen, you please call the role. Mr. Post here. Mr. Bellen here. Mr. Fury here. Mrs. Walker present. Mrs. Slavy here. Mr. Bar here. Mr. Bonacci here. All right. Um Mr. uh Fury is going to lead us in the invocation and pledge of allegiance.

Heavenly Father, we come to you today asking for your guidance, wisdom, and support as we begin this meeting. Help us to engage in meaningful discussion. Allow us to grow closer as a group and nature the bonds of the community. Fill us with your grace as we make decisions that affect all of our residents and businesses and our dedicated city employees. Bless those away from us serving to protect our country. We ask all these things in your name. Amen.

Amen. I pledge 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. Uh that brings us to the approval of the minutes. I was not here at the last meeting. There were only four of us here. So I will be abstaining. Uh but does anyone I'd like to make a motion that we accept the minutes as submitted. May I have second? All right. Uh, Miss Lavyby seconds. Any Miss Walker? Oh, Miss Walker. I'm sorry. I am so sorry. It's okay. Miss Walker, you got this one. All right. Uh, any discussion?

Any call? Mr. Fury? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mr. Bell? Yes. Mr. Post? Mr. Bar? Abstain. Mr. Bonacci. Yes. Mrs. Lavy. Abstain. All right. So, uh, minutes pass four, uh, four zero. Yeah. Yes. Pass 4. All right. Uh, awards and presentations. Do we have any awards, presentations this evening? There are none. All right. Excellent. All right. Audience participation. Do we have any tonight? We have one. All right. Lori Facina,

I'm like a bad penny. Sorry, I'm back.

But I'm not I'm not going to go I'm not going to regurgitate what I said before. I think I said my piece there. Uh but and I see that you've decided to uh postpone 84, ordinance 84. I would caution you along the same lines that I cautioned you on 85 and 86. And it's interesting. You most of you know, I'm guessing all of you know that I was going to run for an atlarge seat, but I have some health issues that are not dramatic health issues. And so I I took myself out of that race, but I remained steadfastly as a voice for the collective people for whom you serve and for whom you took an oath of office. And you said something very poignant a little while ago about the relationship between the schools and the city.

I would tell you to look at that same verbiage you used when you look out here and all the people that left. Um the natives are restless here in every part of this city. I started getting phone calls from people all over the city about this AI data center problem. and it's a problem and I I I'm going to stick with you. I'm going to make sure that the right thing is done here. Um but 84, same thing. Those are zoning changes. You guys had 15 months and several hundred,000 to create a new code and you put it on the ballot as one issue and said it was an amendment to the code. You didn't tell people it was a full rewrite of the code. That's problematic. It's not transparent. You want transparency, it starts with you. We're transparent. We've come up here in earnest. We take away from our families, our jobs, our dayto-day to make sure that things are run correctly. And those changes in 84 are changes that by our charter need to go to a vote of the people. the court there. There is no less than seven judges over a 20-year period that have said 7A1, the right of the people to vote and referendum. We haven't talked about referendums. So again, you can't look at us as the enemies. You can't look at us at the enemies. We are your neighbors. I can tell you personally that if any of you called me at midnight and said, "I need a ride to the hospital." ask my husband, I'd show up at your door and drive you to the hospital. But I expect the same respect for all of us in this room going forward. And and I think that we could we could remain the hometown feel that we've always been.

So I appreciate that you listen tonight, but if there hadn't been a room full of people three weeks ago, you guys were ready to pull the trigger. You were ready to pull the trigger. And you just can't do that anymore. There's too many people. You kill one of us, 20 pop up from the soil. I mean, it's it's an amazing thing that started happening here without a without a paper in our town. So, keep that in mind. Try to work with your citizens and not against your citizens. And I appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you.

That's all we have this evening. Thank you. Uh, council communications committee reports. We'll start at this end with Mr. Bar and later on with Mr. Fury. Uh, Mr. Bar. Uh, good evening. Thank you, Mr. Post. Uh, since our last meeting, none of my committees have met. The September meeting was cancelled. The planning commission due to lack of agenda items. The next scheduled planning commission meeting is Monday the 20th here in council chambers at 6:30 p.m. That concludes my report. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Uh, thank you, Miss Walker. um my Jedi committee we didn't meet uh because we couldn't have a core and that's all I have to report. Thank you. All right. Thank you.

