City Council - Regular Meeting

We're looking out for you. All right, we're on. Hey folks, thank you. Welcome to the Thursday, March 26th meeting of the Zena City Council. We will have an invocation led by Pastor Al Refett from Victory Life Christian Center here in Zenaia, followed by the pledge of allegiance by Vice President Crawford. If you could please rise. Good evening everybody. Our gracious heavenly father, we come before you tonight. Lord, at this point of the day, we simply want to pause and thank you for your faithfulness, for your goodness, and thank you, Lord, that here in the land of the living, we do see your faithfulness each and every day. Father, we thank you for the city council. We thank you for the city administration, Madame Law. Father, we just pray over each of these. We thank you that Lord they've chosen and and then of course obviously some of them elected but but Lord we thank you that ultimately they choose to serve our community in this fashion. We pray God that you continue to give them wisdom and discretion as they make decisions that affect our community. We pray God for a cohesiveness amongst those in all the leadership and even throughout the rest of our city uh the citizens. And Lord, we just look to you, Father, for a continued uh path forward, a path of prosperity and peace. And Father, as we look at our leaders here, Lord, at the end of the day, we also realize they're just as human as the rest of us. And they have a family as well. And so, Father, we pray your protection and your provision upon their families in Jesus' name. And amen.

Amen. Thank you all. Yes, sir. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Thank you, Pastor Ruffett. Thank you, uh, Vice President Crawford, for that pledge of allegiance. This time I'm calling our meeting to order and asking for a roll call, please. Vice President Crawford here. Councilwoman Sice, Councilman Missage here, Councilwoman Huffman, Councilman Rubio here. Mayor Reynolds here. President Smith

here. Mr. President, I move to excuse the absence of Faith Sice and Rachel Huffman. Thank you very much. We have a motion on the floor to excuse Councilwoman Huffman and Councilwoman Sice from tonight's meeting. Do I have a second? Seconded by the vice president. There's no further discussion. Get a roll call on that, please. Vice President Crawford. Yes. Councilman Mscavage. Yes. Councilman Rubio. Hi. Mayor Reynolds. Hi. President Smith. Hi. Motion carries.

Thank you. All right. So, we're a little thin tonight. I apologize for that. We have two out and we're going to get a little thinner before the evening's out. So, uh because of that event, we are actually moving into an executive session. Um, I'm hoping to keep that short um because we do have to take some legislative action after that uh brief executive session. Um, and then we'll come back and conduct the rest of the meeting. So, if you guys like to, you know, while you're here, use the restroom, grab something to drink or something. Um, we'll notify you when we come back. But, I would like to get a motion to move into executive session. I'll make a motion to go into executive session.

Thank you. And uh madam law director, tonight's executive session is because of Can you tell us? General legal advice with your attorney. Thank you very much. And do we have a second? Second. Thank you. Seconded by Councilman Mscavage. If there's no discussion on that, we'll get a roll call, please. Vice President Crawford. Hi. Councilman Mscavage. I. Councilman Rubio. Hi. Mayor Reynolds. Hi. President Smith. Hi. Motion carries. Thank you. We'll be back shortly. Thank you.

All right. All right. Welcome back. Thank you guys for your patience while we were in there deliberating. Um we're going to come back out of executive session and move on with our agenda. Um, we are actually going to, um, as council president, I'm making a procedural motion for our city manager to, uh, authorize an extension to our partners at Central State University uh, for an extension in their extraterial agreement of water and sewage services um, through the month of May till May 18th. um due to the lack of uh our fellow council members here, we just felt like um we want to offer that extension um as compassion uh humanitarian uh give them not a health crisis and give us an opportunity to sit down uh with Central State and work out a few more details in our agreement. Would Miss Madam Law Director, would you say that's fair?

Thank you very much. So, at this time, I'm going to make that motion and I'll seek a second. Second. Seconded by Councilman Rubio. Any further discussion? Okay. No. Roll call, please. Vice President Crawford. I. Councilman Miss Gavage. I. Councilman Rubio. I. Mayor Reynolds. Dain. President Smith. I. Motion carries. Thank you. We're going to move on to um approval of minutes. Um our first set of minutes is from the March 7th special meeting. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to accept the minutes. Who would like to make that? I move to approve the special meeting minutes. Thank you by the mayor. Do we have a second? Second.

Seconded by vice president. Any discussion or corrections in the minutes? Okay. Roll call, please. Vice President Crawford. Hi. Councilman Ms. Cavage. I. Councilman Rubio. I. Mayor Reynolds. Hi. President Smith. I. Motion carries. Next is the approval of our March 12th regular meeting. I'll entertain a motion to accept the minutes as written. So moved. Thank you. Moved by the mayor and seconded by a second by Councilman Rubio. If there's no further discussion on the minutes, we'll go ahead and ask for a roll call, please. Vice President Crawford. Hi. Councilman Mscavage. I. Councilman Rubio. Hi. Mayor Reynolds. Hi. President Smith. Hi. Motion carries.

Thank you. We have uh no special presentation scheduled for tonight. So, we're going to move into audience comments. This is the opportunity if anyone in the audience would care to come and address city council. We would ask that you come to the podium. Give us your name and address for the record. Limit your comments to 3 to four minutes. Did you? Yes. Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, President, and council members. I'm Carolyn Eker, 945 Dayton Yellow Springs Road, and I'm pleased to be on a committee commemorating America 250 right here in Green County. It's called Flag Day 250. 10 years ago, you may remember Sheriff Jean Fiser held the first flag retirement ceremony, retiring 170 uh spent American flags. Last year, the ceremony retired 5,400 flags. and uh it included the veteran services picnic for veteran families. Um this year the ceremony and the picnic will be expanded to include a free familyfriendly activity open to everyone at the Green County Fairgrounds on Flag Day, June 14th, 2026. The Green County Sheriff's Office, uh, Veteran Services, Parks and Trails, and Egg Services formed the governing committee and are supported by a multitude of local service, historical, and community organizations. Beginning at 400 p.m., activities will include music, live music, free hot dogs, chips, drinks, cookies, a variety of interesting vehicles on display like the Batmobile and Touch a Truck. Um, characters in period costume will be mingling with families, providing stories and photo opportunities, and people love to get their pictures taken. Uh, local organizations are having exhibits and displays and kids activities include kites face painting, temporary tattoos, photo booth, bubbles, cornhole, stickers, and pins and more. We have also requested a visit from one of the seven freedom 250 museum mobile museum trucks that are floating around uh the nation this year. Uh and the annual flag retirement ceremony itself will start at 6 p.m. for those who are older or who can't stay out in the sun for very long. Several organizations

have already stepped up to help support this event. the D, the Sons of the Revolution, Miami Valley Military History Museum, the Zena VFW Post 2402, and the Zena Eagles. We are looking for more organizations to offer free snacks like popcorn. Um, and our committee popcorn, we've also got pretzels. Um, and our committee can help defay the costs if somebody would like to step up and bring their popcorn machine and set it on a table or whatever, and we can help defay the cost. Um, also we need more people that like to get dressed up in costumes and uh represent historical characters like you you could have Uncle Sam walking around or George Washington or Betsy Ross. So, we're looking for those people. So, come out of the woodwork. And of course, taxdeductible donations to help defay the costs to keep this event and everything involved with it free are greatly appreciated and are made through green giving. If you have any questions or you'd like to volunteer, call me Carolyn 937-9747917 or parks and trails. Thank you very much.

