WM2-6-2007

Ashland City Council

MINUTES FOR THE REGULAR SESSION OF COUNCIL
February 6, 2007

Council President Glen Stewart called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.

ROLL CALL

Ward 1:   Robert L. Valentine   Present
Ward 2:   Robert M. Valentine   Present
Ward 3:   Ruth Detrow       Present
Ward 4:   Paul Wertz       Present
At-large:     Glen Stewart       Present

Note: Throughout the minutes, Robert L. Valentine and Robert M. Valentine are designated as to their ward representation, W1 and W2.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

PRESENTATION OF MINUTES

           Regular Session:                January 16, 2007
Work Session:                   January 24, 2007
Charter Review Session:    February 1, 2007

The minutes from the last couple of meetings, we received them a little late; I would prefer
that we would not act on them, not to except them this evening. We will bring them up at
our next Council meeting.

Approved by Glen Stewart, President of Council and the rest of Council, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4.

COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE:
I understand we have a Scout in the audience this evening. Would you please stand and give your name, your Troup number and maybe what badge you are working on?

Richard Neel , Troup 502 and I am working on second class.

Stewart- we are going to go through our Agenda this evening and there are 5 pieces of legislation that Council will discuss and act on and let me take a minute. Is this the first time you have been at a Council meeting? To my far right is our Clerk of Council, Valarie Bishoff and she records everything that goes on this evening and it will become a permanent record of our Council meeting. Next to her is Mr. Wolfe, he is the Director of Law for Ashland, to my right is our Mayor, William Strine, I am Glen Stewart, next to me is Paul Wertz, Ruth Detrow, Bob Valentine W2, Bob Valentine W1. Then these Ladies and Gentleman back here manage several departments of the city. Anna Tomasek, Finance Director, Bruce Wiser, Director of Water and Waste Water Treatment, Curt Young, Director of Water Distribution and Sanitation, Duane Fishpaw, Asst. Chief of the Fire Department, Jim Cooper, Engineering, Tim Clingan, Director of Parks and Recreation, Jerry Mack, Director of Streets, Cherie Helterbridle, Director of Human Resources.

These are some of the key people of our community Richard and we will conduct our business and at the conclusion, if you have some questions, we will try very hard to answer them. How does that sound? And Welcome! At this time, are there any other comments or questions from the audience on any item that is not a part of our Agenda this evening? If not, we will move into the Legislation.

LEGISLATION

Ord. 7-07
Item (a) AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 100-06 ESTABLISHING NEW LIMITS FOR WAGES AND DETERMINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO POSITIONS OF EMPLOYEMNT OF FIDUCIARY PERSONNEL TO DIVISION DIRECTORS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS IN THE CITY OF ASHLAND, OH; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

Moved for non-reading in full by Paul Wertz, seconded by Detrow to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.
Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Detrow, Wertz, Stewart.

Comments:
   Are there any questions or discussions?

Cherie Helterbridle- The Police clerks were a union and they decertified the union and so now they have come back and now need protection now under Ordinances.

Stewart- They are Ordinance people. Are there any other questions or discussion?

Motion: Valentine W1 to be passed on the first reading, Valentine W2 seconded.
Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Detrow, W3, Wertz,W4 , Glen Stewart, Council at Large.

Move to suspend the rules, 3 separate readings, 3 separate nights, to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Glen Stewart, President.

Let the Ordinance be passed.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Glen Stewart.

The number is 7-07.

The next item on our Agenda this evening is:

Ord. 8-07
Item (b) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND, OHIO, TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH OHIO PATROLMEN’S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION (SERGANTS AND LIEUTENANTS); AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

Moved for non-reading in full. Moved by Wertz and seconded by Detrow to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.
Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Glen Stewart.

Comments:
   Any questions or discussion on this ordinance?

Move that the ordinance be passed on the first reading by Paul Wertz W4, seconded Valentine 1

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Glen Stewart.

Move to suspend the rules 3 separate readings, 3 separate nights by Paul Wertz W4 to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Glen Stewart.

   Move that the Ordinance be passed by Ruth Detrow W3, seconded by Paul Wertz.
           Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Glen Stewart.

   With that, we will move onto next Ordinance.