Thank you and good evening. Yes, as as Mrs. Walker stated, the Jedi meeting um was re um scheduled for last night was canceled due to lack of quorum. However, last Wednesday, um the Jedi, uh sponsored a booth over at the Safety Forces Night. Um we give out candy stickers, coloring pages, making it a popular stop for the the young children in the area. Um the safety forces night was a success as as usual, an amazing event for Twinsburg's families. Um it's just a delight to work that event. Um, the October 22nd BZA meeting has been cancelled due to lack of agenda items. The next meeting is scheduled for no November 19th at 5:30. And the n next finance meeting is scheduled for October 28th at 6 o'clock and it will be prior to the council meeting. That's all for me tonight. Thank you.

Thank you. I uh I attended the uh environmental commission meeting on October 7th here and um it was good last meeting and they discussed um some of the past events, Earth Day and they're going to be uh discussing that maybe potentially changing times. uh they started planning next year's events and looking and a big topic of discussion was the good neighbor award which I think was done very very well and I commend them. It was my last meeting on the environmental commission and so I thanked them for a great year and I just want to state again that everyone on that commission they love what they do there and they do a great job with it. So thank you Virginia I appreciate I see you out there. um they do a really really good job of creating awareness and being active and involved and visible and and I appreciate that. So I just want to say thank you to everyone in the environmental commission and thank you everyone. So all right uh ask my report.

Thank you. Good evening. Um on October 3rd I had the privilege to partake in the Twinsburg High School homecoming parade. Um we got to drive senior class homecoming representatives Aaron and Xavier. It was an awesome experience for me and I was glad to be asked. On October 8th, I attended the police and fire openhouse as Mrs. Lavyby mentioned. Um, talk about a wonderful community event. The the weather was amazing. The turnout was great. Um, just special thanks to everybody who made, you know, made that happen. On October 9th, I attended the Twinsburg schoolboard candidate forum put on by the League of Women Voters. There was a great turnout there. Uh, would like to thank everybody involved in that. It was a very informative evening. Thank you very much. It was

public works committee meeting scheduled for this evening was canceled due to a lack of agenda items. Uh I believe Mayor Scapiti will uh give a couple of updates during his report about the service department the flood mitigation efforts over on Timothy Lane. Uh next meeting of the public works committee will be in February of 2026. Next meeting of the finance committee will be on Tuesday, October 28th here in Chambers. And the next meeting of the safety committee will be on Tuesday, November 12th at 6 p.m. also here in Chambers. Nothing further this evening. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Appreciate it, Mr. Bonacci.

Good evening. Since our last meeting, none of my uh boards or committees have met, but uh do want to provide some updates about park and recreation events. We have the spooktacular coming up on October 18th from 11 to 2 pm at Glen Chamberlain Park. It's going to be some fun stuff with sweet treats and contest and miniature golf and inflatables. It's a great way to celebrate the the Halloween festive stuff. On November 15th is a 5K turkey trot and fun run 9:00 a.m. at the fitness center. And there's always an opportunity to learn how to swim and a huge lifesaving skill to learn how to swim. So swim lessons are uh registrations open uh at the fitness center indoor pool. also a great opportunity for a person to get employed and trained up through lifeguard uh certification. The more lifeguards we have, the more assets are opened at the pool, the longer the hours, and the better it is for everyone. And it's a great opportunity to start a career in civil service. I also attended the safety forces day and it was awesome to see our partnership with the valley enforcement group uh the drones that they brought out and I bring this to the attention because that was a piece of legislation that we approved recently and the drones uh were spectacular and

specifically these things are effectively helicopters. They could be programmed to follow an item, a car down the road, uh a person in a crowd. It could count how many people are in a crowd. It can tell if things are hot or cold. So, if there's fires or if you're searching for somebody at night. There's all kinds of technology on these drones that are absolutely amazing. There's a over $100,000 worth of equipment they have. And I bring this up specifically because there's a piece of legislation in the state senate, bill 180, where public safety agencies would have to ground fleets like valinforcements fleets because somebody has this great idea that if they were made by a place that happens to be a uh China, the

unmanned unmanned aerial systems that are made by China cannot if if this goes any further, May 1st 2027, that entire fleet is grounded. So, um, if you have the year of your state senator, perhaps that's a good thing to say, hey, we have these great tools. Why put them on the ground when they could be used when an Alzheimer's person is is a bait, you know, in the community that could be found with this amazing technology, things that we could use for our twins day to help keep us a little bit safer are available to us. things that we could use to help find an autistic kid that's wandering are available and a resource that we subscribe to through this valley enforcement group. It seems insane that this would be grounded. And the answer is there are American drone companies, but guess what? They don't operate as easily. They cost 10 times as much and they don't have the functionality. So that's just um concludes our report. But if you know a state senator, let them know. My favorite one is the one they we put on our heads. We were at the booth together and our safety forces when they're going into either a burning building or a hostage situation or something like that. it. They look at the drone in real time and the drone actually goes ahead of them and uh it's about a $12,000 drone, they said, and it's very small, but it has a camera and it puts eyes inside buildings. So, it protects that first person going into uh a very dangerous situation. And it was very interesting to hear all that and um thanks for bringing that up. That was it was awesome. So, um I appreciate that. Um Mr. Fury,