Thank you. We appreciate that. Thanks for your patience. I know you have a busy night tonight. I apologize for our executive session. Who else would care to come forward at this time? All right. Thank you. We're going to move uh we have no old business tonight as that item is tabled. We're going to move into or new business. Our first item is an introduction for ordinance 2026-13. This is enacting a subsection of section 25101 titled establish establishment of city funds of the city's administrative code. Mr. Duke, would you care to enlighten us, please?

Thank you, Council President. uh the number of of funds that the city maintains from a financial standpoint has continued to grow as we pursue additional programs and initiatives. Examples would be things like uh tax increment financing funds um funds related to municipal court and some um fees that they've implemented for clerk computerization um uh court computerization that kind of thing. Um there are variety of funds uh and the number of special revenue funds that we have has continued to to grow over time making it on our financial report a little difficult to to have all of those funds uh represented on the face of the statements on a on a single page. And so we started uh to talk about the assistant finance director and how to uh more effectively um report on those funds to make it a little easier to read and and a better product overall. Correct. Uh we talked to our independent audit firm who audits the city on on behalf of the auditor of state. We've also reached out to the um the state auditor uh the Ohio auditor state uh and his office. We've heard back both from the local government services uh branch as well as the audit branch that they approve uh our um uh intent to consolidate funds. Specifically, what we're looking at with this next round uh of reporting is consolidation of some court funds. So things like the um incident driver treatment fund would be consolidated with some other court funds and so under one court fund umbrella which just helps us to streamline reporting. Uh so we've cleared that with the auditor of state. Uh the auditors did ask however uh that we add something to our code that made it clear that um the city has the ability to consolidate funds on a reporting basis. And so that's what we're doing tonight uh is a request to uh add a section to uh 251 our funds chapter uh that makes it clear that on a reporting basis we are allowed to consolidate funds. Uh now these funds

will still be kept separate on our financial system um and maintained everything uh will will adhere to any uh legal requirements we have to keep those dollars separate. It's simply for a reporting uh basis that we're requesting to be able to consolidate some of these funds into uh one reporting entity on the face of our financials. So uh we think this this is a a change that will make our financials a little easier uh to read and to navigate and we have cleared uh all of this through the outer state and our independent audit firms. So, we're requesting approval this evening of uh this ordinance to uh enact uh well requesting tonight introduction of the ordinance to enact uh changes to to uh Zen City Code 251.01. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

All right. Thanks, Mr. Duke. Any questions? All right. Who would care to introduce that? I move to introduce ordinance 202613. Thank you. Introduced by the mayor. At this time, folks, I am going to apologize um due to another commitment tonight. Um I I really hate to leave meetings. Um however, I have cleared it with the vice president, the mayor tonight, and city manager, uh due to another obligation right down the street. So, at this time, our vice president, James Crawford, will be conducting the rest of the meeting. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Do we need to excuse his absence? Okay. Very good. All right. So, we're ready for the next item. Yep.

All right. Next, we have resolution 26-018 awarding the bid and authorization and the execution of a contract with J&M Services of Miami Valley LLC for the 2026 CDBG um East Main Street um sidewalk improvement project. Mr. Mayor, may you repeat, please?

Thank you, sir. Um as part of the bianial allocation of community development block grant funding uh the city's has available in fiscal year our fiscal year 2026 uh resources to invest in pedestrianoriented in infrastructure in uh in our downtown and for replacement essentially of sidewalks and and so forth. Um this year CDBG East Main Street sidewalk improvement project focuses on enhancing that um uh facility along the north side of East Main Street from Green Street to Whiteman Street. Uh this includes replacement of deteriorated curbs, ADA ramps and and the landscaping beds that exist there today. Uh this would expand on the phase work the city has started a couple of years ago to replace sidewalks strategically uh as well as curbing in the historic core of our community um which we believe will uh positively impact both safety conditions as well as the aesthetics of the downtown. Uh the engineers estimate for the project was $22,548.50. Uh on Wednesday, March 11th, the city received bids from two qualifying uh contractors with the low bid submitted by J&M Services of Miami Valley LLC. Uh this was a bid uh of 133, um783.66. uh as J&M services is as J&M's J&M services is a relatively new contractor uh and have not completed work uh for us previously. Um our engineering staff did verify their references uh which included projects completed in Dayton and Clayton. Uh notably the contractor completed work in in uh Clayton that was very comparable to our project here in our downtown. Uh so the the references uh uh provided positive feedback. So based on that, J&M Services of Miami Valley LLC is recommended by our staff as the lowest and best bidder. Uh the project completion date um for the project is uh July 31st of 2026. We recommend approval of the resolution as provided this evening to to authorize a contract for these services and have them get started pretty soon here.

Pretty good. Um any council questions or comments? Mr. President, I move to adopt resolution 202619. Thank you, Mr. Mayors. Uh, do I have a second? I'll second. Thank you, Mr. Ms. Cavage. All right. Roll call. Roll call, please. Vice President Crawford. I. Councilman Miss Cavage. I. Councilman Rubio. I. Mayor Reynolds. Hi. Motion carries.

