City Council - Regular Meeting

If you could take your seats, we're going to get started. Absolutely. All right, folks. We're going to get started. Thank you for attending. Uh again, if you have your cell phone, uh turn it off or on vibrate. Um we're going to start tonight with an invocation by the vice president and then pledge of allegiance led by Councilman Viscavich. if you could please stand. All right. So, Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, we come before you again. We are a community that depends upon you. We're a community because we have a heart that wants the best for our citizens.

For those that you um you are calling and for those that are you're welcoming into our community, new and old. I thank you, Lord, for the season we're in of growth, the season we're in of looking out for one another, and the season we are in for change. I thank you, Lord, for the council member, our city staff, our our support um for for all that work for the city, our police, our fire, our our emergency um um situations that are here that take care of us in the hospitals. Lord, I just ask you Lord for th for all of us to kind of look out, continue to pray for one another, continue to do the best thing and to say the things that are right in your precious name in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. I aliance 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. Thank you very much, Vice President Crawford, and thank you for the pledge, uh, Council Muscavage. This time, I'm going to call our meeting to order. This is the April 9th meeting of the Zena City Council. U, we are going to go ahead and ask for a roll call. Vice President Crawford here. Councilwoman Sice, present. Councilman Miss Cavage, here. Councilwoman Huffman here. Councilman Rubio, here. Mayor Reynolds

here. President Smith here. On our agenda is approval of minutes. This is from our March 26th regular meeting. I'll entertain a motion to accept the minutes. So moved. Thank you. Moved by the mayor, seconded by second by Councilman Rubio. Any additions or corrections need to be noted. All right. Get a roll call to accept the minutes. Vice President Crawford here. Yes. Councilwoman Sice, abstain. Councilman Miss Cavage, I. Councilwoman Huffman, abstain. Councilman Rubio, I. Mayor Reynolds. Hi, President Smith. Hi. Motion carries.

Thank you very much. We have no special presentation scheduled for tonight, so we're going to go right into audience comments. And first of all, thank you all for being here tonight. Um, you're very welcome to be here. Um, we want to listen to your concerns. We know we have quite a few of you here in the audience. Um, and keep in mind we do have a work session tonight on traffic calming measures. However, that is not a a Q&A. um that'll be staff uh talking that work session. So, if you'd like to talk about those concerns, you're welcome to do that now during audience comments. Okay? So, how it works is we ask you to come to the podium, give us your name and address for the record. Um because of the crowd tonight, we'll ask you to limit that to two to three minutes. Um as you get close to 3 minutes, I'm just going to raise my hand and ask you to wrap it up. So, because we've got a lot of activity tonight to vote on. So, um who would like to come to the podium first? Yes, sir. Okay.

All right. I'm not a public speaker. If I could talk to any one of you individually, I'd be good. When I get in front of a bunch of people, I get nervous. So, forgive me ahead of time. I'm Jim Irish, 489 Jodie Drive. Um, and I I'm here to uh express first of all my thanks to the city city staff, you folks up there, and uh all of the all of the the the the leadership, which I've met in person, and many other staff that I've interacted with. You're always great to work with, and I really appreciate it. Thank you.

Uh it's it's a it's a pleasure. And uh I'm here tonight specifically to talk about some issues that are going on with some um utility work that's happening all over the city, but particularly in my neighborhood that I'm I'm concerned about. I'm not here to um to yell, scream, tell you you've done a bad job because I know that you're doing everything you can do. So make sure that it's clear. I want to make this a positive time. Okay? But there are some concerns. Uh, I'm going to tell you a little bit about myself. I'm a Christ follower. I'm going to retire from work about uh go to halftime in about uh three months. And this going to leave me some time to engage, I hope, with some council members to get over the hump on some of these issues that we're having with the utilities. Um I understand from uh city staff that there's no regulation that you folks have uh relative to these uh the rel the utilities that are going in right now which is uh fiber. Uh and I I would like to be able to be a part of the solution. Um, so basically what's happened uh in my neighborhood is the streets are getting destroyed, the landscaping uh even outside of the easements getting destroyed. Things aren't being put back properly. Um there's just a number of of things that have happened. I did send an email stating all these things to I think everybody here. I'm at least I try to uh and so if you check your email and check that out, maybe you'll get a little bit more insight as to what I'm mumbling about right now. So I I'm going to just kind of get to the to the bottom line. If any of you that uh are willing to uh get some kind of ad hoc thing going, I'm not sure that's even the right term, but

if we can get something some a cup of coffee, uh maybe a group of us talking about what are some things that we can do as a city and as a citizenship to to go before maybe this the state or federal uh representatives that represent us in Washington DC to help our little uh community here. We are all interested in our property values. We're interested in in our streetscape and be having a comfortable life. And that's really all I want to do to help the the little old ladies. Sorry, I'm done. Get a little emotional. Sorry. Sorry about that. You're fine.

Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. Yeah. Thanks, Mr. Iris. Appreciate you. And you were under three minutes. So, thank you. Great. All right.

Um, I wrote this out because I'm not really good at speaking. So, um, dear city council members and Mayor Reynolds, um, I come to you. I'm 393 Hollywood Boulevard and this is the third time that we have been here to discuss a serious problem occurring on Hollywood. The first time was, I believe it was two years ago, when we asked for help to avoid the future traffic concerns that we knew were going to be coming with Hollywood when it would be open to Fairgrounds Road. We were ignored, literally just crickets. And we came back again last year and pleaded for this issue to be addressed as the traffic and the speed increased. The digital speed limit signs have not been a deterrent in the speed that is very often very often over 35 mph. We have seen up to 50. Um the average is usually between 30 and 40 mph. And with the street of families and small children and walkers and the bike path crossing, this has become a very dangerous street. And now we are begging you to please do the right thing for this neighborhood. install speed bumps or more stop signs, something to slow down this traffic. It has become a res, it's was always considered residential, always. And now it's a cut through. It's just a speed trap. Um, and I'm sure many of you live in a neighborhood considered residential where it's low and slow. You know, you you watch traffic go by, no big deal. Um, that was Hollywood 2 years ago, but now it is no longer a residential street, but a cut through where is a constant speed problem. Think about your streets and what would you do if this happened to you and your family and your neighbors when you're used to a quiet area. I mean, we know there's nothing we can do. It's a it's, you

know, we're going through Hollywood goes to fairgrounds now, but we need to do something for all the residents and the taxpayers on that street. And I understand there will be other neighborhoods who probably have a similar problem. But have they approached the city council on numerous occasions of their concern? If so, then I don't see a reason that if this is an obvious problem within Zena, then why can't we address it for everyone? We've invited the council to come to Hollywood and see what we see on a firstname basis or on a firsthand basis last year and only a few cared to attend. We all want the best Zena can be and with all the future needs of our city, I know that we can only support future taxes and levies if the city works for its taxpayers. Thank you.

