Ashland City Council
MINUTES FOR THE REGULAR SESSION OF COUNCIL
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Council Chambers
3rd floor
Council President Paul Wertz called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.
ROLL CALL
At-large: Stephen Stuart Present
Ward 1: Robert L. Valentine Present
Ward 2: Robert M. Valentine Present
Ward 3: Ruth Detrow Present
Ward 4/President: Paul Wertz 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 11/3/09
Special Session/Executive Session 11/3/09
Motion
to accept the Minutes of Regular Session 11/3/09 by Paul Wertz,
approved by Ruth Detrow, seconded by Robert L. Valentine W1.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
No Corrections. Approved as noted.
Motion
to accept the Minutes from Special Session/Executive Session 11/3/09 by
Paul Wertz, approved by Robert L. Valentine W1, seconded by Paul Wertz.
Ayes: Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Abstain: Stephen Stuart
No corrections. Approved as noted.
PRESENTATION by Evan Scurti- 7:05, Economic Development, AACED: Updates in Economic Development.
EVAN SCURTI: I just wanted to update you on some things our
office has been working on for the past year. I will get into some more
immediate projects and initiatives that we are working on. As you
have heard me talk in the past, we try and divide our work into the
three pillars of Economic Development. Working with our existing
manufacturing base, the industrial base of the community. Working
with them, trying to grow their businesses. Secondly, we try and
do a lot of marketing out or our office and in business improvement
into our available sites of buildings in the Business Park for
example. And thirdly, it is important probably now more than
ever, as we are in a recession to grow your own businesses,
entrepreneurship, new business formation from our own citizens.
We are trying to work on all of that. What I have given you is
some excerpts from our 2009/2010 action plan; so I just wanted to break
out my comments and show you what we are doing to seek out those goals
and objectives. Anything you see in black is just a copy from our
action plan and then what I have done, putting in red there, some
current things we are working on; just wanted to bring your attention
to them. The first section, Retention & Expansion, that is a
fancy term that our profession calls checking in with the existing
businesses, working with them and help them in their success. The
first project we listed in our plan was continuing the process of our
bi-annual survey. We have been doing that in the community every
other year. We try and survey the entire manufacturing
base. That is the goal. I think we have gotten to about as
high as 80-85%. The ambitious goal every other year, but we are
getting close this year. We are using a team of volunteers, about
10 individuals from the career center, job and family services, the
small business development center. They are all helping us reach
out to the manufacturing base and survey them. We sit down and
talk for about ½ hour, 40 minutes. The survey is designed to 1)
see if there are any red flags, are there any companies really in
trouble that we really need to pay attention to, but also look at
opportunities to grow companies. I haven’t seen any extreme red
flags. Of course we are hearing many times, business is down, no
surprise with the recession but a lot of good things coming out of this
survey. What I want to draw your attention to is that one phrase
there I included. Economic Gardening. Again, another fancy
term, but it is in the Economic Development literature I have been
reading. It is really a concept that is taking off. Simply
put; we have got to do more than just check on the companies every
other year. We have moved into more of a small business
environment throughout the country. Businesses are working
together more and more collaboratively for competitive advantages and
there are opportunities for us as economic developers to make those
connections among our local businesses. So again, a fancy term
for gardening. Working with your businesses throughout that
2-year term, making those connections and just tending to the garden of
the local economies. So I am really challenging my staff and my
board to focus on that concept. We are seeing some good results
already and we will be publishing a report later this year, maybe early
2010, results of this survey connecting a lot of businesses, small
businesses to our larger companies. Just constantly trying to
make those large firms aware of the opportunities and the services of
our smaller firms. We are putting together some round
tables. Already that is coming out of the surveys, some small
businesses that we are noticing, in the same market, but are
competitors and they are wanting to get together and strategize sales
and marketing plans together. So, we are working on those things,
more to come in a couple of months. Also, just so you are aware,
I am currently working with Ashland University, to help them facilitate
some meetings with businesses. They are starting a supply in
management curriculum as part of their business college. So they
have asked for my assistance in reaching out to companies like Lance,
Truck lines in Loudonville. A lot of companies associated with
logistics; they are going to meet and possibly become an advisory
counsel for Ashland University. The relationship with AU and our
business community I think is getting stronger every day. Moving
on into Workforce Development; we talked about that in our plan.
It is more and more important talent that is driving business success
in today’s economy. We are emphasizing in the survey, as we meet
with companies, the services of Erv Howard. You may know Herb, he
lives in Ashland but his position is a Regional Training Coordinator
for the State of Ohio. It covers nine counties, north central
Ohio and he not only talks to companies about possible incentives and
assistance in their training plans. But he can help them actually
development a training plan or quality program. He has worked at
several large industries at high-level management positions. So
he is getting more and more involved in our economy. Secondly,
just a few days ago, over $600,000 dollars, you can see there, was
approved to train dislocated workers and incumbent workers in the four
counties that are most effected by the GM Plant closure; so we are
going to be working with Job and Family Services to start to market
those dollars.
Mayor Stewart: Evan, excuse me. Is that limited to GM workers?
Evan
Scurti: No, no; the Grant application, it came out of Richland
Job and Family Services; they focused on those counties just because of
the negative impact.
Mayor Stewart: So those who are unemployed or are out of work in Ashland County will be able to…
Evan
Scurti: Yes, of this $600,000 we have $112,000 allocated to
Ashland County. I should have put that in there.
Mayor Stewart: That is really what we are looking; we are selfishly interested.
Evan
Scurti: They approved it based on the population. 60% of
that $112,000 has to be for dislocated worker training. 40% is
for incumbent worker training. I will be talking to Gary Hannan,
Job and Family Services. I will work primarily on that 40%
average, talking with companies about it. They are looking to do
some training with some nice assistants. It can cover up to 90% of the
training cost if you are a small company.
Stephen Stuart: Will the training basically be in-house training by companies? Is that right?
