Council - Regular Meeting

All right, I'll call to order the West Milton Council workshop for March 24th, 2026. Can we get a roll call? Mayor Sold here. Mr. Fobble? Yes. Here. Mr. Todd, here. Miss Gregory here. Mr. Hurst. Miss Mets here. Miss Richardson here. All right. First we have the CAC Isaiah Isaiah's Place presentation.

Okay. Before we get started with that, uh I I work closely with the Isaiah's Place and uh Jennifer um has been uh the key proponent in getting the Isaiah's Place up and running over the last several years. And uh she's going to give you a little overview here in a few moments and I'll introduce who she is. But I wanted to bring to attention, if you recall back at the uh first council meeting in March, at the stated council meeting, uh you had a proclamation. I'm going to present that to her tonight in honor of um us remembering all the victims and the kids of child abuse during the month of April. So, we have a proclamation that we have signed. I'm going to let you take back to your office and you can pres have that uh sit on your desk uh each and every day to remind you. And then what's what's the day again for everybody to wear blue?

April 8th. So Wednesday, April 8th. Yes. If you'd like to join us and wear blue wherever you're at and take a picture and share it, that's kind of the national um day to remember. So this is Jennifer Nisley. She is the Isaiah's she works for Isaiah's Place. CAC is a part of that. Um but Jennifer is the director over the child advocacy center. And I'll let her talk about all the things that she does.

This is awesome. Thank you guys. That's super cool. I've never had anything like that happen before. So, you guys are the first. That's super cool. Um, like I said, my name is Jen Nicely. I've been here um I think I've tried to come every year since we've been opened. Um, if you weren't here or kind of um haven't heard the presentation before, I like to just come every year and share um what we've done this past year. um you guys contribute to our CAC as well and um so we like you to just know where your money is going, know what services we're providing to the children and families, law enforcement and folks in your agency. So real quick snapshot of what we do. We respond to the child abuse allegations in Miami County. So we coordinate the efforts of law enforcement, CPS, um victim witness, our prosecutor's office, and then our mental health and medical providers that respond to those kids. um by having them come to our agency, they can be interviewed in a neutral kid-friendly environment um by a trained specialist um child forensic interviewer. So, we're not having to to do those things at like the police department or some of the other places that maybe wouldn't be so kid-friendly. Um and then we kind of wrap around the family, provide medical um services, me free mental health services to those kiddos and really just try to make sure that they can get what they need to start their journey to healing. Um so, we opened a little over 3 years ago. Um, and what I like to do every year is just share with you kind of our numbers so you can see what we've done or kind of what's changed or what the updates are for the past. Um, the next slide after that just has our um, total kids that we saw last year. So, we saw about a 35% increase from 2024 to 2025. Um, this was our uh, total number of children served and this was all of Miami County. Um what I tell people this is not all of the child abuse investigations. We can't handle primarily the um sexual abuse, severe physical abuse, any minor victims of human trafficking that are identified in the county as well as any kids. We kind of have a catchall called witness to

violence. If the kid witnesses a homicide, uh a severe domestic violence or some kind of crime. That's why I tell people if they've witnessed a crime and somebody needs to talk to them, that's what we do. Um so that was our total number of children served. Like I said, that was up about 35%. Type of abuse, we continue to see the majority of sexual abuse cases. Um, so you can see the breakdown. Physical abuse, those are um typically severe cases that are likely um maybe needing medical treatment are going to result in maybe some um criminal charges. Neglect is the next category. Um c-sects, extortion is the next category after that. And other kind of is our category that captures, like I said, some of those witness to violence. um we had a rise in those situations this past year as well. This is just the age breakdown. So um this number this percentage stays pretty has stayed pretty consistent for us. You can see just the the percentage of children that we see um come through the center. So the majority is that gray which is our 11 to 17. So our school age kiddos um jurisdiction. So this gives you the whole breakdown law enforcement wise. So we um any law enforcement agency in Miami County or any child that lives in our county, if if one of those is true, they can come through our center. Um so if the kid lives here, maybe the crime happened in a different community, we could still see that kid. Um or vice versa. So this just has it broke down a little bit more by the law enforcement jurisdictions. Um of particular interest probably to you all is that lighter blue color. Um that is West Milton. We had 17 um kiddos that met our criteria for um CAC services last year. Um I broke it down a little bit more for you too so that you could see um I didn't include this on the PowerPoint, but I just went back to see just out of curiosity. So in

2023 we saw four children from West Milton. 2024 we saw 11 and then this past like I said 2025 we saw um 17 which for you all was a 54% increase. Um, this has a breakdown in cases versus kids. So, what I mean by that is we might have one case and there was five kids in that one case or we might have um or flip-flop. So, we had a couple situations where the case met the criteria. It was screened in. We didn't end up doing a forensic interview. We had one child who wasn't quite verbal enough to participate. We had one who had been interviewed previously and and due to some other concerns made the the decision not to reinter. So that gives the breakdown of cases and out of those cases which kids receive forensic interviews. Um and we broke it down by month for you all. These are just some other things that we provide. So we do try to provide some presentations training to our community if folks are interested in learning more about child abuse or how they can help prevent or recognize it. Um we do that. We also do mandated reporter training. So we do some of those for schools or anybody basically who asks who has staff that works with kids. We can help with that as well. Um this past year we finished training all of our law enforcement in Miami County. It took us a little bit to get through everyone and so in 2025 we finished up with Troy Pekqua and TIP. West Milton was one of the first departments that we were able to get trained. So props to you guys for jumping on that quickly. Um just some other highlights. You can skip to the next slide. Um we do since we've opened we've added two additional staff members. We now have a therapist on site who provides free um trauma- based therapy to the kiddos that come through the center. Um so we're able to get those kids seen a lot of time same week um without having to be weight listed without having to send them out of our county and without having to bill them. So that's been a huge um benefit for the kids and families that we serve. Just

talked a little bit about funding for folks that are interested in numbers and all those types of things. kind of a little fun fact. We continue to to serve for much less than the n national average. So, um nationally other CAC's across the country, it costs them about $2,500 to serve a child. Um locally, we do that for about $12.95. So, we are um proud of that. We also because of our growth are looking to um add some additional staff though as well to try to help with the influx of of the need for interviews. These are just some comments. So we um survey not only the multi-disiplinary team, so that team that we work with that I mentioned at the beginning, but we also provide um surveys for families after they come through the center just to get feedback on what we're doing well and what we can maybe improve upon. Um this might have been your suggestion, your suggestion at our steering committee was to include some of that in these presentations. So these were comments that were pulled directly from the surveys um that we give to caregivers afterwards. Um and the goal is to be a safe, comfortable environment for these families and kids to come to. We want it to feel very different than um some other places that we used to talk to kids and we want them to um get what they need and have all those services in one spot. And so um those were some of the the comments that we received the past year. And I think that's it is so I'm open to any questions if anyone has anything um that they'd like to ask. Like I said, this is just a kind of yearly here's what we've done. We appreciate your support. Um we um are really proud of what we've been able to build. Um your community and your chief and police department has been instrumental in that as well. Um chief writes on our steering committee um that meets quarterly and kind of helps guide and direct the program. And so um we're super super happy to be here and thankful for you guys' support.

Yeah. Uh just one question on the highlights. Um, you have on here that you renewed contracts with five school districts. I didn't see all the school districts in Miami County on that. Um, is there is there reason to just take time or

So, we um when in early 2023, Erin's law passed and Erin's law required all public schools to provide sexual abuse prevention training for K through 12. Um, we initially purchased a curriculum and did the training to be the facilitators for that and then offered that free of charge to our school districts because they didn't have anything at that time. All of them kind of jumped on and and were using that program. Now that it's been out for 3 years, the schools come out with some like free online versions like through public school works and other options that they do for um some of the other things that they're required to to present. And so some of them have decided to use that instead. So that's why there's a difference.

Milton Union was one of the first schools that uh three years ago jumped on and she actually came here and I think was one of the first schools that she did. Yeah. Yeah. We trained all of the staff. There was a there was a staff training component to that law as well as a kid component. And so we went out and did all the staff training components for every school district, all the public ones except for Newton. Um and then we had most of those districts jump on as well to that curriculum. Okay. Yeah, sounds great. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else?

I do have a question. Um, first of all, thank you for what you do for our children. This just breaks my whole heart. Like I I learned more about the program in a meeting one time and I just I had to walk out of the room. Um, is there my understanding is you guys have a need for foster parents.

Yeah. So that's a Yeah. So Isaac's Place started as a foster care program. we are a a program under them. So that is kind of their initial bread and butter if you will. They start as a foster care program. So they license and recruit and train um treatment foster homes in like the Miami Valley area. And so they are continuing doing that. This program is under their umbrella, but we function pretty separately in that we've got a separate steering committee, a separate budget. We don't have a revenue source um like the foster care side was. So we um fund raise and write grants and that kind of stuff, but they are always looking for foster homes. For sure. Can you share if somebody wants to be a foster parent?

Yeah. Yeah. So our website has um I think there's like a kind of like a quick tab you can go on and click if you're interested for more information. You click that and fill it out. Then they have somebody that will contact them. Um it even has some of the basic requirements on there as well. So you can see background checks, drug screening, they do a safety audit, a home inspection, um those types of things. 24 hours of training to get them kind of up and running, and then provide all the support and ongoing training that's needed to keep them licensed. Yep. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Good question.