Thank you very much. And Marie W. Who else would care to come forward? Yes, sir.

Good evening. My name is Bud Arbino. I live at 1737 El Camino, which is uh just at the corner of El Camino and Hollywood. And uh I'm in agreement with the lady who just left here. Uh you know uh my wife and I both avid walkers, you know, I mean I'm in my 70s. Uh but it's not it's all children, bicycles, walking, moms, baby carriages, multiple kids, multiple dogs. The sometimes I think the dogs are the scariest cuz they just run and you can't it's too late. I mean, once a dog takes off, the traffic they got them. Um and uh in these past since the new uh subdivision started, and I'm not opposed to that. Those are nice homes. We walk by them every day. They I think they're doing a nice job up there. It's part of progress. Okay. But uh speed bumps uh too slow. I mean, we the rock trucker trucks going through there all day long. Those big trucks. Um too many pe these guys are working and they're driving. and they're on their phones cuz they're working and so they're on their phones all day and and they run between there and McDonald's is at the other end and they run back and forth getting their their food. Um uh the school buses, the kids getting on and off of the school buses. It it's right there on uh uh Hollywood is the big drop off where they let the kids off to go to all their homes. Um, and so before something happens that, you know, at least I said something before something that's inevitable happens, you know, that uh I mean, if it's a dog, I hate that, but I don't want to see a kid

get hurt. I I I don't want to see that. And uh so whatever uh you know, and uh I'm willing to do whatever I can do. I mean, if there's anything that you know, you could ask me to help to do with this. I mean, I would help, but um speed bumps, you know, I don't know how many you would install um or you know, wear on there. Uh but any anything would help at this point. So, uh I hope I'm just clear that, you know, the it's getting worse and before something happens, I' i'd like to see speed bumps. Uh, I mean, honestly, I've only gotten in one argument with a driver. He He was Man, he and I I stopped and he he yelled at me and then he then he drove faster. I mean, that's that's what happens. And so, um, anything you could do with speed bumps on Hollywood between, uh, the new section and down there where McDonald's is, uh, it's necessary. It it's it's necessary. Um uh let's see. So that's Thanks for listening. I appreciate that.

Sir, can we get your last name for the record? Or I wrote it down. Orbino. A R B I N O. Very good. Thank you. Yeah. And any sir, anything I can do to help personally, you know, somebody call me up. I I my phone number down. And uh you know, you need somebody just to argue with those people and run up down there for a while to slow them up. I'll do it. You know, that's Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Who else would care to come forward? Hi. I'm coming.

Hi, I'm Candace Dixon. Um I live on 423 Hollywood Boulevard. I was a teacher at Cox Elementary for 12 years until my first born came four years ago. So, I am I was raised in Zena my whole life and we moved out to Hollywood cuz it was a quiet street. We were at the very end where the cornfield was. Um, my husband and I built a house out there. My parents built a house right next to us and it was a very quiet street. We ended up having two boys. I have a three and a one-year-old. And it is so stressful going out in the front yard now. We just we don't go out anymore because of the traffic. Um, as you can see, I am on crutches right now and this is because of the road. My one-year-old was running towards the street and I was getting ready to go for a run with my two boys like the like he was just saying, there's so many runners and walkers and bikers. And I was getting ready to go for a run and my little one B, he ran towards the street and I had to run after him. And then he I said, "Stop." and he quickly stopped in front of me and I had to stop and I tore my meniscus so I can't walk for 6 weeks now and I have two boys so I it's like it's it's been all hands on deck at our house but um the road is very stressful. We've seen people go 46 down the road. There's actually a car that passed another car who was doing the speed limit. Another car was doing 25 and there was another car who passed them in anger right in front of our house. So, that's not good at all. Um, we've seen a lot of angry drivers go through. We've been yelled at when we tell people people to slow down. And there's also St. kids who attend St. Bridget who walk on that new crosswalk right there. Um, and I feel like there

should be like a school sign there of some sort. So, cuz there's there's St. Bridgette families who use that crosswalk as well. So, a lot of concerns on Hollywood. Um, so hopefully we can get some speed bumps or some stop signs. That would be amazing. So, thank you guys for your time. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Thank you very

Hi, my name is Dr. Kerosope and I live at 400 Hollywood Boulevard and this is actually the section of the neighborhood that's right outside of the new neighborhood and it's just a complete straightaway and it's a very wide road. No cars are parked on this section of the road. And then going eastbound, they put that new solar powered speed sign there and it's on a curve. So it's a natural slowdown. But I continually, even though people are slowing down there, it's continually reading 30 plus miles an hour. So that means people are going probably 40 or 50 miles an hour before that point. There's nothing slowing them down. and then going westbound right after they go around the corner. Car you just hear cars just speed up super quick. Um the speeding is the worst. I hear it in the morning. It's probably between 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. is probably is a bad time just because kids from Zena High School are driving down the road to get to the school and you know teenage drivers, they're new drivers and it's just an that straightaway right there. It's just a natural point for people to speed. So, I see high school students flying down our road. Um, there's also the early morning commute traffic at that time, too. And then another time where it's really bad is like the end the rush hour time. We see a lot of cars speeding down our road. And then when in the evening when that solar powered sign doesn't get a lot of light, it's not very reliable. So, people just speed on our road. Um, one of the concerns is the vulnerability of the people on our street. Um, Zenia promotes itself as a bicycle safe community and we have cyclists driving down our road, riding down our road all the time. We have walkers and these are people all around the neighborhood and you know, obviously we have people playing out in the yard, too. We have um speed and cars do discourage residents from doing what the city promotes to do, which is to be a town that's bicycle

friendly and walker friendly. And our street is clearly not that anymore. Um, we have a lot of children, young children. I have two young children myself and there's a lot of elderly people on our street as well. And those kids and elderly people tend to have natural slower reaction times to traffic. So, we have a pretty wide variety of ages on our street. And then, I know this was already brought up, but students walking to school for St. Bridg too. It's a risk. It's a dangerous risk to people there, to the kids there. Um and then thinking about the survivability of people who are um a person getting hit by a car. So when somebody's going 25 miles an hour, you have a 90% chance of survival if you get hit by a car. But that significantly increases as your speed goes up. So by 40 m hour, which is what a lot of people are doing on our street, you have an a 10% chance of survival if you get hit by a car. A speed humps, if we could get something like that, or even stop signs on our street, those are self- enforcing. like police cannot be out on our street 24/7. So speed humps would be would work as a 24/7 way to reduce the speed on our street and there's also I know been concern about slowing down emergency vehicles passing through the if we did speed humps they're longer and flatter so it would cause less damage to vehicles and then would cause a natural slowdown of to 15 to 25 m an hour and then those vehicles can still pass through. And even if you guys decided to do stop signs, which would be great as well, like emergency vehicles have the right away and can pass through. So that should not be a concern. The speed humps or the stop signs are honestly the best solution to slow down the traffic on our street. And I really really I said this last time at the meeting like let's prevent a tragedy before it happens because we're here speaking about these things. If something happened and you guys voted this down, like what would that mean for the city? You guys would be held liable. So, thank you for your time. I appreciate you guys listening to

our concerns tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else care to come forward?