Ord. 9-07
Item (c) AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS AND TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT FOR THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT FOR THE DIVISION OF FIRE OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND, OH; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

Move for non-reading in full by Paul Wertz W4, and seconded by Detrow to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.
Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Detrow, W3, Paul Wertz W 4, Stewart

Comments:
I think that we have been over this a number of times and it is for the purchase of the   2007 1258 GPM Combination Pumper Tanker Fire Apparatus. The price is $300,000.00 dollars and to be paid out of fund 222. It is the Capital Improvement for the Fire Equipment.

Any questions? Any other discussion.

Move to pass on the first reading by Valentine W1, seconded by Valentine W2 to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and move for non-reading in full.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Glen Stewart.

Moved by Wertz and seconded by Detrow that the rules requiring the reading on three separate readings three separate nights to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and move for non-reading in full.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine 2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Glen Stewart.

Moved by Detrow and seconded by Valentine W1 that the Ordinance be passed to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and move for non-reading in full.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine 2 , Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4 , Glen Stewart.

Ord. 10.-07
Item (d) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND, OHIO, TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH OHIO COUNCIL 8 – AFSCME; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

           Move for non-reading in full by Paul Wertz, seconded by Ruth Detrow to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and move for non-reading in full.

    Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Stewart

   Move to be passed on the first reading by Valentine W1 , Stewart seconded to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and move for non-reading in full.

   Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Stewart

        Comments: Any discussion on this?

        Move to suspend the rules Paul Wertz W4, Seconded by Ruth Detrow to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and move for non-reading in full.

   Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Stewart

   Move for Ordinance to be passed by Valentine W1, seconded by Valentine W2 to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and move for non-reading in full.

   Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Glen Stewart

       Stewart – Cherie and I talked last night and I read down those Ordinances that we had and we agreed that we had all of the contracts, all the ordinances , but the Fireman’s Ordinance is not here. When Cherie double checked with me. That is my mistake and I assured her after I went down and opened this book up and read down through them that we had them. So I do not know how to handle that.

      Richard Wolfe- I do not believe there is anything we can do but put on for the next meeting. We will have a special meeting.

Ord. 11-07
Item (e) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS AND TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS FOR THE PURCHASE OF SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS FOR THE CITY OF ASHLAND, OHIO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

Moved by Wertz and seconded by Ruth Detrow to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and move for non-reading in full.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4 , Stewart,.

Comments:
   Mayor Strine –We pass every year these items, are there any questions? They are pretty
            standard.

   Stewart- Any questions on that list, anything before moving forward?

Moved by Ruth Detrow that the Ordinance be passed and seconded by Valentine W1 that the Ordinance be passed on the first reading to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Stewart.

Moved by Wertz and seconded by Stewart that the rules requiring the reading on three separate days and 3 separate nights be suspended to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Stewart.

Moved by Wertz and seconded by Valentine W1 that the Ordinance be passed to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow W3, Paul Wertz W4, Stewart.,

   Motion carried.

Moved by Wertz and seconded by Valentine W2 to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as the distribution of this Ordinance has satisfied the requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.

Ayes: Valentine W2, Detrow, Wertz, Stewart, Valentine W1

Comments:
   Glen Stewart – I would like to take a second at this point in time, I am sure we might be confusing the young man from the Scouts and maybe others. We have received this material, parts of it 1 week ago last Friday and final versions last Friday and it gives the Council Members an opportunity to review the content asking the questions they may have of the division directors in the case of these contracts that we have who have been over them on at least one occasion and sometimes more frequently with the content so we know what we are looking at and I am sure you all would not want to hear us read this tonight. It is an extraordinary amount but the language for these contracts are contained in there so that is why we are moving through a rather complex agenda in a very rapid manner is the preparation and the early work is done. Many of our ordinances are handled in this way. On an occasion, we will have some significant discussion but I would not want you to go back to the Boy Scout Troup and say “Boy they don’t pay any attention to what they are doing, They just quote “Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye” but it takes a great deal of up front work. So with that, we will move into new business.

Valentine W1- I have something that can kind of help out. We get everything here on Friday so we have them from Friday to Tuesday to go through everything. One other thing, not necessarily about this. I would like to Thank Cherie and Jim in the work they did in on negotiations. They did an outstanding job. She was well versed in this.

Stewart- Cherie before we move forward, if there is a need for a special meeting to pass on that ordinance, I am willing to ask these people to do that and if you tell me, we will move from there.

