City Council - Regular Meeting

I also want to let you guys know tonight we do have two public hearings. One is the sale of a small portion of land at Parnell Park. The other is to institute a one-year moratorium on data centers. And what that means is council is introducing legislation to stop or put a hold on data centers for one year in the city. So if you're not sure what that term, moratorium, means, that means council's taking the initiative to stop data centers. So it's not that we're trying to repress your right to speak tonight, but that's basically our intent tonight is the moratorium on the data centers. If you'd like to speak on that, do that during the public hearing. We do have a full crowd tonight, so I will have to limit comments to two minutes per person, so keep that in mind, all right? Once we get the hi sign, we'll get started. Make sure they sign, make sure they register. All right, looks like we're on. So first of all, thank you everyone for being here. I'd like to welcome you to the June 25th regular meeting of the Xenia City Council. We've been recessed since our special session that started at 5 o'clock. I'd like to thank our Xenia Charter Review Commission who joined us at 5 o'clock for a presentation on Xenia Charter referendum and initiatives that will come to the voters possibly in November. So at this time, we are gonna have an invocation led by Mr. Kevin Poole. He is here from Cornerstone Bible Church, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by Vice President James Crawford. So I'd ask everyone to please rise.

this on here good figured I'd read one verse and then open us in a word of prayer Romans chapter 13 verse 1 says let every person be subject to the governing authorities for there is no authority except from God and those that exist have been instituted by God goes on to say that government is God's servant for your good and he is the servant of God so let me open this meeting in a word of prayer So Father God, I thank you for the opportunity to come before you, God. I know that that is only possible through what's been accomplished by your son, Jesus Christ. So I thank you for him, Lord. God, I thank you for these men and women who serve in the government. I pray, Lord, that you would bless this time tonight. that everybody would be able to understand one another and to speak their positions clearly, that you would allow there just to be a general unity and understanding, Lord, that it would be a productive time, a time where folks would be seeking to understand. Lord, I want to pray as well for just the folks that serve the community that aren't represented necessarily in the room. I think of our policemen and our firefighters and just first responders in general, Lord, like paramedics and EMTs. So we thank you for them, Lord, and I know that they're out there doing their thing right now. I pray that you would protect them as they are doing their job, that you keep them safe, that you'd help them to do their job well. All in all, God, I thank you for government. It is a gift you've given to keep order, to instill good. I pray that it would be used accordingly, and that even this time tonight, with the various things being considered and discussed, be used to that end, ultimately to your glory. Pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thanks, everybody.

Thank you, Kevin. Thank you, Vice President Crawford, for the pledge. This time we'll call our meeting to order and ask for a roll call.

Vice President Crawford?

Here.

Councilwoman Cerise? Present. Councilman Miscavige? Here. Councilwoman Huffman? Here. Councilman Rubio?

Here.

Mayor Reynolds?

Present.

President Smith?

Here. On our agenda is the approval of minutes. This is from our June 11th regular meeting. The minutes are before us. I'll entertain a motion to accept the minutes as written. So moved. Thank you. Moved by the mayor, seconded by Councilwoman Cerise. Is there any corrections or changes need presented? All right. Seeing none, we'll go ahead and get a roll call to accept the minutes.

Vice President Crawford?

Yes.

Councilwoman Cerise? Yes. Councilman Miscavige. Aye. Councilwoman Huffman. Aye. Councilman Rubio. Aye. Mayor Reynolds. Aye. President Smith. Aye. Motion carries.

Thank you. We have no special presentation scheduled for tonight. However, we are going to have a quick discussion on the success of Saturday's Fishing Derby. So we have several people here tonight that were involved in the Fishing Derby. We have some sponsors, we have some volunteers that were here. We would like to ask you to come forward at this time. We do have a gift for you.

So that's Frank, Tom, Troy, and Nancy.

Yeah, members of BRCA, we have sponsors as well. Sure. All right, so in the interest of time, we wanted to let you know that the fishing derby this year And the gentleman that helped put it together this year was not able to be here today. He had another commitment. But Austin did a phenomenal job. I wanted to say that we had 170 kids that fished. And we think that's a record. We don't think we've ever had that many. That almost rivals the amount of kids that participate in our Eastern High. So do you remember having more students than that?