Good evening. Uh, my name is Shirley Cornet. I am part of Hollywood Boulevard, but I live on 1847 Prominade Lane. I care for a handicapped cousin who lost her parents. He lives at the corner of 1808 Prominade, which is the stop sign. And the stop sign is there is Hollywood Boulevard. His home with the bedrooms on that side. All the traffic's going by. And right now where the traffic is coming from the new division into our division, I care for his bed. I clean his home and things. You can hear when it's a speaker because they're going from that bump over into our bump and it makes a sound. But I wanted to start out and say I really thank you. I was here for the October meeting. I did bring up about no speed signs on Hollywood Boulevard and you did really help us to get some speed signs both through the solar light and through the the extra speed sign. Did it help? Not too much to be truthful because we've got traffic. It just keeps increasing. It just keeps increasing. Do we still need help? Absolutely. Uh, I'd like to give you an example if I have time. I'm a retired nurse. 30 years ago, I went into my hospital as the clinical manager of an ICU. It was in turmoil. Got to get this patient in here. Got to get the patient in here. We got it the room. Bring it in here. Bring it in here. Well, they just wanted to get it out of recovery room and O and get it into ICU. So, they brought it in. I'm getting report in that room. Look at that young man.

28 years old. 28 years old. There was not a bruise on his body. There was not a cut on his body. There was no splits on his body. There was no halos on his brain. What do you think? He was on a 100% ventilator. Can any of you tell me what you think was wrong with him? Any of you? No. He was in an automobile accident. So, what do you think happened at that automobile accident?

One simple thing. He was driving a Lincoln. He had came in from Germany. He was headed home with his family. He had made a music song over there. Doing great in Dayton, Ohio. of going up Paka Drive, a car of on his car, a new car from the airport, a van came in and hit him on his side. Did two things to him. Forward, backward. Now, what do you think happened to him? Contra injury. Can any of you give me any idea? Here you go. Contra injury. Sharing force.

He was a total 3C. Mhm. broken neck. They had never had one to make it to the hospital, but since he was close to where the hospitals was, he made it. It took us all the doctors, all the different hospitals working together that night to how to see to make that young man live. We didn't know how to care for a patient that had made it for C3. Especially, what year was that? Uh, you pretty well know. 87 88 right cuz I think we both worked at good Sam well he wasn't brought there he was brought closer

right but we couldn't do we didn't take finals

the young man served three years in the Dayton area with several different hospitals he was in Columbus it was later traced back due to the community and the lack of which we all are we are part of our community we are part of helping each other, being safe. Being safe is our most important thing. There was some traffic situations that were not cared for. So, the young man actually had a well-known family. And it cost I, this is Dayton, cost him $8 million in lawsuit. He won for the accident and 30 years of care. My point is we are all here to work to have good neighborhoods, to have our families, have our safety, and to help our police officers. It's no fun. I got those calls with my child being in an accident, and I've had to leave one hospital and drive to another because he's been in a horrible accident. You don't know what you're facing till you get there and they tell you, "Is your child alive or is it dead?" Now we've opened ma'am if I could on Hollywood Boulevard.

No disrespect. You're over five minutes. We need those bumper speed bumpers. We need more stop signs and but today I went that road and guess what? Because I went around to say yel and around your roundabout. A young person in front of me didn't do the roundabout. Turn left, but I got the finger and I'm a grandma. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. work and get us some help. Don't wait till our city gets sued or a police officer or someone gets killed by a bad accident over it's going to happen. The traffic is growing every day. Thank you so much for listening. Great. Who else would care to come forward at this time? Yes, sir.

Thanks for letting us uh voice our concerns. I'm My name is Dr. Joshua. I live on 400 Hollywood Boulevard and I'm also here to share share my concerns is also just some data that I was able to find. If you guys you probably have looked at a lot of these things with the with the traffic uh concern, but I just wanted to share my perspective because I'm like right there on Hollywood um where we see you know we can see some details that um you may not see if you're not there every day. So obviously I think the main thing I want to point out is that we want to have you know safe communities but also we can't you know we have limited number of resources so we have to be fiscally responsible. Um so I'm trying to look at a maybe a solution to help with help to help with one of these some of these concerns. Um, I guess one of the one of the first things I wanted to cover was what makes this street different than let's say some other streets that some people could could bring up a similar concern with the amount of speeding that's going on on the street. Of course, with the volume of traffic traffic increase as well. Um, I think when we walk into this that this neighborhood had um or particularly um this side of Hollywood on the other side of Purcell, right, the west side before the Purcell intersection uh was only a pass through for people for residents of of the neighborhood, which uh completely makes sense. Same thing for anybody else who was in the neighborhood on the on the newer part of Hollywood as well. Uh totally makes sense for people to pass through there. I use it. I love it. I think it's great that we're building more homes in the city and that's that's a good thing. And if that comes at the cost of increased uh increased u traffic through my street, so be it. It's good for the city and good for all of us. Um the part that

concerns me is this is the amount of speed. I think part of the reason why we have so much speeding primarily comes down to the width of the street. Uh that section of Hollywood 400. Uh we have Arena Court as well as my house. There's not very many driveways. It's very wide. It's like it's like a wide four lanes that we have and nobody parks their cars on the side on the shoulders of the street which makes which to me I think makes people feel a lot more comfortable with uh with picking up their speed and it becomes you know as any any other speed trap out there. You've noticed that it's like hey there's no other cars out here. You just feel like you can fly and that the speed limit should be higher. Um, and so that combination really really allows that. Um, it's also a straightaway um, which which doesn't which doesn't help right now obviously with the not a lot of the houses are still being built. That could also contribute as well. Um, one thing I think that's interesting is that um, the Google Maps or any GPS is also directing people through that street now. Um, so if they're not a resident of the neighborhood, people are are just being funneled in by the GPS systems because because it's seen as faster going that way. Like um I was just looking at it this morning if I was coming from the high school or another neighborhood on the northeast side of town um and try to go to Walmart or if I try to go to some of the houses in um the you know all the way down 35. uh one way might take PCEL another way it going coming the other way might take Hollywood because it's pointing out that Hollywood is faster for a lot of people despite the fact that PCEL is a longer straighter way um and uh and has a higher speed limit. So I thought those things were interesting as far as what's you know part of partially uh causing this issue. the Purcell stop sign.