WARD REPORTS

Ward 2: Bob Valentine
   (a) I have had no more phone calls about the Williamsburg Court. I called a friend of mine from the Post Office and it was an in-house mistake. Everybody was still getting their mail but somebody punched in those as being in Williamsburg Court and I have not gotten anymore phone calls. So I think they got everyone. It was not on the Engineering Department, it was their own In-House mistake.

Ward 1: Bob Valentine
(a) From talking with people, not necessarily phone calls, but it seems if I go anywhere, people are talking about Ethanol. Most of the things they are talking about is they do not know a great deal about it and are asking about it, with questions. I think there was an article in the paper yesterday. There is also something coming up in one of the service clubs here next week dealing with Ethanol too. I think that is very good for the people because that is who we serve. But I would imagine if they had the opportunity to attend that meeting that we had here on Ethanol, that would have really helped. But the point is that is good that they are asking questions about that and they are very legitimate questions. Many of them were questions that people had asked when we were here, on how it is going to affect them, how it is going to affect us.


Ward 3: Ruth Detrow
(a)   I received a letter just tonight, it was delivered to our office here in the City Building and I see that the Mayor and Mr. Cooper in building and zoning also got copies of this letter. I spent some time with the Lady back when this first occurred and it seems as though there are some things that aren’t the way they should be and I think I need may be from engineering to know exactly what those things are. I know that this concerns a house at 200 E. Walnut Street, on the Corner of Walnut and Arthur and it concerns a fence that the neighbor has built and it seems that the fence is on his property and but it is very, very close to her property and it also seems as though maybe, but I am not sure, it seems possible in addition to the neighbor’s garage, and it was put up without a building permit, is that possible?

Jim Cooper- I read the letter today, and I need to look into that.

Ruth Detrow- But we will follow up with that?

Jim Cooper- Absolutely. Thank you.

Glen Stewart- Comment
                       Something that caused a lot of residents in the Mifflin Ave. area a great deal of concern 1 ½ year ago was the new Samaritan or whomever owns the medical building out at Mifflin Ave. near Rt 42, it is pretty well complete, or it is completed and the H & H housing development it nearly has a model ready for viewing and I complement the planting’s that have been put around to aesthetically improve the street appearance, the street lights have been put on the new street are pretty complimentary and we listen to a lot of potential problems that could arise and I compliment the two developers at this point to make the area aesthetically pleasing to those that were emphatically concerned. Are all the problems gone? I don’t know but I think may of them are and I am very pleased about that and you know we don’t have a lot of problems criticizing things but I think it is appropriate to complement some things at the time. So it is not a complaint that I am sharing, I am just sharing my view and I think may be several other peoples view also.

OLD BUSINESS

(a) None.

NEW BUSINESS

(a)   Ethanol Discussion.

Mr. Valentine is correct, there has been a lot of discussion and I too have been tapped on the shoulder at numerous places and I suspect there is at least a half a dozen of us that have been tapped on the shoulder. We had an excellent meeting in here a couple of weeks ago with the potential developer. There have been no decisions made that I am aware of whether they have decided to come to Ashland or not. I guess. I will share with you that the ball is in the City of Ashland’s court at this point in time to propose to them a site that may be appropriate for a plant if they so desire if we can work out all the details. Nothing is finalized by any stretch of the imagination but they are awaiting a proposal from us. We are working on that. Other then that, I know nothing more about Silver State Ethanol’s intentions but they are awaiting our response. This is so significant. Paul do you have any comments?

Paul Wertz, W4- I just want to say I believe it is a good thing if everything is the way it seems to be. We need to check any make sure that is the way it is.

Ruth Detrow,W3- I am very interested in this project and I asked our Clerk, Valarie to do some Internet Research on this and among other things, there are only 13 refueling stations within 100 miles of Ashland right now, so we are right at the beginning of something. I think we still have a little homework yet to do on the Company that wants to come. Need maybe to do some more deep research on that company. If I had to vote one way or the other today, I would say yes let’s go for it but we aren’t really quite ready and I am not really quite well-informed yet.

Robert Valentine ,W1- Well, Ruth brought up an interesting point. I am trying to think of the discussions. I had a list of questions I was going to ask and found out we were to ask “A Question”. You know that was one of the questions that came back a couple of times and say I had a 2002 car and I use Ethanol.

Stewart- You will not be able to use E85 unless the owners manual says it is compatible. We are all using E10 today.