Okay. The next resolution is 2026-9 awarding the bid of authorizing the execution of a contract with John R. Jer Jin Jensen Jurgens Jurgens Company um for the 2026 street paving program. Um Mr. Mayor,

thank you sir. And now I want to warn you ahead of time. It's going to take a little longer to introduce this because there's two aspects to this. We do have the uh award of the bid that we're recommending and then I'd like for a little bit of dialogue with council so we can get some specific direction from those of you that are left standing um on how you want to uh how you want to allocate some additional funds. And so I'll explain as we move along here. Um so as directed by city council, our staff's prepared a uh a multi-year street rehabilitation and investment plan. This year's program is an aggressive one. Um the um uh the program includes in addition to asphalt repair, the re rehabilitation of curbs and gutters, catch basins, and ADA ramps as required uh where these are needed. Um the prepared 2026 program would include rehabilitation of nine streets within the Sterling Green subdivision. This includes Commonwealth Drive from Nebraska to the Culdeac. Jenny Marie Drive from Sterling Green Commons Boulevard to Arkansas Drive. Birkshshire Drive from Jenny Marie to Bellbrook Avenue. Uh Sterling Green Commons from Jenny Marie to Lower Belbrook. Glenn Kegley Drive from Tennessee to uh Jenny Marie Drive. Shannon Lane from Grey Stoke Drive to the end of the street. Grey Stoke Drive from the subdivision line at Eden Bridge to the Culdeac. Dundy Drive from New Mexico to Commonwealth and Arkansas from Dundy to Tennessee. Uh the engineers estimate for the project was $2,143,819. On Wednesday, March 11th, the city uh received three qualified bids. Uh the low bid was submitted by John R. Jerkensson Company. This came in at $1,817,38.30. So obviously quite a bit lower than our engineers estimate and lower than what we had available in the budget. Uh John R. Jurgensson has extensive experience working on similar projects for the city. They do good work, have provided good product for us. So, uh, we have no hesitation in recommending them as the lowest and best bidder. Um, in addition to this, however, uh, as the low bid is substantially under the available funds, uh, amounting to about a $400,000 delta, um, there is some resid res residual that we would ask for guidance from

council this evening as to how you would like to spend that. Um, I sent council an email yesterday detailing um, the the uh, positive problem that you have here. Uh we offered up a couple of recommendations and if it's okay for the record, I'd like to, you know, kind of just discuss those for the audience. Um and then get your concurrence and figure out from there what you want to do. Um the first one, as I described to council, is a recommendation that uh we use approximately $50,000 to repave a oneb block section of South King Street. This is due to a new water um service line stub that had to be installed because of a historic issue. again as I described to council in the uh digital communication. Um so we uh negotiated with the property owner and arrived at a I think a positive outcome to help to be able to restore service but in so doing we had to do an open cut on South King Street and that street was already in pretty bad shape to be very honest. So we estimate that cost to be about $50,000 and we think that that would be money well spent. Um second, um as detailed to council in my communication, uh we had a rough winter this year. Uh numerous snow events, a significant multi-day snow event. And with council's blessing, we were very aggressive and having crews out this year to do plowing, salt application, and so forth. Unfortunately, um plowing is hard on your streets. in a lot of locations across the city where we've previously done hot fill um to uh fill potholes. Uh we had a lot of disruption of those potholes and we've been getting a lot of calls. I know all the council members have been getting calls. Um and I've had extensive discussion with public service director and the engineering staff. Um our concern with the pothole situation is that uh we simply do not have the crews to go out get all of our mains thoroughares and neighborhood streets. And to the extent that we would provide that service, we don't necessarily have guys with the expertise and the

equipment to do what I would call a more permanent job. We would take hot fill out and fill those potholes, but more than likely when we get our first snowfall um you know in the fall and winter, you're going to see these same types of problems emerge. So, we talked with uh John R. Jurgensson uh kind of negotiated on what a what a pothole filling program through them would look like. Um I've provided at your places a map. Um that's this uh you won't be able to see it on the cameras and I didn't get it loaded into the system, but um this map indicates um locations uh as part of a $137,000 estimated cost um that could come from that remaining 400,000 um to go out. The purple dots you see would be a 6in depth repair for potholes. The blue would be a 12-in depth repair. So what they would do is send a crew out with equipment. They would saw cut, go down full depth, repair it, back fill it, seal it, move on to the next one. They can accomplish that in a far a better fix in a far faster time than our guys could. And what we would do with this, if you approve this piece of it, we would contract that, get these thoroughares done in pretty short order because we thoroughares, marked routes, it's the main streets, you know, we we definitely were those main streets with significant potholes, high traffic. We want to take care of those and take care of them for good. Um, so I I feel really compelled that we need to do something aggressive to this order this year because a lot of these streets are not going to be repaved in the near future. So where these problems exist on hightraic areas, we think it's it's it's prudent to go ahead and do a longerterm fix. But again, there's a price to that. It's it's not a cheap service. Um, so then the third element that we are recommending, and I have a handout that I provided to you to this effect as well. Um we uh council has directed that we would do a comprehensive uh utility and roadway trans uh road roadway

rehabilitation on North King Street. And so we have um uh put in the budget this year and we'll be carrying out comprehensive water line replacement, storm water repair, a little bit of sanitary. Uh we also have to do ADA ramps that are required in order to get state and federal funding for transportation. Uh but the the the the project of fixing the water line on King Street, we have to replace that whole main. And to to correctly properly replace the main, the repair work will extend north of Ankeny Mill to the portion of North King. It then turns into Harbine and then turns back south as Catherine. that existing water line goes from an 8 inch line to a 4-in line to a 2-in line, which is not at all how you would design that. It's a 2-in line running down Catherine, though a short street is substantially insufficient for the demand. What's more, there's no fire hydrant on Catherine, which is a safety issue for the people in that neighborhood. So, in order to put a proper hydrant, you need a larger size line. So essentially what the project that we already have slated to do is to extend that 6-in line all the way up and around um down Harbine down Catherine. In so doing um there is disruption of curb and sidewalk that will be created this year that we otherwise do not have funds budgeted um to correct. Now I've provided a page for you. These are pictures I took today went out with the service director and engineer and assistant city manager. Um, these are the existing conditions on those roads today. Uh, those sidewalks and those curbs, the locations that I've highlighted here, and I've got all the locations, um, labeled. Uh, this will be worse because there will be sections of curb and sidewalk that have to come out in order to get the water line installed. You can see one spot there on the bottom left corner of the first page where you see a hydrant. That's a really