It was like 175 when we budgeted. We thought about 60 to 70. Our highest we've ever had was 75 in the last five years that I've been working in fishing. That did not include adults.

not adults and not non-disabled fishermen so we're very grateful very thankful that the city uh we were able to stop the pond uh we had to do it on a a little delayed method so that the fishing didn't get kicked a week later than normal but we do appreciate everyone especially our sponsors mr cokley thank you he was generous donated a large amount of money that we use to buy fishing poles. And also want to thank Walmart, here in Xenia, Walmart Supercenter, their management and their staff. They were here to, thank you, they also had employees there during the fishing derby that not only were there to help with it, but cooked food. They donated hot dogs, buns, chips, and water. So we had a lot of kids that were able to eat. Probably had close to 400 people in total. I think you guys brought 600 hot dogs.

and what had happened. We had made some significant budget cuts last year. Councilman, not everyone was here for that, but some of us were, and we voted to cut that. Luckily, we had Austin step up, Troy, Nancy, Frank, Tom, and then Shane from Walmart, and then a few of their staff members. And two other sponsors. Yeah, COVID Construction, Speedy Zone, Fish and Tackle, and then we also had some of the prizes donated by do better images. So without these guys, this would not happen. And Austin did tell me, he's like, it was a great event. He's happy to do it. And he's like, I can't wait till next year. And I cannot wait to do it next year with him. So this is all stuff we have for you guys.

Thank you, Frank, for being a judge. Thank you. Well done, sis. Well done. Thank you so much. I know I did it last year. Thank you.

All right, while people are being seated, we're going to go ahead and discuss our audience comments portion of the meeting. This is an opportunity for anyone in the audience that would care to address city council. We do ask that you give your name and address for record. This is not a question and answer session. It is your opportunity to just address your comments to council for further consideration. Keep in mind, if you are speaking regarding the sale of Parnell Park acreage, or the data center moratorium, we would ask that you would hold your comments from the public portion of the audience comments to do it during the public hearing, so we'll enter those into the record. Otherwise, at this time, we will, did I explain that well enough? Okay, very good. So at this time, we'll go ahead and open up audience comments. Anyone here tonight that would care to come forward? And due to the amount of people we have tonight, I am going to have to limit comments to two minutes, okay?

Good evening. Welcome to the new members of the council. I see a few new faces. My name is Clayton Brady, 370 Hollywood Boulevard, Xenia, Ohio. I represent Dexter Park Group. I just want to thank you for, with Juneteenth, your participation of the Lexington Park. Anything you do for Lexington Park, with Lexington Park, is deeply appreciated. It goes a long way to speak volume to our citizens. I know I haven't been here in a while, but I've still been busy doing things. I'm organizing a summer league for youth, 11-year-olds, flagged football and basketball. And I just want to reiterate what you do for the park is deeply appreciated. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bernanke.

We appreciate you. Who else would care to come forward this time? This is your opportunity to address City Council under audience comments.

Thanks for the opportunity. My name is Krista McGaw, and I am running for Ohio District 71 House Seat. And I just want to introduce myself. I need to get to know Xenia, the biggest city in House District 71, by a long shot, actually. The district includes all of Clinton County, eastern Greene County, so kind of Yellow Springs, Xenia, and everything east. and the four southern townships in Clark County. I previously worked for Tecumseh Land Trust and kind of know some people in those rural areas did some farmland preservation in that area, but I need to get to know Xenia. So I really appreciate hearing from anybody. Krista McGough for Ohio.org is my website. You can send me comments. I want to be invited to places that I need to go to learn about the city and its important work. I appreciate it.

Thank you. Thank you. Who else would care to come forward at this time?