Robert Valentine W1- I am not negative about this project, certainly anything that is going to be beneficial to our people in the city and county too, certainly I am for it. I was concerned. I think the Mayor has done a good job in his presentation this last week and I have concern as far as water.   Between 500,000.00 to 700,000.00 gallons, a tremendous amount of water and I know that they were going to get together with Bruce and see to come with some answers. Another concern is 20 trucks a day and we had some trouble on RT 250 on the bypass as far as roads and I think that is something to look at. We went to a seminar, and that was also a concern. Things we have to look at. I think things also have been looked at by the Railroad.

MAYOR’S COMMENTS: The Railroad is extremely excited about this. That is actually between the Ethanol plant and the Railroad.

Glen Stewart – but we did confirm estimates that there is room between RT 96 and Cottage Street where there are no crossings that at least 100 Railroad Cars would fit in there. They should be able to pull a 100 car train in there. It may have to be broken apart to get it back in to wherever this site may be but they are very aware that we are not excited about or we would stand for any long- term road blocks . But there is actually room from 96 to Cottage to put 100 train cars based on the measurement of the tracks and the length of the train cars.

Robert Valentine, Ward 1- We are talking abatement here too are we not? I just think we need answers before we can move ahead.    We are here to protect our people, it is our obligation. And also to help the people in any way. Also regarding the jobs of anywhere from 25-50, directly that benefits the City. Also the 600 jobs throughout the county which would also be beneficial to them too.

Robert Valentine, W2- Everything looks good to me. But when you have a company that wants to come here. You have a company that wants to give a presentation. There is a plant in Michigan that had a problem with the affluent and the city and the company got together and they treated it with chemicals before it got to the water treatment plant or the sewer treatment plant. Just little things. It does not seem like 30-35 jobs are a lot, but for here it is a bunch especially where we are at right now. I am still doing some checking on it. Need more time.

Glen Stewart- there is an abundance of information on the Internet, be extremely careful if you go to the internet to look at the dateline, there are plants that have been operating for several years. One of them is in Gary Indiana and they have had an extreme amount of problems with their Sewage discharge, they have a lot of problems with the odor and I think if you look at that, that plant is a 1993 plant which technology has changed drastically and if you look at new facilities in the last 2-3 years, I think you will find many of those problems have been addressed. I am personally still looking for an operating plant that is in an affordable distance to do a site check on.

Paul Wertz, W4- These guys during their presentation said that they were going to dump their sewage right in to ours without doing anything with it. We need to really be careful with that, it is a different type of substance.

Robert Valentine, Ward 1- It has been in the paper, the price of corn, was about $ 2.50 6 months ago and now is $4.00 and the concern is the if the price keeps going up, then Ethanol is going to go up and my question is will they be competitive with gasoline? The other side of the coin is if we use more Ethanol that is less and less that we have to get from the Middle East, that is the plus side. But there may be a cost it, people will have to pay.   What is more important, is the cost more important or the fact that we do not have to rely on the Middle East for all of our Oil?.

Glen Stewart- Those are things that have to be weighed in my own opinion . I have not passed on my thoughts on this. I believe if there is an Ethanol plant and the funding to put it in the site that is acceptable to the City of Ashland and the problems can be addressed, we need to go for it. It will be built somewhere. The price of corn, the price of Ethanol, the cost of corn products, Ashland Ohio will not change that in my opinion. If it is not good for the community, that is a whole different story. That is where the research and the background of the company, looking at the traffic becomes an obligation to all of us to take a look at. We are not prepared to make a decision yet. It is such a hot topic.

Mayor Strine- Good comments. We will have an offer to them in a week or so, 1 ½ weeks to 2 at the most. Nothing will be finalized until this group finalizes it.

Glen Stewart- and that offer is just an opening dialogue, it does not mean that they will get it. We have to start the process somewhere.

Robert Valentine 1- How many acres are we using here.

Mayor Strine- 58.3 Acres.

Robert Valentine , W2- I understand the 58.3. But are they going to be moved in the back of the lot? Kind of in the middle.

Glen Stewart- the Northeast quadrant of the farm including the access to Route 250.

Robert Valentine 2- I would hope that would alleviate the traffic on Fautless Drive . Is there still room in front of the acreage to build something else/

Jim Cooper, City Engineer. - Yes Sir.