old hydrant. So, that hydrant's going to be replaced. So, the collapsing sidewalk in front of it has to come out as does the curb. So, there's a degree of curb and uh sidewalk replacement that we're going to have to do already anyway. But our concern is that some of these other locations that I've highlighted, and there are far more than this, unfortunately, as well as ADA ramps up here to do this project properly, we should be replacing this concrete up there. And in so doing, we would also then we have program for next year to have these roads paved along with King as part of our 27 program. Um we estimate that this is about a $200,000 fix on the concrete. Um so if you do the math, uh what our recommendation is, you've got $200,000 here to fix this concrete out correctly. Uh 137,000 to do the pothole repair and $50,000 um on King Street. That gives you a little bit of margin beyond that in case some of these things go over. Now, the other alternative that you have available to you, um, in lie of doing any or part of these things that I've just laid out as recommendations, you could look at adding additional roadway resurfacing. Um, what we would recommend is that you go back to the map that council had us, the plan you had us put together, you look at 2027 and the roads that we are scheduled to do in 27. If you do that, we believe that you could repave in lie of doing the concrete work. For example, you could do moccasin, Arapjo or Seminal. One of them, not all of them, one of those three. Alternatively, you could also do Cheyenne and Senica. So, if you did those two, you could do two together. If you did any of the other three, you just do that one road. But again, if you do any of that, that's already scheduled to be done in 27. We're still going to have this concrete work that's going to sit until we have the resources to do it based on the on the the water man replacement up on King extended around to Harbine and Cap. So I think what we're trying to recommend is let's do that right. It's not replacing all of

it, not replacing all the curb, all the sidewalk. I've also given you and it's going to be nearly impossible to see cuz it's so tiny, but for the sake of providing it, I've given you the specs for that northern extension. The shaded areas are what we've speced out to have replaced in the way of curbon sidewalk. So, it's it's not even half of what exists up there. There's a lot more that probably should be replaced. But what what we're recommending is let's get the worst of the worst where there are trip hazards, safety concerns, uh where we have to remove the concrete to to actually put the water man in. Um, this will allow us to finish the utility portion out this year, get those roads repaved, and then it'll be something similar to Second Street where we've gone in comprehensively and done that work. So, be happy to uh entertain any questions. The service director is here. Uh, there's no wrong answer here. I think some are more right than others. Um, but, you know, any investment you make and and again, just pointing back to our last agenda, you've got $150,000 going in the sidewalk. You've got 1.8. It's going to be over $2 million here. um that doesn't even include a lot of the other work that's being done on King. So, this council is investing millions of dollars in uh infrastructure restoration this this year. So, that's a great thing and it's a good problem to have to be able to spend a little more money here.

Mr. president. I think I I personally uh think OP recommendation one is fine with me. Uh two for the targeted repair, but instead of doing Catherine and sidewalk restoration, I would like to try to me personally speaking would like to folks maybe on another neighborhood street maybe Senica and Cheyenne or one of the other listed because I we've heard pretty consistently from folks out there like Senica is one of the worst roads uh in in our town. And you said Cheyenne as well, right? Which

if you did Senica and Cheyenne together, you could afford it. Okay. Um otherwise, one of those other three roadways that I listed, moccasin, oro, or seminal. Um, and again, we're saying that our we have not done quantities to to actually come up with an engineers's estimate on any of those 27 roads, but based on best guess of our staff, they feel confident that they could do one of those three or Senica and Cheyenne combined and that that that total would be less than 200,000. Now, the only thing I will say in response to the mayor is if you pick one of those roads, that's fine. They all need it. probably any of them are in about the same condition as Harbine and Catherine are in terms of the core condition. But we will have unfinished concrete work that things that have to be dug up up there that at some point in the future will have to be done. I mean, it will be the city's obligation to finish that out. If we add that to this year's uh concrete work that's already scheduled on the rest of North um King the rest of North King Street, you probably get a better value because of the quantity of of scale. But again, there's no wrong answer here. I think our staff is just looking at how do we finish that project out comprehensively. Um noting that these other roads are still slated for next year.

Mr. President, and respect to the mayor, um one of my biggest complaints in the 19 years of living here is we don't finish projects and I would like to see the sidewalks finished completely before we move on. um respectively. How many uh lane miles are we talking about that Synica and Cheyenne consist of? Is that just like maybe a quarter of a half? Um well, Cheyenne is a pretty short road. That's part of the reason why you could do Senica and Cheyenne together. Um I don't one

probably. Yeah, I think it's probably one one and a half lane miles cuz uh Senica is a little longer and if you know where Senica is, it's kind of off the beaten path. Um, again, I don't have the exact amount, but it's it's not a lot, but it's, you know, for those residents, it's certainly meaningful. And we just finished up with Ottawa right there. So, it' be nice to, in my opinion, to have Ottawa done where it butts into Cheyenne and then going all the way back around to uh uh Cynica and then I don't I don't know where PBLO is. I know we comes right off. I know it comes up. I don't know where it's at in our program to spend next year. next year and that one I mean that would finish a neighborhood almost that would get half a done

PBLO is a good option it's just we don't have really enough funding available this year that's probably more in the in the realm of a half a million dollars quite a bit more concrete work there in terms of ADA ramps and curbing and um uh aprons and so forth that needs to be done I mean frankly most of these roads I didn't look at the um CPI or PCI rating um but there's not a road that we've we've talked about from Katherine Harbine and King down to any of these and they're they're all bad. They really are. There's, you know, any of them all of them needed. Any of them could be justified. Uh it's perfect. It's again it's a perfectly reasonable idea to to look at additional roadways and in Arrowhead and you're going to do some more of those next year. um if you don't if you elect not to do this additional sidewalk curb restoration so forth this year um on North King and the rest we we will have to try to program that in in the next couple years and it'll have to just uh remain in its current condition till then. Um but again there's there's not a bad there's not a bad option here. It's just and it's a good problem to have. It is. And and you're saying there's nothing else we can do for the curbon gutters um and do the Sica and Cheyenne road. If we tried there's nothing there for us.

No, I we've done a pretty good job of stretching resources and again part of the reason we can do so much work on King um this year in anticipation of next year is because we're using most of that curb and gutter money um to go toward a lot of the concrete restoration. By the way, we're not doing all of the concrete restoration on the on the the the southern portion of northern of North King as well. We're doing enough to to be compliant in the areas that are really bad, but you know, we will not be doing an end to end restoration on on North King as it is. And we can spend the curb storm water or curb gutter fees that we have next year, right on?

So, you can't spend them on sidewalks. So, that's a that's a different function. Um, so if it's the curb and gutter and the driveway aprons, things like that, we can we can use the vast majority curb gutter fees for those, but the sidewalk expenses have to be paid out of the general cap fund. Yeah. I mean, you could assess those, but we had that conversation agnosium with council the last two years. I don't think there's any appetite to do that. So, the only alternative is that it's a general fund expenditure that we need to cover. So, so we're talking we're talking where to apply monies essentially. And let's go back to if we can to this pothole repair locations that you've designated. Um I know it's value added and we've talked briefly about this

in patching these up in in the old standard way versus allowing how much time are we buying? What what are we what's the substantially? Yeah. I mean it's just a it's a our guys are going to go out take hot fill. They're going to tamp it in. This is cutting it out. And then how long will that cut out last?