thank you and good evening. The architectural review board met on October 2nd. They only had one item on the uh agenda which was a uh uh a facade change at uh 2799 Max Court. It was approved unanimously. The next meeting will be this Thursday, October 16th at 6 PM in council chambers. There will be five cases on the agenda. I also attended the police and fire uh outing. I thought the I thought the attendance was better than I'd seen in the past. It see I think the weather had a lot to do with that. It snowed, it's rained there, but it was fantastic weather this weekend and great turnout. And thank you to everybody that participated. Uh the library has a foundation and they have an annual reverse raffle which will be November 13th this year. Um, it'll be at the library and tickets are for sale for $100 and they only sell $100. They only sell 100 tickets. Um, you can get your tickets by going to www.foundation uh tpl.org. You can call the library. They can help you as well. But, uh, it's it's $100. It's a reverse raffle. It's on November 13th. The Cub Scouts are doing a leaf raking uh in Twinsburg for seniors and they'll do it on November 2nd and it's run through uh St. Cosmos and Damian Parish. Um if you would if you're a senior citizen and you would like your leaves ra um the c the scouts are doing this as a service project to get food for the uh St. Cosmos uh non-p perishable food bank. So the phone number to talk to Keith Barnes who's organizing it is 3304258141 and there is a we have multiple food

banks in the city of Twinsburg but St. Cosmos Damian also has one and if you would uh if you're in need of food or if you're food challenges their phone number is 3308880134. And lastly, the Navy celebrated their 250th anniversary this week. And I would like to call out specifically Bruce Baldwin, who spoke to us many, many times and advertises being a Navy vet in his yard on Canon Road. Haven't seen him in a little while, but he's a Vietnam veteran and a great great patriot. And I'd like to wish him and the Navy a happy 250th anniversary. And that's all I have this evening. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. Thank you. Uh mayor, would you like to give your

Yeah, thank you very much. Good evening everybody. Um few things that um I've attended uh I attended the uh state of the county address a few weeks ago and our county executive Eileen Shapiro did a great job as usual, very informative. She brings in a great crowd there and u it was just nice to go and hear everything that's going on in the county where we belong and where we are situated in. So, uh, that was a really nice event and I thank her for doing that. Um, I too, like some of the other council, uh, members here, attended the safety forces open house. I won't beat it up, but, you know, I want to just give a shout out to our police department and our fire department and all the other departments that had anything to do with putting that together. I know service gets involved and I believe parks and recck gets involved in some of that. So, thank you to everybody that put it together and it was probably one of the biggest uh attended uh events that I've seen uh for that open house in a while. So, uh that turned out really nice. Uh some of the good things that I get to do, I was invited to um Canterbury of Twinsburg, the um the nursing home, and we had one of the residents there, Eleanor Kurther's Holland. She turned 100 years old. It was her 100th birthday. So, I got to go there and celebrate with them uh on their on her 100th birthday. And uh you it was nice to always nice to be there and hang out with those folks and um they're very warm and welcoming when we come in there. So uh thank you to uh Canterbury for inviting me out. Um I yeah I do want to talk about our service department. Uh as some of you may or may not know, I've been looking at a new service department facility. Uh we've been working out of the same current facility for many many many years. And it's really, you know, the the town has grown, the population has grown, the services we provide have grown, but the the facility has not grown. And so, it's time that uh we look at uh trying to bring on a new service facility uh to house all of the equipment. I see year after year, as a former service