Bob Liebarger is the director of Isaiah's Place and uh he's been very supportive of the CAC, but he's also a great resource for a lot of things in the community. Bob's just a great guy. Yeah. Thank you. Anything else? Thank you guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Next, we have the Ohio Rural Health Hub presentation. All right. Uh thank you so much for having me everybody. My name is Brad Troel. I am the president and CEO of Market First. I work directly with a local uh organization business called Buffalo Pacific. Uh Buffalo Pacific has been around for about 10 years now and they've created some new patented technology uh around medical and around uh financial services needs. And so I don't know if the the presentation was going to to go up.

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Okay. Yeah. Perfect. Um, you can go on to the next slide if you will. Uh, so yeah, again, just I'm a networking and consulting firm as far as that goes. We just help kind of connect the dots and uh help help folks like Buffalo Pacific to uh you find find folks like yourself who might be interested in doing something in their communities. We can go on to the next one. So Buffalo Pacific is actually located in Troy, Ohio. They have an office in Troy. And as you can see in this building on the left side is the financial services side. In the middle is the rotunda that actually has a meeting and conference area. And then on the right is the the medical facility. Um that medical facility was actually utilized uh uh primarily by uh by Premier Health as well. So they actually did actually have you know a medical clinic operating in Troy. So if any of you folks want to come and take a look at the technology there uh you're more than welcome. uh one of the things that that they really have uh patented and really specialized in is this 3D teleresence technology. So it's literally like Star Wars type of thing where um it's a teleresent 3D technology so you have an interactive conversation with your physician. Um another thing that I've been talking to a lot of municipalities, a lot of villages around the state of Ohio and a lot of them are also focused on um behavioral health and mental health issues in their communities. um they see a rise in in opioid addictions and and different issues. So um bringing this technology in to have that 3D interactive kind of uh interaction and holographic technology can also help with some of these other needs as well. Uh you can go to the next slide. So these Omni cottage is basically just a small uh building uh nothing nothing very it's just a cottage kind of building uh small medical facility and I'll show you guys as well the uh let's see show you a little blueprint as

well it's just very simple as you can see waiting and reception area um the omni carriage and present is in the exam room so it looks like a medical facility one thing that we are going to include is a special entry in the back for um for ambulances because we've seen that as being a need for you know rural health areas. So it's just basically you know coffee restroom area, reception, waiting room. It's very very small and uh and and actually these are these range in size anywhere from 660 ft all the way up to 3,000 square ft. So, um, the one in in Buffalo Pacific is actually 8,000 square feet, but again, that's a multi-unit type of facility. Uh, you can go to the next slide. So, again, we talked about this Omni Cottage, what it's going to be, a compact community-based clinic. It expands access and essential medical and behavioral health care to remote areas. That's really what we're focused on. Um, I've been talking to a lot of communities. There's a huge amount of interest. In fact, there's uh there's several funding options available because I know that's going to be one of the questions that we talk about. Um the state the the um Trump administration has in the big beautiful bill released $50 billion over the next five years uh for all 50 states that's available for rural health initiatives. Um that state that money has been passed down to the states. Ohio's received as of January 1st $26 million. um they have their first round of funding available uh that was actually due in in March and their second round of funding available is coming up in April. So um some of those some of those initiatives uh for Ohio specifically it's called the Ohio uh I think rural transformation program if you want to look it up but it's uh basically it's it's broken down into different parts behavioral health's a part of that pharmaceuticals are a part of that but also a facility m facility building and maintenance is a part of that and of course new technologies to

you know bring more advanced uh technologies into rural health. So, we fit all of those needs. Not all of them. We could do a pharmacy as well, but that's not really what we're talking about today, but um you can go to the next slide if you'd like. So, we're also working with some some additional folks named Vital Link and they provide additional technology and they also provide some agreements. Uh for example, they have an agreement with New Health in California and New Health has the ability to h provide that 247 remote uh physician network. if that's needed for your community. Uh so they'll they'll charge a percentage obviously to um the insurance and then I we can also make it so there's some for sort of a kickback to the municipality. Um but they also have created several patented technologies. Buffalo Pacific has 15 I believe patents and um Vitalink has several as well. But the 3D holographic communication technologies, Buffalo Pacific, but now with Vitalink, we also have AI powered diagnostics, which basically when you come into a scanning room, uh it's an AI powered scan that can tell you basically what's wrong with you in a lot of different ways. It can tell you serious issues that you have, can tell you your weight, it can tell you your blood pressure, it can tell you your your height, everything. And and this is all from a digital scan. um optical B vital scannings. Um brand new preventative scannings especially for uh breast cancer awareness and some of those types of things. Um there's quite a few preventative scannings that I think will be necessary for you know rural rural health folks rural folks to be able to get these screenings and then if they do find something then they can go into a larger facility and be treated. Um mental multilingual teleahalth I believe we have 267 languages available. I know that's not going to be an issue here as much but you know we do have other languages available if if if there are folks from from other countries who actually you know in other languages who who utilize the services um and mental health support as well. We also have a patent

that we're developing on um mental health support and multiodule specialty integration. So, um, the mental health part is really something that's, uh, you know, key to my heart and, uh, the the president and CEO, David Allen, I know it's key to his heart as well, as well as these, uh, you know, facilities. I remember he telling me that David telling me that, um, when he was a boy, you know, the doctor used to come to their house and they had seven brothers and sisters and he loved that. He loved having a doctor close and and where they were in proximity. And then he came about 10 or 12 and then he had to go a half hour, 45 minutes in to see his doctor in in the town. And so he he was like, I'm going to solve that one of these days. And this is kind of one of the things that he's trying to do is is bring rural health into uh you know, more of the forefront of where we're at. So you can go on to the next one. So, this is on the uh financial services side of Buffalo Pacific, but this is kind of just a a portrait, a picture to give you an idea of what the 3D holographic imaging technology looks like. It's actually it'll it'll be like a person that's sitting there talking to you and not just like a screen. So, it's pretty cool technology. The doctor also, the physician will also have a small device in their in their uh physical location that will be able to connect and have that 3D experience. So, pretty pretty neat stuff. Um, yeah, as we can see, there's a huge need in the state of Ohio for uh rural health clinics, for F uh FQC's, which are federally qualified healthc care centers, and and there's just not enough, right? I mean, we just need more access to health care within the state of Ohio. So, that is really what we're trying to accomplish here. You go to the next one. And of course, around the country as well. We're hoping this will be a nationwide thing. We want this to be the Dollar General of rural health, if you will. you can go on to the next one. And again, so what we would like to do as far as next steps, um, obviously you're in the driver's seat. You know, it's your community. Uh, and we, you know, what's best for you. You know, the contracts you have. Like I said, you've worked with Premier Health.

We know, but you may not want to work with Premier Health as much. We don't I don't know what you're what you're looking at or how you want to pursue that. Um, but there are funding options available. Like I said, there's the the the grant money available. There's also funding available for some of these um you know health networks who will come in providers who will uh there's all kinds of them popping up all over these areas that I talked to. Mary Routan for example in Bel Fountain area and and Mercy there in St. Paris and there's all these different organizations who are coming in and trying to you know get it get into these uh get into these rural communities and I think it's fantastic and we are able to work with them as well. So you know if they want to utilize our technology that's fine. and we can work with them and provide the absolute best care for for you folks. If any of you would like to come into Buffalo Pacific and Troy and see the technology in action, you're certainly welcome. Uh we've already done that for a couple of communities and we'll continue to. Um after that there will be a just a memorand of understanding you know just to understand uh exactly what we're looking at as far as where the location will be for the specific um you know omni portal or the cottage and uh what the funding will be coming from and then what the steps and planning procedures will be as far as the actual roll out to ribbon coming ceremony. So, with that, I also provided you with uh Q&A's document, so you can look that over or feel free to ask me any questions that you might have.

I did not look this over yet. Maybe I should have done that first, but I do have one question. Yes. Um, so I understand that you represent Buffalo Pacific and they're on the technological side. Um so there my understanding there is not a set healthcare provider already in place that you would be selling the facility and the technology to us as an asset to then find a healthcare provider to utilize it.

Well I'm saying that we do we we we do have new health available. We do have a contract through vital link with new health and that's a organization in California who can provide 247 care. But no you are not locked into that. We can work with with really any health care provider w that you choose. So if you have a specific healthcare provider that you choose and you'd like to work with, we can certainly utilize them their technology and and we can work together. Okay. And then so billingwise, new health out of California that may or may not be within or outside of the insurance, you know, sphere for anybody in here. Sure.

Like it all gets built through them, right? Anyone that would go and utilize this. So that kind of might be out of the wheelhouse for well and that's why you know and I've worked with a lot of different um villages and every village has their pick and choose of local and regional. Most of them are choosing to go more toward regional uh providers and for that reason because they they know the local insurance plans and they have already those contracts in in place with those insurance plans. Um, no. The new health is just one option. And they do I I I I'll have to I don't know off the top of my head, but I know they do have a huge list of of insurance uh providers that they work with, okay?