Obviously, a lot of people going westbound might not want to stop, make a turn at that stop sign, so they just keep going anyway. Um, a lot she she pointed out that the roundabout people are literally I think like I don't know like 99% of the people I've seen drive through that roundabout are just not taking the roundabout either. I thought that was interesting. Not particularly concerning for this for the speed thing, but I thought that was interesting that people aren't respecting the the roundabout. Um, and then of course because PCEL, how close PCEL is to Hollywood on Fairgrounds Road, a lot of people are coming in from going southbound are just taking the lefthand turn. They don't have to stop at the at the stop sign. Um, on PCEL is just taking the pass through there. So, those are some things that are increasing uh the volume, but also the speed uh what's going down uh the speed on that street. Um, I also think that the I really thought the narrowing of the bike path was great.

I thought it was going to work out well to slow people down because right where that bike path goes on Hollywood, um, it it narrows the street, but it seemed to it seems to me it's actually causing people to drive a little bit more reckless in the sense that once they get out going eastbound past that uh, past that bike path, they just step on it because again, it's super wide. It widens up, opens up for them. They just go. And then if they're going eastbound into it, they go right down the middle. Am I done? I was done. You're about five and a half minutes. We'll let you. No, go ahead and uh summarize and we respect you.

Sounds good. Honestly, I'm obviously my kids who live on the street. Not just concerned with them cuz obviously I'm doing really making sure my kids don't go on the street. And uh it's just for other kids who might they might be playing with. I think they're they're in particular at higher risk here cuz they're not used to that amount of traffic and the speed. Um, I noticed that maybe this morning around 7:30 we had about 120 cars pass through in an hour. So about two two per minute. And um, of course, as far as the Costco and the solution, I do think speed bumps will help. Anything really I think anything to slow down the traffic would make uh, everybody here a lot more happy uh, than where we are today. I think that would be satisfactory. So I appreciate your time. Thanks again. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Anyone else care to come forward? I didn't sign in. I'm sorry.

Hi, I'm Kathy Priest Peabody. I live at 1801 Harris Lane, which is the corner of Harris and Hollywood. And I have lived there for well since 2002. And uh I've loved the street, have loved the neighborhood, used to walk early in the morning at 5:30, ran into neighbors walking at that early in the morning. and uh very safe neighborhood. Obviously, I agree with everything everyone has said and very very concerned about this and uh devastated and we have offered solutions many many times. I have talked with I think it's the zoning gentleman and he tried to tell me that this roundabout was going to have a make a big difference. It's done nothing. Um, and then I also talked to somebody who said that stop signs, no, no, no. We can't put stop signs in just forever. We have to have special permission or something. I like to just draw attention to I I've taught it I taught at Cedarell University for 30 years before retiring. And there's a back road a back street to Cedarell University as you come into town and it's called Brit Street. Bridge Street is probably about a mile long at the most and obviously it's a shortcut shortcut for college students and you know college students. Well, they now have four stop signs on that little mile stretch. How can they have so many stop signs on a short street and we're not able to do that? uh very confusing to me and so I just want to bring that up to you and I know there are other situations that people have talked about but very very disconcerting that every time we offer a

solution no can't be done can't be done can't be done I along with everyone else thank you that the speed limit signs were put up and that the solar powered signs were put up thank you for that uh I can't tell you the number of nasty words I've gotten uh as I've asked people to slow down as I'm walking and my husband keeps telling me, Kathy, stop it because somebody's going to stop and punch you out. So, please, we beg you, please help us before someone gets hurt. Thank you.

Thank you, Captain. Hi, I'm Tom Walls. I live at 393 Hollywood Boulevard and u along with you know a lot but what what everybody else has said. Uh but I did want to talk about the solar powered speed sign especially the one that is clocking the cars that are going eastbound. It needs to be turned a little bit. Half the cars don't get caught. I it doesn't register the speed because I'll sit out there and I'll count the number of cars going by. I've got time and uh uh we're every time I've sat out there 75 80 85 cars an hour different times of the day. It's 1,000 cars a day. Prior to the cut being cut through we had 20 or 30 cars a day maybe past past my house. So, uh, but the the speed limit sign, the solar powered speed limit sign needs to be turned to the north just a little bit so it'll pick up all the cars cuz if they're on the left side of the lane, it doesn't see them. So, that's all I had. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Yeah. Okay. Anyone else care to come forward

on any issue tonight? All right. Thank you so much. And we're we'll have a work session here. We got to get through some business and then we'll have a work session shortly here. So, we're going to go into uh old business. Our first item, ordinance 2025-39. That item is tabled and will remain tabled at this time. That'll move into ordinance 2026-13. Tonight, that's a public hearing enacting section 25, I'm sorry, 25101 I titled financial reporting of the city's administrative code. We'll turn the floor over to Mr. Duke.

Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, as we discussed at the last meeting, as this was introduced, uh, this is a request to amend the city code to allow some more flexibility in the way that we're reporting uh, on various funds. Allows us some uh, to consolidate various funds uh, instead of reporting them on an individual basis. This will make our financial report a little uh, a little more streamlined and easier to um, uh, to read and and decipher. um this doesn't really impact the the way that we're tracking these funds on our books. So, all these funds will still be um tracked and maintained separately on our accounting system, but from a reporting standpoint, uh we'd love the opportunity to consolidate them. And uh this section or this uh piece or amendment to the code uh is something that our auditors recommended that we do uh as we uh as we try to consolidate a few of these things. We have run this change by both um the auditor of state and our independent audit uh firm and both our um our uh or believe that this is an appropriate consolidation uh that we're uh planning to move forward with. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have on this item.

All right, questions for Mr. Duke. All right, thank you very much. This time I'm going to open the public hearing and ask anyone that would care to speak on this item. Uh, ordinance 2026-13 either for or against come to the podium. Give us your thoughts. All right. Seeing no one coming forward, we're going to close that public hearing on that item. This was introduced at our last meeting by the mayor. Mr. President, I move to adopt ordinance 20 202613. Thank you. Move for passage by the mayor. Do I have a second? I'll second. Seconded by Councilwoman Sice. Any other discussion? All right. Roll call, please. Vice President Crawford. Hi. Councilwoman Sice. Hi. Councilman Msgavage. I. Councilwoman Huffman. I.

Councilman Rubio. Hi. Mayor Reynolds. Hi. President Smith. Hi. Motion carries. Thank you. Next is new business. The first item in new business is titled an emergency for ordinance 2026-14 which is amending ordinance 202612 to provide appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the city of Zenaia for fiscal year ending December 31st of this year. We'll turn the floor over to Mr. Duke.