director, I know it, leaving our equipment outdoors year round through all the weather, the snow, the rain, the cold, the heat, what it does to uh these vehicles. and it really reduces their life. Um, so it's it's really important that we have a facility that we can house all of the equipment that we we do. Council's gracious enough to um to provide for the service department when they come and they need a new piece of equipment to provide services, whether it's the street sweeper or the leaf collector or the branch chipper or, you know, the the road repair uh patching machines. I mean, council steps up and, you know, we provide these people with some really nice equipment and so it's time that we uh look at it and take care of it as well as the employees that have to work out of that building. So, we did hire a u an architect, Ari Warner, and they've been working on this for us. We finally got a um we finally got a footprint of the building that we're going to need or the size building that we're looking at based on all of the needs that we said that we need inside this building. So, um the uh search right now is on for a piece of property that uh we can put it on. The city owns a couple pieces of property, but I don't think that they're u they're conducive to putting a service garage in. You have to have a certain location. It can't be in a residential area. You know, you've got to be, you know, more in an area that uh it was acceptance of the noise, uh nighttime there, sometimes a 24-hour operation, the lights, the backup alarms. So, it's uh we've got to be careful where it goes. So, we're in the we're in the process of trying to find that now. Uh, as far as the Timothy Lane, Timothy um and Hawkins and Waterford area that had flooding on uh August 8th of last year of 24, um we did hire a uh we hired a firm, an engineering firm to look at that. Um they uh went through, we finally got the final report from them. Um, we've come up with uh what we

believe we need to do there and we'll be approaching council on this because it's of course going to need your approval with the price tag it's going to come up with. But some of it includes dreading some of dredging some of the ponds that are up there and putting new outflow areas uh uh piping into the these ponds to help uh stop that water from going through so quickly. But by the same token, we water, we use that same water for the golf course to water our golf course. So, we've, you know, it's kind of a juggling act that we're doing with that. So, we're still working on it. Um, I believe we've got a resident meeting for those residents that were affected by the sto the flooding scheduled for at the end of this month. And I could let council know when when that is. Um, but I do want to get all those those folks that were affected. I want to get them together and let them know what we've been doing, what we found out through the study, and what our plan is to move forward and to try to help and and solve this problem. U the goal is, you know, our storm sewers are are u built for a 10-year storm event and we're looking to at least increase this close to a 100redyear storm event. So, it should give them plenty protection. However, we can never guarantee. I don't we never know what's going to come out of the sky. you know, sometimes it's, you know, it's a 50-year storm, sometimes it's a 10, sometimes it's more or less. We don't know, but we're going to do the best that we can to try to protect those folks over there from ever having to worry about that again. Um, somebody brought up leaves or leaf collection earlier. I just want to remind the residents as I drive through the city, drive through town, so many people, I know the leaves felt early. People are raking and cleaning up their yards, but they're putting the leaves right in the street. And that's the last place we need to have these leaves. We asked for them not to be put in the street. Um I know we haven't had rain lately, but when we do get rain, all that does is take those leaves and put them right into the catch basins. And they go into the catch basins. What's What's next now? We've got a locked up catch basin.

And that affects all of us. It affects our neighborhoods. It affects our homes. It affects your drains coming out of your your gutters because that all goes into those storm sewers. So, we're asking you to please keep the leaves out of the street. And not only that, it's not safe for anybody that might be on a bike or driving a car or a motorcycle because that makes them very slippery. Speaking of bikes, and this is my last item, I want to talk about ebikes. I know we've talked about that recently. Um, and they're really becoming a nuisance um, to a lot, not only here, but to a lot of communities. They're a nuisance. And I know in some areas we have I've had people tell me that we've got these folks out there on these bikes and they're playing chicken with cars. You know, they're coming right at a car as you're driving forward and at the last minute they they move out of the way and they're just we've had them bring them into our fitness center right in the building. So, um, the other day I was walking up in Ethan's Green and I was, uh, on Ethan's Drive and where the area where the golf course, uh, comes out there where you can see the golf course. I happen to look over there. It was just before dusk and I see three, uh, young people on ebikes riding all over the golf course, on the green, on the fairways. They're going up and down the hills and you could see their their tire tracks were just they were just, you know, marking and ruining the whole not ruining it, but just making their mark there in in the golf course. I immediately uh picked up the phone and I called dispatch and I says, "If you guys can get here, I I got my eye on these these folks and you know, they're going towards the the maintenance building." Well, two days later, I found out from dispatch that they caught him. They got him and they got a warning at this point, I guess. Um, and I know the chief, we're working on some type of uh some type of policy that we could have to maybe even, you know, make it a little more severe. But, uh, so if you see any of this stuff going on and you know that it's happening, I mean, they've got to see it. They've got to be