Of insurance agents they work with. And I can get that list for you as well if that's something that you would need. Um, but the point is is that I don't think that's going to be a game stopper as far as who we work with. I think what we need to establish is is this something that the community needs and what are the proper steps in getting there, right? And those would be one of the steps that we'll have to tackle along the way. So, I'm going to have a lot of questions. I'm c I'm So, you guys would come in and like build this building, the the cottage building. Yes, ma'am. And then run a medical facility that you could partner potentially with like Premier Health. Correct. To have like a mini doctor's facility. That's correct. And it's mostly teleaalth.

Yes, ma'am. Yes. So you'll have a nurse practitioner uh normally one to two nurse practitioners within the actual cottage and then from there it would be primarily teleaalth. Um what we would like to do and what we've been talking about with other some other villages is they'd like to tie it in with their fire station as well. So like I said we have an ambulance access to that and maybe some additional support for you know emergency type services where they can utilize the clinic for emergency services as well. Okay. And then what like what would be our role? Mhm. Would it cost the village money?

Mhm. Um well, that's that's going to depend on which direction you take as far as financing. If you decide to go the federal grant or the state grant route, then no, that's going to be grant money that's going to be provided from the state of Ohio. If you uh do apply for that grant and are awarded that grant, then you can utilize that money for the construction and maintenance of the property and the project as well as the technology therein. Okay? And that state grant money came from the federal grant money from the big beautiful bill. That's correct. The 206 million. That's correct. So in state money, I mean it is it's trickle down.

That's right. So the the state money is being rel the federal money is being released to all 50 states from what I understand. And um not every state I don't know if every state has applied for it. They had to apply before the end of last year. I know that Ohio did did apply and Ohio was granted $26 million. Okay, they've only released maybe 10 million of that right now for this year. However, they're going to have another $200 million next year. So, there's $200 million available for every year for the next 5 years until 2030. That's fantastic.

So, we're in a really good window right now as far as that's concerned. The other thing would be if a premier health or some other network wanted to come in and partner with the village with ourselves etc. And we could, you know, they could fund most of that or, you know, as well. Or the third option would of course be, and I have that in my Q&A, the third option would be some sort of a funding effort from the community, right? Where they want this to be a community-owned portal. And like you're saying, very um uh low low rate uh you know, cheaper I don't want to say cheaper, just just less expensive type of model that will be a communityrun um you know, facility. So it really in your hands if this is what I also say to villages typically when the municipality or the village provides the land then obviously the village or municipality is going to be in charge of of running the facility maintain the facility and will receive the funds from the facility right and we believe that there will be extra funds I mean if you were able to work for example with a provider let's just say um you know it probably be this much but let's say you have 20 people per day that come through six days a week and it's uh $50 a person that you get as the municipality, okay, as the village. That's $316,000 a year. So, that can more than fund the nurse practitioners. It can provide all the maintenance, anything additional that you'll need and probably put some money back into um you know, the vill's hands. So, I know we're not we're not doing this to make money. That's not the purpose of this. The purpose of this is certainly to help people. But then for example you might be able to take that money and put it into behavioral health where we have an additional portion of the building on the back you know a specific place that has another omni cottage or whatever I'm sorry another omni portal in the back for specifically uh behavioral health and uh can be kind of multifunctional or even you know um banking solutions or things like that.

So there there's a lot of different directions we can go and quite frankly villages are taking all different directions. This is kind of like the wild west and I'm having fun with it. I'm trying to lasso it all together and keep it all together. But but yes, thank you for your questions. Any more? Yeah. How many communities have you put these in so far?

Yeah, that's a great question. We're just getting started. The grant money just got released. So, um I'll tell you I I have to be careful because I'm under NDA not to get too deep in the woods, but we have nationwide interest. Um, from the sounds of it, there there could potentially be one of these in every single county in Minnesota, um, in the next couple of years. We're hoping that they'll be in every, you know, all over the place in Ohio as well and other states. Um, we also been working with several universities who who would like these medical facilities. We're working with um, you know, tribal nations. We're working out in in New Mexico. We're working in um um DC. We're working in um, Louisiana and several other places. So, to be honest with you, we're just getting started, but there's a huge amount of interest.

Perfect. Thank you. But we do have a facility that was operational in Troy that you can come and see. Perfect. Yeah. So, did you work with the city of Troy on that one? That was privately funded by Buffalo Pacific and Premier Health. Yeah. And Premier Health was involved with that. That's correct.

Okay. So, like because we do have that relationship with Premier Health. So, like there would be a possibility and I'm just speaking for me. I don't know. And this is I'm learning about this right now. Um cuz I don't know that the city necessarily wants to be in the medical field if we want to own like have that additional responsibility. And I don't know like that's just kind of the question that comes up in my mind is I don't know that we want the responsibility of running a medical facility, but like if you partnered with Premier Health and we got grant funding to pay for this building. That's right. Okay. And then and then Premier Health can run the day-to-day operations.

Do you know if the one in Troy is Premier Health providers? Um I I I I I again I'm under I'm under a contractual like I don't know all the details of what that contract was between Buffalo Pacific and Premier Health, but I know that when um you know when when when it was operational uh yes, it was absolutely through Premier Health. I'm not exactly sure who or what the agreement was or Yeah, just thinking if they're already doing it there, it'd be easy enough to and yeah, they've already worked with us in the past and uh they know our technology and we've actually increased the technology stack since then. So, I don't think they'd have any issue with that as well.

I have one more question. Yes, sir. And not to play devil's advocate because he doesn't need one, but um in this funding we're talking about from the big beautiful bill that was released to the state level, this is not exclusive to Buffalo Pacific or what they're doing, correct? No, sir. That can be accessed. So, um, again, what is stopping a healthc care provider from moving into an area and opening their clinic and partnering with the community cuz obviously this is all very neat and the the hologram part. I get that that is patented, but tellahalth is not exclusive to what Buffalo Pacific is doing. That's everywhere. I go to my doctor now and I don't even want to and I have to talk to somebody on the camera. So I guess what where where's the value added

other than Buffalo Pacific getting their slice from not going directly with a healthcare provider and opening a rural clinic, you know, of some sort.

Yeah, that's that's an excellent question and and and the and the answer is that you absolutely can use that grant money to work with a local provider. Um, absolutely. And what m what makes the difference between Buffalo Pacific I would say is certainly the number one thing is our advanced technology um not only the 3D holographic technology but again the vital scanning technology and all the sc all the technology that we've built into this platform to make sure that your that your that your clients and the folks here will have the absolute best care uh unmatched literally. So that's one. Um the second one I think is um just the fact that we are I think a provider would maybe have more of a difficulty working with the community where it's community owned land whereas Buffalo Pacific would have less of an issue with that. Right. I think it we would be more willing to work with you, I would think, and give you more of the reigns, if you will, and more of the lead leadership um and uh more of the control than maybe some of these other institutions may.

Does it have to be on community owned end? It does not. Nope. We have we have folks who actually I mean one community is looking at turning a ride aid into you know an Omni cottages. So that's that's one of the options. There's certainly different ways and and procedures and they and there's another uh community that we're working with who wants to do actually a community center and they want to have medical included in that community center. They want to have behavioral health included in that community center. They may even and you know even put some financial services in that, but they're going to have other things as well. Pickle ball and and different things within this community center. So, it's going to it's going to be uh included within their vision.

Okay. Okay, one last follow-up question, just because I'm familiar with the location in Troy, uh cuz I go to Marian's Pizza a lot. It never seems very busy. Yeah. Is that operational still? What's

at this point? No. And the reason the reason that it's not is because of two things. One, I think that was the the co 19 thing. That was a very difficult challenge for Premiere and for this situation. And the second one was they decided to transform their business model from being a day-to-day uh facility to being they want to take this nationwide worldwide. So it's more of a um storefront if you will. Um it's more of a uh um Yeah, it's more it's more of a showcase. Okay. Like a model home.

It's a model Y. Is there an operational one within I know you said you're just getting these kind of this this specific. Yeah, I mean the grant the grant just got released in in the end of in the end of December and we just started I mean we we have the technology built that's what we did the whole last year because we were already going in this direction anyway but we did not pursue we were pursuing universities and other other avenues uh but we're only pursuing uh rural health now that's really okay but as of this moment we don't really have like a a proven model out there at this moment no okay just okay yep questions thank and you guys will fill out the grants and stuff.