I mean, if you have good seams that you come back and and crack seal later, years. I mean, it should be years. Uh cuz you're doing a full depth restoration. So, whatever is underneath it, you know, for example, down here, we've had we've had a number of main bricks because of the cold winter we've had. So, those are good examples right down here in South Detroit Street where we would do a full full depth restoration of that cuz you drive over right now where our crews have done it. that that's you know with our capabilities that's what we can do. Yeah. So we're looking for a longer term again this doesn't repave these roads but where there are problems that present safety concerns or hazards to vehicles it it this helps to to to buy substantial time. Absolutely. I that's a tough one.

So are is there general agreement with council that uh South King Street should be in the mix? I will say for the record I drove on South King Street. It is basically gravel. Yes. Um, so you know, Cynica is too. I mean, all of our roads are I have in that area. Yeah. It's in the older neighborhood, old older. Oh, I think I have. Yes. And we're about to build Well, potentially build some stuff out that way, you know, and it'd be nice to have our neighborhood, those streets looking well right there. Can we this? No. Well, the issue is that for this item, we need we need you to approve the

tonight the award of bid uh the resolution authorizing the award of bid so we can get John R. Jurgensson under contract. I don't I don't need council's authority to do a change order to this. I just need you to tell me Well, but it's already budgeted. So, it's already budgeted. So even though it's more than 10%, I can do a change order because it's already budgeted. But I don't want to make that decision. I want you to make that decision. So what I would probably ask is perhaps maybe for a motion uh spec just a procedural motion specifying what council's pre preferences that gives me a direction. Um I just again, you know, just want to stress all of this stuff needs to be done. All right. I'm going to call for a motion.

Well, I have one more question, Mr. President. Um on the King Street, yes. If we don't pay for the sidewalks, do we have enough money in the project to replace the sidewalks we have to cut off? I don't. So, for any anything that currently isn't Let me make sure I get your question. Anything that's not currently budgeted in terms of sidewalk restoration, is there I would say there's there's no other identified funding source for anything that currently isn't scheduled to be replaced. Right. I don't want to replace King Street and it'd be all nice but yet gaps in the sidewalk. That would happen north of Ankeny Mill unless we do this. Yeah.

So have a comment. So yeah, for me I would rather have um our streets redone versus sidewalk. Um I I think that's a faster um work than laying out new streets, redoing it. Um so I that's where I stand. I'd rather have other streets repaved than doing um the sidewalk. And also, can you explain why um these streets are are are getting redone versus other streets? You know, cuz I'm sure our list will be seen and

you know, there'll be comments and so there's much more uh to um so we're repaving.

Yeah. So, so the list as it exists is based on a decision the council made last year. They wanted to publish a multi-year plan to to be able to uh be transparent about what its goals were over the next couple of years. So, the approach that they instructed staff to take was to develop a plan that would allow us where roads have not completely failed, where it's what we call a mill and fail. So, you're going to shave off the top couple of inches of the road, fix any base problems, and put a new surface back on. That's probably the it's way more cost effective than when you have a comprehensive full base base restoration. So roads for example that we have listed here, it's much more cost effective for us to resurface those and and pave them. We can sustain their viability much longer even though there are roads in far worse condition. It just comes back to how far you can stretch a dollar thinking long term. Um so that is what this is based on. Um, and so as you look at the out years, we start getting into more and more and more roads that are going going to require a higher degree of attention, which is why your list gets shorter and shorter.

So, there is a method to this madness. It allows council to get a lot more pavement done, a lot more lane miles complete earlier in the process, and as you move forward, it's going to be more intensive work that will obviously take much greater investment. Good news is if if if we can continue to see just be very honest, the more oil that's pumped, the cheaper asphalt prices are. If we can continue to see that sort of thing happen, that'll help us stretch dollars. Our tax base has been growing. Council has invested a lot in roads and infrastructure over the last couple of years, way more than in prior decades because we have more revenue coming in. Um, we've implemented the curb and gutter fee that allows us to stretch asphalt dollars a lot farther because we can pay for all the curb and gut gutter which is very expensive concrete with that resource. So, we're able to do a lot more and we'll be able to do more a lot more with the the growth projections we have. Again, it's not enough to get us where we need to be annually. Additional resources are needed beyond that. But, you know, this is a huge step in the right direction. I do want to be clear um again council's prerogative on what you want to do here. If you elect not to do that concrete work this year, it still has to be done. It's just going to sit undone for an indefinite period of time because it's not programmed anywhere else in our CIP right now.

Will that vote on the resolution before they do a procedural motion on that? That's fine. Yeah.

And we would obviously handle anything that was like what is shown here and you know protruding obviously get that cut out. Well, the only we will not do all of that work if you don't authorize the additional monies to go toward that. The only thing that we'll be that we absolutely have to do where we have segments for example where we have to replace a fire hydrant and we have to completely take the sidewalk out. We'll have to find a way to find some additional resources to do that. Um there are other sections where it will be adverse the cur the curb and sidewalk will be adversely impacted by the waterline installation. But if it's not completely removed then we're just going to leave it disturbed and not not restored. Um, again, we can do a little bit of work up here where we completely remove segments, but we do not have enough money otherwise provided in the budget outside of what we've talked about tonight to be able to do any of the other work up there um on King Extended, Harbine, and Catherine.

Okay. So, and we know we know King is the closest to the market district. This is where we struggle here and on the opposite side of the market district. This is on the far side. So, people at the market district won't see this. But instead of beating this dead horse and going round and round, I think what would be good for us is just say, do we want sidewalks to be fixed and curb and gutter or roads? And then who the majority here will speak for those who are not chose not to be. All right. So JD's for sidewalks. Finish the job. Sidewalks. Okay. James, are you next for the roads? I'm for roads. I'm the residents, but we haven't. So there we go. that doesn't. All right.

So, I think what we need is essentially I and I didn't catch that cuz we're doing a sidebar here. Um, we'd still need council three roads, one sidewalk. Okay. So, do you So, what road what road do you want to do? I think Cheyenne and Denica. Yeah. Pablo. We can't afford to. I I tried. Yeah, it's it's probably our estimate is more than double what we have available. Yeah. So, Senica and Cheyenne fine. Senica and Chai fine. All right. There you go. So, what was it? I'm sorry. Sica and Cheyenne.