able to catch them. We can't just tell them that it happened and then you go out and and try to find who who it was. They've got to be able to see it. So, but uh anything that you could do to help out with these ebikes, I know they're fun. I know it's a good time, but um they're they're really becoming a nuisance. Matter of fact, I brought up already to the chief and to our law director, and I I wanted to bring it up to council. I know a few communities have outlawed these ebikes on um I believe it was Solen that outlawed them on on all school properties. I believe it was Avon Lake that uh outlawed them on their city properties or somewhere within their city. And I'd like us to look at maybe doing the same thing on City of Twinsburg property to outlaw these bikes on our properties to stop these young people from thinking that they can just go to the fitness center, the doors open up and they they bring them right inside the building and leave them in the lobby. You know, that's the worst thing that they can do and it's that's not safe for anybody. So, uh, council, you might be hearing a little more about this. We're going to be talking about this further, but I just wanted to give you an update and uh let you know, give you a heads up that this is what we might be coming to try to propose. Um other than that, um nice to see everybody here tonight and that's all I have. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. All right. So, uh do we have any department heads that want to speak? Yes, Chief Mason. Hi. Welcome, Chief. Good evening. Hi, Chief. How you doing? I'll keep it fairly brief. I'm good. Thank you.

I'll keep it fairly brief. My report is for the uh third quarter of the year, which encompasses July, August, and September. Uh just a couple departmental notes. Uh we had I won't go through them all, but we had 10 officers that celebrated anniversaries during that time period. It ranged from 1 to 23 years. So, very proud of those officers. Uh, as far as numbers go, total calls for the third quarter were 9,798. Give you a little perspective, that's about 3,266 calls per month, and that's up 81 calls per month from the previous year. So, we're busy. Uh, total calls for the year are 28,529 as opposed to 26,52 for 2024. So, we're up over 2,000 calls this year to date. Just some uh incidents of note, we had eight counts of theft in that time period, 12 for possession of drugs or drugrelated offenses, 10 for disorderly conduct, six counts of domestic violence, 48 for driving under suspension or without a valid license, uh 21 for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, 20 warrant arrests. We had 11 counts of open container in a public place. Uh total traffic stops for the third quarter was 1,185. Uh total written warnings given were 151. Uh that same time period the officers issued 70 parking citations. All total we had 433 counts. Um and that was on arrested or cited 316 people that were arrested and cited that make up the 433 counts. As far as accidents go for that quarter, uh we had 87 total accidents investigated. 77 were non-injury. 10 were injury crashes, 16 were on private property, and I'm happy to say none were fatal. Just some miscellaneous information I have for you. So, I've got

about a full page of uh training breakdown, but uh throughout the course of that third quarter, uh we had a total of 24 different officers that attended a combined total of 444 hours of training. That's outside training generally. It's in addition to roll call training, uh daily training bulletins, things like that that we get. So, we're continuing to take advantage of of uh educating, training our officers as as time change, techniques change, things like that. So, I'm very proud of that. Uh, a couple other things of note, a couple updates for you. Uh, officer Josh Powell is just about completing his second phase in the FTO program, which will be moving on to his third FA phase shortly. Uh, Miles Berdick in his eighth week at the police academy. That's going very well. Officer Hunter is in her third week of K9 training. She's doing exceptionally well with K9 Benny. He's a bit of a standout in the class, so that's great to hear. And as uh many of you mentioned, open house was a overwhelming success. I appreciate the kind words everyone had to say. It was one of the more attended u open houses we've had in years. U it's hard to get an exact count, so I couldn't even tell you what it is. We generally estimate it by uh how much food we go through. And I can tell you typically we cook up 500 hot dogs. And last year we had leftovers. This year they were gone 45 minutes before the end of the uh the night. But uh I I believe we had well over a thousand people in attendance. And I just want to make sure we we give thanks to our our partners um in law enforcement. We had the highway patrol there. It's the first time I can recount them being there in a while. Summit County Sheriff has become a huge partner for us as we've talked about throughout these various meetings. Um they were in attendance and well represented. And then Veg, you know, I was very pleased to hear the the how impressive Veg was. um especially since that's something that was presented to council, council approved and that's exactly why we did it. You know, you got to firsthand look at the resources that are available to us and also the

opportunity affords us to put people on these different uh specialized units. So that's my report. Thanks. Thank you. Oh, go ahead. Oh, no. Are you sure? I was just going to say um I just wanted to thank you. I've had several residents thank me thank me for, you know, on your behalf um for the increased police patrol at the football games, specifically homecoming and some of the other games. So, thank you very much. I know I was at the homecoming game and I saw it. So, I I I really appreciate it. Good. Good. And it goes along with developing that partnership or rekindling that partnership with the school. They've been great to work with and have basically told us do what we feel we need to do. So, yeah, we've we've increased numbers and and a few different things.

It's not Thank you. My uh my only disappointment with the safety forces night is that we did not have council representation with Mr. Bonacci kicking some butt with the donut hole eating contest. Um Mr. Bonacci, um I hope next year you represent council well and um I'm retired. That was my only disappointment though. Other than that, I'm no longer participating in competitive beating anywhere. So quit going out as a champion.