Evan
Scurti: Yes, it can bring the trainer in-house or if you want to
go to classes. If you want to customize your own class, sometimes
we have to try and group companies together to make it worthwhile for
the consultant to put on class. This is just one of several
programs actually. There are a lot of programs. A lot of
them are stimulus-related programs coming down from the Federal
Government into the state. But I wanted to list this one.
This is one of the very little strings attached. Basically, it
gives us local community control over approving these accounts.
So moving on into the section 3. We want to really focus on
emerging markets. There are a lot of opportunities for our
companies in the advanced energy markets, biosciences, etc. So we are
really trying to focus on that. I have just listed some of the
seminars we have hosted this year. Many of you attended the Wind
and the Polymers seminar. More recently we had the Solar Industry
seminar. We brought in some speakers from the stage as well as an
individual from the farm bureau who has is really studying this
industry. It was a good session; it has led to some follow
up. Discussions, many companies seeking training to try and get
solar panel installers. What was also discussed at this seminar
was this concept of solar improvement districts and Mayor we have
discussed this a little bit. It is a new state law, just passed
in July, that allows municipalities and townships to create solar
districts where a group of homeowners and/or businesses; they don’t
have to be contiguous properties. If they want to band together
and list some solar improvements that they want to make to their
properties, the community, if they choose, can create a district
and fund those improvements up front whether it is through the sale, or
some communities like the city of Athens is the first in Ohio.
They are purchasing the improvements through a Revolving Loan fund by
getting a Grant through the Federal Government and then those
improvements are paid off by the property owner. It is a special
assessment onto the tax. We are just learning about it. I
may request to come back here soon to talk further about it actually.
We are going to try and see if there is interest in the community,
because that is the first step. If there is interest, a lot of
people are looking to make these investments. It is a great way
to help them and it is a great way to continue to move our economy
towards this markets. Moving on into marketing and business
attraction. Just wanted to emphasize there that we are trying to
get creative. The situation we are in, we can’t just wait for
leads anymore. In good times, sometimes it is easier to just wait
for those leads to roll in through the state system. Many large
corporations work first with state level governments to look for
incentives. And then we respond to those requests. That process
continues but it has declined drastically. The amount of leads
coming through the state system, as you can imagine. We are
trying to be very creative in addition to working with those state wide
industry groups that I mentioned like Polymer Ohio and Great Lakes Wind
Network because those groups do a lot of marketing around the globe so
we want to have close ties with those industry groups. We are
also focusing on relationships with our current businesses. This
comes out of our survey that we are doing as well. The retention
and expansion survey. There are some questions in there about
other opportunities to work with your suppliers or customers, now
potentially recruiting them into the community. So that is actually
leading to, not, I wouldn’t call them hot leads, but at least
discussions. Some contacts that I can maybe enlist potential
sales calls, if you will. And they are generated right from our
own companies. They are our best vehicle, in my opinion. We
talked in our plan about focusing on rail-related business
development. When we published the plan, gas prices were even
higher. We were seeing a lot of companies opening a rail
transportation. It is still continuing. A lot of companies
are looking at rail. The expansion into the Industrial Park is
definitely a huge asset for us in my opinion. And as I mentioned,
that we are currently in discussion with the company again. Not a
hot lead, but it is a discussion. A company that is taking a look
at the midwest and the fact that we have rail in the Business
Park. They said that now we are on the radar screen, because that
is another key, utility for them, just as it was from Barbasol.
So, I think it is great. And then marketing to Ashland natives,
Ashland University. That is something we want to try and we are
in 2010. Just reach out to people with connections, to their
hometown, to their college town. Try and generate leads that
way. You can see their addition to mass mailings were planning
the even with the International Students Office with Ashland
University. Just another way to make connections welcoming them
into the community. These are also students; many of them
Business students that may have business ideas for the future.
This is the meeting in February we discussed. We will have a
lunch in February just to welcome new students.
Mayor
Stewart: Evan, there are numerous international students at AU
whose parents or family are entrepreneurs either on our shores or on
their native shores. I think this is the connection
opportunity. Don’t know if any of them will develop or
not. But as Evan is saying, this is part of the Gardening
process, but over in another area.
Evan Scurti:
Yes, it is all about trying to make this connection. Moving into
Entrepreneurship; just some comments there. Number one, we talked
about possibly utilizing a committee; it is something I am really
passionate about. I want to see new ideas, new products coming
out of this community. And I think that is still happening.
A committee to meet regularly didn’t seem to work out, but overall we
are operating under that philosophy. We are constantly trying to
engage citizens. My assistant, Nikki, just worked with the
Chamber and the Salvation Army. We co-hosted a nice seminar for
Women Entrepreneurs during our Women’s Business Month in
September. That was a great event. It led to several leads
for the small business development center. Katherine Goodwin from
the SBDC she presented.
She is actually following up with several of
the Ladies. One gentleman called and said, Can I come to
this? I said, sure, if you want to start a business. So we are
going to continue doing that. Those types of events. Again,
simply put, we want to meet with people. We want to hear your
ideas. We are not business counselors. I am not going to be
your best counselor to put together a business plan up and launch that
business but we are, I think, getting good at connecting people to the
right resources, to the SBDC and just being a sounding board for our
citizens. We need new ideas. We need new product
development and actually that may be a seminar we are going to pursue
in early 2010. Focus on new product concepts. Whether you
are a citizen out of work or you are an existing company looking at a
new product line. I want to bring in some speakers. We are
working with one client right now on a potential jump-start
project. If you remember, Jump Start is in northeast Ohio.