Um well that would that would depend. Vital Link does have grant writers available but um that's something that would have to be contracted you know between the community and the Vital Link. That's helpful. Yeah, sure. Those are big grants. Yeah, sure. All right. Are there any other questions? No. All right. Thank you folks. Have a fantastic day. Thank you. All right. Next, we have the RFQ for wastewater treatment plant update. I guess that's probably been Thank you. Love you. Sorry. So, okay. So, um

Jeff uh Sheridan sent these out. He he picked um they picked three um engineering firms and then they advertised also for the RFQS for the the wastewater treatment plants. So he sent them out to LJB, Wesler and DLZ. Um we didn't get any other um inquiries back. So, um, Ben asked me to, you know, get a committee together, get these, you know, gone through, so we keep on the timeline. So, uh, we formed a committee. Um, it was myself, Cory McCarrol, Ken Armstrong from the wastewater treatment plant, um, Jimmy Gardner, and Megan Shaw from the front office. So we we had uh like an introduction meeting. Um we talked about you know what our responsibilities were going to be and um you know we had two weeks. We were going to you know dive into these RFQS, look at their um qualifications, look at their you know we asked them you know the scope of the work because it's provided in the packet we sent to them. um their uh you know qualifications and um their if they have enough time to do that project as a firm if they're they're not too busy. So we went through all that. Um and then each committee member is given three grade sheets, one for each firm and they're graded on the experience um the project manager and the personnel. the technical approach and understanding of the whole project itself that's laid out in the packet. Um their location, their experience with funding and um their workload and

availability. So, um all five committee members um picked Wesler to because um their understanding of the project, their um uh their personnel, their experience, and their uh funding. um there's they get so much more grant money and more zero interest loans and principal forgiveness loans. So I mean we looked at every aspect um like I said Wesler everybody picked Wesler as their um the best firm. So uh the totals so out of 500 possible points adding all five committee members together Wesler had 461 uh LJB had 417 and DLZ had 404. Um, also, um, their references. I put together five questions and called some of their references. DLZ, well, Wesler and LJB gave their references, contacts, and phone numbers. Uh, DLZ just put their the jobs they did with no references or or, you know, contacts or phone numbers. So, I did call them. We put together five questions. So they all, you know, were pretty happy with each firm. So, um, that didn't really weigh into the decision, but other than that, I just, if you guys have any questions,

I mean, sounds like you guys looked through it in the grant opportunities or the no interest loans. I mean, that seems huge also that Yeah. So there's um there's a lot of money out there yet if you know so hopefully we can get this all going and cuz it's a it's a time thing now with the wastewater plant taking time off. So yeah, so we'll get that we'll get it going and uh so hopefully we get some good money and get get it built and Yeah.

Yeah. And then once once Wesler is notified, then we will work with them to put together like the proposal with the construction plans, designs, uh the bidding and funding, securing funding. Um then we would bring that back to council for council to review and then uh answer any questions, make any potential changes. Then council would vote. And in the meantime, we'd be working on like a 0% loan, which would pay for like upfront engineering costs that would then be rolled into the construction loan once that's secured. Thank you for doing all of this hard work.

Sounds like the committee was pretty busy. Sounds like a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Um

agreed. Actually, uh, Cory and Ken had a lot of good input because they talked to a lot of, um, you know, people in the business and they they get a lot of feedback from like from the PLC's they use to run the plants to, you know, uh, like some engineer firms, they have they they hire co-firms, which if there's a a a plan change, you know, that's an addition ial $20,000 or if it's, you know, if you want to call them for something, it's $2,000 an hour, you know, you know, 2 hour minimum, you know, it's just so they really looked into the the whole story of of the funds. So,

sounds good. Excellent. Thanks. Yep. All right. Next, we have a retail strategies update. I guess you're looking at me. You're the You're in charge. I'm not in charge. I don't want to be. Um, so retail strategies, we have a contract. We have two contracts. We have the commercial attraction side, which is working with, you know, the Still Water Development. Um,

the the large national commercial chains. Um, and we can do an update with them like virtually. They can send us information, whatever, like kind of questions if you have questions. um they just kind of chug along their own pace. They will be going to the ICSC in Las Vegas. And thankfully I don't have to go again this year because they are going to represent us and schedule meetings and they will give us a full like book of everybody they met with, what happened, what the conversations were about. So they're just they're still chugging along. I know they've been to several different conferences representing us. So the other side of the contract, the other contract that we have is for the downtown and we have a strategic plan. They drafted it, we reviewed it, and we have a meeting on April 7th. Um that's going to be a virtual meeting for the just the team to kind of go over everything. So the plan it really it came together really well and I'm really excited to see like some of the ideas they had. Um we are going to have a lot of committees. We need a lot of volunteers. Like if you are watching this, I need you to volunteer because we need we need a lot of volunteers. Um

can I say one small thing? And for volunteers, it's not like a forever volunteer. It's to see a project through that maybe is like a 9 to 12 month thing and move on. So it's not a lifetime volunteer opportunity. We want it to be,

which is great because sometimes Sometimes you get burned out when you volunteer for a really long time on something. Um, one of the action plans they had is so one of the big things that affects council is there's some pieces of legislation, the vacant building registration. I think we're pretty close to getting that through. Um, that's a big one and there's a couple different items that they talked about as legislation um that we can work on. And then see I have notes so I apologize. So one area that we're missing now because Mr. Sheridan was part of that downtown committee is we don't have anybody at this point from West Milton Village staff representing the the village of West Milton on this team. So, one of the ideas I had, and we can talk about this as council, um, because I know Ben is probably way up past here, um, but if we had a member of staff, if that is okay with council and Ben, um, had a member of staff who wanted to be a part of this team. It's not a I mean, it's it's a big commitment, but it's not this massive full-time job commitment. Um, it would give somebody an opportunity to grow, to learn, to be a part of our downtown revitalization. Um, if does if council has thoughts on that, like having a staff member, whoever that may be. I don't have anybody in mind. Um, I kind of touched base with Ben a little bit about it, um, to fill to fill that need. And we're going to need that on the the commercial side as well, like a liaison to for retail strategies. And it could be two

separate staff members, it could be Ben, it could be whoever, but just kind of an idea to throw out there to give somebody an opportunity to develop themselves and their skill set. Um, I'm reading my notes. Can I ask a quick question or should I? Of course. Go ahead. Okay. on this the you're talking about the commitment for one of our staff members on this downtown revitalization team. What kind of time commitment is that? More specifically, how often does that team meet? Once every couple months. Once every couple months and that's to kind of do what? Review the suggestions from retail strategy.

Yeah. So, so far we have discuss we have worked on the strategic plan and then it would be the implementation. Okay. And it would probably be more of a time commitment once we have that strategic plan and we're actually implementing it. Okay. But then that way somebody in staff knows what we're doing. I'm sorry. The strategic plan is they provided or you guys are working on that with them to create it. They've created it. They've created a strategic plan. Yes. And then we went through asked questions and they're finalizing it and we'll have it midappril.

Cool. So with that strategic plan, what all is included in that for the residential um portion uh or downtown? Is this something that comes to council that we have to review and approve? Um, how is things structured with the charter with retail strategies with that? I'm just trying to find out how that all that's a good that all works.

I mean, we could approve it if you wanted to. So, there's four there's four key areas. Um, policy administration, which is council and legislation, um, design, tourism and promotion, and then economic vitality. So, there's going to be different teams that will do like one of the things they mentioned was we've got a couple alleyways um in between buildings that there's not a road there. Um I'm thinking like between Sugarland Social and 28 Marketplace there's that like grassy area. So there will be a team who can work together to design something and implement that whether it's like seating or benches or murals because we love murals. Um, so there would be a team like to implement that

or I was thinking there um suggestion a team to get downtown merchants all together and so hosting like first Fridays where all stores stay open you know past 400 p.m. um once a month. So there needs to be some sort of team and a lead on that team who contacts every store owner and sets up some group email or group Facebook or text chain. um gets them all on board, works with some sort of marketing design. And that was one of the things too that we keep all the design cohesive. And so it's not my design of like geometric and yours of '90s jazz, you know, whatever, but we have this cohesive theme to what we're trying to push through the town. um the um the signage um making even it like a walking trail, signage for parking, signage for like a mile um mile loop or something that you kind of take the shopping trail um signage for a Dora if that was going to be part of it or Dora is its own thing. So there's really like the I think building um building owners uh store owners getting together and how can we promote our business um marketing and murals and paintings and how do you just make things look a little more look a little more cutesy or get people here tune lighting some benches like some potted plants like it's not like millions of dollars but it's just having the plywood taken off a storefront window and having some lights on at night to make it not look vacant. So, some small things, but it takes committees to make those things happen and get everyone on board and um have those conversations.

So, for those four key areas within the strategic plan, once that gets adopted or approved, then you're looking for committees to work in those four specific areas within the strategic plan. So, we need to ultimately reach out to community members to see, you know, who we can get that would be involved in that type of thing. Um, within that strategic plan, I'm assuming that they're also looking at the current buildings, facilities downtown that are vacant and they're maybe up for um rent or lease. I think the uh uh the old West Milton in is back up on the market for um for rent or lease. So, um I I I had heard that um we got a couple of other places downtown. So, this is all intertw strategic plan of what they're looking at.

Mhm. Okay. Yeah. So, the comprehensive land use plan for an example is like the whole town and this is the downtown. Okay. So, this is one section of the whole town. But then they also had ideas for the other like um the broom's building where the olives pets with the doggy sw. Yeah.

Um like they'll give us ideas of things that we could do to freshen up that building. I mean it looks great and I'm so happy that there are tenants in there. Um but so they'll give us ideas for those also and then the committees will help implement that. You know, like the flowers don't the we have flower pots downtown, but those flowers don't miraculously show up. They get Casey and Sarah Cop go out and they plant flowers and they pick out the flowers and you know, they do those things. So, it's finding those committees to do those types of things. Got it. Okay.