Hello, my name is Cole Patterson. Some of you know a lot of my family. My family's been here since they were born. I've been here for 30 years in the same home, which I just purchased from my parents. So I'm raising my same family in that home. With that being said, I'm here to talk about the company McKinley Industries, I believe, bought the property behind us. And they tried to go through a process properly to have a eight foot tall fence with barbed wire at the top, horizontal. on the structure on the residential side of the building they want to surround it but we they weren't dead in the street that building has been open to me walking back there with my kids or myself and my dad to throw football since i was a kid the meeting went well they listened to our concerns which i had a whole thing but two minutes i'm not gonna make you guys sit through that um I have some photos of what it looks like right now and what it did previously. I did not pray enough enough for everyone, so I apologize. The concern I have is, you know, we all know our history of storms here, Ohio specifically, Oklahoma, things like that, especially Xenia from 74 to, I think it was 2000, what, two, 2004, something like that. With barbed wire being around and I have a three and a one-year-old that play in a huge open field next to my house, it concerns me. They were given a couple options to go forward with. One of them was to put up more greenage that they took down previously. They did a $10,000 renovation job of the trees and all the shrubbery that was there. So now it's open space, which you can see in the photos. Recently, within the last two weeks, they planted four to six foot tall spruce trees. to try to solve that for me and my neighbor next door there's only about eight of them and they're about five to six feet apart so not only is that going to take five to ten years to grow for us to have our privacy because i don't want to feel like i live next to a prison especially when i have fires or cookouts with family so my i just would like to figure out what my next steps could be to turn i do have one thing i want to say that i did write down I do want the company to do well. I love companies here in Xenia. Growing up here, I want everything to be great for us. And so a company that wants to expand here is fantastic. And I'm all for that. And if they buy the lumber, I'll go build the fence myself for them. So this has nothing to do with this company. It just has, I have to put my family first. So the last keynote that I wrote that I was really proud of was, I'm not here asking you to stop development. I'm asking you here to help to ensure the growth of Xenia doesn't come at the expense of families who already call this neighborhood home. So I don't want my curb appeal to go from residential to industrial. So thank you for your time. I don't know who I should give these to.

Thank you.

Who else would care to come forward this time? All right. This time I'm going to close the portion of audience comments. We're going to move into old business. Our first item is a public hearing for ordinance 2026 21. This is authorizing the sale of a portion of Parnell park, which compromises 0.02 acres, more or less about 10 feet to the owner of 488 Ackerman place. This time I'll turn the floor to Mr. Merriman.

you sir this matter is concerning the potential for a sale of a small portion of property adjacent to parnell park staff believes it was originally intended to be an entryway to the park that we have no evidence that there was any sidewalk or driveway or anything as an entrance the space is unused and there's consideration by an adjoining navy looking a desire to look to purchase it the the concept was discussed by property management committee and they have endorsed the concept of putting it up for sale. And so the ordinance this evening would present the option for council to consider authorizing that.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor, at this time, I'll open the floor for the public hearing. This is to speak on the sale of property at Parnell Park. If anyone would care to come forward, we do ask that you give us your name and address for the record. I see no one come forward. I'm gonna close the public hearing on this item. This item was introduced for passage by Councilman Miscavige at our last meeting. Councilman, would you move for passage? I do. Thank you. I need a second. Second. Seconded by the mayor. I need a roll call, please.

Vice President Crawford.

Aye.

Councilwoman Cerise. Aye. Councilman Miscavige. Aye. Councilwoman Huffman. Aye. Councilman Rubio.

Aye.

Mayor Reynolds. Aye.

President Smith. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Our next item is also a public hearing. This is for Ordinance 2026-22, which is instituting a one-year moratorium on the establishment or commencement of data centers within the city of Xenia. And I'll either turn the floor either to Mr. Merriman or Ms. Fisher. Sure.

I'll take a stab and let the law director correct me where I'm wrong, but this essentially would, if approved, would be a one year moratorium on the advancement of a data center project in the city of Xenia. The intent of this based on what was articulated by members of council was to give time to study the concept. Our current zoning code doesn't specifically identify this use, so this would give an opportunity to do some research and identify what standards or regulations would be appropriate for our community to apply for this type of use. I want to reiterate, as we've said multiple times, there are no pending projects concerning a data center in the city of Xenia. either publicly or confidentially our staff is not involved in any dialogue related to any firm for the purpose of a data center. So I think it's important to understand that. So this is a preventative step that the council would take to study the matter and determine how best to proceed in terms of any regulations.

All right, thank you.