Thank you, Mr. President. We're requesting uh amendments to appropriations this evening for four different reasons. A couple of them grant related. Uh the first is uh for uh sidewalk project on uh second street. Uh this is a project that's actually 90% grant funded. Uh the construction would happen in 2029, but there is a need uh right now in 2026 to go ahead and move forward with some rideaway acquisitions as well as some design. And so we're requesting um $149,000 be appropriated. uh uh that uh appropriation of that 149,14,900 of it is the city's uh portion. So the vast majority of that is covered by uh by a grant. Uh another uh reason that we're requesting appropriations this evening is for the uh sewer back uh that was scheduled for replacement here in 2026. That was bid and the bids came back higher than what was budgeted. Uh the budget amount was 450,000. and the bid came back at $514,415.71. Uh thus, we're asking for an increase in appropriations to cover that cost difference. Uh the good news is that this is uh paid for out of our sanitary sewer fund. And of all of our funds, that is the most healthy fund. Uh and so if we're going to have a bid come back uh higher than what we had anticipated, um it's good that it came back that way in the sewer fund. So, we're requesting additional dollars to be appropriated for that purpose uh to go ahead and replace that equipment. Uh there's a uh an appropriation uh ordinance for 41 or an appropriation for $41,500 related to the United Way program uh that was discussed at the last meeting. Uh there's actually a an agenda item to follow uh later this evening on this particular issue. Dollars were not originally appropriated in the budget for this purpose and so to move forward with that program, we would need to appropriate those dollars. And then

finally, uh the city was recently awarded a grant for the East End sidewalk uh repair project. Uh engineering design is um necessary in 2026. Uh there was a a a bid that came back for sidewalks that was under budget or under um under the budget amount by 40,000. And so we're requesting simply to move dollars uh that were uh budgeted for that downtown sidewalk project to cover this east end sidewalk project. uh that will be primarily grant funded. Uh so we're requesting appropriations for those four purposes this evening. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Thank you, Mr. Dude. Questions for our finance director tonight on any of these four items? Um Mr. Duke, um how many equipment providers are we petitioning for these bids? Yeah, is it just one or two or

Yeah, so it's an open bid. So the there's really no limit to the number of of folks who could respond to uh to the bid. So it's a public bidding process. Um there are only so many companies who um actually have the the ability to um uh to sell the some of these types of equipment. Like for example on the sewer back truck, uh the number of vendors is somewhat limited, but there's um you know, it's an open bid process. Any number of biders can respond. We try to send bid packets or notifications that there's uh something to bid on out to uh companies that we know specialize in this type of equipment. Uh but really anyone who sees that RFP is is able to respond.

And so when we when we when we go over when they go over budget, is there is there an appeal process or do what do we

We aren't bidding these out directly. Um we are these purchases are being made through cooperative purchasing programs. Either the state um the Ohio Department of Administrative Services has one. This one in particular for the backdrop is being purchased through Shoreswell. Um these are national cooperative purchasing programs. So those bid requests go out nationally. Um a lot of times we found that that's the lowest price we can get. It's much lower than if we tried to put the bid out ourselves. It had been competitively bid, so we know we're getting the best price. Um, in I think it was 2020, council authorized about 15 different cooperative purchasing programs. Um, and typically when any department buys any kind of equipment, fire, when the police buy cruisers, um, when public service buys equipment, they'll look at all those programs to see which one has the best price.

Okay. Um, I'm I'm just I'm fishing to see what we're doing the best we possibly can. Um, I understand. I understand costs have costs have gone up and everything and I just just wanted to make sure we were doing our due diligence. Yeah. And that that is a back truck is a specialized piece of equipment. So, yeah, we're you're probably not going to be able to shop around as much as you would for a police cruiser or, you know, a vehicle for for another department. Thank you for answering that question. Thank you. All right. Very good. Any other questions? All right. At this time, I'm seeking a pardon. Nothing.

No. I'm seeking a motion uh as an emergency tonight to um approve ordinance 2026-14. Who would like to make that motion? Mr. President, I move to adopt ordinance 202614. Thank you. Moved by the mayor, seconded by the vice president. If there's no additional discussion, uh get a roll call on that, please. Vice President Crawford. Hi. Councilwoman Sice. Hi. Councilman Missgavage. Hi. Councilwoman Huffman. Hi. Councilman Rubio. Hi. Mayor Reynolds. Hi, President Smith. Hi. Motion carries.

Next item is resolution 2026-23 authorizing an execution of a limited partnership agreement with ODOT for this uh West Second Street uh project from South Progress Drive to 1852 West 2nd Street. Um Mr. City Manager.

Thank you, sir. This is of course related to one of these last appropriation items, but to give you a little more detail, uh last year our staff uh successfully applied for a a systemic safety grant from the Ohio Department of Transportation uh to fund 90% of the construction cost of a roughly/4 mile run of sidewalk installation on a missing segment um that exists from uh West Second Street from the end of current sidewalk near Ottawa Drive all the way to South Progress Drive. Uh the scope of the project is uh more than just sidewalk. There's additional work uh a retaining wall has to be built to be able to allow for um the you know the support of this because there isn't much right ofway width next to the cemetery a host of reasons. So it's more than just the sidewalk. Uh but for that purpose um or because of those uh conditions uh based on project estimates um it is a a fairly costly project. But the grant portion um uh would cover $827,96310 of the project leaving the city's required 10% contribution amount of only $91,997. Uh design and writeaway funds have been programmed into the 26th budget. Uh construction funds would become available in 2029. Um the city will manage both the uh bid letting process and the oversight of the actual uh project construction. Uh as always, ODOT requires formal approval uh from a legislative body of their uh standard local public authority or LPA agreement. Um and approval to execute uh that agreement is the purpose of the resolution we present here this evening. So uh we would recommend written request adoption of the resolution uh that would allow us to authorize the uh the LPA and uh we'll get the project started with your concurrence. Thank you, sir.

All right. Very exciting to see that happening. Um, so question that means construction's 2029. 29. Yeah. Okay. Possibility of doing it sooner if it was debt financed and but what's the interest cost on that? Probably not. I mean, there's no way to get the award sooner because it's part of they have a rotating cycle for that program. Okay. Um, I don't know if we could. We've never asked. I'm not sure if we could do it sooner

for advance and be reimbursed. I I don't know the specifics of this grant or the grant agreement, but and I might add this was we looked at a couple different options. This was actually the the most cost effective as well to try to take it an alternative on the other side of the road is actually more costly. Uh the other thing I should probably throw out there too, the we are anticipating the need based on additional developments, most of which council is aware of of of doing reconstruction in that progress second/bellbrook um intersection. Um not sure when that will occur, but it's likely to occur before this, which is actually good because it would allow us to finish that out without having do you done any work with this um before that intersection improvement. I have two quick questions for you, Brent. One, are any of the property owners being assessed for any of this?