Mr. post. I I was uh with the drones and at the moment of the uh contest I was in the back room of the drone trailer which they showed me a QR code. So if something pops off, Chief Mason and the mayor are able as their safety director are able to get live footage from those drones. Absolutely amazing. It doesn't slow anything down. And at that same time in that little plaza area to give you an idea how many people were there, 249 is what the drone said were in that space. That space. Great. That's awesome. Just at that moment, it could have shifted every hour. You know, they can't tell who's indoors. Yeah. Is there, right? Right. Yeah. As far as the donut hole contest, just like the Browns, there's always next year.

Right. And he he has a one-year not. He's got a one-year notice. Right. Right. Right. That's what I'm saying. Kill me. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. That move. Is any other department heads? Is that the only one? That's it. Thank you. Okay. All right. Perfect. That moves us on to legislation uh resolution 742025. A resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract with environmental design group for professional services relative to the streetscape design guidelines and declaring an emergency. All right. This time I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 74205 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. Yield. Pick. Uh we're going to give it to Mr. Bell. Thanks. Got it.

All right. Mr. Bellen seconds. Um, I just want to say that this is a long time uh in the making for to do something like this and I'm very excited to see um what uh what they have in store for us. Any other discussion on that? I know Shannon call the role. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Felen, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Bac, yes. All right. Resolution 74205 passes 70 as an emergency. Uh, ordinance 842025, an ordinance amending various chapters of part 11 of the codified ordinances of the city of Twinsburg to provide for amendments to the planning and zoning code.

All right. Ordinance 842025 now stands on its second reading. This time I'd like to make a motion to postpone the consideration of ordinance number 84 2025 uh to the council meeting scheduled for November 12th, 2025. May I have a second? A second. Mr. Fury second. Any discussion on that? I think it's a great idea. So we can get our ducks in order here. Uh Shannon, call the roll. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. All right. Motion passes uh 70 to uh for the postponement. All right. Resolution 852025.

A resolution confirming the planning commission's determination pursuant to section 1103.03 03 that data center is a use that is functionally the same as the uses conditionally permitted in the IM innovation and manufacturing zone. All right. Resolution 85205 now stands in its fourth reading. Uh I'd like to make a motion to send resolution number 852025 back to the planning commission for consideration and recommendation relative to further discussion on the identification of currently permitted use uh which is a functional equivalent of data center in the Twinsburg code. May I have a second on that? You'll uh was that Miss Walker? What was that? You know, just I know we sound

You know, it's right side female. Uh Miss Lavyby seconds. Any discussion on that? All right. Um Shannon, call the role, please. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. All right. Motion passes 70 for the postponement. uh resolution. I'm sorry. Ordinance 862025. An ordinance amending section 1128.04 of the codified ordinances of the city of Twinsburg to provide for the definition of data center.

All right. Ordinance 862025 now stands on its fourth reading. Uh at this point, I'd like to make a motion to send ordinance number 862025 to the planning commission for consideration and recommendation concerning the continued need for ordinance number 86205. In light of any possible amendments recommended rel relative to resolution number 852025 as well as to cancel the upcoming public hearing concerning the same. I have a second. Um, is there any discussion on that? Call the role, please. Shannon, Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Felen, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mr. Bonacci,

yes. All right. Motion passes 70 to postpone uh 86205 until the planning commission looks it over. Ordinance 982025, an ordinance amending section 147 of the codified ordinances of the city of Twinsburg regarding employees generally. All right. Ordinance 982025 now stands in its second reading. Ordinance 992025, an ordinance amending the current year appropriations for the various general revenue and enterprise fund accounts as established in ordinance 120 2024. the appropriation ordinance for the city of Twinsburg for the year 2025 and declaring an emergency. All right. At this like this time, I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place ordinance 992025 on its third and final reading. May I have a second? A second.

Mr. Fury seconds. Uh again, we want to suspend the three reading rule uh so the appropriations can be uh done effective immediately. Um stand call the role. Mr. Co? Yes. Mr. Fury? Yes. Mr. Bellen? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. All right. Suspension of the three reading rule passes 70. So, at this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 99205 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. Miss Walker seconds. I got I got it that time. Any discussion on 99 2025? All right. Sh call the role. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Belling, yes.

Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mrs. Flabby. Yes. Mr. Bar. Yes. All right. Ordinance 992025 passes 70 as an emergency. Ordinance 100 2025. An ordinance amending the current year appropriations as established in ordinance 120 2024. The appropriation ordinance for the city of Twinsburg for the year 2025 to accommodate transfers from the general revenue fund to the fitness center fund and declaring an emergency. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place Ordinance 100 2025 on its third and final reading. May I have a second? A second. Yep. Uh Mr. Fury seconds. Uh again, the reason for the suspension is so we can make that transfer as soon as possible. Um I call the role. Mr. Post,

yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mr. Bacon, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. So, suspension of the three reading rule does pass seven to zero. So, at this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 12025 as an emergency. May I have a second? I'll second. Mr. Fury seconds again. Any discussion on 1225? Shannon, call the role. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Felen, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mr. Bac, yes.

All right. Ordinance 100 2025 passes 70 as an emergency resolution 101205. A resolution allowing the mayor to accept the insurance settlement proceeds from auto insurance auto owners insurance company and disperse the same to both Extreme Plumbing LLC and has brothers excavating and drilling for the cost of repairs made to sanitary sewers and declaring an emergency. This time I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place resolution 101205 in its third and final reading. May I have a second? Second. Uh Mr. Fury seconds. Um again, we want to pay the contractors as soon as possible, so we need to do this on emergency. Um, any other discussion? You want to call the role, please? Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bonacci,

yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. All right. Suspension of the three reading rule passes 70. So, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 101 2025 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. All right. Miss Walker seconds. Any discussion on 101? Going to call the role. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bac, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mr. Melon. Yes. Mrs. Lavy. Yes. Mr. Fury. Yes. Resolution 101 passes 70 as an emergency. Resolution 102205. A resolution allowing the mayor to apply for federal surface transportation block grant funds programmed by the Akaran Metropolitan Area Transportation Study to resurface Chamberlain Road from State Route 82 to prevent a road and declaring an emergency.

At this time, I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place resolution 102205 on his third and final reading. May I have a second? I'll second. Miss Labby seconds. Again, we have a deadline to meet uh for the application of November 7th. Uh Shannon, any other discussion? Shannon, call the role. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. All right. Suspension passes 70. I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 1025 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second. Miss Lavyby seconds. Any discussion on 102? Shannon, call the role. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bar,

yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mr. Bacon, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. All right. 102205. Resolution 102 2022. Pass the 70 as an emergency. Resolution 103205. A resolution allowing the mayor to apply for federal surface transportation block grant funds programmed by the Akran metropolitan area transportation study to resurface Gloma Drive from State Route 91 to Liberty Road and declaring an emergency. All right. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place resolution 103 2025 in his third and final reading. May I have a second? A second. All right. Mr. Fury seconds. Again, we have a deadline in November 7th for the application. Any other discussion? Shannon, call the role. Mr. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes.

Mr. Bar, yes. Mrs. Labby, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. All right. Suspension of the three reading rule passes 70. So, at this time, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 103 2025 as an emergency. May I have a second? I'll second. All right, Mr. Fury seconds. Any discussion on 103? Shannon, call the role. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. or Mr. Bonacci. Yes. All right. Resolution 103 2025 passes 70 as an emergency. Resolution 104 2025, a resolution appointing one member to the architectural review board and declaring an emergency.

All right. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules and place resolution 104 2025 and its third and final reading. May I have a second? Second. All right. Miss Labby seconds. Walker. Walker. Miss Walker. You know what's funny? I knew that. It happened. This walk, it happens. You know, it's just you hear a voice, you're not looking.

Uh, Miss Walker, uh, seconds. Again, the reason is to be able to swear the new member, that new member. Uh, it was actually updated on it. It it didn't show it in box, but it was updated on 104. I verified that, so we don't have to do an amendment to add David Wales to it. Um, so Mr. Wales is sitting over there in the audience. Um and we are doing this for him and for the ARB. Um any other discussion on the session?

I I think this is very special. I was at the last at the May 15th meeting when Valerie Wales his his wife attended and and passed very shortly after that. So I'm looking forward to seeing you Thursday. And what a tribute to your wife and may you rest and have her blessings. Thank you. Thank you. Uh I know that Mr. Wales was already doing the ARB work prior, you know, driving around to see all the locations, so this this should be very easy uh for you as you've been doing it. So we look forward to having you. Um call the RO, please. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Lavy,

yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. All right. Suspension of the three reading rule passes 70. So at this time I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 1042025 as an emergency. May I have a second? Second yield. Uh we'll give it to Miss Labby. Um any further discussion on this? No. All right. Shannon, call the role. Mr. Post, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bonacci, yes. Mr. Bar, yes.