It is focused on new business development; but really high growth
projects. They try to focus on start-ups. There are in the
30 to 50 million-dollar revenue range, within five years they want to
see you get to that point. So these are high growth ideas where
Venture Capital Management advice mentoring is often needed so we are
connecting someone right now to jump-start the resources. Their
office is in Cleveland. And then finally, over the past
couple of months, I have been working with my colleagues in Crawford,
Richland and Huron counties. We are looking at creating a
revolving loan fund to assist small business development. This
would be what is called Gap findings. A bank wants to share the
risk and partner with the community fund and they would reach out to us
and we would share the fund a small business growth and start
up. I will probably be coming back to you soon to talk
about that. We would have to apply for funds from the Federal
Government to capitalize the RLF. It would be unique. It
would operate on a regional level. Again we are playing up the GM
closure statistics. Our four counties were most affected.
Of course Richland, much more than the other three. But our four
were most affected in terms of displaced workers. So we are
trying to tell that story to the Federal Government and ask them for
help. We will be coming back to maybe as a group, my colleagues
and I and we are going to travel around the region and talk about this
concept in a couple of months. That is about it, I also added
that we are focused on re-development and that I also strongly believe
in is being a facilitator of re-development of idle sites and
buildings. The main update, the transfer of the Hospira Land to
the CIC. It is going well; it takes a while to get back the Stamp of
Approval, if you will, from the state. We are taking it through
the voluntary process where at the end the state will say, we have
given you are covenant not to sue. We won’t come after you and
look into the site any further as long as it is used for industry in
the future. Last thing, you should have gotten our invitation
December 1, is our next investor meeting. You may have to hear
some of this again. More important, address the keynote speaker
will be Tony Bresch. It should be interesting. One
community is the nonprofit, based out of Cleveland. They are
putting Broadband throughout. I think it is up to like 21 towns
in the northeast and northern Ohio. They are going to connect
first to institutions, Universities and Hospitals. They are in
conversation with Samaritan Hospital. So it should be an
interesting presentation.
Mayor Stewart: Is that 9:00 at the Kroc Center?
Evan Scurti: Yes, Kroc Center, 9:00 a.m. December 1, 2009.
Robert
L. Valentine W1: You know I was making a list while you were
talking. The different things that we have in our city and
county. I put down like:
Hospital
Highways, 30 and 71
Good schools, public and private Railroad
Good connecting roads
Good workforce
Parks
Water
University
The
point is, the competition is so great now. Don’t take this wrong,
business has the advantage, simply because they are somewhat in the
driver seat and that is understandable. But I think we have a lot of
good things going for us. I just mentioned a few; you could
probably mention a lot more too. I think it is an ideal place to
raise children. An ideal community.
Evan
Scurti: And what is interesting is, I am thinking of one small
business that we met with as we were doing our survey. We got to
the question, do you have any suppliers or customers that we should
call on. He thought and said, yes I know some in Korea. He
has actually been here, actually toured the town already but he just
never thought to connect it to me and that is okay but that is why we
do this survey to make those connections. But those kind of
relationships, he has already seen the community and already knows
Ashland.
Questions or discussion? None.
Robert L. Valentine W1: I appreciate you coming in.
PRESENTATION
of the Minutes from the Board of Revision of Assessments 10/28/09: RE:
to vacate a certain 16-foot north-south alley.
Mayor
Stewart: I have the minutes of that meeting. It was held on
the 28th of October at 10:15 am in the Mayor’s office.
Present: Mayor Glen Stewart
Law Director Richard Wolfe
Acting Director of Finance Division Bill Strine
The meeting was
called to order pursuant to Section 105 of the Charter of the City of
Ashland to consider the vacation of the following alley as described in
Resolution 17-09.
To vacate: being a certain 16 foot north-south
alley, situated between Lot nos. 541, 542, 543, 544 and 776 north of
Ashland from the north line of Lot no. 542, north Ashland being the
south right-of-way line of West 10th Street (36’) to the south line of
Lot No. 776 north Ashland being the north right-of-way line o f a
certain 16 foot east-west alley.
After discussion and
consideration of public input from the hearing held on October 20,
2009, a motion to approve the vacation of said alley was made by Mayor
Stewart and seconded by Strine.
Ayes: Stewart, Wolfe, Strine
Meeting Adjourned at 10:32 a.m.
Attest: ___/s/ William E. Strine__, Secretary
William E. Strine
Approved: _/s/ Glen P. Stewart___, President
Glen P. Stewart
(copy on file in Council clerks office)
LEGISLATION:
Ordinances:
Ord. No. 79-09
Item (a) AN ORDINANCE TO VACATE A CERTAIN ALLEY SITUATED IN THE CITY OF ASH-
LAND, OHIO AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. (W 10TH STREET)
Moved for
non-reading in full by Ruth Detrow and seconded by Paul Wertz 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: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W 1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Comments or questions
Moved
by Robert M. Valentine W2, seconded by Robert L. 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: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move to suspend the rules, 3 separate meetings, 3 separate nights, by Ruth Detrow, seconded by Robert L. Valentine W1.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move the Ordinance be passed by Stephen Stuart, seconded by Robert M. Valentine W2.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Motion carried.
Ord. No. 80-09
Item (b) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND, OHIO, TO EN-
TER INTO A CONTRACT EXTENSION AGREEMENT WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ASSO-
CIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 1386, AFL-CIO; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
Moved 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 that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W 1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Comments or questions? None.
Mayor Stewart: You all have been brought up to speed on this Ordinance.
Robert L. Valentine W1: It is just for one year, is that right?
Mayor Stewart: That is correct.
Moved to pass the Ordinance on the first reading by Robert M. Valentine W2, seconded by Robert L. Valentine W1.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move to suspend the rules, 3 separate meetings, 3 separate nights, by Paul Wertz, seconded by Robert L. Valentine. W1.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move the Ordinance be passed by Ruth Detrow, seconded by Robert L. Valentine W1.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Motion carried.