No. No. In fact, any any rightway that's necessary, they would be compensated for any of that right away. And do they know about it? I believe there's been discussion with all of the residents or property owners down there. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. That's all I got.

I might add, um, there is just because I know it's been a point that we've discussed with council previously, there is an enduring need to provide pedestrian and bicycle access over the bridge. um we have not abandoned that. It's just it's an extraordinarily costly fix. We've had discussions involving the county engineer and no do and so forth. Um we're talking millions of dollars. So this doesn't fix that problem yet. But again, we're looking collectively long-term and how we we we do individual projects to improve the pedestrian safety in that area because it continues to be a growing area. Right. Very good. I guess my only concern this funding for this doesn't happen till 29. Does the cost go up between now and then or are we locked in?

I think there are escalators built into the estimate. Correct? You factored in a cushion. Yeah. Yeah, there is motion factored into the estimates as part of the grant application. All right. Very good. All right. Who would care to make a motion to approve this resolution? Thank you. Moved by the vice president. Seconded by I think council Councilwoman Huffman did that. Is that correct? Council sice. Oh, I'm so sorry. Okay, very good. I was looking the wrong way. All right. Any further discussion on this before we roll call? All right. Can we get the vote, please? Vice President Crawford, hi. Councilwoman Sice, hi. Councilman Miss Cavage, I. Councilwoman Huffman, I. Councilman Rubio, hi. Mayor Reynolds, hi. President Smith,

I. Motion carries. Thank you. Next is resolution 2026-24. This is authorizing execution of funding agreement with United Way of Greater Dayton area for the establishment of I'm sorry, establishment and administration of the first grade futures program. Um at this time, I'll turn the floor over to Mr. uh Mayor Reynolds. Thank you.

All right. Uh this resolution is authorizes the executive uh sorry the executive contract with uh United Way of Greater Dayton for the establishment of the for the administration of the first grade futures program. This program is a collaborative initiative designed to kickstart post-secary secondary education savings as well as career tech savings uh by providing $100 deposit into a Ohio 529 college advantage plan. The city's goal is to foster a culture that prepares students for both college and career technical certification pathways while attempting to help reduce some financial barriers for families in our city. United Way will serve as the administrative partner and lead for the program w with a focus on marketing the program enrollment verifications assisting families uh and establishing those 529 accounts and facilitating a transfer for the seat deposit for those monies to be established for the account. Uh this is hopefully is a 4-year program but this is initially for one contracted year. This will give council the opportunity to evaluate the program after a year to engage enrollment success. This will cost a total of $41,500 uh $25,000 set aside for the seed deposits for up to 250 res first grade resident first graders of the program and the remaining 16,000. The cost is to serve United Way to establish administer the program through outreach and things of that nature. Um so any questions? It's weird to be on the opposite end of this Brent.

Yeah. Yeah. I have a few questions for you. I I do have a question. Is this program income limited? Nope. For the participation side? Nope. So anyone regardless of how much you make? Any uh uh five, six, and seveny old. Correct. Dette, any first grader. Any first grader. Yeah. In that age range is can apply to get this seed money whether you're in uh public school, home school, uh private school, you know, charter school, religious institutional school. It so it can apply. So it would be that first grade. Yes. Entry level. Yep. There's no back fill for somebody who got into second grade. Nope. Okay, that answers my question.

The only real requirement is the child has to live in Zen and the ultimate goal is for parents to continue to contribute, right, to grow that program. Yeah. So, what we're hoping to do is parents will contribute uh the school I talked to Dr. Lockman as well as Joshua Day. They're introducing their version of this at their next meeting to have it passed in May. So, that'll be $200 per student. I have a meeting with uh a community partner uh next week and if once we pass this they're on the table to potentially put in anywhere between 53 to $153. So we'll see where that goes. So per student.

Per student. Yep. So that could be up to $350 per student with just within their first when their first grade feature when their first grade starts this coming year. So, and then if parents contribute 20 bucks a month and you do that, you know, until they graduate, that's roughly pays for a two-year associates degree with cost currently or pays for their career technical pathways whether they decide to go to the trade initiatives or into some other program like that. So, Hobart or whatever faith. Yeah, I was just curious um if I'm uh and please correct me if I'm wrong, but it looked like that even uh a grandparent can either contribute to a grandchild's current plan by a parent account and or I think you can open your own account for your grandchild.

Yes, actually you can do it for anyone in your family. I do it for my nephews and niece and I contribute money uh every month for all three of them and have done it since they were, you know, what I think a year old. Uh, so when they get to 18 and graduate high school, they'll have some money set aside for me and my sisters and brother-in-law. Well, I saw that there's some short videos that kind of just explain very quickly where would you suggest a a parent or grandparent, what would be the best source of information to go to? I would say to go to the Ohio 529 to see the videos obviously and then also with the United Way with Greater Dayton, they're going to be handling the administration site so they can help guide you through that process. Do you know if there's an app one can download for the 529? Do you know? I honestly don't know.

Okay. Just curious. I just log in online and just see my credit card every month. Just deduct my money for the for the littles. So, okay. Very good. Well, and the goal of the program is to have the United Way. They're going to market it and they're going to help parents, grandparents sign up. They're going to help walk them through the process to get the account established. Excellent. Okay. All right. Very good. Any other comments or questions?

Um, another comment is I looked it up. If your kid scholarships out or chooses not to go to college or trade school, it will you can roll it over to a Roth IRA within limits. And so upon their retirement, they can use that money um then too. So, it's very versatile. I wish that was there when my kids were younger. Well, you can open one. You can open, right? Yeah. But they're almost at college.

Yeah, these kids right here. Or or you could get a time machine and go back and change that decision. I'd have to change. Yeah, cuz I wouldn't know the There you go. Just joking. No side effects. Very good. Mr. President, I move to approve resolution 20206-024. Thank you. Move for passage by the mayor. Who would like to second that? I'll second. Seconded by Councilwoman Huffman. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Roll call, please. Vice President Crawford, I. Councilwoman Sice, hi. Councilman Miss Cavage, hi. Councilwoman Huffman, hi. Councilman Rubio, I. Mayor Reynolds, hi. President Smith, I. Motion carries.