Thank you. and then we will present like once it's done it will be presented to council and community. Um so then I want to tie something into this while we're here. Um one of the one of the key factors in the presentation was a lot of project revival project revival project revival. And the girl that does the like Facebook stuff, she's not an expert at Facebook although she pretends to be. It's me. And I'm allowed to insult myself. So, they talked about like Project Revival, Project Revival. And the thing with Project Revival is it's all volunteers. And they also mentioned the name, you know, it doesn't you're not going to be visiting your family and look up Project Revival if you're from out of town. So, one of the things that I've talked about is creating a Main Street program and Heritage Ohio, who is like the umbrella for the main street programs, works very closely with retail strategies. Um, I actually went to the Heritage Ohio state conference last year with retail strategies and we did a presentation together to Heritage Ohio. Um, so we're working, we're creating that. We're doing what's called a dart assessment. It's a downtown assessment resource team and that visit is on June 2nd and 3rd and Mr. Todd and myself are going to participate. And I made a Facebook post because I don't know how to do Facebook, but I did make a post and I've got at least 20 people who have reached out and asked to volunteer and want to be involved. And let me tell you, like I give the credit for that to God. So, um, I've got a lot of really good people that want to get involved and want to volunteer. There's a couple

that actually have shops at 28 Marketplace, which is absolutely incredible. So, that they will take what Retail Strategies has done with that and also it I mean I I kind of foresee the the Main Street West Milton program and retail strategies working hand in hand. It's kind of like in my mind retail strategy is the downtown side is like the tourniquet to stop the bleeding and the main street program is the healthc care plan for the rest of our life because that can operate in perpetuity. We can get somebody who is a paid staff member who man is the executive director that manages that program that works with the volunteers that secures funding that promotes events um that gets donations writes grants and that's their actual like paid job. So that I'm really grateful that I had so much good response and we're still looking for more volunteers. Um June 2nd and 3rd we're going to have a really good couple days with Heritage Ohio being here. They are incredible people and they also work with downtown and historic revitalization. So our vacant buildings, they can help that that executive director will work to find businesses to come into those buildings and they will work with getting those buildings occupied. Um, and if you're familiar, like Tip City has the Tip City Downtown Partnership, Piqua has Main Street Piqua, Main Street Troy, and I'm working with all their executive directors. They, this was all their idea, but they are amazing and they do amazing things. and all those events that they do in Tip City and in

Troy, the concerts on Fridays in the summer, the big concert on June 6, they all they they do those events, but they also keep they keep the pulse of the downtown going. And so that's kind of we're working on all those together. Um, in my head it makes sense how they're separate, but it's hard to explain it how it's separate because it really does all work together. I think the key thing that we need really is just someone from staff. Um, and I think that's all I've got. Does anybody more question? I have answers. Just one. Go ahead.

No, I I was going to just provide more information. How just curious, how often does retail strategies meet with Ron and Jason with uh development details and discussion up on the hill with Still Water Crossings? I will find that answer, but I know they have been in communication. Okay, very good. Thank you.

So, one of the things I think was the downtown beautifification awards that um you sent out the email. That's a strategy through them. Um they have other strategies that was to provide kind of um matching little grants for um downtown businesses like if you want to paint or put new windows or something if you put in a thousand we put in a thousand kind of thing. It just gives us more ideas of how to work with the downtown business owners or building owners um and things that have worked in other communities that are similar size to us. So I think with them they do have um background to show us like hey this worked in a community of 7,500 people um and pictures and how that worked and how long it took. The other thing with Project Revival they put a lot of emphasis on what Project Revival has done but they said when people come to your town they don't search Project Revival so they don't know there's third Thursday or Rock the Hill. So that's where the main street and having it, you know, with West Milton um as one, those events will be West Milton events, not Project Revival.

Mhm.

So just to be clear, Project Revival will kind of just fade off and not exist anymore. Um which is okay. Like this isn't they all know this, right? um because it is a lot of volunteer effort and having a structured organization where there's we're just kind of guessing as we go along. Um but with Main Street, we have the support of the other Main Streets. We will have the support of an executive director where this is their professional job and we have the support of all the Main Streets. And Coington's also working on a main street, I believe. I'm not speaking for Cington, but there's the conversation and we would be the first county in Ohio, I believe, to have every like city have a Main Street program, which is just a cool thing to do for Miami County.

Well, thank you for the update. Thank you for what you and Casey and Jennifer, I think you're all three involved in retail strategies, so um thanks for all the work with that. Thanks for the update. if we could just get these periodically. That's great information. I think it's great for the public. It's great for us. So, thanks for all you're doing. For sure. I think for sure the next round is going to be big updates when these committees are forming and putting things into action. Sounds good. Thanks. Thank you.

All right. Well, Megan and Megan both Megan. All right. Next, we have 2026 paving program and private parking lot.

Yes. So, I'll do I'll start with the paving program first. Um, so this this year, uh, if you break down West Milton, which is a long community, we really have three what we consider arterial streets that run north, south, and that would be Miami Street, of course, Main Street, and then J Street. Um, J Street gets So, we raid our we raid our streets and J Street's been going down on our pass ratings for years now, but we were waiting on uh the Bear Steel gas line project to get completed because it just made sense. So, it's been a long time coming really for J Street. Um, I think the pavement is around 20 years old, but if you consider the amount of traffic it takes versus some other uh streets in town, that's that's a pretty good pretty good lifespan. Um, so we' be we're looking at J Street from Edgar Avenue to uh south to Right Road. The reason we would stop at Wright Road is because from right to market, we've got some water mane through there that we've had six five breaks on. Probably

five breaks. Yeah. So, um, we've got some 10 in some old 10-in cast in there that we would want to replace prior to paving that last section. And the last section, it's a little bit wider, so the travel lanes are a lot wider, so it doesn't get uh, it has some construction cuts, but it's not as rough as the rest of J Street. Um, so we went out to for bid on that. Um, if you factor in on the bid sheet, um, what we had on budget and what I estimated, I estimated just for the paving and not including, uh, if we would need any risers for the manholes. I didn't include the ADA ramps, we would be at around 169 about 169,000. Um, we sealed bid this. We had two sealed bids. Um the lowest seal bid was from Filillmore Construction that did the work last year that did a really good job for us. Um they came in at 153 457. So we're we're we're underneath what I estimated by 32,000 on that. Um the only other things that factor into that are the ADA ramps. Um, but and so going back to waiting on the bare steel to be replaced, Tim can attest cuz he was out there through almost all of it. We had so much curb replaced and so much sidewalk replaced and ADA ramps um in that whole section uh that we only have four ramps, four ADA ramps to redo, which is incredible because if count the intersections, that's that's a lot of ADA ramps. Um and then secondly, um a program we started about five five to eight years ago was wherever we're paving, we go in and we we got to get those people to replace their curbs because if they don't, you know, Hamilton Street was a great example. Um it's it's hard on the street when the curbs breaking down and aesthetically it's not very pleasing.

Um, the good news on that is is after the bare steel replacement, we only have two locations for curb and then I found one sump pump. The sump pump's already going to be taken care of getting out of the street. So, that's not a problem. So, Tim, I've asked Tim to help me work with one particular location that has a lot of a lot of curb approach curb a business close to Hay Street. Um, so we've got additional estimates and we weren't we were just going to meet with them because of the price that we're talking about and uh kind of asking them to maybe do the curb and the approach at the same time. So Tim and I thought it was best if we just met with met with those people on site and uh threw out some ideas to try to get this done as cheap as possible. I did bid all of the work for the curb and co- construction came in cheapest on that. I anticipate two assessments. One would be on North J. It's a renter and uh the owner is not local. Um I've sent the second letter out per our ordinance and I have got a reply back from them yet. So my next step is to uh when Tim after Tim and I meet with Rudy's then I'll bring back to council, I'll have to send them the letter we discuss and then all of that for the assessment. Um so I will get that to you guys early. that way. Um we will we'd be planning on paving in um August um just like last year. The other part to that is is we are currently going through the um unidentified waterline program with OEPA which is m it's mammoth. Um we've we got the grant where we we keep track of all this uh in-house now which is great. Um but we have to identify every material line on J Street. Bay Street's an old street. So, you can imagine that a lot of that's going to be needing replaced. So, I

believe uh once the crew and we did get that vac truck that you or back trailer thanks to council for getting us that used back trailer which takes a lot of time away from it. So, I believe Tim's going to be out ahead marking those and then the crews are just going to be excavating them in the street. That way we're not tearing up grass and stuff. Um, so we will get those identified and if it's not copper then it's going to have to be replaced out of the rightway so we don't have to dig on that street. We will get the one water man break cuz we always get water main break after we pay the street. It's so aggravating. Uh but anyway, so that is all handled and I will get that to council um by way of award for the low bidder and also the assessments. Any questions on that? Okay. So secondly, um I know council member Fogle and myself met with um some people uh last year.

Yeah. Last spring maybe. Yeah.

And uh we talked about paving uh the parking lot and I don't think I have to tell you guys where the parking lot. I think you right now. Um so we we believe that they were going to be open to the idea. And it also turned out that one of the owners, their son, actually does as work. And um I got with manager Sheridan when he was here and I actually added an addendum to the bid that would have allowed this company to actually bid the paving program. The only the only area they were shy, they're not ODOT certified. And I always spec ODOT certified because then we make sure that we get people that use ODOT certified asphalt with the proper crews. However, um after kind of doing having a conversation with this gentleman, they would have qualified. Unfortunately, they didn't bid paving. Um I wish they would have, but they didn't. Um so, we're going back at that to see so see what we can do with that if council if council wishes that we still look at that.