Glen Stewart- Anyone comments from the Audience? Richard Neel, What do you think about Ethanol?

Richard Neel- Well it is a lot better because it will be coming from natural resources and we will have a lot more of it.

Glen Stewart- It is a good observation, you have done a little studying or someone has been talking to you about it. Less polluting.

Michael Neel- If we build a plant, and worse case scenario the company goes under; who is going to take care of the plant? Do we have to tear it down or are they going to take care of it.

Mayor Strine- we have discussed it quite a bit , but there has been no agreement at this point.

Ruth Detrow- I know the man that did the Presentation commented that when he was looking for an Ethanol plant, one that was already in existence, I would think it would be easier to buy one that was already partially built or completely built and he could not find any and he felt that that was a sure sign that if the management let this plant go under, there would be another company that would be eager to buy it then.

PRIORITIES: The mayor has been gracious enough to rank them based on the 5 Council person’s input and I am going to read down the first 5 or 6 as Council’s decision of priorities.

1) Corporate boundaries /Annexation.
2) Water Development.
3) Communication of County and Community.
4) Housing Code- Maintenance.
5) Industrial Park Infrastructure.
6)Sidewalks
7) Infrastructure-Sewer and Water Lines.
8)Zoning Review- Planning Commission.
9)City Operating Services discussion.
10)Community Corridors Special Fund.

Glen Stewart- those are the top priorities that we have ranked and I gave them to you in the ranked order of which we will attempt to address these. Will we have all the answers at the end of this year on these items? Probably not, but we will have discussion and take actions as is appropriate as we can handle.

Robert Valentine, W2- Yes, you flipped-flopped the order of 5 and 4. Even with last years we were pretty much on the same page. I know a lot of this stuff is on our minds and I would say the top couple are really important to all of us.

Glen Stewart- I think we are right in tune with the Mayor on this, based on the presentation of the State of the City Address that the Mayor made. I think we are really in sink.

Mayor Strine- One item I thought of is Right of Way regulations we need to development

Robert Valentine, W2- It is number 12 under Utilities.

Mayor Strine -. Even though that is that far down on the list, it won’t be long before I will be submitting some things to you folks to consider for that because I think it is timely now that we get it done.

Glen Stewart- there is some legislation that is either pending or is on the early agenda from a federal standpoint and if we get the information that came to us, that if we act on it, our actions would preempt anything that the federal government in this instance which could be good for us. Any other comments?
Do we want to set a Work Session to start looking at these. You want to start to using the second Tuesday of the month and start moving right down?

Mayor Strine- I think the first one there are some things that need to be done on it before we have a Work Session on it. I do not know what you have in mind here. We haven’t zeroed in on the second one, there is no doubt about that. We could have an up date if that is what Council wants.

Glen Stewart- I think that Water Development, will be 1 month away, we have another city/county township meeting coming up in February, it is on a Thursday downstairs in the Economic Development office 2/15/07 at 7:00 P.M. That is something Guys and Gals, we have not zeroed in a topic yet. The last one was fire district and we pretty much set that aside for the time being by mutual agreement, we are just not ready to form a fire district. So I need to along with Valarie work on a Reminder letter to go out to the Trustees and others. I am not sure or not if we should talk about Ethanol. That will be on February 15, 2007. Next Tuesday night will be the 1st night for a Work Session if we want to get it on the schedule, the corporate boundaries we will not work on yet.   Water development might just be an update on that, Housing Code Maintenance. The focus for next Tuesdays Work Session in the evening will be a brief update on what the working plans are, not finalized plans for Water Development and take the first 10-15 minutes of that and the last 45 minutes of that for whatever it takes on the Housing Code/Maintenance. Blue Book and other. That meeting will commence at 7:00pm in the Council Conference Room , 3rd floor next Tuesday evening a Special Session February 13, 2007. Next Thursday night, February 15, 2007, downstairs in the Economic Development Conference Room 1st floor at 7:00 pm. We will have an Agenda Item to present the Firefighters Contract, Special Meeting on Tuesday.

Mayor Strine- No comments.

ADJOURNMENT

Moved by Valentine W1 and seconded by Valentine W2 to adjourn.

Ayes: Valentine W1, Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, W3, Paul Wertz W4, Stewart,

       Council adjourned the regular session at 8:10 p.m.
                                                                                                               Submitted by
                                       Valarie Bishoff
                                       Clerk of Council