Ord. 81-09
Item (c) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
SERVICE, TO ENTER INTO A MODIFICATION OF THE U.S. RT. 250 SANITARY
SEWER IM-
PROVEMENT PROJECT-PHASE 1 PROJECT – ELITE EXCAVATING COMPANY CONTRACT
AUTHORIZED BY ORDI NANCE NO. 29-09; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
Move
for non-reading in full by Robert M. Valentine W2, seconded by Robert
L. Valentine W1 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: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Shane
Kremser: This is a contract modification request for the U.S. 250
Sanitary Sewer Relief Project. The changes pertain to two
things. First thing was a project delay due to error in admission
related to an ODOT permit for working within the ODOT right-of-way,
limited access right-of-way which both the city and the consultant were
not aware of. The second one is for directional Bore extension,
approximately about 50 feet. Where they extended the bore to
alleviate some potential conflicts with adjacent pavements and existing
utilities. The total is for $10,714.50.
Robert L.
Valentine W1: The only question I have is the estimate was $336,
000 and the project was $212,000. I like those.
Shane Kremser: Yes we were getting pretty good bids.
Robert M. Valentine W2: A few more change orders, it will be back up to $336,000.
Stephen Stuart: Do we have any contractual obligation to pay the additional $6,000.00 for the delay?
Shane
Kremser: Contractually, the legality of it, I am not real
sure. I thought it was the right thing to do to try and do this
because Elite Excavating was the one that called ODOT and they called
on a Friday, before they were supposed to start and that is how ODOT
became aware of the project. If Elite had not called, it would
have been a lot worse because we would have gotten stopped by ODOT.
Stephen Stuart: ODOT didn’t know about the project because?
Mayor
Stewart: It was a failure on our part and on the part of the
consultant to go to ODOT and request this permit. We, the city of
Ashland, authorized this contractor to commence construction in the
fact that he could facilitate the equipment in and get it set up.
The equipment came in on a Wednesday and that is when we verbally
called them and gave them permission to start. On Friday
afternoon, we sent them emails, faxes or a verbal, anyway we contacted
them in numerous ways to tell them that they couldn’t. There have
been some negotiations on the cost of the equipment being there and we
have gone forward with this. Didn’t it start at $9,000.00 dollars?
Shane Kremser: Yes.
Stephen Stuart: How long was the delay?
Shane
Kremser: I believe it was three weeks. Now
typically, for instance, we are doing a project on East Liberty and 250
and that is an ODOT right-of-way. My opinion is we get something
from ODOT in writing saying that we don’t need a permit, so when we get
all of our plans for that project, we are going to submit to ODOT and I
have already made some contracts with the traffic engineer at ODOT do
the same for the roadway. So this is something that it was
kind of an oversight, I am not sure whom; I looked through Arcadis’s
contract. It doesn’t specifically state that Arcadis is
responsible for obtaining permits, so it was kind of a legal thing here
and there. The contractor wanted compensation because they felt
that they were the ones that identified the issue and they were the
ones that stopped all their equipment prematurely. It could be
argued that they didn’t have any damages, but we don’t know; they said
the equipment was there the whole time. They didn’t come and get
it. But if it came down to the legality of it, I am not
sure. That is why I talked to consultant and the consultant
agreed to split half the cost and what we are going to do, is on
another project that they are working on for us, they are going to eat
$3,000.00 dollars and spend extra time and not bill us for it. So
hopefully in the future, this is just something that won’t happen
again.
Comments or questions.
Move to pass the Ordinance on the first reading by Ruth Detrow, seconded by Robert L. Valentine W1
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move to suspend the rules, 3 separate meetings, 3 separate nights, by Paul Wertz, seconded by Ruth Detrow.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move the Ordinance be passed by Robert L. Valentine W1, seconded by Ruth Detrow.
Ayes: Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz
Abstain: Stephen Stuart,
Motion carried.
Ord. 82-09
Item (d) AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS
AND ENTER INTO AN CONTRACT FOR THE SALE OF CERTAIN EQUIPMENT BELONGING
TO THE CITY OF ASHLAND, OHIO AND TO EXECUTE THE TITLE THERETO; AND DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY. (1) 1998 Ford Vac Truck.
Moved
for non-reading in full by Ruth Detrow, seconded by Robert L. Valentine
W1 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: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W 1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Larry
Paxton: When we approached you we wanted to buy a new Vac truck
and it was our promise at that time that the old unit would be
sold. I believe the unit is worth more than $5,000.00 dollars
that is why we are asking for this permission to dispose of this old
unit.
Stephen Stuart: And $5,000.00 was the allowed trade-in value, is that what it is?
Larry Paxton: We believe the unit may be worth $25,000.00 or something in that range.
Stephen Stuart: Were we offered a trade?
Larry Paxton: No.
Stephen Stuart: Could we have gotten a trade-in?
Larry Paxton: The vendor at that time would not offer a trade-in.
Mayor
Stewart: There is a section of this Ordinance that I want you all
to be aware of. The proceeds of this sale of said equipment to be
deposited in the Sewer Fund, 611.
Ruth Detrow: So this 1998 Truck wasn’t worn out?
Larry
Paxton: It needed to be replaced. It was breaking down and
it had some worn parts on it. It is more of an emergency vehicle when
the sewer is broken or plugged. You needed a piece of equipment
that will work right now and unfortunately the old truck continued to
plague us with breakdowns.
Robert L. Valentine W1:
Back to what you said, Glen. I have a question. Otherwise, have
we done this in the past at any situation? That we put it into
departments?
Mayor Stewart: The money has been put
into departments as I recall, but I am not sure, and I can’s answer
your questions specifically about if it was included in an Ordinance or
not. There is a reason for this. In discussing this with
Rick Wolfe and Rick’s son is in town and he is from Arizona and he is
not here this evening. But in discussing similar issues with Rick
Wolfe. If an Ordinance directs where the money is to go, that
means Council is in concurrence or in agreement and that is where it
will go. If it is not identified, it will go into the General
Fund, although I think if you look back, you may find that it has gone
to specific funds in the past but this is to rectify what may or may
not have been history in the past.