Yes. Okay.

Yes, please. So, the only other thing I had on that was when I was going through some files. I've just been kind of dragging some files over as I find them. The biggest question that we were getting is, and I can bring it up on the GIS on the TV if you guys want me to, but uh you've got the parking lot that I showed you guys exactly how much and you know, all that, but then we have the parking lot to the north that belongs to the business and the or that multifamily. And then we have the post office parking lot. Well, um if you remember, I was kind of like the boots on the ground on this project the last time around. So, um but I did find that there were um people saying, "Well, okay, we would be we would be willing to do this, but why doesn't that parking why doesn't that parking lot over there have to do it? And then why doesn't the post office have to do it? Because it's as bad as this,

you know?" And I think they talked to us a little bit about that at our meeting, too. But I guess there were more inquiries to that that I knew. So that's what I'm bringing to council tonight is I obviously don't want to answer that for council, nor would I ever, but I don't really have an answer for them. I just want to know what council would like to do with that. I I've kind of always thought of it as one big parking lot and then when we started talking about it, it kind of ended at that post office, lavender alley, whatever, and went toward Hamilton.

Um, so in my mind, I envisioned it going further, that multi-unit, the old gleaning place, post office. Um, in my thoughts, it's kind of one continuous thing. I would like to see it all if but like it's taken how many years I've heard. Oh, this manager talked about it and this council talked about it and these business owners are like talked about it 25 years ago. No one could ever come to an agreement. So, I feel like we're finally the closest we've ever been. So,

because of you guys and the conversations and the letters. So, losing the momentum now, I feel I don't know, maybe make one swoop and in 25 years they could talk about it again. But if we get it all knocked out, I agree. I was going to ask, is it worth barking up the tree? But I mean, I feel the same way. I think it's all one section. Obviously, I understand ownership's broken up. Do you know how that would work procedurally like with the post office and everything? Cuz they'd have to get their own how they would do it if Well, I mean, they'd have to get their own approval to pay for that, right? The same way.

Yeah. I mean, they would be the same way. it would be uh you know we're doing you know these people all decide to do this you'd be best to hop in on that however you have you can certainly have it done by your own contractor you USPS might have a contractor that specifically I didn't know if they so I guess I guess for the uh for the parking lot it's it's not separate on paper but separately owned by USPS they may say yeah we'll will do it, but we were going to bring in our own favor. So, these are all things we just need to work out with them, but we can certainly have those conversations.

So, how many more business owners? Post office, the the multi-unit house, the gleaning old gleaning place building. That would be it. Just those three. Mhm. Yep. because I think we had an agreement from all of the property owners for the other parking lot but one that we talked to. So

I I guess in the grand scheme of things, we would have to find out exactly what the full cost is going to be um to do the whole entire parking lot and do the same thing that we did with those other business owners. find out what their portion would be and have that conversation with them and hopefully we could all come to an agreement. And if you would want someone from council to accompany you, I would definitely do that again if everybody is fine with that. I'm good with that. Yeah.

Yeah. And I I'm still looking for I want to find the actual signed agreement. I have not yet, but I know they've got to be they've got to be here somewhere. Um, and then I guess the final part to that is is like last year when Steve Stalls and I went in just to kind of give it a quick look over, there's a lot of work that would need to be done prior to paving. There's just stuff on the pavement that's sitting and there's some overgrowth. And then that one spot would probably that one spot would need dug out right off the Hamilton and base prior to asphalting cuz I I think they're the way that we talk they I don't think they want that anymore. No, I don't think so either. So that would be all of that.

Isn't there a bunch of big rocks or something? Yeah, there's two rocks there because of we'd haul them on. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay, sounds good. I'm going to keep looking for those and then we'll get on that. Um, any other questions about the curb or just one question at the corner market and Jay, I saw the mirrors down again. Yeah, bro. Oh, okay. Yeah, the wind took it out. Now, I will say that with that fence down, I don't know if anybody looks at the mirror anymore to be honest with you. I think cuz the mirror was there cuz you couldn't see

cuz Yeah. Now it's it's a lot uh easier to see. I didn't even down till you brought it up cuz I go through there a few times a day and I don't even look at the mirror. Yeah. Yeah. I I I don't either. Thanks. All right. Next up is refu ordinance changes and additions.

Um so we update we updated our entire ordinance when we began our own refuge service. Um, but then we knew going into it that we had some changes kind of early on and now we've been working at it for a couple years now and we're we're kind of narrowing down on what the issues are, not not necessarily just with refuge collection but also with code enforcement. Um so this isn't a major change major changes but um we formed a committee that was mainly like uh um Brian and Megan Shaw who deals with this a lot um in house and uh Joey Smith was was in there because he kind of helped us start the trash service. So, um, we came up with a whole list of things, but the only thing that really affected the ordinance were, and I did get this to Len a few weeks ago, and she she said there were no issues the way that I had it written up. Um really the two changes are the ones in 5303 um storage and uh obviously in red, but I just wanted to quickly explain why these are in here. Um the first one makes total sense. Believe it or not, we didn't have anything in our ordinance that said you can't set trash out beside your coder. Now we're saying that um don't set it out. we're not collecting cuz I mean there are times when that person that's awesome at trash has one extra bag or something. I'm not going to get in too deep in the weeds on that. It's never been a problem, but there's people that just need another toer or something because they continue to just set stuff out beside the can and we made it clear in the beginning that we wanted everything in the toer, but now we're just putting it on paper in an ordinance. Uh, any questions on that one?

Nope. The second one was Sorry, I have a question. Ben, do they get like a notice or something? Is there a sticker that goes on the can or something? Okay. So, they know like, "Hey, you need to call and get another." We sticker them and then uh

there's been four or five occasions where I've just told the guys, take them another because we've talked to them. we've talked to them and um nobody wants their trash blowing in, you know, from their neighbor into their yard and but if it comes right down to it, we'll just we just take them one because it's sooner or later you got to do something. But uh so the other issue and this is maybe more zoning related, but we've had questions over the last couple years really about people that store their uh toers out in their front yards. So, like we're trying to be really careful with that because there's some situations where all they have is a front yard. Um, or they might have geographic issues like hills or like large planting areas. Um, so we the way that we worded it here was refuge to shall not be stored anywhere in the area considered as frontage, front yard of businesses or residents. Exceptions can be made to the rule by the director of service. Reasons for exceptions include, but not limited to, frontage area, specifically built tower storage areas. There are some people that have on their front they have decorative fence up. You can't see it. So, I mean, I can't really see telling those people you can't have it hidden in front of your decorative fence. Um, uh, let's see. So, uh, another exception could include frontages where side or rear storage is not safe or possible. So really, I mean, what this is doing is it's it's not going after everybody that has this toer that maybe you can see from the front yard, but it is saying that if you make it a common theme to just pull your toers back, you know, in the middle of your yard or next to your front porch and the trash is overflowing that that's not going to be allowed. So that's the

reasoning behind that one. And that one was more from I don't know if you had situations up top of your head, but uh I mean we've had some zoning questions about we've had some folks that just don't even pull them in from the curb. So we've had to deal with that. So and we do have an ordinance that says you can't uh get can't stay in the rightway. So all right, at least it gives us something to go by if we're trying to get a problem to out of the front yard. Um, so just as an example, like how my house is on the corner. I have a spot by my garage door that I just put mine on. Like that would be okay, right? Right. It's Is it beside the house? I mean, I'm on the corner.

I mean, so it's I mean, it's by my garage door. Yeah. And I'm just asking for other people because it's like I mean, I can put them in my garage, but there's a spot. They're off the road. Yeah. Right. And I mean really that's the reason for bringing it up tonight because I'm sure there are things that maybe we didn't think about. Um so I mean yeah I mean I think you've got it written in there really well. You know unless there's an exception. I think that corner lot is always the question.

It's always the question because I don't have a backyard. I mean I could put them in my garage but I don't. Um, there's a little spot that I put them that I put it on. I forot to take it out. Um, but I think there's probably some houses where it's not I mean it's not obvious. It's not like sitting on Main Street.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, as long as it's like not obviously like being stored like in the middle of your front yard and things like that. But the I think the out here is there's exceptions to those things, you know? I mean, we've got a we've got tons of regulations that we wouldn't even have time to keep up with, but yet we've just had some problems with some people. Okay, I can't keep it in the rightway, so I'm just going to drag it into my front yard. Well, it's out of the right away, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. And I think there's a difference between storing it on the side and even though you're on the corner, it's visible versus putting it in your front yard, right? So, I think you're good.

Yeah. I think you better just hope the service director likes you. Like, hi. Can we get the um that verbiage update on the water bill in the little Yeah, for sure. I mean, if this would go if this would go through. What we've typically done, we've really uh on some of these, we've actually sent out individual mailers. If it's a big enough issue that that enough it would affect enough people, um it could definitely go out in the I think that'd be good. Yeah, communication is always key with these type of things.