Thank you. Next on the agenda, resolution 2026-25 authorizing the purchase of a truck mounted combination sewer cleaner for public service department from A&H Equipment Company through the Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing Program. Turn the floor over to Mr. Mayorman. Hopefully, I have fewer questions with this item. No. Uh the city's existing back is a 2010 uh model that has well exceeded its intended life. Um there is an extensive uh corros corrosion throughout the unit including the water tanks vacuum mechanism in the boom. Significant internal corrosion within the tanks is progressing outward further compromising its integrity. Um it's detailed in your agenda report. There's there's quite a few issues with this particular unit and uh it's been in service and well used for an extended period of time. Uh knowing the unit would likely need to be replaced. Uh we did include a $450,000 line item uh that was programmed into the 2026 sewer budget for uh the purpose of of purchasing this new unit. Um as we've utilized in the past and as was discussed earlier um we are proposing purchasing the the new backtrack through source cooperative purchasing program which again as the law director indicated is a national competitive bid process to try to get the best possible price. Uh unfortunately that unit did come back a little bit higher the bid that we received uh than we had anticipated. Uh thus the additional appropriation this evening uh the purchase price for this unit is $514,415.71. This is uh inclusive of a tradein value for our ex our existing unit. Um and this also includes limited uh warranty on parts for the uh for the vehicle. As noted noted earlier, uh to complete the uh purchase, we've got this additional supple supplemental appropriation. Um and our hope is that the current unit um can get us through until the replacement arrives because we estimate that the lead time for fabrication is 12 to 18 months. Um that's part of the reason why we want to move forward now um uh because it is a pretty extensive lead

time. So, we are requesting uh approval of resolution 2026-025 this evening uh to authorize us to move forward with this purchase and get the process uh started as quickly as possible so that we can get the new unit in service uh before the other one old one completely dies. All right. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Any questions for Mr. Mayorman? I have a question. Is there any um idea on um uh our trading value for I don't think I spoke to Chris about that. Um I know it was under 25,000. It's on It's on there. Is it in there? Yeah. There's your answer. Less than 25. 25,000. Yep. Okay.

All right. Question. Yes, sir. Mr. Vice President, so yeah, just uh just for the education of this at this desk here, I use desk here. is um if if that if that machinery were to go down, let's just say for 8 weeks, what's what's the impact to our sewer system? So, you know, yeah, we we keep a a an old unit as a backup unit. Okay.

Um so, we would be able to continue services. Now, again, that is an old used unit that we that we previously had in service full time. So, you know, it would buy us some time and it's for that very purpose that we have the ability to, you know, to have a backup. Uh, but it's not something that we could rely on long term. Um, and just so folks understand, you know, this unit is used in our um sanitary and storm sewer systems um to help unclog, shall we say, unsightly collections. Often times, a lot of grease is a is a big uh you know, the the flushable wet wipes that are not actually flushable. you get a combination of these types of materials and you get clogs in your system and the gravity flow doesn't work. So, this is a pretty critical piece of equipment because we're by statute uh statutory regulations um we have to prevent any of that sanitary material from leaving that closed environment. Um and when we get those clogs that that that uh possibility exists that we have what we call a sanitary sewer um uh event so an overflow event in SSO. So again, it's a costly piece of equipment, but an absolutely necessary one.

Sounds good. Well, thank you. Thank you for answering. All right. Do you get any other questions for Mr. Mayorman? All right. At this time, I'll seek a motion for approval of resolution 2026-25 authorizing the purchase. I'll offer a motion on resolution 2026-025. Thank you. Okay. Moved by Councilman Muscavage, seconded by the mayor. If there's no further discussion, get a roll call on that item. Vice President Crawford, hi. Councilwoman Sice, hi. Councilman Miss Cavage, hi. Councilwoman Huffman, hi. Councilman Rubio, hi. Mayor Reynolds. Hi, President Smith. Hi. Motion carries. Thank you. Next on the agenda is appointed officials reports. We'll go first with Mr. Duke.

Thank you, Mr. President. Uh we are 6 days away from tax filing deadline. Uh so if you've not filed your city taxes, uh please go ahead and and do so. Uh there's a link on our city website. It's easy to file online. takes just a couple of minutes. Uh if you prefer to do it in person, you can come into this building um 107 East Main Street. Rita has an office here in this building and uh can assist people uh with uh filing their taxes in that way as well. Uh if you are filing a federal extension, you do not need to file a separate extension for the city. It automatically extends your uh time frame for filing with the city as well. Um so yeah, I think that's all I have this evening, but if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer. Thank you. Any questions on finances for Mr. Duke? Any tax questions? No.

All right. You're off the hook, madam law director. What do you have for us? I received my time to the city manager as I know he had several issues. All right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you, sir. Uh, a couple things. Uh, first, um, want to take a minute and discuss with council and for the benefit of our audience a topic that we know has, uh, the eye a lot of a lot of folks in our community. Uh we do have a number of private utility companies in our community right now that they are installing fiber optic for for internet services, networking services. Um and uh my office, our public service department, law department, um our mainline getting a lot of calls, frustrations, and complaints. So we want to take a minute this evening and acknowledge those and kind of talk about what we can and can't do. I've provided for all the council members a memo which is in essence um documentation that we are prepared to publish next week. Uh I've spent hours with the law director. She spent a ton of time researching to see is there anything legally federal statute, state statute, locally that we can invoke that we can implement to try to bring more accountability to this topic. U and unfortunately the answer is no. Um we uh the the the service for of broadband internet services is not viewed by the public utility commission of Ohio as a utility that they regulate. They would defer the regulatory elements uh up to the Federal Communications Commission. Um additionally, there's been legislation fairly recently approved in Ohio that prohibits municipalities from putting any type of specific regulations or impediments upon these entities. They have a legal right to come out um in neighborhoods um and access utility easements uh to install fiber. They are legally obliged to restore property back to its prior state and you know to work with these residents. But what we've seen recently from some of the fiber uh installers frankly is very shoddy work and our residents absolutely have a legitimate grip. They they really do.