The only thing I would add is anyone interested in this topic that wants to say whether they're for or against really the most important part of this process I think that they can participate in is planning commission. Because anything that is done will be done through the zoning code, which will start with planning commission and then come to you. Your decision tonight is not to allow or not allow data centers. All we're doing is putting a moratorium. As the city manager said, there haven't been any applications. There are limitations right now in the city that we don't believe one could even come here if it wanted to. But those limitations could change. Um, so this really, um, started with the mayor being proactive. We want to get out ahead of this. Um, we don't want to find Xenia in a situation like Urbana where they're trying to react after land has already been sold. Um, but there is no threat of one coming. This doesn't do anything tonight, the moratorium to say yes or no on data center. All it says is no applications for a year. Um, so I would really encourage anyone that has strong feelings for against to come to the planning and zoning commission meetings, and then that ordinance will eventually be back before you as council.

And I believe before we open the public hearing, the mayor would like to make a comment.

Yeah, I would just like to say this action will prevent a data center from being built in the city limits for a year while the city looks at legal regulations to minimize change, potentially stop data centers. That's where I'm at. I've been clear from the beginning that I don't want a data center in Xenia. This step is to develop a zoning to potentially prevent change or maybe keep something like this out of our town. That's why I wrote the help. Thank you to that or city manager and council for and like supporting this measure thus far. And that's why I want to make sure it was something that we let on versus being reactive. Better be proactive.

So very good. This time I'm going to open the public hearing on this item and whoever would like to come either speak in favor or against this moratorium. Now is your opportunity to do so. All right. Last chance. Okay. All right. We always want to make sure that you guys have an opportunity to speak. So I'll close the public hearing at this time on this ordinance. This item was introduced by the mayor. Would you still like to move for passage?

Yes, I move to pass ordinance 2026-22.

And I'll second it. Thank you. And we have a second by the vice president. Any other discussion by council?

I just want to say, I think it's wise to give it time. I mean, I was in Columbus two, three weeks ago when they were having hearings, um, just about all of this. It's such a hot topic right now. And until they have things sorted at the state level, I think it's a good idea to kind of wait and see what happens.

Very good. Thank you. I concur with that. Any other discussion?

Um, I'll say something. I appreciate the mayor leading this initiative. It's a, a vital step here to protect us. Little IT lesson. I work in IT. There are different sizes of data centers, and that scale is vast. I have a mini object lesson. There is a data center that came before the AI boom operating out of Springboro, just off the interstate. It sits in the industrial park. It is very... It's normal. It's a warehouse. It has computers. Think of it as the size of a postage stamp. Anyone that does business that has a website would need a data center about this size. It uses to be 1.4 megawatts. That's smaller than most big box stores. Its negative externalities are pretty small. Now the one hyperscale, It starts at something like 100 megawatts. The one outside of Columbus and New Albany is 192 megawatts. That is staggering. Think about that as a paper like this, like 20 pages roughly. There are even considerations for huge data centers, even in the state of Ohio, that you would think of a ream of paper that would consume as much power as the third of the state in the summer when everyone has their air conditioning on. So we've got to be, I think this year is very important to help us dial in where we're at. So appreciate this on a yes. All right, thank you. Any other discussion? All right, I'll entertain a roll call, please.

Vice President Crawford.

Aye.

Councilwoman Cerise. Aye. Councilman Miscavige. Aye. Councilwoman Huffman. Aye. Councilman Rubio.

Aye.

Mayor Reynolds.

Yes, of course.

President Smith. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Next is new business. Our first item under new business is ordinance 2026-23, which is an introduction amending the official zoning map of the city of Xenia to rezone property at 805 Upper Bellbrook Road and a portion of the property at 817 Upper Bellbrook Road from A1 Agricultural District to RB Regional Business District. Mr. Merriman, would you care to explain that?

Yes, sir. Thank you. As presented, the proposed rezoning includes a 2.787-acre property at 805 Upper Bellbrook Road and a 1.444-acre portion of the 32.654-acre property at 817 Upper Bellbrook Road. The smaller of the two, the 1.444 acre portion of 817 Bellbrook is the remainder of the property that was not rezoned by ordinance 2026-09, which presumptively will ultimately include a multi-family site, 160 or so townhomes. Upon approval of this rezoning, the property boundaries would be resurveyed to match the rezoning boundary. The applicant has requested this rezoning in order to allow for development of a hotel and one or two commercial outlots presumptively for like food retail. We've provided the staff report that was given to the Planning and Zoning Commission with the agenda item. This contains additional details and analysis of the requested rezoning according to the applicable criteria in our land development code. The Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend approval of the rezoning after its required public hearing that they held on June 10th of this year, and the rezoning is also endorsed by our city staff. This evening, we are recommending introduction of the ordinance as presented to allow for an opportunity for Council to have consideration of the item.