In section D, this has to do with bulk collection, but um we just we added specific items that cannot be collected during bulk uh include fulls size pianos and fulls size spas. Man, I was going to put my piano out this week. Shoot. We've had pianos out and we've had out and uh we've picked them up because it doesn't say we don't, but man, they're heavy and they take up a lot of the bulk space. So,

we thought that was it was time to kind of nyx the it's not limited to those. And if they set out a little mini piano or a twoerson spa, that's not what we're trying to say. We're trying to say if you set out a sixperson spa that takes up a third of the truck or, you know, a fullsize piano that, you know, the truck's kind of grunting a little bit, that's not good. So, got it, man. I guess I got to sell my piano. Well, you still got time. It hasn't passed yet.

Okay, I'll send it out this week. The only other one and uh this came up too in the meeting and this is from our uh refuge our main refuge drivers um it's 53.06 joint use of containers prohibited. We felt like we just needed to address it specifically and that was the use of a refuge to not belonging to said residents or commercial operator is also prohibited. In other words, if the people move out next door, it the toters are numbered and the numbers are supposed to go with your house. That means they can't just go over and a put all their trash in those that aren't being used or b they can't drag them over to their house and fill them up with refues. Um, and that's the problem our that our drivers have seen where it's like, oh, those two cans are missing and all of a sudden they have four, you know. So, we thought it would be best just to hit that one head on and say you just can't do that. Other than that, it was, like I said, pretty pretty self-explanatory. Any questions on this?

I can I go back to one thing with the paving program? I just got one question. Yeah, it's awful. And I avoid it at all costs. from McDonald's to Calat on State Route 48. I go every time I leave my house, I go 571 to Davis to Markley to Calat cuz I do everything I can to avoid that area cuz it's awful.

It's got to be even more terrible for you all driving it on a daily basis and the police department, fire department, what have you. I know it's a state route. I know it's all through ODOT. Is there do we have any options out there on the table that we can look at because it is so horrible driving that section of road.

So, finding out when for sure they're going to be paving. So, they didn't do all 48 at the same time. They did some of the north and then they did some of the south. of finding out when they're going to be doing that because that would be much sooner than when they're going to do our section. And then like we did on 8th Street, we just piggy back and got their contractor price through town. So, I mean, it's either waiting, I don't know, six plus years for ODOT to do it themselves, or our second option would be find out when they're going to be paving on 48 and seeing if we could hop on that, get a a larger discount or bidding it ourselves

cuz we in the I mean, ultimately, I think we split it with them 50/50 on the Hay Street 571, Right. And we were able to work that out. So if if if you could look into that and just see what our options would be, that would be great cuz it's it's horrible. I think Go ahead, Tim. So if the state won't work with us, I mean, there's some options like we could just micro mill it. Okay. And then seal it like we did Calumat and try to get five to seven years out of it. You know, there there's a couple things you could do, but it still needs paid. Yeah. Right. Yes, sir. There's there's no getting around.

Okay. I did before our budget committee meeting last year, I did calculate I did an in-house estimate on that from my uh basically from Donna James to North Street. you'd have to go to north because it's just as bad through the intersection as it is on north where we'd be looking at around 155,000. Like that's us bidding. Um, if we uh milled and microed, that's probably uh a little over half of that cost. I would assume,

well, I think, and this is just me, $155,000 for us. If it was on our own dime and we had to do it, I'm sure the residents would be supportive and fine using our current funding uh to to make that happen cuz I'm sure they don't like it either. I'm sure I'm surprised there's not more complaints.

I'm sure I'm sure there are. Uh but I mean we do a very very good job of being fiscally responsible in this village. I mean your group alone saves the village tons of money with the work that you do behind the scenes. So u my thought is for that amount of money to make it right

and get it done would I would support that 100%. So, something to keep or think about is there's tons of curb work to do up through there as well. The curbs on Miami Street are worse than just about any street. So, to get So, you wouldn't want to pave until everything's right. Right. Okay. The water's done up there. The gas is done up there. Um, so if you're going to do it, we got to look at the I mean that's our main street. It looks terrible with the curbs the way they are. Yes. And so if we're going to do our main street, we need to do our main street, right?

Got it. You know, you can't patch this little section. It all looks pretty. Yeah. And then there's no curb because it's gone. I mean, cuz it was, you know, paved over or whatever. So, yeah. Okay. And I don't know if this fits in with that, but then the sidewalks. Yes. If you push a stroller or a kid on a bike or scooter Yeah. It's not good. Mhm. Down by

down Miami Street. So, I don't I know in the past we've mentioned like whatever Coington did in their on their 48 downtown, you know, just all new sidewalks, curves, road. And as we're doing downtown revitalization, that is part of that. Yeah. So that is part of making a beautiful downtown. Nice roads make a difference. Nice sidewalks. We can make the sidewalks wider. Yeah. While we're at it. Yeah. Plant some trees.

Testing lighting. asking my thanks. Yeah, let me let me see if I can just find out when they're going to be doing 48. That sounds great. And then that that will answer our question there whether that's even an option or not. Okay. And then we can revisit that. Yep. Appreciate it.

All right. Next we have EV charging stations. you guys are tired of hearing me blab. I'm very sorry. I only put this on there because I wanted you guys to know that this project is still a go. Um, I actually, this is something that I actually brought up a while back and it had to do with my daughter-in-law trying to find a place to charge in the middle of nowhere and possibly unsafe area. And I'm like, no one has I mean Brookner Nature Center has some. And then once you get into Troy and Englewood, but we don't have any charging stations here. So, um I think it I think manager Sheridan contacted MBRPC and then I contacted NBRPC. So, we kind of talked to two different people. So, I just need to combine our notes. Um there are there is some money possibly out there, but I don't know how much. Um, but just letting you guys know, my original thought was we had two good spots for them. One would be downtown parking lot. However, we don't have any well, we don't have the surveillance system set up that we want to have yet down there. The other would be right here in our parking lot, which we have camera and microphone in our pickup spot, maybe directly across from there. And so I thought about this long enough ago that when we put all the electric in for the signage, there's dedicated circuits out there for that.

Um they we ended up just upsizing it times three so that if we ever had a big holiday display out there or charging stations or anything, we have the power out there, the boring's all done and we're tied in. So, um I I don't have time, right? You know, probably the next week or so, but I just wanted council to know that um you know, whatever happens over the next couple months, we're still, unless council does not like the idea, we're still moving forward on these, which is pretty much all I wanted to say. I like the idea and I think it's great having it here because that way you've already got the monitoring infrastructure in there. You've already got those line and this is the center of town.

So, center of West Milton. So, I I would I would support it being here. Oh, I think it's great. You'll get people here that have never seen this. You'll get people that come off of the roadways to come here to charge. These would be like level two chargers. So, it's not like plug it in, 5 minutes, you're gone. But it's not wait 6 hours either. The level twos give you enough energy to get home or and I mean they might be coming through and say this is a nice little place. I think I'd like to build a house here or that go shopping in our new freshened downtown with nicely paved roads and big sidewalks.

Go to Subway. Go the if you find and get them here and there is money then maybe we do another one downtown or something. Who knows? I mean, worst case, there's not much available, which is kind of what Matt Lindsay was leading me to believe through MBRPC, but that doesn't mean there's not something else out there. And we would certainly, if there's free money, we're going to apply. Yeah. I work in economic development and I know that I had talked to EV charging companies and I haven't done any research, but I know that there's some out there I can reach out to. Um because this was a few years ago, there were some companies that were just trying to get their stations in.

Um and when we were at IC, I have a cup from this place. They have these charging stations, but they're also like billboards so people can buy advertisement so we can make extra money on advertising. I have a cup. I'll remember. Yeah. Yeah. Let me know. I mean, any any resource anybody has, let me know cuz there's got to be money for this out there somewhere. Who needs a ruler? Do you have to pay to use it? What's that? Do you pay to use them? I don't have an Most of them are just Most of them. No. I mean, you can set up like um

I think they have ones where you can, you know, swipe your card or tap your card to use. I mean, the ones that we were looking at weren't they didn't have that feature. It would just be, you know, charge your car. Yeah, but but we're in the such an early stage to this that we could look at both. I mean, yeah. Okay. All right. Next is the safety grant. Um, yeah. Oh, sorry. So, it should be Is that on your tablet? Yes, screen went dead. There it is.

So, um, this has been totally updated. I I can tell you this that this hasn't been advertised yet. However, with the dates that are on here. Um the it's the deadline's May 1st. So, we if we got this out this week, we're still hitting plenty of time. Um I had Megan double check it to make sure that I didn't forget anything, but it's ready to post. I just wanted to make sure council was totally on board posting it.

Yep. I know we talked about it before at council meeting and we thought it was going to be done and it um did not happen. So I'm supportive get it out. The good thing was we had um fire, police and emergency services all applied for this last year and all were uh were approved for that. I will just say one thing. I can't be on the committee like last year. Um I had to remove myself because I was the representative with the uh Miami Southwest joint ambulance board. So um I think it was Deon Casey and Sarah maybe. So somebody has to take day on spot.