Stephen Stuart: The 1998 truck that we are talking about was purchased initially with Sewer Funds.
Mayor Stewart: Yes, that is true.
Robert L. Valentine W1: Okay, that makes sense. I didn’t know that.
Mayor Stewart: In some cases, General Funds. I just wanted to call this to your attention.
Questions or discussion?
Move
the Ordinance be passed on the 1st reading by Robert L. Valentine W1,
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 that a further reading be dispensed
with at this time.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move to suspend the rules, 3 separate meetings, 3 separate days by Ruth Detrow, seconded by
Robert L. Valentine W1.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move the Ordinance be passed by Stephen Stuart, seconded by Robert M. Valentine W2
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine 2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Motion carried.
Resolutions:
Res. No. 20-09
Item (a) A FINAL RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR, DIRECTOR OF
PUBLIC SERVICE, TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION FOR THE US RT 42 PAVEMENT REPAIRS, BRIDGE MAINTENANCE
AND RESURFACING PROJECT WITHIN THE CITY CORPORATION LIMITS; TO BE
FUNDED BY ACCOUNT NO. 204-1201-55501 WITH AN ESTIMATED COST OF
$20,456.00;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
Moved
for non-reading in full by Robert M. Valentine W2, seconded by Robert
L. Valentine W1 to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified Ordinances as
the distribution of this Resolution has satisfied the requirements of
said Section and that a further reading be dispensed with at this time.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W 1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Mayor
Stewart: This is the project south of town that part of that is
in the city. We had some discussion on this four or five months
ago. As a matter of fact, apparently they are getting about ready to
open that.
Robert M. Valentine W2: Next Wednesday, I heard.
Mayor Stewart: There is a ribbon cutting next Wednesday.
Robert
M. Valentine W2: Well, the good thing is you are not going to
show it from underneath, because they are not painting the beams until
in the spring. I already checked on it. I went out and
looked at it today.
Stephen Stuart: We didn’t get a chance to put a sign up there, did we?
Mayor Stewart: Do what?
Stephen Stuart: Put a sign up for our share of the cost?
Mayor Stewart: No we didn’t. If you want to approve another $20,000.00, I will get a sign.
Questions or comments?
Move
the Resolution be passed on the 1st reading by Robert M. Valentine W2,
seconded by Ruth Detrow to invoke Section 113.01 of the Codified
Ordinances as the distribution of this Resolution has satisfied the
requirements of said Section and that a further reading be dispensed
with at this time.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move to suspend the rules, 3 separate meetings, 3 separate days by Paul Wertz, seconded by Ruth Detrow.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move the Resolution be passed by Ruth Detrow, seconded by Robert M. Valentine W2
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine 2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Motion carried.
WARD REPORTS
At- Large: Stephen Stuart
(a)
I received a call from a resident expressing concern and I
suspect some you also received a call from the same person. Concern
about the move of the City Health Department to the location of the
former County Home. A question about the accessibility for
people. If transportation would be provided; the cost of doing
that. Questions about will there be services available in town at all.
Mayor
Stewart: I had that dialogue with Al Sanders as late as this
afternoon. They have not identified a place to do that.
There will be transportation available, but not transportation provided
at no cost.
Paul Wertz: When they originally discussed that with us, weren’t they going to put a place in town one day per week?
Mayor Stewart: That is right.
Paul Wertz: So I think they need to pursue it.
Mayor
Stewart: As I say, I talked with Al this afternoon and they have
not found a place that they can do that. The commitment was made
to do it in my opinion, and it has not happened yet. Now, they
are scheduled to move I think it is the second week in December.
Their phone systems are being installed as we speak. So to answer
your question, yes it was agreed upon that that would happen and to
date it has not. The opportunity for further discussion is
certainly open.
Howard Scanlan: If you did have city owned property and you have your own city district, you would save $16,000 dollars.
Mayor Stewart: No that is not true.
Howard Scanlan: The city pays $16,000 dollars to the county for rent.
Mayor
Stewart: That is correct. If you have two facilities, it
does not necessarily mean that that is the entire cost. There are
people, there is equipment. Even as late as a couple of weeks
ago, when they received some of the influenza vaccine, they had to
find; they were on the verge of, they had to find additional
refrigeration that had recorders on it. So that kind of equipment
is not cheap, that was an unusual situation for them but I am using
that as an example of what a piece of equipment that would be
duplicated. I am not happy with the way this is going because we
had in my opinion, a verbal commitment that we would be in Ashland one
day a week. There was no mention of additional cost. There
was no mention, that I can recall, of anything other than we should be
able to do that. I sat on that board.
Paul Wertz: I have had two different calls about it. Steve brought it up.
Robert
M. Valentine W2: I talked to two people; they are saying, “Well
it is supposed to be Ashland City Health Department”.
Mayor Stewart: No, it is Ashland City/County Health Department.
Ruth Detrow: No, it is Ashland County/City Health Department.
Mayor Stewart: It is a combined department.
Robert
L. Valentine W1: That is why we brought them together here and
had a couple of meetings relative to the possibility of joining the two
into one and the meetings that were here, the discussion and my
feeling, which I assume must have been wrong, was that if you brought
them together, it would eliminate some duplication and cut some
cost. And the report that was given; it didn’t say anything about
cutting cost. That was one thing and another thing, was the idea
that the county has millage that they pay for the Health Department and
we take we out of the General Fund.
Mayor Stewart: That is correct. We, the city, do not pay that millage.
Robert
L. Valentine W1: And that complicates it simply because, if we
are joined together, how are you going to resolve that?
Mayor Stewart: That’s right.
Robert L. Valentine W1: Because what you have to be doing is putting the tax on the people.
Mayor Stewart: It is very complex to say the least.