All right, thank you. Any questions for Mr. Merriman? If I'm correct, this is an introduction tonight. This will be a public hearing at our next meeting on July 9th. Who would care to introduce this? I'll introduce. Okay. I think Councilman Miscavige. Thank you. All right. Next on the agenda is opportunity for appointed officials reports. Let's start with Mr. Duke. I have nothing for you this evening. All right. Thank you, Mr. Fisher.

I just wanted to thank Council and the Charter Review Commission for meeting at 5 o'clock to go over the Charter Review Commission's recommendations. And again, many thanks to those volunteers on the Charter Review Commission for their time. They've spent the last six months going through their charter to make these recommendations. You have a work session scheduled at your second meeting in July. That would be the 23rd. So if council is amenable, I'd like to take some time at your next meeting on the 9th that we could just have a discussion and start the dialogue about which of the amendments that were presented to you you want to see presented to the voters. We have a deadline. You will have to act by emergency to get any ordinance effective in time. Our deadline is August 27th. Basically because of the effective date, you have to introduce second reading. If you want the regular process of the ordinance, you would have to introduce that by your next meeting. Um, and from the conversation I heard tonight, I don't think you're ready for that. Um, when we did the charter amendments in 2021, those were done by emergency. Um, so you've got until August, but I think it's important that we start the dialogue so you can direct, um, staff, which of the amendments you want to present.

All right. Very good. Thank you. Any questions for the law director? All right, and also I'd like to thank the Charter Review Commission as well. That's a huge commitment of time, very professional. Presentation was very well done, and I know that's a lot of time, so thank you guys that are still here in the audience for that. All right, Mr. Merriman, what do you have for us today?

Yeah, a couple items this evening. I wanted to make Council aware, I got a report that was shared with me by Councilwoman Huffman just concerning restroom condition down in Shawnee Park. I took the opportunity this week to go down and kind of view that myself. Admittedly, it's been a long time since I've been in those restrooms. There are some condition issues that frankly are unacceptable, so we'll be working to make some adjustments there, some improvements. Can't promise those will be done immediately because there's some items we'll have to order. but certainly during the month of July, look for some improvements. The thing I would encourage is asking our general public to help us police these spaces. Our taxpayers put resources toward improvements like these restrooms. Unfortunately, we have some unruly folks in the community that vandalize these things, and they take that opportunity to enjoy these spaces away from all of us. Just the simple acts of helping to police these things, if you're out there with your family, if you see unruly behavior, If you see folks vandalizing things, call 911. That's absolutely an appropriate thing to do, and we'll respond as quickly as we can to address the situation. Related to that, I know council and I think I also received an email from a concerned citizen about some behavioral issues that they've observed in the park. In response to that, I've asked the police division to put together a report, which I've provided to you tonight. I've discussed the situation with police division leadership. We'd like to have a little more discussion with council, but we thought appropriate to give you that information tonight and then at your meeting. In two weeks, we'll take an opportunity to entertain questions and kind of talk about what we will do proactively to try to improve the situation where there is a problem. And again, the empirical data sort of speaks for itself. I think we've seen some actual, in terms of the calls, some actual decreases in calls this year, and I think part of that is because we've had a more consistent presence. But again, there's always room for improvement, and where folks see issues, we want to be able to address those. So again, we'll talk more about that at your next meeting. Next, I wanted to highlight, and I hope I'm not stealing the mayor's thunder here, but CBS News this morning put out a great piece featuring Xenia as part of their A to Z, highlighting cities in the state of, excuse me, cities in the United States. So we were one of, I think, 26 cities that's been highlighted. That's one of the benefits of being an ex-named city, I suppose. But it's a really good piece, and we often say that one of the special things about Xenia is the resilience that it's It's shown over devastating events in its history. And so we'll be linking that from our Facebook page and want to highlight that. It was a well done piece by CBS News. And so sorry, Mayor, if I stole your thunder. And then finally, we do have a really important event next week, next Friday, our red, white and blue block party and our fireworks festival, a joint effort between the city of Xenia and Xenia Rotary. Lots of exciting activities. Almost everything at the event except for food is free. And very proud of all the sponsors and volunteers that make that possible. So we'll have all kinds of activities downtown here starting at 4 p.m. Followed by additional activities launching around 6 p.m. down at the park. Fireworks at approximately 10 p.m. It will go rain or shine unless it is severe, inclement weather, in which case we have the opportunity to delay to the following day, to Saturday, the fireworks. But in general, even if it's raining, as long as it's not real windy, we will still launch the fireworks. The extended forecast right now does have about a 40% chance of rain next week, but things can change. Again, thanks to all the folks who have already committed toward that event, and we're looking for that to be bigger and better and more red, white, and blue than ever to celebrate the 250th Birthday of our country.