I'll do it if you guys don't care. Yeah. Perfect. That's a pretty simple. We I think we met like once. It was pretty simple. Cool. We'll post it'll post tomorrow. Good. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks. All right. Next is vacant buildings ordinance. I just want Sarah to read the whole thing. No, I'm just kidding. Um the mayor without here. Without Len here. I mean, we're not reading it though, right? Or is there anything else we discuss? Have we all reviewed it?

Yeah. I think it's as close to final form as I care for it to be. But anybody else the numbers she's done that the numbers are all added for the fees? I believe so. Yeah, let's go through and make sure. But if that's the case, then I guess maybe we uh just prepare for a first reading at the next meeting. And again, this is going to be gradually pushed out. Um, so that is something that will be communicated to the to the public as well, right? Is that language in here? Because I think we talked about even not beginning till the very beginning of 27.

So I think we discussed not imposing fees, but to try to get businesses or building owners to register, right? So you so because it's not going to be a full year, we can put it, you know, you have to register again on January 1st. Um but just to kind of start gathering the information and I don't think we put that in there. I don't know that we would want to because then we would have to change it. I say then you leave a loophole. Yeah. So then this is just at kind of our discretion. We're not going to assess fees for 26. We are beginning the registration program then beginning 27. It's full force. Yep. I think we just need to be very clear communicating that to the to the public. Yeah.

And u once we do that, we're good. This whole thing will be read in its entirety at least once at a meeting. Yeah. Vacant single family. Nothing the first year. On the second filing, then you'll pay 250 on the vacant single family homes. It's in here. No, that was different, I think, for the single family versus the commercial. Yeah. Sing a single she not do it for the first year. No, no, no, no, no. We're going to leave it as is because that would be the FeSS for the first full year. Yeah. What we're saying is what we're giving people is a heads up, kind of an on-ramp before we're just like, hey, here's a fee. You know what I mean? Yeah. No.

Um, yeah. A single to be completely clear a single family home residential home will not be assessed to fee now 27 whenever a code compliant home. It's the point of this is not to penalize somebody you know having a vacant house that they're keeping in good condition. So yeah I think everything's in good and I think uh I know it's lengthy but I think we need to read it fully for the first time. We are required at least once. Yeah, we can if if so if we desire we can wave. I believe it's the second but the first reading will have to take place. Y sounds good. It goes on as written.

Yeah. April meeting. Okay.

All right. Next is the Dayton Dragons game information. Um, so we did confirm a date and it is uh June 28th will be West Milton Night at the Dragons. This is just something the Dayton Dragons reached out to us about doing. It's a fundraising opportunity. We will be um a percentage of ticket sales for this game uh will go to Project Revival to fund some of their events this year. Um so what it is is it is a block of seats all located together. Um, if you go to a link that I believe we will be getting posted on our website and Facebook, you purchase tickets through there, we'll be sitting together represent the village. Um, maybe some more stuff. I'm putting feelers out to a couple people at the school. Uh, if we could get the band involved, if we could maybe get some additional advertisement going through them, I think that would be cool. I plan on attending the next school board meeting um coming up in April. I think it's 21st 20th, I don't know. But uh so I'm going to bring it up there too. Um see what people are thinking. Um the thing that I think we needed to talk about I think was partially Sarah's idea was uh doing a

employee appreciation and buying a ticket you know from the village uh one ticket for each employee and then if they want to bring the rest of their families what have you. Um but yeah we'd have to vote on that. Right. The game itself is not required for us to vote on because the dragons want to do it they can do it. It's funding Project Revival. Um, but as far as if we were to make a purchase on behalf of our employees, that's something we would have to approve together. And I don't know, I said before maybe that's something we want to get with Jill on about the actual how. Yeah. Um, to execute that, but I think firstly, are we all on board with doing something like that? I'm supportive. Yeah. Yeah, I'm supportive. I think it's great. Thank you for doing all this.

I think we just ultimately would have to do a resolution that would um cover that. But yeah, I'm on board. Okay. I think letting Jill probably just figure out the best route. Okay. I'm that that's my thought process cuz I agree. Is that something manager Heron you can kind of delegate and then work with her on to get ready for the next whatever about uh about a resolution to purchase this. So we have until that's the other thing I missed. Is it May 1 days before the to sell them all? 40 days. 30 30 days before June 28th. So So is So yeah, there is a deadline, but that

could just somebody send me the data on it and then we'll just do Yeah, there's a couple flyers we can send. Perfect. Do they print flyers or they just give you a digital one? Digital.

So yeah, they gave us a digital one. I made one with AI. Um, that's the other thing I wanted to do and I'm going to say this is that I made one that had our had the school's bulldog and the Dayton Dragon on it here. And I have permission from the Dayton Dragons to use their mascot for this. I will formally ask the school. I don't foresee that being an issue, but I just like to cross the tees and dot the eyes. But, uh, I will I think you may have already posted it on your personal just to see if there was kind of any interest. So, if you're friends with Jeremy on there, you might have already seen it. But I can make sure everybody has it and we can we can all make stuff. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean the school would probably share it and then if you ask or they send the elementary sends a weekly newsletter if they would share it.

Jeremy had an idea about if we were to print a flyer or something if they would be if they would be cool with sending it, you know, passing it out just making sure everybody's aware. Um you know, and I think there's there's a lot of wreck baseball and stuff that goes on around here. Rotary gives the Halloween parade flyer at school. Right. Right. Yeah. I think it'd be cool. I I see it being it could be very successful. There's a lot of Yeah, that's all I got on that. Thank you. So, next is old business. I have one thing. Uh just a question for Ben. Uh I know the last thing we had with the land purchase from school uh with the tennis courts, basketball court, that land up there,

it was with Len for review. Do you know where things are at with that? I don't, but I can ask Len. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Just was curious. Any more? I do. I have a question. Just a question. Um the sign that was hit. Mhm. Can you just give us an update on that?

Yeah. So, um the police basically took a report on it for older gentlemen just kind of I think it's maybe a medical problem or something, but uh I have all the insurance. uh made contact with the insurance company. Um the good news was that I already had a quote on file because of the sign we're going to try to get up on the south end. South Miami down by Baker. What's that? Down by Baker. Yeah. So, uh I basically sent that send that to the insurance company and then just wait I'm just waiting for their agent to call me back to Okay. Um and then I've already talked to the mason and said, "Do you have a problem doing two?" before he's like, "No." So,

even better. But yeah. Okay. Insurance has stakes forever. I know. Tell me about it. Thank you. And then I also want to bring up last week or last at our meeting, we talked about me participating in the Rotary and I just kind of wanted to see if we can close that conversation, finish that conversation. Good thoughts. See,

I'm I'm I'm supportive of that. Uh and you especially with what you're doing with retail strategies. If it's not you, someone from that committee, I think it would be beneficial uh to be involved in the Rotary. If you can support the meetings um on a regular basis, I think it's well worth the um couple hundred dollars it's spent for that. my thought. I agree. Yep. I agree. Let's do it. Thank you. I appreciate y'all. Yep. Any more old business?

Only other thing is, and just so folks know, things closed with our U manager uh uh job announcement. So, we're moving forward with that process. Uh we have a couple different committees that are set up. So, uh, one committee is passing things over to the, uh, to the next committee to take it further. So, uh, we've kind of How quick are you passing it over to No, I'm just kidding. Was it a fast pass or bounce pass? Yeah.

So, so we're doing our due diligence uh to get things moving to, uh, here in short order. hopefully get uh some interviews going and uh get somebody officially uh hired. Yeah. So, thanks. Oh, I have one more thing and I just forgot. No, I promise not allowed.

It's an easy one. So, this one's easy. So, we have an amazing Fourth of July program. There's a Fourth of July committee. Um we are meeting here at 6:30 this Thursday. and we would love anyone that wants to participate in any way for the 4th of July. The good news is when we have a Main Street program, we will have lots of volunteers and we won't be we will continue to bake for volunteers. I'm just kidding. Um, but if anyone is interested, we would love to have you and we'll welcome you with wide open arms and I will make pie if I need to convince someone to come along. But we would love to have it'll be here at Village Hall this Thursday at 6:30.

And that's and that's two for Fourth of July to help with Fourth of July. We're having a concert that Friday on the 3rd of July, too. So can help with that, too. Sounds good. Any more old business? Going once. Going twice. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. We got to do new business. Oh, I'm sorry. Any new business? You better not. I'm just kidding. All right. I have one new business.

Oh, yeah. So, some of the people in the neighborhood were asked in the new neighborhood Still Water about updates from Jason. So, I talked to Jason Morris. He was this week meeting with Wagner Paving to see what roads need repaired before he can finish them. Um, and he plans on by the end of the year having it paved everything except the road in the back to the dirt pile and the road down to Randall. So by the end of the year, story point, sorry. You're in. By the end of the year, all the residential streets should be paved. Wow. Good. So hopefully that means progress on the north side too. Maybe something. And then he said he was closer with the bonds. Okay.

So what about the gas station? You know, I'm Levi asked me afterwards and I forgot completely to ask. So cuz that 30 days has come next week. Yeah. I forgot all about the gas station. So maybe we could hear from Ron once he's recovered. Yeah. Um, did you everybody sign there was a the resolution going through? Yes, everybody except Scott. I'll get I'll let Scott know. I'll have him stop by. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Thanks. Any more new business? I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second. Second. All in favor? Just let everybody