Okay. I just want to be on the record and clear. There will be unfinished work on North King, Harbine, and Catherine. So, if just be prepared because I do you you may get complaints, but I you know, you've made a decision. So, we'll move on with it. But I do need a I need a a resolution then this evening to authorize the contract with John R. Jurgensson. And then what we'll do is uh based on the available funds, we'll do a a change order um and incorporate that with their contract. Um and we'll we'll get them started. Sounds good. I move for resolution 202619. Thank you, Mayor Reynolds. Do I have a second? I second. Thank you, Mr. Rubio. All right. Vote. Roll call, please. Vice President Crawford. Hi. Councilman Miss Cavage. Hi. Councilman Rubio. Hi. Mayor Reynolds. Hi.

Motion carries. All right. Next, we have a re resolution uh 2026-20 authorizing the execution of a contract with um Henshin Henshin and Associates. Okay. Um and I see so uh for the purpose of a new case management system for the Zena Municipal Courts. Okay, Mr. Mayor.

Yeah, I'll just get started and then I'll turn it over to Mr. Mayor. Um Zena Municipal Court's been planning a project for some time. um to replace its obsolete case management system. Uh with this in mind, um the court uh did coordinate in October 2025 for a request for proposals. Uh they received one proposal. I think Mike will be prepared to discuss that. I just want to point out that uh the court did uh conduct this process in conjunction with our information technology department and I think they endorse the uh recommended vendor. Uh so from the city manager's office perspective, this is a needed project because it will help protect our network. But I'll let uh the court administrator offer a little more.

Absolutely. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, councel. Uh Mike, mayor, court administrator and magistrate, and I'll try to hit the highlights. Mr. Mayorman was kind enough to probably cover the uh the majority of it is our current court management system is over 20 years old. You know, if we were talking about cell phones, we we have an iPhone, too. Um that's 20 years ago.

It's not compliant uh with some of the requirements of the uh the Supreme Court, our regulations. There are certain things we need to do. eiling. So electronic filing is a new requirement that all the court courts are required to do so that parties can file uh cases and motions remotely. So fortunately we've budgeted for this for I think the last at least three years since I'm aware of. Uh sometimes putting off a problem actually helps and that at this time it allowed us to apply for an Ohio Supreme Court technology grant. We awarded $150,000 uh in grant funds. We were only one of four municipal courts in the state of Ohio uh to be awarded the full $150,000. So that was a a huge feather in our cap. We budgeted a half million. We went through the uh a formal RFP procedure. We actually got six proposals and they ranged from about $116,000 to $1.1 million. um with a great deal of help and certainly gratitude from the the municipal court. The uh IT department went through those quite frankly uh the judges more techsavvy than I am. But when we went through some of these technical proposals on how these case management systems would work, uh it was invaluable and so they met with us several times and so kudos to Keith and his team. Um after reviewing all those we did select Henchin and Associates uh as the best proposal. They're a proven commodity. They're in about 80 municipal courts in the state of Ohio. Some of the local courts include Oakwood, Lebanon, and Fairmore Municipal Court. Some of the key features is it permits electronic filing, public ass access to records. So if you've come, you know, I don't know how many people go on to the municipal court website, uh, but if you go on there, you can actually look at documents now once we institute this process. So you wouldn't have to come to the court to make a public records

request. Uh, which is helpful. Uh, it will permit text notifications to defendants um or parties and not necessarily defendants, but everyone uh on on cases, which uh should help improve attendance. It'll allow uh certain Supreme Courts to be electronically filed instead of handwriting them. and faxing them or emailing them to the court, which is uh inconvenient, not very useful. Uh just kind of in closing, this has been a a budgeted for longtime planned purchase. Uh again, it was invaluable in helping us select the best proposal and certainly we would request council support on this. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much. Yeah, absolutely. I have no question.

I have no question. Anybody have questions for Mike? I I'll just I'll just add that this is being paid for out of the court's uh special projects fund. Uh if there's a need from a balance standpoint, we've got a loan budgeted to the court so they could pay it back over time. So these aren't key operating fund dollars that are being used for this software. It's coming directly out of that special court uh or special projects fund. Well, thank you. That helps a lot. Thank you. Yeah. And good point, Mr. Duke. And I think we've instituted some additional cost to help support future maintenance, so it shouldn't have any effect on the city's uh budget. Very nice. Thank you, Mike. Yeah. Absolutely, Mr. President. Yes.

I move to approve resolution 2026 020. Thank you. Um M Mr. Mayor Reynolds, I'll second. Thank you, Katie. Mr. Ebs. All right. Um roll call, please. Vice President Crawford. Hi. Councilman Miss Cavage. Hi. Councilman Rubio. Hi. Mayor Reynolds. Hi. Motion carries. All right. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thanks, Judge.

All right. Next, we have a resolution 2026-21 adopting a statement of the municipal services to be provided to a 20 um a 121.558 acres parcel um manino manino properties on on route 42 east of which is proposed for annexation from Zen Township to the city of Zeno, Ohio. Uh, Mr. Mayor, may you report, please.

Thank you, sir. Uh, going to be a little longwinded here. Just wanted to get it all on the record. Um, Ohio Revised Code section 709.023C requires that a city council must adopt with adopt within 20 days of the filing of an annexation petition with the county. A statement of services the city will provide uh to a territory upon annexation, including an approximate date by which such such services would be provided. The statement must specify the services the city will provide if the annexation is approved by the county and ultimately accepted by the city council. Further, the statement can stipulate that no municipal services will be provided, that all available municipal services will be provided, or that only some municipal services will be provided. The resolution can also state that services will be provided, but only for certain under certain conditions. Uh, it is also important to note the passage of this resolution does not obligate city council to accept the annexation. if it is approved by the Green County Board of Commissioners, you'll have sub subsequent opportunity at a later date to do that. With this in mind, and has as has been suggested to council, on March 10th, uh Katherine Manorino and Christina Lenahan, owners of the subject property, filed an annexation with the Green County uh Board of Commissioners pursuant to OC 709.032, which is for an expedited type 2 annexation procedure. The subject property, as indicated, is 121.558 acres. Uh the partial ID is included in your agenda report. Um, this is located on the south side of US Route 42 east, uh, east of 997 North Columbus Street. The petition seeks annexation of the territory for the purpose of developing a subdivision of single family homes. Uh, staff is recommending, um, that um, the services provided to this proposed annexation be the same as services provided to any other incorporated residential area, but with some conditions. Uh those recommended conditions would include that the developer of the site would be responsible for all extension of utility mains to and within the property. Um as well as any necessary booster and lift stations uh to uh provide for those utilities on site uh and any other pertinances that would be necessary to achieve adequate water pressure and

sanitary sewer service. uh because the property is on the opposite side of US Route 42. Um that route will uh remain um I should say the opposite side of it uh is in the township and will uh therefore 42 will remain in the township. Um we are recommending council approve the uh resolution as presented this evening. This is a really nice project for our community um and will add a lot of value in in additional residential options and so we're excited about this and we recommend council adopt the resolution this evening. Um, is there anyone in the audience representing the Manorino property group that would like to share talk about this?