So again folks are encouraged to come out participate and with that I'd answer any questions, but that's all I have Questions for mr. Raymond We're going to council comments and reports councilman Muscovich. Do you have anything tonight?

Yes, I had the opportunity to attend the Juneteenth event in Lexington Park a really great event meet a lot of great people, and I did receive some feedback on Lexington Park, so I'll address that during the walk-in tour. I appreciate all that feedback, and it's a good location, and it was just fantastic. Let's see, and that is it.

All right, thank you. Councilwoman Cerise, what do you have for us tonight?

Just real quick, I also went to the Juneteenth celebration as well, and I couldn't stay the whole time, but it was very well organized and attended, so I appreciated that. And then also prior to that, though, I did get to go to the flag ceremony. It rained horribly that day, and I thought somehow, someway it wasn't going to work, but all of a sudden it cleared up, and there was a record number of people there, very, very moving. very wonderful ceremony, so glad that we have that here to honor our flag, so thanks for that.

All right, thank you very much. All right, Councilwoman Huffman, what do you have for us tonight?

I just want to say I appreciate those of you who've showed up. I don't know all of what you're here for, but it seems like there's been some good activity just on the community forums and the attention that's needed to Shawnee park. I have young children. Many of us do, um, or have and grown up in Xenia. And I know that, uh, it can be hit or miss sometimes at the park. Um, I've been there times where, you know, there's vulgar language and profanity by some of the, you know, teenagers that hang out there and it's like, what do you do? Do I, do I call the, you don't want to call the police on something that might not be considered an emergency, but how we step up and creatively problem solve here. I think there's definitely some steps we can take. So, and I appreciate addressing the bathrooms too.

So that's it.

I just want to say to All those who are here everybody watching That we hear you and we see you this this group is aware of Media you know, issues in our rows and things. And it is important to us as a group to work for you all. And it's a privilege to sit here and serve. And also our mayor, who's everywhere, he's all over social media, but he's seen and is good. So I appreciate that. And you all.

All right, Mary Kay. Vice President Crawford, what do you have for us tonight?

Just appreciate attending the fishing derby. It's always a big heart of mine to measure fish. I enjoy that. That's one of the few things I can do well.

Except for when you get slapped in the face with one. That's right. Yes, that happens multiple times.

Slapping in the face is one thing. But I panicked, and I called some people I knew and said, you've got to get down here. We don't have enough people to measure fish. And it was so great because the new rules allowed for us not to be so busy because we were measuring every individual fish. And the way the new process worked, it made a lot of sense. And I'm looking forward to next year's fishing derby. I definitely, I want to be there, but I'm going to be, I'm just going to, it's going to be a blast. And I know everybody here that knew about it was there. It was something different. Anyway, that was special. And then we had BCAA, I believe, Monday. Or was it Tuesday? You remember, Brian? I can't remember. These days are running like crazy. So anyway, yeah, it was Monday. Got it. So we had two agenda items. For the sake of time, I'll just say that one of the items was basically to allow a lot to be subdivided. One without frontage. that was located on a public street. And without getting into the weeds on this one, we approved this one. And I'm just excited for the businesses that are interested in coming to our location. I don't know. Can we talk about what's coming there? Brian, can you mention that or not? They haven't submitted an application yet. They haven't submitted an application. Never mind. I will stand down. But anyway, they... I get excited when these businesses decide to come in. If you would know... of the challenges that businesses used to have to come here, and it's more than you have time to hear, so I'll stand down on that as well. Thank you, Brian, for all the work you do in terms of your analysis work as well. Then we had somebody who wanted to have an extension of their driveway, an additional 20 feet to what they already had, and it was interesting. Anyway, we made a compromise, and I think it actually showed to the investor who invests in our community for tenancies and he built that particular place for Xenia's willing to work with those that are willing to invest as well as try to make this thing practical and make it make sense. With that being said, that's a wrap up for me.