Robert
L. Valentine W1: I guess I was concerned to. It has been
there for how many years? It is County/City. I am not
disagreeing in any way with that about the amount of people who use
it. I imagine if you say percentage wise, I could be wrong, but I
would think the city people probably use it more than the county people
do.
Mayor Stewart: I don’t know that Bob.
Robert L. Valentine W1: No, I don’t either.
Howard Scanlan: Al Sanders would have that number. I have not connected with him today.
Mayor
Stewart: I have not pursued that. You know, the County/City
Health Department meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00
p.m. and I would invite anyone who wants to come and share their
thoughts, to please do so. There are five county and five city
representatives and as a matter of fact, we the city have a vacancy due
to a Resignation, very recently and if someone has an idea of someone
that can make that meeting on a regular basis, I would be more than
happy to consider that for an appointment. It meets between our
meetings.
Robert L. Valentine W1: No doesn’t the county have theirs; the city has separate meetings?
Mayor
Stewart: They are both together. We set on one side of the
table and the county sets on the other side of the table. We vote
on our things and they vote on their things and we both vote on common
things.
Robert M. Valentine W2: There wasn’t a vote on moving it out there, they just told us where it was going?
Mayor
Stewart: I was asked if I had an objection and at the time I
wasn’t significantly disenchanted with it; they needed space; I honored
their need for space and that is when I asked that we have a clinic in
the city of Ashland once a week and it was said “I don’t see why we
can’t”.
Robert L. Valentine W1: Just as you
represent the city at that meeting; on the county level, the
commissioners change. Whoever is present.
Mayor
Stewart: The commissioners do not attend that meeting.
There are no commissioners that have ever attended that meeting during
my one year and a half.
Robert L. Valentine W1: That is what I was wondering about because I remember when I was president there.
Mayor Stewart: There are people from out in the townships that are on the county board.
Robert L. Valentine W1: Okay. Because I remember when we rotated the president and I remember meeting.
Mayor Stewart: I have been to a lot of the meetings now.
Ward 2: Robert M. Valentine
(a)
I had some trouble but Mr. Wolfe is not here. They took
care of it. I had some lady call me about high grass a couple of
weeks back and I called and left a message down there and they took it
as another problem they were having on that street, so they took care
of the other problem and they didn’t do the grass, but then they did
the grass. I worked out good.
Ward 1: Robert L. Valentine
(a)
I had a call from north Countryside, about a problem in the
right-of-way, a driveway. I talked to the Engineer and he is
looking into it.
(b) I had an email about
Creekview Court about lighting and discussed that with the Mayor and he
gave me some background and I got back to the person. That took
care of that.
Mayor Stewart: It is still being worked. On Redwood Bob?
Robert L. Valentine W1: Creekview.
Mayor Stewart: Oh, I thought you were talking about lighting. There is no lighting there.
Ward 3: Ruth Detrow
(a)
I have learned of some concern about the condition of the marquis
on the Theater downtown. It fell down, the part was underneath,
it fell down a year ago, maybe. All the owners have done is
take away the part that was hanging loose, but I have heard from people
who are concerned because they think it is rapidly becoming an eyesore
simply because nothing has been done. Not just becoming. I
agree. So I haven’t completed working on this yet. But I
did want to mention the concern of a constituent.
Ward 4/ President: Paul Wertz
(a) Both of my things were on the Health Dept. and Steve covered it.
Old Business: None
New Business:
(a)
The Audit committee needs to meet before the first of the year
and I think there are two councilmen on it, the Mayor, Finance Director
and a citizen. Do you want to set a date on that? I think
it is Bob and Steve. Do you want to set a date up with the Mayor?
Mayor Stewart: I will make every effort to there whenever
it is convenient and we have an outside person that you need to
contact. Bernard Sargent.
Paul Wertz: So do one of you guys want to set the date?
Stephen
Stuart: Glen, why don’t you coordinate that because your calendar
is probably busier than either Bob or mine?
Mayor
Stewart: I don’t know, when you want something done, a busy guy
is the guy you call. I will take that on. I will contact
you guys.
(b) Paul Wertz: Also under
New Business, I would just like to say: December 31st is my last
day, so Sandra Tunnell is going to be the new councilmen for the fourth
floor, so I would just like to introduce her to the rest of Council and
everybody.
Mayor Stewart: Good evening.
Sandra Tunnell: Good Evening.
Mayors Comments:
I
have several items I am going to cover this evening. And one of
them involves an appointment. This evening I am making an
appointment to fill the remainder of the term of the office vacated by
the resignation of our former Finance Director. The term runs
through December 31, 2011. We received unsolicited resumes; none
of which were nearly as strong in the areas of government finance,
civil service, bond/note issuance and other areas specifically focused
on municipal government. I offer this appointment without
hesitation as he has demonstrated his capability of all work with other
Finance Division team members, gathering the required documents,
reconciling accounts, preparing and completing reports required by our
state auditors to complete the 2008 audit. Former associates in
Shelby gave him very high marks as their Finance Director while he was
employed by the city of Shelby. This is an unusual circumstance
and important to note. We have had the opportunity of being able
to evaluate his capability as well as his compatibility with the
Ashland Finance Division team prior to actually making an appointment
to fill the position. Along with the above observations, our
current acting Director of Finance, Bill Strine, offers the following
statement: Larry Paxton has extensive knowledge when writing to
municipal finance. His background includes 22 years of Shelby’s
elected Finance Director, and 3 ½ years at the city of Ashland.
He has proven communication skills, work experience with our city,
capabilities and integrity make Larry the logical individual to bring
stability to this division and carry on the operation of the Finance
Office effectively and efficiently. At this time, I present
Larry Paxton as my appointment for the office of Director of Finance,
commencing November 23, 2009 through the end of the term December 31,
2011. I ask that this Council confirm the appointment by your
motion and a positive vote this evening.