Thank you. Nathan Painter, uh, 5029 Cemetery Road, Hillyard, Ohio, on behalf of the petitioner. Uh, the city manager kind of uh probably went to law school cuz he quoted the law law pretty good. This is just a service resolution. It's the first step in a process. This allows the process to continue. Uh once the certified copy, if you pass it, it will go to the board of commissioners for for their approval and then it comes back. As the city manager said, it does not obligate the city to uh take the property in if it decides to do so at a later date. Is a very nice project and as as stated, the developer is going to be responsible for some of those extensions of the utilities of lift stations and and whatnot. And not to belabor the point the next resolution, if I may speak real quick while I'm up here, it just provides that when the if and when the annexation comes and the development comes in that if if u if there's residential on one side for instance and industrial on the other side that there's sufficient buffering put in place whether it's be mounting pass whatever it is to to make sure that those those properties are separated kept um kept nice both ways. So I'm more than happy to answer any of your questions. Well, Nathan, I Anybody have any questions for Nathan?

Do we have a map of this area? Um, I don't think it was included in this. I think in your prior action it was two weeks ago. It was the space behind Lexington Park. So, essentially from between 42 and 35 immediately east of Lex like a triangle. Okay. So, is the plan still to um to to benefit Lexington Park to some degree? Yes. Okay. I just wanted to double check that. Yeah. Very nice. Just need the resolution this evening. Yeah. All right. Thank you very much. Mr. President, I move to adopt resolution 2026 022.

Thank you. Um Mr. Reynolds is 21. 021. 021. Okay. And then uh Mr. Rubio seconded. Yes, sir. All right. Do I have a roll call, please? Vice President Crawford. Hi. Councilman Miss Cavage. I. Councilman Rubio. I. Mayor Reynolds. Hi. Motion carries.

All right. Next, we have a resolution 2026-21 adopting a statement regarding uh zoning buffering for um 121 um 558 acres property on state route 42 east which is proposed for annexation from Zena Township to the city of Zena, Ohio. Mr. Mayor, your comments on that.

All righty, sir. I've talked a lot, but I just want to get this in the record as well. Um, this is uh uh pertaining to the exact same property we were just talking about, but this is a second necessary statutory step in this case. Um, again, under OC 709.023C, uh, the council must adopt again within 20 days of of the petition for annexation with the county, a statement regarding possible incompatible land uses and zoning buffers. Uh the city would um uh would uh in this case if there are found to be any incompatibilities that we would have policy for the establishment of zoning buffers. Um as detailed in your agenda report we do not see any um incompatibilities. Uh but certainly would address that if the need would arise. Um so here again as indicated passage of this does not obligate council to the annexation. That will come back to you at a later date if and when approved by the county. Um so this is just establishing um uh the statutory requirement on zoning and buffers uh should there be any conflicts. So we are recommending that you approve resolution 2026-22 um get these two steps uh advanced and then uh we'll come back at a later date for um or hopefully some additional action on this.

All right. Uh any questions for Mr. Mayorman from the council? Any questions on this? N okay motion. I move to approve resolution 2026- 002. Thank you for from our mayor, Mr. Reynolds. Do I have a second? I'll second. Thank you, Mr. JD. Miss Gavage, do I have a roll call, please? Vice President Crawford. Hi. Councilman Miss Cavage, I. Councilman Rubio, I. Mayor Reynolds, hi. Motion carries. Okay. Appointed officials report. Are we ready, Mr. Duke? Uh, I have nothing specific for council this evening, but I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Any questions for Mr. D? All right, Mrs. Fiser.

Uh, I have one item um bringing up on actually on behalf of the mayor. Um we have um our hopeful future partners here from the United Way to discuss a potential uh 529 college savings account program. Um there are several cities around the state that do this. Cincinnati, for example, has one. Um and we just kind of wanted to have some discussion with council tonight about establishing one here in Zena. It would be called be called the first grade futures um program and I will turn it over to the mayor. I'll turn it over to Tom. Tom can talk more in depth about it

and he's from the United uh way of greater Dan. So thank you Tom. Thank you. Uh thanks for the invitation to be here. Where are you from? Wilbur Forest Ohio. All right. Very nice. Welcome.

Good to see you again. Uh with me is Rebecca Canrell who is our Green County director. Rebecca's here in Zenia and she handles all the activities for United Way in in Green County. Uh my role as president CEO is to manage the entire operation of United Way which is Montgomery Green and Prebble counties. So what I would assure you of is you have someone local who is um resides in Zena to help manage this program. So, um, we've had some conversation around the first grade futures program as a 529 program available for all first graders that would be in the Zena um in the Zena city area who would be um eligible and available to receive a $100 deposit into a fund managed as a college fund for the future. Um there is another program as Miss Fischer, the law director indicated in Cincinnati that United Way manages with the with the city of Cincinnati. Um our vision for this program is that United Way would be your community partner. We would be available to help oversee the program, check for eligibility, do community outreach and engagement, work with those parents, provide education, work with the schools, be that liaison in the community that's familiar with what the what specific needs are, how outreach would work, and how we connect everyone to the program. We do that through specific events, through coordinating that with other United Way events that are already running in the community, and with providing some very specific enhancements and tools that would make it easy to engage in this program. And there would also be plenty of opportunity for city council, city staff, anyone else that you would like to to be engaged in those activities to help promote the program. Um, that's kind of it in a nutshell.