Okay, thank you. Mayor Reynolds.

I just have one email to read into the record that was asked to, and then I have some quick comments. So good afternoon, Mayor Reynolds and council. I apologize, I will be missing the city council meeting this Thursday, but I'm requesting that the council address the prevalent speeding occurring on East 3rd in downtown Xenia. We have children playing close to the street and sometimes on the street who are in danger of being hit. I'm requesting that a camera device, a camera or a device that can be used to slow down cars attempting to speed on residential streets to keep it safe for children, pets and families. Best regards, Cameron Rutherford. So I just want to read that into the record. And then for my schedule and for things that we've done, Juneteenth, it was great to see Faith and JD out there. Fabulous event. Also, the fishing derby, again, I just want to reiterate, without Austin Fouts and the folks that were here today, it would not have happened. So, again, thank you all very much. It's a great event. It's my sixth year doing it. I love it. I normally just write down the fish. Tom can attest to that. He's the one that measures them. Flag retirement was awesome. It was just a moving thing to see. Xenia was on CBS. I will say one thing to outdo Brent here. It was declared as a comeback city by CBS. And additionally, I did not realize this, it is the most destructive tornado on record in the United States versus Tulsa, Oklahoma, which just barely missed us in the price range in 2017. So that was great. Thanks to the Charter Review Committee for all that they have done and for providing us with the updated charter. uh and with the fourth of july coming up and our red white and blue block party i just really want to say thank you to xenia community schools cope with construction and ultifiber for sponsoring our sand sculptures they will be returning again so thank you so much troy who's in the audience tonight uh and i think the final thing is the fire hydrants downtown uh we did the unveiling of some of the fire hydrants on friday on juneteenth and uh there's 22 now that have been painted and red white and blue themes across the downtown the park uh Area and they have either Rosie Riveter Frederick Douglass the US Constitution and other patriotic things So I've heard a lot of great compliments on it and I'm very happy to say that it has been a great time to have My mother and Kathy and Dan and Natalie who have all volunteered to paint So it's just been awesome to see that kind of happen here in our beautiful little downtown. So that is all I have And I'd like to thank mr. Patterson.

Thanks for addressing your concerns tonight. We'll get with you shortly after meeting and I'd like to thank everyone in the audience tonight. What you see here, you have a council, you have seven individuals up here that are really committed to the community. We love it when we have a full house. We love audience participation. Many, many times it's sad, though it's just city staff sits in our meetings and we just go through the motions. But we really do care. We care about what's said to us and we basically work to make things happen for a reason. We did also get an email on the 17th from Andrew. I think the city clerk gave that to everyone regarding Shawnee Park as well. So I'd like to put a little bit of time on our July 9th meeting to address some of these so we have some time to discuss that.

And our PD folks will be here to help address and answer questions that you might have regarding the data and information we provided.

Okay, excellent. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Looking forward to July 3rd for the celebration. And a big thanks to Rotary and those that are other sponsors that have donated. So we have Sand Art. I know Mr. Copley, I think is one of them, he's here again tonight. So again, thank you, thank you. Just pouring out big thanks to all our sponsors. for that. So we are going to go ahead and move into a work session. We have no need for an executive session tonight. Our work session is a walking tour. Council is actually going to various sites tonight with city staff for some issues that we can discuss. So we're actually not going to adjourn at this time, is that correct?

Yeah, and the public is welcome to attend those sites. We can't provide transportation. We do have transportation for the council, but we'll be going to Lexington Park first. Our second stop will be on Monroe Drive, roughly behind the preschool near Stadium Heights. And time permitting, and I'm not sure we'll get there, but time permitting out to our public service center to talk about our closed landfill.

Okay, very good. All right, so we're gonna recess right now. We are gonna hop on a bus in less than five minutes. So thank you guys very much.