Moved to confirm the
appointment of Finance Director to the City of Ashland, State of Ohio,
Larry Paxton by Stephen Stuart, seconded by Robert M. Valentine W2.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Mayor Stewart: Larry asked me if he could have 30 minutes and I told him he could have until 8:00 p.m.
Larry
Paxton: If I could make a couple of comments please. First
of all, this appointment was very humbling for me. It is
something I enjoy doing. I would like to thank the Mayor, Council
members for the privilege and the opportunity to serve my
community. I also want to pledge to you my support and full
cooperation as the Finance Director in the city of Ashland to work with
the Mayor and his staff, you as Council members, other elected
officials and departments as we continue to manage our community’s
local government. Thank you very much and I look forward to
working with each and every one of you.
Mayor Stewart: Thank you Larry.
Robert L. Valentine W1: The only comment I would like to make, is that “you are an elected official”.
Larry
Paxton: I would like to make one comment about the Mayor and
Finance Director, Strine said 22 years, it was 11 years.
Mayor
Stewart: Oh my, it must have seemed like it to me. I
am going to ask Ellie Grubb to make a comment this evening. First
Energy has called to see if we are ready to accept their offer of 200
and; fill in the blanks please.
Ellie Grubb: As you know
the city approved electric aggregation with First Energy in 2001 and
approximately 2 months ago we met with them; they are offering to
actually 60 communities a very huge sum of money, a one time Grant,
they are calling it. If we would renew our aggregation contract
with them to 2018; now our current one is effective until 2012.
The discount rate to residents will remain at 6% of their cost, not of
the generation fee, but the delivery fee. The amount of money
that they are offering is a one-time gift and would get a check before
the end of the year is 234,360 dollars. They figured that amount
on by using the number of people in the city of Ashland who opted in to
the aggregation program. So it comes out to approximately $30.00
dollars a person who opted into the aggregation program for the city of
Ashland. They have offered this for a one time Grant to 68
communities and 53 of them have accepted it. We are one of the
few that so far have not responded. 2018 sounds like a long way
away but the one thing that is in this amendment to our master
agreement with First Energy that the discount will never go below 6%
for residents and it is 4% for commercial so for the three terms that
they are talking about, 6% is as low as the discount would go. I
quite frankly, and I say this, I don’t know why they are doing this.
Robert L. Valentine W1: What is the ulterior motive?
Mayor
Stewart: I am very reluctant. I have talked to some Mayors
at the Mayors meeting which we have another one Thursday up in
Independence and at that time, a couple of Mayors that I talked to,
their term was up at the end of the year. They quite frankly,
said, we are not going to make that decision. But Ellie checked
today, 53 out of 68 is what they are telling us.
Ellie Grubb: And some of the places are: Akron, Toledo, Barberton, Westlake, Euclid and they have accepted that.
Ruth Detrow: Have you checked it with the Ohio Consumers Council?
Ellie Grubb: Checked what?
Ruth Detrow: Is there anything that we need to know? I am just thinking it might be helpful.
Ellie Grubb: Well it is in compliance with the PUCO, which is Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Robert
L. Valentine W1: Once we do this, we commit our people to
this. We commit people in Ashland up until the year 2018. I
trying to think there is an ulterior motive here.
Ellie Grubb: They are not committed. These individuals; you can opt out
Paul Wertz: Individuals can opt out.
Robert M. Valentine W2, You can pick whatever generator you want. They have a list.
Ellie
Grubb: But there is only a specific time frame that you can do
that. You just cannot do it anytime. It is usually like at the
end of the year.
Robert L. Valentine W1: But there is a
big push for other sources of energy to provide. That is what
worries me a little bit.
Robert M. Valentine W2: Well 53 out of 68 cities took the cash flow.
Stephen
Stuart: Well that wouldn’t preclude us, if for example, we want
to do solar or wind generation as a city; that wouldn’t prevent us from
doing it.
Mayor Stewart: If we wanted to fill this
roof with solar panels, there is no hook there. I have never received a
gift from other than a relative or a close friend but what there was a
hook in it. And First Energy is not a close friend or
relative. They are a business entity.
Robert L. Valentine W1: Is there a deadline?
Ellie Grubb: Yes, we need to do this before the end of this year.
Robert M. Valentine W2; Did Rick Wolfe see the difference between the two? Did he put one against the other?
Ellie Grubb: I don’t know how he did it. I just know he has the material.
Robert M. Valentine W2: Okay, so he is supposed to be getting back eventually with you Mayor?
Mayor Stewart: He is looking at it from the legal aspect. He is not going to advise us financially.
Robert
M. Valentine W2: Well, I understand that. I am just saying;
I want to make sure that it is language wise; it is no different than
the last one.
Mayor Stewart: Well, we are locking
ourselves into 2018 with a minimum of a 6% discount on, I believe it is
a transmission cost, not the generation cost.
Robert M. Valentine W2: Now, but we locked ourselves in from 2001 to 2012 and didn’t get any money.
Mayor Stewart: No there were not any lump sum payments.
Stephen Stuart: And the percentage and discount wasn’t any greater, right during that time?
Mayor
Stewart: I intend to go to Independence again on Thursday.
The Mayors and City Managers, Councils meeting again. I have an
opportunity and I will ask Ellie to call the Ohio Consumer’s
Council. This is a beautiful time to get a hook because I
don’t know of a community that can’t use a couple hundred thousand
dollars. Akron got what?
Ellie Grubb: Oh, huge.
Robert M. Valentine W2: That is better than renting your sewers.
Stephen
Stuart: If, down the road, we act on this, you may want to think
about putting that in a reserve fund for payment of our street lighting
cost. It is less than two years would be the cost of our street
lighting.
Ellie Grubb: One thing it says that; it is to do with what we want.
Mayor Stewart: Thank you Ellie. We will pursue that through the Ohio Consumers Council and anything else I can do.
Robert L. Valentine W1: You haven’t heard anything more about the light bulbs have you?