We're there excited to be partners in this. We're there excited to be helpful in the programming and we'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Yeah. And I just want to piggy back off Tom and I would say it's not only for college, it's also for career tech. The Ohio 529 goes for career tech as well. So for anyone who would to sign up their children and they would get the initial deposit of $100 hoping to partner with the school. I spoke with Josh Day and superintendent. they are like if you guys can do it then that's something they'd be interested in doing. Other community partners I've talked to some recently that are interested in potentially partnering up with us as well um once if we pass this. Uh so that's going to be uh I think great for us. So it allow students when they're get first grade you know if their parents sign them up $100 from us hopefully $100 from school community partners and if parents contribute $20 a month it'll pay for their entirety of their associates degree or their career tech certifications. So it's about, you know, investing seeds uh for today, for tomorrow. So

very good. And this is something I'm passionate about. Obviously, I brought this up now for the last two and a half years with you, James. You have. So we're finally moving in the right direction. This is a uh at least in my opinion. And I would, you know, like to hear your guys' thoughts and maybe if you guys are supportive of this, we can have a resolution drawn up at the next meeting. It would be uh 41,500 a year. uh obviously uh that is to to the entire 41,500 for the whole program. For the whole program that would in that would entail participants

that would entail 250 students which I don't think we'll have that many but we might. Uh that would include $9,000 for grassroot engagement uh to make sure that folks get like stationary materials, party materials so that folks can learn about it. Program staffing uh to make sure that they have oneonone parent office hours and then professional and uh secure landing page for and instructional how to sign up uh would be the cost of that per year. Uh, so

and I have the contract drafted in such a way if council wants that presented to you at your next meeting that would go this first year and you could see how it goes. If it goes gang busters, you can always add more as far as funding for the for the grants for students. You'd be able to do that in the in the succeeding years. Okay. And so my question to Tom, um, you're so a student starts, the parents begin, and then there's a relocation and they're no longer in the district. What what happens to their funding and their their participation or contribution, you know, let's just say they're they're in year three and it's cut because they've moved away. What what happens? Well, once the fund is established, the fund is technically there.

Yeah. So it's not a refundbased program. keeping in mind that once this all happens, it also falls under state authority with how the money is invested. Okay. Now, so who who's overseeing the program? Ohio 529. Okay. Ohio 529. Our our role is to help with the engagement, outreach, get them connected, get them into the program. Very nice.

The other thing I would add is with our programming as United Way, we're also connected to other things happening in the community. So it gives us the chance to help perhaps connect those parents to other things that are happening and and perhaps use our resources to talk to other nonprofit agencies, other business partners to give thought to also donating to the program. So we may find other ways to help grow the program beyond simply the adults also investing in the program. So, it really brings together a different kind of a partnership and more of a unique opportunity to try to partner resources around those kids and their families.

And if anyone um let's say we don't have children, I mean I don't I don't have children obviously that they're they're all adults. Let's say I wanted to sponsor someone. How would that engagement happen? Are we have opportunity to do that? there will be an opportunity to do that and we could look at how we position those donations those contributions into going into the program looking across the investments and how it bridges into helping a host of kids in the program. Yeah. So that would be so that could be non-disclosed donation. I could I could say hey I like that family. Sure. I don't I don't want I don't want know who I am. We would certainly accept anonymous donations into the program. Oh, thank you. You answered my questions. Okay. Very nice. Very excited.

These won't be city accounts. These are state 529 college savings accounts, which was a sticking point at the original part when when I first started. I was like, "Oh, we should run the program." Ryan was like, "Nope, we need someone else to do it." So, we didn't have the bandwidth to be able to do. So, I reached out to 529. They do this every day. Their job. You know, this is one thing that we as a council could do that I think we're just doing so much maintenance and we have an opportunity of being thinking future present. Um doing something different, sitting here talking about something different that that affects lives. Yeah, I like it.

I like it. Congratulations. Thank you for Thank you for your your um your advocacy. Thank you. Thank you for supporting it. I'm a believer that we all should be able to live up to our god-given potential. So, if there is support for this, uh this is not programmed in the budget currently. So, we will meet uh at the next meeting or at the meeting where we will bring resolution authorizing the program. We'd also have to bring an appropriation ordinance to set aside the dollars for this purpose. So fine with that which we already have one scheduled. So unless there's objections we will bring a resolution approving in contact with United Way for the program and then the supplemental appropriations at your next meeting. Thank you. On the night JD

uh question on the 529. I believe there's a new law that if the money is not used for college or trade schools, it can be rolled over to retirement account. I believe so. Correct. Yes. And I can't remember if that's Roth or regular traditional IRA. Yeah. Which pretty interesting. Yeah. 65 years later, they have some money compounded into quite a bit. That's pretty cool. Success. All right. All right. We will bring that back to council at your next meeting. All right. Thank you. Appreciate you working on that. And that was all I had for you, Tom. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. So, we'll have a for the next meeting.

I have one more question. Sorry, we have another question. Is this for students of uh public community school and public private uh you know Christian academy? So anyone that resides first grade future it resides directly inside the city limits only the city limits only with any school. Okay. Yeah. part part of our discussion was identifying children that fit into say the 5 to sevenyear range because you can't really predict exactly when a child is going to hit first grade. So we got that small age window to identify those kids and how they're affected by first grade.

I see now. So this is not newborn stuff. No, no, no. Okay. Now this is kids hitting the first grade. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, I would apply. So depending on birthday, when their parents make a decision, how they map their way into the first group, you can start early. Yeah. Or start late. Start late. Just start. We should That should be a commercial. All right. Thank you guys so much. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Mayorman. I I not to be I know you spoke a lot, but do you have anything for us this evening? Other than to say we're watching weather and uh keep council advised. Um I have no further bandwidth this evening.

All right. Okay. Um next we I'd like to Mr. Rubio, do you have any I do not have any comments this evening. All right. J, do you have any comments or anything? I do not.

All right. Mayor, just a few things. Uh so we had our Zenia XRE meeting uh planning out the red, white, and blue block party. But more importantly is upcoming on April 4th is the Easter egg hunt. So I have a challenge for all the members of council. We need Easter baskets. So if every member of council would like to donate a couple baskets, I would like to see all of us give five. All seven give 35 additional baskets to uh to give away at the Easter egg hunt. Uh we do it every year. Uh we are short on baskets. So that's what I would encourage every member. And if anyone in the public wants to donate, they can as well. Uh you can drop off the Easter baskets here at the city building

or or give you the money. Uh no, you can go buy them. No, no, you can go buy I'm glad you clarified empty baskets. Yeah, but baskets.

No, no, no, no. Buy baskets like this with gifts uh so we can give out to all the uh kids. Uh, additionally is Ohio Road River runners are coming to Zena this weekend for the marathon and half marathon on Sunday. So, be ready to maybe change your driving habits uh this weekend. Uh, the governor came to Zena to talk about broadband two weeks ago and then met with a couple of the local mayors uh this uh past week for the Green County Mayor's lunchon to kind of talk about upcoming things for each of our communities. That is all I have for tonight.

Thank you, Mr. Reynolds. Um all right. Uh and I have got no other no other comments to add as well. And so that actually concludes our regular session for this evening. Um at this time there's no need to go into executive session. Correct. And u so I need a motion to adjourn the regular session. I move that we adjourn. I second. Did you roll call? Did you catch all that? Say words. Thank you. This is coming. He said roll call. Vice President Crawford. Hi, Councilman Viscavic. Hi, Councilman Rubio. Mayor Reynolds.