All right. Resolution 104205 passes 70 as emergency Mr. Wales. Look forward to working with you again and I know you're going to do a great job. You're a great guy. All right. Ordinance uh 105205. An ordinance amending the Twinsburg codified ordinances to establish chapter 157 school district relations committee. All right. Ordinance 105205 now stands on its first reading. And that brings us to the end of legislation. And that brings us to unfinished business, new business or miscellaneous. We will start down here with Mr. Puri and go right down the line.

Well, thank you and good evening. U just want to uh remind everybody that the Twinsburg Foundation Library Foundation is having a reverse raffle at the library on November 13th. Tickets are available at www. foundation of the tpl.org. They only have they're only selling 100 tickets and uh winner does not need to be present. And lastly uh again I want to senior citizens if you want your leaves right and support the uh hunger center at St. Cosmos Damian uh please call Keith Barnes or the rectory. The number is 3304258141. the uh they will do this on the 15th and you need to sign up before November 2nd. That's all I have. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Uh Mr. Bach, um nothing further this evening. All right. Thank you, Mr. Bell. Nothing further this evening. Thank you, sir.

All right. Thank you. The only thing I want to say u not necessarily related here, but I want to thank everyone for coming to the Rotary Clan Bake. Uh it was a great night and uh we raised some great money for the community here and um you know I've been doing clammix a very very long time now probably 25 years and this was probably and I mean this sincerely my favorite one. Everything was perfect that night and it was the most relaxed I've ever been on on the day of the clan bake and that's because I have uh great team at the Rotary including Mr. Wales and uh you know on the Rotary. So, thank you all who did attend. Um, that's all I have.

Um, thank you. Um, the the the Dwali celebration this year is October 20th. So, I'd like to wish um many happy greetings for those who celebrate. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Blocker. I have nothing. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bar. Nothing additional. Thank you, Mayor Earlier. last meeting about the chest trailenwood.

At the last meeting, uh it was brought up about the uh grassy area bond on Chestnut Trail on Glenwood that it hadn't been cut in a while. There had been some going back and forth between uh between the city and the uh HOA. Um so I mentioned that we were trying to, you know, resolve this between the city and the HOA. It's really not the HOA's property. It's not the city's property. It belongs to the homeowners, the seven homeowners that back up to there. Um, and so I I mentioned that I reached out several times to try to set up another meeting with the HOA to no avail. It never happened. So I instructed uh the uh our zoning uh coordinator to go ahead and send letters to all those residents. And lo and behold, that grass was cut today. Um they hired a u a hard contractor to do it. I don't know that this is the final resolve. I understand because we got some calls uh from some of those residents there. Some are happy, some are not so happy. So, um it this may continue on, but at least the grass was cut today. Um and it it looks much better than it did, of course.

All the way down. Yeah. All the way down. Yeah. And so I'll keep council a breast of what's going on. Uh if you should get any more calls on that. I know we got calls and I'm sure you did as well. Uh David, I just want to give you a shout out about the uh the Rotary Clamake. David does do a great clam bacon. This is probably one of the best ones he he cooked at. So, um I appreciate it. Thank you. So, you don't have to pat yourself. I'll give you a little pat as well. I appreciate that. That's the end of my report. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Nothing tonight. Thank you. You just spoke too much. Christina, um just one update. The next finance committee meeting um

Well, how much time do you have, Mr. P? I'd like to start at 6:15. It's going to be a conjunction with the Treasury Investment Board. So, Eileen Stanick from Meter is going to come and present on our investment portfolio and then hopefully that gives us a little bit of time to touch on any other finance matters afterwards. Sure. Great. Only thing for me is just a reminder the first meeting in November uh we are closed on no uh Veterans Day which is the 11th. So, our meeting will be on a Wednesday the 12th. So, just a reminder. Look at all right. I'm going there right now. I already You guys made a motion at the beginning of the year. So that's what I put in.

That's right. Sure. So we'll be at November 12th. Okay. Perfect. All right. Excellent. Um, anything else that anyone wants to add? No. All right. So, at this time, uh, I'd like to make a motion to enter into executive session to discuss matters pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 121.22G13. 22G13 personnel employment of public employee or public official and pending litigation and to conference with an attorney for the city concerning pending court action. May I have a second? I'll second. All right, Mr. Bells. Uh, any conversation, discussion? Shann the role. Mr. Post, yes. Mr. Bellen, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mrs. Lavy, yes. Mr. Fury, yes. Mr. Bacon, yes.

All right, so the motion passes 70. So, we are going to go into executive session. Uh, I will come back out whenever we are done and I will close out the meeting.