Mayor
Stewart: No. There are no free rides. I passed out
the document on the 67.5374 acres that is golf course Land documented
through several avenues that the golf course in fact financed this
through the Waite family and we paid Waite family 5 or 6
installments. So it was golf course money that paid for it.
You have in front of you a document that is not as pretty as this one
but we didn’t get colored ones I don’t think. Anyway you
got an A through F and those letters refer to the lots on this
layout. There has been an indicator given to me that those people
living on Fairview; that their lots back up to F down here and E up
here have a desire, if we sell this land to buy a 75 foot buffer and
the only ones I have heard from have been in this F area down here and
I am told “the majority of those lot homeowners would like that”.
I personally, am not interested in selling postage stamps. In my
opinion, it should be all or nothing. I cannot imagine anyone
that buys this back here, especially if a farmer wants to move in and
out of the lot lines. So with that being said, there is an access
off of Fairview which is a lot 4251 and that is B which amounts to
2.324 acres. D which is a 75 foot, is another 1.29 acres and then
the 44.55 and the 22.755 make up these what we would call A and C less
E and F; so 65 net acres to sell if we sell the buffer. I have
talked to several of you individually. We have appraisals of that
land value from $2800.00 an acre to $3800.00 dollars an acre. We
can put a for sale sign on it and advertise it. We can list
it. We can auction it. We can auction it with a reserve. Or
we can sit on it. I give you this good information. I have one
appraiser; appraised value that is a licensed appraisal. The other two,
and I don’t mean this to be derogatory; the other two are realtors and
quite frankly, there is a $1,000.00 dollar an acre spread; but that is
the way it is. What we are going to get out of it if we sell
it? I don’t know that. What is your preference and how do
you think we should pursue the sale of this land?
Robert M.
Valentine W2: On this buffer zone thing; that is the
question I was going to ask you. I walked around back
there. Most of those people have grass planted. They
already have the buffer zone.
Mayor Stewart: But when we sell it, it goes away.
Robert M. Valentine W2: Without that buffer zone, on a lot of those yards, it makes a pretty small back yard.
Mayor
Stewart: I would venture to say, if there are any second
homeowners; any homeowners that are second or third from when their
home was built and they haven’t read all of their; they are going to be
surprised.
Robert M. Valentine W2: Some of those
are fenced in all the way back, too. You don’t want to
break the pieces off. I mean, it is a straight line?
Mayor Stewart: Yes. I am proposing that it be a straight line.
Robert M. Valentine W2: Right. And each person pays an X amount of dollars for the buffer zone?
Mayor Stewart: Yes.
Ruth
Detrow; Yes. But they can’t be forced to buy it. So
there are going to be a few who say, “ I can’t afford it, or don’t want
to”; and there we’ll have it. We will have a jagged boundary.
Mayor Stewart: The other way is just not to offer it to them.
Robert M. Valentine W2: Just leave it grown up the way it is?
Mayor
Stewart: No. Sell it. Then it becomes the homeowner
vs the people that buy this. I don’t really want to create a
ruckus.
Stephen Stuart: Another option would be, while it
wouldn’t be a formal one. It would be similar to a homeowners
association. You know if you offer it out there with the
understanding that it is all or nothing. That it is all
purchased, or none is purchased because why would you split it off from
any other potential buyer and have a fragmented situation. So if
you offer it that way, all or nothing, then if there is a holdout, then
they may be other people that will come together and offset that
holdout.
Mayor Stewart: E and F only amounts
to 2.14 acres and lets say we get the top end of $3800.00 dollars an
acre. You are talking about $8,000.00 dollars over 15 or 18
homeowners there.
Robert M. Valentine W2: So it is not going to cost them that much for that chunk of land.
Mayor Stewart: $16,000.00 dollars. If they all were to participate, they would be looking at maybe $500.00 dollars.
Robert
M. Valentine W2: I like exactly what Steve said; I think we ought
to make it known that it is all or nothing.
Mayor Stewart: If they want to create an association to buy that, so be it.
Stephen Stuart: At $3800.00, I think we are awfully low. If you look at it.
Mayor Stewart: I went with a professional.
Stephen Stuart: I understand that.
Mayor
Stewart: And all three of them brought out the point that there
is a single access. And I brought back to them that there is a
single access to Creekview too. You know, I am not trying to
argue. I am amazed at how low it went. I got three of
them. One of them I know pretty well.
Stephen Stuart: You know, I personally lean towards an auction with a $4000.00 dollar an acre reserve.
Mayor Stewart: Would the Council like to make that into a form of a motion?
Stephen Stuart: Well, I think we need to think about it.
Mayor Stewart: The ball is in the Council’s court to come back.
Stephen Stuart: Can we have it on the Agenda for December?
Mayor Stewart: Fine with me.
Mayor’s Comments: (cont’d)
Following
the comments and questions from the audience, I am going to ask for an
Executive Session that won’t too terribly long but it is regarding the
employment, salary and benefits of a public employee.
Comments of questions from the Audience: Items that are not included on the Agenda.
None.
Motion
to move to Executive Session by Robert M. Valentine W2 regarding the
employment; salary and benefits of a public employee and no action will
be taken when we come back in., seconded by Robert L. Valentine W1.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert L. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Mayor Stewart: I am going to and I have already invited Mrs. Tunnell to participate in this Executive Session.
Executive Session at 8:14 p.m.
Move to reconvene back to Regular Session by Robert L. Valentine W1, seconded by Robert M. Valentine W2
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz.
Move to adjourn Regular Session by Robert L. Valentine W1, seconded by Ruth Detrow.
Ayes: Stephen Stuart, Robert L. Valentine W1, Robert M. Valentine W2, Ruth Detrow, Paul Wertz
ADJOURNMENT AT 8:45 p.m.
Submitted by
Valarie Bishoff
Clerk of
Council