Unfortunately, the city has no ability to invoke any type of regulation or any obligation on these individuals to do work differently or better. Um, I've been out to three different sites in different neighborhoods in the past week meeting with residents, listening to them, trying to explain what we can and can't do. And it's not a good response to say there's nothing we can do. But unfortunately, there's nothing we can do. Um what we've offered to do, what we're trying to do is educate people on the options they have available to them in terms of how they would complain, raise a concern or appeal to um these different installers that are currently in our community. Those are AT&T, Alta Fiber, and Metronet. Um as indicated in the memo I provided, we're trying to uh connect residents with those service providers uh through their platform that are provided by those companies where they can register a complaint. Uh met with uh Mr. Irish who was here earlier this afternoon um and talked about the conditions in his neighborhood. And one of the things I told him we can help with is if they identify specific damage that's substantial, for example, to a sidewalk. Um we can work through our engineering department to connect that location and that need back to Metronet in this case. Uh but outside of trying to close that gap, there's there's really nothing legally that we can do. and we have spent a lot of time trying to find some way around or some alternate path that we could bring a little more accountability. Unfortunately, there's just not much we can do about it. Um, so we will be publishing on social media on our website uh basically a glorified version of the information I've provided for you tonight, but I wanted the council to have that so if you get questions, you've got some resources you can refer people to. So, Dette, is there anything else you want to

Well, I just to reiterate what Brett said and in and last year's budget bill, if any of you kept the budget bill handout I gave you, um they put a new provision in um 492722 specifically prohibits us from regulating broadband providers in any way. So, I don't know which company threw the money at who at the state level, but that's usually how these things get passed, but prohibit us from doing anything. Um, we have racked our brains to try and come up with things. Um, I specifically looked at the plat um for the subdivision that Mr. Irish lives in to see was there anything. Um, you know, the only potential argument I could see maybe is if the easement, the utility easement doesn't mention telecommunication or fiber, the the plot for that specific sub subdivision says other utility lines and there was a recent case from October in the fifth district that that counts. Um, but even if I could find a problem there, the city doesn't have standing to do anything about that. I can't we can't sue the fiber company for violating that easement because we don't hold the easement. Um so if there's a one of our residents a property owner that the work or what they've done has just been egregious, go see an attorney.

Absolutely. Go see an attorney. If you would have a legal claim against that company. Can we also refer them to Puka for those who reach out to us? But it's state now. some some of the companies like AT&T is considered a telecommunications in addition to a broadband. So, Puko does regulate them. So, it's it's so confusing about what these companies are actually defined as as as to you know now in 2017 they took away our ability to regulate French

any utility that PUCO regulates. We we can only regulate their use of our rightway. If they're in a private utility event, there's absolutely nothing we can do.

So, if they damage a roadway or curb, yeah, we we can hold them directly accountable because they're damaging the public property. But these utility easements are for private utilities on private easements on private property. And so really, if there's an issue, it it becomes a private matter. So, it'll be a civil matter. Uh the service director and I went out to one location about a week ago and that you know from our measurement and we took the time with her to measure. They clearly had placed a vault and this was metronet. They placed a vault outside of the easement on her private property and we believe she absolutely has a legitimate case. Unfortunately, she'll have to hire an attorney or otherwise, you know, take some type of route through the company to to try to bring some accountability. So I absolutely empathize. I think folks have a very legitimate complaint. the work has not been done well. Um, the service director has also been in direct communication with sort of a a district supervisor, I think, would kind of be the right title, basically telling him, look, the the folks in Zena are not happy with your product. They're not happy with your subs that are putting this this product into the ground. Don't expect a lot of service in Zenaia because you're not doing them right. Um, so we we've seen some I think it's fair to say some positive response to that. They've been out trying to identify, do a walk through and identify additional work that needs to be done and a punch list to help improve things. So, I hope that uh will help. I'm not sure that it'll totally solve everyone's concerns.

So, it's public record when somebody calls and makes a complaint to the city. So, which one of which of these three providers is causing most of the issues? Can we Yeah, I I'm totally

Yeah, I'm totally confident she's not going to say it's Metroet. They're the ones that are out there right now. Uh we there have been a few small issues with AT&T and Alta Fiber, but generally from the residents we've talked to, they've been pretty good. they've come back and taken care of things, but they they did a much better job on the front end in the first place. Uh, but Metronet is the one that's out there, particularly in the reserve right now down in that area of the city. Uh, but I anticipate you're going to see probably at least one more a fourth one yet this summer and maybe even a fifth one because there's already some discussions about the Wasp officials reached out to I don't think it would hurt.

I don't think it would hurt. Well, and you know the number one thing really that people could do whether this has happened, if this hasn't happened in your yard yet, it could still happen. If there's utility easement across your property, this could happen. Call your state reps. Get them to put something in the code that allows us locally to control what these companies are doing because short of that, I don't know what we can do. Any other questions for us? Are these any of the any of this work going on is it subcontracted in any way?

I can guarantee that it's subcontractors on behalf of these. Um I will tell you in talking with our engineering staff today, you know, it's how do I put this? Uh one of the big problems is a huge language barrier with those subcontractor workers that are out there. Um but it's it's a host of concerns. It's where things are being located. um the the shotty work um the even as they have the work cleaned up and finished the you know they have the towers we call them towers that they install that are the access points they're they're crooked they're not it's just it just looks unsightly um and so again I wish we could do something more um but it's definitely the subcontractors but ultimately the the primary contractor the you know the the provider is the one responsible to make it right

okay cool thank you all right very good anything else

yeah a couple of things just uh quickly Um, we do have scheduled a work session tonight. I have told our planner he's hardcapped at 15 minutes. So, please give him 15 minutes. We we do want to talk about traffic calming. Obviously, a lot of uh commentary from folks up off of Hollywood tonight. uh as part of what Brian will present, he will lay out some recommendations that we have for Hollywood. But the reason we want to take a couple minutes to talk about the broader uh traffic calling need is that as folks talked about tonight, we're a growing community and you're going to get more of these complaints in other areas as we grow. So, we want to make sure that you're comfortable with a policy that is something we can implement to address these situations when they come up so we don't have to come back to council and have these conversations. So, if you give us 15 minutes tonight, I think we can lay all of that out, put some recommendations in front of you, make sure you're okay with what we're uh recommending on Hollywood, and they'll move on. Uh, finally, um, Mr. President, we we probably do need an executive session after that work session this evening to update you. So,

all right. Very good. And if council's okay with us, I've talked to the mayor. We're going to skip council comments and reports and, uh, for the sake of courtesy for our audience and go right into the work session. So, folks, this work session is still a business meeting. We're still under Robert's rules, so there's not an opportunity for you to comment during the work session. However, I think we're going to come to some resolutions tonight uh to help you out with your situation. So, I'd like to invite Mr. Forchner to come uh up and um enlighten us with um his suggestions on traffic calming.

I do have some slides. Can we connect connect those? Um, I thought you guys were. Let's see. I'll uh I I I think I know how to do it. It's just a matter of I don't want to mess with anything that I doing to record the meeting.

It's going to take five minutes. Yeah. Okay. You know what, Mr. We're going to go ahead give you five minutes. Is that good? Yeah. All right. No, you're good. We'll just recess for 5 minutes. grab a drink or restroom. We'll come right back, folks. Um, make sure you're here at 7:20. Thank you.

You should be able to Yeah, I know how to do it. That's You should have Yeah, I just I didn't know if that was going to mess with the recording. Work sessions. We don't normally record anyway. reviewing the the agenda item on the G drive for the uh um ear buddies there from NBCC or whatever. Well, the so I did not review it. that that their only thing or two